Makoto stared at the other girl. "What?"
"It wasn't my fault! I... I was staying at the girl's dorm while I studied to get into university, but our manager was a guy."
"Oh... That must have been fun Naru."
The older girl shook her head. "It could be, but I was too caught up in my studies. And he was... clueless doesn't cover it. Do you realise how bad it can look when a guy's staying with a bunch of girls?"
"What... oh... He came across the bath while you guys were in there, didn't?"
"Yup. And fell onto me, and said the wrong thing, and did just about everything a guy could do to get into a mess in that sort of situation."
"What happened?"
"We were at a school when I felt someone grab my... you know," Naru told her, "I thought that it was him, and I... I decked him so hard that he wound up in the hospital for a concussion and to have some stitches in."
"Ouch... Wasn't that a bit much."
"Now I realise that, but I did it in anger. Once I saw what I'd done, I tried to help him. But someone saw us, and knew that it wasn't him that grabbed me. So I got arrested and sentenced to slavery."
"So you got auctioned off?" Makoto asked.
"Actually... no."
"What happened?"
"By the time that the guy I decked heard about what had happened to me, I was already being processed. So he raced over and with the help of a professor the two of us know, he brought my contract."
"He did?"
Naru smiled wryly. "You can imagine my surprise when I was introduced to my Master."
"That's amazing..."
"Yeah well... I didn't have to go far, and he's so clueless that he needs someone to look after him. I might as well do it myself. Though just how he got that much money I'm not sure."
Makoto looked at the girl and tried to not smirk at the surpressed caring in the other girl's words as:
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