Maid Will Go On Through Thick And Thin! Chapter 15

At so—me point, the sky started getting brighter, so let’s stop playing around.
Now then, how should I get back, as I was thinking about that, light truck-sized wolf walked off for a bit, and came back holding something in its mouth with an expression saying ‘Oi, what about this?’
“Ah, I forgot. Hmm……what to do, with f.u.kuyama-kun.”
Light truck-sized wolf had brought over f.u.kuyama-kun who is still out cold.
Hmm, if you consider everything to be okay as long as the end result is okay, then I’m fine and even got a very rea.s.suring watch dog, light truck-sized wolf, so the result is extremely good.
But it is still the truth that this guy is the cause of all this, and most of all, I am extremely mad at this guy.
But if I leave him like this, he will definitely be eaten by some monster and die.
Yhat would be bad for my conscience.
……hmmm.
“Hey hey, can you do something like this?”
After explaining to the light truck-sized wolf, it gave an OK quite easily, so we quickly carried it out.

“……n, hm, what……? Hiii!”
Okay, the f.u.kuyama-kun wake up prank is a great success.
After all, he woke up after something hit his cheek and opened his eyes to find a drooling light truck-sized wolf looking down on him. It must be terrifying.
“Wh, what!? T, this……h, hm, my sword!?”
Your sword is still lying far away where you let go of it when you were sent flying.
f.u.kuyama-kun slowly backed away, looking around for his sword, but light truck-sized wolf took another step closer and f.u.kuyama-kun started trembling.
Fufufu, serves you right. Come on, tremble more.
“Gaa!”
When light truck-sized wolf barked a little, his trembling went beyond funny to pitiful. A—a—h, how miserable. No, I won’t be able to say this if I was in the same situation.
“f.u.kuyama-ku—n.”
I had been hiding in a thicket slightly far away to watch, so there was a lot of rustling as I stood up and called out, waving towards him.
With that signal, light truck-sized wolf also started to slowly walk towards me with a face saying ‘A—h, that act was tiring.’
At that moment.
“Ma, Maito-san! So, sorry!”
Shouting that, f.u.kuyama-kun somersaulted and ran away at an amazing speed.
…… hm? I revealed it already though. That’s strange.

well…

Thinking carefully about it, from f.u.kuyama-kun’s point of view, since he didn’t know anything, it might have looked like light truck-sized wolf switched target to me after I suddenly called out and went to eat me first.
Hmm, then he ran off at that point, it might have been better to torment him a little longer.

definitely

Come to think of it, I haven’t been singing until now.
Eh, eer, f.u.kuyama-kun came and kidnapped me at dinner time, so if it was still about 7 at that time……
U, uwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
They definitely know about this! They know about it! They must know that I was in a situation where I could not continue singing!
Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I, I see. Thinking about it, the [Ballad] skill can also be used for a safety check.
Hmm, can’t someone among them learn it for their expeditions?
But, this [Ballad] is a mystery. It didn’t seem like the songs’ effects were applied to f.u.kuyama-kun.
Hmm, we’ll have to experiment on this when they come back.
is there a range though like 100km?
First I sang to let them know ‘I am safe’, then I need to figure out a way back.
“He—y, what should I do, light truck-sized wolf……would be too cruel. Eer, I need to give you a name.”
It’s fine as we walk, so I started off in roughly the direction I think should be correct and light truck-sized truck wolf followed at my side.
“In the first place, are you male? Female?”
‘Do I look like a female to you?’
It made that kind of face, so its probably a male.
“Hmm. Then, for a name, is Ketorami okay?”
Ketorami=keitoraookami. (T/N: Light truck-sized wolf, actually, light truck wolf)
He made a face like ‘Let’s just go with that’, so he is now Ketorami.
“Okay. Then Ketorami. Do you know the way to the chemistry lab?”
He made a face saying ‘What’s that?’. Eer, mhm. I was wrong for asking you.
“For now, that is my home and I need to get back, quickly.”
When I emphasised quickly, Ketorami suddenly  bit me!
Uwaaaaaa, eh, did something I say touch a nerve!? was what I thought for an instant, but Ketorami had not bitten me, he just held me in his mouth.
Then I was lightly thrown into the air……and landed softly on Ketorami’s back.
“E, er……you’ll let me ride you?”
He gave me a face saying ‘just give the orders already’, so he’ll probably let me ride him, or rather, he’ll carry me.
“Eeer, for now, is this, the side of the river closer to the lake? Or the side further from the lake?”
He made a face like ‘Lake side’, so this is probably the side closer to the lake. Probably. Which means, we have crossed the river.
“Eer, then, I would like to cross the river.”
The instant I said that, the scenery flowed to the back.
Since Ketorami ran too fast, it took all I had to desperately hang onto Ketorami’s back. I can’t look around.
And after about 1 minute, Ketorami crossed the river with a light jump.
Please don’t make a face like ‘Next?’…… Th, that speed just used up all my stamina……

too fast

After that, I had Ketorami move without going too fast and we followed the river east.
Since f.u.kuyama-kun probably walked towards the English office, he should have crossed the river and headed west.
There should be a spot where the river gets narrower and is easier to cross, so I had Ketorami look for that.
And from there, if we headed to the north west, the lab should be close by.
Aah, it really was a good thing that President had explained the map to me.

plotto armour

And a while after the sun had risen, I got back to the lab.
“I’m ba—ck.”
Go, good. Doesn’t look like they came back yet. Okay okay. Let’s just act like nothing happened……I can’t. There’s Ketorami.
Mhm, anyway, I have information to share too, so I have no choice but to confess everything.
But I think I will go with the it’s not my fault! mindset. Yes. It’s f.u.kuyama-kun’s fault. I am the victim.

the kidnappee

And the lab was left as when I was kidnapped.
Except for the writing left on the blackboard.
‘I have taken in Maito-san whom you were confining. Please never come close to her again. 2-2 f.u.kuyama.’
Was written there.
It’s a bit disgusting so I considered erasing it, but I chose to leave it for crime scene preservation. It’s just a slap with the feather duster to erase it anyway.

proof!

While having a late breakfast, I pulled out the valuable mint-dyed cupra cloth I had set aside.
Will 5m be enough?
I will be making a long ribbon with this. I’ll embroider ‘Ketorami’ at the ends of the ribbon.
Yes. This is ribbon to tie on Ketorami. A collar would be more obvious, but I don’t have that much leather, so a ribbon it is.
“O—i, Ketorami—.”
When I went outside and shouted, Ketorami came running from far away.
The area around his mouth has gotten a violent kind of feel, so he was probably having his meal.
Ketorami getting his meals on his own is a great help.
“I’m thinking of putting this on you, would around the neck be okay?”
He made a face like ‘Anywhere is fine’, so I had him bend down and tied the ribbon around his neck.
Mhm mhm. Isn’t this quite nice?
Like this, you can see that Ketorami is not a wild wolf, but someone’s pet wolf.
…..still terrifying
On that note, the effects of the [Ballad] skill also applies to Ketorami.
When I looked at Ketorami as I was tying the ribbon, a familiar gold and silver pattern was floating at his feet.
Hmmm, this skill is getting more and more incomprehensible.

mysterious

Now. The shock of being kidnapped might have finally caught up to me, I feel strangely uneasy and can’t stay still, but let’s return to my usual day.
Come to think of it, I was in the middle of making starch syrup.
Mhm, good good. The maltose looks good.
I boiled to liquid I prepared yesterday to concentrate it and made starch syrup.
It became more and more syrupy, looks like starch syrup.
And after boiling for a while, brown starch syrup was done.
I don’t have containers for storage, so I pour it into a few flasks that had been set aside for food-use and capped them.
Good good. With this, is securing the sweets in this world a possible goal? The supply of wheat is unstable though.
plant some?
And furthermore, I tried mixing starch syrup with mint in hot water and concentrating it.
Once it boiled down, I pour it into a gla.s.s plate and let it cool a little.
Once it cooled enough so I can touch it, I kneaded it a few times then cut it up with scissors.
Okay, mint candy is complete.
I made this wondering if MP could be recovered just by licking on it.
The result was debatable.
It recovers, but no matter how you think about it, chewing on mint the usual way is faster and recovers more.
It might be better to just think of it as something to lick to help in recovery a little.

not combat

The absolute amount of mint is really just too small, thinking that, I tried the reverse and added mint to starch syrup and concentrated it, making something like mint jam.
This result was debatable again.
The amount recovered increased and the taste is improved, so it’s better than just chewing on mint. But, no matter what you do, this is inconvenient for carrying around.
Tea can just be drunk. Candy can just be eaten, but jam……nothing you can do.

sandwich?

Then how about! I thought of enveloping the candy in jam, but I just thought about it and didn’t test it out.
Because it is clear that the candy will melt in the jam’s moisture.
Hmm, can’t I make the mint more concentrated……
……concentrated?

boil more?

I must not forget. This is the chemistry lab. There is quite a lot of equipment for chemistry experiments.
When I looked for it by following my memories, I found it.
A soxhlet extractor which was clearly [bought but not used]! Which means it’s new! It’s okay to use it for food!
…an extractor for food….well….yeah
Errr, the soxhlet extractor, was, what was it, errr, place a flask at the bottom with the solvent and boil it, cool the vaporised solvent at the top and return it to liquid form, then that liquid drops onto the solid sample, absorbs the target solute and returns to the flask, then the solvent boils again……a piece of equipment that should work like that……
eeeh….okay?
Basically, to put it simple, if I put water and mint in and boil the water, the mint extract can be concentrated quite simply.
Since the set up is simple, it works even in this situation.

no need electricity

And so I tried concentrating it.
Conclusion. It became ridiculously little.
Of course. That’s what concentration does.
For now I put the few ml of essential oil into a sample bottle.
Hmm, what can this be used for?

definitely not drinking

And it became time to prepare dinner.
Now then, it’s time to prepare my lonely dinner again.
……but as I thought that, it became noisy outside.
Specifically, there is the barking of a wolf and the voices of humans.
I rushed to open the door and as expected, Ketorami and everyone who had come back were glaring at each other.
get them under control
“Welcome back masters! It’s been a while! You all okay!?”
“Oi Maito! What’s this! Is it yours!?”
A—a—a—h, Ketorami is doing that, he’s intimidating them with he feel of ‘More idiots like that one(f.u.kuyama-kun) came again!’. This is not good, I must teach him the hierarchy here.
“A—h, Ketorami, Ketorami, these people are something like my masters. So they are the masters of your master, be polite.”
After I told him that, even thought he made a face like ‘I can’t accept that you’re my master.’, it seems like my respect for them was conveyed, he obediently sat down and waved his tail at them
“……hey, Maito, where did you pick this up? And how did you tame it?”
“Mhm, I’ll explain that too. But first, once again, welcome back!”
From what I can see, none of them are injured, just a little filthy. That really is good. I can feel the tension leaving my body.
“Ah, we’re back. There are more things we have to explain too. By the way, is dinner ready?”
“I was about to start making it.”
“Then add two portions.”
……which means.
“He—y, long time no see!”
“You really are a maid-san. ……it’s that right? You’re the punchline, Maito-san.”
It has been 10 days since the incident. All the club members have finally been gathered.

the end