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A/N: Ahh, the sound of charisma breaking in the night goes so well with the scent of h- steak. Such a lovely smell it is~! On with the show!
A/N2: Also, while I could just say that my double/tripple updates of the past make up for not updating yesterday... I'm going to make up for it! If I don't today, I will eventually!
Midnight, Scarlet Devil Mansion:
It had taken but a few moments for the maid to calm her Scarlet mistress, and the little sister, but when you're hungry as can be, those few moments can turn into an eternity. Rumia was now visably drooling, while leering at the slab of meat.
"U-umm... Rumia? Are you okay...?" I was rather concerned, and with good reason! Not once had she blinked since I had been watching her.
Rumia simply turned towards me, stared for a moment, and turned back to the meal, once more staring at it. Rumia had amazing will power, if she wanted to eat it that bad, yet resisted...
Remilia had gotten back on her throne of a scarlet chair, her eyes slightly reddened. She was mortified with the way she had acted infront of a guest.
"N-now, where were we... Ahh, yes... Let us get to enjoying our meals, before they grow any colder, shall we?" Just as permision had been granted, Rumia began to tear into the thick slab of meat, grabbing it with her hands, and taking bite after huge bite. It was quite the entertaining dinner show, you see. That was actually why Remilia had given the girl such a special meal, just for watching the interesting display of a ravenous Youkai ripping and tearing at its favorite dish. However, Remilia was surprised to see me actually using the utencils that were beside the plate, careful not to use too much force. I wasn't about to risk breaking a plate with my new found strength, as the plate just had to be worth a fortune.
After I had cut free a section of the meat, stuffing it in my mouth, my eyes widened at just how tasty this meat was. I wonder, what kind of meat is this? Whatever it was, it had to be some sort of high class meat! This was the best tasting dish I've had my whole stay in Gensokyo! While the meat was rare, that somehow only made it tastier, some blood still oozing from the meat. My teeth cut through the meat like a knife through butter, maybe my knife is only holding me back? No, that would be rude! I'm not about to do such a thing before an aristocrat. I mean, what kind of person, let alone one with such fine taste in meat, would want to watch me eat in such a sloppy way?
Oddly, with every bite, I felt somehow... better... as though I was fufilling some strange need that I didn't know I had. I wonder why? Ohh well, I'm sure it won't be some sort of crime against nature, or anything. ...Wait a second... This flavor rings a bell, if only partially, but I can't place where...
Rumia had finished off her steak, while I still had a great deal left to go, as I was slowly savoring the flavor of every bite. Before she knew it, Rumia found another steak infront of her, this time raw! Once more she picked up the meat, and went to town on it, cutting away section after section of meat with her razor sharp teeth. Rumia was happy that she had come, after all.
It wasn't long untill I had finished off my steak, and Rumia her second, while Cirno and Mima lagged behind. While I was indeed cutting the steak with a knife and fork, I was cutting larger and larger bites off, every time. While I wasn't eating with the ravenous fervor of Rumia, I was still eating rather quickly.
The meal was an oddly silent one, which I wasn't used to, having had only eaten along side the rather energetic team 9 for the last week. I noticed Cirno tilting the bowl to her mouth, finishing off the rather simple meal, and Mima setting down her silverware, having had finished off her well made, yet ordinary, meal.
It wasn't long before Flandre had finished her slightly red tinted cake. Who eats cake for dinner? Don't vampires drink blood? I see no blood...
Flandre looked about, before stealthily slipping under the table. Where was she goi- gah!
I looked down to see her head poking up from between my legs, grinning happily.
"W-what are you doing...?" I had to be sure not to be heard, so my voice was but a whisper. While I was used to others with perverted intension, she didn't seem to have any... Though, feeling her breath going up my dress wasn't exactly helping me feel any better towards the happening.
"Want to play later?" That grin on her face just looked so... honest, so pure... She looked like a child, not a 504 year old vampiress, and I felt I would break her heart if I said no.
"S-sure... but first, I have things to do." I tried to make my case, but my words seemed to hurt her some.
"Y-you won't play with me...?" Dammit! Those puppy eyes... can't... resist...
"F-fine...! I'll play with you!" I had shouted that last statement, by mistake, drawing the attention of the rest of the table. It didn't take long after that for Flandre's dissappearance to be noticed. Remilia quickly put two and two together and sighed. She really should start warning guests about Flandre...
"Ahem... Flandre, dear, why are you under the table?" Remilia knew that her sister was under the table. She always hid there, as though it was the perfect hiding place.
"Ahh! I-I'm not!" ...Were these two really sisters? The looked slightly similar, yet acted so very different!
"Maybe I should close my eyes, and open them again in three seconds... After which, looking under the table." Flandre's eyes went wide at the idea of being discovered.
"One." Flandre began to scramble back to her seat.
"Two." Flandre got back in her chair, settling in.
"Three." Remilia opened her eye's, happy to see that her sister had listened.
"My, where were you, Flandre? I was so worried!" Remilia's smile was allot more warm when she spoke to her sister.
"Ahh, I was... uhh..." Flandre couldn't think of an excuse.
"My, my, so you were invisable, were you?" Remilia knew she was putting words in her sister's mouth, but she did enjoy talking to the girl when she wasn't having one of her... episodes.
"Uh-huh!" Flandre had a beaming grin upon her face, which was so very pure. How a vampire could maintain a look of purity, and mean it, was beyond me. It put a far less pure smile on her eldest sister's face.
"So..." Remilia turned to me. "...you spoke of playing with my sister?" The look on her face was rather grim. Why would that be? She seems harmless enough...
"Ahh, yeah, she asked me to play with her... some time ago, and definitely not from under the table!" Remilia smiled at this. So I was playing along, huh? She would miss such an interesting Youkai. To talk to her sister, ignoring that terrible aura of hers, took guts. She liked guts within reason. ...However... It was not within reason, when one agrees to play with her.
"And, when do you intend to make good of this promise?" Remilia smiled, balancing her chin on her knuckles.
"Ahh, well... I'm supposed to be going with Mima when she goes to meat the person she spoke of, but... I couldn't say no to such a face..." Flandre simply smiled at the compliment, ignoring that she had put me in a tough spot.
"Ohh? Well, why don't you do... whatever it is you need to do, first? Flandre isn't going anywhere, after all." Remilia hated to do it, but to atleast delay my death would be a good thing. Maybe by then Flandre would be too tired to play all that hard...
"Ehh? But I gave her my word... Though, I guess you're right... I really should do what I came here for, before playing around." Flandre frowned at this.
"B-but... you said you would..." Dammit! Those puppy eyes, again! Look away, look away! Ahh, and now she has tears in her eyes! Ugh...
"Flandre. That is quite enough... Stop charming our guest, or I'm not letting you play with her at all!" Remilia had to be stern with the girl, or else she could get out of hand. It wasn't good to look into Flandre's eyes, as she would constantly charm others so as to get her way. Whether she meant to, or not, was unknown.
"Fiiine..." Flandre had the cutest pout on her face, which few could resist. And she knew it. Sadly, or maybe thankfully, Remilia was one who could resist such a face.
"Now, how did you four enjoy your meals...?" Remilia had once more redirected her attention to us, a charismatic smirk on her face.
"It was really yummy!" Cirno seemed quite happy with it.
"It was quite good." Mima seemed happy enough.
"I love you!" Rumia... well, she hadn't had such good meat in a long time.
"Uhh... Thank you, I suppose, But I must decline." Remilia wasn't about to accept such a random declaration of love.
"I havn't had anything as tasty as that as far as I can remember! I couldn't place what it was exactly, though..." Remilia chuckled to herself at the rather interesting compliment, and even more interesting
"What, you've never had human before?" Wait, what...? I had just eaten... Ohh, my...
"That was... human meat...?" my face was a mixture of both horror, and disgust. That's what the flavor was! It tasted slightly of the blood that Cirno had bled into my mouth durring that kiss which was to die for! ...So people were this tasty, huh? No wonder allot of Youkai eat people...
Rumia had been too preocupied by the rare treat to warn me that I probably wouldn't want to put that in my mouth. She gave herself a mental lecture, for failing her friend in such a way. Why does she always seem to fail at keeping people that would have issues with eating human meat, from eating human meat...? This had to be the third time now, give or take!
"Why, yes, it was. What else would I feed Youkai guests...? Most don't eat anything else! ...Or, atleast, so they claim. I doubt that there is a large enough human population around to sustain all the Youkai of Gensokyo, so it's most likly a lie..." That's an interesting bit of info...
It's going to be a fair bit harder to resist eating Cirno, now... I found that I actually like the taste of people, however much that knowledge disturbed me. That just had to be some form of side effect of being a Youkai. Atleast, that's what I hoped anyways.