I became a heart-stealing thief in Azure Files

Suppressing the sudden urge to pounce on Sensei and tear off her clothes, she closed her eyes and answered hesitantly, "N-nothing..."

"If there are other 'route plans' in the future, can I... come to Sensei like I did today?"

This way of changing the subject is really...

There is a special quality that belongs only to 'athletic girls'.

Amamiya smiled and nodded: "Okay. If Shirako has any route plans at the time, and I happen to have the time..."

"Let's ride together again."

'Together……'

'A unique world for two...'

"This is..."

After a brief moment of stunned silence, three double eighth notes floated above Bai Zi's head.

【~???~】

"It's getting late..."

With his head slightly turned towards the setting sun, Bai Zi, after a very brief silence, decisively... got on his road bike and ran off.

With all his might, Amamiya could even see sparks flying from the chain of the road bike.

'Is she...shy?'

'Is it because they need to hurry back to Abydos to report, so they have to speed things up?'

Watching Shirako ride away on her bicycle, Amamiya guessed why she had said goodbye in such a hurry.

'...Let's think about what we learned from today's trip first.'

Back in Xia Lai's office, after checking on the condition of the Xia Lai building, that concludes today's 'morning routine'—

On the way back, Amamiya briefly recalled the students with the 'assistant' qualifications that she had seen today.

When I passed by Trinity College, I saw quite a few 'peculiar' students;

When I passed by the Little Rabbit Park, I seemed to see a few "little rabbit" students wearing rabbit earrings, who looked like they were doing some kind of "wilderness survival training" in the middle of winter.

The Xuanwu Merchant Guild and the Plum Garden, as learned from the Classic of Mountains and Seas;

When passing through the area of ​​the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, I occasionally saw a few students with animal ears and strange 'demon horns'.

I won't go into detail about the students I saw while passing through Gehenna...

In short, there were quite a few students I met today who have the potential to be 'helpers' and are worth getting to know.

After reflecting on what he had seen and felt that day, Amamiya finally confirmed that there were no other problems with Xia Lai's office building.

After turning off the lights, locking the door, and leaving the building, Amamiya began to consider who she should ask out today.

'First of all... speaking of which, Nero's maid club must have been impacted or affected by Rion's repentance...'

With thoughts swirling around her, Amamiya casually opened MomoTalk to check the messages sent during this time period.

...As expected, the messages were mostly from students of the Millennium.

After all, the students of the Millennium are still in the aftermath of 'repentance'—and there are certainly many students who are either curious or want to know more.

To Amamiya's slight surprise, among the messages sent today from several other academies, he also saw quite a few students who seemed to be inquiring about matters related to repentance.

[Saori: Has 'repentance' worked again...?]

[Saori: Sensei...is amazing.]

[Saori: Our team wants to have a more in-depth conversation with Sensei recently...]

Saori, on the other hand, probably saw the reassurance that followed the first exceptional case, which led her to consider further contact.

[Hasumi: Sensei, do you know about tea parties?]

[Hasumi: Lady Nagisa from the tea party asked me to convey a message to you... She wishes to see you.]

It was actually an invitation from Trinity's 'Student Council' tea party?

Amamiya raised an eyebrow and glanced at the other messages.

[Ruozao: Hehehe... As expected of my darling, you always manage to solve all problems with unstoppable force...]

[Wakazama: Wakazama is working hard too~ [Image - Wakazama smiling with her face in her hands.jpg]; [Image - A building.jpg]]

[Ruozao: The 'love nest' I'm preparing for my beloved is almost complete...]

Amamiya: ...

Amamiya was quite surprised when he imagined the fox's current situation.

Is she... planning to get a wedding house?

Although this idea is rather far-fetched... given the message sent by the other party, Amamiya had no choice but to think in this direction.

[Natsume Iroha sent a friend request (via a friend card forwarded by Onikita Kayoko)]

[Iroha: Sensei... Would you like to know about the Pandemonium? I have something to say... [Image - Iroha's selfie.jpg]]

This is……

When Amamiya saw the message, she didn't realize who it was.

But when Amamiya saw the personal selfie attached to the only message the other person could send before they became friends, he remembered.

This was the girl he had seen before when he first met Hina... the short, red-haired girl with an astonishingly thick amount of hair, wearing the uniform of the Pandemonium.

For some reason, it looks rather lazy and listless—a bit out of place with the 'iron-blooded style' of the Pandemonium.

Hina: Sensi, do you have time lately...?

'...'

[Ayako: The Disciplinary Committee is under a lot of pressure lately... Sensei, can you help me out?]

'...'

[Xiaochun: You evil adult, have you been doing...doing...doing strange things in other people's minds again?! I...I...I...I'm telling you, doing things related to cesium is not allowed!]

It appears that this message was input via voice and then transcribed into text; otherwise, there wouldn't be such strange pauses and emphasis.

(By the way, why were there no typos? Of course, it's because Kiwatos's voice-to-text input method has high accuracy.)

(So ​​why is it still considered a 'typo'? The answer is that the review process by Tmall doesn't allow it.)

After turning off these messages, Amamiya decided to deal with the immediate matter first.

Currently, the situation here in the Millennium has not been fully resolved.

Let's contact the maid department first...

Amamiya opened Nero's chat page and sent a message to the short, irritable maid she remembered.

I'm free today...would you like to meet up and chat?

The person on the other end of the communication seemed to be waiting at all times, replying almost instantly.

[Nero: Sensei, do you have time now? That's good.]

[Nero: Sensei, please wait downstairs for a moment... We'll be right there for you.]

Chapter Eight: The Maids' Art Style Gradually Becomes Bizarre

As the 'most mysterious, least known, and most terrifying organization in a thousand years,' the speed of the Maids' Department's actions is self-evident.

These girls, ostensibly maids but actually special agents, gathered from nowhere within three minutes of sending the message. They drove an unremarkable gray special armored pickup truck into Xia Lai's parking space.

It looks ordinary, with no special features in its paint job or equipment... yet it has the level of protection of a 'presidential vehicle' outside of Kivotos...

After observing the astonishing spectacle and the 'mysterious and powerful' aura, Amamiya was slightly surprised.

All four car doors opened simultaneously, and the maids, dressed in maid outfits but behaving like special agents 'cleaning up pests,' got out and stood firmly beside the doors, routinely keeping watch on their surroundings—

After confirming there was no danger, Nero, who had gotten out of the passenger seat, temporarily put his chained gun back behind him.

The four of them then quickly entered Xia Lai's building and went straight to Xia Lai's office.

Upon entering Xia Lai's club office, Nero first surveyed the office environment.

After confirming that there were no unusual objects or 'students who shouldn't be there' in the office, she decided to get straight to the point.

"Sensei, let's get right to the point."

After Nero, who was not good with words, took the lead as the head of the maid department, she naturally handed over the power of the maid department to Akane.

The latter gently pushed up her thick, black-rimmed glasses—perhaps meant to shield her eyes—and, with a natural, graceful, and charming smile, took over the conversation.

"Sensei...after consulting with the seminar's accountant and clerk separately, and after conducting extensive investigations..."

Since the goal was to have an open and honest discussion about Liu Yishan, Zhu Yin didn't use any roundabout methods to describe Rion's experiences in the maid club when she repented.

They first felt the "spying" from the outside world for no apparent reason.

The maids' club, which is relatively professional in areas such as reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, immediately discovered the person who came to secretly observe them and immediately went on alert.

Subsequently, Nero received a continuous stream of documents from Rion regarding various transfers, impromptu budget cuts, and reductions in authority.

Fortunately, the document that Rion sent out had not yet been reviewed and checked. Although it was indeed sent out, it hadn't had a chance to be "used" before she regretted it.

'This should correspond to... the Demon King's castle in the other world, and the news Noah mentioned back then that "the maids were executed by the Demon King."'

'After all, Noah is the scribe of the Demon King's castle in the other world... In Rion's subjective perception, Noah would definitely have access to these documents immediately and noticed something amiss... Rion's perception must have found the other world, so the shadow of that other world, Noah, already knew about this seemingly unrelated news.'

After listening to Akane's account, Amamiya's mind was filled with the understanding she had gained based on Akane's description, and she thought to herself that at least Rion hadn't made a serious mistake...

If she were to actually implement the temporary decision to disband the maid club in the real world, who knows what kind of chaos would erupt at Millennium Technology Academy...

It's important to know that the existence of the maid club may seem 'insignificant,' and many clubs may not even know about it or mention it.

(PS: Yuka didn't mention this when she introduced Millennium Academy in Chapter 14 of Volume 1.)

But this club... is really important.

Based on what he currently knows about the functions and tasks of the Maids' Club, Amamiya deduced that it is an organization with many functions, such as 'counter-terrorism', similar to a 'black glove of the seminar'.

Rion's act of 'disbanding the maid club' under the premise that the palace was in jeopardy...

It's like a region suddenly announcing that it will disband all its troops.

Or, it's like a research institute suddenly disbanding all its research resources...

Isn't this like cutting off your own arms?

Amamiya rubbed his forehead, remained silent for a while, and then exclaimed with a wry smile, "That was... a close call."

"It was indeed extremely dangerous," Zhu Yin chuckled in agreement. "Without Master's swift response and decisive action to resolve the situation..."

She said half-jokingly, but her tone carried an eerie chill: "Perhaps... the maid club has already been 'disbanded' by now."

The small, exquisite porcelain-white teacup gleamed with a lustrous, reflective light, and beneath its shimmering surface, the red tea leaves gradually unfurled.

Amamiya picked up the glass, took a sip naturally, and then asked, "So, you came to see me... to make some kind of 'special deal' with me?"

"A deal...?"

Zhu Yin maintained her gentle and graceful smile, and with a meaningful tone, she repeated the special meaning of Amamiya's words.

She shook her head and said slowly, "I should say... we've decided to join Xia Lai... to become a force you can command, provided it's necessary for you..."

"This was also an implication and explicit suggestion from the clerk of the seminar and the accountant."

"We can give our all for Sensei and become a force to serve you."

So... Xia Lai's file suddenly has the added power of a powerful 'armed group squad'.

Amamiya narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched Akane take out several student files from the equipment box he carried with him, which was used to carry explosives.

These student files look no different—yet strangely, when Amamiya observes them through his "third eye," he can clearly see different colors of light flowing across them.

One of them flows with blue, one flows with gold, and the remaining two are both iridescent (colorful).