33 Full Scarlet House

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."

I pat her too.

I watched these two girls close their eyes, their faces telling me that they were in comfortable bliss.

'They look so peaceful.'

I looked at Koishi.

'Her face looks nothing like a girl with a broken mind; she looks genuinely happy right now.'

I pat her head more gently.

'…Should I try fixing her?'

*ding*

[Quest Alert]

[8* Mending Her Cracked Mind]

[Stabilize Komeji Koishi's Existence]

'…Wut? 8 Star Difficulty? …Wha, wuh, wtf…'

"…Arahnii-san?"

I looked at the girls.

Apparently I stopped moving my hands when I got that alert, so now they were wondering if there was something with me.

"It's nothing; I was just remembering some stuff."

I continued patting their heads.

'8 stars? Stabilize her existence? Existence? That's… a really big word. No wonder it has that many stars. I don't know if I could do it.'

"…??"

I stopped moving my hands because I sensed someone touching them.

It was the girls.

I looked at them.

And they looked back at me.

"Please don't be sad."

"I don't know what Arahnii-san is thinking right now, but thinking about sad things is bad."

"It will make everyone sad."

"That's why we must always be happy."

"To make everyone feel happy too."

Both of them were smiling when they said all of that.

'… I hate myself for creating all these feels. One of the things that I don't like in life is sadness.'

I wanted to take my hands away and offer to play the piano for them, but it seemed Koishi had other plans for me.

"I have an idea; this will definitely make Pervert-san happier!"

I wanted to ask her what it was, but I was too slow.

She got closer to me and then she did it.

She kissed my cheek.

My brain stopped working to process what just happened.

"That's not fair! I want to do it too."

Flandre also kissed my cheek.

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"I think we broke him."

"What do we do now?"

"Young Mistress, please let me handle this… thing."

"Sakuya!"

"At your service."

"Are you sure you can help him?"

"I am sure I can take care of it."

"…If you say so. Come on Koishi-chan, let's play in the Library."

"Play!"

*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*

"… It is lucky for you that if you disappeared, Young Mistress would be sad."

*thump*

"Hm? Oh, Arah-san, what are you doing here?"

…

"Do you want to do the spar right now?"

…

"… Hello? Is anybody there?"

…

"… Uhhhhh, suit yourself then. I'm just gonna stand here like always."

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-Underworld, Former Capital-

-3rd person POV-​

The Underground or the Underworld is a world beneath the surface of Gensokyo, and it consists of many regions, one of them being the Former Capital.

The Former Capital is a large village in Former Hell, deep within the Underworld. It is situated between the Deep Road to Hell and the Palace of the Earth Spirits

The buildings are modeled after traditional Japanese houses, and the streets are lit by fiery hanging lanterns.

The capital is populated primarily by Oni, who moved underground long ago as part of a deal with the Yamas. After promising to keep a lid on the vengeful spirits that remained there after the Yama relocated Hell, the Oni were given permission to stay there.

And now because the place is occupied by the Oni, the capital knows no rest.

*gulp* *gulp* *gulp* *gulp*

"""""HUAAAH!!"""""

"Sake really is the best! It always tastes good whenever you drink the stuff!"

"Yeah, but I have noticed that the Sake tastes really good lately, did the brewer do anything new with it?"

"It's the winter, you idiot! It tastes good because of the winter!"

"Who are you calling idiot, you idiot!"

"I am the one that called you an idiot! Do you have a problem with that, idiot?!"

"You wanna go at it you idiot?!"

"Bring it on!"

And then two of the Oni started to fight, while the others watched and cheered at them.

But the Oni that don't drink and fight, drink and talk. They talk about what's going on recently within their community, including what happened with one Oni in particular.

"Did you hear what happened with that guy?"

"Hm? Which guy?"

"That guy, that Dorokin fellow."

"Oh, him? Yeah, he said he was defeated by a Young Oni-Slayer and now he rarely sips Sake and keeps fighting everyone to get stronger. He even had the balls to challenge Aneki."

"Hehe, funny guy. So, what do you think about it? Do you want to fight that Young One too?"

"As much as I want to, it's winter right now. It's the season when Sake tastes the best. That Young One can wait."

"Hmm, you're right, drink first, that Young One can wait. We can also do flower viewing after winter's over, next season is gonna be a blast!"

"You said it! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!"

"DRINK! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Author note:

Heyo, Author here, lately the chapter have less than 3k word (more than 3k word is the standard of my entire chapters), it was all because my imagination engine work like shit lately, I'm mad that I can't deliver more like usual, meh.

You guys probably know from the note above that I have a new editor by the name of Crembo. I am very grateful of him that he volunteer himself to do it, and you guys should feel it too because as long as he is around, you people not gonna have to read my awful English sentence structure anymore (I still think English language have a shitty strange word(verb) rule btw).

@Acerman, on my part, I see no problem that Arah becoming OP too quickly, I said that because my story focus more on the interaction between the Touhou Character and Arah himself, so Arah OPness is just a tool to create a topic to talk about in the story, if that's making any sense to you.

I will not gonna make a story about Arah throwing his power randomly and then make a kingdom out of nowhere and then make all the character fall in love with him without any reason at all. (Please ignore Sunny and Alice, I promise I will give them their own chapter later on.)

I just want him to interact with all the characters.

I want him to meet with all the character, talk to them, mess with them or troll them, and greet each other as if they are neighbor.

…I don't know if this answered your worries or I just misunderstood the question and then I gave you different answer with what you are expecting. I no good with English dude.

Now that Arah level is in upper level, I plan to slow down the level increase every time he get a new skill, it's to show how stupidly dangerous the abilities of all [Lv.???] character.

Just few days ago, I have an interesting idea for when Arah reach his half a year milestone from the system, the thing happen in February so I'm gonna speeding up the story speed.

Because the month of the 2nd chapter after this chapter release is January, a new month, I'm gonna make Arah take a new challenge quest, but here's the thing, you guys can vote what challenge he will have, but there'll be only 3 challenge to choose from, I don't want to ruin the surprise of the future challenge. Voting happened in SB forum, so get to it.