"Ugh... my head hurts..."
After Ragna woke up, the others woke up one by one, including Himeko.
"I feel like my head is going to explode..."
This is what happens when someone drinks half a cup of flammable oolong tea.
"I'll let it slide, but who got Himeko drunk yesterday?"
Ragna looked furiously at her comrades, who were slowly waking up and slumping over.
"Himeko, tell me, who got you drunk?"
"Ah... me, me? Wait a moment, let me think..."
Himeko is still somewhat confused about what happened last night. By the way, where is Tian Shi?
"Last night... the person who gave me the wine... uh, um... I think it was you, Captain."
"Huh?"
"Captain, you handed me two cans of wheat drink with such a kind look on your face..."
Himeko struggled to remember.
"Huh??"
Does such a thing... exist?
Ragna immediately felt guilty.
"After that... it seems someone let me try oolong tea? I don't remember anything else."
"I asked you to try lighting the oolong tea with a lighter, not to taste it," Tian Shi said, appearing in the doorway with a twitch in his eye.
"Are all drunk people so good at altering their memories? And that wasn't oolong tea, it was rectified vodka mixed with whiskey."
What kind of idiot came up with such an idea? Not even Cocolia would dare to drink it like that.
Although Cocolia is not an alcoholic.
While Tian Shi was making sarcastic remarks, the other members of the assault team looked at Ragna with mischievous smiles.
"Eh... I didn't expect the Captain to be like this, secretly getting her subordinates drunk... Captain, you didn't want it to be known that you were getting your subordinates drunk..."
"Cough, cough, cough! Let's drop this topic! Let's drop it!"
Ragna looked embarrassed and displeased.
"Besides, in the end, weren't you, you bitches, the ones who got me drunk? I haven't even asked you what you used to get me drunk!"
"But speaking of that... who took us to bed?"
Although it was a chaotic, messy dump that looked like a garbage heap, at least everything was neatly put away; and Ragna felt that her team members, who had been completely drunk the night before, only deserved to be discarded like trash.
Himeko silently looked at Tian Shi, whom only she could see.
"If I had been a corpse collector on the street last night, I would have gotten rich."
Tian Shi scoffed.
"What a pair of Valkyries, some drank so much that I thought they held their liquor well, but in the end, they ended up vomiting everywhere in the middle of the night, and even splashed others with their vomit! I had to clean up after her and the others fell asleep."
Some people... I'm probably not included in some of those people, right?
I remember absolutely none of this.
Himeko thought to herself with a slight twinge of conscience.
"Ha, does an idiotic drunk still remember things? Of course, you're not the only idiot like that."
"So I did vomit."
Himeko turned her head to the side, her face slightly flushed.
"But you can relax, although several people got up to vomit in the middle of the night, I knocked them out after they finished, you don't have to worry about being exposed."
At this moment, Tian Shi is furious; after all, he attended to more than a dozen drunks all by himself last night.
While some, like Ragna, had good drinking manners, there were also quite a few, like Himeko, with awful manners.
They raised a ruckus in the middle of the night, and Tian Shi didn't get a break all night.
Anyone would be enraged in this situation.
"Don't worry, I have some experience caring for drunks, especially minors."
Tian Shi thought of Mobius.
Mobius's drinking manners are not very good either, but compared to Himeko, a drunk Mobius is particularly charming, at least in front of Himeko, although she will throw a tantrum and vomit afterward.
However, Mobius is the type of person who doesn't demand that Tian Shi worry about anything except the details of her life.
This is truly bad news, Himeko thought to herself; but, on the other hand, Himeko felt a little curious about who the other "drunk minor" Tian Shi was talking about was.
I've decided I'll ask this question the next time I have a chance.
Meanwhile, Ragna was still heatedly discussing "who brought them here."
"I mean... could it be Amber or His Holiness Otto?"
"It's impossible, if it were Amber or His Excellency the Bishop, we would be waking up in the schoolyard right now, facing thousands of words of self-criticism, besides, I don't think His Excellency the Bishop is such an 'accessible' person."
"Mmm... that makes sense. Who else could it be? Could it be that the Captain received the blessing of the Maiden Goddess and her maid powers exploded? Did she perhaps sleepwalk while drunk and clean Himeko's house?"
"Although I appreciate your flattery about my domestic servant skills, can't you be serious for once? Do you really think I'm a sleepwalker?"
"What else could it be?"
Hearing the conversation of her senior comrades, Himeko turned to look at Tian Shi.
"How should this problem be explained?"
"You can't even have an informal conversation with them?"
Tian Shi looked at Himeko.
"You're not thinking of making me, the 'Maiden Goddess,' appear, are you? Although, if I were your Captain, I wouldn't mind showing off my power or something."
After Tian Shi finished speaking, Himeko immediately rolled her eyes at him.
You get so worked up with me after I only said a couple of words to you?
You're just someone who chases after maid outfits, I've got your number right away!
"Maybe it really is the Maiden Goddess appearing in spirit," Himeko thought for a moment and then nodded.
To be honest, that reason is quite interesting.
"Himeko, is it really okay for a Caltech graduate like you to join their nonsense...?", Ragna rolled her eyes.
"Alright, everyone check if you've lost anything, if not, let's leave it at that."
Although it is unlikely, Ragna is also quite afraid that the investigation could end up leading to Otto, which would be uncomfortable for everyone.
Thus, Ragna decided to show everyone what she had done.
If no one had suffered any loss, the matter would be settled; after all, everyone had slept deeply the night before, and the possibility that someone had hit someone and run away could not be ruled out.
If something really goes wrong, then we will have to investigate thoroughly.
"Something has happened! Captain! This is terrible, this is terrible, this is terrible!"
However, at that moment, a voice seized by panic caught everyone's attention; Himeko looked at Tian Shi with disbelief.
"What's wrong!?"
"I... I..."
The girl, barely older than Himeko, was seized by panic and disbelief.
"My bra isn't that big!"
Huh?
"Underwear?"
"Yes, yes, this bra is obviously not mine."
The girl nervously pointed to her underwear; due to the party last night, everyone except Ragna was now only wearing their tops and bottoms.
"Yes, it's very loose. Did your padding fall out last night?"
The crowd looked at the other person's loose underwear without giving it much thought, and instead teased her.
"What 'padded thing'? That's a chest protector... No! It's not about whether it has padding or not, this bra is not mine!"
"Are you drunk? Who has time to change your underwear? I'll make you a cup of oolong tea to sober you up," her comrade said sympathetically, patting her on the shoulder.
"I know you really want a boyfriend, but don't deceive yourself, especially like this, you can lie to your friends, and they might believe you, but you can't lie to yourself..."
"Go to hell! This is not mine, my bra is one size smaller than this, even after putting all the padding in, okay? You tell me, was it this big yesterday?"
The girl was becoming anxious and self-destructing while cursing.
"Eh... it seems to be true."
"Wait a moment, now that you mention it, my bra also seems to be a bit loose... I thought only the straps were loose..."
"Me too."
"Me too..."
"It's a little tight here..."
After one person started it, many others also noticed the problem.
Himeko glared fiercely at Tian Shi.
What the hell did you do? What's wrong with the seniors? Explain something to me! Didn't you say you hadn't done anything wrong?
"So almost half of us had our underwear changed?" Ragna concluded after roughly counting the people who had spoken, but then a deep doubt struck her.
"But... why would they change your underwear?"
Even if they were lingerie thieves, they wouldn't be so kind as to take off the women's clothes and put on a new set, would they?
What kind of thief is this?
They changed everyone's clothes and carried them to the dormitory.
Are thieves that noble nowadays?
No, more than being called a lingerie thief, this behavior more closely resembles... caring for someone who has vomited on themselves or on whom someone else has vomited?
Ragna, inexplicably, felt a sense of déjà vu about this behavior.
If we analyze it this way, it seems to make sense: Ragna wouldn't think all her teammates are capable of accurately estimating their alcohol tolerance.
Well, to put it bluntly, many people here have no idea what their alcohol tolerance is.
Ragna thought that if they drank together, she might be able to drink more than most of the group.
Thus, based on previous experience, the only thing they would do would be to vomit profusely after drinking it.
And now... at least everything Ragna sees is clean.
(We might have actually caused them trouble...)
On the other hand, Tian Shi was also slightly annoyed by Himeko's glare.
"Himeko, do you want to take a look at their clothes and see if you recognize them?"
(Who knows what kind of underwear you put on them...)
Himeko seemed to realize something.
Wait... Impossible!
Himeko looked with disbelief at the underwear of her senior comrades, then at her own, and indeed, hers had also been changed.
"Yes, who knows? Ghosts know everything, like where you keep your underwear, Himeko," Tian Shi said with a smile.
"Don't worry, I didn't touch the decisive battle outfit, the one your comrades gave you."
Just do it already! Who cares about a decisive set...? Well, it's not entirely uninteresting...
This feeling is quite subtle.
But seriously, you have to pay me back for my underwear!
Okay, the underwear is something the seniors were using, it's not like they lost it.
But the idea of Tian Shi using her own underwear to change her superior's clothes... still gave her mixed feelings.
This guy must have had a blast last night, right? Is that annoyed expression on his face just an act?
"I suggest you personally get acquainted with your vomit-covered ancestors."
Tian Shi scoffed.
"Leaving aside the fact that I'm a ghost... even if we take a step back, it's not that I can't find a girlfriend, I can only say that it's not worth it."
"Although most Valkyries are very beautiful, there are different levels of beauty, right?"
These words would surely infuriate the seniors... Himeko thought in silence.
Tian Shi chuckled and then fell silent.
That said, is there any possibility that he and Rita are matched?
"You should try to explain the underwear issue clearly now."
Himeko pouted.
She felt that Tian Shi had been reading her mind since earlier this day.
But what this guy said makes sense.
"Ehm... Captain, the underwear the veterans are wearing looks like mine."
Himeko, who had been tricked by Tian Shi in a sense, weakly raised her hand and said.
"Yours?"
Ragna was stunned, and the seniors next to her seemed even more incredulous.
"Himeko is this big... Wait a minute, did I buy a gift that was too small?"
"Thank goodness... I bought the ones I ordered myself, so there shouldn't be any problem."
"Hey... don't you care that Himeko is only sixteen this year? She still has a long way to go until she's seventeen, if she's already like this, I don't even want to imagine what she'll be like when she's twenty!"
"I think a couple of bastards are focusing on what doesn't matter..."
Ragna retorted calmly.
"Speaking of that, Himeko, can you explain this? I don't want to blame you, I just wanted to ask if you have any clue, or if you got up in the middle of the night to clean."
After all, Ragna knew that Himeko had also been drunk before. And they had drunk the same thing; it would be a miracle if she could get up.
Speaking of that, didn't someone mention oolong tea?
Ragna silently held a grudge.
"No... I'm not sure either. Could it be that the Maiden Goddess really appeared? Or is it the Snail Fairy?"
Himeko tried to improvise, since the person who was actually doing the work was right next to her and couldn't take all the responsibility.
"Did we eat snails as an appetizer with the drinks last night?"
"Are you drunk? Weren't we eating Himeko's dumplings the whole time?"
"These girls..."
Himeko listened to the conversation of her senior comrades and realized that drinking really damages the brain.
"So you don't have it either... Well, let's say it's the Maiden Goddess appearing or a fairy godmother."
Ragna did know the story of the Fairy Godmother.
These maidens possess surprisingly broad knowledge.
"And where is everyone's underwear now?" Ragna, with no intention of continuing to press the matter, decisively changed the subject, although the current situation seemed suspicious.
"It has been washed and hung on the balcony."
Tian Shi spoke indifferently, and then Himeko truthfully relayed it to Ragna and all the elders.
"Well done."
Most of the team did not reflect as deeply as Ragna and, unconsciously, assumed that Himeko had gotten up in the middle of the night to tidy up; at least that made sense.
"We owe you a favor this time, Himeko, don't worry, the seniors won't take advantage of you for no reason, tomorrow, each of us will give you a new set of the Decisive Battle outfit."
Who wants that kind of thing?