25 Final Day of Extreme Not-So-Ordinary Ordinary Day (1/2)
-The Final Day-
-Morning, Akyuu's Mansion-
-Me POV-
”…Arah-San, are going out for work?”
”Nah, I feel like staying in the mansion for today.”
I'm currently in the Mansion Main Room, it's the room where Akyuu use to read and write some stuff, me and her sit just like when we eat, and the thing is I refused to go out because I'm afraid of what happened yesterday, which probably happened again today.
”T-the magicians might be mad if you didn't collect ingredient for them, you know.”
”All of them are nice girls; they are not that selfish enough to getting mad over something like that and I just gave them their stuff yesterday, they'll be happy for a while.”
I've been thinking, I think I was overreacting with Yuuka yesterday, and because of it, Yuuka decided to 'tease' me for it, if I just turn around and act 'normal', albeit scared but still acting 'normal', that 'fun time' with Yuuka might be never happened and she will let me go with no further question asked, probably. But that was already in the past, and it's unhealthy if you keep thinking about it.
”…T-There might a good chance for a rare ingredient if you harvest them today.”
”I don't think I'll encounter any rare ingredient in my usual route, and all the ingredient that I collect are common enough to be gathered every day.”
About collecting those things, it's not about how rare the ingredient is, but it's actually about 'can you withstand the hours of onslaught from the local bloodthirsty yet weak Youkai that lives in the mountain', I could do it because I like stomping down the weakling, that's the main reason why I like Dynasty Warrior kind of game.
”…T-then…then…”
I look at Akyuu with a smile, not the happy kind.
”I-if you come back until evening, I p-promise you will be happy, Arah-san.”
My expression froze.
'…Sonofabitch, is she also going weird for today? Fucking hell, but more importantly, I gotta get out before this is conversation got any worse.' I thought in a hurry. ”…I see, if that's the case then it can't be helped.”
I start getting up while hiding my reluctant feeling.
”I'll be back in the evening.”
I pat Akyuu head before I leave the room.
-Akyuu POV-
I look at where Arah left a couple seconds ago, making sure he's not suddenly coming back to this room.
'The more I think about he's leaving, the more my chest starting to hurt, and these recent days somehow it became more unbearable, I look back at the book to my left, the book from outside world that I borrowed from Suzunaan recently.'
I read the title.
'Strategy to Make Sure Your Beloved Happier When He's With You '
'He's not my b-beloved or anything! He's just…he's just…I don't know, I don't know if he's just a family to me, or a beloved to me, or anything else. This feeling is very new to me, and I don't know what to make of it, even if I search something similar from the past Miarees, even if I remember all their memory, all of them are individually different people, different but the same at the same time, all of us keep memories from previous generation, all of us have fragile body and we're all leaving this world early because of it, all of us make a choice to limit any relationship to only as a friend, and this feeling make that choice to waver.'
I continued to read where I left off.
”'After he comes back from work in the evening, you need to' *mumble* 'and then you need to day' *mumble* 'and t-t-then he will gonna say' *mumble-mumble*, so l-lewd, I-is this what popular in the outside world?”
My face starts to feel hot.
”For my feeling, I need to continue the instruction, 'and when both of you *mumble* then he will start *gasp*, k-k-keep reading it Akyuu, it's all for my feeling, for my feeling, for my feeling.”
I keep reading the book while the servants start giggling in the background.
-Human Village-
-Me POV-
'If you're kicked out by a girl and she told you to come back in the evening, where would you go?'
I keep wondering that question while walking around the village, if someone asking question like that, of course the general answer for that is 'go to work', but my mood for that kind of stuff today is pretty 'meh' for obvious reason, so…yeah…
I keep walking until I arrive at the cross road between two different location in my mind, Hakurei Shrine and SDM, and speaking of Hakurei.
”Yo, Reimu, good morning”
I sense Reimu coming from the direction from her shrine, and then I decided to say hi to her.
”Good morning to you too, you're going to work right now?”
”Well, I decided to take it easy today and because of that, I start thinking about other location that's less crowded than the usual, how about you then? It's rare that you're going down to the village, is something happen?”
Reimu only going to the village if there's something going on recently, usually she's just being lazing around all day in her home.
I sense she nodded her head, ”I read the Tengu newspaper this morning, they said that there was a battle between a Human and a Youkai in the village yesterday, they have the nerves to fight in here, I'm going to ask several witness of that battle to start identifying those two, how dare them to start fighting openly in the village, now I have to work to lessen the villager fear from that fight.”
'Okay, operation 'Get the fuck out of here' is a go, and let's hopes she doesn't realize that it was me she's looking for. 'I hopefully thought ”So, is that means you'll patrol the village today?”
”Yep”
”I see.” I look at my imaginary watch. ”Oh look at the time, I just decided where do I want to go now, good luck with what you're doing Reimu, bye.” I waved before I walked away from her.
”You too Arah, stay safe” I sense she waves back at me, but before I left, I heard she whisper something. ”…really blind?”
I won't blame her if she start having that though, after all, my condition is questionable if I claimed to be blind, have a prove that I'm blind, but then I act like I'm not blind at all. It gave of an impression that I'm fucking with them.
'It can't be helped because I really do can see using other than my eyes, and did she really believe that I have a watch? In the first place, do Gensokyo has a watch? Or she just assume that I have something that tell time hence why she ask if I'm really blind or not, huh, curious.'
-SDM, Mansion Gate-
'Oh wow, the system really going full force for today.'
”Hey, pervert-san! Over here!”
I finally arrived at SDM, but then I sense 2 magic signature up ahead, I remember one of them to be Meiling but I remember and not remember who I'm sensing, so I opened my eyes to check, and guess whose status did I saw.
”Hey! Hey! Let's play!”
It's Koishi.
”Nope” I turn around.
*ding*
[Quest Alert]
[2* Get into the Mansion]
'Sonoftabitch, and why is it 2 stars difficulties even though the name of the quest is that simple…Oh…Oooh…Oh, no'
I turn back to the Mansion direction; I inhale some air and preparing to shout.
”HEY MEILING, HOW'S IT GOING OVER THERE?!”
…Silent, she didn't response.
'…She's sleeping, great, an unconscious sleeping martial artist and someone that can control subconscious, what a great combination, there's no way thing could go wrong after that.'
”She said she's okay! Isn't that right, China-san?”
'Koishi please, I don't want to start that meme in here.'
I lazily walk to the gate.
'Should I cheat? Let's just cheat; this is not Danmaku battle anyway.'
I grab and eat 2 of my boosting pills from my pouch.
I feel my body and mind turn more powerful by the second, I start upping my energy pulses.
I didn't even surprise that I sense Meiling suddenly start doing her fighting stance on my direction.
I also start readying myself.
”Come'on! Last time I was seeing in 5 fps but I've change, its 30 fps now!!”
Arms spread out, both palms open, ready to catch anything.
”China-san Go!”
”She's not a dog!”
Meiling start attacking, she start with a jump kick, which is perfect.
Using Though Acceleration, I perfectly catch her feet that Meiling uses to kick, and throw her to the direction behind me, hard, really hard, and really far, assisted by Telekinesis of course.
”Fuh, thank goodness, she opened up with a flying kick.”
”That's cheating!”
I look at Koishi.
”Now why are you here young lady?” I put my hands on my hip.
My chest starts to warm up. 'Okay, wrong attitude and probably wrong word too.'
”Because Underground is just too boring! I want to play with anyone! Our pets are just too boring and anyone else just too busy or drunk to play with!” she replied with frustrated tone.
'…She's serious about this isn't she? And that 'No one to play with' excuse, is that some kind of new disease name that spreading around EX boss or something? Oh well, YOLO.' I think. ”No one want to play with is it? Then how about we go in inside this Mansion, I know someone who loved to play with you.” I said confidently.
”Really?!”
”Yup.”
The heat in my chest disappeared.
I opened the right gate with Telekinesis, Remilia use double gate, you see.
”Follow me.” I said while gesturing Koishi to follow me through the gate.
I sense she disappeared and reappear pass the left gate.
”…Or you could do that, which works too.”
”I am awesome!”
”Yes, yes, Koishi-chan is awesome.” I replied nonchalantly. 'But it's the truth, every people that I saw that have question mark for their level; they have bullshit type of power. And I need to remind myself to pick Teleportation after this Blindness, after all I don't want to miscalculate my mind map-based jump and ended up stuck in a Tree or something.'
We start walking into the mansion entrance door.
-SDM, Entrance Door Room-
*ding*
[2* Get into the Mansion - Complete]
[Reward: 5.000 AP & IP]
”..”
We just stand there, by the entrance door, with no one to welcome us.
'…Usually Sakuya already arrived in just 3 second flat after I opened the door, and no, I'm not being delusional, she always appear even though she mock me after that.' I think. ”..Did something happen?”
Suddenly a magic signature appears in front of us, and I recognize it.
”Ah, there you are Sakuya-san; I thought you wouldn't come meet us for a second there, literally.”
”It was just a request that I required to do after I confirmed that it was you who arrived and knowing you, you probably wouldn't mind the delay.”
”Yeah, you're right, I didn't mind it, so, what request?”
”Both of them personally said that I do not speak their name until they are arrived.”
”Both?”
”Yes, and I see that you finally opted to kidnap a girl to satisfy your need.”
”Satisfied Pervert-san need!”
”Hm, unexpectedly she recognized her own situation.”
'…I regretted myself for missing her a few seconds ago.' I think depressingly. ”*sigh* I'll explain it after she's out of your vision, Sakuya-san.”
”Out of my vision?”
I nodded.
”!!” I whipped my head to the left; I sense something from that direction.
Something that pouring out densely powerful energy and something that's weaker than the first one but still powerful nonetheless.
”Sakuya-san…”
They're coming closer to our location at ridiculous speed.
”…Sakuya-san…”
One of them suddenly has an increased of speed.
”…Is that-” Sakuya suddenly backing away a feet away from me. ”SO IT REALLY IS THEM!”
I hear a girl voice in the distance from where I sense that unknown thing.
”aaaaaaaarrraaaaAAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNIIIII--”
It's Flandre.
Using Though Acceleration again, I'm start doing water bending move (which is just pseudo-ing the movement because I don't know the correct way to do it) or should I say Vector Change her 'charge' and directing her to the right hallway.
”-SAAAAAAAAANNNNNnnnnnnn…”
She keeps 'charging' the hall.
I read somewhere that the technique in water bending is a technique on counter attacking, so it fit the context that I rerouting Flandre 'attack'.
”Fuh, I dodge certain death there.” I swipe my imaginary sweet.
”That was unexpected; I didn't know you known Tai-chi, Arah boy.”
The other unknown thing arrived and revealed to be someone I know too, it's Remilia.
”Hey, hello there, Remilia, mind if I know where you knew the name of the martial art, I'm pretty sure you're not the type of person who's into that kind of stuff.”
”Meiling claimed to be a master of such, so of course I known anything that resemble her technique.”
”…touche, so what about you and Flandre racing each other to greet me? That's the conclusion that I can get from the context that Sakuya-san given to me.”
”Fufu, you're wrong, I'm merely accompanying Flandre on her erratic behavior upon your arrival.”
”…I see.” I said with 'Such perfect way to twist the truth, but I'm sure it will be more perfect if your wings stop flapping even though you already hit the ground.'
”What a funny person.”
'Look, even Koishi agreeing with me.'
”And who is this Youkai Girl? Are you finally given up to your lust and decided to kidnap her?”
'…You reap what you sow Arah, just take it like a man and shallow it raw.'
”Arahnii-san!”
”Uwoooh!”
I sense Flandre fly straight to me, in normal speed, so I immediately turn and catch her.
Now she's dangling from my chest and she's surprisingly light, is it because she's half flying half latching on to me right now?
”Welcome back, Arahnii-san.”
”Oh, I'm back, Flan.”
”This looks fun!”
Koishi suddenly encircling her hand on my neck, making me move my hand in reflex to piggy backing her.
””…””
'Somehow there's a tension in the air, I feel that there's some kind of invisible duel between these two, a battle between Question Mark Level and I'm in the middle of it? No thank you.'
”*coughremiliacough*”
”Hm? Oh, that's right, Flan.”
”Yes?”
Flandre let go of me and turn toward Remilia.
I sense Remilia launch some kind of magic sonar.