Another day in Aoi's home. It was early in the morning, and Aoi was ready to go to work.Unlike previous days, when she had been apathetic, bitter, and angry at life, now she was in the middle of a complete transition toward change in her life, since she was apathetic, bitter, angry at life, and impoverished, because Velya had spent her life savings and had won her as a demon-maid.
"My complaints sound more like a grocery list than anything else, ordered from one to a thousand, and on top of that I ended up with a bargain-bin maid who barely knows what she's doing," Aoi whispered, then let out a loud, deep sigh."Alright, I'm heading out now…" Aoi announced from the front door.
"Ah! Wait! Don't forget your lunch!" Velya exclaimed as she handed her a plastic container with a sandwich.
"Oh? Weh… uh… this, um…" she said, a little embarrassed."Uh… thanks… I guess…" she added, slightly blushing and in a low voice.
"Okay! While you're working, I'll clean, and as soon as I'm done, I'll go see you at your job!" Velya said cheerfully, smiling from ear to ear.
"Huh! No!" Aoi shouted in desperation."There's no way I can let my coworkers see you—what would they think of me? I barely have two friends at work, they'll definitely make fun of me when they see you…" she thought in horror.
In her mind, a dark scene formed, painted in dull shades of red and green, with two large shadows and glowing red eyes.
"Oh! A demon as a maid? And what did you give in return? Your soul? Ho, ho, ho, ho," one shadow mocked.
"You probably didn't even read the contract, did you, little Aoi? Ha!" the second one sneered.
While Aoi was lost in the echoes of her mind, frozen blue with fear, Velya tried to snap her out of it.
"Aoi? Aoi? Aoi?! Earth to Aoi! Don't ignore me! Fuck's sake!" Velya shouted angrily at her.
"Ah… uh… mmh," Aoi stammered, and once she came back to herself, she pressed a hand between her eyes beneath her glasses."Look… uh… just…" the girl tried to speak.
"Uh-huh?" Velya waited for Aoi to continue.
"Ju— ju—" the girl tried to speak, but she was already having a nervous collapse."Just stay here at home! Don't you dare go see me at work! Did you hear me?!" Aoi screamed at the top of her lungs and slam! she slammed the door shut without thinking.
Velya stood there, confused and silent behind the door.
After some time, Aoi was already on the subway. As the car moved forward, she stood among the crowd. She looked extremely nervous.
"Damn it! Velya is an idiot…" Aoi thought."An idiot who kept my soul," she added with a bit of sadness.
The train continued on its route.
"Maybe… maybe I should think about something else…" she said to herself. Then she saw herself reflected in the train window, and in the echoes of her mind, she stood there alone, staring at her reflection."Mmh… maybe I should stand up straight… stick my ass out, arch my back, and show off my chest!" she thought."Ough… who the hell am I kidding? I have no boobs or ass, I'm a plank, and I have the grace of a log. I'm useless…" she added in her mind.
At one point, amid intrusive thoughts, Velya crossed her mind.
"On the other hand, Velya has a huge ass… and dream-like… dream-like tits…" she pondered carefully."No! What the hell is wrong with me?! Why the fuck am I thinking about Velya?!" she said to herself. Her mind made her hallucinate Velya's round breasts along with a soft moan, while at the same time her imagination pictured Velya completely naked, with a purple mist barely covering her attributes.
"Puah!" Aoi exclaimed as her nose started bleeding."Fuck!" Aoi thought."Why the fuck is she so sexy?!" Aoi suddenly shouted. People in the subway car turned to look at her in alarm.
"Shit… she just makes me embarrass myself…" she thought, her face completely red and mortified by what had happened.
After a train ride and a bus ride, Aoi arrived at the office. After working for a while, lunchtime arrived.
"Mmh…" Aoi thought to herself as she looked at the sandwich the she-devil had prepared for her."Maybe it's cursed—no! Maybe it has something poisonous and purple…" she speculated nervously."Or maybe she forgot to remove the plastic wrapper from the cheese…" she continued questioning while inspecting the sandwich from top to bottom.
She soon noticed there was nothing strange about it. While she was checking her food, two coworkers appeared.
"Hi, little Aoi!" greeted Noa Tachibana, a coworker who was always criticizing everything Aoi did.
"Mmh… hey," Aoi replied bluntly and curtly.
"Oh! You brought breakfast today! What a surprise! I didn't expect you to wake up earlier to prepare something, you usually arrive right on time, but it really shows you barely know how to live and work at the same time," she said sarcastically.
"That's easy to say when you still live with your parents and your boyfriend drives you around. Bitch!" Aoi complained internally.
"By the way, are you still renting? I already got my own place, and I've been working here for less time than you. I'm surprised you still don't know how to save money, little Aoi," added the other woman. Her name was Sayaka Fujisawa.
"Opening your mouth is easy when you have a house inherited from your parents and financial security, you son of a bitch!" she ground her teeth internally, screaming deep within her thoughts.
"Uh… yeah, I woke up a bit earlier to make myself something for breakfast. I figured it's not too late to change habits, heh, hehe!" Aoi replied to the girls, pretending to be embarrassed.
"I think it's good that you want to change, little Aoi. By the way, what did you bring for breakfast?" Noa asked.
"Yeah, what did you bring? We're curious," Sayaka added.
Embarrassment washed over Aoi for a moment.
"Weh… well… the truth is…" she said, then suddenly showed them the open container."A cheese sandwich!" Aoi revealed her food to the girls.
"Oh… how nice!" Noa said."I brought spaghetti bolognese!" she announced cheerfully.
"I brought a couple slices of pizza from yesterday," Sayaka added.
"Let's go downstairs to eat, I don't want to stain Aoi's cubicle," Noa said. At that moment, she pretended to misstep and spilled part of the spaghetti onto Aoi's cubicle.
"Oh! No! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!" she said in a dramatic tone, pretending it was an accident.
Aoi was splattered with spaghetti sauce and ground meat. She showed no expression, only indifference, staring into the void while the girls tried to make up for it by wiping her with napkins.
"Cool… now I'm a shitty secretary covered in shit…" she thought silently to herself.
While the girls tried to clean Aoi better, the sliding doors of the central office cubicle hallway opened.
From there appeared a woman with the air of corporate success.
She was tall, slender, but with pronounced curves, a pair of large breasts hanging in a deep neckline, and a miniskirt that barely covered her thick thighs, wide hips swaying elegantly with a pendulum-like stride as her heels echoed.
Her hair was red, and she wore dark sunglasses that prevented anyone from seeing her directly.
Another girl followed her like a shadow, somewhat plain, with a ponytail and thick bottle-bottom glasses.
Everyone in the office was terrified by the presence of that woman, stepping aside as if making way for a queen.
"Oh! It can't be, it's Miss Rusthford!" Noa announced in shock.
"What?! Impossible! What is she doing here?" Sayaka exclaimed, following Noa.
"Mmh… and who the hell is that?" Aoi asked.
"You don't know who Miss Rusthford is?!" Noa and Sayaka shouted at the same time.
"Huh? Should I know her?" Aoi said, fed up.
"Of course you should know her! She's the CEO and main shareholder of this company! She's literally the hand that feeds you! The hand that feeds every mortal present here!" Noa declared.
"Yes!" Sayaka emphasized.
At that moment, she walked down the main aisle and stopped at Aoi's cubicle.
"Oh… uh… gu— good morning, M— Miss Rusthford…" Noa greeted nervously.
"Noa… I— I think we should go back to work…" Sayaka suggested fearfully.
"Y-yes… th- that would be best…" Noa said.
Both girls were terrified, reflected in the dark lenses of the redhead, who hadn't said a single word.
"Excuse us!" both girls exclaimed at the same time and fled, leaving Aoi alone with the CEO.
The boss stared straight at Aoi. The poor secretary could see herself reflected in her dark glasses, stained with spaghetti and embarrassed.
"G— good morning…" Aoi greeted her boss, trembling.
Her scent was intense. Her perfume preceded her, sweet yet sharp, piercing Aoi's nose with every breath, that sweetness blending softly with the smell of cigarette smoke.
That figure loomed over Aoi with overwhelming presence.
"Tsch!" the redhead snapped dryly.
"Ah… I see…" said the secretary with bottle-bottom glasses.
"Huh?" Aoi exclaimed, confused.
The girl took her clipboard and, after flipping through a few pages, began to read a document aloud.
"She is Amamiya Aoi, 24 years old, began working with us about a year ago…" the secretary announced, then grew surprised as she continued reading."Oh! She's been Employee of the Month for the last six consecutive months. She's one of the best workers in the company, Miss Rusthford," the girl added.
"Mmh…" the CEO uttered.
She simply turned and walked away, her underling following her again until they reached the elevator.
"Phew…" Aoi sighed in relief."What the hell was that?" she thought, then looked at the pigsty that was her cubicle."Bad time to show up to this filthy cubicle…" she thought.
Suddenly, a shout echoed from the end of the hallway near the elevator.
"What?! But Miss Rusthford!" the secretary yelled.
The redhead boarded the elevator, leaving the girl behind.
"Mmh… alright… I'll tell her…" the secretary muttered.
The girl returned to Aoi's cubicle, where Aoi was trying to clean her spaghetti-covered space.
"Mmh… Amamiya Aoi…" the secretary said with forced indifference.
"And what the fuck do you want now?! Can't you see I'm cleaning?! Shit!" Aoi kept her thoughts to herself."Yes, how can I help you?" she said with a forced smile, pretending to be polite.
"Well. My name is Clarmont Celestina…" the secretary introduced herself.
"Mmh… these rich people and their dick-sucking last names…" Aoi thought while the secretary kept talking.
"I am the personal secretary of Miss Rusthford Sharon, CEO of the company…" she continued.
"Personal secretary? So your job is licking the boss's heels for a few dollars—are you bragging about that, you son of a bitch? Because if so, I—" Aoi dissociated while the secretary talked, hearing only "blah, blah, blah, blah" from her.
"So, you need to be punctual. She wants you in her office in five minutes…" the secretary finished.
"Huh? Who wants me in their office?" Aoi asked, confused, as soon as Celestine finished speaking.
The secretary put on a forced-neutral expression; however, she was furious because Aoi hadn't listened to a single word.
"M— Miss Rusthford wants you in her office in five minutes…" Celestine repeated.
"Ah… uh…" Aoi stammered."Huh?!" A sudden burst of panic hit her, a brief cathartic snap.
"Ush! I'll escort you to her office immediately!" Celestine snapped."Follow me, Miss Amamiya," she added with some severity.