Chapter 358

Chapter 358: 358

Serving Waitresses

After Core No . 629’s Dungeon Battle, Kehma and everyone had returned to Golen .

“I thought we’d have to do a lot of stuff since we’d all been gone so long, but nothin’s really happened . ”

“Mm, yeah . ”

Since nothing had happened while they were away, both Ichika and Meat were able to get right back to working at the inn without anything feeling off . Well, they’d both been coming back in shifts since before the Dungeon Battle had finished, but still .

“Like, just comin’ back and bein’ a ‘waitress again is weird, ya know?”

“I understand . It’s somewhat similar, but moving your own body is different . ”

“Moving around as a rabbit’s fun though~ . I wonder if we could keep one here to be a mascot or somethin’?”

“Maybe… a mascot would increase sales…?”

Lost in thought, Meat spoke .

However, Kehma wasn’t exactly worried about the inn’s income anymore .

Just then, a guest came in . It was no longer time for them to chat idly, it was time to work .

She looked up to the entering customer with a well-trained puppy dog expression .

“U-Umm, K-Kuro-chan? What’s wrong?”

“?”

Meat inclined her head . As if to say you didn’t bring a carrot?

Seeing that, Ichika realized what was happening .

“Senpai, senpai! Not that one!”

“Oh—s-sorry . ”

Meat had been constantly practicing so as to make her movements as a rabbit in [Rabbit Paradise] more endearing, going so far as to move her own body in sync with the rabbits’ . Although she wasn’t exactly addicted to doing it, perhaps it could be said that she was the type of person to fully immerse herself into it? As a result, she’d managed to fully acquire that begging characteristic .

Meat bowed her head deeply in apology . Although her expression was practically as nonexistent as ever, thanks to Ichika’s production management, she managed to exude [Adorable] from every part of her body . It was to the point that even her expressionlessness could be interpreted as the cute, unreadable expression of an animal .

“N-No! R-Right, I was just going to ask for more pudding! Ahaha! I’ll even give you some, Kuro-chan~!”

“Umm, th-thank you?”

Not really understanding what had just happened, Meat acquired a pudding .

“… I got this somehow?”

“I guess senpai’s definitely the inn’s mascot… still though, huh . Guess we can work this…”

Ichika decided to try it herself next time .

Later on, another guest entered . He approached Ichika .

“…”

“Oh, Ichika-san? You’re back… is something wrong?”

“…”

Ichika bent her body forward, used that upward glance particular to cute animals, and bend her head to the side . However, all the guest could stare at were her breasts and didn’t notice any of it .

With how Ichika was sitting bent forward in her maid uniform, she was giving off quite the splendid view of her cleavage . Unfortunately, there was no stopping that from happening .

A man who didn’t take notice of that would have to have been a foot fetishist or something .

“…”

“U-umm?”

“Tch, guess I was wrong . ”

“Umm, should I put this meal ticket into your cleavage?”

“Hah? (Anger)”

“Oh, no, nothing…”

Faced with her anger, the guest simply presented his meal ticket . Ichika accepted it and went to give him his food before coming back to Meat .

“Guess that’s it . Cuteness is justice . ”

“?”

“My route’s different from senpai’s, I gotta go with sexy . Goin’ the cute route’s impossible for me . That’s all!”

It wasn’t that she was lacking in charm . Rather, it was that hers was practically weaponized .

After letting her thoughts simmer for a while, Ichika turned to Meat and grinned .

“So, work as normal, huh… You’ll try not to make that mistake again, right senpai?”

“… Muu, sorry . ”

Yeah . What Ichika had done wasn’t a simple jest . In order to [Joke] about Meat’s [Honest Mistake]—which was entirely possible of accidentally leaking information about the dungeon—she’d tried messing around as if she were seriously trying .

For being able to follow up like that, Meat couldn’t help but feel marveled by Ichika .

“This debt’s gotta be paid back with karaage . ”

“… Couldn’t you asked Goshujin-sama for some?”

“I’d have to pay copper for that . I’m already flat broke this month . ”

“? … Oh . ”

Come to think of it, Kehma did say something about implementing a purchasing system under the pretext that people like Ichika would just eat it forever and ever . Meat herself could only barely remember it .

“Haah, maybe I’ve got no choice but to beg Goshujin-sama for more…”

By the way, as that money was meant to be used as her spending money, the slots were entirely impartial . . But whenever it was Ichika using the slot machines, for some reason, she’d always end up losing it all even without him rigging it .

“So you need pocket money?”

“Yeah~ . Fufufu, I’m such a beauty, after all . See? My cleavage is my strong point…”

“Should I put it in here?”

“Hyah!? N-No, ya can just give me some like normal . ”

As Meat pulled her finger out of Ichika’s cleavage in understanding, Meat couldn’t help but think that the allowance redistribution wasn’t working out .

“Senpai, couldn’t ya get more money if ya asked for it?”

“I don’t want anything, I’m fine . ”

“Really? It’s makin’ me feel a bit bad for gettin’ favorable treatment though…”

She’d forgotten about it a few seconds later, though .