20 The Devil Curiosity

-Early Evening, 2nd floor Balcony, SDM-

-Me POV-​

…You know, there's several thing that you need to avoid in Gensokyo, those thing are range from pissing off a certain gap Youkai to stepping on a little flower, from the biggest thing to the smallest thing, and I somehow trigger one of them, and that's is "Grabbing the attention of a bored loli vampire".

"I wonder why nee-sama called you." said little girl with crystal wing beside me.

"Yeah, I wonder too." I said.

"*gasp* is she gonna cure Arahnii-san blindness?!" she gasped.

"I don't think she's the type who would do that and I also think she can't cure any illness either." I said.

"…Then what about nee-sama friend, miss patchouli, she's a magician, I'm sure somehow she can cure Arahnii-san blindness." she said.

I look at the little girl to my left.

"….I sure anyone will become sadder if all you see is darkness in each passing day." she said with lonely tone.

Right now, me and Flandre in the 2nd floor balcony of the mansion, sitting on the table set of said balcony, 3 chairs and a table, both of us occupied two of them, leaving one of them empty but not for long because I think it will occupied soon, and also apparently the balcony facing toward the lake, said Flandre.

As for why me and Flandre in here, well, after I arrive, Sakuya suddenly ask me to follow her, no question ask, no insult whatsoever, she just said "Follow me, Mistress wanted to see you." with serious tone. I knew sooner or later I'll be called by Remilia after what I did with Meiling, a human that can changed their look and voices to be like someone else obviously gonna attract the bored vampire. And as for Flandre, she just tagged along in our way to the balcony.

And speaking of Flandre…

I got up from my chair and stand standing beside Flan.

I sense she titled her head with my action.

I stretch my hand and start patting her head with my left hand.

"Yes but right now, you're out here, you can finally meet with everyone again, and maybe making new friend now, but more importantly." I raise a finger with my other hand. "You can meet with your beloved nee-sama again." I smiled.

'Also if she can't cure her own asthma then how will gonna cure me.' I think.

"…Yeah, Flan know." she said with calmer tone.

I nod to her and start going back to my seat.

"Then what about you Arahnii-san? Are you really fine with it?" she asked.

I nod. "My blindness will go away in 2 more weeks; so Flandre doesn't need worry too much about me." I explain.

"…I see." she said. "…Wait! I got an idea!" she starts getting exited.

Before I start questioning what's wrong, I hear a noise of a chair violently grazing toward the floor, and I sense Flandre rushing toward me.

Again, before I can ask her anything, she's trying to do something with my lap, from this point, I pretty much just letting thing happen, she have much higher level, I can't do shit if she do anything to me, she probably can just kill me through my armor with just a grip, yeah, a grip, because that's how she use her ability.

"Done!" she exclaim.

I wake up from my helplessness and start sensing; Flandre facing her back to me and sitting on my thigh, is she trying to sit on my lap just now?

I sense she turn her head to me, making one of her wing touch me. "From now on and until Arahnii-san cured, Flandre will stay by your side so that Arahnii-san not feeling lonely in our mansion!" she said happily.

I'm surprised with what I hear, I open my eyes and leave my mouth open, that's how surprised I'm.

Slowly as my brain process what Flandre said, my surprised turn into happiness, much happiness.

I grin. "Look at this girl," I ruffle her hair. "Are you trying to be cute or something? Well, if it is, then congratulation, it's working." I said.

"Haha, Flandre is cute!" she exclaim happily.

"Yes, Flandre is very cute." I said.

"Hahaha!" she laughed.

I stop with what I'm doing and lean back to my chair, I'm starting to relax.

'Fuck all the people that depict Flandre as insane murderous child, fuck'em all.' I think.

I sense Flandre also lean back to my chest.

Even though she's shorter than me but because she sit on my thigh, her head nearly touch my jaw.

'…Her hair smells good. Do all girls always have their hair smells goods?' I think.

"Arahnii-san can call me Flan if you want to you know." she said.

I already suspect that Flandre will say something to me after she start leaning so her suddent word doesn't really surprised me.

"…If you say so, Flan." I answer.

With that final word, me and Flandre start relaxing in the balcony.

After a few minute of idleness, I sense 2 magic signatures heading toward our location.

"…Flan, I think your nee-sama and Sakuya-san is gonna come soon, maybe you should go back to your seat now." I suggest.

"Yes!" she got off from me and got back to her chair. "Nee-sama said table manner is important to become a fair lady, even though I didn't interested in something like fair lady but since it sounds important to Nee-sama then I'm gonna do it anyway." she explain.

I nod understandingly. "Wise choice, my dear Flan." I praise.

"Hehe." She sounds embarrassed and proud by it.

Both of us smile, I think? I can't see Flandre face right now but base on her voice, she probably smiling while looking embarrassed at the same time.

And with that timing those two magic signature arrive at the balcony door, based on what I sense, the type of the door is the glasses sliding door thingy, so they probably can see what we were doing before she slide the door open.

*Gruuuk* the sliding door open.

"…Seems like you two already start having some conversation without me, it's a shame that I can't hear what you two are talking about." said a new arrived child voice.

"Nee-sama!" Flandre exclaim happily.

"Is that Remilia-san? It has been a while isn't it? Since the last time we met." I said. 'Yeah, it's been a while, now, GIVE ME YOUR VOICE SAMPLE!' I think.

"I have arrive, Flan, and hello to you too, Arah boy, maybe it's a while for you, but for us, Vampire, it's only a fraction of a moment, and I allow you to just call me Remilia" said Remilia smugly, yeah, smugly, I don't know, fuck me.

Remilia and…Sakuya, I recognize her signature, walk toward us, Sakuya appear at the other side of the table, probably pulling the chair for Remilia to sit.

Remilia walking toward Sakuya location…Did she already sit on the chair?

…if yes, then holy shit, there's no sound what so ever when the chair is getting pulled by Sakuya.

Sakuya teleport again at the side of the table before teleporting back beside Remilia.

"Tea!" Flandre exclaim.

…I sense my pulse.

I sense there's a tea cup in front of all of us, there's also something in the middle of the table, something that resemble a plate, probably a plate, and something clumped up on top of them, probably a cookie.

"Cookie!" Flandre exclaim happily again.

'Thank you, Flandre.' I said inwardly.

And I also send Sakuya holding a tea pot, probably the tea exclusive for this vampire sibling.

"…I see, is that how you see now in your blindness?" Remilia inquired.

"Yeah, I developed it on day one of my condition." I answer.

"Then can you share your story about how you developed this technique." said Remilia.

'Huh, story time is it?' I think.

"Of course, I can do that, but let's take a sip of our tea first shall we?" I said as I reach for my cup of tea.

"What a coincidence, I also thinking the same thing." said Remilia.

"*crunch**crunch*" I hear crunching noises from Flandre direction.

I bring the tea cup to my face and smell it.

Its smell like normal tea, not the green tea one, but the normal tea I used to have back home.

I sip it…must not make any sipping sound or Sakuya gonna be more mad at me.

…it tastes like…tea? Oh wow, guess Sakuya not fucking around when Remilia involved in it, and I'm also surprised that the tea I just drink is a normal one, instead a blood flavored tea.

I placed back the tea cup.

"Now then, I'm sure I was about to tell you about the story isn't it?" I ask.

"Yes, start entertained me." ordered Remilia.

I lightly smile. '…I really hate dealing with this type of person. *sigh* LET THE BULLSHIT BEGIN BOYS!' I think.

"*cough* Well, at that time, when I first accept that I turn completely blind, I start thinking about how will I be able to navigate myself in this darkness, about who can help me to walk in the darkness and about whose successfully can travel in the darkness." I explain.

"…Successfully travel in the dark is it?" Remilia sounded interested by what I said.

I nod. "After thinking for a while, I finally conclude to copy their technique to aid me sensing all my surrounding, maybe you already know it by now, but I'm just gonna say it to make you guess is right, yes, I copy the technique of the bat." I said.

"Bat?" Remilia ask with surprised tone.

'…Wait, there's something strange there with what she said.' I sense something strange in Remilia voice. "…Why did you sound so surprised?" I ask back.

"I believe that bat can see very well in the dark, so I failed to see the correlation between your blindness and the bat vision capability." said Remilia.

'…Whaaaaaaaaaat.' I flabbergasted with what I hear.

I open my eyes in surprised.

[Lv.62 Scarlet Devil, Remilia Scarlet]

Past Lv.61, now Lv.62.

I turn to look at Sakuya.

[Lv.41 Perfect Maid, Izayoi Sakuya]

Past Lv.39, now Lv.41.

I turn again to look at Flandre.

[Lv.? Rainbow Devil, Flandre Scarlet]

No change.

'Seems like everyone leveled up recently.' I think.

"…The color of his eyes…looks like he really did become blind." Remilia said.

"…Arahnii-san, did you always open your eyes every time you surprise?" Flandre ask.

"Well, it's kind of habit that I pick up in this coupled of days, I know I still can't see anything when I opened my eyes, but…you know, it's a reactionary thing." I tried to explain.

"Heeeh, Flandre doesn't really understand, but it seems like it's a troublesome thing to happen." Flandre purely stated.

"Haha, I see." I smile at what Flandre said.

"*cough* Let's go back to the subject shall we. Arah boy, why did you surprised? Did you find something wrong with my previous statement?" Remilia inquire.

I take my thinking pose.

"I'm really sorry, but can I ask you some question first? I promise I will answer your question after that" I said.

"*chuckle* Replying question with another question, how rude, but since I'm such generous person and still curious about what your answer is, I will excuse this behavior. Speak." said Remilia.

"Thank you, well then, Remilia, what do you think about the bat?" I ask.

"Bat? They are just inferior species of us, vampire. They have our night vision, we have some similarity in our feature, majority of them eat fruit and small insect, they are nocturnal, and I more to believe that us, vampire, are the evolution of the bat, if they have enough power to do so." explained Remilia.

"And where did you get this information from?" I ask.

"Some from my magician friend, and I make some bat into my pet in the past." said Remilia.

"…I see." I take a sip of my tea. 'Patchouli probably got the info from just simple observation and from general old book; after all, this subject is not anywhere near anything related with magic.' I think.

"Well, sorry to tell you that some of the thing you said is actually wrong, bats actually have the same visibility like ordinary human." I said.

"What? But they never crash into any wall when they fly, what will you explained that as anything beside they have night vision." Remilia replied.

"Then what if I tell you that they actually use other than their eyes to see in the dark." I start smiling toward Remilia.

"…What…did you just said?" Remilia said with revelation tone.

"Other than the eyes, they actually use their voice to see their surroundings." I drop the truth to her.

"…Voice…" Ponder Remilia. "Explain." she gave her order.

"To be more specific on the subject, they are not using a voice, they are creating a noise." I said.

"…A voice and a noise, what's the difference?" inquire Remilia.

"An example for the voice, it's their cry, and for the noise, they actually kinda special." I continue.

"Special?" ask Remilia.

I nod "Special as in, they can create a noise that only they can hear." I said.

"…And how is that related to their ability to seeing in the darkness?" inquire Remilia.

"Well, they are actually using the noise like this." I sense my pulse. "The noise rebound from the first object they collide with, the rebounded noise giving the bat a mental map about what's in front of him, just like now, from you holding the tea cup and the plate in each hand, Sakuya holding the tea pot handle with her left hand and the bottom with her right hand, and Flandre use both of her hand to eat the cookie." I smile while explaining it.

The silent reign in the room after I finished explaining it.

'…For once I really thank full that I'm currently blind, I'm sure all of them are staring at me, but all I need is just smile at this silent situation and not having eye contact with any of them right now.' I think.

*click* I sense Remilia put down her tea cup with the tea plate on top of the table.

"…Interesting! What an interesting story. Inviting you really is a correct decision. *clap**clap**clap*" Remilia sound exited and lightly clap her hand. "So, where did you find all of those information?" she ask.

"I just read it in some book about animal from the outside world." I reply.

"Outside world is it? No wonder." Remilia said understandingly.

'….Oh no, I got an idea to bullshitting Remilia with imaginary fact now, YOLO.' I think,

"Did you know that the first human that discovered the bat use their noise to see in the darkness is when he saw a bat continuously crashing to the wall inside a room that absorbed any sound?" I said my bullshit.

"Is that so? No wonder the outside world known how bat work,…wait, if the room is dark, how is that human see the bat keep crashing into the wall?" ask Remilia.

"Well, that human actually a magician, and he used a night vision spell to see in the darkness." I said more bullshit.

"..But then why is he and that bat in the same room together?" she continue asking me.

"The room actually is his room, he can't afford to buy a candle, that's why he used his night vision magic instead, as for the bat, it just coincidently get into his room." I said more and more bullshit.

"I see, seems like the outside world magician is having it hard living there." Remilia said understandingly.

"Yeah, I think so too." I nod understandingly too to make my word believable.

I tried to take a sip of my tea but apparently it's already empty.

"Sakuya-san, can I have a second please?" I said to Sakuya direction.

I sense Sakuya appear beside me.

I hear and feel my tea cup in my hand getting heavier and filled again, three second later Sakuya reappear again beside Remilia.

I take a sip again to my now full tea cup again.

"For the record, if you plan to take a bat as a pet again in the future, please sanitized them first, they prone to carry some type of disease after all." I gave a warning to Remilia.

"Noted." confirm Remilia.

'…She probably gonna captured some bat to become her pet now that I bring a bat story to her, and she probably gonna lose interest to that bat in a week or two, just like children.' I think.

"Now then, let's go the main course shall we?" She said. "I hear what you did to Meiling, show it to me." ordered Remilia.

'…And finally it comes, I'm wondering when will she bring this topic up. After all, this is probably the reason why she called me.' I think.

I sense Flandre looking between me and her sister, I bet she's confused with what she said.

"All right, but I only can completely turn into Flandre or Sakuya-san in this mansion." I said.

"Oh, why is that?" Remilia ask.

"Because they are the only one with enough voice samples to make my voice similar to them." I explained. 'There's no need to lie to them, nor do I need to lie beside to troll people in Gensokyo, now I live in here, I need to stay in people good side.' I think.

"I see, but you just said "in this mansion" in your statement, is that mean you can turn into other people from outside the mansion?" Remilia inquire.

I smile to her direction. "You said you need other permission if I turn into other people, isn't right Mistress Remilia?" I gave her a hint that the one who gave me her message is Sakuya.

"…*chuckle* Indeed, I did said those word. I gave you my permission to change into Sakuya." said Remilia.

I turn my head toward Sakuya.

"I follow every Mistress whishes, if she said you can use my body as you like, then so be it." said Sakuya.

"C-can you not wording it like that? I only gonna borrow your appearance and your voice." I reply hurriedly.

"But isn't that the truth, you human boy probably gonna do it if I gave you the chance and permission to do it." tease Remilia.

"I rather not, I only gonna do it if the person itself gave me her permission. Beside your mansion probably gonna be destroyed if your chief maid is unavailable because she is pregnant." I counter Remilia.

"Is that so?" ask Remilia amusingly.

'A blind boy Vs a Loli Vampire, what a laughable situation, and people probably laughing at me and not with me.' I think.

"What is the connection between using Sakuya and she is becoming pregnant?" a child like voice can be heard beside me.

Her voice clearly small but somehow her voice can be heard echoed clearly in the room.

I slowly look at Flandre direction.

"Why?" Flandre ask again.

"""…""" all of us suddenly turn quiet.

'ABORT! ABORT! ABORT THE MISSION! THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THE ROOM! ABORT!' I scream in my mind.

"W-well, Flandre, actually-""When someone pregnant isn't that supposed to be when the stork bird delivering their babies?" Flandre innocently ask her question.

'SHE'S SO INNOCENT! SHE'S SHINING! EVEN THOUGH I'M BLINDED, I CAN SEE SHE'S SHINGING BRIGHTLY RIGHT NOW!' I scream inwardly. 'Gotta send the life boat to Remilia, even though I think what I'm gonna say is useless…' I think.

"W-well, Flan, we will tell you when you are older like Remilia, okay?" I said.

"Y-yes, Young Mistress, we will definitely tell you about it when you are older like Mistress." Sakuya hurriedly followed me up.

"When I'm older like Nee-sama? That mean I just need to wait 5 more years right?!" Flandre said excitedly.

'You guys probably known this but for anyone that didn't, the age different between Remilia and Flandre are only 5 years apart.' I think.

I look at Remilia direction.

"Change! Now!" Remilia ordered.

'Now she's using me as a distraction, not that I complain about it tho.' I think.

I touch the choker on my neck.

'System, full change into Izayoi Sakuya.' I order the system inwardly.

[Full Change: Izayoi Sakuya]

*kyu-kyu-kyu* comes the sound effect for the transformation.

I open my eyes for full effect.

"Wow! Arahnii-san turned into Sakuya!" shout Flandre excitedly.

'Good job!' I can imagine the other two said those word coming inwardly.

"To put it simply, that's what happen, Young Mistress." I said with Sakuya voices.

"Young Mistress?" Flandre ask.

"Sakuya-san probably gonna be mad at me if I didn't act like her when I speak to the both you." I explained my reasoning.

"What is this? You scared of her?" Remilia teased.

"No, it's a bad feeling if you're getting hated by a beautiful girl." I gave my reasoning.

"…Philanderer." I heard Sakuya said it.

"What's a Philanderer?" Flandre ask again.

'…Oh boy.' I think tiredly.

-Late Evening, Library, SDM-

-Sakuya POV-​

I start thinking back at that chaotic early Mistress meeting with the Human Boy; somehow we could dodge all of Young Mistress question, and we end the meeting by giving more piano lesson to Young Mistress by that boy.

Right now, me and my Mistress in Miss Patchouli Library, as for Young Mistress, she's already long asleep sometimes ago.

The reason why we are here is because my Mistress wanted to tell what happen in that meeting with the boy to her friend, Miss Patchouli.

My Mistress and Miss Patchouli sitting on one of the table set in the Library. My Mistress is talking while her friend keep reading her book, whoever that didn't know these people before hand probably said the one reading book is having bad manner when they see this situation, but the truth is she's listening to what my Mistress said while reading her book at the same time. She only look away from her book when there's important enough detail to be pointed by her.

"Outside World knowledge is it? Maybe it's worth it to meet that boy after all." said Miss Patchouli while still reading.

My Mistress still continuing her stories, after a few second later she looked away from her book.

"What? You people said what to Flandre?" she asked.

Miss Patchouli turned to look at me.

I bowed apologetically to her.

"*groan* She probably gonna search for me to ask about what you people said in that meeting." She groaned tiredly. "It will be good if she just forgot about it when tomorrow comes." she said.

"Me too Patche, me too." said my Mistress.

'Me too, Mistress.' I said it too, inwardly.

Author note:

Heyo, Author here. My final project still going and somehow I can slip enough time to make this chapter to you guys, fuck my life dude, I hate going to the higher education, I only need internet in my life.

About Remilia opinion about bat is original on my part, I figure Remilia doesn't know about bat because they don't falsely pointed out a Chupacabra from a Tupai (Monggose thingy, not the Indonesian word for Squirrel, I don't know. I'm Indonesian btw.) In Forbidden Scrollery.

So yeah, 2 more weeks until Arah cured from his blindness, 1 more month until winter comes, 4 more months until PCB incident starts.