64 Scarlet Bond part 2 (1/2)

Altered East 05: Scarlet Bond part 2

Editor: the guy (Questionable Questing)

-Evening, Scarlet Devil Mansion-

-Remilia POV-

The door to the room opened and inside its pitch black, but both of us went inside anyway.

I reach for the breaker for the light, I switched it on and the room finally filled with light.

It took seconds for me to adjust to the lighting, and I could finaly see the inside of the room clearly.

Patched up plushies.

Dull wall color and marble floor.

Broken but still useable furniture

And in the middle of the room, a big black coffin.

After confirming that there's nothing different since the last time we were here, we march forward toward the coffin.

With each step, we're feeling a familiar chilling sensation in our body. This feeling keeps getting stronger as we're moving closer to the coffin.

We finally arrived next to it and Sakuya moves to open the coffin up.

Once it opened up, my nose immediately assaulted with strong smell of metal, but since I already prepared myself for it, I didn't flinch from it. Ignoring the smell, the opened up coffin reveal a sleeping figure curling up inside it.

A girl looking my age, with an unkempt long blond hair, pale skin, wearing frilly pajamas with red stains on it, and she has a pair of bat wings on her back.

The girl's name is Flandre Scarlet, and she's my little sister.

”Mistress.” Sakuya call me.

I wordlessly gave her my left arm.

She took it and then proceeds to wipe my forearm with a wet tissue.

Breathe in, breathe out.

”…Do it.”

Sakuya nod and she starts moving her hand to hold my sister body, slowly she pulled her up by supporting her back to make sure she doesn't fall. She cupped her chin and opened it up, revealing sharp and long fangs inside.

I stick my forearm against my little sister mouth. At first nothing happened, but a second later, a stinging pain can be felt from my forearm area that was inside my little sister mouth.

Flandre's eyelid move, and then she opened it slightly.

”…Hng…Sis?” Flandre asked while half asleep.

”Don't…worry, you're…thirsty…right? Just…drink it.” I said while withstanding the pain.

”…Hnm…” Flandre hums.

And Sakuya starts preparing the sleeping drug.

At the age of 6, a bat wings suddenly sprouting from her back. The house suddenly turned hectic that

day. My parents saw her and then they tried to cut her wings off with a knife, emphasis on the word ”tried”, they failed to do it because of Flandre sudden increase in strength.

I watched in horror as the event unfolded, I just frozen in fear watching my own parent trying to hold their daughter down while also pointing a knife to her, it was…a traumatizing event, to say the least. And because of that event, I finally realized what kind of person those two really are and I stopped thinking of them as my family and turn them into ”someone who just birthed me”. I have no remorse in doing so because I believe they already think the same to us from the moment we were born, we were just a tool for them in their ”Noble Community”.

From the moment when ”their daughter can't even follow the tournament simple rules” and the moment when ”their other daughter turned into an abomination”, they stopped seeing us as their daughters. So, it is up to me to keep us together, I won't become like them, I'll not give up on my sibling.

Years went by, and I finally got accepted to the infamous Touhou Academy, naturally my parents heard it, they said ”this is your chance to redeem yourself”, …feh.

I bring Flandre with me because I'm afraid that they'll do something to her when I'm gone, but I can't do it with normal mean, I don't want people to know about her being a vampire, so I let Sakuya smuggle Flandre into the island. Surprisingly, Sakuya arrived with a black coffin, which contained a sleeping Flandre inside. Sakuya explained to me that it was Flandre's own choice to stay inside it, she said that this way, it'll decrease my living expense, it's already proven that she could survive by drinking blood alone, so she'll help me by not doing anything.

I understood her reason, I understood that this is the best choice available, but I hate it.

I know that Sakuya is the one who planted the idea for Flandre to do this, I won't blame her for doing it, but I still hate it.

I hate all of it, but I still keep moving forward.

I feel lightheaded and my strength slowly leaving my body. Sensing this, Sakuya immediately move to insert the sleeping drug to Flandre with an injection. She got the drug by raiding a drug store before coming to this island. We still have a lot so we don't have to worry about keeping her asleep.

A moment later, Flandre's mouth loosen up, I pulled my arm away from her, and slowly sit on the floor.

I examine my arm, her fangs left behind a puncture wound on my forearm.

Sakuya finished putting Flandre inside her coffin while I was still in a daze from the blood lost, and then she picked me up. I don't know when I went back to my room, but I woke up in my pajamas on my sleeping bed.

I reexamine my arm wound, but there's already bandage covering it, so I took down the bandage. The puncture wound is smaller than I remembered. A wound normally doesn't close by itself in a short amount of time, so that means there's another factor working on here, a factor that I've been aware of in the past couple of years.

”…Am I a monster too?” I wondered to myself.

I feel thirsty in the middle of the night and I'm about to go out of my room to grab a glass of water but then, an explosion happened.

-Midnight, Scarlet Devil Mansion-

-??? POV-

It's dark.

”…Still thirsty…but sis…hungry…but sis…out…but sis…sis…sis…sis…”

It's lonely.

But I need to do this to help my sister.

And then everything shakes for a moment.

-My POV-

Guarding your properties.

People usually employ guards to prevent any kind of trespassing or even thievery, and in other cases, they keep dogs to scare away any potential thieves, but of course, the Scarlet Devil Mansion residents aren't common in any kind of words.

I said that because they choose to have a claymore for their defense.

A god damn claymore.

Not the sword one, but the explosive one.

I stared at the night sky as I've been blasted by the claymore.

”…deja vu, if I remember right, didn't I got blown up like this when I first visited my version of SDM?” I said with a nostalgic feeling.

The reason as to why I'm doing all of this was because I knew talking normally to Remilia won't do it, so I decided to go with the forceful route, albeit without seriously hurting anyone.

I got up straight away just like some kind of Jiangshi, and examining my surroundings.

Everything in the ground zero of the explosion was wrecked. The front gate is bent forward, there's a crater under the front gates previous position, and dust, a lot of dust kicking into the air.

I look at my own clothes, welp, so many holes, good thing I'm already greatly resistant to physical attack, the clothes will patch the hole itself soon, so that's already taken care of.

After seeing the aftermath of the explosion, I turn toward my surrounding area. The explosion was really loud, so it's a given that the neighbor will wake up and investigate the noise.

Clairvoyance.

…

Welp, that's a lot. I just magic them all back to sleep. Yes, yes, it was all a dream, go back to sleep, you all have school and work tomorrow right?

Also, I saw several guys in black stalking around the block surrounding the building. I recognized some of them to be Yukari's men. Is she gonna come in when everything's over? Not that I mind.

”All right, that's one, now onto the damage…Hm?” As I'm about to repair the explosion damage, I noticed something.

Something is moving inside the Mansion's windows.

*BANG*

I catch the fast approaching thing with my Telekinesis.

I bring it closer for me to see.

”…A bullet? Sniper bullet?”

*BANG*

I catch another sniper bullet that's coming toward me and then start identifying who's the one that's shooting me for a while. I saw her, and she immediately ran away from her sniping position.

”…A maid with gun, huh, that's also nostalgic, nowadays they used futuristic weapons and lethal magic on me, maybe I should bully them again once I go back.” I idly thought.

I used Clairvoyance again to look for another claymore. Turns out there are 3 more on the way to the mansion door, they're remote detonate, so I deactivated them by cutting their wire underground.

After I fixed the gate and filling up the crater, I start walking toward the front door, but before I'm halfway there, the front door slowly opened, and a figure walks from it.

It's Meiling.

”Turn back intruder, or you'll be in a world of pain.” threatens Meiling.

I smile.

”I'm sorry, there's someone who I must help in there.” I said.

”You've been warned.” she said as she prepares to fight

”Yes, and since I'm the challenger, let me introduce myself.” I release a little bit of pressure on the surroundings. ”My name is Arah, an Omni-Magician.” The surrounding plant and air shakes as I introduced myself.

Sweat starts appearing on Meiling's face.

”…An Omni-Magician?” she asked.

”Yes, that's probably an apt description as to what I am. ” I explained.

She frowned.

”Haha, seems you think I'm joking, not that I blame you, it's the modern time after all.” I just laugh at her expression.

”Truthfully, yes, I did, but none of that matters, currently you're trespassing to our Mansion, and I'll stop you no matter what.” she reaffirm her fighting pose. ”Tai-chi Martial Artist, Hong Meiling, prepare yourself!”

”I see, then we probably should start soon.” I point my index finger to her head.

Finger Beam: Low Power.

A thin beam shoots out from my index finger to Meiling direction, when the beam almost hit her forehead, she quickly moved her head for it scrapped her head.

Her eyes widened at me as she wiped her forehead with her thumb.

”Nice, let us pick up the pace, shall we?” I pointed both of my index fingers to Meiling.

I fired using one of them, she dodged it, I fired the next one, she rolls forward, I fired again, she dashed forward just in time to make my shot scrape her shoulder instead, I fired again, she tilted her head that it brushes her cheek instead.

…I think she's picking up that I keep aiming for her forehead, oh well, melee times.

She starts with a straight left punch, I moved my hand to grab her punch, unexpectedly she stop her left arm and she switch to right kick, I used my other hand to grab it, but then she stop it midway and then took a step back.

…It's her instincts. She somehow knew that when I grab her, it'll be over right away, which is true.

”What happened? You don't want to attack? If you don't, then I'll continue instead.” I'm coming toward Meiling with my palm open.

I tried to grab her shoulder, but she fended them off and then countered attack with a punch to my gut. And it's over.

”Gotcha!” I quickly grabbed her hand before she pulled it away.

Stamina Drain.

Her other hand moves in for a punch, but I quickly grab it, her right leg rising up to kick my head, but I stopped it in mid air with Telekinesis before it hit my face. With nothing working, she starts struggling in my grasp.

…Well, this is an interesting position to be stuck in, and sadly, every good thing needs an end eventually.

Her struggling keeps getting weaker and weaker, so when I think it's enough, I released everything and put both of my open palms on her stomach.

Energy Blast: Low Power.

A blast came out from my palms, hitting Meiling directly and sending her skidding across the garden grounds, seems like she's still conscious despite being tired after I drained her.

”Not bad, usually people already down from that combo alone.”

She gritted her teeth as she glared at me, but then she's doing something unusual, she closed her eyes and then raised one of her arms, a moment later, that hand starts glowing.

[Lv.20 Crimson Dragon, Hong Meiling]

[Increased from 19 to 20]

”Ah, you made a breakthrough. I know it sounded mocking from my standpoint, but congratulations.” I clapped for her. ”If we were in different circumstances, I'd definitely throw a party for you.” I said with a smile.

”..Haha…well…that's a shame then… been stuck for a while…got it when you I feltl yours…and I'll hit you with it!” and she ran forward, preparing to hit me with a very telegraphic glowing punch.

Of course, the result is obvious. I caught it just like any other attack.

”Sorry, I'm a little scared now that your fist is glowing...Hm? Meiling-san?”

Her body swayed strangely, and I caught her when she's about to fall. Apparently she immediately passed out as soon as she throws her punch.

”That's one down, I guess?”

I lay her body down away from the inactive claymores, just in case.

I reached for the door, it's locked.

Random knowledge about a door, the reason as to why a door can't be opened is because they were wedged into the wall by the lock mechanism, so that means, if the lock mechanism is gone, it'll open as if there's no lock in the first place.

I cut a piece of the building next to the lock mechanism of the door with magic, and there you go, the door is easily opened with a piece of a building sticking at its side.

”Excuse me for the intrusion, although it's too late for that.” I said as I went inside the building.

I turned more serious this time, after all, there's no space for error, and with that said, after I took a step inside the building, without any signature, without any word, I released a shockwave to the ceiling.

I turn my head to look at the ceiling, and I saw someone got embedded in the ceiling wall.

It's Sakuya.

Soon her figure swayed, and she starts falling. I catch her in my arms, and start Stamina Draining her as I start searching for the underground stairs.

Sakuya's hand suddenly moved, and I saw a gun barrel pointed at my face.

*Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang*