The Masochistic Maid Makes Her Entrance
Reir tilted his head at the question. Play with us?
Lucia wore a similar expression of confusion.
"Play?" Reir asked.
"W-well..." Karin fidgeted with the braid hanging over her shoulder, her voice trembling. "I... I used to belong to a different group of maids, but I really hated it there. I wanted to live serving a human... a Master. You know?"
She looked utterly embarrassed.
"I want to follow all kinds of orders, try doing all sorts of things... get praised... and, um... oh! Would you like to touch my breasts? They were made for that exact purpose from the start, so they're incredibly s-soft!"
She reached for the buttons on her collar. Reir quickly waved his hands to stop her.
"W-wait a second. You really don't have to go that far."
"Ah... s-so... does that mean... you won't accept me as your maid?" Karin's voice cracked as she sniffled. "I'm ready to offer both my body and my heart to you, Master..."
She stepped closer and dropped to her knees in front of him.
"Can't you accept me? Should I... lick your feet?"
She actually lowered her tongue toward his shoe. Reir jerked his foot back and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"You don't have to beg like that! It's fine. You can stay with us. You can come with us!"
If he turned her down, she looked ready to strip completely naked and prostrate herself on the ground. The mental image made Reir break into a cold sweat.
"R-really?!"
When Reir gave his permission, Karin looked up at him with shining eyes. She seemed genuinely overjoyed at the chance to submit to her Master, her king.
"Th-thank you...!"
She threw her arms around him. Lucia flinched, instantly shifting into a defensive stance, but Karin wasn't trying to hurt Reir. After a moment, Lucia relaxed her guard, though she continued watching with heightened caution.
The overwhelming pressure of Karin's massive frame combined with the incredible softness of her enormous chest pressing against his lower body left Reir sweating bullets as he tried to pry her off. But she was far too strong for him to manage.
"Master, are you certain this is wise? We don't know which faction she belongs to. She could be dangerous."
"Don't all maids have those Three Absolute Rules? According to them, she shouldn't be able to harm me, right?"
Lucia paused, then shook her head.
"Not exactly. Not all of them follow the rules perfectly. For example..."
"I would never hurt Master! I'm not a spy!" Karin protested, twisting her head away.
"I truly want to serve you, obey you, and devote myself to you. That's why I'm joining..." Karin's expression grew downcast.
Lucia wasn't ready to drop her suspicions so easily.
"In that case, why don't you prostrate yourself before Master completely naked?"
At Lucia's bombshell declaration, Reir choked and broke into a fit of coughing.
"Wh-what?! No, Lucia! That's completely unnecessary!"
"Th-that's easy enough!"
But Karin was already unbuttoning her clothes. The soft pop-pop of buttons coming undone filled the air. Reir desperately tried not to look. The rustle of fabric sliding off accompanied her voice.
"Master Reir. You can order me to do anything. Please don't worry."
Her breathing had grown strangely rough.
"So... there's no need... to worry..."
"..."
Reir couldn't help thinking that Karin seemed oddly excited by the situation. His head was starting to throb. He decided he would need to carve out more time to be alone in the near future.
Before she could finish stripping, Reir spoke up.
"I'll close my eyes, so put your clothes back on. That's an order."
"Huh? But I haven't finished undressing, and I haven't prostrated myself yet..."
"No, that's more than enough effort. Stop right there."
"W-wow... so you'll really accept me?!"
"Yes."
Before Karin could throw herself at Reir again, Lucia stepped in to block her.
"Ah... I went... too far..."
Under Lucia's withering glare, Karin lowered her head and began dressing herself once more.
"Mm. Well, this level of submission is satisfactory."
Lucia wore a pleased smile, convinced that Karin had completely surrendered to her Master's authority.
"Whoa... I've never seen such an extreme masochistic maid before..." Hias muttered, unable to hide her shock at the arrival of someone even more perverted than herself.
"You can call me bitch. Or sow. Whatever you like, Master!"
"I'm going to use your actual name!"
Reir felt a headache coming on at the arrival of this maid with such bizarre tastes, but strangely enough, he found himself liking her anyway.
*
"Ahhh... so that's how Master..."
On the way back to their territory, Karin listened attentively as Reir explained how he had ended up here and how he had woken up from the cryogenic chamber.
"That's... amazing. Preparing for the future like that..."
"By the way, Karin. You act like you've never met a human before."
"Ah... y-yes. This is... my first time."
"Is that even possible?" Reir was genuinely surprised.
Back when he had been living his peaceful daily life, nearly every household had at least one android. Among the many types, maids were especially common due to their nature. It hadn't been difficult at all for them to live alongside humans.
"The place I came from... had quite a few units created during the period of humanity's extinction. So there were many maids who only had knowledge about what humans were like... but had never actually met one. I was one of those cases..."
Karin smiled brightly.
"After knowing about humans for hundreds of years... finally meeting one and touching one... I couldn't help wanting to submit completely. I wanted to obey anything you asked. I wonder if the other members of the council feel the same way?"
"Hmm..." Reir looked uncomfortable.
Most of the maids who followed him did so out of a desire to serve, but now one had appeared who wanted to submit in a much more peculiar direction. It left him flustered. From the circumstances, she seemed to have been custom-built with very specific tastes in mind. Since Reir wasn't particularly knowledgeable about that sort of thing, it made him even more awkward.
"Karin. You are now a member of our Holy Fire ritual group. Please conduct yourself with the dignity befitting one who serves Master."
Lucia interjected with some pointed advice.
"H-huh?"
"I am Lucia, leader of the group. I assume you already know that. From now on, after Master himself, I expect you to follow my instructions."
"But Master said it was fine... so isn't that enough? That counts as an order too, doesn't it?"
A strange tension crackled between the two.
"Even if Master permits it, as a maid who follows him, there are standards of behavior we must uphold. Please refrain from crude or vulgar speech and actions that might tarnish our dignity."
"C-crude..."
Karin looked down at her own body. Then she smiled bashfully.
"That's a good word... crude..."
She hugged her teddy bear tightly and rubbed her face against it with obvious delight. The bizarre reaction left Lucia momentarily speechless.
"Um... still, Karin, it would be better if you adjusted your behavior and speech a bit."
"Ah... y-yes...?"
"Yeah. It's a little... uncomfortable. Just like you said, it's crude. Or maybe lewd..."
Karin tilted her head.
"Isn't that a good thing?"
Reir dragged a hand down his face. Her entire way of thinking seemed wired in that direction, making her incredibly difficult to teach properly.
Suddenly, an idea struck him.
"It's absolutely not a good thing! Fix your speech immediately! Learn from Lucia!"
He delivered the command in a stern tone and gave her backside a firm smack.
"Hngh?!"
"Whoa... Master, you're not completely hopeless after all~?" Hias giggled beside them, reaching out to pat Reir's head in approval.
"U-understood, Master..."
It seemed to work. Whether the command protocol had been entered correctly or not, Karin nodded with a joyful expression.
"Hah. What a truly vulgar maid."
The thought slipped out before Lucia could stop herself.
"Yes... I am a vulgar maid... so please scold me often..."
Karin looked positively thrilled. At the sight, Lucia and the other maids could only sigh.
"...Haah."
They shook their heads in unison.
*
They soon arrived back at their territory, and Reir returned to his room. He began thinking about what to do next.
What should he order them to do? What tasks should he assign?
Then something occurred to him. He turned to Lucia, who stood beside him.
"Lucia, how many things can I actually do right now?"
"Simply having Master by our side is more than enough."
Lucia smiled faintly as she spoke.
"But... Karin mentioned she used to belong to another faction. Are there other groups of maids out there?"
Lucia nodded.
"There are many. Some are hostile toward us, some are friendly, and some remain neutral."
"Then let's do this."
Reir took Lucia's hand. She flinched in surprise.
"We'll create a world where all the maids can get along. What do you think?"
Lucia beamed and pulled Reir into her embrace.
"What a wonderful idea, Master."
"Thanks for the compliment. But before that, there's something we need to take care of first."
"What would that be?"
"Lucia, you grow the vegetables for the stew and the tea leaves for the black tea, right? You're doing agriculture?"
"Yes, we are."
"And judging by the amount you have, it looks like you're also raising livestock."
"Yes. We do so on a modest scale."
"Modest...? Where exactly?"
"The backyard of this building is quite spacious. We manage it there. We also have several other gardens and fields scattered across different areas."
Reir mulled it over, running through the cycle of three meals a day in his head. He even factored in the androids' needs. Once his calculations were complete, he gave Lucia an order.
"Lucia, I'm going to issue a new command to all the maids."
"Yes, Master. Please tell me anything."
"Expand our agriculture and livestock operations further."
The first priority for survival: securing a food supply. That was the immediate task at hand.