Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3

Chapter 3  – The Arrival of The Detective

*ding dong~*

The sound of the intercom broke my concentration.

I spent my free time this sat.u.r.day afternoon by reading a book.

I wanted to read a light novel, but I don’t have the money for that kind of luxury right now. To make up for that, I went to the library near the shopping center to borrow one yesterday after school.

The book that I borrowed from the library was the renowned “Sherlock Holmes” series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Right now, I am fully concentrated in reading this book.

By the way, the ghost who became the de-facto ruler of this room, Ryuugajou Nanana-sama, is currently occupied with a video game. Apparently, she is raiding a castle with her online friends. “Follow me!” she yells, while moving her mouse and pressing the keyboard.

Glancing towards the ghost, I memorized my page number and got up.

I walked towards the front door and looked through the peephole(its actual name is ‘door scope’ though)and was startled by the presence standing on the other side.

“I-i-impossible, there’s no way something like that can happen…”

I saw a girl in a super cute maid outfit.

That cute foreigner with the maid outfit is in front of my room, with her short black hair that makes her look slightly tomboyish, and her tan brown skin that makes her look enchanting…

That girl with the maid outfit is standing in front of my room while looking around with a worried look.

That maid-ou   it clad girl(TL note: no, this is not a mistake, he literally says it twice)(ED note: A nightmare for me.) seems embarra.s.sed because she keeps looking down while blus.h.i.+ng, occasionally glancing towards the door of this room, with a pleading look, as if she wants somebody to open the door soon.

It seems like that girl with the maid outfit(ED note: AGAIN, HERE IT IS AGAIN.) is now feeling so embarra.s.sed that she’s about to cry!

“…. Juugo, what are you doing? Why are you sticking to the door with that kind of excited breathing?”

I got gooseb.u.mps when I heard the sound that came from right behind me. When I turned  around, I saw Nanana-chan staring at me with a disgusted look.

“I-I-I’m not doing anything.”

I answered while laughing nervously, then turned around and opened the door.

“Oh thank G.o.d, you’re home.”

The girl immediately smiled happily when she saw me. The edges of her eyes seemed damp due to tears.

When I was imagining what it would feel like if this girl called me “my master”, someone stepped between us.

“From your reaction… hmm, I think my guess is correct.”

The person who stepped between us was another cute girl. But sadly, this pet.i.te and blonde haired girl has a big problem.

“… smelly!”

“Is that so? Actually I’m mimicking the main character from the detective drama movie i rented yesterday. The hot-headed girl who was the main character in that drama was somebody who can go days without showering, that’s why…”

“This is not the smell of not showering, this smells like trash.”

“Look genius, that’s what you get for sleeping in alleyways.”

The words of that maid girl made the blonde haired girl sniff her uniform. Not long after, she furrowed her eyebrows.

“Hmm, you’re right, I stink. Not only that, my head is starting to feel itchy. That’s why,  convicted scavenger Yama Juugo, lend me your bathr

oom.”

That trash-scented girl suddenly started pointing fingers at me.

“Eh? Scavenger?”

Of course, I can already guess what she meant by that.

The girl seemed pleased by my reaction and grinned widely.

“First of all, I want to shower. The answer can wait.”

After saying all that, she shoved me aside and entered my room.

………………..And started stripping.

“Ho-hold on! Who are you guys?”

I covered my face with a hand and pretended to close my eyes. Even though I can clearly see from inbetween my fingers. The girl who was already done unb.u.t.toning her s.h.i.+rt turned around to face me and smiled widely.

“We’re n.o.body, really. Just a famous detective and her a.s.sistant.”

“D-detective?”

Then the blonde girl that stripped off her skirt on to the floor pointed a finger at her puffed out her chest.

“The Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai. Everybody calls me that.

When starting my new life alone, I, Yama Juugo, gained more knowledge about girls.

I learned of the softness of a girl’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s (even if it belonged to a ghost). Various information about the maid I saw with my own eyes, which I wrote down for my own records.

But being able to meet a real maid for the first time was the best thing ever. The real thing is different from my imagination.

“Ah, I just noticed but, Nanana-chan doesn’t smell like anything.”

I was slapped hard. Really hard. It hurt so much I wondered if my cheek would cave in and become a dent on my face, but my cheek was just was swollen and red and my neck was clearly strange. So it was like that. Speaking of, the smell from this girl must warn us this viciously.

But it let me be smarter in another way. Even though I learned it from this trick.

“Okay. I’ll tell you my name again. I’m the Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai.”

This previously garbage-smelling girl, was kind of like someone I know. A curl of her golden hair was wrapped with a towel. Since she just finished taking a bath, her light skin looked good and had a healthy complexion and her cheeks were a rosy apple color. Her eyes reflected her strength which made me guess that she was a stubborn person. However, the clothes the Master Detective was wearing was a guy’s s.h.i.+rt she borrowed from me. Why? Because the uniform she was wearing smelled like garbage of course. And it was this tough cookie’s uniform, which currently was stuffed into a trash bag sitting outside the door to the room. As her her underwear, her maid went to buy some when during her bath.

Behind this girl that was drinking coffee flavour milk (Her maid bought a pack along with the underwear) with slurping sounds was the maid who bowed to me.

“…her accompaniment, Hos.h.i.+no D’arc.”

The name was kind of on the strange side. It made me want see the faces of the parents who came up with this.

“Uh, what do you mean by Master Detective?”

It was a universal wonder. The job of a detective exists, but there’s no such thing as a  “master detective”. I looked down at the floor a bit and my eyes came across a book that was a non-deteriorating result as if it was borrowed from the library. The letters on the book were also master detective. So this means that master detective was something she made up herself for sure.

When asked that, the one who fully called herself a master detective who just finished taking a bath just inflated her chest with pride and spoke.

“A master detective is a way of life!”

“Wait, that’s just the motto of the boy-girl duo that was chased by the government. It’s not good to fool me!”

“With respect!”

“Wait, don’t tell me you are able to graduate speaking like that.”

“Um, fine then. Master Detective is a p.r.o.noun used by me!”

Hmm! This is like an oyster who didn’t know that they tricked someone to come inside again. Okay sure, whatever then.

“As for uh… Ikkyuu right?”

“When you call me you must use my name or call me by my first and last name, my full name. If you just call my last name by itself it’s like some novice monk or something. My selling point is ‘Master Detective’, not ‘problem maker’.”

So if I call her just by her last name it will turn into 193 (ikkyuusan).

“Okay. So Miss Tensai, what has brought you here?”

“I’ve come to pick you up.”

Her finger pointed to the lone opened black box that was on the empty bookshelf. This was the box that I picked up when it fell from the sky. In that box was the palm sized blue jewel which currently was sparkling in the light.

So it was like that. It looks like this Master Detective was after the ‘Light-Up Lie Detector’ (also known as the ‘Eye of Yuguthos’).

“Understood. Then I shall give it to you, but I have a condition.”

“So you have a condition. Okay then, state it Mr. s.n.a.t.c.hing Thief.”

I pointed my finger to the person next to the Master Detective who was bent over forward to listen to the condition.

“Agreed. Sale negotiations are complete.”

I firmly grasped the Master Detective’s hands and we shook hands.

This was a quick business negotiation contract that didn’t even tak 10 minutes.

“Why did you decide on another person’s life like this! Don’t decide anything without my approval like this!”

Oh, this D’arc-chan is a kid who uses the male p.r.o.noun! Awesome! This kid is awesome! Such very high specs!

While I was admiring, D’arc-chan on the other hand was grabbing on to the Master Detective almost in tears.

“I’m your accompaniment! I have to be with you at your service!”

“What is this. Sacrificing yourself for your master is also a responsibility of an accompaniment.”

Oooh, pus.h.i.+ng the maid that had regarded herself in ways I never thought of. She’s a pretty cruel Master Detective. D’arc-chan who’s with a person like that has no way of being happy for sure. I myself right here might have to reach out and help now.

“It’s okay D’arc-chan. Don’t be scared, come be with your older brother now.”

“Whoa, this guy is truly a criminal.”

These sarcastic words came from the Nanana-chan who was sitting in another corner and moving her mouse.

Honestly at that moment, I was jealous of the Master Detective that the maid was latched on  and was refusing to let go.

“That’s enough. Go.”

The Master Detective heartlessly shoved the maid towards me. I quickly caught the maid but the force caused both to fall. At that moment my right hand touched something soft… around the area around D’arc-chan’s crotch…I wonder why it felt so familiar.

“H-huh?”

I was able to feel something that wasn’t suppose to feel there. ‘It can’t be.” I thought while I felt and stared at D’arc-chan’s face. And what I saw was a girl with a weak aura that made me want to protect her. This was something that there was no way I misunderstood.

Then I squeezed whatever was in my hand with some force.

“Ah!”

D’arc-chan cried out in a strange voice.

There’s no mistaking it. Over there was something that no way is part of the female body.

Flip! ←(I think it’s suppose to be the onomatopoeia when he flips the skirt)

“What are you doing, Juugo!”

Nanana-chan wasn’t able to be not surprised because at that moment I lifted the maid’s skirt up completely.

And what was there was slightly bulging male underwear.

Hos.h.i.+no D’arc is male…

“What the h.e.l.l I’ve been fooled!”

I cried. Tears flowed continuously out from the the depths of my heart.

I lift my head up once I hear the ringing sound from the house bell.

During my free time on this Sat.u.r.day afternoon, I am extremely focused with reading a book in the room.

Actually, I wanted to read a light novel but since I do not have enough money to purchase those kinds of luxurious things, so I have to read the borrowed books from the library near the shopping area that I normally visit during afterschool.

The book that I borrowed from the library is a famous masterpiece composed by Conan Doyle, known as ‘Sherlock Holmes’, which I am still reading quietly and with high concentration.

On the other hand, Nanana Ryuugajou-san, who’s the owner of this room, is currently in the progress of playing online games.

It seems like she’s heading to attack a castle at some place with a game companion. “Follow me!” she yelled, moved the mouse and then pressed the keyboard swiftly.

I glance at Nanana-chan in that condition, and memorize the book page number that’s still left open and then I stood up.

I move to stand in front of the hallway room and look through the door hole (actually, it is a keyhole). Me myself who’s examining anybody is standing outside has totally lost its bravery.

“No, no way… how could this thing possibly exist…”

In front of the door, there’s an extremely cute-looking maid standing.

A foreign girl with a short black hair, looking like a boy with tanned skin and very attractive, is standing there wearing a maid uniform.

She glimpses around everywhere while standing in front of the door and wearing a maid uniform.

It seems like she’s a bit shy too. She looks down the ground together with her reddened cheeks, and then she looks at room 202 where I often stand at back. It looks like as if she wants it to open as soon as possible, while wearing a maid uniform.

She’s considerably shy and right now she seems about to cry in her maid uniform.

“…Hey, why are you leaning against the door and cry out ‘huhha’ since a while ago, what are you doing?”

I feel the chills throughout my spines. Once I turn back, I found that Nanana-chan is glaring in a way that looks unwelcoming.

“No, there’s nothing sir,”

I giggle before gently opening the door.

“Phew, what a relief, there’s somebody residing then,”

Suddenly when I appear, that girl then smiles cheerfully with tears flowing a bit from the eye socket. Whilst I’m imagining that I would like to hear the word ‘mister’ from her mouth, then there’s somebody came in to interfere in between me and the maid unexpectedly.

“This kind of reaction is not wrong for sure,”

The person who just appeared is a little cute girl once again. But this time it is a little blonde girl who looks a bit complicated.

“…You’re smelly sir,”

“Really? Actually I’m an investigation policewoman from the character of drama that was taken from VDO rental shop a day ago. But because that character seems like she doesn’t wash her hair for several days until it gets stinky, so I have to imitate it…”

“No it’s not that, it actually smells like garbage,”

“You see Tensai, it’s actually because you were rolling around in the alleyway instead,”

The maid points out the reason behind. The little blonde girl then frowns and takes off her school uniform.

“Eww, it’s really smelly too, and also my head is itchy as well, alright may I use the bathroom for me to take a shower please, Juugo Yama, you opportunity-seizing thief,”

That smelly-head girl then suddenly says that out loud.

“What an opportunity-seizing thief?”

Certainly, that was the only thing I could think of.

The little blonde girl paints a big smile on her face as if being satisfied with my att.i.tude.

“First of all, may I take a shower first and then I’ll tell you the story later after that,”

Once I’ve said that, the little girl pushes me out of the way and runs into room 202 and then immediately takes off her clothes.

“Wait a minute, who are you guys?”

I turn my head simultaneously with looking through my finger gaps that are pretending to be covering my eyes. The little blonde girl, who’s taking unb.u.t.toning her school uniform, then laughs out loud mysteriously.

“What, I’m just a boring great detective and a.s.sistant,”

“A great detective?”

After that, the little blonde girl who’s taking off her skirts then stretches her chest out at the exact size and points her finger towards herself.

“I’m Detective Tensai Ikkyu, everybody calls me this name,”

2

Once I have begun a new isolated journey of life, I, Juugo Yama, have more new knowledge about young girl specially.

I could feel the tenderness of little girl’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s (even it is just a spirit). There are a variety of information that I’ve heard from different media, which I have compiled already.

But the fact that I get to see a real maid in person for the first time is something really unbelievable. The truth really has a difference in power like what I’ve thought before.

And right I can sense the pleasant odor that I can no longer hold from the little girl that just finished having shower.

“Ah, just starting to notice right now is nothing, but there’s no smell at all from Nanana-chan’s body,”

I’ve been hit very hard, really hard. It’s really painful until I’m thinking whether my cheeks will sunken or not. But it turns out my cheeks are just swelling red only. But at the neck area is clearly strange. Oh I see, in case of mentioning about the little girl’s smell in this way, do I have to be warned in a cruel way like this much?

But it helps me to become cleverer for some reason, even if I have to sacrifice with neck-ache like this.

“Alright, I will tell you my name one more time, I am the great detective Tensai Ikkyu.”

The little girl, who was smelly like garbage a while ago, right now is in the condition of a totally different person. Her curly blonde hair with towel being knotted around her body and white skin that has just finished taking shower are visible and attractive. Also, her apple-like red-colored cheeks, eye expression which shows her strength and courage makes it possible to guess that she’s a person who never gives up on anyone else.

But the clothes that the great detective is wearing right now is a men’s s.h.i.+rt that I had given it to. Why is it that? It’s because the school uniform that I had been wearing is smelly as garbage already. In addition, that garbage-like smell uniform right now is being squashed into the disposal bag that’s placed outside the room. On the other hand, about the bra, the little maid went to buy it while the little blonde girl was taking a shower.

Behind the little girl, who’s sucking the coffee-flavored milk (the maid had bought it as a pack with a bra), is making some sucking noises turns out to be the maid who I bow to her very often.

“…The stalker’s name is Dark Hos.h.i.+no,”

This is quite a unique peculiar name, which makes me feel like I want to see her parents who had made up this name for her. After finish introducing each other, I tried to ask something that I wanted to know the most out loud.

“Hey, what does the great detective refer to?”

It is a general curiosity anyway. The detective career does exist, but the vocabulary ‘the great detective’ doesn’t actually exist. I look down to the ground a bit and then my attention is grabbed by a masterpiece book which is no different to the book I previously borrowed from the library. The main character of this book is also a great detective as well. That means the great detective is an imaginary character for sure.

When I got asked this question, the person who called herself clearly and just took a shower then stood up and answered proudly that,

“The great detective is actually a living thing you know,”

“Wait a minute, that’s the person speech of a couple who are being chased by the officials, to copy this isn’t great you know!”

“With respect!”

“Wait, this doesn’t mean that once we’ve finished saying this and everything will be over alright,”

“Alright, then let’s go with that, the great detective is a p.r.o.noun using to call me!”

Okay! It seems this joke that I don’t know who did she copied from, I may have to go with it, but that doesn’t matter.

“By the way, oh… you’re Ikkyu-san right?”

“When you call my name, please either say my first name or my full name. If you just say my surname, it sounds like a young monk somehow, my trademark is ‘the great detective’ not ‘the wisdom’,”

But I could say if we just say her surname it will become 193 (Ikkyusan) somehow.

“I’m coming to get that thing back,”

Her finger is pointing towards the opened black box that’s isolated on the bookshelf that’s empty. That’s the box that I picked up when it fell down from the sky.

In that box contains a blue jewellery stone that’s as large as our palm and during that time it was still sparkling with light.

Oh I see, it seems like this great detective is looking for ‘polygraph’ (also known as ‘a single-eyed Yukutos’).

“I understand now, then I shall find it for you, but I have an exchange requirement,”

“Oh you have an exchange requirement too, alright, go ahead, Mr. Opportunity-seizing thief,”

I point my finger to the person standing next to the great detective who’s also listening to our exchange requirement.

“To exchange with the jewellery stone, please hand me that young maid to me sir,”

The great detective smiles widely to me who’s expressing the need with full of courage.

“Deal, the exchange negotiation is done,”

I shake hands with the great detective tightly.

It is the fastest contract made for business trade negotiation which took no longer than 10 seconds.

“Why are you judging other people’s lives like this! Don’t judge anything related to me based on your decision like this!”

Oh you Dark-chan, you’re a child who calls yourself me in a masculine way am I right! Awesome! You’re such an awesome kid! You really have a high specification!

While I am praising in the one perspective, in another aspect Dark-chan who’s grabbing onto the great detective looks like as if she’s about to cry.

“I’m a follower of Tenzai you know! I have to stay with Tenzai forever!”

“What is this, to sacrifice yourself for your boss is also a duty of the follower you know,”

Oh, to relegate this dear maid who truly respects her boss like this, I don’t even dare to think about it. It’s a great detective who’s seems to be really cruel. The fact that Dark-chan have to stay with that kind of person won’t have any happiness at all for sure. I, who’s standing right here, may have to reach out my hand to rescue her right now.

“It’s okay, Dark-chan, don’t be afraid, come and stay with senpai,”

“Whoa, this person is really cruel too,”

This speech comes out from Nanana-chan who’s moving her mouse in the corner.

At that time, I’m actually jealous of when the great detective got hanged onto her body by the maid without letting go.

“That’s enough, please go away,”

The emotionless great detective pushes the young maid towards me forcefully. I immediately grab the young maid but due to force, it makes us both fall onto the ground. At that time, my right hand has touched something very soft… from the area between abdomen and leg of Dark-chan… why is it a touch that seems very familiar.

“Eh, what?”

I’m touching something that shouldn’t be touched over there. ‘No way’, I thought in my mind while looking into Dark-chan’s face and from what I’ve seen is the aura of naïve young girl telling me to protect her. There’s no misunderstanding in this case for sure.

Hence, I try squeezing something that my hand is grabbing forcefully.

“Argh!” Dark-chan yelled out loud awkwardly.

Nothing wrong definitely, over there is something that shouldn’t come with a female’s body for sure.

Flap!