Got A Maid And Set Off Again

Ten days later.

“All right! Preparations complete! Good work, everyone!”

“Good work, indeed!”

““…………””

Only Daphne-chan of the rabbit tribe was energetic, while Toka-chan the fire drakekin and Zenith-chan the elf looked exhausted.

“What’s wrong?”

“T-the training was rather hard… it was…”

“…Same here.”

Daphne-chan tilted her head.

“Big sis. You two… what kind of training were you doing?”

Daphne-chan had neither combat nor magical ability, so I hadn’t trained her.

“I had Toka-chan sparring with Cherge.”

While I was completing advanced potions, Toka-chan first learned how to fight.

Day after day of real combat training with Cherge. Every time she collapsed, she drank my special recovery potion and continued again.

“I wanted her to gain real battle experience. And super-recovery of muscle fibers increased her strength too, right?”

“Y-yes… I’ve become tougher than before… but… my lord was rather Spartan…”

“Spartan? My master was way worse. He tossed me alone into a monster forest and made me survive.”

“Wha!? A-and you lived!?”

“Yeah. I nearly died many times, but thanks to that my stamina improved. Compared to that, this was mild, right?”

“…………”

Next was Zenith-chan.

“Zenith-chan’s training was increasing magic power. She had good sense, so we focused on increasing capacity. She fired magic, and when she ran out, I made her drink a mana potion. That increases total magic power.”

I did it myself too. I kept making potions until my mana ran out, collapsed, then drank the potion to recover… and repeated.

“…Drank too much… ugh… my stomach…”

“But your mana increased, right?”

“…Yes.”

So I made the slaves undergo training far gentler than what I received from my master.

Well, I’m not inhuman like him. I wouldn’t suddenly force deadly training.

“U-um… hypothetically, if we had died midway…?”

“Oh, that’s fine. I’d give you a resurrection potion and revive you immediately!”

““…Re-revive?””

They tilted their heads.

Hmm? Did they not know?

“If it’s within three seconds after death, a recovery potion revives you with zero risk. That’s the Three-Second Rule!”

“…………”

“Even after three seconds, within half a day an advanced resurrection potion worked… What’s wrong?”

Both stared wide-eyed with mouths open.

“Amazing! Big sis can even revive the dead!”

“Thanks, Daphne-chan♡ Good girl, so fluffy”

“Hehe♡”

I wondered what was wrong with the two. Maybe it was too complicated to process.

“…Zenith. Perhaps my lord didn’t just have talent but endured terribly harsh training to reach this point?”

“…Yes. From how she spoke, she must have suffered greatly in childhood.”

“…She struggled since her apprentice days, and even suffered workplace harassment in the court… ngh!”

“…Lady Seyi has a painful past yet treats us kindly. Let us work even harder to become slaves worthy of her.”

“…Indeed!”

Toka-chan and the others whispered among themselves.

It was good they got along.

“Well then, training’s done, advanced Numbers potions replenished, supplies ready — let’s depart!”

“““Yeah!”””

Me, the slave girls, and Chi-chan the earth dragon stood on the teleportation portal.

Only Cherge remained standing alone.

“What will you do?”

“…………”

Cherge did not answer. Her iron body and heart were made by my master.

Protect this place. The vague order from my sloppy master.

This diligent girl had followed that foolish master’s command alone for nearly 500 years.

“Big siiiis…”

Daphne-chan looked up at me pleadingly.

Come to think of it, she often stayed with Cherge.

She must’ve grown attached.

“Cherge. This is an order. Come with me.”

“…Impossible. My body bears the creator’s command to guard this place. That is all.”

“Oh really. Then plan two.”

Snap. At my finger snap, a golem appeared from my master’s workshop.

“! C-Cherge-dono… another one!?”

“Cherge Mark II. I made it.”

The original Cherge hid her right eye with bangs.

But Mark II hid the left. Otherwise identical.

“…Amazing. An Ultimate Golem. Weren’t you making advanced potions?”

“I did it quickly in spare time.”

“…To create such a precise golem as a side task… Lady Seyi is incredible!”

Unlike the original, Mark II had no vitality. Naturally — nothing was inside yet.

“Cherge. I’ll link your consciousness with this Mark II. Then you can guard here while following us.”

“…I see. The command is engraved in the original’s magic formula. But Mark II’s body lacks it.”

A formula can be repaired, but only its creator can rewrite it.

So I made a new body.

“You don’t want to spend another 500 years alone, right? Come with me. I needed a luggage carrier anyway.”

Cherge had a Storage function.

It allowed stockpiling large amounts of items.

This Mark II also had it.

“…With the Mark II body alone, the storage function works. That is all.”

“Sure, but retrieving items is troublesome. Storage only holds things. You need a manager.”

I held out my hand.

After brief hesitation, the maid robot took it.

“Okay, I’ll link them quickly. Let’s deploy the formula.”

The synchronization didn’t take long.

A moment later.

“All right! Luggage carrier & utility robot acquired! I stole a woman from that idiot master!”

“I believe that was crude phrasing. Also I was not stolen. That is all.”

“You’re stiff.”

“I am a golem. That is all.”

Anyway.

Thus I gained a utility robot maid with storage function as a companion.

“Once again — let’s depart!”