Chapter 3: How Did I Become a Tactical Maid?!

“So bright… What a nice day. Did I just wake up from a nap?”

Ye Wenyu, woken by the morning sun, rubbed her long-lashed eyes, sat up, and took off the VR headset resting on her snow-white hair.

“Oh no, oh no! I didn’t go out all night. If Mother asks what I did last night, what do I do? If she searches my room, she’ll find out my gaming secret, and even that I’m Esoia will be exposed. What do I do?”

With that thought, Ye Wenyu scrambled off the bed. Her pale feet in black stockings slipped into the women’s shoes beside the bed. Still half-asleep, she walked to the mirror and stared at the white-haired, blazing-eyed maid reflected there, a huge question mark in her mind.

“This is… Esoia? Wait! Esoia! What’s going on with me?”

Shocked, Ye Wenyu sat on the floor with her legs splayed outward. Her slender arms, wrists tied with white bows, propped up her body. She had unconsciously assumed a pitiful W-sitting pose that stirred protective instincts.

She looked down at herself. A cute maid dress with a stand-up collar, white on the outside and black underneath, met her eyes. There was also the jade-like fullness that nearly blocked her view, and in the mirror, a delicate, pitiful face and a body with curves outlined by the tight clothes. Wasn’t this her in-game avatar, the “White-Haired, Blazing-Eyed Maid: Esoia”?

“Wait, this must be my imagination! Right! All of this is an illusion!”

Forcing herself to believe it was all fake, Ye Wenyu nervously slipped her slender hands, framed by wide black ruffled sleeves, under her skirt to check whether something important was still there.

‘It was gone. Flat.’

‘The little brother that had been with her for seventeen years was no more.’

“Is this… real? I’ve become Esoia? No way. Unbelievable!”

Ye Wenyu stood up and carefully examined herself from head to toe in the mirror. She skillfully smoothed her messy snow-white long hair and slightly adjusted the large black silk bow at her chest, as if she had always been like this.

The slightly frail young man from before could no longer be seen. In his place was an elegant, dignified white-haired, blazing-eyed maid girl.

“If I’m Esoia now, then my guns should still be here, right?”

Following her memory from the game, Ye Wenyu felt under her skirt. Sure enough, the two pistol holsters strapped to her black silk garter stockings were still there. The pistol magazine pouches hidden at her waist were also there, and not a single magazine was missing.

Holding the tactical M1911s, Ye Wenyu carefully pulled back the slides to check both pistols. The bullets were full, the guns worked normally, and using them shouldn’t be a problem.

“If this is real, can my storage still be used?”

At that thought, Ye Wenyu excitedly opened the system page the way she did in the game. Just like in the game world, the system menu opened, and the storage was accessible. Her favorite tactical AK74M should also be retrievable and usable.

Ye Wenyu pressed the retrieve button. An AK74M, just like in the game, appeared in her hands after a flash of quantum reassembly.

“This works too? That’s pretty good. I can play with big guns in the real world. Even if I’ve become a girl, it doesn’t matter! But… how do I explain this to Father and Mother? This is a big problem. Though, come to think of it, why did no one wake me up? I didn’t come out all night…”

“Help! Someone save us! Zombies!”

Just as Ye Wenyu was thinking about how to explain things to her parents, a cry for help suddenly came from outside. It sounded like the person was in serious danger.

“That’s Ruoyu’s voice. Ruoyu is in danger… She’s at the front door. I’m on my way!”

Recognizing it as her little sister’s voice, Ye Wenyu immediately pushed open the door, stretched her black-stockinged legs, and ran toward the sound.

****

On the road by the front door, dozens of zombies were staggering and lurching toward Ye Ruoyu and her mother.

Earlier, because Ye Wenyu hadn’t come to see Ye Ruoyu all night, Ruoyu had been a little angry and didn’t wake Ye Wenyu. Their mother knew what Ruoyu was thinking and also wanted to teach Ye Wenyu a lesson, so she didn’t wake this “brother” either.

But just as they stepped outside downstairs, dozens of zombies had appeared on the street at some point, and they had spotted them.

As a viewer of the BOD game, Ye Ruoyu recognized at a glance that these zombies were the E.I.L.D. (radiation infected) from the BOD PvE game, the so-called “bio-zombies”. But why had they appeared in the real world today, and right in front of her?

Ye Wenyu and Ye Ruoyu’s mother had also served in the military. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have ended up with their father, the military district commander.

Faced with this unbelievable situation, their mother, a former soldier, resolutely grabbed a broom from the roadside. As a mother, she bravely protected her child, constantly pushing back the zombies that surged forward. But although there weren’t many, there were still dozens of them. Soon Ruoyu and her mother were cornered.

“Stay away from my daughter! You damned zombies! Stay away from me and my daughter!”

Their mother used all her strength to push the zombies away, but her strength alone was too little. Not only did the zombies not budge, but the broom in her hands was also swept away by them.

“No! No!”

Ye Ruoyu hid behind her mother, crying helplessly. If she had gone to wake her brother this morning, maybe he would have had a way. Yes! If her brother “he” were here, he would definitely have a way.

A roar!

The surging zombies let out terrifying low roars. Their mother, pressed against the wall, still used her last strength to resist the zombies’ advance. But her arms could no longer hold them back. So she simply crouched down, back to the zombies, and wrapped her arms around Ruoyu, trying to shield her with her own body from the zombies’ bites.

“Mom, you…”

“No more talking, Ruoyu. You and Wenyu are both my good daughter and good son. Please, you must live on for me…”

“Mom… hic… don’t be like this, Mom… don’t…” Ruoyu sobbed in her mother’s arms. “Is anyone there? Please save us…”

“Of course there is! How could there be no one?”

A female voice, both familiar and strange to Ruoyu, came from outside the zombie crowd. Then a burst of gunfire rang out. If Ruoyu heard correctly, it was the sound of an AK74M.

When the gunfire stopped, their mother and Ruoyu looked toward where the zombies had been. All the zombies were dead, and it was as if they had been wiped out by someone using an aimbot. Every one had been shot in the head.

Behind the zombie corpses, an elegant girl in a white maid dress was holding an AK74M. Wearing shiny little leather shoes, she stepped over the zombies’ bodies and walked over, finally stopping in front of them.

“Mother, little sister, are you all right? I’m a bit late. I couldn’t find the keys right away, so I was delayed. I’m truly sorry.”

After saying that, Ye Wenyu lifted the hem of her maid dress, which barely reached above her knees, and made an elegant maid’s bow to apologize.

“Who are you? Put the gun down first. I’m not afraid of you.”

Their mother positioned herself in front of Ruoyu, clearly not recognizing Ye Wenyu. But Ye Wenyu was understanding and noticed this.

So she put the AK’s safety on, held the gun with her right hand, and rested her small left hand on her snow-white cheek, looking at them with a maid-like smile.

“Me? No way, Mother. You can’t even recognize me? That really hurts me.”

“You are… Wenyu? How did you become like this? And… why do you look so familiar?”

Their mother looked at the maid girl in front of her, greatly shocked and utterly confused. Although she looked far too different from her son, she still recognized her as her eldest child. More accurately, her eldest daughter now.

Still, having such an elegant and charming daughter didn’t seem bad. Hearing her call her “Mother” was so pleasant. She really wanted her to serve her… No! She is my eldest daughter. How could I think that?

“Bro… Sister, this look of yours is…” Ruoyu suddenly realized. “Sister, aren’t you the ‘White-Haired, Blazing-Eyed Maid: Esoia’? Even though my brother is gone, a maid sister is nice too!”

Ruoyu threw herself onto Ye Wenyu’s soft maid dress, wrapped her arms around her waist, and rubbed her face against her.

“All right, all right! My cutest little sister, no more of that.” Ye Wenyu crouched down and gently wiped the dust from Ruoyu’s face with a handkerchief. “Don’t be scared. Your sister is here. No need to be afraid. By the way, Mother, it seems the world has changed a lot starting today. It’s best not to go out for now. Let’s go home first. Once Father returns, we can discuss what to do next.”

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