10 Revenge of the Maid
Editor: Acerman
-Dining room, SDM-
-Remilia POV-
"I'm really sorry Flandre; I can't believe I forgot to play with you all this time."
"Yeah! I can't believe nee-sama actually forget to play with me, I was bored down there! And even if Sakuya constantly sent me food, she said she can't play with me because she's not ordered by you!" Flandre shouted angrily at me.
Flandre and I were sitting on the dining table right now. I on the middle side of the table, while Flandre sat on my left, her chair facing to the right and I facing all of them and of course I'm sitting in my special seat. We are waiting for Sakuya to bring the dinner.
"Let's not dwell on the past. You are here now, and we will decide the future after everyone arrives."
"…Okay, nee-sama." said Flandre, dissatisfied but still obediently waited as instructed.
'Now we just need to wait for Patche, Meiling and Sakuya to arrive.'
I already ordered Sakuya to inform all of them about today's evening meeting. This meeting was happening because of today's afternoon event, The Flandre's Rampage. From long ago, she's always been locked up in the basement by me. At the time, I deemed her ability to be too dangerous for anyone and anything, and she follow my word because I am her nee-sama. I often played or told her stories about outside the mansion to alleviate her boredom in the basement. But her rampage this afternoon, she had probably seen me battle the Hakurei Miko, and I forgot to play with her for quite some time, making her rampage around the mansion.
'…the cause of my forgetfulness is probably from that time when my plan to conquer Gensokyo fails by Yakumo Yukari and other Youkai, guess I'm thinking too much at that time and forgot about Flandre.'
And like I said, thing will be different from now on,
"Good Evening, Remi." A girl's voice came from my right.
I knew that voice.
"Good Evening, Patche." I greeted back.
She floated into the seat in my right.
"Good Evening, imouto-san." Patche greet Flandre.
"Good Evening, Patchouli."
Patche arrived first to the room, followed by her assistant, Koakuma, followed by Meiling.
"I'm impressed that you don't need to be dragged here by Sakuya, Meiling."
"Yes, thank you for your complement, mistress." She bowed slightly before sitting beside Flandre.
"Mistress, the food is ready to be prepared." Sakuya suddenly appeared to my left, waiting for my command.
"Great, I will give the signal later on the meeting."
"Affirmative, mistress." She bowed.
I looked around at the mansion's residents.
"Now that everyone is here, let's start."
Everyone was listening intently, even Flandre was showing a serious expression on her face.
I looked at Flandre, "The purpose of this meeting is for Flandre."
Flandre looked surprised by my statement.
"As everyone probably knows, this afternoon Flandre escaped from her room to play without my permission." Flandre slumped slightly in her chair at this claim, "But since this happened because of my own negligence, and nobody's hurt, she won't be punished for her action." Flandre looked glad at this. "So for this to not happen again, I am lifting Flandre's ban from coming out of her room, but she still forbidden from leaving the mansion's vicinity." I smile, "So, what do you think about this Flandre?"
"You are the best, nee-sama." She smiled brightly. The vast expansion of her activity zone from a was indeed exciting from her perspective.
"Good, that's all there's for the meeting, Sakuya." I gave the signal.
"Affirmative." Sakuya disappeared.
And then she appear again along with a lot of foods appear on the table.
"This is also a celebration for the comeback of my sister, so let's eat!"
And we all dug in. Flandre and Meiling start vigorously eat the foods, and even though Patche didn't need to eat, she slowly started to eat while her assistant stood behind her, looking bored. And with that I began eating my food as well.
When we finish our dinner, we began to small talk, Meiling with Flandre, and me with Patche.
"Patche, I heard you've been busy lately. What are you doing?" I asked her.
"Remi, as you've heard, I start preparing traps in my library."
"Trap? For who?"
"For the rat that arrives in my library a few days ago. She took some of my books with her."
"The human magician?"
"Yeah, next time she tries, it'll not gonna easy like last time."
'She's determined to do it.
"You sounded like you're sure she will come back here."
"…She said it herself that she will come back to "borrow" again from me., that rat." She sounded frustrated by this.
"Come back huh, speaking of human magician," I looked back at Flandre who was talking excitedly with Meiling.
"Flandre," I called her out.
"Yes, nee-sama?" She turned toward me, breaking with her conversation with Meiling.
"You said you'd been defeated by a human magician today from playing. Mind telling me what happened this afternoon?"
"Sure, nee-sama, Okay it's goes like this-" and Flandre happily told her side of the story.
From how she dodged all of Flandre attacks, using her magic item, light based magic, and her promise to introduce the Hakurei Miko to her. But something caught my attention at the start of her story.
"You said, 'She switched with Onii-san, because he lost playing with you.' Who is this Onii-san?" I asked her. Sakuya and Meiling looked a little uneasy since she started talking about this Onii-san person.
'Seems like we have a guest when I'm away from the mansion...'
"Yeah, he said his name is Arah, he said he switch with Marisa because he lost to playing with me."
"You mean he said it himself that he lost and start switching with the Human Magician after that?" I asked for confirmation.
"Yes, he's also fun to play Danmaku with. " She said happily.
'…That boy actually survived playing with Flandre, interesting.' I smiled.
I looked at Sakuya and Meiling. They both looked glad that the boy was okay, and of course because he's a guest at that time' he must be okay.
"Then Flandre, can you tell about your time playing with that Onii-san."
"Yup." She once again happily explained about her playing with that boy.
All of us once again listened to her story, but now Patche and I became intrigued by the boy's abilities.
"…Control over wind and also light. Patche, what do you think?" I ask Patche while Flandre swung her hands to replicate her sword fight with the boy in her story.
"The Wind and The Light, both are resources that already there to begin with; he may have a power that borrow of any resources or power of nature around him." She explained her theory.
"I see, it is plausible but his statement when I met him before that he can't be touched by anyone but the Hakurei Miko and the Gap Youkai, and he explicitly said my Gungnir could not touch him either. What do you think now?"
"The Miko and the Gap Youkai... He indicated that as long as anything can touch him, it can't hurt him at the same time, and with the display of his ability when fighting with Flandre I conclude that his ability is "changing the direction of anything around him", hence why those two names mention in his statement, because they both have the ability to attack him without touching him. I doubt the Miko's ability to do it like he said." She expounded.
"I see, "changing the direction of anything around him." How interesting. I want to meet him the next time he visits."
"I'm glad that you find it interesting Remi." She gazed at me softly.
"Hehe, of course Patche, you have to enjoy every little thing in this long life." I grinned at her
We drink our tea, when we heard Flandre voice.
"-and that's when he said he is Onee-sama girlfriend!" she said loudly.
""BUUUUUUHH!"" we spurt our tea from our mouth into the air.
"*Cough**Cough*" me coughing up the tea.
"Mukyu! Mukyu!" and Patche with her weird coughing, even I find it weird sometimes.
Everyone else was too stunned to comment about our condition, except Flandre who was gleefully looking at our coughing selves.
"*Cough* W-what did you just say, Flandre?" I asked Flandre while wiping my mouth.
"Well, when we were sword fighting, he tricked me. First when we locked swords, he said he's Onee-sama girlfriend to score a hit on me." She explained.
"…And you trust him?" I asked.
"At that time yeah, because Onee-sama never invited any other human, aside Sakuya."
'…her excuse does make sense.' I thought.
"But he said it was a lie, and corrected his statement that he's Sakuya Girlfriend."
We all looked at Sakuya.
Sakuya was a little startled with the attention but she denied the claim by shaking her head.
"But of course I doubted it after the first one."
We all nodded again.
"Just as I said I doubt his claim, I heard Sakuya's voice behind me, telling that his word is true."
All of us look at Sakuya again.
"N-no, I'm still searching for Young Mistress at that time." She's frantically denied, shaking her head and her hands.
"Yeah, it's actually wasn't Sakuya's that time. It's his voice. He can somehow change his voice into Sakuya and make it come from behind me. After that I got hit again because I let my guard down."
I looked at Patche, she's already finish wiping her mouth too.
"…Change his voices?"
"…Probably some kind of tool that let him does that. Ask Flandre if he's doing anything suspicious while he changed his voices." Patche suggested.
"Flandre, did he do something strange when he changed his voices?"
"…Let me think, hum, he just touched his neck whenever his voices changed."
"…It's in his neck; it must be a tool that let him freely change his voice whenever he wants to." Deduced Patche.
"I see, Sakuya."
"Yes, Mistress."
"Next time, the boy visit us warned him to not use our voice without our permission and punish him for his baseless claims." I ordered.
"As you wish, Mistress."
-Afternoon, Guest Room, SDM-
-Me POV-
"-And because of that, prepare yourself." Said Sakuya while summoning her glowing Danmaku knife between her fingers.
…I knew someday I would pay for those lies but I didn't expect it to happen a day after I said it.
*SMACK*
"OW!" Someone smacked me up the backside of my head, I turn toward my left, "Reimu! What was that for?!" I asked Reimu.
"Because you deserve it!" said Reimu while pointing her gohei at me.
"If you ask me, you do deserve to get punished for that-ze." commented Marisa.
'…I don't need your input Marisa.'
I looked back at Sakuya. She look ready to skin me alive right now, very different from my last visit. She probably didn't care I said I'm her girlfriend but instead she's mad because I said I'm Remilia girlfriend.
And speaking of Remilia, I got this notification at yesterday night.
[Achievement Alert]
[Impress the Scarlet Devil]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]
[Impress the Rainbow Gatekeeper]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]
[Impress the Perfect Maid]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]
THAT'S A LOT OF POINTS!
Those achievements probably happened because they are their mansion meeting or something because they are triggered at the same times, and that's probably why this situation happened right now….
And here I am. Reimu and I getting dragged by Marisa to SDM, she changed her reward from sweet to help her doing some stuff inside the SDM, probably for becoming the bait for the security inside while she steals some books inside the library. I also haven't use the Random Roll yet, dammit.
"With that have fun Sakuya, kick his ass-daze," cheered Marisa.
"Yeah, punish him good, Sakuya." Reimu followed up.
"Don't be worried, Mistress already ordered me to." Sakuya said coldly.
"And with that we will gonna where Flandre is, bye-ze." Marisa said that while leaving with Reimu.
...aaaaand they are gone…Karma's a bitch isn't it?
Now it's just the two of us, facing each other, in the guest room.
Guest room have wide area to greet the guest, if they keep walking forward there will be a big staircase to the 2nd floor, while there's a hallway at the right and left side of the room to go to the different place.
"Um, It's a nice day isn't it, Sakuya-san." I tried to talk with her.
"…Yes, it is a nice day indeed, Arah-san, what's the rule?" She answer back,
…Lovely conversation.
*Ding*
[Quest Alert]
[3* Defeat the Perfect Maid]
Lovely quest, Oh La La~.
"Let's see…how about 3 spell cards, whoever runs out first or get knocked out first, they lose." I prepared myself.
"Agreed." She immediately summoned her spell card and used it.
"Illusion World "The World""
'Big Spell card right of the bat?!'
Immediately my vision filled with Blue and Green Danmaku knives.
I jump backward and start observing the entire spell card.
The blue one homed in on my position, while the green one flew around my surrounding, cutting off my escape.
'Dammit, the room is wide but it's limited, and if I fly I might get shot to the face immediately.'
I tried to dodge but I got hit by some of the Danmaku.
'It stings a little but I will manage.'
As soon as the knife wave gone, I could see in front of me again. There's Sakuya standing in different position than last time.
'Shoot and Run, huh.'
"Theater sign "Duet Dancer""
I used my spell card now.
The whole room turned dark, spot lights start shining on top of us, and Lightsaber on my hand.
'Need to improve on the fly…, System, Upgrade Swordsmanship to Lv.5, immediately'
[Swordsmanship Lv have been upgraded to 5]
I dash toward Sakuya. She began throwing her Danmaku and my vision once again filled with blue and green knives. I search at Sakuya spotlight, found it, and stepped out of the way of the blue knive's trajectory and prepared to slash apart the barrage of green knives with my new technique.
'Start to overload the lightsaber, make the energy stream from the front side of the sword, swing forward, and make the slash fly toward the spotlight location.'
"HAAAAH!" I slashed forward.
The Energy Slash flew forwards, slicing apart the green knife Danmaku, and kept flying toward another spotlight.
"Kuh!" I assume that's Sakuya's voice.
*Crack**Crack*
Her and my spell card ended at the same time. She and I summoned another spell card.
"Illusion Ghost "Jack the Ludo Bile""
"Direction Sign "Molecule Collector""
She started shooting big red ball Danmaku shotgun-pattern and second letter blue knife Danmaku appeared between those Red Ball Danmaku, filling up their empty line of fire spot.
I gather Heat Energy in the room, making 10 Red Danmaku Ball, positioned them behind my shoulder, ready to be deployed and sent toward the target.
I sent one Red Ball to her Red Ball, canceling each other out. And now there's a hole in Sakuya's attack. I started shooting her with my regular Danmaku. As soon as she saw this, she canceled her own Spell Card.
*Crack*
She knew that if this kept up she's just gonna take unnecessary damage so she canceled it early. Clever girl.
Now, she's down to her last Spell Card.
"Killer Doll"
…What?
Hundreds of knives appear circling Sakuya before flying straight toward me.
'IT'S HER BOMB!'
I send the rest of my Red Balls toward the stream of knives but it doesn't do shit. The knives were almost at me. I crossed my arms, hoping to reduce the damage to my head.
'PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN!'
It's Danmaku battle so I turn off my counter armor every time I fight, to keep it fair, and now I can only endure the pain and hoping it will stop anytime soon.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
I know her bomb should be ending soon because it's short, but it feels like forever to me as I endure the pain from the Danmaku.
And finally, it stopped.
"*gasp**gasp*"
I'm gasping for breath after that ordeal. I put hands down and one of my knees to the carpet. I searched for Sakuya.
I found her; she's there, still standing on her previous spot.
*Ding*
[3* Defeat the Perfect Maid - complete]
[Reward: 10.000 AP & IP]
"I-I win!" I shouted toward her.
She instantly appears a few feet in front of me.
"Yes, you won but my purpose was to punish you, and from your appearance and screams of pain just now, I fulfilled it." She starts smiling as she said it.
"*gasp* Win the battle but lose the war, eh,…dammit." I wore a tired smile.
She got me good.
"So, what do you want for winning the Danmaku game? It will be fulfilled it so long as it's reasonable."
"Then-""No Girlfriend request." She cut me off.
I look at her, and she looks super serious.
"…Then-""Not even Master Servant request."
She looks super duper serious right now.
"…Sakuya-san, how low is the evaluation of my personality to you?" I asked her.
"I'm sorry, but it is very low." She answered with serious eyes.
…I wish I was a Masochist so that I can enjoy her cold eyes that's looking at me as if I'm a trash, but sadly I'm not, and it's only making me depressed.
"…Can I use the piano when I visit the mansion? And this is my original request before you cut me off every time I tried to speak."
"I see, I already heard your performance; it is okay for you to play it whenever you visit us."
"Great."
*BOOM* The mansion shook.
"Explosion?" Sakuya questioned.
Don't tell me…
"…If my deduction is right then, Marisa use me and Reimu as a distraction to steal a book right now. Sakuya-san, please go to the library and prevent Marisa's theft."
"And you?" she asked.
"Of course, I'm going home, I'm just here for paying back favor from Marisa, you can be sure that I won't invade the mansion again in the future." I gave a thumbs up to Sakuya.
"I see, please be careful on your way home then." She slightly bowed and disappeared.
*BOOM* the mansion shook again.
"*Sigh* I should stay away from the mansion for a while."
And I finally start getting out from the Mansion.
Author note:
Heyo, Author here. Finally, I'm free from SDM chapter now! This is like the final chapter in the EoSD arc. The next chapter, we will feature other area beside the SDM.
And in this chapter, Patchouli perfectly debunks Arah ability in a matter of second, as expected from her occupation: Intellectual, librarian, teacher, and scholar. Like holy shit, for a person with health problem, she's like the role model for all of them.
So, I kinda digging information in the wiki, and what did I found. An interview with ZUN, ZUN comment toward the MC, he said "Their age doesn't change in every games" or something similar. SO MY THEORY IS CORRECT, THEY ARE AGING SLOWLY(maybe), THEY ARE NOT IMMORTAL BUT AGING SLOWLY(maybe).
