“Pfft… That’s the name? Hah, it has a certain similarity to my online handle from my previous life.”
Looking at the name ‘Street Wild Wolf,’ Akiba Sakura couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckle softly.
She then tapped the ‘Add Friend’ button.
She was just testing the feature, so she didn’t care about the other person’s personality or whether their looks suited her taste.
It was simply about adding a friend.
“Next…”
After adding ‘Street Wild Wolf,’ Akiba Sakura didn’t plan to just wait for the other party to accept the request.
Instead, she decided to explore the functions of ‘O-Wei’ herself.
“Nickname, security, privacy, feed, mini-games…”
After roughly browsing through all the functions of ‘O-Wei,’ Sakura felt the most important thing right now was to establish an online identity for herself.
After all, online personas are what you make them.
But then Sakura reconsidered.
Since she and Yellow Hair would likely meet in the future, this identity needed to be solid.
‘Something like the young lady of the Qiu Ye family definitely won’t work. And the identity needs to be completely separate from reality.’
Sakura also considered that she might add acquaintances in the future.
To avoid them recognizing this account as one she used to ‘fish for guys,’ the ‘new identity’ she created for herself had to be completely different from her usual self.
Ideally, it should involve some role-playing that would make her unrecognizable at first glance.
The thought of role-playing reminded Sakura of those online influencers and video streamers who do cosplay photoshoots.
However, Sakura had basically zero experience with that kind of work.
Even with her good natural looks, she lacked professional equipment.
Who knew how far she’d have to go to set things up by herself.
‘Better to find a part-time job.’
After much thought, Sakura decided finding a related part-time job was more reliable.
Sakura closed ‘O-Wei’ and opened a map app, swiping around.
Since earlier, she had been thinking about what Momoka Aoi mentioned this morning—about her friend wearing a mascot costume at the amusement park.
So now, she wanted to find a similar place.
But then she thought, wearing a mascot costume in this sweltering heat would just be asking for trouble.
Right now, she just wanted to establish a completely different identity and, on the side, earn a little extra for her private savings.
“A maid cafe?”
Just then, Sakura’s swiping finger stopped because she saw a maid cafe called ‘Soft Cat Cafe.’
“Cat ears and maids? An interesting combination…”
Sakura tapped to preview the shop, seeing the interior and noticing that every maid there wore cat ears.
“Maybe…”
Looking at the preview pictures and the location, which wasn’t too far from her house, Sakura felt a strange little flutter of excitement in her heart.
Working at this maid cafe, dressed as a maid, perfectly met her requirements.
First, the identity would be completely separate from reality.
Second, dressed up, acquaintances wouldn’t recognize her.
Third, it would definitely supplement her little savings.
And the fourth, most important point—Yellow Hair was a guy, and few boys could resist the impact of a maid.
“It looks pretty legitimate, and they happen to be hiring. Should I give it a try?”
Sakura carefully looked through the provided preview pictures, then searched for this maid cafe on a browser.
Finding that it was indeed hiring and had very high overall ratings, she decided she wanted to try.
So, she directly tapped on the maid cafe’s recruitment information.
“Conveniently, they left an O-Wei ID as the contact…”
Sakura memorized the ‘O-Wei’ ID listed, opened ‘O-Wei,’ entered the ID from the ‘Soft Cat Cafe’ recruitment ad, tapped add, and was instantly accepted.
“Street Wild Wolf, look at this! Accepted right away. And you, you little punk, still haven’t tapped accept.”
Sakura couldn’t hold back her sarcastic remarks about the still-unconfirmed “Street Wild Wolf.”
“Beep beep~”
Just then, her phone made a notification sound, and a message pop-up showed that ‘Soft Cat Cafe’ had replied.
Sakura hurriedly tapped open the newly added ‘Soft Cat Cafe’ official account and saw they had sent a ‘Hello.’
‘Hello!’
Sakura quickly replied with a ‘Hello’ and asked the question she cared about most.
‘Is the cafe still hiring new people?’
‘Yes, we are.’
The other party replied very quickly.
‘What position are you interested in applying for? Dishwasher or cleaner?’
‘I’d like to apply for the maid position!’
After Sakura sent this message, the other party quickly initiated a voice call request.
“? “
‘Why do we need a voice chat? That’s strange…’
But Sakura decided to accept the voice call to hear what the other person wanted to say.
“Hello?”
As soon as Sakura tapped accept, a lively and pleasant female voice came through.
“Hello!”
Sakura hurriedly replied.
“…Ah! Hello, I’m the manager of ‘Soft Cat Cafe.’ Are you applying to be a maid server at our shop, right?”
The other person was clearly also surprised by Sakura’s equally soft and pleasant voice.
“Yes, yes.”
Sakura quickly nodded in response.
“Our shop is quite short on maid servers lately, so it’s really great that you’re applying! Let me briefly explain the recruitment requirements first!”
“Okay.”
“Our shop’s recruitment requirements are—first, age must be between 18 and 30, in good health, with a good image and temperament, a gentle personality, and a love for small animals; outgoing, enthusiastic, attentive, friendly, with strong communication skills, a team spirit, a sense of responsibility, and service awareness… Those with relevant industry work experience or English conversation skills for restaurant service will be prioritized.”
After the other person finished listing the requirements in one breath, Sakura internally groaned.
‘Ruined.’
She didn’t expect to be tripped up by the very first requirement.
“Um… that… would 16 be okay?”
Sakura stammered as she inquired.
“Ah?”
Hearing that Sakura was a minor, the other person immediately responded, “No, that’s not possible, little sister. Our shop doesn’t…”
“Um, can we do a video call?”
At that moment, Sakura suddenly interrupted the other person and directly suggested a video chat.
“…?”
This was something the other person hadn’t expected.
The manager of ‘Soft Cat Cafe’ was silent for a moment, then exited the voice chat.
‘Failed?’
Seeing the other person directly leave the voice chat, Sakura thought it was all over.
But the next second—a video call request came from the other party.
Sakura hurriedly tapped to accept.
The phone screen first showed a young woman with long, straight black hair.
She looked to be between 18 and 24 years old.
Her hair wasn’t that stiff, artificially smoothed kind, but soft, fluffy, and with excellent drape—jet-black and straight, falling from her shoulders down to her waist.
A few stray strands gently brushed against her smooth forehead.
“Hello? Can you see me? Turn on your camera!”
The young woman on the screen first looked at this side with a puzzled expression, then reminded Sakura to quickly turn on her camera.
“Oh? Oh!”
Only then did Sakura realize she hadn’t turned on her camera and hurriedly tapped to do so.
“Manager, nice to meet you. My name is Akiba Sakura!”