Kitano Minami, our curse user who had unwittingly caused a jujutsu terrorism incident, was successfully cleared of all suspicion thanks to my false testimony and the consistent statements of the victims after they woke up—"Thanks to a certain girl, we were able to hold out while avoiding the monsters."
It was also discovered that the wiki site Minami had seen had genuinely contained leaked jujutsu-related information in some of its articles, the result of vandalism by some curse user. The entire site ended up being shut down.
Minami had been depressed for a while because of it.
And in the end, Minami’s transfer into Jujutsu High as a student failed.
I kept teasing her for having middle-schooler syndrome, but I had no idea she was actually a second-year middle school student...
However—
"Oh~ This kid’s talented, isn’t she? When it comes to barrier techniques, she might even surpass me."
"R-Really!?"
Gojo Satoru had taken one look at her and stamped her with his seal of approval—‘has talent’—so it seemed she had been placed under special supervision at Jujutsu High.
Thanks to that, I was able to bring her to Jujutsu High without any trouble.
"Ahaha, d-does it suit me?"
"Yeah."
As my attendant.
The maid outfit suited her well.
"It’s been a long time since things like social classes were abolished, but the jujutsu world is an ancient place rotten to the core. Nobles were naturally expected to keep attendants to wait on them."
"Yes."
"And it’s even explicitly written into Jujutsu High regulations that were made so long ago, a hundred years is nothing by comparison. The rule has become obsolete now, but I took advantage of it. Rotten or not, I’m still a member of the Zenin clan."
Still, I was surprised at how readily the higher-ups had approved when I said I would take Minami on as my attendant. From their perspective, my attempt to keep a girl as a servant by invoking an obsolete rule must have looked like an effort to revive forgotten traditions.
Apparently, it also passed easily because they added the justification that welcoming someone recommended by the head of the Gojo clan into the Zenin clan would foster an atmosphere of reconciliation between the two families, which had been on bad terms.
Anyway, once everything went through so smoothly, Minami unexpectedly began receiving a salary from the clan as my attendant.
If I had needed to provide her salary myself, I would have had to tighten my belt quite a bit. Thank goodness I didn’t end up poorer than my maid...
"And you haven’t forgotten the binding vow you made with me, have you?"
"Yes! It was a geas: in exchange for saving my life, everything I have belongs to you! I remember!"
I was pretty sure the binding vow I had imposed was, ‘In exchange for keeping it secret that Kitano Minami is a suspect in a jujutsu terrorism incident, do not betray me as my attendant while I attend Jujutsu High.’ When did it change into that?
Um... this was a school, and there might be people listening, so let’s say she was putting it indirectly.
"...Whatever. More importantly, what’s a geas?"
"Because geas sounds cooler than binding vow!"
"Fine. Call it whatever you want."
Of course, Maki looked at me with practically undisguised disgust when she saw me walking around with a girl barely over 130 centimeters tall in a maid outfit.
I could understand it, given what this body had done in the past, but it couldn’t be helped. Minami had her uses.
...The feeling that this had made it more likely I’d get lumped in and killed during the Zenin clan massacre later was just my imagination, right?
I’d do my best to prevent that.
"All right, all right, Minaminami."
"Yes!"
"What’s on the schedule today?"
"E-Eh!? I-I-I don’t know!?"
Wow. Useless.
Bang!!
"If you want to know today’s schedule, allow me to explain it to you!"
I turned toward the sudden loud noise and saw Gojo Satoru kicking open the door as he came in.
Gojo Satoru, you fucking lunatic.
"Sensei, shouldn’t you respect a student’s privacy?"
"A shameless guy who brought a girl into his room under the pretense that she’s a maid has no privacy! Besides, there’s someone I need to introduce you to anyway. Hurry up and come out!"
What the hell was my image like at Jujutsu High?
Someone to introduce?
When I left my dorm room at Gojo Satoru’s words, there was a new face waiting alongside Megumi.
"I’m Itadori Yuji! Nice to meet you."
"Uh, I’m Zenin Daisuke. Nice to meet you. I’m sort of a distant relative of Fushiguro’s."
The protagonist had arrived.
For that, our meeting and introductions had been awfully ordinary, but that somehow felt right for a person like Itadori Yuji.
"Today, we’re going to pick up another first-year."
"Another first-year?"
"You know that one who enrolled in name only at the beginning of the year but never showed up? We’re going to go get her."
Ah, so Nobara showed up around now too.
But Itadori and Megumi were looking at me strangely.
"What’s wrong with you two?"
"...Didn’t you say you were reflecting on yourself?"
"Making a girl like this wear a maid outfit and taking her around with you..."
Two things were about to crumble right now.
The bond I had built with Megumi over half a year.
And Itadori’s first impression of me, along with my reputation.
Why three things? My reputation had already been in ruins for ages, so it wasn’t falling apart now.
"I swear on my cursed energy, I’ve never done anything weird!"
-
Later, around lunchtime, in front of Harajuku Station.
We met up with Kugisaki Nobara.
"I’m Kugisaki Nobara. Rejoice, boys. I’m the only girl... Wait, no I’m not. Sensei, what’s going on? No one told me there was another first-year."
"She’s Daisuke’s attendant."
"I’m Kitano Minami."
Nobara scanned Minami from head to toe, then shot me the exact same look Maki had given me.
I’d created another feminist today. What a sinful life.
"Daisuke is trash who used the backing of the prestigious Zenin clan to buy off a girl with nowhere else to go and drag her into his dorm, but Miss Minami is a good girl. Please take good care of her, okay?"
You bastard, Gojo Satoru! You’re lining up an assassination attempt like this...!
The disgust in Nobara’s eyes gained a murderous edge.
"Stop! Stoooop! We have to keep seeing each other from now on, so why are you ruining my first impression this badly!? More importantly, you’ve only seen Minami twice, but you can trash-talk me like that after knowing me for half a year!?"
"Well, you did tank your own reputation pretty badly over the last few days. Though only half of that was a joke."
So he meant half of it seriously. Wow, scary.
"She’s someone I saved, and someone I took in. Gojo-sensei, you brought Okkotsu and Itadori here in the same way, didn’t you?"
"M-Master...!"
"Whoa, you actually make a girl call you Master. Gross."
I had brought up Gojo Satoru as an example to show that there was nothing strange about having Minami with me, but it only made Nobara like me even less.
I should just keep things distant with her from now on. It couldn’t be helped. Giving up was easier. Hah hah.
"Well, that’s true enough. The only reason she was brought into Jujutsu High as an attendant in the first place was because she was too young to transfer in as a first-year. But this way is more fun to tease you about."
"And Kugisaki Nobara, please apologize to Master! It’s only natural for me to call my master ‘Master’!"
"Huh? What are you—"
"I am officially recognized by the Zenin clan as Zenin Daisuke’s fiancée! Of course I should call my master ‘Master’!"
...What?!
I stared at Minami, hearing this for the first time.
"Minaminami. What are you talking about?"
"Y-Yes!?"
"Oh? Judging by his reaction, it looks like he didn’t know?"
Gojo Satoru-sensei? Do you know something? Huh?
Why do you know about my engagement when I don’t even know about it!?
"No, I suppose it makes sense that you wouldn’t know. The Zenin clan was saying they’d welcome a disciple acknowledged by Gojo Satoru as a daughter-in-law in order to strengthen relations between the Gojo clan and the Zenin clan."
"That’s what it meant to welcome me into the Zenin clan!?"
"That’s right. So officially, Kitano Minami is both my student and your wife. She’s still young, so it’ll take a little while before it can be legally formalized, I guess? Ahaha, the fact that you didn’t know makes it even more entertaining."
No, I definitely made an attendant contract with Minami!
As proof, Minami’s bank account has this month’s salary from the Zenin clan deposited in it!
"You thought that was a salary? It’s living expenses. Living expenses. You get them every month too. Ah, though Megumi doesn’t, does he?"
Living expenses!? That was just living expenses?
As my panic became obvious, Minami tugged at the hem of my clothes with teary eyes.
"M-Master... Daisuke... do you perhaps dislike me...?"
"Ah..."
She was fucking gorgeous.
Crack!
"Ow!"
Nobara’s punch landed squarely on the back of my head.
"Hey, you. Zenin Daisuke, was it? I won’t misunderstand things anymore, but if you make that girl cry, you die by my hand. Got it?"
"Yes, ma’am."
"Getting engaged at this age... Being a sorcerer isn’t easy, huh?"
"Not all sorcerers are like that."
Leaving behind only Itadori and Megumi’s quiet commentary on the situation, we headed for our next destination.
This was unfair. I seriously didn’t know.
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