63 Scarlet Bond part 1
Altered East 04: Scarlet Bond part 1
AN: My procrastinating habit keeps acting up in this couple of weeks, the fasting months for my religion also doesn't help the case, I know this probably sounds like, I just making excuses, so, bleh, whatever, 3k words chapter, enjoy.
Editor: the guy (Questionable Questing)
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-Remilia POV-
"Make us proud, Remilia." my father said.
"Don't smear the Scarlet name by any means."My Mother said.
Their words have guided me for many years.
"Become the best."
"Don't show any weakness."
""Don't disappoint us."" both of them had said.
The scene blurred.
"Medic! Get the medic over there!" shouted the Announcer.
"Drop your weapon this instance, Participant Scarlet!" ordered the Referee.
Blood, blood on my fencing sabre, and blood on my opponent.
I earned a nickname because of this scene, the Blood Fencer. Even thought the opponent only reopened an old wound, they still called me by that nickname.
The scene blurred again.
"…Big sis, what should I do?"
My sister, Flandre Scarlet, cried as she holds our pet dog, Betty.
"…Betty looks strange."
Betty's neck looks strange, Betty's eyes looks strange, and Flandre also looks strange.
"…Why won't she move?"
Flandre shook Betty lightly,
"…And why does this stuff smell so…good?"
Bloods dripped down from Flandre's hands.
"…Big sis, what should I do?"
Flandre's eyes start glowing red.
"…What should I do?"
And then everything fades to black.
-Morning, Scarlet Devil Mansion-
I slowly opened my eyes, and a familiar ceiling greeted me.
I heard birds chirping outside, signifying that it's already morning.
"…What an unpleasant dream."
I get up to my sitting position and then I proceed to stretch out on top of the bed.
"…Uuu…Haaa~." after I'm satisfied with the feeling, I leave the bed and then slowly walk into my personal bathroom at the corner of the room.
As I walk, I peel off my sleeping ware one by one, and when I took off my last piece of undergarment, I finally arrived at the bathroom.
I took a few minutes to shower and by the time I'm finished, my personal maid, Izayoi Sakuya was already waiting for me behind the door with a towel in her hands.
I wordlessly raised my arms, and that's the only cue for her to start drying me up. By the time she finished, I'm already wearing a new piece of underwear.
We moved over to the makeup table for preparing me for the day.
"Sakuya, what's my plan for today?" I asked.
"Besides going to the Academy, there's nothing in the morning. After the Academy, you need to attend the Fencing Club meeting, and finally in the evening you need to feed the young mistress." she said as she brushes my hair.
"…Ah, it's that time already. I see." I acknowledge what I heard.
"I have already prepared the necessary documents for your school leave tomorrow."
"Good job, Sakuya." while I said that, Sakuya was already moving to put my school uniform on me.
"Thank you for your praise, my Mistress." she with a satisfied smile.
A few more seconds passed and she finished, I look at myself in the mirror.
Neat short blue hair, natural beauty without any makeup, pristine scarlet eyes, a white clean shirt with a black tie and a black coat that has Touhou Academy's insignia on its left chest area, and a black skirt with my personal pantyhose.
"Perfect." I said smiling.
I wear my indoor slippers before I left my room. I went down the stairs to go to the mansion's dining room. When I arrive, there's already a simple breakfast that should fill my appetite easily on the dining table.
"Meiling?" I asked as I sat on the dining chair.
"Watering the Garden." Sakuya replied.
"Hm, I see." I hummed.
I start eating the food elegantly and cleanly without creating any stain on me, after I finish, I proceed to start walking to school.
Holding the school handbag that Sakuya gave me along the way, I go out from the Mansion's entrance door. At the front of the Mansion there's the Mansion Garden, and of course, since I have a garden I need a gardener as well.
I see a young woman in a green track suit looking at us while watering the garden, it seems like the sound of opening the door alerted her about our arrival.
"Ah, good morning, Mistress and also Sakuya-san." she greeted us.
"Good morning to you too, Meiling." I greeted her back.
"We'll be going on ahead and don't forget to lock the gate too, Meiling." warned Sakuya.
"Of course, don't worry about it." said Meiling confidently.
I know that I'm coming from a wealthy family but I dont go to school using any vehicle like in the past, mainly the reason for that is because of my economic situation, they only gave me a set amount of money to live by, they called it "independent training" but I called it "banishment" instead.
Knowing this my loyal servants followed me here, and they already helping me by taking a job, increasing our income money to become more than stable.
The job that they took was to be a teacher in my school. I knew that if you wanted to teach, you need a license for it, but The Touhou Academy's Headmistress made an exception for their extraordinary talent.
Sakuya as a teacher in "Ethic & Manner" and "Home Ed".
And Meiling in "Physical Exercise" and "Self Defense".
To become a teacher at their young age, I knew they were an extraordinary ones, adding the fact that there's this one teacher that's much younger than them, this world is truly filled with amazing people, including myself of course!
Anyway, back to going to the school, I just think this as an exercise, it'll be healthy for my body. And so we went to school by walking.
As we walk on the street, more and more students can be seen walking toward the same direction we're going.
"Good morning, Sakuya-sensei, Remilia-san."
A random female student greeted us.
"Good morning, student Suzuha Tsukime." Sakuya greeted her back while I just gave her a nod before she goes on ahead.
Sakuya is apparently popular with the students, I may be wrong but I heard that the reason as to why they like her was because she's a real maid. To be honest, it's a strange reason for someone to be popular, also does that mean that there's also a fake maid? Why are they called fake? What's the difference?
While I'm having such thoughts, another student coming closer to us, and a male one at that.
"G-good morning, sensei." greeted the male student.
"Good morning, random male student." Sakuya greeted him coldly.
The male student immediately clutch his heart, it's as if he had a heart attack after he talked to Sakuya. After he falls to the ground, many male students quickly approach him, and then they start…mercilessly stomping him?
I tilted my head.
"…What are they doing?" I wondered.
"Don't worry about them Mistress, commoner things really are difficult to understand from our point of view." said Sakuya.
"I see, let us go then." and we continue our walk.
After a while, we finally arrive at the schools front gate. The front gate is quite tall, its height is roughly equal to 4 times of human adult, so in theory, it's impossible to leap pass the gate in a single jump. But according to the rumor, there was someone that already did that inhuman feat.
I start frowning as I remembered what happened a week ago.
'…Someday, we'll definitely have our revenge someday.' I think while we passed through the school gate.
-Afternoon, Classroom-
"Correct, splendid answer as always, Remilia-san."
"Thank you for the praise, teacher."
And then I sat back on my seat.
Always answered teacher question correctly, always placed top in my class, it is the truth if I said that I'm the smartest among other students, after all, if you want to maintain your scholarship, you need to be at the top all the time.
After some more hours, the school finally ends.
I finish packing away all my books and start moving toward the Fencing Club. It'll be awhile for Sakuya to finish things on her side, so I'm moving ahead by myself.
In the hallway, I walked by a lot of students, some of them just gave me a glance before ignoring me to keep going toward their own place to be, some of them knows me and then they move away from me, resulting in a wider space for me to walk, even though they walk in the opposite different from me.
'Can they just do anything else instead of getting scared? It's annoying and boring to look at. It'll be more enjoyable to me if their fear turned into awe instead. It will be more productive for them to think like that, moreover, that way they'll always applaud me after I did something amazing.' I start smirking as I've that kind of thought, which scare those people more as I met them in the hallway.
I believed the reason for their behavior was because of my worrisome fencing-title. `I don't even have my fencing gear, why would they even worry that I would hurt them? What a bunch of cowards!' I thought some more.
Aside from cowardly people, there's also other interesting thing in here.
I stop for a moment in a certain spot in the hallway. It's one of the school billboards, and one of the papers on it draws my attention. It shows the "newest" issue from the newspaper club, complete with a picture of a man in full black clothing leaping over the front school gate.
[BUNBUNMARU NEWS CORNER
MYSTERIOUS MASKED INTRUDER!!
IS IT REALLY JUST AN EMERGENCY DRILL?! OR MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING MORE TO IT?!
THE TRUTH WON'T BE KEPT AWAY FROM US!!]
The Masked Intruder.
That's what everyone called him, except for the female student. They called him the Masked Pervert instead.
At that time, I ordered Sakuya to stop him, but unexpectedly, he beat Sakuya, he also humiliated her by destroying her maid uniform to pieces.
"…Kill…"
Was what Sakuya said when I asked her what she will do when she found him again. I swore the room temperature suddenly went down when she said that.
Anyway, "Emergency Drill", that is their official statement as to what was going on at that day, obviously I tried to charge them for damaging Sakuya's uniform, which went pretty easily.
"…Where is he?"
"W-w-we don't know!"
"…Where is he?"
"I-i-i-i-it's the t-t-truth! W-we don't know where he is!"
"…Where is he?"
"T-t-the Headmistress! Only she knew where he is!"
"…Where?"
"P-p-p-please forgive me! I'm just a normal staff! I don't know anything!"
To tell you the truth, my leg can't stop shaking when that happened, it's scary but I'm glad that she's my servant. After the "interrogation", we started searching for the Headmistress, but then we were denied by the guard from meeting with her, even with Sakuya's stare they stand their ground. They really are doing their job!
With that final thought, I resume moving toward the Fencing Club room.
-Late Afternoon, School Library-
"…"
"…"
We both didn't say anything and just wordlessly flip our book's page.
"…"
"..."
The room is filled with silent because the only people in this room are the two of us.
"…"
"…I'm bored."
And I'm the first one who broke the silent.
"…"
"…I'm bored." I look at the girl next to me as I said that word again.
With long purple hair and round glasses, my friend, Patchouli Knowledge, make a tired expression as she read her book.
"…What happened to your Fencing Club Meeting? Aren't you supposed to be there today?"
"Yes, I did, and they only talk about the upcoming tournament, so I told them to just include me in there and excuse myself early."
"I see. Then doesn't that mean you're supposed to be training for the upcoming tournament right?" she replied while still looking at her book.
"Yes, that's indeed what I should be doing."
"…Then why are you here right now?"
"Obviously because I'm feeling lazy right now!" I said with confidence.
"…" her expression turned sour.
"Hahahaha!" I laugh at her reaction.
She sighs.
"…Today is the 'feeding' day, isn't it?"
"!!" my whole body froze.
"…As expected."
My smile slowly disappeared and my body slowly slumping forward.
*thud* I softly face planting myself on the desk.
"Why won't you just leave it to your servant? Or just used other method, use a blood bag instead." suggest Patchouli.
I moved my head and positioned it so that I could see her from the side angle.
"…No, this is my duty and responsibility as her older sister, I won't let anybody else do it, and also, we already bought and used it last time, now we still don't have the money to buy another one." I explained.
She sighs again after hearing my reply.
"Seriously, sooner or later you'll die from this you know."
"…"
And the room turned silent once again.
I turned my head to look at the Library's window, the sky still shining brightly, indicating that it's still afternoon in time. Sakuya is still working on her paper and Meiling also does the same.
'Let's change to another topic.' I thought. "…Hey Patche." I called my friend's nickname.
"Hmm~?" she hummed questioningly.
"What do you think about the Masked Intruder?"
"He's a freak of nature." she answered without hesitation.
I blink.
I correct my sitting posture and stare at her.
"From the guard, dodging the stun gun. From the student, beating and stripping your maid. From the photo, jumping over the Front Gate." she readjust her glasses before continuing. "Dodging the stun gun, you could say that he has great reflexes or anticipating the stun gun shot before hand, then the fight between him and your maid happened and he won the fight with your maid, this mean that he has bigger combat experience than her. After that, he leaps over the gate, not climbing it."
Her eyes meet mine.
"Technically, if you want to go over the gate, climbing over it is the only way to do it in theory, and leaping over it is not an option with the reason of the gate's height is impossibly high to do it, but according to the eye witnesses, the Masked Intruder did it with ease and he never even touch the gate."
"So you mean, he's some sort of super human?"
"Very likely, but I believe he's more than that. Remi, what kind of weapon did he used to cut your maid's clothes to pieces?"
"Huh? Weapon? Of course, he used…" and I start remembering the scene. "…nothing. There's nothing in his hand at that time." I start frowning.
Patchouli expression mirrored mine. "I see, the most logical answer to this is that he used his finger nail, but we both know that there's more to it. 'Freak of Nature' or 'SuperHuman' might not be the best to describe him anymore."
She paused for a moment, letting that info to sink in to our head first.
"I don't know what kind of things attract him to this place, but it's best if we stay out of it, including your maid, I knew she probably hold a grudge towards him, but tell her not to do it, for her own safety."
"…I'll think about it later."
"Good enough." she looks satisfied with my answer.
And then we wasted our time with another small talk until Sakuya pick me up to go home.
-Evening, Scarlet Devil Mansion-
"A healer?" I asked.
"Yes, that was what he claimed to be when he approaches Me." said Meiling.
Currently we're in front of our mansion's gate, it started when me and Sakuya walked back home, we then noticed a woman with a green tracksuit, Meiling, just standing around in front of our mansion's gate, apparently someone approach her when she's about to unlocking the gate.
"Is he some kind of Religion Recruiter? You shooed him away right?" I said annoyed.
"Mistress, I think this is more serious than we thought, hence why I'm waiting for you at the gate. " Meiling said with a serious expression.
"…'Serious'? Explain."
"Well, first off, he's not trying to recruit me into any religion. He actually said that he wants to heal the little girl inside the mansion."
…
I glare toward Meiling.
"I never talk or even asked about her inside the school."
I turned toward Sakuya.
"The same reason as Meiling, Mistress."
And then I start thinking.
'There's no way it was because of my talk with Patchouli this afternoon, right? But the timing is just too perfect.' I thought. "... did the man have anything more to say after that?"
"Actually, yes, he was. 'He could heal anything, from muscle ache to cancer'."
…Suspicious.
"Did he say anything else?"
"Yeah, 'I'm a good healer, trust me', and then he gave me a thumbs up, like this." Meiling raised one of her thumbs upward.
Definitely suspicious!
"…So, where is he now?" I asked as I look around.
"He had already left, but he said that he'll come back again at 9 o'clock."
I feel worried.
"Don't worry about it, Mistress. I'll keep a look out for his arrival later." said Sakuya.
"Then I'm counting on you, Sakuya." then I motion "So, Meiling, what this healer looks like?" I asked.
"Hmm, he's all black, by all black I mean, he's wearing a black Yukata, black jeans, black shirt, his hair also black, …oh right, his Yukata also has a kanji word in the back, it read as Touhou(East)." Meiling said as she starts opening the gate for us.
"…All black and Touhou? Is it the Touhou Academy? Are they finally poking their nose around me now? …Hm??" I tilted my head, 'I feel like I'm missing something.' I though.
"…It's him."
The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.
Me and Meiling slowly turned our head to look at Sakuya.
She's smiling gleefully, but her eyes, I actually felt a chill when I look at them.
"L-let us go in first, s-shall we?! W-we shouldn't stand in front of the gate!" Meiling stutters out.
"Y-yeah, get inside first!" I also stutter.
"Yes, we should prepare things in advance." said Sakuya with a 'happy' tone.
I won't deny that we walked a little bit faster than the usual.
We eat dinner and done our other personal things, until finally.
I stare at the underground room door.
"All right, calm down me, I've already done this a lot of times, everything is gonna be okay." I said trying to calm myself.
"Don't worry, Mistress, I'll always by your side." said Sakuya next to me while holding a med kit.
I give her my thankful look before turning back toward the door.
I breathe in and breathe out.
I unlock the door with the key and then reach for the handle.
It turned and the door slowly opened.
Author Note:
I knew it's late but MinusT finally released his new works! Brambly Boundary! SA Extra Stage! Koishi vs Reimu! The scene when Koishi looks so happy that Reimu finally could see her through her unstable existence is so cute!
I kinda forgot about it, but here the info about people's age in this world:
Arah : 25 years old. (he stop his aging at 20)
Yukari : 27 years old.
Yuyuko : 25 years old.
Youmu : 16 years old.
Ran : 5 years old.
Chen : 1 years old.
Akyuu : 15 years old.
Remilia : 15 years old.
Flandre : 14 years old.
Sakuya : 21 years old.
Meiling : 23 years old.
Patchouli: 16 years old.
Koakuma: 5 years old.
I know that some character hasn't made their appearance yet, but this is what I think their age number is in my imagination.
