Su Ran Preparing to Enter Sequence 2

“Thank you for your patronage, milady. Please come again.”

Su Ran, dressed in a fluffy maid skirt, bowed slightly with her hands clasped in front of her stomach, seeing off the customer who had just requested her.

“Little Ran, you’re so lucky. You get requested every day.”

Yuan Shirui walked over to Su Ran’s side, a hint of jealousy in her voice.

Ever since Su Ran’s debut day, the customers who had frantically bought coffee tickets for her that day would basically fight to come to the Sakura Cafe and request her.

Her beautiful appearance and her gentle, pitiful demeanor could capture the affection of a large group of female customers.

“Instead of being requested, I’d rather just sit up there and play Narakami until my shift ends.”

Su Ran turned her head and gave Yuan Shirui a smile that was uglier than crying.

After her debut day, to make use of Su Ran’s special talent, Winnie had specially decorated the stage for her, placing a computer and a real-time projector on it.

The purpose was to let Su Ran sit up there and play Narakami when she had no customers.

Although sitting on the stage playing games made her feel like a canary in a gilded cage for all to see, compared to being requested by the various “miladies,” Su Ran would much rather sit in there and be a canary.

These customers, who knows where they learned such things, would basically have her play different roles.

Something like a tsundere, twin-tailed maid who would then step on their thighs with her white-stockinged, jade-like feet, while saying lines like “Weakling, weakling.”

Or a noble maid whose family had fallen on hard times, who would then serve them with a look of disgust.

If Winnie hadn’t stepped in to stop them in time and tell them that this was a proper maid cafe…

Su Ran would have been coaxed by the “miladies” to the point of being ready to lift her own skirt.

What moved Su Ran more were Qiu Feifei and Li Xiaodie.

They were the only ones who came to the maid cafe specifically to play Narakami with her, unlike the other “miladies” who had all sorts of strange thoughts about her.

“Alright, alright, think of something happy. For example, our shift is about to end, and tomorrow is Saturday, so we can rest for two whole days!”

Yuan Shirui patted her shoulder comfortingly.

Amidst the busy work, only hearing this news from Yuan Shirui brought Su Ran a little comfort.

“Clean up the shop, then go home.”

Winnie’s voice came from the backstage.

She walked out of the break room at a leisurely pace.

“Manager, why haven’t we seen you all afternoon?”

Winnie lazily glanced at Yuan Shirui, who had asked the question, then yawned and waved her hand.

“I’m the manager. Of course, there are many things that I need to do personally.”

“You weren’t slacking off, were you?”

“You don’t want your salary, is that it?”

Startled by Winnie’s suddenly raised voice, Yuan Shirui quickly chuckled.

“I was talking about myself. How could I be talking about the manager?”

Ignoring Yuan Shirui’s Freudian slip, Winnie had just received a message from Eve in the break room.

She had already investigated the list of knights who had gone missing in the northern border city, and it was now in Winnie’s hands.

Since not many vampire nobles had participated in the raid, and aside from the leading earls, two of whom were executed and one went missing, the remaining nobles had basically suffered no losses.

So, for Cecia, investigating the list of missing knights was just a matter of spending a little time.

Upon seeing the list, Winnie’s first reaction was to lock onto the knights under a certain Baron Hyde.

Because all the knights of his family had gone missing, and according to the investigation, not only the knights but even Hyde himself was currently missing.

No one could find a trace of him, which was very suspicious.

However, there was one question Winnie couldn’t explain: the leak of the puppet magic.

As a baron, Hyde was not qualified to study at Tukulu, so he naturally had no opportunity to come into contact with puppet magic.

Then the leak of the puppet magic must have come from someone else.

It was very likely that Hyde was just a pawn in this grand game.

But fortunately, Eve was already on her way to enroll at Prandène.

The question of the puppet magic leak would surely be answered soon.

“Manager? Manager!”

Su Ran’s raised voice brought Winnie back to her senses.

She was looking at her with a concerned expression.

“Little Ran, what’s wrong?”

With a smile on her lips, Winnie’s voice remained calm, not letting them see that she had been lost in thought.

“Shirui said she wants to have barbecue tonight.”

Winnie ran her fingers through her long golden hair, thought for a moment, and said, “Then let’s have barbecue. I just bought some mountain goat meat a few days ago and put it at home. And Little Ran is about to reach Sequence Two, right? Eating more magical beast meat will help with your advancement.”

Being pointed out by Winnie about her sequence, Su Ran was a little curious.

“Manager, you can sense that?”

After using the Witch’s Meditation Technique, Su Ran had an unusual attraction to the surrounding magic essence.

After so many days, it was about time for her to advance.

However, Su Ran had very good control over the magic essence fluctuations in her body.

Under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult for anyone to notice her specific situation.

“Normally, no. But recently, your magic essence has been more active than usual. I was able to guess that you were about to advance through that change.”

Winnie shook her head.

Su Ran’s magic essence blended with her surroundings.

Without careful discernment, it would be impossible to find.

Only during this recent period, when Su Ran’s magic essence was abnormally active, could Winnie sense that she was about to advance.

At this point, Su Ran also understood.

It was just the fluctuations of magic essence in her body that had caught Winnie’s attention, allowing her to know that she was about to advance.

“Manager, I’m about to advance to Sequence Two. When can I get paid?”

Su Ran’s round eyes darted, and she suddenly changed the subject to her salary.

You see, she had already earned eight hundred thousand for the Sakura Cafe on her debut day.

If this were converted into a salary, it would not be a small sum.

Isa and the others, after a long journey, were expected to arrive and settle down near Tukulu today to inquire about the Witch’s Society.

If, after Tukulu, she didn’t have the power of a Sequence Six to hold the fort, Su Ran wouldn’t feel at ease.

“Salaries are paid monthly. You haven’t even been at the Sakura Cafe for a month. And your salary has to have training fees, clothing fees, accommodation fees, and food expenses deducted…”

Winnie counted on her fingers as if reciting a tightening-band spell.

Fees that Su Ran had never even heard of came out of her mouth.

Su Ran suddenly felt as if she had stepped into some deep pit.

Hearing the fees mentioned by Manager Winnie, she began to doubt whether the money she had earned on her debut day would be enough to pay it all back.

At this moment, what Winnie was thinking was that the five hundred thousand spent by Her Highness the Princess was a false report.

So, she had to come up with various pretexts to deduct this portion of the salary from Su Ran.

Otherwise, she herself would have to lose some money.