Chapter 8: Good armpit

“Haaah…”

Mo Bai yawned while sitting at his workstation.

So sleepy.

Yesterday, his adorable younger sister nagged him all night, and because of the wound on his leg, he didn't sleep well. He still had to get up at nine in the morning for work. All the debuffs were stacked.

But thankfully, with his hints, Mo Mo already believed the mess at home was due to him playing with gunpowder, and his wound wasn't discovered. It was a huge victory!

It was just that finger, which he didn't know the use of, was truly like Sukuna's finger; he couldn't destroy it no matter what.

Knives, fire, hammers, potato mines… Mo Bai used everything he could, just short of buying a hydraulic press.

The finger hadn't moved either, so he decided to ignore it for now, keeping it in the inner pocket of his clothes.

Although Mo Bai knew his sister wasn't an ordinary person due to her Magical Girl Killer component, he instinctively didn't want these troubling matters to reach Mo Mo's ears.

His sister only needed to come home every day and see him smiling brightly.

Such a peaceful daily life was what his sister should have.

He didn't want to see Mo Mo's pained expression.

Hmm, he really wasn't a sis-con.

Moreover, his sister, from the looks of it, was most likely a villain. Before knowing the specific situation, he really didn't dare to say anything. What if something happened that no one wanted to see…

“What’s wrong, Bai Ge? You look like you have kidney deficiency. Did you stay up all night again?”

Mo Bai's back was elbowed. He turned around to see a cat-eared Maid in a super-short skirt and white over-the-knee socks. She smiled and handed Mo Bai a lollipop.

“Here, durian flavored. The Manager Sister gave them out, and I specifically picked this flavor for you.”

Behind her short skirt, a white cat tail tied with a bow swayed back and forth.

“Well, thank you very much then.”

Mo Bai took the lollipop. This cat-eared Maid was his colleague, Xie Ziyun.

Yes, colleague.

Mo Bai worked at a Maid Cafe. Yesterday was his day off.

Of course, Mo Bai definitely… probably wasn't one of the Maids inside. He was the butler and security guard.

After all, it was a Maid Cafe, filled with cute Maid beautiful girls. If someone had ill intentions, that's when Mo Bai would make his appearance.

Mo Bai still remembered, about a month ago, around 11 PM, a pervert wearing only a shirt and shoes walked straight towards their cafe.

The scene was incredibly terrifying, like suddenly triggering a boss battle in a horror game.

Mo Bai's mind even started playing BGM.

To prevent this guy from defiling the eyes of the Maid ladies, Mo Bai immediately changed into his failed battle suit, transformed into a masked hero, and, holding a pair of tiger-head pliers, successfully scared the pervert away.

It was just that later, for some unknown reason, a street rumor spread that a pervert in a tight suit, holding an unknown weapon, would appear in the dark and liked to take away other people's 'ο ο'.

Scared, Mo Bai patrolled for several days in a row, finally confirming it was a rumor.

It was already ten o'clock, and the Maid Cafe had begun normal operations. The work involved nothing more than shouting at incoming customers: “Okaeri nasai, Ojo-sama.”

Then they could start recommending super expensive, delicious Maid nutritional sets to ignorant otaku.

Finally, they would feign a kiss to the otaku, chant a few love spells, and that was it.

Otaku's money was really easy to earn.

As the butler and security guard of the Maid Cafe, listening to the Maid ladies complain about customers during their leisure time, he no longer had any expectations for such a place.

However, it might not be bad to have Mo Mo cosplay as a Maid one day and shout “Okaeri nasai, Ojo-sama” to him. Hehe.

Lunchtime arrived.

A 'Lunch Break' sign was hung at the cafe entrance. Work meals were naturally eaten in their own cafe, and they were the same super expensive, delicious Maid nutritional sets as those served to customers.

“Oh my, oh my, finally lunch break. These otaku are getting more and more demanding lately. They actually asked me to call him Oni-chan…”

Xie Ziyun complained about the customer while sitting across from Mo Bai, stirring her curry: “Hey, Bai Ge, I remember you have a younger sister, right?”

“Do all you otaku like beautiful girls to call you Oni-chan?”

Mo Bai, who was caught in the crossfire, lifted his half-closed, dead fish eyes: “Otaku? What otaku? I’m not an otaku.”

“Don’t talk nonsense, or I’ll sue you for defamation.”

Xie Ziyun retorted: “Do you want to look at your phone case before you speak?”

“Phone case?” Mo Bai looked at the Miku blue-and-white bowl on it: “Princess, what’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

Xie Ziyun: “…No, no problem.”

“Bai Ge, as long as you’re happy.”

“It’s you, though.” Mo Bai looked at Xie Ziyun’s head: “Only one day apart, and how did you become an 'O-fan'?”

“Are you playing Genshin Impact?”

From Mo Bai's perspective, several components floated above Xie Ziyun's head. Mo Bai instantly discerned a white 【O-fan】 among them.

“Huh? No?”

Xie Ziyun looked bewildered: “I don’t play games. I just tried on a cosplay costume of a certain character yesterday.”

“It’s a purple character, wearing black stockings. It’s so strange, she actually uses her hair to tie up a pair of cat ears. What’s her name…?”

“Keqing.”

“Oh right, it’s Keqing…” Xie Ziyun realized something was off halfway through speaking and squinted at Mo Bai: “Bai Ge, why do you seem so familiar with her?”

“Don’t mind those details.”

Mo Bai chewed a mouthful of curry rice and fell into thought. She hadn't played Genshin Impact, but just cosplaying made her an 'O-fan'? This was too…

Hmm? No, it seemed quite reasonable?

Then never mind.

It's worth mentioning that Xie Ziyun did not have the Maid component above her head. Coupled with his observations over the past two days, it seemed that work was not a type of component.

Having a hobby as a Maid would give a Maid component, but working as a Maid did not. That seemed to be the logic.

Race was also not a component.

Things that weren't human couldn't have components seen.

Wait, if he followed this logic…

Mo Bai suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Then his sister Mo Mo's purple 【Magical Girl Killer】 component…

She really liked killing!

No, he absolutely couldn't let Mo Mo know about Shen Qiqi's existence.

Mo Bai ate a few more mouthfuls of rice to calm himself down.

Don't get him wrong, even though this stuff was expensive, it was quite delicious. With meat and soup, plus cute Maid ladies circling around you, for those who liked this kind of thing, the price-performance ratio was decent.

Some even bought lifetime membership cards.

“Bai Ge, what’s wrong?” Xie Ziyun, while eating, suddenly reached out and touched Mo Bai’s forehead: “Your expression is purple one moment and white the next. Do you have a fever?”

“Do you need me to ask Manager Sister to give you a day off?”

Looking at Xie Ziyun's concerned eyes, Mo Bai slowly swallowed the food in his mouth, his gaze shifting elsewhere.

“Xie.”

“Hmm?”

“I can see your armpit.”

Mo Bai gave a thumbs-up: “Good armpit!”

Xie Ziyun: “!”

She recoiled as if electrocuted, covering the opening of her clothes, and looked at Mo Bai with an annoyed expression: “Pervert!”

“Perverted bastard!”

“Would it kill you to just remind me properly?!”

“And here I was, so worried about you.”

“Alright, alright, thank you for your concern, Maid lady~”

Mo Bai picked up his tray and put it in the dishwashing sink in the back kitchen: “I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine.”

“Oh, and please tell Manager Sister for me that my hemorrhoids are acting up, and I need to go to the hospital for surgery.”

Xie Ziyun: “…”

She looked at the yellow curry in her plate and gazed at Mo Bai with a resentful look: “You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?! You’re absolutely doing this on purpose?!”

“Also, how many times have you used that hemorrhoids excuse? Can you come up with something else?”

“Then appendicitis it is.”

Mo Bai ignored the pain in his leg and quickly walked out of the Maid Cafe.

Just now, when Xie Ziyun touched his head, he not only saw Xie Ziyun's armpit but also Shen Qiqi.

The Magical Girl who had escaped from his home.

She was walking against the crowd, heading towards the abandoned building.