"This is ridiculous!" hissed one of the triplets. Ukyou wasn't sure if it was the same triplet that had accosted her beforehand, as they all looked the same. "If we sit here much longer, we'll all turn into prunes, and no way am I gonna let our master see us as wrinkly ol' prunes." She stepped up to the central statue and pressed a hidden button. "Grace-chan, could you find the master for us?"
Ukyou started to sweat profusely.
"*Doo-Dii-Dee!* We're sorry. Mistress Grace-chan is no longer available. Please try again later." came a slightly mechanical voice.
"Damn! She went to sleep already!" cursed the triplet. "Okay! Listen up, girls! We're going to be forming a search party for our master. Any volunteers?"
Several hands went up with calls for attention, though some hands went up more than others. Ukyou bounced up and down, waving her hands excitedly. "Hai! Haihaihaihaihai!!!" she chanted. Ukyou didn't want to stay in this place a moment longer than she had to, so she made sure to make a bigger fuss than anyone else.
A wan look crossed the triplet's face. "Okay, Chikokusha-san, [Ms. Late-arriver] you're in," she said. "Anyone else? You, you, you and you." Four maids giggled their approval of being chosen, and others grumbled their disappointment. "Okay, you five. Go out and coax the master to this bathroom."
"Gotcha, boss!" the four chosen maids chimed, saluting the as-yet unidentified triplet.
"Er, gotcha," agreed Ukyou a beat later, saluting as well. The four made their way to the exit.
"Hey, Chikokusha-san, that's the master's changing room," said one of the maids gently as she saw Ukyou head to where her own clothes were. "Maids change in this room."
"S-Sorry! I'm all out of sorts today!" Ukyou laughed nervously and followed the other members of the party into the servants' (read, maids') changing room.
"You can say that again, Chikokusha-san," quipped another of the maids as she put on her own maid uniform. "Arriving late to the 'master ambush' as you did, you had to be out of sorts."
Ukyou discretely checked the bins, looking for a maid uniform (and underwear) her size. She found one and began putting it on as if it were her own uniform. Fortunately for her, the other maids were too distracted talking to each other and forming plans for them to find 'Ukyou-sama' that they wouldn't notice that Ukyou was putting on clothes that didn't belong to her, even if they knew for a fact that the uniform she was putting on now belonged to some other maid.
"Finished yet, Chikokusha-san?" asked the third maid teasingly. At Ukyou's nod, the maid continued, "Here's how we're going to find Ukyou-sama: We're going
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