Chapter 92: Pink

My sister rushes up the stairs the moment we get to our apartment building, looking incredibly excited. When we catch up to her she’s already opened the door for us. 

“Come quickly, Hilda is already inside and I don’t want to keep her for that long.” 

“Yeah, yeah, don’t push us.” I look at her with distrust. 

“This is going to be so fun.” Sam whispers under her breath. 

I look at Sam as well. “What the heck are you two up to.” 

“You’ll see very shortly I guess.” She winks as we walk into the living room. 

“Get your shoes off and stuff, I’ll go get it.” Élise closes the door behind us and then rushes off. 

“Is this about the box that was delivered earlier?” 

“I think it is.” Nikki nods. “No clue what’s in it though.” 

Hilda shrugs. “Wouldn’t know either but the way Lise is reacting it’s probably great.”

We get our shoes off and I get rid of my choker as well, putting it in it’s box.

“I’m here, I’m here!” Élise skids through the living room with a box in hand and puts it on the living room table in front of us all. “I can already tell this was totally worth the money.”

Lise was planning to run to the kitchen to get a knife but Hilda just reaches for her pocket and hands her her pocket knife. 

“Why are you running around with a knife, Hilda?” I ask while my sister gets to work on the box. 

“It has a couple of small tools too. You never know when you need a screwdriver or a small pair of scissors.” 

“Hmm, I guess that’s true.” 

“Oh my Goddess, I knew it.” Sam starts laughing. My sister had just opened the box and the content was for all to see. I could only see pink frilly things inside. 

“Huh? What’s this?” 

“Your memory that bad, sis?” She asks in return and gets a hold of the box’s contents, lifting it out.

Oh no…

“W-when did you buy this!!?”

In front of me was the pink frilly maid outfit that we’d worn inside of The Echelon. And the worst part is, it’s quite clearly in my size.

“The game has an app in which you can buy outfits you can own in the game, all the stuff is super high quality according to the reviews and I can’t say they’re wrong. This looks exactly like the one in the game.”

“Sorry but, what is this?” Hilda asks, still as confused as Nikki. 

“Remember when you and Nikki went for coffee in The Echelon? This is what we were doing in the meantime.” Lise took something else out of the box, it was the picture we took of me, Sam and my sister back in the store. 

“Oh my, that’s just fantastic.” Hilda laughs. 

“So, dear sister, would you want to show the ladies how it looks in the flesh?” 

I pout and look at Hilda’s and Nikki’s faces, they all look very expectantly at me, and my girlfriend too for that matter.

“Fine.” I pout even harder.

“Ah, and don’t forget this.” She takes out the ribbon she’d tied to my tail the last time.

One day I’ll have my revenge, sis. One day. Mark Amicat’s words!

“Sam, could you come with me while I get dressed?” I ask my girlfriend who looks a bit surprised by my question. 

“Sure, anything special you need me for?” She blushes.

“It’s just that I can’t tie the ribbon around my tail myself…” 

“Ah, I see. Yeah I’ll join you.”

“See you in a bit, kitten, we’re looking forward to it.” Hilda smiles.

“Yeah, yeah.” I pout and walk into the hallway and then into my room. Taking off my clothes didn’t take very long and luckily enough the maid outfit also didn’t take that long to put on either, especially not since I had a Sam to help for the harder parts.

“It looks super cute on you, Ami.” She smiles as she attaches the ribbon on my tail. “This is the first time seeing the real you in the outfit and it’s just as cute as I imagined.”

“Ah, right, I almost forgot I used a different avatar in that game.” 

“I like the real you a lot more.” Sam turns me around and gives me a quick kiss. “Pink suits you better.” 

“I kinda liked your scales though.” I kiss her back. 

“Understandable, they were pretty neat.” She laughs. “Are you ready to get coddled by Hilda and Nikki?”

“I don’t know if I ever will be, to be honest.” 

“Haha.” She takes my hand. “Come, let’s go kill them with cuteness.”

I nod and we walk back into the living room. 

“Dear Goddess, I think I’m going to get a nosebleed.” My sis puts a handkerchief in front of her mouth the moment she sees us coming back. 

“She looks so precious.” Nikki aws. 

Hilda stands up and walks over to me. “Uhm, do you mind if I take her home so I can cuddle up with her?” 

“No, she’s my plushie. Sorry Hilda.” Sam apologizes.

“And you don’t have your bike’s sidecar with you today after all.” 

“Blast it.” She laughs. “Jokes aside, you look really cute in this, Amicia. If you worked in a maid café, I would visit every single day.” 

“Wouldn’t we all?” My sister puts her handkerchief away. 

“Definitely.” Sam replies. Nikki just nods along.” 

“By the way, are we all going to play a bit of Turn of Destiny today?” Hilda pats me on the head. “Not that I would mind looking at Amicia’s maid cosplay all night.“  

“Sounds good to me.” My sister nods. 

“To me as well.” Nikki does too.

“What about you and Sam?” Hilda looks back to me. 

“Yeah, I think some more adventure would be cool.” Sam agrees. 

“Of course.” I nod as well.

“Great.” Hilda smiles and scratches me behind my ear.

“I should probably leave now before it gets too late.” She looks at her watch.

“Just send us a message when you get home so we will start up our games.” Nikki gives Hilda her jacket back that she’d taken off. 

“Alright.”

“Ah! Hilda!”

“What’s up, kitten?” She says as she puts her jacket on. 

“Don’t you want to see the tablet Gamma gave to me?” I grab it from the spot I left it on before leaving earlier today. 

“Aah.” She looks at it for a second. “You know what, let me look at it next time, so we don’t have to rush ourselves. Maybe take it along to my house.”

“Oki!” I give her a goodbye hug.

“See you in a bit.” She smiles and hugs me back. 

“See ya!” The rest of my family also says their goodbyes. 

Once Hilda closes the door behind her we all decide to get ready for bed but not after I check the tablet one more time.

When I open it up I see my follower count has gone up quite a bit since last time I checked but that’s not the only thing that had changed. There was a brand new skill waiting for me at the bottom of the list called ‘stealth casting’. 

I let Sam check the tablet too. “Ah so this is the thing you probably used at the game, right?” 

“I suppose so.” 

She clicks on the skill which opens a tooltip and then reads it out loud. “Your superior focus allows you to cast some spells in a nearly undetectable fashion. While this is useful in certain situations where hiding your intentions is important it does increase both cast time, cast potency and mana cost.” 

“Hmm, that’s cool.” My sister replies, she’d been listening to our conversation from the kitchen. “Although I think mana and potency are probably not much of an issue considering your other abilities.” She takes a sip of her tap water.

“Ami gets all the cheat skills.” Sam laughs. 

“Well she buffs us too so it’s more like we have an entire cheat party.” 

“True enough.” 

“Anyhow, I’m heading off to brush my teeth, I’ll call out when Hilda has sent she’s ready.” 

“Thanks.” 

My sister leaves the room, leaving only me and Sam behind as I shut off the tablet and put it in one of the cabinets. 

“Don’t you feel weird just before you head into the game?” Sam asks. 

“Uhm, I don’t know, why?” 

“Usually we would say good night when we head to bed, right?” 

“Aah! I know what you mean. You don’t know what to say now because we’ll see eachother soon anyway.” 

My girlfriend nods. “When Hilda left too. I didn’t really see the point of saying goodbye either. Maybe we should say ‘be right back’ instead.”

“But that feels weird when you aren’t using a computer, doesn’t it?” 

“I guess.” Sam rubs her chin. “Well, it doesn’t really matter.” 

“Mhmm.” I embrace my girlfriend and kiss her on the cheek. “We should probably get ready too. Maybe we can cuddle a bit in bed before we log in.” 

“Good plan, babe.” She kisses me back.

Cuddle cuddle, kiss kiss, and even more cuddle cuddle kiss.

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