Albedo and Aura entered society to familiarize themselves with the operating rules of this modern new world.
Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka wore their respective school uniforms and headed to school to welcome the first day of the new semester.
Shalltear was keen on spreading her familiars around to expand her range of perception.
Artoria, on the other hand, spent the early morning staring at the chefs, giving them little rest as they incessantly prepared dishes for her in the kitchen.
Daniel moved Ai Hayasaka's computer to browse the anime of this world.
Everyone had their own things they were passionate about.
It was just that the constant feeling of something peeking at him from the shadows made Daniel unable to focus while binge-watching anime.
In this mansion filled with Shalltear's familiars, Shalltear was the only one who could avoid those familiars to spy on Daniel.
Several times Daniel wanted to call Shalltear out on this spying, but considering Shalltear's ability to push her luck, he suppressed the idea.
After all, Artoria was currently focused on eating, and Albedo and Aura were not in the mansion. If Shalltear really decided to go all out... losing his innocence was a small matter, but being drained dry was a big deal!
So it was better to pretend he knew nothing.
If she wanted to watch, let her watch.
Artoria followed through with eating from morning till night.
When everyone was eating breakfast, she was eating.
Between breakfast and lunch, she was eating.
Between lunch and dinner, she was still eating.
The chefs had already changed shifts twice.
Furthermore, the consumption of ingredients for today alone had caught up with the total consumption of the previous two weeks.
"Lady Kaguya, it seems necessary to increase the number of chefs in the mansion, as well as the financial expenditure on ingredients." A woman in a suit wearing glasses and a stern expression approached Kaguya Shinomiya, who had just returned from school, and reported with the day's financial statistics.
"Lady Artoria... well." Kaguya Shinomiya paused, then glanced sideways at the woman in glasses. "Does this sort of thing need to be reported to me? Couldn't you just explain it directly to Big Brother?"
This woman in glasses was the replacement for Ai Hayasaka, who resigned yesterday. Shinomiya Oko had begun to openly plant his people in this mansion.
"'Since she is Kaguya's guest, report everything to Kaguya first.' Those were Lord Huanguang's exact words." The woman in glasses didn't intend to give Kaguya any face at all, answering frankly.
After all, her master was Shinomiya Oko, not the Shinomiya Family puppet standing before her.
"Oh, is this a topic that can be mentioned in front of me, a guest?" Ai Hayasaka stepped out from the side, standing between the woman in glasses and Kaguya Shinomiya, staring at the woman with a cold gaze. "When did the standard of the Shinomiya Family servants drop to this level?"
"Miss... Hayasaka." The woman in glasses' brow furrowed, but she suppressed her anger and greeted Ai Hayasaka with as much respect as possible.
Originally, her status in the Shinomiya Family should have been above Ai Hayasaka's.
But Hayasaka had resigned.
The servant's status immediately switched positions, and she became a guest.
The woman in glasses' position also changed from a'superior from the main family' to a'servant of the master's house.'
Only after Ai Hayasaka took Kaguya Shinomiya's arm and disappeared inside the gate did the sound of teeth grinding come from the woman in glasses' mouth.
Being assigned to Kaguya Shinomiya's mansion at a time like this showed how much the woman in glasses was trusted by Shinomiya Oko.
In the main house, she was likely one of those people who stood at the top of all servants.
Yet she was assigned to this narrow, small mansion to serve that puppet Kaguya Shinomiya in place of Ai Hayasaka.
The sense of disparity was already too great for her to bear.
And then Ai Hayasaka jumped out to add fuel to the fire.
If she hadn't already received orders from Shinomiya Oko, she even doubted if she could have endured until those two brats went inside before expressing her dissatisfaction.
"Damn Hayasaka brat, even your parents wouldn't dare be so rude to me..."
"Oh my, did you just say something?" A chilly sensation suddenly rose from behind the woman in glasses, followed by a voice with a strange cadence whispering in her ear.
"L-Lady Shalltear." The woman in glasses swallowed hard, standing still, not daring to move.
The perception and body cultivated over years of experience told her that she absolutely could not move; one move, and she might die.
"I like that child Ai very much. This is just a small lesson for you. If I hear anything bad about that child Ai from your mouth again... then you won't have to worry about the problem of saying the wrong thing ever again." Shalltear's voice sounded soft, but it immediately took on a hint of madness. "Because I will make it so you can never utter another syllable, ohohoho—"
Everyone is part of the Padding Faction, friendly to one and all.
Although Ai Hayasaka had already declined Shalltear's recruitment in the morning, Shalltear's favorability toward her still hadn't dropped much.
The woman in glasses, however, couldn't take it.
First, she was scared out of her wits by Shalltear's 'Humanoid Menace' skill, and then she was so terrified by the threat that her floodgates opened wide.
The slimy, wet temperature in her pants made the woman in glasses not even dare to lift her head.
But she still endured all kinds of unpleasant psychological reactions and gave a heavy nod.
Her desire for survival was extremely strong.
After the chilling sensation disappeared, the woman in glasses realized she had actually forgotten to breathe.
No wonder she hadn't dared to make a sound.
Slumping on the ground and panting heavily, the woman in glasses began to regret making herself so prominent in front of Shinomiya Oko.
For a moment, she even had the thought of resigning.
But the salary, which was an astronomical figure for an average person, quickly brought her back to her senses.
She had actually just tried to choose her life over money?
She must have been so scared by Lady Shalltear that her nerves were a bit deranged!
Finish the work as quickly as possible, and then take a good rest.
The woman in glasses dawdled on the ground to get her pants dirty, covering the traces on her pants that were still emitting an unknown gas.
Only then did she slowly stand up and walk toward her assigned room.
Taking a shower could wait, but she had to change her panties and pants first.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to continue working.
She began to recall the work schedule of everyone in the mansion she had seen earlier, and then moved toward her room along the route most likely to have no one at this time.
The woman in glasses felt that since the event leading to her social death had already occurred, the only thing that could save her now was to try her best to prevent a third person from noticing this fact.
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