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Dawn, Cirno's house, Rumia's PoV:

Oww... Oww...! Oww! My skin feels like its being set on fire!

My skin was slightly sizzling in the sunlight, taking on the look of a full body first degree burn. It took about five minutes to reach Cirno's house from where I had spent the night, and I had begun to cook a bit in that time.

While I refer to it as a bad sunburn, I mean that by Youkai standards. My skin couldn't regenerate when under the effect of sunlight, so I was slowly building up a 1st degree burn across any exposed flesh.

While my flight speed was nothing to brag about, I was quite fast on foot; being able to run from Mystia's cart all the way to Cirno's house in only five minutes was quite the feat, as walking from one to the other takes about an hour, maybe even two if your name is Yuuka.

Mima's PoV

What's that smell? It seems somewhat familiar, but...

Just then, a sizzling Rumia shot through the door, stopping short of running through the wall. She looked a bit... crispy.

"...You okay, Sunshine? Get a little too much sunshine?" Rumia sighed at my horrible joke, before raising her bubble to 100% darkness.

"Hey, could I borrow that knife of yours? I need to regenerate, and it'll take days unless I skin myself..." Ahh, this sure brings me back...

"Ahh, sure, but perhaps it can wait till we head out? It'll leave quite the stench behind when it burns, and I doubt Cirno wants her house to stink for a week." I couldn't help but laugh at how absurd that sounded.

"That is so..." Rumia could see the logic behind my words, and she also didn't want to smell her own burning flesh while eating, as it isn't good for the appetite.

Durring this exchange Cirno had been sitting on the bed while rubbing the sleep from her eyes; ever since she became human, she had alot less energy in the morning, feeling drained after only about 12 hours of activity. Was this what it meant to be human...? No wonder Marisa secretly looked for ways to lose her humanity... Marisa wasn't the best at hiding her desire to lose what little humanity she had, regularly she would ask various Youkai species how they came to be. Only about half of the actually knew who she was, so the other half usually tried to eat the witch. ...Needless to say she wiped the floor with them, laughed in their face, and finally forced what information she wanted from them one way or another. She wasn't above torture if need be, though it was only rarely needed.

" 'Morning, Rumia..." Cirno let out a yawn, stretching a bit before hopping off of her bed.

" 'Morning, Cirno." While Cirno dropped the 'good' out of drowzyness, Rumia simply didn't see what was so good about it. It meant that she would either be blind, in pain, or sleeping. With me around, odds are it would be the foremost option unless she was finally able to convert me to the idea of being nocturnal, or better yet, discover a way to turn me into a Youkai like herself! Rumia didn't exactly look forward to the idea of me being gone in about 50 years, or being with a ghost, so it seemed like the best option to her. ...Atleast if it was an option. She hadn't a clue about such things as turning humans Youkai, so who's to say it's even an option.

"Anyways, you two ready?" It would probably be best to head out as soon as possible as the walk through the forest would take awhile; the forest of magic had a way of... changing around you, some of which was the work of fairies, but the rest was the living forest itself hungering for your life. The weaker one is, the harder it tries, and the forest just about has a tree top ceiling, so one is forced to travel through it, and not over it. You have to be either crazy, or... really crazy to live there.

"That is so~!" Rumia would have simply nodded, but that would be a rather futile effort as she was within her darkness.

"...Yeah..." Cirno was still a bit out of it, but there was no real reason to delay things. Plus the odds were high that Rumia would carry her, so that removed the issue of being half asleep.

"Okay, let's get going. Here's my knife, I'll carry Cirno." I got in the bubble and felt about, before my hand landed on hers and I put the knife in her hand. I wasn't about to make the mistake of tossing it to her again... She hit me hard for doing that the last, and only time, that I made that mistake. While it would make more sense for Sunshine to carry the girl, she would need her arms free so she could free herself of her burns.

As we traveled we left a trail of skin and inky blood in our wake.

Noon, Forest of magic, Marisa's house:

I yawned and looked about groggily, finding Marisa messing around with a good number of magical looking potions, combine two, dilute, fill two bottles, store one, combine the other with another bottle, and the process repeated seemingly forever.

I simply sat on the bed watching her dancing hands at work. Combine, dilute, fill, store, combine, dilute, fill, store. It was rather hypnotic to watch her work. I wonder what she's making...?

"G-good morning, Marisa..." I tried to be as gentle with my greeting as can be, so as not to startle the deeply concentrating witch. Just as I had hoped, she finished that set of potions, and then turned to regard me.

" Mornin'? It's noon, ze! I tried to wake you, but you were harder to wake up than Yukari... You sure are a sound sleeper, ze!" Ohh, wow! Noon? I sure did sleep in, huh...?

"A-ahh... Well... good afternoon, Marisa!" I smiled a bit awkwardly at my mistake, which caused the witch to snicker at me.

"Nice save, Vampire~!" ...Still not used to being called that.

"...Thank you...?" I wasn't sure how else to respond, so I sounded a bit confused.

"Heh, such a cute little Vampire, ain't ya?" I couldn't help but blush a bit, and look at my feet.

"A-ahh... Umm... Ehehe..." I couldn't think of anything to say and ended up only sounding even cuter.

"Aww, how cute, ze!" Before I could react, a knock was heard at the door.

We looked to eachother, our faces both lighting up with glee for very different reasons.

I wanted to see Master.

Marisa wanted to see her Master.

...Actually, those reasons seem quite similar...