As Mamoru was attending to Rodias, she was trying her best to ignore Chuunitrixx. But in truth, her words stung Mamoru, and she had to fight the urge to turn from Rodias and attack her. This thought scared even Mamoru. After all it is not as if Mamoru is a stranger to insults directed towards her: when she still accompanied her Creator many insults were often directed towards her by those who hated him, often bashing her character and purity, thought as little more than her Creator’s fetishized idol. That’s when Mamoru began to realize why she felt this fury; because her Creator would always defend her against these accusations. She felt her anger fulfilled viciously though him, who would fight for her. Despite being his servant, Mamoru’s Creator fought for her. Without him, Mamoru must learn to fend for herself. How to do things for herself.

For now, the maiden’s duty was to tend to her master. She will take out the trash later. Rodias finished his speech, making Mamoru concerned that his humility will weaken his authority in the Chateau. Kindness is acceptable, weakness is not. But Mamoru will discuss this with him later. For now she has been tasked to find Gromgard’s goblins as well as investigate any natural resources around the Chateau. Two things she can do very well. She has a few basic skills for finding enemies and more skills for finding resources thanks to her time with her Creator. Plus this would give Mamoru a chance to be out of the Chateau, which is always a pleasure. As much as she liked the place, her best memories were when she was out in the field working alongside her Creator.

“As you command, Master Rodias. I shall not fail you.” Mamoru bowed to Rodias as he dismissed everyone and went his separate ways. Mamoru considered how to employ the skeleton butlers to find the goblins, but decided against it. She may have a few of them posted around the perimeter of the Chateau as sentries (the mountain cold will do nothing to harm skeletons) but she won’t have them searching around on their own. Cheap and functionally immortal as they may be, as Rodias said if any outsider finds the monstrous servants first, it will harm future relationships. Mamoru would personally seek out these goblins, as well as any notable mineral deposits as she searches. Perhaps she’ll send the skeletons to gather resources once she secured a safe passage.

Before everyone else would leave though, Mamoru took one deep breath as she took a step towards Ashara, and proceeded to fondle her many tails. “Luckyyyyyy. Master Rodias is letting you and Kath go on an adventure to the village! I wanna go see these new people toooooo.” Mamoru said in an almost monotone yet casual tone, far from how respectful and grandios she was with Rodias. It didn’t help that she was trying to make herself comfortable in the fluffy fox tails, and thus was feeling extra crass and slovenly. “I bet you’ll run into some trouble that will make you go ‘ah, these peasants are in danger, but my job is just to scout’, but then stuff will happen and pull be all ‘these bad guys are really annoying, I’ll just show them five percent of my powers’ and then boof, paaaaah, entire army destroyed! Then the peasants will be so happy but you’ll have to be all ‘it was nothing, now could you tell us a bit more about this place’ and other cool things.” Mamoru would try and nuzzle her face into Ashara’s tails as much as she possibly could. Who knows when this opportunity will come again.

“Hmmmm, you can do illusions can’t you? I’m sure we can figure something out...”