After hearing Takumi and Kobayashi explain what a maid was, Tohru immediately transformed herself into a maid outfit.
The black-and-white uniform hugged her body close, perfectly outlining her tall, voluptuous figure. With her golden-red gradient hair tied into twin tails, she suddenly looked even more youthful and energetic.
"Hehe~ From now on, I'm your maid, Takumi!"
"Mhm. My maid Tohru, please get in."
After reaching the highway, Takumi used magic to construct a car.
Once he placed Kobayashi in the back seat, he invited Tohru in as well.
"This is a car?"
Tohru, who clearly didn't understand modern things very well, stared at it with curious eyes.
Takumi explained as he climbed into the driver's seat.
Even though he didn't have a license, driving was obviously the sort of thing he could handle with ease.
Vroom! Vroom! Vroom!
As the headlights came on, the car shot forward like an arrow loosed from the string.
"Wow~ This is so slow. I'm faster than this thing!!"
Sitting in the passenger seat, Tohru immediately puffed up with pride, looking downright smug at having beaten a car.
Watching Tohru compare herself to a mode of transportation, Takumi couldn't help laughing.
"Right, right, Tohru, you're more impressive. So next time, can I ride you instead?"
"Next time? You can ride me right now!!"
Tohru's face lit up with a lusty grin, dragon scales faintly surfacing on her cheeks.
Seeing that, Takumi hurriedly waved his hand. "Not now. I'm driving, and it's not often I get to do this. I'll ride you next time. No rush."
"I see~ But I promise I'll be better than this car. I'll make sure you have a much more unforgettable experience."
Still pouting, Tohru kept insisting she was the superior option.
As a dragon, there was no way she could accept losing to a human vehicle.
Her pride as a dragon wouldn't allow it.
"Mm~ What are you two talking about? Riding this, riding that…"
Kobayashi mumbled from the back seat.
"It's nothing. Go back to sleep, Kobayashi. We'll be in the city soon. By the way, where do you live?"
"I live in Chi... snore..."
"Don't fall asleep! You still haven't told me where you live!"
Looking at Kobayashi, who had completely passed out again, Takumi could only sigh.
Whatever. Since she couldn't answer, he'd just bring her home.
The fact that she was still awake this long after drinking his divine wine already meant her body was in pretty good shape.
And as expected, her luck was ridiculous. She had already awakened the body of a phoenix.
For an ordinary human, she had already gone through a total rebirth.
"And I can't forget the Servant Piece."
With one hand off the wheel, Takumi condensed a Servant Piece and casually tossed it onto Kobayashi.
As the piece fused into her body, a pink heart-shaped choker flashed into existence around her neck for an instant.
Seeing that, Tohru immediately asked, "What was that?"
"A Servant Piece I made. If you fuse with it, it'll draw out your potential. Of course, the price is that whoever uses it forms a contract with me and becomes one of my retainers."
Takumi didn't bother hiding it and told her directly.
The moment she heard that, Tohru immediately called out, "Give me one too!"
Looking at Tohru, whose [Affection: 98] floated above her head without the slightest resistance or hesitation, Takumi didn't waste words.
He formed another Servant Piece and tossed it to her.
Tohru accepted it willingly, and the aura around her body surged.
As a dragon, she didn't normally need training, and she didn't need to study magic either.
Magic was engraved into her bloodline itself. As long as she slept, slept long enough, and woke up again, she naturally grew stronger.
Tohru had lived for tens of thousands of years, yet she had only just entered young adulthood.
And now the Servant Piece pushed her potential even further, causing her strength to rise again.
Tohru had only wanted to form a contract with Takumi, but she had never imagined the Servant Piece he created would be this absurd.
Her strength had been forced up an entire step!
While driving, Takumi used his Emerald Eye to take a look as well.
[Name: Tohru]
[Level: Chief God-class]
[Traits: Dragon King Bloodline (Gold), Servant (Purple), Self-Generating Magicules (Purple), Phoenix Body (Purple)... Dragon Language Magic (Purple), Protagonist Halo (Blue)...]
Tohru's trait list was absurdly luxurious.
At a glance, it was almost all purple, enough to rival the Takumi from a while back.
And her strength before this had probably already been at the Super Maou-class, only one step away from Chief God-class.
This Servant Piece of his had basically helped her break through that bottleneck.
"You really are incredible, Tohru. No wonder you're a dragon from another world."
Takumi couldn't help praising her, and Tohru immediately raised her chin proudly.
"Of course. I'm the daughter of the Emperor of Demise. Even if most dragons teamed up together, they still wouldn't be a match for me!"
If the setting had allowed it, Tohru would have loved to show Takumi exactly how destructive she could be.
Even destroying the world would've been easy for her now.
Her words made Takumi think of the evil gods who would also come from another world in the future.
With Tohru's current strength, she definitely wouldn't be able to beat those evil gods.
But if creatures on the level of Lucoa, actual creator-gods, got involved, that would be a very different story.
All he could say was: people from other worlds really were built different.
Their power left the natives in the dust.
Takumi also knew clearly that even in her own world, Tohru counted as top-tier combat power.
Most dragons definitely weren't this strong.
Now that he had a dragon maid like this, he felt like he could get a little bolder in how he handled things.
If he went all out on top of that, the two of them together could easily throw the whole world into chaos.
For a moment, all sorts of ideas ran through Takumi's mind.
But considering how much hatred and attention that would attract, and because he still wanted a peaceful life, Takumi suppressed the thought.
Those wilder ideas would be better suited for other worlds.
As for his main world, he still wanted peace, comfort, and pleasure.
Thinking that, he had already reached the mountain road.
There really was something exhilarating about tearing through a mountain highway at night.
With the gas pedal slammed down, the car flew along, adrenaline surging.
At the same time, from the other side of the mountain road, a thug in a sports car was racing toward Takumi's direction.
As he drove recklessly, his headlights suddenly illuminated a figure standing in the middle of the road.
It was a woman holding a steel beam over two meters long, dressed in a black-and-red off-shoulder mini dress trimmed with flashy frills, with a ribbon tied on her head.
In the darkness, all the driver could make out at first was that her body looked really good.
But when his eyes finally focused on her face, the pitch-black void where her features should have been made him scream.
"G-GHOST!!!"
He instinctively yanked the wheel hard, and the sports car immediately veered off the road.
At that exact moment, Takumi, driving along the road below, saw a sports car come crashing down from above.
"What the hell?"
Takumi had just started to brake when Tohru in the passenger seat saw it too.
She bared her teeth, her face faintly shifting into the visage of a dragon.
Blazing heat gathered in her mouth, and when she opened it and spat, it became a crimson beam blasting upward.
BOOM!!!
Tohru's fiery dragon breath struck the falling sports car dead on, instantly blowing it apart and burning it to ash.
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