(Sorry for the repeat posts!)
The master wondered how he'd explain to Chu and however many servants she contracted their new little sister. True, they were destine to
serve him and to love doing it, but they didn't mean they couldn't be upset or angry at a blatant wrong doing. And he'd rather not have to
spend his long life with servants who hated him. He was truly an idiot: he should have included an escape clause in that contract after all.
He learned her 'new' name was 'Hinata.' Having picked from the only 'japanese' names she supposedly knew as a boy from a popular cartoon.
Kupochu had apparently set a precedent when she had chosen her name.
No family name, since her life was simply serving the household and her Master and Contractor. If pressed she'd say her family name was
'Serves' as in 'Hinanta Serves.' Which in her mind was simply truth. Maybe it was due to the trauma of nearly dying, or maybe it was using a
contract on someone already so young, but 'Hinata' showed no thought or reaction to her parents' deaths, or that she was now child labor, and
that she could be considered kidnapped by some.
Her old name was less than a ghost to her, and her old life like a daydream.
He handed out small trivial tasks for her to carry out for him each day, which she carries out with an eager smile on her face. It made her
listless and melancholy not to have anything to do for him, it was her nature now, it was literally her destiny. The transformation of fate in her
contract meant being his servant was her reason for being born!
He comforted himself that instead of an immortal little eight year old cat girl maid. she'd instead be a dead little eight year old boy if he hadn't
given her the contract. He ordered her to just enjoy herself and to just play when not on duty. Though as was her nature now, she'd stop to
clean or tidy up something if she spotted something in need, or him in obvious need. The front and backyard weren't that huge, and the
household was walled in from all sides, but it gave enough room for a hyperactive eight year old to run around.
"Are we the only ones here master?" She asked when he first brought her to what was for all intents and purposes her home now.
"I have another maid, Kupochu, but she's out this week recruiting new servants, it's a hard task taking care of this house by yourself."
"You aren't by yourself master! You have me!" Hinata hugged his arm without hesitation or fear.
"Yes, but it goes get lonely, and it's too much for just one servant to handle."
A suicidal part of his mind considered turning himself into a cat girl maid as penance with their only master then being the household itself. A
family of immortal cat girls serving an empty house for the rest of civilization, how poetic. But he couldn't contract HIMSELF, a hole could not
go through itself, and a blizzard could not warm itself up by it's own power. And it felt too much like a coward's way out.
"A lot to handle by yourself?"
"Yes, and that's why Kupochu is out finding new maids to help."
Hinata smiled and nodded. The master had no idea that he might have just unwittingly planted a new dangerous idea in Hinata's head
concerning playmates and family from her old life. The cat girl maids were, ultimately, free thinking creatures in spite of being bound by
destiny to him. Time would tell if Hinata would think to act on this foolish idea, or weather she'd be inspired to from having no one else to play
with her own age as the master repeatedly told her to 'play' but many games taking more than one player. The simple solution of asking the
master to play with her did not occur to her at the moment.
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Kopuchu had said within a week she'd bring back 'lots' of new maids to help with the work load, but she had after much disappointment and
frustration she had only managed to contract one. Thankfully the week was far from over, the idea of having effectively lied to her master with
her failure made her feel sick inside. But her progress was not encouraging.
She had been sure that her friends she had as Carlson would have been perfect, and they would contract their friends, and those friends would
contract their friends, and so on, until she had a full and complete staff to keep the house perfectly running for the master!
But that plan had gone down the pipe. Her friends as Carlson thought she was joking, or thought she wasn't Carlson, or thought he was crazy
for signing a magic contract to turn her into a cat-girl maid, or thought she was a foolish cat girl maid for wanting to be a life time servant, all
depending on how far the revisions to fate had spread. Though none of them tried to talk her out of her new carrier choice.
She bit the bullet then and contacted her family, they were polite and welcoming to their daughter, they didn't call animal control or ask what a
stranger was doing in their house, but none of them had interest in joining her in employment as a house keeper. They were mostly happy that
she wasn't mooching off them anymore.
Recruiting Bachiko was a god send! Bachiko it turned out had been a drifter and no immediate friends or family in the area she could call on.
This was a blow to Kopuchu's plans because she had been hoping Bachiko had a few contacts of her own that they could use to find
contractees.
The two attempted to trick people into signing with a fake petition, but the ink would always run dry or the pencil would break when the
person would attempt to sign. Apparently while she could leave out details, she could NOT outright -lie- about what the contracts were and it
had been a conscious and willing decision.
They apparently couldn't be drunk either as the two sisters found out when they had tried to get some bar flies to contract but found they were
too plastered for it to found as an act of free will.
"You know sis," Bachiko suggested as the two dusted themselves off from leaving the bar, "Maybe we should just find people who are unhappy
and have them contract?"
Kupochu implored, "But I promise master LOTS of new maids! In a week! That would take a month to contract enough."
Bachiko signed as she thought, wrapping her tail around herself. "The rules say the person just needs to know they're signing a contract, and
they have to have their wits more or less when they sign, and can't be forced into it. But everything else is fair game?"
"I think so. Kupochu never asked master for details."
"Maybe we should go back and ask master for them then, I'd like to meet him."
'Chu seemed mortified by the thought, "Go back-?! Without 'lots' of new sisters? NO! Kupochu won't! Kupouchu won't break promise to master!
Next time master see Kupochu she has lots of new servers."
"I understand sister. But unless we can think of something effective and practical, we might just have to return to master and ask for help."
"We help master, not other way around."
"Then THINK 'Chu! How do we solve this?"
" . . . There's always the soup kitchen."
"Okay. That's good. And we can always just find day workers if need be. And remember with the economy there's going to be plenty of people
more or less looking for jobs."
"Yes yes you're right! Maybe we just going about this wrong way!"
"Exactly. Now let's start recruiting sisters!" While Kupochu was her sister and Bachiko loved her, Bachiko was beginning to shape up into the
actual planner for the pair.
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A pudgy thirty year old faux blond woman sulked out of the unemployment office. She wanted to work, she had education and a good track
record, but the simple fact was that no one was hiring. Being a single mother wasn't helping matters.
The woman startled when she bumped into a teenager girl holding a clip board dressed in a cliche version of a french maid outfit. It wasn't
Halloween. There was also a small table that had been set up. Strange there were a good number of chairs behind it and refreshments and a
city map behind it, but only one other girl sitting down in a different but equally jarring cartoon style maid costume. The sway of their tails did
catch her eyes however.
"Hello and good day." Said the one with orange and black stripped hair with ears and tail to match.
"Would you care to sign up for some long term employment with full medical and dental?"
"I'm not interested in a 'cross-play cafe' work, or whatever it's called." But then again, what choice did she have?
"Oh it's not anything like that, well not really, your contract says you'll be treated fairly. And I promise you'll love the work. I'm Kupochu by the
way, and this is my sister Bachiko."
"Please to meet you. Would you care to sign?"
The thirty year old woman read the contract, seemed like legal jibber or even a JOKE contract, whoever employed these girls must have been
running a performance show or something, well, she did have no experience with acting, music, and the like, so, she signed.
The woman felt dizzy as soon as the contract was signed, her fate, destiny, and the reason she even breathed at all being rewritten in the big
book of everything.
The two sisters were rather surprised when she stayed thirty years old, but lost a good deal of weight, her body become a lot more toned, and
her skin tone also became a lot more pale. Her eyes turned pink, as did her hair, and cat girls and tail and other details emerged that marked
her as being something other than human. She actually gained an inch or two. A dark magenta and white maid outfit morphed from her
clothes, though her shoes dissolved leaving only paws like feet until the first two sisters. A frilly headband formed on her head at her now long
pink hair.
"I-I, what's going on?"
"Don't worry," Kupochu said, "Everything will be clear in a second. Just think about serving master with us, think about living your home, think
about how you're going to be a happy cat girl maid." It was rather strange for the two teenager cat girls to address one whose age not changed
and remained thirty (and would be that age for eternity being now immortal).
"Happy . . . cat girl? Maid? . . I-" Realization struck her brain. "Oh yes! I know! I just can't wait to begin to service master! This is so wonderful!"
"So what's your name?" Bachiko wondering if she'd name herself or if Kupochu would be naming her.
"I'm Pimiko! I live to serve!" The thirty year old cat girl maid saluted to her teenager seniors.
"Welcome to our family!" The two hugged her, pressing against her motherly breasts, she hugged back.
1. Carlson - Kupochu- 14 /21 - orange with black strips
2. ???? - Hinata - 8/8 - green
3. ???? - Bachiko - 40/16 - auburn(hair) buxom gray
4. ???? - Pimiko 30/30 - pinkette