Chapter 215: As a Maid, Tamamo-no-Mae Is Perfect
Noah initially had no intention of having Tamamo-no-Mae join the Maid Squad.
Originally, he had even reserved the position of Adjutant Officer for Tamamo-no-Mae. With her abilities, she was fully capable of serving as an Adjutant Officer, and could even excel in the role.
However, Vivian's Maid Squad not only had few members but also had some issues.
Strictly speaking, Vivian's Maid Squad was divided into two parts.
One part handled basic tasks that replaced the original attendants. Initially, Vivian selected personnel from among the Ladies of the Lake for this role. Then, Morgan, citing insufficient manpower as the reason, trained the first batch of specialized fairies for maid duties to work alongside these Ladies of the Lake.
This part was not a problem. In fact, after the fairies trained by Morgan joined, the efficiency in handling tasks improved significantly compared to the original attendants.
But aside from this part, there was another section that had always consisted solely of Vivian herself.
Namely, the maids who should truly accompany Vivian and frequently appear by Noah's side.
This part mainly existed because Noah occasionally traveled, so the maids needed the ability to accompany him on trips and also take on some guard duties, requiring relatively high combat capabilities.
The other maids were not particularly strong in combat. After Guinevere joined the Maid Squad and, under Vivian's guidance, learned Magecraft and swordsmanship, she was not even the weakest in the other section. In fact, she gradually approached the middle to lower ranks. This gives an idea of the combat capabilities of the maids in that section.
The strongest there were about a dozen Ladies of the Lake.
The remaining specialized fairies for maid duties, due to their inherent nature as fairies, were stronger than ordinary humans, but that was about it.
Moreover, their strength was completely insufficient to be recruited into Vivian's section.
As for Vivian... her strength was sufficient. Although her prophetic abilities could only provide general predictions at this point, they were still quite useful in various situations.
However... as a maid, and currently the only one who could accompany Noah on trips like this, her ability to handle daily tasks could only be described as meeting the minimum standard, and nothing more.
Noah was not particularly picky about these things. In fact, when he was not busy, he would not complain if you asked him to cook or clean himself—after all, using Divine Protection and Magecraft for such tasks was quite convenient.
But Vivian, as a maid, was at a similar level to Noah in these aspects... and that was a problem.
Especially in areas like cooking, where Magecraft alone could not solve everything, she was even worse than Noah.
Of course, Noah and Morgan would not say anything about it, but even Vivian herself felt it was a significant issue.
She had repeatedly suggested that Noah consider adding personnel to this section—the personal maids serving Noah directly. However, Noah had never found any suitable candidates before.
In fact, Noah had even considered designing a Divine Protection specifically for maids for Vivian to solve the problem if no suitable candidate could be found.
Until he saw Tamamo-no-Mae.
Tamamo-no-Mae was fully qualified as an Adjutant Officer, and the same applied to her as a maid.
Whether it's cleaning, cooking, organizing, guarding, or even sending her on diplomatic missions, assassinations, or management tasks—Tamamo-no-Mae is fully capable in all aspects.
She is practically all-round competent in these areas.
And she handles every task exceptionally well.
If an ordinary person were to be taken care of by her, they might very well end up becoming completely useless.
Although she herself claims that her culinary skills are still somewhat lacking, in reality, Tamamo-no-Mae's cooking is of a remarkably high standard.
So high, in fact, that her culinary skills could easily surpass those of the chefs Noah currently keeps in the palace.
Thus, before coming to see Tamamo-no-Mae, Noah had actually pondered for quite some time.
He had discussed this matter with Morgan for a while as well, and ultimately decided to make Tamamo-no-Mae the second maid in the Maid Squad who could frequently be active around them.
Morgan had initially thought Tamamo-no-Mae might have objections to this.
Upon hearing Noah's arrangement, she even went to see Tamamo-no-Mae right away, intending to discuss the matter with her and prevent any potential dissatisfaction...
...Well, if the other party truly became dissatisfied, she planned to take preventive measures early on.
But in reality, when Morgan met Tamamo-no-Mae, the latter's attitude fully aligned with everything a maid should embody. She showed no dissatisfaction whatsoever. After meeting Tamamo-no-Mae, Morgan even returned and praised her to Noah a couple of times.
This didn't particularly surprise Noah, though.
After all, Tamamo-no-Mae's capabilities as a maid are beyond doubt.
"What about Little Kiara and the others? I took a look at the children Tamamo-no-Mae previously adopted, and they all seem to be at an age where they should receive education. However, if they were suddenly taken away from Japan, it would probably be quite unsettling for them. Little Kiara can come with us—I've asked both her and Tamamo-no-Mae, and neither of them has any objections."
"But as for the remaining children, if we are to settle them, it would be best to establish an education system in Japan before we leave, in addition to the construction work."
Noah had entrusted all these matters to Morgan, so as he lay in bed holding her and heard her mention Tamamo-no-Mae, he casually brought up the topic.
At this, Morgan, nestled in Noah's arms, slowly smiled.
"The cultivation of Specialized Fairies has reached a stage where basic application is possible. After the previous batch of Maid-Specialized Fairies was put into practical use without issues, I also cultivated fairies specialized in construction, mining... These fairies are now carrying out construction work on Japanese soil. Everything you want can be completed before we leave."
Hearing Morgan say this, Noah nodded.
"But if fairy cultivation technology is already this mature, what about the formation of the Fairy Knights?"
"As for that... Although I kept raising the requirements, the ordinary members have been completed. However, as I mentioned before, Melusine, Barghest, and Baobhan Sith—the three of them are still stuck on the issue of their Saint Graphs."
Morgan had already returned Mary's Avalon, so when Noah heard Morgan say this, he was somewhat puzzled. Then Morgan proceeded to share her discovery with Noah.
"When I first held the Avalon you gave me, I indeed connected to other worlds and intended to borrow Saint Graphs from those worlds for the three commanders of the Fairy Knights to use."
"But later, I noticed something very strange..."
At this point, Morgan slightly furrowed her brows.
"That is, although the World Line we are in appears to be like the main World Line, connected to all other World Lines—giving the impression of a bustling metropolis with access in all directions—when I actually tried to use these connections, I discovered... none of them were bidirectional."
Huh?
Morgan's statement left Noah momentarily stunned, but he didn't interrupt her. Morgan then revealed her conclusion.
"All the channels connecting our World Line are one-way. Other World Lines can use these channels to unidirectionally output things into our World Line, but our World Line simply cannot use these channels to output anything to any other World Line."