A/N - Happy Halloween! What sorts of spooky things will the gang get into in their maid cafè? (Characters belong to Internet Corporation and Crypton Future Media.)
Len's face was flushed so red that Rin almost couldn't recognize her brother. It was almost Halloween and the crew was working a hard nighttime shift in full gear. Everybody was dressed up for Halloween with animal accessories over their maid outfits. Len was…a cat. Now, he didn't want to be a cat. But he had no choice. It was Halloween and everybody was dressed up as something. Something different. Rin wanted Len to be the cat because he was cutest or something. Len sighed, but had to end up resigning to his fate. He was working behind the counter with the other girls, which would have been fine, if his sister hadn't made him wear a shock collar that was connected to his arm movements. It read the movements of his arms and shocked him whenever he attempted to take off the cat accessories or the dress. Rin did it because she was trying to think of a way for Len to be able to help behind the counter without taking off the dress. She figured a shock collar was the only option. Unfortunately, the collar was programmed badly, so whenever Len tried to rub his arm, only recently out of the cast, it gave him a zap. So it was no surprise Len was angry that night. He was tired and sick of being ruthlessly zapped. As much as he pleaded with his sister to let him take the collar off, she refused. Len figured that she didn't trust him. That made him kind of mad. When your own sister doesn't trust you, who does? Another problem was the fact that it was midnight. Usually, Len was asleep at midnight. Usually, Len was allowed off his stupid maid job by dinner time. This Halloween "festivitity", as the girls called it, was just torture to Len.
But he repented and just sat there waiting. It was a very quiet night. Rin was dressed as a bunny, so to amuse him, she was hopping around trying to entertain him. Miku was a fox, so she was prowling around making fox noises, trying to make him giggle. Len sighed. It was obvious to him Miku thought he was kind of cute, but he didn't care. He wasn't interested. He was also trying to ignore Luka the bird and Gumi the raccoon, running around like madwoman, just trying to help him crack a smile so he had some enthusiasm for when the customers started coming in. Len was positive nobody was going to be coming in, and he was pretty much correct. Until about thirty minutes in. Then something happened.
A dark hooded man came in the room and asked for a big basket of pumpkin pastries. Len glanced at the girls and saw them immediately change tone and get to it. They started making the seasonal pastries without a care in the world. They seemed completely unaware that it was a kind of a shady man standing before them. As the girls bustled around doing their favorite thing ever, Len climbed over the counter. He yanked back the man's hood and the first thing he noticed were the eyes. They just kind of burned into him. The man was young and didn't seem super dangerous after seeing his face. He looked normal. It was just those eyes. Those super burning eyes. The man looked at Len and said, "Hi. You're cute. Wanna see something cool?"
Len stared at him. "No!" he said cautiously. "I don't like cool things. I like trash. And puppies!"
The man didn't believe this lie and grabbed at him. Len jerked and kicked him in the face, suddenly grateful for the hard bottoms of the maid shoes. The man jerked back and flung himself at the counter. Len scrambled to his feet and started beating him up, trying to not cry as he did so. It was very scary and amplified by the fact that the girls didn't seem to care. The man grabbed a carton of six large raw eggs and the threw them straight into Len's face. Len gasped and managed to throw the predator out before he could take him away.
Eventually, the girls noticed their customer wasn't around anymore, so they decided to pass around the pumpkin pastries and eat them themselves. Len was still trying to shake everything off and he had no idea how many times he got zapped during the strange attack. He was still trying to get the egg off as the girls happily chatted, so he just adjourned to the bathroom and sighed as he washed off, staring at himself in the mirror. He couldn't help but wonder. If the girls cared more about having customers than keeping him and themselves safe from potential pretadors, then was the cafè even safe anymore? Would he have to take over somehow? He didn't want to, but part of him knew it could be necessary, especially in the October months, if the girls didn't step up their game. He didn't want to be the one to pay for their incompetence. He didn't want that at all.
A/N - What do you think Len's gonna do? Can he get the girls to listen, or will his efforts of trying to fix their security issues be just as lost as his sanity?