8 The Scarlet Mist EX part 1? (2/2)
”…Yes.” She replied, full opened the door for me.
'Wow, I can even feel the hate toward me from her indifferent tone.'
”Excuse me for intruding.” And finally, I'm inside the Devil Mansion.
-Sakuya POV-
After I guided the guest from the main door, I started taking him towards the main ballroom. I peered out the corner of my eyes, 'This youngster seems like enjoying himself.'
He keeped looking around the hallway even though the only thing he saw was a couple of painting and the occasional passing fairy maid.
”All of the painting so far only have anything to do with the color of red. Is it because Remilia's following some kind of theme?” he asked.
”Yes, mistress likes the color of red, and with that reason she decorated her mansion with something that has correlations to the color of red.”
”Is that also the reason why she calls herself the Scarlet Devil?”
”Yes.”
”Are you sure it's not because part of her name is ”Scarlet”, and that making her have obsession with that color?”
”…No.”
He should feel grateful that he's considered a guest, and mistress told me that they must be protected while touring the mansion.
”…I wonder if she likes the pink color too.”
”…No”
…He really should feel grateful.
-Main Ballroom, SDM-
”This place is so wide!”
He looked amazed by the sheer volume of the ballroom.
The ballroom has wide empty space with the purpose of hosting a great number of guests. There's a podium to the front for the presenter to speak and there's another platform to the side for musicians to play their music, with a piano taking occupancy. The room was well lit with sunlight streaming in from the windows high above.
”I bet this room can hold more than 100 people.”
”To be more specific, it's 154 guests with furniture placement. The number varied according to what kind of guest we are invited; the previous number I mentioned are for human-sized humanoid beings.”
”…that's a roundabout way of saying what a human looks like.”
”I'm sorry, but there's a whole lot of creature that resemble human so there's no need to associate what I said just now to be only human.”
”I see, that make sense.” He nodded understandingly.
He turned to look at the piano on the side. His eyes expressing familiar feeling, like something the mistress eyes would sometimes express, a kind of mischief.
He then turned to look at me.
”Sakuya-san, can I play the piano please?” he pleaded.
”…Mistress said if someone wants to play the piano and they are good then let them be.” I said.
”And if they are playing bad?”
”Punish them for polluting the air.” I said it with a smile.
”…D-don't worry, I play good, you won't be disappointed, ha-haha-haha.” He laughed awkwardly.
”Fufufu.” I laughed as well, but with more finesse.
After that little exchange, I guided him to the Piano, my heels clacking across the marble floor.
”I'm gonna do sound test first with the piano, if you didn't mind.” He alerted me.
”It's okay, I didn't mind.”
As he sits on the piano seat, I prepared a Danmaku knife.
”…Sakuya-san, I still didn't do anything.”
”Don't mind me, don't mind me.” I 'assured' him.
He pressed 2 keys. I prepared 2 more Danmaku knives.
”…Sakuya-san, your confidence in me is outrageously low.”
”What do you mean?” I responded with a smile.
He sighed, ”Whatever, let's do this.”
And finally he started to play.
'Well, I'm surprised. He's actually playing the piano, and the sound it makes; it flows smoothly. Its feels so natural; does he have prior experience with a piano?'
Truthfully, I never had any expectation for this boy, from when he asked if he can play the piano, I felt so happy I could punish him, I already was preparing to throw a knife at him when he started playing the piano.
But I was wrong, I actually impressed with he plays so wonderfully, and the music he played, it somehow reminded me about Remilia-sama.
'…I might have to change my impression about him.'
He played for about two minute, coming to a crescendo, and then an end.
*clap**clap* I clapped at his performance.
”I must say, that was a wonderful performance.”
”Thanks you. By the way the name of the music is ”Septette for the Dead Princess”. It's originally meant to be played with six other performers; it's a shame that you only hear it with 1 instrument.”
”I see, then do you know about ”for the Dead Princess” part?”
”I don't know, I just guessing it's probably because the creator of the music was thinking about his dead wife when he created this music.”
I nodded understandingly, ”Just for curiosity, what did you think when you played that music?” I inquired.
”…What did I think huh?” he started rubbing his chin. ”I probably think about Remilia.”
”…Why?”
”I know she's not dead but it's probably because she's a vampire and she probably happy if she's called Dead Princess because how deadly she sounded like.”
”…Anything else?”
”What? No, nothing else. I think that's just what I think when I played the music.” He claimed.
”I understand, now then, let's continue our tour.”
”All right.” He got up from the chair and started following me.
I continued to guide him through the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
-Me POV-
After a while, I finally realized something.
That time, when Sakuya ask me ”Anything else?”, if I actually give her a 'wrong' answer, she was probably gonna try and skin me alive right there. It's not like she actually can do it, but she probably was gonna try to kill me for it.
I don't wanna be hated by Sakuya; she's THE perfect & elegant maid. Many people like her in the community, including me! In the canon, she originally like 'Vampires be the best, fuck all Humans' and cold all the way through those interaction. She believed she must maintain that cold attitude because she's the servant of a vampire, but when EoSD happened, she witnessed her all-powerful master, Remilia, get defeated by a Human, Reimu, which made her mask crumble, having her gradually become more soft in her interactions. You don't want a girl like that hate you forever in your life.
People also theorized from all the canon information that Remilia true purpose for starting the incident was so that Sakuya could witness her defeat by a human, the shrine maiden, resulting Sakuya to mellow her attitude. Remilia did this because Sakuya was having a hard time to adjust living in Gensokyo, and since they need interaction with the Human to acquire furniture, food ingredients, etc., she needed Sakuya to get over her unwillingness to properly interact with other humans. She-”Arah-san?”
”Y-YES!” I asked, startled.
I looked in front of me and what I saw in my eyes was a woman with silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face, green bows decorating the ends and a white maid headband. She sported a pink/white and dark blue French maid's outfit with an apron, short sleeves and a green ribbon.
She tilted her head, showing confusion about my reaction just now.
”Are you already tired from all that walking? If so then we can take a break from the touring.” She offered.
”No, I'm just daydreaming a bit; I can still keep going.”
”Are you sure? A boy of your age tends to be reckless.”
”I'm okay; I'm already 15 years old after all.”
”Oh my, that's too young, we really should rest for now.”
…too young? Sakuya-san, I know you stop your aging and freeze your body to stay looks like 20-ish years old, but how old actually are you? 50+ years old? 100+ years old? 200+ years old?
”Arah-san, why do I have a feeling you are thinking something rude?”
Women's intuition is scary boys!
”I-it must be just your imagination Sakuya-san, because there's no way I could think something rude about such a beauty.”
”Hm, I have my suspicion ever since the first time we met in Hakurei's house, but it's finally appeared, your philanderer attitude that is. Just so you know, I only belong to mistress, so please keep your flattery to yourself.” She said it with a slight curtsy.
WHAT MY IMAGE HAS BECOME! I FUCKED UP ONCE AND THIS IS WHAT I GET?! THERE GOES MY CHANCE WITH ANY OF TOUHOU CAST!
I must quickly change the topic.
”S-speaking of your master, where's Remilia? I haven't seen her for a while even though I'm in her mansion.” I hurriedly asked.
”Remilia-sama? This morning mistress decided to visit the Hakurei shrine, if things are going smoothly then the mistress is in the Hakurei's house.”
”To Reimu's house? In the day? Alone?”
”Yes, I planned to accompany mistress to the shrine but she convinced me to stay put in the mansion. As for the daylight, she has her parasol to cover herself from the sun.”
…Remilia going alone to Hakurei Shrine.
*Rumble*
We looked toward the window; it's raining outside.
”Rain? I hope mistress is okay.”
Sakuya walked toward the window and she gazed out at the rain through it.
”…Only the mansion area is having rain pour down on it?”
…Only SDM to has rain suddenly.
”Don't tell me,” Sakuya thinking for a while, and then look back at me. ”Arah-san, I'm sorry but the tour need to be stopped for now. I suggest you go out the mansion through this window, and head straight back to the Human Village.”
She bowed deeply to me.
”Once again I am sorry, this is an emergency situation, please go back immediately.”
She then disappeared before my eyes.
*Rumble**Rumble*
The rumble of the blackened sky and the sound of water drop from the rain filled the air.
…Don't tell me right now is that time.
*Ding*
[Quest Alert]
[5* The Rainbow Vampire]
[Play with Flandre]
*KA-BOOM*
Thunder sound roaring in my ears as I read the quest message.
”…What?”
Editor note:
As per author's request, I shall now leave the Author's note unedited
Author note:
I'M VERY SORRY FOR THE LATENESS! DOGEZA-ING TO THE GROUND!
I have my reason for this lateness, actually 4 days ago my religion, muslim, have a holiday, so I kinda stop writing for 2 days, and when I'm starting to write again, the mood isn't there yet, so I spend 2 more days to get back into writing mood again. That's it the reason for my lateness, I guess.
And then for releasing the chapter, min. 1 chapter per week and max.2 chapter per weeks, that's it, it become more difficult to write as the story keep going, so that's how much I can do with my skill alone. As for the edited version, you guys need to wait for several days for it to be finished, I guess. My editor usually work fast to fix my mistake.
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