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So I just slogged down deeper into the forest to find the house. . .wherever it was.

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I growled in frustration. I had already been walking for two hours and I was still in the middle of nowhere. "Where's that crappy house anyway?!"

Horo Horo and Pirika popped out of nowhere. They, like the others had grown three years more.

~The two fairies led the princess to the seven dwarves' house.~

"Fairies?" Pirika repeated.

"Seven dwarves' house?" Horo Horo said with the same clueless expression that his sister had. "Where the hell is that?"

I slapped her forehead in aggravation. This is completely hopeless.

~In the middle of the forest~

"In the middle of nowhere you mean." I remarked dryly to the narrator.

He didn't bother to respond.

"Um. . ." Pirika pondered with her index on her chin. "I guess we should go left."

Horo horo had the same pensive look. "I say we go right."

"Left!"

"Right!"

"Left!"

A vein popped out of my forehead. And I clutched my itako beads firmly to prevent myself from strangling them both to death.

"Ri—."

"Shut it! We're going dead ahead!"

The siblings instantly quieted down and followed Anna meekly like obedient dogs would to their owners.

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We were still in the forest, it was getting dark, and guess what?. . .we still haven't found the house.

"You know," Horo Horo spoke up after hours of silence. "Since when did you get the curves?"

At least Pirika was smart enough to keep silent. "Shut up!!"

Silence flooded right back.

"Where the hell is that damn house?!" I finally screamed aloud to no one in particular.

~You still haven't found it? *sigh*~

There was a popping sound and a small cottage fell from the sky onto a treeless clearing.

"Well," Pirika murmured to me. "Gotta go!"

The Ainus disappeared just as easily as they had appeared.

And what do you think I did? I stomped towards the house and flung the door open.

. . .Only it was locked.

The muscle on my cheek twitched.

A second before I could smash my way in, the lock clicked and out stepped a midget.

"Manta?"

Two more Mantas identical to each other stepped out.

And then four more.

The muscle on my cheek started twitching madly.

"What's going on?!" I asked the narrator without hesitating to show my irritation.

~What? Did you want me to raid the whole of earth just to find midgets?. . .I forgot Opacho though. . .~
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"Good job, dowser."

Hao nodded for Lyserg to leave, glancing maliciously once in a while at the container he now held.

Lyserg left the chambers, sniggering quietly while Hao was busy eying the box.

"Spirit of Fire?" Hao called.

No answer.

Hao shrugged. "Probably went out for sake."

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"This place is filthy." I told the Mantas as I eyed the thick grime coating every part of the cottage. It was even twice the amount of dirt I found in the attic.

"You." I pointed at Manta, or at least one of them. "Change the sheets."

"You two do the laundry."

"You and you, clean the whole of the second floor."

I eyed the remaining two midgets. "And the rest of you, clean the whole first floor."

"Yes mam." Fourteen little feet immediately scampered to do what was ordered.

Seven Mantas weren't enough, there wasn't anyone to cook dinner in time to have the whole place clean before midnight. . .if Yoh was here—why am I even thinking of him right now?! I sighed and used the remaining of my energy to cook our dinner.

Who else would do it? Now that all the Mantas are busy.

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Anna Snow White, Puss in boots, Cinderella, Pinocchio. . .I haven't thought much of the others yet

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