But then…
“Gyaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!”
Now she heard Agnese’s scream coming from outside the dining hall.
“Agh! If it’s not one thing, it’s another!!”
Kanzaki stood up and ran out of the dining hall.
She didn’t know exactly where the scream had come from, but she knew the general direction, so she intently ran down the hallway.
She spotted Agnese Sanctis sitting on the floor outside the changing room.
As Kanzaki approached, Agnese pointed towards the changing room while still sitting down.
“Th-the washing machine… The washing machine…”
An unpleasant noise came from Kanzaki’s temple when she heard Agnese’s broken up words.
It was that washing machine again.
It had caused a problem before breakfast and now it was causing another one before the previous one could be dealt with.
Her head was full of thoughts on the war and people saying she had fallen in love and now it was the washing machine again.
(Is that thing really some detestable high-tech AI spy sent by Academy City!? I can’t imagine it would cause this many problems otherwise!!)
Kanzaki entered the changing room with enough intensity that she felt she would simply chop the thing in two with Shichiten Shichitou if it caused any more problems.
The bath was a large type that was rarely seen in the West and the changing room was large as well. She knew the washing machine should be in a corner of the changing room along with a scale.
She turned her gaze in that direction.
Academy City’s useless piece of trash of a washing machine that had taken the color out of her yukata’s obi and malfunctioned while washing a futon was…
Making a loud washing noise.
It was properly washing the futon that had been stuffed inside it.
“Wha-…?”
Kanzaki had trouble breathing.
The washing machine was sold as being quiet, so it was irregular for it to be making this much noise. That meant that it was forcing itself to move. It was over its designed maximum load and had been ordered to go through an operation far from its normal operating environment. Even so, it had endured and endured and endured and was finally carrying out its task of washing an entire futon.
(Amazing…)
All strength left Kanzaki’s body and she fell to her knees on the changing room floor.
Her feelings of anger had turned to ones of raging embarrassment.
(I was just reflecting on my own immaturity, and now this…)
That washing machine had had a giant futon there was no way it could wash stuffed inside of it, had nevertheless had its switch turned on, and had Kanzaki give up on it and leave. And yet it had been working on its own the entire time since. It had endured the pain and suffering continuing to do what it should and it had finally accomplished its supposedly impossible task. And yet she had been about ready to cut it in two…
The washing machine said nothing.
Its AI had no conversation functionality, so that was obvious.
But Kanzaki Kaori heard it nonetheless.
She heard the voice of the washing machine.
“Kanzaki-san. I did it.”
“~ ~ ~ ~!!”
Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
No words came to her. She merely threw Shichiten Shichitou aside and embraced the square body of the washing machine like it was a long-lost family member.