33 Full Scarlet House (1/2)

Author Note: If you haven't noticed it yet, chapter 32 and a couple of early chapter already edited by my new editor, so go back and read it again, marvel how clean and great that chapter is, and look how shit I am compare to him.

Editor: Crembo.

-Afternoon, SDM Mansion's Gate-

-Me POV-​

Clean and presentable clothes, check.

Neat and proper hair, check.

Emergency Cookies and Cakes, check.

Able to activate the Counter Armor, check.

Feeling the boost from the booster pills, check.

Mental preparedness encountering two Lv.??? Characters... I'm getting there, eventually.

”So, do you want to go in?” She asked.

”…Yeah.” I nodded weakly. 'YOLO, I guess.' I thought.

”All right, here you go.” she pulled the gate open with one hand.

Little by little, the scenery of a red rose garden fills my vision.

'An ominous mansion filled with red roses. Great, all I need is for the rose petals to start flying in the air and I'm gonna be convinced that this is the final boss on my journey.'

'But, before I go in...' I turned toward Meiling.

”Meiling-san, how about we go for a spar again in the future? I still haven't paid you back since our last spar.” I asked.

She smirked ”Of course, I'll be waiting then.”

I just smiled and started walking into the mansion.

After a short walk, I arrived at the front door. It opened, and I was greeted by Sakuya.

”So, you finally decided to come.”

”Yo.” I greeted her by lightly waving my hand.

”Mistress has been waiting for your arrival all this time, but sadly, Mistress is fast asleep right now, and she did not order me to wake her up when you arrive.”

”Really? That's a shame then.”

”Indeed, it is a shame.”

I don't know why but I think Sakuya is annoyed with my reply.

”Now please go back where you came from and revisit us during the night.” she said while making a shooing gesture at me.

”Objection, your Mistress will be upset if she learns that you turned away a guest.” I smiled at her.

'Ah, same old Sakuya. I missed this stuff.'

”Indeed, that is troubling.” she pondered. ”Then, can you just stand in front of the door until Mistress wakes up?” She said with a smile.

”I'm sorry, I can't do that because I really want to play the piano and you yourself had already made a promise to let me play it whenever I visit.” I kept smiling.

Both of us wore our ”smiles” on our faces.

We are such peaceful individuals.

”All right, let's cut this nonsense, can I go in now?” I said, erasing my smile.

Sakuya also quit playing around. ”Of course, please follow me.” She started guiding me to the hallway.

I nodded and followed her.

Now that we were walking down the hallway, and since I knew it was gonna take a while to get there, I started a conversation to pass the time.

”Sakuya-san.” I called out from behind her.

”Yes.” She replied without turning her head.

”How's Flandre doing recently?”

”Young Mistress is… happy. Ever since you introduced that girl to her, everyday they happily play together inside the mansion, although at the cost of an increase in the frequency of property damage. Thankfully that issue is still manageable because we can ask miss Patchouli to put things back together using her magic.”

”Now it is my turn to ask, what is the story behind Young Mistress's new friend, miss Koishi? She is a Satori, correct?” she stopped walking and turned to face me.

I stopped walking and answered her. ”… Technically, yes she is.”

”… Technically?” She raised one of her eyebrow.

”For curiosity's sake, how did you people figure it out?”

”Mistress explained it to me, after I described what miss Koishi looked like. Mistress took note of her Third Eye, and through that, deduced that her species is Satori. Mistress also said it was strange that her eye was closed. A Satori's Third Eye is the source of their powers, so they wouldn't normally keep it closed. This led us to believe that she might not be just a normal Satori. Her strange attitude also supports the possibility that something strange happened to her. ”

”... Remilia actually knows a lot of stuff.” I was amazed.

”Then would you care to share what you know about her?”

”… I'm sorry. Unfortunately, it's not my place to say what happened to her. All I can say is that she's just another victim of the ugly side of humanity.” I said apologetically to her.

”… I understand, let us continue our walk.”

I agreed with her and we resumed walking.

After a while, we arrived at the piano room.

Sakuya immediately disappeared after she told me not to cause any trouble or damage the piano.

”Now, what song should I play on this baby?”

With the aid of Perfect Butler, I can play the piano with ease.

I played everyone's themes, and in the middle of it, I realized once again why I like Touhou in the first place.

It's the music.

Every theme is unique, every theme tells different story, everything's just wonderful. Even the fandom is wonderful. (Except for Ronald McDonald RanRanRu, it can die in a fucking fire.)

”?!”

'This energy!'

I silently searched for the source of the energy using only my eyes.

'There they are!'

Two heads were poking out of the entrance of the room.

One of them had a black hat with a yellow ribbon around it, and the other had a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached.

[Lv.??? Rainbow Devil, Flandre Scarlet]

[Lv.??? Closed Eyes of Love, Komeiji Koishi]

I swallowed my own spit.

'I can do this, I can do this, YOLO, YOLO, YOLOOOOOOOOOO!!'

I finished playing and stood up.

Counter Armor.

I walked to their location.

Thought Acceleration.

I could see Flandre speeding in my direction; she appeared to be running, running normally, as if at a normal running speed even though I was using Thought Acceleration.

'…This is ridiculous. This is definitely and utterly ridiculous.'

She lunged at me.

I tried to catch her but my hand movement was just too slow to do it.

”AAAARRRAAAHNIII-SAAAN!!!!!”

She hit my midsection.

But I stood my ground.

With my abilities I only stumbled from her pounce, but stumbling was the least of my worries after that.

'UAAARRGG! THE PAIN! OH GOD! BE A MAN! DON'T SCREAM!'

I shut my mouth and endured the pain.

I looked at the little devil below me.

She looked up at me with a beaming smile.

”…”

I deactivated Thought Acceleration and started patting her.

”Finally! You finally came back for me!”

”Sorry Flandre, I kinda got busy recently and didn't have time to visit you.”

”But you're here right now, so it's all okay!”

”Yeah, Flan-” ”Pervert-san!”

”Ueh!” ”Oof!” I stopped giving headpats.

Koishi joined in the hug, but she also came in from Flandre's direction, which sandwiched Flandre between us.

”Koishi-chan, wait for your turn, right now it's mine.”

”But it looks so fun! I want to join in too!”

I looked, amazed, at these two little sister characters.

'So they're already adding '-chan' to each other, they must have been having fun together all this time.' I smiled.

”Looks like you two hit off each other very well, did you two have fun after I left you two together?”

The two of them started smiling again.

”Yes! Yes we did! We were playing catch, and then we played hide and seek, and then we played Danmaku, and then-and then-”

”Haha, yes, you two played a lot since then.”

I used Telekinesis to remove Flandre's mob cap and then moved my hand to pat her again.

Somehow I had a feeling telling me that the way I patted her few moments ago was wrong, so now I was going to pat her correctly.

”Good girl, good girl.”

I gently pat a certain spot on her head.

'This must be the power of Legendary Butler; the ability isn't really that bad if I can correctly head pat people.'

I noticed Koishi removed her hat.

”Me too, please!”

”All right. Good Koishi, good Koishi.”