Touhou Gensokyo Girls

Episode 3: Timeless maiden (Dial Connection)


SCARLET DEVIL MANSION: midday

As the midday sun shined over the Scarlet mansion, some fairies were flying around the forest and over the lake. Sakuya was once again preparing tea for the mistress of the mansion.

"Is the tea ready now Sakuya? I am thirsty!" Remilia impatiently asked, it was almost a whining noise.

Being used to her mistress's quirks, Sakuya replied in a calm manner, "In a minute my lady, please go sit down in the living room, I will bring it to you shortly." Sakuya then stopped time to get it done much faster.

But when she walked to the living room, something came down from above and landed behind her and yelled, "GOOD MORNING SAKUYA!" It was the little vampire Flandre who seemed in a good mood that morning.

Sakuya got so startled that she dropped the tea, but with her fast reflexes and control over time, she caught it before it hit the floor. "My, you startled me, and good morning milady, please don't do that again."

Flandre just stood there and smiled without caring whatsoever.

After that scare, Sakuya then resumed bringing the tea to her mistress, "It's ready now, Mistress."

"So what's today's tea?" Remilia asked curiously.

Sakuya smiled and replied, "Only the pure rare stuff for your enjoyment."

"Yay! You always know what I like." Honestly, the image of Remilia at that moment was like a kid getting presents. She didn't act like that or course, but it was the same impression.

With a smile Sakuya replied warmly, "Of course I do Mistress."

"Tell me, where is Patchouli and Koakuma today? I did not see them in the Library." Remilia asked wondering where they could be.

As if remembering something, Sakuya put a finger to her chin, "Oh, they left early, they said something about an experiment they wanted to test."

"Then it is just you, me, and Flandre." Remilia muttered in a peaceful tone.

"It is." Sakuya mimicked the serenity that was present in Remilia's voice.

Remilia sipped the last of her tea and took a gaze outside, "Today looks like a fine day to sit on the balcony. Sakuya, wouldn't it be great with some sweets?" she nudged her maid along.

"Certainly Mistress, would you like some sweets as well, lady Flandre?" Sakuya asked as Flandre entered the living room.

"Yay, sweets." Flandre ecstatically cheered.


The two young looking vampires went out to the balcony, sat down and waited a moment for Sakuya to arrive with the sweets, after some time Flandre got bored and left them to go look around the mansion. Remilia sat there, enjoying the peacefulness.

Sakuya noticed something out in the distance, upon further looking, she recognised it as the other two inhabitants of the Scarlet mansion, "They returned... it looks like something went wrong."

"What!" Remilia asked as rose up from her chair.

As they watched from the Balcony, they could see that Koakuma looked perfectly fine, but Patchouli on the other hand, was covered in dirt and her clothes were torn apart everywhere, she couldn't even walk anymore, so Meiling carried her.

"What happened to you Patchy?" Remilia asked urgently, as she and Sakuya stood at the front door.

Koakuma answered as Patchouli was still trying to recover, "Well, at first it was going fine, but then when lady Patchouli was making the last part ready…"

Finishing the sentences Patchouli continued, "It EXPLODED! ...Right in front of me..."

Remilia, now more relieved, said, "Well take a long bath. Sakuya get her some new clothes."

"Of course." Sakuya then hurried towards the walk-in closet with Patchouli's dresses.


After a long relaxing bath and a new change of clothes, Patchouli made her way to the library, "Koakuma, have you found the missing ingredients yet?" she asked.

Koakuma looked up from her search to look at Patchouli, "No, still looking." then continued her searching.

"It must be here somewhere, or it will just blow up again. I don't think I'd care for a second try of that." Patchouli made a wry face as she dwelt on the bad experience she had.

"Maybe you should combine it with cured black grass." Marisa popped up from behind a bookshelf.

Distracted as she was, Patchouli just replied, "Yeah that might have worke- MARISA! What are you doing here!?"

Marisa just lightly smacked her on the shoulder, "Relax Patchy, I just came over to play with Flandre, besides passing China wasn't that hard on my way in. I guess I got distracted by your books again. I've been sorting them into a borrow and don't borrow pile."

"YOU DID WHAT!?" Patchouli exclaimed, but before she could continue her discussion on ill-mannered behaviour, Koakuma came and interrupted them.

Not really paying attention to the mood between the two of them, she just walked up to them and said, "Marisa is right, I just looked it up."

Sighing deeply, as she just about gave up on it all, Patchouli addressed her familiar, "Then Koakuma, can you go and get some cured black grass."

Chiming in as she always did, she answered, "I am on it."

Having heard Marisa's voice, Flandre smashed her way into the library, the poor door didn't stand a chance, "MAAARIIISAAA!" After the initial impact when Flandre glomped her, she continued her conversation, "What are you reading?"

"Just... some... of Patchy's books... please let go..." Marisa, with great effort, tried to explain herself, through her lack of lung capacity. "Now I know how Patchy feels about breathing."

Flandre stood back on the floor and Marisa fell to her knees, "Books are boring, and so very few of them have pictures in them."

Getting up from said floor Marisa said, "This one WAS very exciting." At that moment, Sakuya came in to check on the commotion.

It was clear that Flandre didn't care about the book when she continued talking, "Come on, let's have some fun, I have been practicing on some new spell patterns."

"And destroyed your room in the process!" There was a slight distaste in Sakuya's statement. She made a wry face when she recalled the incident, "It took forever to clean up and rebuild."

"And how long was that?" Marisa asked curiously.

Sakuya shuddered, "THREE WEEKS! But in the normal timeline it was about half an hour. Please don't do that again, lady Flandre."

Flandre bared her fangs as she grinned like a child.

Marisa shrugged, "That's life."

"Miss Kirisame, will you be staying for dinner?" Sakuya asked politely.

"What's for dinner?" Marisa replied questioningly.

Sakuya answered like she always did, "the menu is chicken in blood sauce."

"YAY! My favorite, please say yes Marisa, it's REALLY tasty!." Flandre exploded with joy.

Marisa raised an eyebrow sceptically, "Do I dare ask what kind of blood?"

"Human blood." Sakuya stated in her most neutral voice, there was a hint of chuckling in it, however.

Marisa retorted in a deadpan voice, "Why did I bother asking."

Still being politeness itself. Sakuya smiled, "I will take that as a yes, so I'll go inform the mistress." then she walked away.

"Yay, I'll have a friend over for dinner." Flandre twirled on the spot.

Marisa shrugged her shoulders, indicating a 'why not' fashion, "Great, where are the salt, pepper and maybe some ketchup to even it out."

Puzzled Flandre asked, "What?" She didn't know why Marisa wanted to ruin the dish.

Marisa remembered that Flandre wouldn't get the joke, "Nothing."

A few minutes after, the remnants of the door was opened by a puzzled Koakuma, "Lady Patchouli, I got cured black grass."

Looking up from her book Patchouli nodded, "Good, let's try again."

"Should be fun to watch ya, *ZE*" Marisa grinned as wickedly as she could.

"I hope it will go Kyuu!" Flandre laughed almost as wickedly as Marisa.

"And I hope not!" Patchouli sighed deeply, "Oh no, WHY ME!?" It was only her self-control that prevented her from reaching her hands to the sky in despair.

Patchouli and her assistant began their experiment anew, this time with an audience. Marisa looked interested over Patchouli's shoulder, while Flandre floated around because she was bored. After their project was finished, Koakuma informed Remilia that they would go out and try it.


Sitting on the balcony, the maid and the lady watched them depart.

"You are not going with them?" Sakuya asked, puzzled as the Mistress always preferred to keep a personal watch over her little sister.

shaking her head slightly, it was evident that Remilia had full confidence in them, though she would never admit that to them, "No, I trust the three of them can handle Flandre, if she get's out of control."

"Very well then, I will go and prepare dinner." And with those words Sakuya took off for the kitchen.

Out on the field, a dazzling display of beautiful blue flames that lit up the night, dancing wildly across the night sky for several hours.

With the success shining in her eyes, Koakuma uttered, "its working, it's working."

"We finally got it right." Patchouli said with a content note of satisfaction in her voice.

"I could do that better." What Marisa said wasn't exactly to put down their success, she was merely trying to impress them.

"Yeah, yours are so much flashier." Flandre was still impressed by Marisa's last experiment.

Patchouli couldn't care less, "Whatever." she was in no mood for competition.

"But without her help, it wouldn't have worked." Koakuma said in earnest.

"I don't care! We would have figured it out, sooner or later." It was evident that Patchouli was irritated, and Marisa loved every second of it, pissing off Patchouli even further, "Kokuma, why are you helping the enemy?!"

"Ooh someone is getting jealous." Marisa snickered again.

Patchouli snapped, like a twig, "Shut up Marisa! You're the one who always steals my books and spells."

"*ZE*" Marisa replied with a fox-like grin.

Patchouli's blood was about to boil over, but she realized the futility of the situation, instead she let out a huge sigh, and let the matter drop, not really wanting to continue the discussion that got nowhere.

Later at the scarlet dinner table and the bloody chicken was served, Flandre, Remilia, Patchouli and Koakuma where eating it like it was the last meal in their life.

Marisa on the other hand had a difficult time just keeping it down, "man, this just feels like eating blood, it's barely cooked and it feels so weird to chew on, this is the last time I stay for dinner."

Nearly everyone was so caught up in their meal, that they did not notice Marisa's discomfort, only Sakuya seemed to notice it, "Is something wrong Miss Kirisame? You have barely touched your food." She asked in concern.

"Nor have you." Marisa just retorted.

"I am a maid, I do not eat in the presence of my Mistress." Sakuya answered in a mild mannered voice.

Marisa looked at her with a lifted eyebrow, "You do have to eat eventually."

"Of course I do." Sakuya's facial expression showed signs of 'what did you expect' all over it.

"So you do have some 'real food' in this life forsaken dungeon." Marisa implied with a slight acid tone.

"Come with me to the kitchen, we can't have our guests go hungry now, can we." She led her to the kitchen with those words, and gave Marisa some human food, such as bread and vegetables.

Marisa shrugged as she was given the food on a plate, "Fourteenth time I have had bread in my life, you don't have some meat or something else to eat?"

Slightly shaking her head, Sakuya said calmly, "all meat is for the ladies of the house."

"So you are a vegetarian?" Marisa asked.

Sakuya nodded, "Ever since I came here, I have been one, yes."

"How did you end up working for Vampires anyway?" Marisa asked very curiously.

"I am sorry, but I can't talk about it." Sakuya denied Marisa's request.

Marisa used her lady killer smile to try and charm her way to an answer, "Come on~ you know I can keep a secret~"

Sakuya felt a sudden urge to tell her everything, but stopped herself before revealing anything, "No! Just no."

Marisa could sense there was something valuable about this story and as such decided to get to the bottom of it, but through a different way, "No matter, someone else might know as well."


After finishing her meal in the kitchen, Marisa left, only to run into Flandre in the hallway.

Flandre smiled as she locked eyes with her best friend, "There you are Marisa, let's go out and have a fight."

"You're on." Marisa replied, complete with her usual cockiness.

The two of them went outside to test out some of their newest arsenals of danmaku, out in the night, a blazing battle took place above the Scarlet mansion, sometimes stray blast bolts were heading in the Scarlet mansion's direction, so Sakuya had to jump in and redirect the bolts in order to save the mansion from total annihilation.

Outside in the Scarlet garden, Marisa and Flandre sat, after their rather intense, battle, side by side, on the soft grass resting.

Marisa was the first to break the silence, "Do you know how Sakuya came to be with you vampires?"

Flandre hesitated for a second, in order to think, "I don't know, back then, I was locked down in the basement, it was my sister that gave me food, it was many years later, that I was introduced to Sakuya, and the way sister talked about her back then, it sounded like she had always been here."

"Weird, is that all you know?" Marisa asked as she made a questioning face.

"It really is all I know," Flandre replied honestly, then went on to say, "I am actually getting curious about it as well."

Marisa smiled satisfyingly, "Excellent, but remember, be quiet about it, I doubt they are just going to tell you anything if you asked directly, be cunning."

"Got it, Marisa." Halfway through saying that, she rests her head on Marisa's shoulder, a look of contentment on her face.

In the distance Meiling stood watching them, because they were the 'only interesting things' to look at, "How nice, she finally found a friend." She went silent for some time, "Though, that looks to me more than just friendly to me. You can do it young lady. I'm cheering you on."then she shook her head dismissively, "You are dreaming again Meiling."