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[Volume 5] Chapter 31: Summer Break Begins With Charming Fairies
"Summer break is finally here." Yuudai states looking between Siesta and Louise from the top of a statue in the Austri Court. "And you two are already demanding for me to take sides."
"You are going to be coming home with me familiar!" Louise orders irritably. After all, he evaded her attempts to have his head beneath her foot. The reason she wanted to in the first place is because of Siesta's request.
"Why can't he take a break from you and come with me?" Siesta questions wearing casual clothes for once. The clothes consist of a green shirt and a black skirt. "You constantly try to overwork him."
"Oh right." Louise retorts sarcastically. "He makes it worse by avoiding it all!"
Yuudai deadpans at the two girls arguing. "Why don't I get a opinion in this?" Yuudai asks. He then looks up to the sun raining down an intense heat wave. He wipes his forehead with his arm. "Personally, I want to be in an air conditioned room right now."
Siesta suddenly gains a sinister grin. Louise watches her in distaste as she stretches her arms wiping her own sweat off her own forehead with a handkerchief. This causes her chest to push out a little bit trying to appeal to Yuudai's hormones. The Zero angrily looks to her familiar to catch him looking, but he is only looking in the opposite direction of them a look of longing.
Siesta notices this as well having heard him a minute ago. "What if I said there was an air condition back at the village?" Siesta questions. Yuudai's head spins at an impossible past to look at her with hope.
"You have one?!" Yuudai asks excitedly.
Not wanting to lose to a maid, Louise braces herself for her next lie. "So what? My family has a room full of the stuff." She brags nonchalantly.
Yuudai looks between the two comically. "Sorry Siesta, I'm her familiar and must protect her and the air conditioners before Albion attacks them. I might not even come back alive." He boldly tells her with a tear coming down one of his eyes.
"My village is giving our away." Siesta states feeling almost guilty for saying such falsehood.
"Sorry Blanc. If I don't go, Albion might attack killing her entire village this time." He quickly tells her.
A tick mark appears on Louise's head. "This is what sways you? A thing that doesn't even exist in this world?" She questions breaking Yuudai's happiness.
"Why would you two toy with my emotions like that? So mean." Yuudai says sighing. He returns to his normal personality. "Well either way, I might just wait hang out with Henrietta for a while." He says. "Best of all, her castle might be cool inside." Yuudai mutters chuckling evilly.
Louise hums in curiosity after hearing the flapping of small wings. She looks up to find an owl flying towards her with a letter in its mouth. Louise takes the letter once the owl was close enough. Once she looks at the seal on the letter she figures out who it was that sent it.
"Hedwig?" Yuudai asks jumping down from the statue. The owl seems to glare at him causing him to laugh nervously. "I suppose that is wrong to assume your name...do you know if Harry Potter is going be close behind you?" The bird only glares at him once more before taking off into the air again.
Louise becomes serious while reading the letter. He looks over her shoulder to read with her, but quickly remembers that he can't read their language. She sighs at the end of reading it all.
"Looks like going home is going to be halted for a while." Louise tells Yuudai.
Yuudai places a hand to his chin tilting his head. "Why is that?"
"Follow me if you really want to know." She tells him.
The teen boy gives Siesta a quick hug getting one back from her. "I'll visit if I have the chance, but no promises." Yuudai says to his friend.
Siesta looks at the scarf around his neck still smiling at it. "Alright then. Try your best to visit." She tells him.
He nods to her then proceeds to follow Louise to her room. She starts to unpack an entire bag getting rid of clothes starting to explain what is going on to him. "Albion has given up on a proper invasion until their fleet was rebuilt, so they were trying to fight in an irregular way. Or at least that's what the cabinet had predicted, with Mazarin on the top of them. They couldn't have them cowardly attack Tristain from the inside by inciting revolt and rebellion throughout the town. Because Henrietta and her men feared such conspiracies, she wants to strengthen the populace order."
Yuudai nods understanding everything she said. "So in order to do this, she wants you to go and gather information and rumors that may be fact and report it all to her. Is that correct?" He asks looking very serious.
"If you were this smart all the time, I wouldn't be so angry with you." She states smiling a little bit.
"If you didn't get angry at me then I'd be bored out of my mind." Yuudai retorts giving Louise a tick mark. "It's the only thing that keeps me from going nuts!"
She cools herself down before she snaps at him again. "Anyhow, her majesty wants us to go undercover in an inn without showing my social status as a noble." She informs him. "She suggested working as a flower girl or something."
The black haired teen walks to his seat at the window sill. "Then this will be more fun than I may realize." Yuudai mutters.
"Well let's get going then." Louise orders him. He takes off the scarf and lays it neatly on Louise's bed. "At least you won't die of a heat stroke now." Louise jokes.
"I didn't know you had a sense of humor." He comments laughing at her joke. She blushes turning her face away from his view.
Later At The City
"So to blend in with the people here we should probably find a cheap inn." Yuudai says looking around at all the commoners walking around.
She shakes her head. "No. I refuse to sleep in a cheap room." She replies.
"Too bad Blanc. You need to quickly live like a commoner before you blow our cover." Yuudai tell her bluntly.
"Well at least we have the money given to us for the mission by her majesty and your own bag of money that has no end." Louise says.
A sweat drop appears on Yuudai. "Well you see Blanc...I kind of forgot it back at the academy." He admits scratching the back of his head. He sees her face go red in anger quickly thinking up an idea. "Let's go in there! They might have money!"
An Hour Later
"I will never let you gamble again as long as I breathe." Yuudai states sitting on a sidewalk.
The two had just left the shop he had suggested earlier. Without any of the money they began with. Louise gambled it all away with her horrible luck. She only nods her head in disappointment.
"Well this is just perfect." Yuudai mutters. "We are broke and have nowhere to sleep or eat." He looks to the fountain in the center of the town.
"We wouldn't be in this situation if you didn't leave your money behind." Louise accuses unhappily.
Yuudai sighs nodding his head at that. "That is true. I guess this is my screw up this time."
"Exactly!" Louise says proud of herself for winning an argument with him for once.
Yuudai observes the people walking around after her words watching them find interest in Louise. She is dressed up as if she was a country girl, but has the definite look of a noble. Pretty much a doll. His face then perks up in a smirk. He stands up in a grand way to show confidence confusing Louise.
"What if we were to have you work as a waitress Blanc?" He asks never losing his smirk. "With all these people's interest in you, we could work, garner more customers for them and then bam! We have ourselves a living and food arrangement."
"That's...not a bad idea." Louise replies hesitantly.
"Did I just hear a someone say they need work?" A feminine voice asks from behind Louise. Yuudai looks over her to see...a guy.
The man has black hair covered in oil, a sparkling, violet satin-earth shirt opened up at the chest with disheveled chest hair poking out. Under his nose is a magnificent split chin and a stylish mustache. A strong scent of perfume reaches Yuudai's nose making him almost want to gag. Despite all of that, Yuudai nods with a business-like attitude.
"Yes you did, sir." Yuudai answers. "My friend and I have just gone broke and we need somewhere to stay. If you are able to give us work and living arrangements then we would be deeply grateful." He says bowing afterwards. Louise gapes at her familiar never having seen this side of him before.
The feminine man smiles back at him. "Très bien! In that case, my name is Scarron and I run an inn. I'll prepare a room for you when we arrive. Follow me." He directs with a sway of his hips as he walks.
"Come on Blanc. I can guarantee he won't molest you." Yuudai tells her following Scarron.
"If anything, you're the one that needs the reassurance." Louise retorts jokingly.
Yuudai laughs once again at her jokes. "That is the kind of jokes that insult people so much...I love it." He states letting go of his anger at her blowing off their money.
At The Charming Fairies Inn
"Good words Fairies!" Scarron announces to a bunch of women with Yuudai sitting at a table close by.
"Yes Mr. Scarron?" All the girls say at the same time.
"Wrong!" Scarron shouts while moving his hips around extravagantly causing Yuudai to raise an eyebrow at him. "Not mister! Call me as Mi Mademoiselle, alright?"
"Yes Mi Mademoiselle!" They all reply.
"Seems like the french can't help but be a universal sign of the weird ones, even here." Yuudai mutters.
"Très bien." He trembles pleased while moving his hips from their answer. "All right, we'll start with a saddening notice from Mi Mademoiselle. Recently, the Charming Faeries Inn's sales have been dropping. A shop called a 'cafe' has been bringing out tea that has been recently imported from the East and are stealing our customers." He sniffs trying not to cry.
"Please don't cry Mi Mademoiselle!" One of the girls pleads.
Scarron stops the tear completely. "You're right. If we lost to their tea, the words Charming Faeries would cry." He then jumps up on a table making a pose.
"Oh crap...it's a Jojo reference." Yuudai jokes with himself.
"The Charming Fairies promise!" Scarron exclaims.
"To serve with a cheerful smile!" The girls exclaim too as if it is a phrase they have. Which it is.
Scarron nods with a smile proud of his employees. "Now that we have that out of the way, I have a wonderful announcement for you ladies." He starts. "We have a new comrade for you all! Come on out, Louise." Scarron calls to her.
With a huge round of applause, Louise comes walking out wearing a suggestively short camisole, sticking to her like a corset. It was open at the back, letting off an obvious charm. That appearance was very much like a lovely fairy.
"Louise here had been kidnapped and was about to be sold off to some noble, but thanks to her brother, he broke her out and was able to get away. She's a very cute girl, but she is also very poor." Scarron explains the lie that Yuudai fed him. Can't have anyone knowing too much. Just that he shouldn't be messed with.
Sadly, the two look nothing alike, so he told him that they were step siblings. After his explanation, Scarron accepted the lie and went back to walking. Honestly, it was almost too easy.
"Well then, Louise-chan. Greet the faeries that are going to become your co-workers." The man tells her giving her another flashy smile.
Yuudai notices her red face full of anger and embarrassment. He fully understands why though. The prideful Louise was being told to bow her head to commoners in revealing clothing similar to her own. Luckily for the two, Louise knows this is a very important mission from Henrietta herself. Meaning she can't screw this up.
Knowing this, she clears her throat. "H-h-hello everyone. M-my name is Louise." She stutters nervously. Without any approval needed from Scarron, the girls clap for her.
With a snap of Scarron's fingers, some dolls in the corner began to play a march tune. Yuudai nods in approval thinking it isn't half bad. "Alright girls, it's time to begin!" Scarron tells them all as the customers start to file in the inn.
End
There we go. Another chapter pumped out like a boss. I might have to slow down on the updates or else none of the other stories are going to be at the top of the most recently updated list. Maybe.
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