"What do you mean, you can’t do this? I keep telling you, this is money!” Cherche grumbled.
“I’m sorry, it just isn’t possible,” the desk manager said.
“Agh!” With that, she walked away, pocketing her gold and the knowledge that converting Valmese gold to yen on this planet was impossible. There was no way she was going to be able to enjoy her time in this town without money. As she huffed through the streets of Littledove Hachiman City she pondered her options: she could steal, as she had to have picked up a little knowledge from Gaius; she could literally kill a man if she had to, although these were innocents; or she could somehow get a job. Whether that job would have to be prostitution, she didn’t know, but any man who even tried to take advantage of her would be tied up, beaten senseless, and then fed to Minerva upon reboarding the Yomi.
A poster, taped to a wall and fluttering against its confines, caught her attention. While her Japanese wasn’t great, she was able to decipher enough of it to realize it was her financial salvation: a group running a cafe for a convention was looking for waitresses. Some of the words had thrown her off, but surely this couldn’t be anything too strange...
The next morning, Cherche found herself baffled when she was handed a maid costume by the boss of the establishment. “This is... frilly.”
“That’s because this is a maid cafe.”
Oh... so that’s what a ‘meido kissa’ was. That explained her difficulty understanding certain areas of the poster. “A... maid cafe, okay.”
“Yes. Now please go and get dressed. We'll be opening shortly.”
“Of course.” With that, she headed toward the impromptu dressing room that had been set up... but before she could begin pondering what working at a maid cafe would even include she saw someone who looked uncannily like that partridge-man on the ship. The only difference seemed to be his height... well, and the smile. She pulled her eyes away after a few moments, but she kept looking back; if this doppelganger was anything like Iwamine Shuu her time at the maid cafe was going to take a level in danger.