9 Chapter 9 - Headhunting Maid In Another World

The next day, Asia dressed up excitedly while humming to a tune and constantly fixing her look in front of a vertical standing mirror next to her wardrobe and the untouched make up table since she is already cute, adorable and pretty enough without them. But seriously, she never used any makeup, so she didn't know how to apply them.

"Asia, you will be late if you continue to nitpick in front of that mirror." I said lazily while laying on the makeup table next to the mirror.

"But! But" She looked worried about her look, on the first day at school and she worried she might look weird.

"No buts, you look pretty and adorable enough you are giving me, a god, a stage 5 diabetes. So pick up your bag. We are leaving now." I deadpanned and jumped down to the floor and made my way to the door before using my shadow tentacle to open it.

"Let's go." I said again before she relent and picked up her school bag placed on her bed before following behind me.

Several minutes later, we arrived in front of the school and at the front gate is Sona Sitri, the Student Council President with her Queen, Tsubaki Shinra, greeting and checking on the arriving students.

Both of them looked nervous when Asia arrived with me standing next to her. But I ignored them and sending Asia off on her first day at school.

"Goodbye, Ray." Asia waved although her nervousness was very clear and evident.

"Goodbye. I will return later after school to fetch you up. Don't be nervous and make plenty of friends." I send her off while feeling like a single dad sending his daughter on her first day at school.

My eyes already lock on to the two perverts in the classroom checking on the girls below while Issei is desperately dissuading them to not ogle at Asia.

"Hmph, courting death." I said and planted some nightmares in their dreams that will curb their lechery. They are lucky Asia wouldn't allow me to kill them.

After Asia entered the building, I stood up and turned away, which made the devil pair on the school gate to sigh a relief at the sight of me leaving peacefully.

"Maybe being gang rape by Mil-tan and his gang of buff Magical Girls is a little too much…" I blanched at the thoughts of it but thinking how they dare defile Asia's innocent body with their tainted eyes make me more firm with my 'gift' to the two perverts.

"Anyway, time to find a proper housekeeper." I said before my body sank into my shadow.

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Somewhere in a distant universe, at a certain scarlet mansion surrounded by magical mist. The mansion was on fire with traces of catastrophic battle had took place here.

The center of the mansion had already been destroyed with a large crater with only two survivors. One is a human with silver hair and a maid outfit and another it's a dying vampire with blue hair and a tattered dress.

In the midst of it, a shadow suddenly moved like it was alive, twitching and squirming which made the maid become alert and hurried to carry her master away but she could hardly even stand properly much less carry another to run. She is undoubtedly at the mercy of this newly appeared being.

She looked at her master with an apologetic look and said, "I apologize I had failed you, Mistress Remilia." Then she put down her master, that struggle of even breath as she stood up and held a chipped dagger ready to lay down her life for her master one last time.

Then the blob of shadow stopped squirming and died down revealing a black cat.

"A black cat?" She questioned as she couldn't recall any black cat that is dangerous in her world. But she is still wary because the power she felt is unmistakably powerful and very ancient. Perhaps even outclassed the Gap Youkai.

"There is no need to be alarmed, girl. I am not here to fight or to hurt anyone." A deep masculine voice came from the cat which surprised her. But she is still wary and wouldn't drop her guard.

"Your master, Remilia Scarlet is dying right?" The cat asked with amusement in his voice. "Then I have a proposition for you. What if I could heal her back to life?" The cat said while casually approaching her with a slow stroll.

Hearing that the cat can heal her master back to life, her eyes widened in surprise and almost accepted without even discussing the term. But she immediately stops herself after remembering that nothing is free and there definitely is a price for healing her master.

"Oh, that caught your interest? What a loyal servant are you. 10 points." The cat said and stopped in front of her. "So, what is your choice? Will you accept my proposition or will you allow your master to die?"

The maid looked at the cat with distrust. However, it is the only one that can help her dying master.

"Fine, let's hear what your term is." The maid lowered her dagger and listened to the cat.

"Nothing difficult. Your life in exchange for the life of your master. Vow to me your eternal servitude and I will heal her back to perfect health." The cat said his term which made the maid frown but when she gave it a thought, it might not be bad if she can save her master.

"Fine. I will accept your term. But after you heal her first." The maid said sternly as to not allow any trickery knowing the nature of a youkai, which is what she assumed the cat were.

"Hmn, such a distrustful mind. But I don't mind it. However, let me heal you first. So, you will believe I am not trying to trick you." The cat said before putting its paw on her feet and made a strange energy course through her whole body.

The maid's eyes immediately bulged open. She is very familiar with this power. "Time manipulation! You revert time on my body to the moment before I received any injury." The maid exclaimed in surprise as reversing time is a whole nother league from simply stopping time.

"Correct. Now, do you trust me?" The cat asked with a wide grin.

The maid nodded her head and hurriedly asked him to heal her master.

"Alright. Alright. No need to rush me." The cat complained as he walked up to the sleeping vampire and did the same thing on her except he also had to target her soul which was being destroyed by her own younger sister in her rampage.

But it's nothing difficult for this secretly a 12th Dimensional Eldritch God. This is nothing but a simple matter as the blue haired vampire immediately recovered and the maid verified it although she is still sleeping.

"There, I fulfilled my part. Now it's yours." The cat reminds the maid.

"Right. Hereby I discard my old name, Sakuya Izayoi in service of my new master." She knelt down on one knee before the cat and awaits a new name to be bestowed upon her.

"Hmn… I'm not good with names. So, retain your old name and my name is Ray." The cat answered her vow.

The maid nodded with a surprised look and quickly replied. "Then, I shall take upon my name bestowed by my master and swear my eternal servitude to him."

"Good. Now, let's go home or do you want to wait for your former mistress to wake up and give her some parting words before we leave?"

"No, let's leave immediately. I am sure she will understand everything on her own, Master." Sakuya answered and gazed at her former mistress one last time before she turned her head away.

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