The unhatched dragon egg was placed in Mori Tsukisa's bed, forming a large, round lump.
Since Yuno Gasai pestered Mori Tsukisa into moving into the girl's bedroom, she was angry like this for the first time—that's right, since Mori Tsukisa returned, she spent every night holding the dragon egg and chatting about her feelings, occasionally even taking out a stack of facial masks and sticking them one by one onto the ivory-colored dragon egg... "That's to make my Little Cookie prettier!"
"Yuno, our Little Cookie will be a beautiful Child!"
"Little Cookie, I'm your Mama, and you're my baby."
"Although Mama has many Mamas, you only have one Mama."
"Idiot woman."
What angered Yuno Gasai the most was that their positions had changed from 'Mori Tsukisa - Yuno Gasai' to 'Mori Tsukisa - dragon egg - Yuno Gasai'... they were separated.
This was also the result of Nagini's 'kind' reminder: "Two beautiful ladies, hugging it and caring for it from two directions, perhaps, can hatch a more beautiful dragon."
This maid... did she do it on purpose?
Of course, it wasn't like this at the beginning. At the beginning, Mori Tsukisa decided to buy an incubator—
Hay, constant temperature, and sleep-inducing music... she was stopped by Arrietty before she could place the order.
The Little Sprite grabbed her own long hair and roared: "Idiot Queen! That's for hatching chicks!"
"Stupid sprite! I can customize a large incubator!"
"That's still for hatching chicks! You can't put the dragon egg in there! Hold it! Hold her!"
That's how things turned out.
The girl sat blankly in front of the dressing mirror, her index finger twirling the soft hair at her temples, looking at herself one moment and then turning to the eyesore of a dragon egg on the bed the next.
Mori Tsukisa went shopping with those two antiques who supposedly came from three thousand years ago, leaving only a maid and herself at home. From outside the door, the sound of clinking and knocking came from time to time.
That was the noise made by the Maid Miss while she was cooking.
By the way... this dragon egg... is really hard.
Yuno ran her long fingernails along the table, and under the dust cloth, a gleaming knife tip was revealed. She had indeed tried, at night when everyone was sound asleep, to chop at this dragon egg with a hammer and a boning knife... if it broke, the next day, she would be able to rest shoulder to shoulder and head to head with Mori Tsukisa again, wouldn't she?
"Oh my... maybe the little dragon egg doesn't quite fit the rules of this World? It broke by itself?" Yuno Gasai had already thought of an excuse, and for this, she had even taken out a fire axe she had kept for a long time, which she had specifically used to deal with Chaos Infectors a while ago.
The result was a futile effort.
The worst part was that she was discovered by Nagini.
That happened this morning.
Mori Tsukisa, with her hair disheveled and acting a bit crazy, pulled Anck-Su-Namun and Imhotep, who were more than a head taller than her, and quickly went out. Nagini also plunged into the kitchen—
Then, Miss Yuno the 'Egg Breaker' pulled out her crimson fire axe and gave the ivory-colored eggshell several hard blows!
After a series of clinking sounds, the axe blade curled, and the joint loosened.
"Perhaps you should find another way to get along with my Master?"
At some point, the woman named Nagini stood outside the door with her arms crossed, silently staring at the axe in Yuno Gasai's hand. She curled her lips coldly, revealing white teeth.
"Whether it's Little Cookie or me—" She approached quietly and stood within the range of the fire axe, saying calmly: "You might not quite understand what a Planeswalker's Attendant is all about."
"Let me tell you."
"Whether it's me, Imhotep, or Arrietty, once we are card-ified—we are immortal." She looked at Yuno Gasai meaningfully, a finger pointing at her own throat: "Slash this open, and blood will spray onto the ceiling."
"But you'll see me again in five minutes—or..."
"An angry Mori Tsukisa."
"Understand?" She laughed coldly: "As long as the Planeswalker continues to pay Spell Power for it, we can keep 'entering the field'; at most, it's just a difference in the length of resurrection time."
"Miss Yuno's strange behavior..." As she spoke, Nagini drew closer and closer to Yuno Gasai, until the space between them was negligible: "If I'm not mistaken..."
She whispered extremely softly into Yuno Gasai's ear: "You... like someone you shouldn't like, right?"
"Miss Mortal?"
Pfft.
Ssh—
Blood shot up into the air, splashing all over Yuno Gasai's face.
She grinned, staring savagely at the headless maid in front of her, moving the blood-stained axe in her hand. At her feet, the maid's head was still looking at her with a smile.
Turning into ashes.
Ten minutes later, there was a knock at the door.
Nagini walked in again carrying many bags, and while changing her shoes at the entrance, she unabashedly handed the heaviest packages to Yuno Gasai.
"These are clothes for Anck-Su-Namun and Imhotep; I brought them back on the way." She put away her black high heels and stepped onto the floor with bare feet, narrowing her eyes: "Master said, please don't add to my workload; after all, blood will splash everywhere."
Yuno Gasai, not at all angry, leaned on her axe and tilted her head at her: "Your Master said other things too, didn't she?"
—Mori Tsukisa will satisfy my requests.
This was Yuno Gasai's unique confidence.
Sure enough, Nagini pursed her lips, bumped past Yuno Gasai's shoulder, and headed for the kitchen without looking back.
"She said she would put the dragon egg on the other side."
Tossing out a sentence coldly, the Maid Miss quickly changed into her home clothes, started washing a rag, and knelt on the floor to wipe away the bloodstains'she' had left in the room.
"You don't need to compete with me." Nagini chatted with Yuno, who was staring at her with malicious eyes from not far away, while tidying up: "I am the Master's maid, and I will always be the Master's Attendant. Although there are no rules preventing a Planeswalker from falling in love with their Attendant—"
At this point, Nagini looked up, gently tucked her black hair behind her ear, and looked at Yuno sideways: "But I don't think the Master would fall in love with someone as useless as me."
"I'm just doing what the Master needs. Your dark inner thoughts shouldn't interfere with the Master's daily life; she's the person who loves happiness the most and hates trouble the most, isn't she?"
"Besides, according to a certain insider (a certain sweet-toothed dead sprite), you aren't the Master's only one in this World either..." Pausing, Nagini chuckled: "I don't know if 'only one' is the right term, but is this okay?"
"Instead of uniting with us, the Attendants who are closest to the Master, you fight against us?"
In the snake woman's hollow pupils, a black liquid seemed to be boiling: "You should dismiss the arrogant thoughts in your heart; the Master will never be possessed by a single human."
"The laws of you humans cannot be applied to her."
Thoughts returned.
Yuno Gasai twirled her hair out of boredom.
She understood that things were racing further and further in an uncontrollable direction. This maid, and Eriri, and—
That strange upperclassman.
Besides them, there's no one else... right?
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