The word "daily" never crossed my mind, lips or keyboard. In other news, this chapter has turned out way longer than intended. Whoops.


The pen is mightier than the sword (unless the sword is also a pen)

"Achoo." Blanc sneezed. She wiped her tiny nose with a snowflake patterned handkerchief.

"Oh no! Blanc has contracted a deadly virus! We gotta evacuate the continent…!" Neptune jumped up and ran towards the door, but a red perforator hit the back of her knee joints, forcing her to faceplant into the tiled floor.

"Stop exaggerating. I just got the sniffles." Her look of exhaustion belied her statement.

"B-but…. Blanc never gets sick! It's one of the essential rules of this universe. Right after me being the protagonist and Noire being a tsundere." Neptune got up without a complaint and ignored the bump on her head.

"Wasn't your little sister the protagonist once?" Blanc muttered and wiped her nose again.

"Details, details." Neptune waved off the unimportant facts. "What kind of mutated super-virus got you down? Was it a secret laboratory experiment to create the ultimate life form?" Neptune leaned forward with excited eyes.

"I just spent too much time in the snow yesterday. Those brats are getting insatiable recently…" She sniffled again and shifted her body on the comfortable armchair near the fireplace that she had almost fused with.

"Energetic is best tho." Neptune grinned.

"You can only say that, because your sister is a demure goodie-two-shoes." Lowee's CPU sighed. Then she put her foot down on the rug and gave Neptune a questioning gaze. "Why did you come to visit anyway? It wasn't to check up on my health obviously."

"Can't I be worried about my best buddy Blanny?"

"You will have a real reason to worry if you use that nickname again." Blanc growled.

"Hahaha." Nep replied with an amicable laugh instead of taking the threat seriously.

"If this is about Noire again…" Blanc shook her head with low expectations.

"Ahaha… haah… Yeah it's about Noire again." Her laughter died and she let her head sink down in defeat. Looking at it this way, it seemed she was deflating like a balloon with a hole poked into it.

"I told you a hundred times already: I won't give you love advice." She had to be crystal clear about this or Neptune would never give up. This had been the third time she came by to ask for her opinion on entirely stupid things.

"W-wait a sec! I'm not here to ask you for tips on how to hold the silverware at the restaurant this time!"

"That was one of your questions?!" Blanc grimaced. "At least go to the straw-for-brains in Leanbox for that kind of advice."

"Already done. I think I fell asleep in the middle of things." She put a finger to her temple to increase her memory power. Then she shrugged. "But this is totally different from that, I swear on my expanded collection of retro game cartridges."

"Is that supposed to convince me…?"

"I came to you specifically, because you got the touch, the book smarts and the imagination to succeed." Her index finger was pointed at Blanc like she was the chosen hero.

Blanc sniffed with the most complex facial expression she could be bothered to display.

"Go on." She replied.

"Hehe, I knew you'd be interested. To cut to the chase, I want your poetic processing power. Let's write a poem together!"

"Right right. The exit is over there. You should already know because you always use it to enter my Basilicom. At least read the signs for once." She got up from her warm armchair and pushed Neptune towards the door.

"Neppu?! But I was complimenting you and everything!"

"You thought I'd fall for that?" She felt a little insulted now.

"But I neeeed to write a fancy schmancy poem for Noire… to get the mood going for-"

"Stop." She held Neptune's mouth shut with one hand and closed her eyes in an attempt to blend out her imagination. "Too much information."

What she didn't know was that a lightbulb just appeared above Neptune's head. She had come up with a terrifying scheme.

"Ah, but it would have been so nice, you know? First I read it to her under romantic neon LED lights, then we sit down and have a romantic dinner at the pizzeria and afterwards we get all close and comfy, invading each other's personal space like it was a total war-" The world was flipped upside down for Neptune as she was suddenly grabbed by the arms and then turned over. With a loud BONK her head hit the tiled floor! A magnificent suplex had just taken place.

"Mhhrm…. You're a real bother! Fine, I'll help you out, just keep yer smut ta yourself!" Her eyes were hidden below her fluffy hat, but Neptune could tell that she was trembling.

"Nice!"

"But I ain't going to do it for free." Blanc added more determinedly.

"Not so nice!"

"I want you to entertain the kids for an entire day." She put up one finger to indicate the extent of that request.

"That's all?" Nep sighed in relief and shook Blanc's slender hand in agreement. "Wait, 'the kids'?" Her face turned into lines.

"My sisters, their friends and C-sha. They are bothering me every day, never letting me… work."

"That pause was incredibly suspicious!" The chances of Blanc actually wanting to get rid of the hassles surrounding her for work seemed astronomically low now. Doubts aside though, Neptune had already agreed to it prematurely.

"One hand washes the other. You scratch my back, I scratch yours." She wouldn't budge from her conditions.

"Fine. No problemo. I know how to handle kids!" Even if they were big busty adults in some cases.

"Very good." For the first time Blanc showed a slight smile. Followed by another sneeze.


Three hours passed in the blink of any eye. Against all odds Nep and Blanc were having quite a bit of fun with their brainstorming. While Planeptune's CPU had a general idea what she was going for, Blanc had the (doubtful) experience of a seasoned writer.

"Love is a battle." Blanc explained seriously. "It's forceful and you can't give in even an inch."

"Ohhh! That sounds pretty cool."

"If you don't challenge Noire every now and then she will lose interest."

Just like her readers did after two pages of her novels.

"I don't want that!"

"I know. So give her a good verbal beating. Tough love and all that." Blanc smiled as she kept adding lines to the letter they were writing at her computer. Neptune was excitedly leaning over her shoulder and gave her insightful comments whenever she felt like it.

Despite her initial reluctance, the brown-haired girl was now totally into it as well.

"Wouldn't it be cool to make it end on a bang? Like, something totally mind-blowing."

"Something with a great shock factor, hm?" Blanc cupped her chin and considered their options. Later she typed away with burning fingertips.


Lastation.

The addressee of the messed up concoction that was a love poem by Nep and Blanc was wrinkling her forehead as heavily as she wrinkled the paper in her hand.

"What is this?" It was the only appropriate reply to what she had just read.

A letter of challenge? A threat?

'You should have stayed at home,

Nobody wants to see you groan!

If you are happy just say it,

I don't want your excuses, get it?'

Someone was picking a fight, right?

'Your Neptune is never gonna be okay,

If you always keep working night and day!

Come to this awesome land of fun,

I'll always be waiting there, so run!'

This stanza (it was sort of structured like a poem, although there was no real syllable count or flow to it) was especially worrying to her. Whoever the sender of this thing was, he was implying something… She just couldn't put her finger on it. But he said Neptune was not going to be okay?

'This sickness inside me,

It wants to bursts out of me,

And swallow Neptune whole,

So share with me your soul.

Tomorrow you will see,

Your determination is the key,

Sincerely and in love,

your angel to the death'

Her mind was running laps at the speed of sound.

In love. Sickness. Swallow Neptune. Never okay. Keep working. Land of fun. Tomorrow. Death.

She extracted the keywords and arranged them as well as she could. This person was… in love with Noire and watching her work every day. A stalker?

If it was just that, she would have been able to ignore it. This wasn't her first creepy admirer. But the latter half of the letter could not be dismissed so simply. Noire had not made her relationship with Neptune public knowledge yet. Nobody could foresee the impact it could have on the citizens and the Share balance. For now they were just acting like normal friends when they were appearing in public together.

This stalker knew that they were a couple. And he was threatening to 'swallow' Neptune whole. Images of monsters like CFW Trick trying to slobber up Neptune made her shiver in disgust.

Her 'determination was the key'? 'Come to the awesome land of fun'?

This was a kidnepping!

She had no idea who was responsible or even able to take out Neptune and kidnap her, but this person was not messing around. Yet he didn't even specify the location! Was this a riddle? It was common knowledge that mentally unstable people were resorting to confusing and logical leaps to get where they wanted to be.

"The land of fun…" She went in circles while going through the kidnapping letter over and over. While this could be interpreted in many ways, ultimately there were only a handful of possible locations that someone could describe as a 'land' of fun. And as many of these concepts were intangible that left her with a pretty good guess.

A theme or amusement park.

Considering that the stalker was focused on her relationship with Neptune he probably chose a location that was an important memory to them, but not something in their own countries or it would be too obvious. So Planeptune and Lastation parks were out of the question.

She hastily opened up her internet browser and searched the news for an attention grabbing article about an Amusement Park. Neptune had dragged her to so many that she could hardly guess which one was meant.

"'New Super Lowee Land for Sree Dee Ess and LoweeU has just opened its gates. Citizens are overwhelmingly positive about this new addition to the series, but wonder if the naming conventions aren't getting a little out of hand'." Noire read aloud.

If the biggest new opening in Lowee's oversaturated theme park scene was just a coincidence she would have been very surprised.

"You will regret messing with me… and my girlfriend." Noire's red eyes were filled with cold determination. She wouldn't need anybody's help on this. The kidnepper was her's to deal with.

She materialized her rapier to make sure it was sharp and ready. Tomorrow she would get some good use out of it.


The next morning Neptune arrived at Lowee's Basilicom in a purple-blue tracksuit and wearing a baseball cap over her wild hair.

"Can't get my good clothes dirty. I still need them for this evening's date with Nowa." The one they had mentioned in the poem. Hopefully Noire was already anticipating it as much as she did.

"You seem awfully prepared." Blanc said with a tired voice. Her sniffles were gone, but she still looked exhausted.

"Heck yeah! Where are the younglings? Imma teach them the unstoppable force of Neptune patented Tagonomics!" Her thumbs up was somehow giving her a reliable aura.

"You want to play tag with them?" She raised a brow. "You have no idea what you're messing with."

"Don't act like an old lady Blanny, it will be a-okay ~"

"Heh. Hahaha. Of course." Blanc's forced laugh should have been a sign for what was to come. But Neptune never suspected anything.

"Then come with me. They're all gathered in the courtyard." In a friendly gesture Blanc patted Neptune's back and pushed her down the hallway as if to say 'go get them!'.

The purple haired entertainer was skipping the ground a few times and joyfully throwing the doors open to face her group of entertainment deprived kids.

"Wowsers." She exclaimed as she saw the army that had gathered in front of her eyes. Rom, Ram and C-sha were here as promised, but they weren't alone. Brackets of town children in sweaters and warm jackets were also gathered in the snow, making snowmen, and creating small fortresses.

"It's Neptune!" Ram declared and all the kids reacted as instructed by the pink wearing twin.

A hail of snowballs showered her so thoroughly that she could have been mixed up with one of the snowmen around her afterwards.

"Good luck." Blanc said with an adorable smile and closed the door behind her.

"Pfft…" Neptune spat out some snow. "You sure got a lot of friends, twinstars."

"Ahaha you look great Lady Neptune." C-sha wiped the snow from her body and freed her from her cold demise.

"T-thanks… brrr… L-let's not get into the cold games today, my track suit ain't snow resistant." She rubbed her shivering sides. "I thought it would be b-be-better to play something where we move our bodies to warm up. L-like tag?" Her lips were blue, but she still managed to force the statement out.

"I see, good thinking there." C-sha was finally done freeing her from the snow. She was wearing her extremely skin-appreciative outfit as always and that blue beret would not help keep her warm either. Yet the former Gold Third of Lowee didn't show any reaction to the cold.

But when she got the final layer of powdered snow off from Nep's back she froze up.

Then she smirked.

"What's that behind you?!" She exclaimed in surprise. Neptune turned her body around on reflex. Behind her was!

The door.

"Eh? What did you see? Was it a Ch*zo?!" Nep raised her arms in hope to catch something rare.

Now her back was turned to the entire legion of children. And the ones that were old enough to read were indeed spotting something equally as enticing as a Ch*zo power up!

"R-really?" Rom asked with a gloved hand in front of her mouth after seeing Neptune's back.

"Maybe it already flew away." Neptune huffed and turned back, just to see all of their sparkling eyes. "Well, as I was explanifying: We should play some tag. Although this group might be a little too big…"

"So we just gotta catch you?" Ram asked with a disturbingly craving expression.

"That's usually how tag works." Neptune replied with a wry smile.

"And then we plant you into the ground like a pumpkin seed!" She added.

"Yeah pumpkin is pretty tasty this time of year- wait what? That seems a little excessive!?" This wasn't demon tag.

"You're awesome Miss Neptune!" The children rejoiced. Neptune was confused.

"I'll get her down first!" Ram drew her staff out of her hammer space and grinned widely. Seals were appearing around her feet and she pointed it ahead.

"W-w-wait! You tag someone out with your hands!"

"We can touch you all over after you are knocked out!"

"That sounded really wrong and incidentally is wrong!" Neptune denied them with sweat drops running down her face, but the children were not backing down.

"Explosion!" Ram's staff went off and Neptune barely managed to dodge to the side. The impact of the spell accelerated her down a snow slope and into the playground area.

"Ungh… That's one explosive start…" Her eyes were spinning.

"Get her!"

"I'm first!"

"Woohoo!"

The platoon of underage evil was running after her!

"What the nep is going ooooon?!" Their purple haired target screamed as she began sprinting away from certain doom.

What Neptune didn't know was that the origin of her predicament was hanging on her back. It was a sign that read:

[Whoever brings me to my knees gets free ice-cream.]

Truly, no death sentence could be more direct than this.

Blanc's scheme was bearing fruits.


In front of the amusement park waited the ever vigilant Noire.

She had arrived here during the first rays of the sun appearing at Lowee's horizon. The kidnapper hadn't specified a time, so she could only wait here the rest of the day. Her arms were crossed.

All she could think about was to save Neptune from the clutches of that monster.

"I will save you, no matter what." She whispered impatiently.

She looked up as some sort of commotion drew the attention of several early risers that were traversing the nearby streets. Although these unrelated affairs were none of her business, she couldn't help but perk up her ears.

The noise that came from the east reminded her of the rumbling that an army created during a march. Perhaps a parade was scheduled today.

"Gyaaaaah!" A scream.

"That was-!" Noire's eyes widened. Her black dress fluttered in the cold breeze as she turned towards the right. There, around the corner of the local hatter store, Neptune rolled over the ice and slid into view!

She immediately got ready and drew her sword. Somehow her girlfriend must have escaped the clutches of her kidnapper. And now she was running for her life.

"Neptune!" She yelled to make herself noticeable. Nep looked up in surprise and then with teary eyes she came running her way.

Now the aggressor also came into view. Several of them. Oh so very many of them!

An nigh infinite stream of kids were hunting down Neptune as if they were in a crazed group hallucination. And at the front were Rom and Ram.

"The kidnappers were children?!" Noire jerked back in shock.

"Go get her my Golden Twins!"

"C-sha too!?"

"Nowa! Save this nep of yours, before I become nepstew!" She was shedding ugly tears and snot while running towards her twintailed girlfriend.

"What do you want me to do?! I can't hit kids!" She retorted.

"Ice rain!"

"Hammer time!" Rom and Ram used combination attacks to try and knock Neptune to the ground.

"They sure ain't having any problem hittin' me tho!"

"If it isn't Lady Noire! Are you here to join the fun?" C-sha asked casually while running behind the colorful mish-mash of kids.

"Fun? Just what is going o-"

"Yay! More targets means more ice-cream~!" Ram rejoiced and the children all roared as well.


In a weird turn of events Neptune and Noire were now both running for their lives. At this point the whole thing had turned into a phenomenon and more and more children joined the hunt, not really knowing what was going on. The bigger the commotion got the more town's kids were joining the fray.

"What did you do to them Neptune?"

"M-me? Kids just love me more than breakfast!"

"Neptune!"

"Sorry, I don't knooooow!" She was huffing and gasping for every cubic centimeter of oxygen. Unlike Noire she had been running for quite a while now.

It seemed like Noire wouldn't get any answers out of her right now.

They turned a corner to escape the unfathomable witch-hunt, but there was a dead end. Wooden planks were denying further progress to them.

"Huff… Sorry 'bout this… haaah…!" Neptune's eyes turned blurry and she drop kicked the planks. The crunching sound of splintering wood rewarded her with success.

"You can't just destroy other people's property!" Noire yelled after her, but was secretly happy to have an escape route now.

They both slipped through the hole and stumbled onto a long open area.

It was a race track.

Left and right to them dozens of weird pixilated motorbikes were performing impossible stunts and flips on ramps.

They couldn't afford to stay still for a second as the pixilated drivers came rushing down the track. Noire grabbed Neptune's hand and dashed to the opposite end of the track.

As soon as they had managed to pass it, the children's army was funneling into the track as well. Usually one might have been worried with careless children stepping onto a racing track. And worry was still completely justified. Just for different reasons.

"Northern Cross!" Ram spun her staff around until it created swirling winds and in an instant half the track was frozen over in a random iceberg!

The preteen forces of the end were cheerfully running along the now pacified path.

The only remaining bikers that were looking back in shock and drifting too close to the kids were suddenly hit by gauntlets and blown away by well placed impacts. C-sha's coordinated blows flung them away with little trouble.

Her methods may have been questionable, but at least she protected the kids from harm.

"They are going to run out of stamina eventually! Keep hitting them with projectiles." She winked at Neptune and Noire, before her face was hidden by the dozens of exploding icicles that came flying their way.

"She is the devil!" Neptune said while being carried through the exit of the arena.

"Could you… run yourself… please?" Noire was now gasping for air too. It was probably due to the fact that Neptune was cutting off her air circulation with her arms.

She jumped off and went into a synchronized sprint with the twintailed goddess. Their small lead was soon going to vanish, so they really needed to find a place to escape to.

While they were thinking of a good hiding place they suddenly noticed a bunch of people around them running at the same pace. They were adults, so their fears were immediately relieved, but it was still weird. Wasn't this the middle of town?

"Watcha doing here, running your legs off?" She asked a short-haired man with red shorts and a white shirt.

"Hm? Aren't you here to win as well? Why else would you be participating in the marathon?" The man looked stunned at the random question.

Now they noticed the audience left and right that was jubilating.

"Come to think of it, there was a charity marathon today." Noire remembered.

"Woah!" One of the other runners gasped as a wave of children entered the sidewalk.

"They are even letting kids participate? That's commendabl-" The red shorts man was looking pleased until he was suddenly overtaken by Rom and Ram which were sliding across the ground with ice-skates made… from ice. Rom was creating ramps of ice for Ram to jump on and she was sliding across the heads of all the runners and alongside the building walls even. The wind current she created with her magic was dragging the other kids and Rom after here across the entire distance.

And there was no sign of Neptune and Noire left. Instead there were two dots all the way ahead on the track.

"Aaaaand here comes the first pair! The finish line is right around the corner! These are the numbers… Oh? They don't seem to be wearing any numbers! One is wearing a track suit and the other… a dress?!" The commentator seemed mildly confused, but kept narrating anyway.

"Neptune… we need to escape the city! People are getting dragged into our problems."

"Easier… said… huff… than done…! I don't even know… the town's layout… And I can't push the map button while running….!" She was sweating gallons at this point. They didn't even notice when they ran right through a red and golden tape at the end of the street.

"Aaaaand we have a duo of winners this time! The photo finish shows that they were hitting the finish line at the exact same moment! This is a first in this marathon's history!" The announcer got excited. "And more importantly, they broke every record known to man! As you all know Lowee's Basilicom has graciously offered a money prize that gets successively bigger the faster the contestants hit the finish line!" He listened to his headset. "The amount calculated for this triumph of athletic possibility is in the millions! And now we can double that amount!"

Roaring applause accompanied that announcement.

"And they are still running! Nothing can stop these forerunners of the world! Our correspondent below is following them with a car. What do you have for us Bill?"

"My wife is the greatest!"

"I didn't ask about that!"

"These girls are AWESOME." Bill declared. "Hey, you two ladies! What are you going to do with the prize money!? You aren't required to give it to charity, but we would love to know your goals! Here are your medals too, catch!" He threw two gold medals at them, but the girls barely took note of him. They both got caught on Noire's twintails and were now fluttering behind her like weights…

"What did he say?" Neptune asked with squinted eyes as the cold wind blew across her face and ears.

"I don't know…" Noire shivered and looked at the blonde guy named Bill. "We don't have time to talk, so please take your business elsewhere."

"WOAAAAH! They said they're going to transfer all the money to us!"

"Hot diggidy! The 'Grunt Characters with Hearts' Charity Foundation will be pleased to hear this! All those poor faceless men and women that took blows for the heroes to level up can finally be given the psychological help they deserve."

As the crowd was going completely nuts, Nep and Noire were already moving to the next district of the city. Their pursuers were not far off as they had boarded Bill's car and were now jumping off its roof.


Due to Noire's keen sense of direction they reached the corner of Lowee's metropolis, where they were hitting cold snow. It became a lot harder to run for the mal dressed duo, while the Lowee children were all dressed for the occasion. And C-sha for some reason felt no cold despite her giant v-neck.

Noire suddenly stopped in her white tracks, making Neptune stumble into her. In a twist of the world and a few crashing noises they both landed on top of each other in the snow. Neptune's butt was raised comically, while Noire was face down in the snow.

"W-w-what's the big… d-deal?" A shivering Neptune asked accusingly.

Noire pointed at a cliff without getting up.

"Neppu?!" It was really high. "W-we are done for! First they are going to eat you, and then they are going to eat me… Oh my goddeeeeeesss!"

"Why are they going to eat me first…?" Noire raised her cold face slowly and wiped the snow off.

"Because you look the most delicious. Who wouldn't want to gobble you right up, baby?" Neptune winked mischievously.

Noire blushed despite the cold (the remaining snow seemed to melt on the spot) and hand chopped Nep's purple haired head.

The endless legion of cute faced diabolical fiends was now upon them. However their spearheading leaders didn't seem to have any will left to chase them.

"Oh no! That stupidhead Neptune fell on her knees by herself!"

"B-but… we tried so hard…" Ram and Rom stopped chasing and looked dejected.

"Technically it was Lady Noire's effort that brought her down." C-sha shrugged. "It's over everyone! We lost the battle, but not the war!" She waved the other children over.

Only the original group was a little disappointed, but they had fun during the chase. The rest of the sizeable army never had any clue what was going on anyway.

"Ah, cheer up you two. I'll buy you some delicious meat buns instead." C-sha winked.

"Yay!"

"You are totally awesome! Way more than Neptune!"

And so without even giving them a chance to question anything, the kids trailed behind their new leader C-sha. Some were climbing on her shoulders and arms. She subtly tried to shake them off while getting more and more anxious from the weight…

"W-what just happened?" The now whiter haired CPU of Lastation mumbled.

"I think we were sold for hot meat buns." Neptune whistled. "Speaking of which…~" She leaned against Noire's warm chest.

"I will throw you off this cliff, I swear."

"You know we can fly, right?"

"…" She had forgotten due to the stress.

"Today was a good day! Now I got my feelings out on paper and in the flesh. Double the nep, double the satisfaction." She rubbed her face against Noire. It really was kinda cold.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Noire sighed. But then she petted Neptune's head tenderly. In the end the whole kidnapping deal was just a misunderstanding. Neptune was alright. That overwhelming feeling of relief made her overlook the fact that Neptune was copping a feel right now.

The sign on Neptune's back was carried off by the cool breeze and floated down the cliff, unnoticed by the two lovers.


In Lowee's Basilicom, Blanc was sighing in happiness too as she took a hot bath while reading a new book. She had achieved her perfect state of relaxation. Her toes playfully pushed through the foamy surface of the water.

Knock knock.

"Sorry to disturb you Lady Blanc." Financier entered the bathroom after a polite knock.

"Mh… is it important?" She muttered as she peeked over the edge of her book. Her hair was dangling down in wet strands.

"You could say so." She handed her some urgent news over the tub's edge. The now less relaxed girl grabbed them with hesitance.

Blanc stared at them for a few seconds and then her face turned dark. There were reports about crazy tumults all around the city due to some spontaneous children's gathering and an unexpected race. They interfered with several big events leading to controversies and minor vandalism as well as a failed Excite Bike tournament. The drivers were injured and frozen, but nobody was harmed permanently.

"Don't tell me…"

"Lady Neptune and Lady Noire won the 252nd Lowee charity race. It is all over the news."

"…and the vandalism…?"

"Your sisters have been accounted for as the main cause of most of the destruction around town. The repair costs go beyond six digits."

"…" Blanc's usual poker face just got a whole lot pokerfacier.

"Why Lady Blanc, you look pale! Is there something weighing on your conscience?"

"Financier… how much do you know?"

"I only made some tea for our guest. Whatever I have seen when she left is no business of mine."

"3 days of paid vacation." Blanc raised the same amount of fingers.

"My, I would never go on vacation during such a busy time, milady."

"…a new tea set?" Blanc's lips quivered.

"What do you need it for? We have excellent tableware already." She just kept smiling.

"…ugh…"

"If you feel remorseful for some odd reason, then may I suggest searching for your sisters? They seem to be enjoying some meat buns with Lady C-sha as we speak."

Blanc sunk her head below the warm water's surface and blew some bubbles.

"You are one shrewd maid." She mumbled as she finally got out and dried herself off. Financier already handed her a fresh set of clothes.

"Thank you very much." Her posture was as perfect as ever.

"Maybe you did pick up one too many things from your previous master." Blanc murmured and got ready to leave. But for a moment she stopped in her tracks. "Don't think I don't know when I messed up! Don't buy any new tea sets without my permission either." She said as she left hastily without facing her maid.

"You are as awkward as ever my Lady." She closed one eye. "But this is exactly why I enjoy serving this household so much." A chuckle escaped the loyal maid.

FIN