Marisa slammed the door and walked up straight to Alice, a beaming smile on her face, and her hands in her pockets.
Alice sighed, closing her book, "Who do we have to pay property damages to this time?"
Marisa took out two pieces of candy, "I have brou—hey! I told you that wasn't my fault!"
Alice grinned and shook her head, placing the book on the footstool next to her. She knew that teasing was an art that required a proper mixture of precociousness with timing.
"What'd you bring?"
Marisa regained her composure and produced her advertisement, "I have brought two pieces of magic candy!"
Alice's smile faded and she reached for her book again, "Nope. Not this time."
Marisa held up a piece to Alice tantalizingly, "This one is flavored like chocolate ca—"
Alice immediately snatched it from her hand as Marisa plopped beside her, opening up another piece of candy.
As they unwrapped them, Marisa explained, "I have an identical piece of candy here."
Alice wisely hesitated at popping it into her mouth, "And...what do they do?"
Marisa beamed at Alice, "The magic last for only one day, and they do two things. One is they make you talk like a cat, the other is that—well, it's a surprise; but it's worth it!"
Marisa popped the piece of candy in her mouth, and Alice, worryingly, followed suit.
After sucking on it a bit, she grimaced. "Marisa, these are just normal pieces of can—"
Marisa placed her hands across Alice's mouth, "RA-RAAW!"
Alice ignored her, continuing to speak, her mouth muffled by Marisa's hands, and giving her a bemused look, "They aren't even chocolate flavored."
Marisa took her hands off and gave her a sterner look, "MEOW MEOW RAW!"
Alice blinked, "Did you give me the right one, Maris—"
Marisa rolled her eyes and placed a finger on Alice's mouth and winked.
Oh, thought Alice, Duh, now I get it.
Marisa removed her hand, and Alice smiled and nodded, "Nyan!"
This really is incredibly silly.
Marisa grabbed Alice by the hand, pulling her off the couch and dragging her to leave the house.
Alice pulled her hand away, "Meowwwwowwwowwwwww!"
Marisa waved her arms, "Meow-ow-wowow!"
Alice rolled her eyes, Oh, this is ridiculous!
She humped over her shoulders and gave up, "Look, Marisa, can't you just tell me where we're go—"
Marisa hushed her with her finger and gave her a very stern look, as if to say, Come on, just play along!
Alice pulled Marisa's hand away from her mouth, sighed, and rolled her eyes.
And then, in a dreary tone while looking to the ground...she consented, "Meow."
Marisa beamed again and continued to pull Alice along with her, pulling off into the air on Marisa's broomstick.
Alice popped her head over Marisa's shoulder, "Meow-owow, meow-ow (Can't you tell me where we're headed?)"
"Meow-ow! (Reimu's!)"
"...Meow-owow-wowow, meow raaaaawwawaw meow. (...I have no idea what you just said, but I have a feeling you can understand me for some reason.)"
"Meow. (That's because you can be so dense sometimes, Alice. It's kind of why I'm here, and it's especially why I decided to do this today! My personality balances out your denseness. Your well-timed seriousness keeps me from getting into trouble too much. We fill out each others bad spots. After all, before you knew me, you were just stuck in your home, twiddling your life away. It's why I do things like this. I know at times that you can't stand my sporadic nature, and that it often gets you into trouble; but really, I'm doing it because I'm worried about you. I'm worried that you'll get bored with life. I'm worried that you'll stop enjoying the little things like this around you. And, well, I guess you probably won't get all of this message because you're not being cerebral enough and guessing with your emotions what I'm saying instead of foolishly trying to convert meowese into English; but that's o.k., I hope you'll notice one day, and if this works, hopefully by the end of today!)"
"Raawwwwawawawawwwwaw! Raw! RAW! MEOW-OW-WOW-OWOW NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AARAAAAA-RAAWAWAAAAAA, MEOW OW OW! RAW! RARAWAWWWWWWW MEOW! MEOW RAW MEOW NYAN NYAN MEOWWWW! Meow raw awaw raw awww nyan! Meow aw rawww aw nyan raw? Meow! Ryawawaw myan-raw, raw-awaw MEOW! (SPEAK NORMAL!)"
"... (...)"
Fortunately, Marisa stepped down before she had to continue her absurdity much longer, "Meow! (We're here!)"
Alice stepped off, and Reimu soon came out, "Oi, is that you two? I hope you brought something to eat."
Alice spun around, outstretching her arms to Marisa and giving her an exasperated look that seemed to say, "(You can't possibly expect me to meow in front of Reimu!)"
Marisa smiled, and gave a chastising point of her finger in the air, "Meow. (Come now, Alice, we're going to play this game all the way!)"
Alice spun away from Marisa, folding her arms against her chest, "(I'm not embarrassing myself in front of Reimu like this!)"
Marisa rolled her eyes, pleading with Alice, "Meow-ow-owwww (Come on, it's all in good fun)"
Reimu stood brazenly still with a confused expression on her face. "Oh, I see what's going on."
Marisa and Alice both looked over to the third party of this conversation.
"Gensokyo been captured by another weird event where everyone speaks like cats, and now we have to team up and beat up random youkai until we face some cat-youkai?"
Alice smiled and waved her arms in the negative, "Meowww-owow— (Nono, we're just playing—)"
She then promptly interrupted herself with a face-palm, Dammit! Why didn't I just speak normal!
Marisa grinned madly and nodded her head at Reimu, "Nyan! (Untranslatable)"
Alice gave Marisa an exasperated look as Reimu looked back and forth at the two, "You know, as long as it doesn't affect me...maybe this isn't so much a bad thing."
Alice turned her exasperated look over to Reimu and Marisa followed suit as Reimu—with an uncaring posture—entered back into the shrine.
Soon after, a devilish grin crawled over Marisa's face as she pulled out a coin.
Alice blinked, Marisa. Don't tell me you'd go so far as to donate money just to make Reimu go after a fake event.
But, just then, something caught Alice's eye over the coin.
It...was an arcade token.
Alice grabbed Marisa's arm to stop her, "Meow-owowowwww! (No, come on Marisa! That's right on the borderline between funny and evil!)"
Marisa struggled to pull her arm free, "Meowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Rawaywwwwwww (It's just a harmless prank! Besides, she doesn't do anything all day anyways!)"
Alice blinked, Wait, why am I still speaking like a cat?!
She sighed and looked up at Marisa, "Look, Mar—"
She placed her finger on Alice's mouth, giving her a stern look. And then, she sighed, stopped struggling, and Alice let her put her coin back in her pocket.
Marisa raised a finger pointedly in Alice's face, "Meow-ow-wow, Nyan raw? (I don't do this, and we keep playing the game, alright?)"
Alice smiled and nodded, "Meow! (Deal!)"
...wait, how did I understand what she just sai—
Before she could ponder upon that much longer, Marisa got back up on her broom, motioning Alice over, "Nyan! (Get on!)"
Alice rolled her eyes and got on.
The rest of the day involved—for the most part—embarrassing the heck out of Alice...until...by the end of the day she had actually started to get into it. They even dropped by Patchouli, which left Patchouli angry, concerned, and then just plain confused—and in that order. However, by sun-down, Marisa began tracing the final step in her plan by making their way to a fairly remote location in the mountaintops of Gensokyo. And when she had finally touched down, the air was thin and cold, and they were both plenty tired.
Marisa looked over at Alice, "Nyanyan (Last stop!)"
She hopped off and looked around, "Nyan? (What's with this place?)"
Marisa chuckled, "Meow nyameow (Now you understand me at least.)"
Alice rolled her eyes, "Meow-owow nyaaayaaraaawwaaw meow (You still have to show me the second influence of the candy you know.)"
Marisa pointed up at the sky and winked, where a meteor shower had just started to play in the sky. And for a time, Alice was left enraptured—looking up into the sky.
Marisa stroked Alice's hair, and in response, Alice looked down into her eyes. There was a longing, wistful, yet caring gaze.
It seemed to say...
The real reason for today—the second effect of the candy if you want—was so you could see what I say every day without being persistent or determined enough to say it. That you understand the things I can't vocalize, or maybe couldn't yet vocalize, or maybe what I meant to say instead of what I mistakenly said. Because I don't want you to think I really would 'say' that I hate you, nor would I want you to miss a single time that I 'say' that...I love you.
