We walk into the mansion and I close the doors behind us. While there are no windows in the room we are currently in, what looks to be an entry hall with a staircase in the front, is nicely lit and the rooms are much bigger on the inside.
"This place is much bigger on the inside than it is outside..."
"Yeah... How do you think this was done?" I look at Cirno and answered her.
"Magic maybe? I mean you can create ice so it must be possible, and it seems like the owner of the home is either not in this part of the house or isn't here right now... Should we wait a bit?" Cirno shrugs her shoulders and we stood there a little bit. Waiting for whoever would meet us. As we stand there I was lost in thought, trying to figure out how I was able to break the ice on my arm and have it not freeze my spine.
'How in the hell did I do that anyways? Was the ice weak enough for me to break it? And why did the ice on my back feel nice (heh) and not freezing my spine to the core?' After a while we heard two sets of footsteps from up the stairs. Coming down the stairs was a small, red-eyed, purple haired girl with a pink hat and dress came down accompanied by a blue-eyed, white haired girl in a maid outfit was alongside her.
'The girl in the maid uniform obviously works here and the little girl must be a resident of this place... Or she could be the owner.' The girl then spoke to us in a fake and exaggerated noblewoman-like accent.
"Hello, and welcome! I am Remilia Scarlet! And this is my maid Sakuya! What brings you two here to my humble abode?" I glance at the girl and it looks like she's trying to hold in her laughter. I then look over to the maid. The maid has her hand on her head as she shakes it. She gives me a shrug of her shoulders as she returns my gaze.
"Well, that throws my original plan out the window." The girl rests her head in one of her hands.
"What do you mean by that, my unannounced guest?"
"I was going to act like I was from some important family that learned how do other things from his mom, like steal stuff of importance. But since you aren't what I pictured at all, no offence, and the way you act... It's kinda not needed. Though I did kinda break in here to ask you for a place to rest..." The girl giggled, obviously amused of my plan. She stopped herself from giggling to speak to us.
"I have to say, if you had gone through with your plan I would've believed you! But right now. Let's get you patched up hm? That wound on your forehead seems troublesome."
"Wound...?" I felt my forehead to feel there was the cut that I completely forgot about. It's scabbed over a bit but still feels bloody and now that I look at myself downwards, the blood is caked into the right side of my sweater and it also stopped hurting earlier today and really wasn't as much of threat to my overall health. Somehow. I take my hand off my forehead.
"Oh yeah..." I drift into thought to try and remember how long it's been since I've fallen into this world.
'It must have healed over the time I was here, but how long was I here? Let's see... I woke up at 8:30 am back in Japan and probably fell at 9:00 or 10:00 am so... It must have been at least 13-14 hours since I've fallen into the portal that leads to this world and found that pocket watch. It also doesn't hurt as much now for some reason so...'
"Nah it's probably nothing, you don't have to get it wrapped up." I shrugged my shoulders as I said this. The girl looked a little confused and her maid raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean it's 'probably nothing'? You're injured! And since you are technically a guest in my mansion I want you to feel as comfortable as possible! Sakuya!" Sakuya stood attentively and looked at the girl.
"Get some bandages, a couple of washcloths and water to wash the blood off of our injured guests face please?" Sakuya nodded and politely responded to the girl.
"Yes, mistress Remilia." Sakuya ran off pretty quickly and came back with some bandages, some water in a bowl and a couple of washcloths a little while later.
"I have returned with what has been requested mistress. Should I get started?" Remilia nodded and the two started to walk down stairs before Remilia broke off in a different direction going somewhere else in the mansion.
"Sakuya when you are done tending to him, could you show our guests around the mansion real quick? I'm gonna need to check on something." Remilia shouted as she walked away.
"Yes, mistress. Here, hold these." Sakuya shouted back and then gave Cirno the bowl of water and bandages.
"Um, ok." Cirno stood there holding the bandages and the bowl of water while the maid dipped one of the cloths in the bowl and started wiping the blood off my face and neck.
"You know you don't have to do this for me, right? It's not even bleeding much right now." Sakuya looked me in the eyes and spoke informally to me.
"Mistress Remilia asked me to take care of your wound and wipe the blood off your face. So be quiet and let me focus. Honestly, if you took care of this much sooner I wouldn't have to do this for some intruding outsider." I frowned a bit at her rude behavior towards me.
"Well excuse me for not having the supplies to do so earlier. It's not like I forgot to bring my bag with me and that it had medical supplies. Yep I certainly had a med-kit in the bag I forgot. Oh wait, I didn't and I'm pretty much an idiot for not being prepared to enter a world that I didn't think I would literally fall into." As I finished my little rant Cirno looked shocked and gasped when Sakuya pulled out a knife from out of nowhere.
"How did you-" She didn't let me finish what I had to say and pointed the knife under my chin as she glared at me.
"Shut up and listen you, unwelcome intruder, I really don't care what happens to you or the fairy that came with you. But know this, if you go out of line during your stay here I will slice open your stomach and disembowel you. Understand?" I returned her glare before sighing and stopped my glaring.
"Fine, just at least let me live long enough to sleep ok? I wanna get the hell out of here with my stomach and intestines intact. And I'm sorry for being rude to you when you were just helping at your mistress' order." Sakuya, in turn, stopped glaring, put away the knife and went back to cleaning my wound amd cleaning it of the scabbed parts. Finally, she started to dry my face off with the other washcloth and then wrapped my head up with the bandages.
"You are forgiven. You should feel very lucky my mistress is in a good mood for now. If she wasn't, you would be dead by now."
"Ok, I mean it's good that she's feeling-wait what do you mean by 'for now'?" Cirno spoke up voicing her concern when I pointed out that the maid said 'for now'.
"Yeah! What does that mean!? Are we gonna die in our sleep!?"
"Unless you misbehave in here, you aren't going to die. She's just been upset that her younger sister is going... Nuts again and that she had to be locked up in the basement. Again." Sakuya said that like it's happened before.
"That's terrible." The maid nodded.
"It is. But it's for the best of everyone that she stays there until she calms down. Anyways, let's get moving on to the tour alright?" Before we gone onto our little tour, she called over a maid with fairy wings to take away and dispose of the bloody water along with cleaning the washcloths. Finally we began our tour and like every mansion it had a ball room, a huge kitchen, a dining room, some sleeping quarters for the workers, guest rooms, a roofed patio, and a garden. Pretty much everything a mansion should have. Even saw some of the other maids that have fairy wings.
'I think it's safe to assume most of the maids are fairies.' After the tour was done, we saw Remilia again, smiling and standing in front of a door. Sakuya went up ahead to stand by her side.
"Hello everyone! I see you are done with the tour. Now... May I ask something of our male guest here?" Her smile seemed to have some dark undertones to it.
'That's probably not good... But I have to play along for now.'
"What would you like me to do mistress of the Scarlet Mansion?" Her smile widened and put on an obvious 'innocent little girl' act in front of me.
"To correct you, first it's called the Scarlet Devil Mansion. And well... I was wondering if only you could help me with something... Like calming my sister down from her insanity-inducing tantrum?" The tone of her voice sounded sinister. A little worried, I look to the maid to see her reaction. And while she didn't show much from her face, I could tell that she was a bit surprised from the look in her eyes. Looking back at the red-eyed girl I asked her cautiously.
"What would happen if I were to refuse?" She giggled.
"You and your friend would die by my hands. You did sneak in here after all." Cirno gasped and Remilia still kept the act up.
'Yep. Knew it would be the case. I'm gonna die because I didn't listen to my new friend. But... I can make a bet if I do survive.' I folded my arms and looked the girl in the eyes and spoke confidently with a smile.
"If you leave Cirno out of this I'll go calm your sister down. In fact... If I survive I would like to be able to go here whenever I want. Cirno is included as well." The two looked shocked and when I looked at Cirno she practically had her jaw on the ground. Remilia didn't expect me to say that confidently and bet on me assuring my survival early now did she? She shook her head and looked at me again.
"Really? You want to go to my sister's room and risk your life, AND make a bet that you could come back here whenever you want?" I nodded still smiling.
"Yep. That's what I'm saying." Remilia blinked a couple times before looking to Sakuya and nodding to her.
"Open the door Sakuya, we are bringing our brave guest into the basement. But before you go, I must ask something before we send you to get slaughtered. What is your name?"
"My name? My name is Michael, but you can call me Mike."
"Well Michael with how confident you are acting right now, I kinda hope you survive, even though that's unlikely. Sakuya? Would you show Michael the way down to my sister's room in the basement?" Sakuya nodded and opened the door. I peered into the doorway. That's a lot of stairs.
"Come on, let's go." The white-haired maid walked down the stairs. I followed her before looking behind me to look at Cirno.
"You stay upstairs! This is something I have to do alone!" Cirno looked worried but nodded anyways.
"Even though you'll probably die, I still want you to come back alive! I don't want the only other cool person I met gone!" I gave a thumbs up.
"I will survive! Coming back uninjured is out of the question though." And with that said, I continued going down the stairs and heard the door shut. I went into my thoughts as I caught up to Sakuya.
'Well, at least I had a bit of fun during the short time I was in Japan. I hope my family can move on when I haven't been found and officially announced dead. But for now I'm going to look death in the eyes and I'm gonna win! Maybe.' With the thought ended, I kept walking down the seemingly endless stairs and it seemed to get a bit darker as we go down.
I'M BACK! AND I BROUGHT A NEW CHAPTER TOO! Now to give a reason why other than me having writers block is because my friend who helps edit this had a lot of work put on her and couldn't help edit. And I would not give you guys a chapter that is not complete. I would rather wait a while until she has time to help edit and not send out something that is not good. So yeah, that's why this chapter is so late. Anyways, to answer my first review. Mike doesn't really have stuff like bandages to help stop the bleeding, and as said in this chapter. He's not prepared nor would he even have medical supplies in the first place. And as to why the bleeding wound was never mentioned until now? He would rather focus on following his new companion than worry about it. Entering the mansion? Rather stay somewhere and hope the owner is a lot nicer than Cirno made it out to be. Well that's all I'm gonna say, Addio~ TheAuthor