Instead, the Overlord's daughter was dressed very formally in a kimono as she gave the various applicants a pleasant smile.
"Welcome to you all, and I hope that you will find this time rather nice," she told them, "That only a few positions can be filled is rather unfortunate, but with all of you here, I'm sure that we won't have anyone to fill them."
The assembled applicants looked at her with a variety of expressions. Some were wary, others were hopeful, and a few were obviously nervous. All of them were quite attractive, going from soft and feminine girls, to athletic types, to intellectuals. There were tall girls with long and curvy bodies, and short ones who looked rather innocent and young.
And all of them were there for her son. They would have different tasks to accomplish, but there wasn't a single one who didn't want to work for her child. Oh, her father's people had already weeded out the ones who'd been sent in as assassins, and the ones who'd merely been out for themselves, but she'd made sure that only the ones she'd wanted had made it this far. It had been difficult to get ones that were both attractive and qualified enough, but she wasn't about to move on this. There were some things that she wasn't about to budge on after all.
Besides, not only would this make it so that Ranma's home would have good looking and competant staff, but it would give her son the chance to meet a girl he might want to be manly with. If he did, then he might just want to bed her, and the young lady in question just might let him. It did happen on occassion with other 'masters of the manor' after all. If it did, then she could get some grandbabies soon afterwards.
And should her son prove to be as manly as she hoped, she would have a lot of baby clothes to be buying.
So she was not going to skimp on finding just the right girls, whomever they might be.
Stopping in the middle of walking through the garden, Ranma stopped and frowned.
"Is there something wrong, young master?" Ben asked.
"No... I don't think so..," Ranma answered as he tried to figure out where that feeling of coming danger had come from.
Sitting at a table, Nodoka looked over the room and smiled. It was a rather informal place, but was decorated rather tastefully. Only one oddity was in it and that was the group of mannequins standing off to one side dressed in the uniforms that her son's servants would wear. However, that didn't really take anything from the room, and somehow managed to fit in just fine.
As she sipped her tea, she saw the door open and one of the candidates come inside. The girl's eyes flickered over to the maid's uniform, which was the one that she would be wearing if she were to be chosen. It was a nice outfit, and would play up on a girl's looks, and Nodoka planned on letting those who wore it adapt it a bit to their own personal styles. But not too much, as it had to be clear that these were her son's servants, simply by looking.
Still, this was someone who might just be the body in the uniform, and she gestured placatingly at the girl. "Sit down, and let's talk, shall we?"
For a moment, the girl stared, but shook it off and managed to slide herself into the seat opposite the woman she'd come to see.
Nodoka smiled in approval, and began the interview while:
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