Chapter 56: Invitation

Edited by Deathbricks, Bunny, Arthur300000, and ArchmageNaoki

I rolled to my left, I see one way. I rolled to my right, I see another. But neither of them are harder than the opposite! I jumped off from my bed and landed with an athletic pose. Yosh! Today I won't leave this room!

My male subordinates are being idiots. Who cares about that!? My female subordinates are scared of me after I told them that I love girls. That was only a minor matter! If I don't leave this room then all my problems are gone!

In my moment of clarity, I took off all my clothes except for my comfortable bear panties. Ahh, I'm finally free~ Hooray, shut in life! I closed my eyes, spread my arms wide and imagine that I'm soaring through the endless sky. Right, an attack helicopter is also considered as a sexual identity. Maybe I should become one. I ran around in the master bedroom and shot my imaginary missiles while mimicking its sound effects.

"Kuro, it's morning. Let's have breakfast!" Cocoa's yell from the corridor brought me back to reality. No, I can still hold out for a while. The door is locked, and I still have some food in my storage device! ... But a luxurious breakfast from this mansion. I wonder what would it be like. *Gulp* I was drooling. Wait, isn't this a checkmate in one move? Grrrr~~ Cocoa, what a scary girl you are!

"Give me ten minutes!" I yelled back. As I turned around to quickly get dressed, my eyes met with a certain plushie on the dressing table. It's Skynet.

I stared at her for a while. Maybe she's still sleeping. I noticed that the carpet under my feet is soft and the room is quiet. I could hear birds’ chirping and the rustling of small animals from far away. Right she must be sleeping, I began to move, but-

"Good morning, mistress. I was worried that you might have gone insane for a moment. Were you practicing something?" Finally, she spoke. Crap, she wasn't sleeping at all.

"Uhn, I was practicing aerial combat." I looked away and tried to use my arms to cover my body, but the bounciness of my chest and empty feeling of my groin made me feel more self-conscious.

"Oh right, I know how bad you are at flying. Still, is there a reason to practice it in your panties?"

"T-To feel the air better!" I yelled and ran into the bathroom to cool down my head with a shower. I swear, I heard Skynet giggling...

Well, she wouldn't upload the video of me firing imaginary missiles naked because I ordered her not to share my information. Still, having someone see me doing something stupid like that is embarrassing.

The feeling of hot water droplets splashing down on my skin felt nice. It washed all my negative emotions away. I want to stay like this as long as possible, so I brush my teeth in the shower stall. Shouldn't I use cold water to cool down? No, it’s just a figure of speech. Who would use cold water when you have hot water for free? Only crazy people would do that.

After I dried myself with a soft towel, I tried on the new adult lingerie that I recently bought, but for some reason, none of them feel more comfortable than these bear pattern panties. Maybe I should just keep these adult panties in my collection folder and keep using the bearable ones.

"No one is going to see them anyway, right?" I told myself as I put my pants on. Hehe, goodbye skirts. I turn myself around in front of the body size mirror to check my handiwork, and it seems everything is fine. I put my tactical vest on as the finishing touch. I still can't pull the zipper all the way up because of my boob size, so I leave it at that and left the room with Skynet on my back. My hair is still a bit wet, not to the point of causing a problem, but I miss my mom and my sister drying my hair for me.

"Phew phew phew... Boom~" "Stop it!" I told Skynet who was mocking me. Damn her, I felt my face flushing again. Can't a man have his private time?

The scent of freshly baked bread, meat, fruit, and wine wafted up the staircase as I climbed down. It seems they don't have a tradition of waiting for everyone to eat together, but I think it's fine because everyone seems happy. The loud merry cheering that came from the dining room is the proof of that. However, they suddenly stop and stood up as I walked in.

""Good morning, commander!"" Everyone greeted me and saluted. Oi, you shouldn't treat me like a party pooper. I waved my hand to have everyone continue their party, but I noticed something strange.

"Cocoa, what naughty play did you do while I was away?" I whispered as I sat next to her. Having the butler move the chair for me felt strange, but that wasn't what disturbed me at the moment. It was the super thick eyebrows of Cocoa that nagged me. Nope, I don't think she had eyebrows that thick yesterday, and she definitely didn't have a beard.

"Apparently, we were drawing on the one who falls asleep first." I looked around, and all the girls seem to have funny doodles on their face. Oh... the girls were also ruthless, huh? The two cat kin maids who also gained extra whiskers quickly served me several delicious looking dishes as we spoke.

"Wait, if that was the case, there should be someone who won the game right?" I checked it a second time, but I found none without a doodle on them. I think the worst one is Matha. She got the words 'boob monster' written on her forehead.

"Well, there is. But I woke up last." Cocoa stabbed a stack of ham violently... Karma seems to have come back at her at full speed, huh?

"Then, why don't you just wash it off? Is it against the rules of the game?" I asked and tasted a cute little tart. Uhmmm, yummy~

"It's permanent ink..." She said with glistening tears in her eyes... Yesterday night, I thought my male subordinates were idiots, but looking at the current situation, it might be the other way around. Now, I don't see any guys half naked or nursing black eyes at all. All of them are dressed up properly. Well, some of their attires are over the top but let's ignore that.

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"Come here." I patted my lap, but Cocoa shook her head.

"Don't you want your thick eyebrows and beard removed?" I smirked.

"Can you!?" All the girls in the room look at me.

"Of course I can!" This is the first time that I'm glad that I was bullied by my little sister. Since she was a child, she liked to write all kinds of things on me with a permanent marker. Hmm, I think the last thing she wrote before I moved out is the word 'PERVERT' across my face in my sleep. Of course, I hardly deserved that. All I did was borrow her panties for ... reference. Moreover, it can't be called stealing because I left my boxers in their place... Wait, why do I feel like I have committed a crime. Maybe living in a girl’s body distorted my view somehow. Anyways, because of that, I learned a few tricks to remove permanent ink from skin. I hope this world's permanent ink composition is the same though.

Cocoa reluctantly sat on my lap. Waahh, so much fluffiness. Whoops, I have to focus on the task at hand otherwise my credibility would hit a new low. I dabbed some butter on my finger and applied it on Cocoa's beard. After I wiped it off with a napkin, some of the ink came off. I repeated this process several times until her face became pretty again. Yosh, it works perfectly. There are some brands of permanent ink that this method won't work on, but luckily it does with this one.

"Thanks, but what about my eyebrows?" Cocoa asked as she looks at her own reflection. The other girls picked up on the technique and tried it themselves. Even the catgirl maids did it too.

"Eh? I thought it looked cute as it is." I don't know who did it, but her eyebrows were artfully done. However, Cocoa cutely began to remove it herself. Aww, what a waste.

Our peaceful breakfast was disturbed as the doorbell rang. I looked through the windows and saw a silhouette waiting at the front gate. I focused my vision on that spot and discovered that it's Ms. Nyatalee. Wow, merchants sure work fast. I told Scotty the butler to let her in.

"So, have you finished my request?" I asked Ms. Nyatalee who quickly accepted my invitation to breakfast. At the sight of food, she seemingly forgot about everything else and started stuffing her cheeks with meat, so I had to remind her. Anyways, it was better this way because she didn’t pretend to refuse. Tsunderes are cute in anime, but if I had to deal with one in real life, I might snap.

*Nom Nom Gulp* "Everything is ready nya~" She pointed at her silver ring and swallowed a mouthful of sausage. I hope she doesn't choke, but I wouldn’t mind giving her CPR though.

Of all the dishes we have here, I enjoyed the meat pie the most. There is also a dish that I don't touch though. It's the silvery soup with eyeballs floating inside. I wonder if it still has the inedible lenses inside of it? I was going to offer it to Ms. Nyatalee, but Cocoa intercepted it. Isn't this her third helping? I don't know why the peaceful morning has to turn into an eating contest between Cocoa and Ms. Nyatalee, but it’s quite fun to watch. I wonder where those two store all that food they eat though.

I allow Cocoa to eat as much as she wants because even if a small girl like her gets a bit plump, she's still cute. The two maids have to make another round to the kitchen to take out another big tray of steaks to refill what was quickly disappeared. The scene of Cocoa wagging her tails as she received another dish puts a smile on my face.

After the breakfast, I ordered my platoon to do warm up exercises in the courtyard and have Ms. Nyatalee show me the items in a private room. They are a stack of thick yellow-green leather, three black long hooded jackets, three pairs of boots, a big ball of meat, and a cute hair clip.

The big ball of meat is the unique monster's core. It's ugly and looks like it's still beating slowly. I could feel a powerful force lying dormant inside.

Those jackets and boots are made of the unique monster leather. They were dyed black and custom made to fit Cocoa, my sister and me. The cute hair clip is a storage device, the same model as mine. I was hoping that there would be a bigger one, but it turned out that there is no such thing for sale.

"Huh?" Cocoa uttered nonsense and looked at me in surprise as I gave Cocoa a jacket, a pair of boots, and a hair clip.

"It's for you. From now on you’ll have to sell lots of monster parts for me, and you’ll need a bigger device for that. And this jacket is supposed to have better protective properties than your gambeson." I reasoned with her as I removed my tactical vest and tried my new jacket on. Alright, it fits me perfectly, especially the chest part. It’s also a bit heavy, and the sleeves are very thick. It felt a lot lighter as I tightened the belt, but it might still dull my movement a bit. I think I can get used to it though. All in all, if I considered this as heavy armor, everything seems perfect.

"Uh, Oh, Wowww, it also comes with gloves, thanks!" She inspected the jacket in detail then she wore it over her gambeson... How many layers does she need? I hope she won’t tire herself out by wearing all that. My only regret is that the heavy jacket covered her tails completely. It pushed her tails down with its weight alone. Still, it is a good trade-off. If it doesn't cover her tails, she might lose them in battle.

Oh, right, there are gloves that I ordered. I took them out from the side pocket and put them on. Hmm, they are also nicely done. I can move all my fingers freely. From my experience in expert combat class, hands are the easiest target. I won against that junior champion something many times because I aimed at his hands and legs. With these gloves on, I felt more confident.

I moved on to test the boots out. They look nice and feel comfortable. I jumped a few times and felt no problems with them. Cocoa also tried her pair out. I heard several 'oh’s', ‘ah’s’, and 'whoa’s' from her. Content with them, I store the core, the rest of the skin, and my sister's armor. There is enough material left to make a jacket for my brother, but I don't know his size, so I can't order it for him. I hope Marcus’s team can process it. On the contrary, I'm quite confident with my sister’s size. I measured them with both of my hands.

"Ahem, I'm glad that you are satisfied with our products, nya. And here you are, the deed record." Deed record? I look at the envelope Ms. Nyatalee handed me. "You killed a monster with a bounty on its head, but a word of warning though. If you want to keep it a secret, you better not cash it in, nya" The cat girl said secretively.

I open the envelope and read the content inside. It said that it's a job of rank A difficulty, and I would get ... one, two, three, four, five ... Uhm, I count the zeroes again to make sure. It's one million gems!

"Wait, why is the name field empty?" I check the content of the letter carefully to make sure there is no mistake. One million gems is a lot. If I went to cash it in and they said that this document is invalid, I might cough up blood and die right then and there.

"It's because of the non-disclosure agreement we had, nya. By the law, we have to report all bounty kills, so I left your name out from the report and told them that I forgot to ask your name. It created a hell of a lot of follow up documents that I had to fill out, nyaa~~~" She yawned. Hmm, looking closely at her face, the skin under her eyes are a bit darkened.

"But can I cash it in like this?"

"No problem, nya. The fault lies on the merchant guild so that you can cash it in at any adventurer guild. But because the name is missing it means that anyone can cash it in." Oh, I have to be careful with it then. I stored the document immediately. Maybe if I'm famous, I will cash it in. As I thought that, Ms. Nyatalee looked at me suspiciously.

"I believe that it's common sense, but seeing you acting like that, I feel like I have to warn you though." She paused and stared at me. "The document is only valid for six months. So, don't wait until it's overdue and regret it later, nya." ... Am I that transparent?

I thanked her for telling me that and signed the receipt. Maybe someone can cash it in for me. I have six months anyway. Anything can still happen in that duration. I also asked Skynet to warn me when the expiration date is near. For now, I'm not in need for money, but one million gems is still a lot. I send her away while imagining how many panties, games, and toys one million gems could buy.