"Tell me another one, why don't you... liar," there was Meiling's sword under his chin.
"That was a lie?"
The girl with the tail twitched her ear.
"Could have fooled me," the ex-soldier said.
"I wasn't," the male with blonde hair trying to get the maid off of him, "Abtony or Eriol, or whatever he is calling himself today has a propensity for this sort of thing..."
"Okay," Eriol sighed, "The thing is, we need to pick something I left in this time... then move on to other worlds... other places..."
"What infernal thing do you want?"
Meiling had out her yellow ofuda.
(Note. I have given Meiling the powers of CCS's Sayaoran)
"I don't remember..."
Face-fault...
"Then at least we can have some fun here," the tail twitched in pure joy, then she pushed the glasses up the bridge of her nose, "Wait... I just remembered..."
"Me too," Meiling shouted still with her scimitar ready to slice off Eriol's nose.
"Now, now," Hiraki tried to intercede.
"We don't have nay money... and we might need clothes to fit in..."
"I have that solved," Te snickered, "Watch..."
In a burst of apple blossoms came a pile of clothing and a thousand pounds sterling.
"Where in the hell did that come from?"
There was a smug look on her cheeks...
"Tell me, demon," Meiling.
"Demon nothing," she was ready to confront her, "This is one of the gifts my mother, the Queen of the Hengeyokai, left me..."
"This could prove very interesting indeed..."
Both the maid and Hiraki looked at him.
His smug Cheshire look matched the chipmunk girl's and whispered, "In a way, one might say that Watanuki and she are very distant siblings..."
"You better not get used to it," the girl with the glasses warned, now obscuring her tail with another illusion, "I am only doing this to help out... In my world, this can be a troubling thing – the money and clothes are only illusionary, they disappear in direct moon-light..."
"Meaning you are a thief?"
"No, it isn't like that at all..."
She pouted.
Eriol paused for a second and thought to himself, "Maybe I should have told Watanuki directly what I was referring to... Hiraki is from Celes (the same world as Fai D. Flowright). That Yuuko is a witch, she is as beautiful as she is evil... That I am an English sorcerer... and that Watanuki is a kitsune (fox-demon)..."
"He should have looked at his own last name Kimiharo, it is the same as the Korean, "Kimiho," Nine-Tailed Fox, the Henyokai queen... and that he should have never risked his soul on the accounts of a woman, unless you wish to marry her... I should have warned him about his best friend, that circumstances might change and the bow he uses might kill Watanuki... It is with-in the Japanese traditions, the yin-yang master... like Subaru or the Cherry Master... or the hunter, like Watanuki's best friend, will kill the destructive kitsune."
He took a deep breath, then shook his head, "On the other hand, maybe I should not... It would ruin all that beautiful woman's plans..."
"So now what?"
Yon asked, finding the Victorian clothing unsuitable.
"We can pair off," Nakaru offered looking at Hiraki with a delicious look, "And see the city..."
"Here," Eriol presented a Tarot deck, "To be fair, you each choose a card, the highest gets the first choice..."
"Fine by me," Meiling said, "Make it quick and fast... no trickery on your part, Eriol or whatever you are calling yourself..."
"The Knight..."
Te was overjoyed by just this title not even caring about the other distinctions, the last card in the deck she wanted would have been – a king, Emperor, or Empress. She had many issues about that.
"I also go a Knight, The Knight of Clubs," Yon replied, "Looks like it is you and me, Te..."
"What's yours, Hiraki?"
Nakaru tried to peek.
"The Ace of Wands," he tried to evade the question.
This only made him squeal in joy (Nakaru is a male, but dressed up in a maid's outfit :) ); he lied saying it matched hers...
"You said no cheating," she prepared to use the ofuda...
"I am not, Lady Meiling, this deck is unlike one I know of... chooses what your personality is like," he glanced at his and shuffled it back in, "The way you are acting, I would say "The High Priestess" or "The Hierophant" in order to match mine..."
"Bah," she tossed her card into the trash, "The 10'000 Hells will freeze over before I pair up with you, Eriol."
"What was yours, Eriol?"
"None of your business..."
He snapped at Te, and then bowed, "Please forgive me, madam... There are things that I wish were not true... Sometimes the truth is very hurtful and dangerous, and there are some secrets that I would like to keep to myself..."
Eriol pushed up his glasses, "Each of us has hurtful secrets, that none would like the other would know... It would be wrong to ever air them..."