房客(糙汉)何璐程曜坤

"Recall the direct connection with your copy."

While the gold-haired corpse puppet was unlocking the door to the Kierul\'s new dormitory room the red-haired girl herself turned and tapped the side of her masked attendant.

"I did it the moment we stepped out of her office. Thank you, remember to knock when you will be delivering my lady\'s school uniform."

Zoemi nodded to her with a stoic expression before smiling at the corpse puppet and letting her past him so that she could give the keys to the room to Kierul.

"Let me take you to your room now, sir."

The corpse puppet bowed her head politely and waited a few steps ahead waiting for the black-haired boy to follow her.

"..."

And he did, only after his perfect copy stepped out from behind him and took Kieruls luggage away from him.

"I don\'t plan on attending the opening ceremony. Don\'t forget about my meals."

Zoemi\'s copy entered Kierul\'s room and Kierul followed him after informing the original one of her plans.

With nothing to add, Kierul walked into her room and locked the door and Zoemi followed the light attribute puppet to the servant section of the building while showing him the facilities along the way.

"Your arrival was a bit unexpected, to say the least... the thing is with the student\'s dorm we always keep a few spare ones, but when it comes to the staff, many magicless servants are living in the neighboring village."

After passing the kitchen and the laundry room, the gold-haired corpse puppet stopped in the middle of the empty hallway and revealed while looking at the relaxed black-haired boy.

"So there isn\'t actually a room for me to stay in?"

He asked without sounding too worried.

"Could it be that I will have to stay with the captivating headmistress for the time being?"

The attendant added and to his surprise, the corpse puppet blushed while turning away as if ashamed that the boy correctly guessed what she was going to say next.

"Zoemi... I am not that shameless... not to mention that the youngest would hate me if I went all the way with you."

The woman fidgetted and muttered before glancing up innocently at the boy\'s face.

"...hold on... Aspakeony, you are directly controlling the puppet now?!"

Zoemi realized what was going on and asked taken by surprise.

"C-cuddling... I will try to hold back and stop myself and try to live off by cuddling and a few kisses, so don\'t worry..."

"...pardon...?"

The gold-haired corpse puppet cowered wand confessed while rubbing her legs together, causing Zoemi to blink a few times and politely ask while shaking his head thinking that he misheard what was said to him...

"We can offer you a room that has been used as a storage compartment, if you clean it up it will be actually quite larger than what we usually provide the lower-born employees. Or alternatively, if you don\'t mind having a roommate, we can put you in with another attendant or servant."

...but the answer he was wanting never arrived as the gold-haired corpse puppet straightened her back and clothes and said in a calm, professional tone as the necromancer relinquished direct control over her...

"Sir Zoemi?"

The corpse puppet tilted her head and asked calmly looking at the boy\'s face, which exposed lower half was getting red from embarrassment...

"I... I don\'t see a reason to bother any hardworking servants with a sudden roommate... and I like my privacy too. Please, show me to the storage that you mentioned."

"As you wish."

The masked boy pondered about it for a few seconds before smiling softly and picking the first of the two options presented to him.

Then the boy and the corpse puppet continued walking for some more time.

They have most definitely reached the rarely used part of the building – although the hallway was kept clean, the floorboards had far fewer signs of being stepped on through the years than the ones by the servant housing.

The gold-haired corpse-puppet pulled out a full ring of keys and then selected and separated one of them without stopping.

...then they stopped by the last very last door that wasn\'t the exit from the building...

"..."

Zoemi raised his head slightly but didn\'t say a thing while the corpse puppet unlocked the door and opened it, inviting him to the room the size of two large classrooms put together.

The whole thing was filled with various boxes and broken shelves and the thick layer of dust inside suggested that even for a storage compartment it wasn\'t used a lot... or at all for that matter...

"Back when the owner of this body was alive, this whole complex was used as a military facility during the most recent war. This was an armory although since all the weapons and armor were removed after everything settled this room had not been in use. The Academy is simply too big for just the students from the noble houses and their servants."

The corpse puppet explained sounding a bit melancholic, making a path in the dust as she walked towards the dirty curtains, spread them apart, and opened the dirty window to let some fresh air in.

"Here. I need to return to my usual outpost so don\'t hold against me that I will not offer you help with cleaning."

The light puppet turned around and put the key in the black-haired boy\'s hands and disappeared in a flash of golden light.

"Well... I guess it\'s time to clean. Hah... Normal attendant\'s duties for a change... nice~"

Zoemi glanced down at the old-fashioned kay before smiling innocently and taking off his broken mask to the place he would be staying during Kierul\'s education.

"Now then... since she didn\'t say I should be mindful of anything, it means that I can just throw all that junk out, right? This is kind of exciting~"

The black-haired boy put his hands on his sides and started grinning while looking around the broken crates and shelves, moments before pulling up his sleeves...

...and splitting into ten copies to make the work go faster...