There was a hint of self-mockery in her words.
About seven hours after Sakura arrived in Ursus, a farce unfolded.
—The Nobles, who normally lived in luxury, chose to defect rather than bear the taxes they ought to pay, intending to flee with their assets and families.
Fortunately, Miss Sakura was rather skilled at explaining physics.
Thus, under Ursus's unique Great Memory Restoration Technique, the defecting Nobles howled as they handed over their assets, wives and daughters, even their own butts, begging for mercy.
While inventorying the assets, Sakura unexpectedly discovered a woman hidden in a warehouse.
Beautiful, bewildered, and disabled.
It was hard not to think, Could this be some family's toy sent as a gift for me?
With her head full of question marks, Sakura beat up those Nobles again and demanded to know who had come up with using a beautiful woman to seduce her, only to receive a chorus of "I don't know!"
Sakura could only treat her as a female vagrant who had wandered into the warehouse by mistake.
Out of the most basic sense of justice.
Sakura took her in, obtained some new treatment drug from Mobius with an absurdly long name, cured her, and found her a job cooking and cleaning.
Only...
Wasn't this girl a little too incompetent?
As Sakura ate the egg in her instant noodles, she sighed inwardly.
She could not clean properly, and her cooking tasted awful. It felt like she could no longer be kept by Sakura's side and ought to be sent to a factory to screw in bolts.
But considering that the girl before her was as frail as a shut-in girl from Sakura's world, while Ursus workers generally volunteered to work an additional six to eight hours after their eight-hour shifts—
Sakura could not bring