Liking a maid is normal
"Forget it, just understand as you like."
Seeing that there were so many explanations, but they didn't have much effect, Asumi gave up her intention to continue holding on.
"I just want to stop working here from Monday to Friday and only come here on the weekends. May I?"
"Okay, I agree to your request." The cafe manager smiled and agreed, "Of course, I can understand if you can't come on the weekend."
"Thank you, manager."
After thanking him first, Asumi complained about the last sentence she said: "I'm coming over on the weekend, so I don't want you to understand it."
"That's not necessarily true." The cafe manager's tone was a little subtle, "Young people are not sure about anything."
"By the way, are there ready-made cakes or something?"
Asumi ignored the cafe manager's teasing and asked someone else.
"A number of."
···
"Kouhai-kun, this is it."
When Ren finally finished his juice, Asumi came in with a plate of chocolate cake and placed the cake on the table in front of him.
"This?"
Ren looked at her in doubt, he didn't remember ordering this cake.
"This is what I asked you to eat. Please eat it."
Asumi explained casually and sat across from him.
"Oh, thank you."
Ren took a fork and slowly ate the cake.
"If you really want to say it, I should be the one thanking you." Asumi supported her head with her hands and looked at Ren in front of her while chuckling, "After all, you gave me a job."
"Oh."
Ren didn't care much about this, he just agreed softly and concentrated on the cake.
After a while, Asumi continued: "By the way, Kouhai-kun, I haven't quit my job as a maid. I will still work here on the weekends, and then from Monday to Friday, I will be your teaching assistant."
"That's not what you said when you were at Kirisu Sensei's house," Ren reminded her.
"I just wanted to deceive Kirisu Sensei at that time. If I hadn't said that, she definitely wouldn't have let it go so easily." Asumi explained, "After all, I was very short of money. I could use more money."
At this point, she clasped her hands together and pleaded: "So, please Kouhai-kun, please don't tell Kirisu Sensei that I haven't quit my job as a servant."
"OKAY."
Ren agreed easily.
"What do I have to do to be your assistant? This is my first time as an assistant."
Seeing Ren agree to keep it a secret, Asumi seemed very happy, and asked about the topic of teaching assistants.
"Don't know."
After thinking about the matter for a while, Ren shook his head.
He just knew that there was a job that was very suitable for Asumi, so he proposed. As for what she wanted to do, he didn't know.
Seeing his reaction, Asumi complained: "Hey, isn't this the job you gave me? Why don't you know what I want to do!"
"The job I'm being offered, do I need to know what the job entails?" Ren said matter-of-factly.
"What you said makes sense." After thinking for a moment, Asumi agreed with his logic, "But I suddenly feel like this job is a bit unreliable."
"However, now that we have reached this point, it is too late to regret it. I'd better check it online."
"Sorry to bother you."
"Then when will I start working? Don't tell me you don't know this either."
Putting aside the work content for now, Asumi asked about something else.
"Next Monday afternoon, wait for me at the school gate after school."
She had thought about this.
"As long as I have working hours, it's fine. If you haven't decided on this, then I really need to consider whether to refuse this job."
Asumi carefully wrote down the time Ren said, and then complained about its unreliability.
"…"
Ren didn't deny it.
The two chatted for a while, then Asumi left and continued working.
Ren left the place after eating the cake.
Just when he came out of the maid cafe, he saw a familiar figure standing not far away, looking at him in surprise.
"Good morning, Kamikawa."
Then, Raphiel ran over and greeted with a smile.
"Good morning," Ren answered.
After confirming the cafe sign, Raphiel looked surprised and said: "I really didn't expect Kamikawa to actually want to come to this kind of shop."
"I don't like it," Ren argued.
"Then why did you come to a maid cafe like this?" Raphiel guessed, "Could it be that you've never been to a cafe like this before, so you came here specifically to learn more about it today?"
"No."
As he had never been to a maid cafe before, he might make a special trip to take a look, but Ren had already been here several times, so there was no need to make a special trip.
"I was just brought here," Ren answered honestly.
"Man?" Raphiel asked.
If a man had brought him here, that would explain it.
"No, girl," Ren answered.
"A girl will take you to a maid cafe?"
Raphiel was silent for a moment, then asked: "Is that girl a servant here?"
"That's right."
Ren nodded.
Asumi is the maid here.
"Then you said you didn't like coming to maid cafes, but you followed the maid to this kind of shop so easily."
Thinking about the way the maid cafe attracted customers, Raphiel understood that Ren was invited by the maid to recruit customers, so he followed the maid into the cafe.
"I don't like coming to maid cafes," Ren repeated again.
"Since you don't like coming to maid cafes, then..."
Seeing his reaction, Raphiel suddenly made a bold guess.
"Then that's the maid you like?"
"I don't like maids either."
Even though he didn't understand why Raphiel thought that, Ren still tried hard to explain to her.
Raphiel asked, "Then why did you come to the maid cafe with that maid?"
"…"
Since Ren promised Asumi to keep the matter of helping her work here a secret, it was impossible for him to tell what happened as an explanation.
Seeing that he didn't continue to argue, Raphiel realized that her guess must have been correct.
Patting his shoulder, Raphiel comforted him: "It's okay, it's normal for men to like maids."