"Ahem!" Kiana suddenly coughed, breaking the silence. It was only then that Li Xuan snapped out of his daze.
'A beautiful girl suddenly appears in a flash of white light, which means...' His intelligence returning to normal, Li Xuan immediately looked towards his small table.
'I knew it!' Li Xuan thought, looking at the now-empty table with a helpless expression.
"You are... the Rifled Flintlock?!" Li Xuan asked uncertainly, though he was already 90% sure that the girl was the personification of the Rifled Flintlock—a gun-girl!
"Mhm~ That's right, my master~" the beautiful maid said, blinking and smiling. Then, she tilted her head slightly, raised her slender right index finger, and gently touched her jade-like cheek. "Master~ My name is Liv, please take good care of me!" she said playfully.
Li Xuan, an ordinary otaku who had lived for over a decade, had his intelligence plummet once again under the deliberate cute-acting of a certain maid, and he fell back into a dazed state. Even Kiana, standing beside him, suddenly flushed, her expression twisting as she turned away, her hands inexplicably covering her nose.
"...Such a cute maid-chan, and she recognized Li Xuan as her master?! What a waste!" Kiana muttered under her breath, her voice filled with obvious envy and jealousy, while still covering her nose. Although... Kiana's voice was indeed very quiet, she was also very close to Li Xuan! So, Li Xuan heard everything.
"..." Recovering from his daze, Li Xuan heard Kiana's muttering and felt as if a thousand grass-mud horses were gleefully galloping back and forth in his mind. Are you trying to pick a fight?! Am I that ugly?! What's with that 'a fine cabbage has been ruined by a pig' tone of yours?!
Li Xuan shot Kiana a glare.
The little boat of friendship really does capsize at a moment's notice, Li Xuan lamented internally at the fragility of human relationships.
"Ahem~" Liv coughed lightly, her expression turning slightly serious. She bowed slightly to Li Xuan and said, "Master, please allow your exclusive maid, Liv, to give a detailed self-introduction~" Liv looked up, her red eyes fixed on Li Xuan.
"...S-sure!" Infected by her serious expression, Li Xuan put on a straight face and replied. Then, he turned his head away, too embarrassed to look her directly in the eye. Forgive him! After all, he was just a single otaku dog for over a decade. The number of girls he had seen who were as beautiful as Liv, even including the Honkai yuri trio, could probably be counted on one hand.
Mhm, it has to be said, this is a sad story.
"Alright, my dear master~" Liv bowed slightly again, then straightened up and began her earnest introduction. "My name is Liv, and from today on, I am your exclusive maid."
Liv smiled and said, "My height is 158cm, and my birthday is December 10th..." Li Xuan nodded repeatedly. He felt that his new-found maid's introduction was indeed very detailed. She even gave her birthday; he could give her a birthday gift in the future.
"My three measurements are 80, 50, 86," Liv continued with a smile.
"Pfft!..." Wait! Isn't this a bit too detailed?! Li Xuan had just raised his teacup to wet his throat when he spat out a mouthful of tea. Although he tried his best to avoid Kiana, some of the tea inevitably spattered onto the corner of her clothes.
"Sorry, Kiana, it was an accident—what the hell are you doing!!" Li Xuan raised his head, about to apologize to Kiana, only to find her face flushed with excitement. She held a small notebook in her left hand and a pen in her right, her expression as earnest as the most diligent straight-A student in school.
"Taking notes, taking notes..." As Li Xuan got closer, he heard Kiana muttering to herself. He glanced over and saw that Kiana was writing down everything Liv said at an astonishing speed of three words per second! He even thought he vaguely saw his own name...
Terrifying! That was the only word in Li Xuan's mind at that moment.
"Liv, wait," Li Xuan said, covering his face with a headache, stopping Liv from revealing any more of her private information.
"Eh?! Of course~ my master," Liv agreed without question and stopped. For a good maid, the master's command was absolute!
"Hey, hey?! Why did you stop?! Continue! Liv-chan, we haven't gotten to know you well enough yet!" Kiana stopped her pen in frustration and asked, confused.
"Get rid of the 'we'!" Li Xuan said irritably. "Kiana, hand over that notebook! At least tear out the page with Liv's information!" Li Xuan held out his hand.
"!! In your dreams! I'll bite you to death!" Kiana clutched the small notebook to her chest like a lioness protecting her cub. This was her treasure for her future harem path! How could she possibly hand it over!
"Death? For Master to die?..." Liv said softly from the side. She was still smiling, but her smile felt chilling.
Liv looked at Kiana, who was hugging the notebook tightly. She smirked, took a step forward with her left foot, and vanished. The next second, she appeared behind Kiana. She bent down slightly and pulled two Smoothbore Guns from her maid's dress, pressing them against the back of Kiana's head.
"Don't be fooled by my appearance. For Master's sake, I would not hesitate to be torn limb from limb~" Liv said with a smile, pressing the guns against Kiana's head. "Ah, sorry, I accidentally said something strange~" Liv's smile was as warm as cherry blossoms in April.
"Gulp~" Kiana swallowed nervously. Based on her years of experience in flirting with girls, this was definitely a yandere.
"I'll tear it out," Miss Kiana said, decisively choosing her life over her flirting ambitions. After all, she only had to tear out one page. As the saying goes, where there's life, there's hope, right?! Besides, Kiana didn't think her chances of conquering this maid were very high.
"Rip, rip~" With an expression of painful sacrifice, Kiana tore out her precious treasure with her own hands. She felt that because of this tragedy, she would need to eat at least three bowls of rice tonight to turn her grief into appetite!
"Liv, throw it away," Li Xuan said speechlessly, 'forcefully' taking the paper from Kiana's reluctant hands and giving it to Liv.
"Master, you don't want it?..." Liv asked.
"No, I don't!" Li Xuan said decisively, ignoring Kiana's pitiful expression.
"Okay~" Liv smiled slightly, tossed the paper into the air, then raised her twin guns, loaded, and fired. A barrage of bullets engulfed and obliterated the white sheet of paper.
"
Gulp" (swallows)
"Oh, right, Master! Liv's dream is to become a magical girl!" Liv suddenly remembered and said. "Please take good care of me from now on!" She smiled with her eyes closed, like a kitten being petted by its master.
Under the sunlight, the bright silver Smoothbore Guns reflected the white light, which was a little dazzling.
(End of chapter)