Maid Returns

10: Permission

[Narrator]

Victoria Bus Terminal

      Later on, Parfait and Pearl goes to the bus terminal to get bus tickets to Provence. Afterwards, they get inside the bus and the travel starts. While traveling...

Parfait: is there a place to stay for Lun and Muffin?

Pearl: Yes, we have agents quarters inside the agency

Parfait: how does it look like?

Pearl: it's a white room with bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. We can see the Victoria proper from the bedroom

Parfait: that's cool! I want see your room when we get back there

Pearl: sure!

     then Parfait begins to think of what to say to her parents....

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Late Afternoon, House of Neapolitan, Provence

    Parfait and Pearl go inside the house and they see Reuben and Apricot.

Parfait: I'm back!!

Apricot: Parfait, I can see that you're going to tell something

Parfait: mother, father, can I go with Pearl and Muffin in the overseas trip?

Apricot: overseas trip? where?

Parfait: in Seraphine

Apricot: Seraphine? ... okay!

Reuben: when are you going?

Pearl: tomorrow Sir

Apricot: it is all sudden but it's okay, we'll allow Parfait to go with you

Parfait: really?

Reuben: you've been working for several months since you returned here, you need a break

    Hero goes inside their house

Apricot: Hero, you're here

Hero: Parfait, Pearl, where's Lun and Muffin?

Pearl: they're in Victoria

Parfait: Hero, can I go with Muffin and Pearl in Tokyo ... in Seraphine?

Hero: Seraphine?

Pearl,Parfait: yes, we will go there for vacation

Hero: vacation? or mission?

     Pearl and Parfait glare at him

Pearl: what mission? we're going there to relax, to free ourselves from work ... *sigh

Hero: you're going to have a break, while Lun is feeling down because of the incident?

Pearl: Lun let us push through the vacation no matter what happened, and we have reserved airline tickets

Hero: oh really?

    Hero begins to feel suspicious about this two...

Parfait: it's for a short time, after that, I'll go back here

Pearl: and by the way Mr and Mrs Neapolitan, we'll go first to Victoria, then we'll fly to Seraphine

Apricot: really?

Pearl: Yes Mrs Apricot, we'll go to Victoria immediately

Apricot: after this? ... wait, I'll cook supper for your trip

     Apricot starts to cook for supper. After that, Pearl and Parfait bade Apricot, Reuben and Hero goodbye.

[Parfait]

    I start crying when the bus goes out from the terminal. I'm crying because I'll leave the ones I love and because of guilt. I didn't tell them that I'm going back to the job that almost killed me. Being a princess-maid is a very risky job, especially when you're going to face the evil people who will threaten the princess' life...

Parfait: Pearl, have you encountered bad guys before I became a maid of Princess Vallerine?

Pearl: Yes. 3 years ago, those Cyphrean jerks surprised attack us in our old secret house in Victoria, one of them almost stabbed me. Good thing the police helped us and they arrrested them. There is also one time in the Amaranth University, the Sephoran syndicate attempted to kidnap Sara but I was able rescue her.

      Author's Note: Cyphreans - people of Cyphrea, their army is crazy ; Sephoran syndicate - those stupid men from Sephora who want to steal the money of the rich ladies ; Amaranth University - the premier institution in Victoria where Parfait and Sara graduated there.

     Based on what I've read from the princess-maid agents' diaries, there is always an entry that 'that incident almost killed me' but setting the negativity aside, being a princess-maid is a very noble and enjoying job.

     After 3 hours of travel, I see the beauty of the Victoria night and then we go straight to the princess-maids dorm