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Y/N: You're truly excited, aren't you.

A/N: What tipped you off?

Y/N: Aside from you responding with a bit of emotion to your voice for a change?

A/N: Indeed!

Y/N: Well, you're actually trying to update on a daily basis again.

A/N: True enough...

Y/N: You even went so far as to update twice yesterday.

A/N: One of those chapters was mostly complete already.

Y/N: And the second one was completed in about an hour. So what? It's still a rather major thing for you to have done as such - You have hardly updated for the last while, you know.

A/N: I would certainly hope I know. After all, I am the one doing it, am I not?

Y/N: That you are.

A/N: Thanks for all the compliments, by the way. They honestly surprised me a bit...

Y/N: Credit is due where it is due.

A/N: I suppose you've a point, but still...

Y/N: You're quite welcome, you know~

A/N: Jeez... That was quite the change of plans... See the A/N of the next chapter for details, when finally it's done.

Y/N: Indeed... I can't believe you listened to reason.

Night, Scarlet Devil Mansion, Koishi's PoV:

After having a bit of fun in her bedroom, Remi Remi and I were busy dressing ourselves. We had a light sweat glistening on our skin, and the room stunk of what we had just done. The air was a bit musky, and thick, and our short panting breaths didn't exactly help things. My long, sharp, nail-less fingers were still sticky with proof of what we had just done, so I began to suck my thick fingers clean, savoring the taste of my Remi Remi as I did. Seeing me do as such was enough to make the vampire swallow as she continued to dress herself.

When we were both fully dressed, save for our hats, I leaned in to capture her lips again. She tensed a moment, before melting in my arms. By this point, I had figured out how best to get her to do just that, as I found that she loves when one completely dominates her. Breaking the kiss, I look Mister Hat in my hand and placed him atop my head with a wide smile, and adjusted his positioning for optimal comfort.

With that now out of the way, I picked up her hat, and placed it atop her head just right. With a wide grin, I asked, "Happy now?" The reason we had been in bed like this for the last hour was simple. My Remi Remi was feeling a bit wanting! There was also a deeper reason, though. Her subconscious mind was telling me as much, even if it left out the specifics that her mind itself would contain.

After leaning against me in a daze, the smiling vampire replied, "I... Well, I suppose that shall do..." She sounded confused, which would make a bit of sense all things considered. After all, I had simply picked her up and taken her to her room for all she knew! She knew not of the fact I knew the gist of what was on her mind. She didn't know that I knew she was sad, even if I didn't know the exact reason. After all, it's not like I can read minds~

As suddenly as can be, now that we were fully dressed, a gap swallowed us up. Remi Remi shrieked while I simply giggled at her. Weren't we warned about this? With a grin on my face, I landed on my feet, and caught the up-side down who was really busy with flailing her wings about in a panic. As her dress billowed outwards, and began to expose her cute little thighs, I decided I needed to fix things. Tossing Remi Remi into the air, I caught her right-side up, and placed her down. Of course, when I tossed her she shrieked again.

Starting to finally calm down, the small vampire begged, "Please don't throw me like that..." She was breathing a bit heavily, still a bit in shock at what had happened.

Grinning down at her, I replied, "Alrighty!"

Before us, a slightly see-through maid greeted, "Hello, and welcome to the party. Do be sure to take your true forms and to stay in them at all times.

Thinking for a moment, I smiled and plugged my third eye into the socket in my chest. After that I made myself look human. "Alrighty! I'm done~"

Looking to Remi Remi I found that she was now suddenly a cute little blue-furred bat, and landed on my shoulder while I was busy changing. She also had a cute little scarlet ribbon tied in her head-fur. Looking me over once, she seemed a bit confused, so I answered her un-asked question. "I only look human! It's just something I can do~"

For the next few moments, my Remi Remi began to squeak, gradually growing more labored in the sound of it, until she said in a strangely squeaky voice, "...I see..."

I couldn't help but burst out laughing along with the maid, who had since vanished. At this Remi Remi began to tear up a bit, and just about screamed in that same voice, "It's not funny! Stop laughing at my voice! I can't help that I am quite unable to speak normally as a bat!" Of course, the display simply made us laugh that much harder.

After a full ten second of laughter, the two of us finally put an end to our enjoyment of the misfortune of my love, and I said, "There there, Remi Remi! It's not the end of the world~"

Trembling with hardly contained rage, the bat perched atop my shoulder leaned around and bit the tip of my nose. My eyes instantly widened in shock and pain, and I let out a yelp. "Youch! You didn't have to bite me... That really hurt, Remi Remi..." I gave her a hurt expression as I rubbed my poor little nose.

Flinching at my expression, she let out a high-pitched sigh, and said in the same squeaky voice as always, "...Sorry. I suppose I overreacted a tad..."

I giggles, and gave her head a pat, cooing, "It's okay, Remi Remi."

With that said, I headed into the mansion ahead of us.

(Original end of chapter. See next chapter for the why.)

When we were finally through the big pair of doors that would be called the front doors, we made our way into a grand hall where there were countless youkai in their true forms, many of which looking as if they'd be fun to mess with. Although, I have my Remi Remi, so I'm happy to just mess with her again later.

From my shoulder, my partner asked, "Many of the youkai truly look fearsome in their natural forms, don't they?" She sounded a bit jealous, which is a bit reasonable when you look like a bat in the closest thing you have to one. Then again, I look human.

I couldn't help but giggle a bit at her misfortune, and chided, "You know, you'll attract green-eyed monsters if you keep that up~"

Looking to me with a risen brow, she asked, "Whatever do you mean by that...?"

I giggled, and ignored the question in favor of looking at the crowd of youkai off to one side of the enormous room. "...I wonder what's going on over there?"

Looking to my eyes, then following my line of sight, Remi Remi replied, "I'm... honestly unsure. I could always fly over and check it out. It could be something entertaining going on, for all we know. ...Or it could simply be mud wrestling." She licked her lips at the thought, not considering what mud wrestling in one's true form would even look like.

Grinning over at her, I answered, "That'd be great! Go do that, and I'll wait here!"

With a nod, she flew off. ...Now, what do I do while I wait? I could always hum~ Humming softly, I looked about for something to entertain me. Eventually I found that maid from before to be walking by me holding a silver tray filled with seven tulip-shaped glasses each hardly filled. Grinning, I asked, "Ohh, what's in the glasses? Can I have some?"

Grinning back at me, the maid replied, "Sure! You can have all the pumpkin brandy you like, cutie!"

Carefully taking the two glasses nearest to me, I said, "Thanks!" As the maid wandered off, I took the glass in my left hand, which I was holding awkwardly by the very base, and I took one big swig, downing all of the nice smelling liquid in a single gulp. And then I realized just how much the pumpkin-flavored stuff burned now that it was already down my throat. I teared up a bit at the pain of the burn, and began to cough into my sleeve.

Finally returning, Remi Remi swooped down and landed on my shoulder. Smiling to me, she took a breath to speak, but let it out upon seeing the pair of glasses held awkwardly in either one of my hand. One was empty, but the other had the caramel colored liquid still in it. As she wasn't speaking, I asked, "So, what did you find out?"

Ignoring me as I did to her once before already, she asked while eyeing my tulip-shaped glasses, "Where ever did you get that brandy from? It smells of... pumpkins, if only a little. It also smells very strong..." She wrinkled her nose a bit at the smell of it. Must have a stronger nose than me!

Grinning, I replied with a slight blush, "From this nice maid! Same one as before! Said I could take all I like~"

Raising a furry brow, she asked , "So you took two? Whatever for?"

Tilting my head a bit, I asked, "Don't you want something to drink? Burns a good bit, but it's still nice! Made me feel nice and warm inside~"

Shaking her head, she replied with an odd accent, "I don't drink... vine."

Tilting my head to the same side even farther, I asked, "But... how does one drink vines? Isn't this brandy? C'mon, just a sip..."

Sighing at how the brandy was obviously starting to kick in if my blush was any indicator, the vampire replied with a look of resignation, "Fine, fine, but just a sip. Is that fine?"

With a goofy grin, I brought the lip of the glass to my lover's mouth, and slowly, ever so slowly tipped it back until the contents were at the very lip. I giggled a bit when she glared at me for stopping, before I tipped in forwards just slightly more, and she took a bit more than a sip. A small amount, considering how it looked at my size, but for someone of her size it was also a large amount. As she drank, the liquid spilled around her tiny mouth, as it simply wasn't the size of mouth the glass was intended for, and it landed on my shoulder.

When she started to squirm, I ended the motion, and lowered the oddly shaped glass from her cute little brandy-drenched mouth. Tearing up a bit at the burn, she looked a bit strained, perhaps as she was trying not to cough as I had. After a moment of regaining her composure, she cleared her sore throat, and simply asked, "Happy now...?" Her high voice sounded a bit pained this time, as if she had just tried to eat fire or drink acid, or something along those lines. She must have filled her belly with the burning liquid, so much she drank.

I smiled to her, wiping away the brandy around her mouth with a blood-stained handkerchief I fetched from a pocket in my shirt. She was just so very cute that I want to hug her. And so I hugged her into my breasts with a manic grin on my face. I wasn't careful about it, but the glasses still being awkwardly held in my hand, now one of which being only slightly filled, managed to go without breaking. Blushing brightly under her fur, or so I guessed, the squeaky little bat said, "H-hey, quit it..."

Nuzzling her entire body with my cheek, ignoring what she just said, I asked, "So what was it that you saw over there, Remi Remi?"

Blinking at the sudden change in topic, she replied, "Ohh, there seems to be some sort of contest going o-"

Excited to hear about this, I interrupted by asking rather forcefully, "A contest?! What kind?!" I gave my greatest grin at that, quite curious to find out the answer.

Raising a brow at my enthusiasm, she answered, "It is only a pumpkin carving contest, I'll have you know; you needn't be so excited. Although, if you wish to enter there seem to be plenty of stations to fill." Upon seeing me continue to grin at that, she went on an assumption, asking, "So, I take it that would mean you wish to enter?"

Finally placing her back atop my shoulder, thus removing her from between my breasts, I replied, "Of course! Why wouldn't I want to have a bit of fun making holes in gourds?" With that said, I began to make my way through the crowd, downing the rest of Remi Remi's glass as I went, and getting someone to subconsciously hold the glasses for me.

With my hands now free, I finally reached my destination, taking an empty slot on the corner of a long table, which was beside a giant man with a bestial face. He looked like a cross between a boar and a man, and had a scraggly mane and long yellow tusks. He had to be at least three metres tall, and was wearing nothing but a loincloth to protect his modesty. Not that I really cared, but he was starting to get annoyed, and was quietly grumbling to himself. With his size, it didn't take much for him to feel cramped after all.

Sitting in a seat in front of the station in question, I looked at the thing, deciding what to do with the orange oval thing. While it was a pumpkin, my vampiric love failed to mention that it was also burning with a green fire. Oddly, the pumpkin was undamaged by the flames, which confused me a little. Testing the waters so to speak, I ran my hand over the fire quickly. While fire had never really bothered me, my clothes would not enjoy fire, so I had to be careful. Strangely, the fire was not only not burning hot, but it was a little chilly. Reminded me of the pesky little spirits back home a little.

From my shoulder my Remi asked, "So, what do you plan on doing?"

Not really having an answer, I stiffened my fingers and thumb, braced the back of my pumpkin friend with my free hand, and rammed my fingers through the pumpkin. With a happy little smile, I replied, "Making a Jack-o-lantern!"

I grabbed what was inside, and tossed the guts aside not caring where they landed. I repeated this process a second time, and thus finished removing the innards from the thing. Turning the side with a hole in it away from me, I began to decide what to do next. Eventually I decided that it needed eyes, so I took it in both hands and used my thumbs to gouge a pair of uneven holes into the thing. It worked better than you would think, although my aim could be better, as the holes I left were rather lopsided.

With a grin on my lips, I exclaimed in a rather crazed way, "Lets put a smile on that face!" I stiffened my hand once more, the long spikes that I call fingers now all facing forwards with a slight curve to them, as opposed to having them in a strait line. I began to stab my finger into the pumpkin over and over, making a mangled grin that might be considered from ear to ear, if the pumpkin had ears.

Tapping my sticky fingers against my lip, I began to think aloud, "I wonder what it's missing...?"

To the left of me, the boar man that was stationed there finally got fed up with being cramped, and threw myself to the side with a shove, causing my hat to land in a pile of flaming mush that was once the innards of my pumpkin. I was stunned there for a moment, before I quietly picked up my hat. The boar man was grumbling about humans getting to sure of themselves as he sat in his chair that was much too small for him.

Landing beside me after a moment, Remi Remi asked in the same voice as was now the norm, "Are you okay, Koishi...? That brute... I ought to go back to my full size, and-"

Ignoring her, I asked, "Are you okay, Mister hat?" I was too busy picking seeds and orange gunk from my hat to really listen.

My hat replied, saying, "That was so rude of him..."

I nodded, and replied, "It was..."

Seemingly growing a tad worried, Remi Remi asked, "Are... you okay...? You seem to be... sitting there mumbling to yourself..." As she questioned me, she was giving me a slightly worried look. She also seemed to be taking a hit from the vast quantities of alcohol she consumed, pound per pound

The two of us still ignoring her continued to sit on the ground, and mister hat said, "Hey... I have an idea!"

Smiling at my old friend, I asked, "Ohh? What's your idea?"

Grinning, the hat replied, "Well, we have to finish the pumpkin, and that guys needs to be punished for hurting me, so why not add some of him to it?"

I stoked my chin in thought at that. That's not a bad idea... Grinning, I answered, "I like your way of thinking, Mister!"

With that said, I put my hat back on and stood up, before vanishing with an almost insane grin on my face that called for blood.

But only almost insane.

Looking about in concern, my little lover asked, "Koishi...? Where... where ever did yoush go to...?" She was starting to slur her words just a bit, and probably wouldn't be able to fly after this point.

Reappearing beside the boar man, I tapped his arm as he failed to manipulate a knife between his hooves. My bit of distraction was enough to get him to drop it, and the knife landed with a thunk stuck in the table. Growling as well as a swine could, the man asked with a snort in a gruff voice, "What?" He lowered his face to my level, and snorted again, trying to look intimidating.

I simply grinned up at him with that same grin, studying his face - studying his eyes. There were nice and big, and looked like they would fit with a bit of work.

So I snatched them both, and returned to my seat as he began to scream, blood gushing all over my hands and his table as he clutched at his face with his hooves as best as one could.

Choosing to ignore his screams and roars of pain, I got to work on installing the bulbous red eyes into the pumpkin.

As I worked, Remi Remi simply watched me, her eyes wide, her jaw slack, and no sound emitting from her as she once more decided that my hat is best left alone. Even if youkai can easily recover from such a wound, nobody would ever willingly receive such a wound. Well, nobody in their right mind.

Looking about, the young vampire even found that a berth had been given by those once crowding somewhat near us. Now this portion of the crowd was a full five metres away, and even then those nearest looked a bit uncomfortable.

Passing through the crowd, holding a tray of drinks, the ghostly maid once more made her way on by me, and I peered over my shoulder at her, before asking, "Ohh, you've got more drinks?"

Stopping, and floating in place, the wispy blonde replied, "Of course! I wouldn't want to look lazy~ So, want some more?"

Nodding with a grin, I replied, "You can bet your cute little butt I do!"

Blushing just a bit, the maid replied with a wry smile, "Have you even seen my rear?"

Grinning wider, I replied, "Nope! Haven't had the chance to look, and you've now got it hidden!"

Giggling, the maid replied, "Well, I saw no need for legs right now, so... I got rid of them!"

Making my grin crooked, I asked, "Hacked them right off?"

Shaking her head, the maid chuckled. "No, nothing so gory, not that I necessarily have blood."

Raising a brow, I asked, "How can you not have blood?"

Snickering, the maid replied, "I'm not alive, you know."

Eyes widening in realization, I asked, "You're a ghosty? Like those evil spirits in hell?"

Raising a brow at that, the ghost replied, "No, I'm a poltergeist."

Tilting my head, I asked, "There's a difference?"

Giggling, the poltergeist respended, "Of course! I was never alive in the first place~ So, you said you wanted a drink, yes?" At that she positioned the tray of drinks near me, balanced on one hand. This time there were slightly smaller glasses mixed in, but they were still tulip-shaped. These ones, unlike the others, were filled to near the top, as opposed to nearly being empty, with enough room left in the glasses so as to not spill them just by tilting it slightly. To spill them, you would instead need to tilt them more dramatically.

Nodding, I asked, "Yeah, but what's in the other kind of glass?"

Giving me a smirk for seemingly no reason, the maid replied, "Pumpkin wine! It's weaker than brandy, you know~"

Thinking a moment, I soon decided, "Alrighty, I guess I'll take two more brandies, then~" That said, I carefully snatched two more of the glasses of caramel colored liquid in my bloody hands, and downed one in a single gulp. My mind starting to blur a bit, I said, "This shtuff's... pretty tashty... Burnsh, though." I downed the other, returned the two glasses to the tray.

Moments later, I fell out of my chair, unconscious.

Koishi's PoV:

My head pounding, I opened an eye. Where am I...? I was almost instantly assailed by the usual roar that could only come from a crowd, and was reminded of back when Little Sis and I tried to live among the humans. There were so many minds there. Or the oni city, for that matter. Not quite as bad, as everyone was more spaced out in the massive city, but still.

Among the crowd of voices, I heard a gruff voice begging for his mother, as he had apparently lost his eyes and was being looked after by some friends while he regenerated them. It would be a slow process, but it would still happen given a couple days.

I found my head to be on the lap of a little girl who was gently stroking my hair as we sat on a bench. The gentle stroking helped sooth my aching head a bit, but not enough to stop the migraine. I thought I had gotten over migraines after living among so many people for so long...

Above me, the little girl said, Ohh, she's waking up. Took her long enough... I wish she would think about how I feel for a change... She keeps on going off and doing things on her own, leaving me to pick up the pieces. Perhaps I should fate her to be more thoughtful. ...No, that's a terrible idea. I shouldn't abuse my power like that. It's better to just leave her with free will, instead of robbing her of it.

Groaning a bit in pain, I said, "I'm sorry if this is an odd question, but what do you mean by robbing me of my free will...?"

At that she flinched quite hard, sending my head bouncing up a little. With a bit of fear in her voice, she asked, "You... you heard that...?"

Raising a brow at her, I answered, "Well, of course I did... You did say it pretty loudly..."

Raising a brow right back at me, the fear leaving her eyes just a bit, the vampire replied, "But... I never said it..."

At that my eyes widened a bit, and I cursed inwardly. "S-sorry... I... I didn't mean to. Please forgive me... I... I can't help it... I thought you said that, not... I'm sorry..."

I was suddenly surprised to find her hugging me. She seemed to not mind it, saying, "Shh. It's okay. I don't mind, okay?" She was bent at an awkward angle to hug me.

The strangest things was that she seemed to know me, and know me well. Her memories told a tale involving myself and her, which even went so far as to enter the bedr- I lit up in a blush at doing such thing with a little gir- ohh, so she's not a little girl. She just looks a bit like Sis does. ...Well, that's marginally better, but why can't I remember any of these things I did with her...?

I didn't have to as I knew all she knew, but to indicate my confusion I asked, "Who... are you...?"

At this her eyes widened in shock, and she began to tear up a bit, asking, "W-what...?"

And so I began to try and learn what happened the more manual way. Which I can just probe every one of her memories, it would be beyond what I'm willing to do. To do that I decided to simply tell my story, up to what last I remembered. That last thing I remembered being when I tried to... close my eye.

Does that mean it worked? But if so, why can't I remember anything...?

Why is everything a blank?