Mistress's Room; Scarlet Mansion
"What fool dares awaken me, the great Remilia?!"
Reimu and Marisa froze when a new voice spoke, loudly, in a demanding manner. They then looked around for where the voice may have come from.
In the process of doing so, they find themselves to be in a large, dimly lit room with a gothic throne in the middle of it, and next to the throne is a small tea table. Hung high in the wall behind the throne is a large stained glass window depicting a blood red full moon.
The two girls continued to scan the room for any signs of whoever the voice belonged to, with no avail.
"I assume it was you two mortals who so rudely woke me from my slumber?" Said the voice again.
This time, the voice can easily be pinpointed as having come from the gothic throne in the middle of the room. Reimu and Marisa, with their weapons in hand, slowly turned toward it.
They find the throne that, just a few seconds ago had been vacant, is now occupied by what looked like a young lady in a blood red dress and mob cap. The color of her hair is difficult to make out due to the red hue cast by the Scarlet Mist shining through the stained glass window, but the pair of bat-like wings sprouting from her back instantly identifies her as not human.
"I am Remilia Scarlet, lost daughter of Vlad Tepes the Impaler, and mistress of this mansion." The young(-looking) lady introduced herself with a foreign accent thick enough to make any listeners cringe. "For what reason have you come here, mortals?" She added with an evil-looking grin.
Reimu kept her gohei pointed at the now-named Remilia. "The Scarlet Mist covering Gensokyo right now. You masterminded it, right?"
"By the way, sorry 'bout your house...and your maid." Marisa said, as she too pointed her magic wand at Remilia. "So, the Scarlet Mist...your doing?"
Remilia glanced at Sakuya who laid unconscious on the floor, then back at Reimu and Marisa before letting out a chuckle that is meant to sound intimidating. "Why, yes, of course..."
"Why didja do that?" Marisa joined in on the interrogation. "'Cause ya don't wanna get sunburn?"
Remilia let out an evil laugh this time. "Indeed, witch. My kind grows weak in sunlight. Which is why I had the Scarlet Mist summoned so I can-"
"Actually, I was just jokin' when I brought up the 'sunlight' thing." Marisa interrupted. "Also, weak against sunlight? Does that mean you're a freakin' vampire?"
Remilia paused a bit due to the interruption. If Reimu or Marisa paid close attention, they would've noticed Remilia raising her eyebrows ever so slightly.
"Indeed." Remilia proudly answered. "As I was saying, I summoned the Scarlet Mist so the sun may never shine its rays on this land, and then I shall lay claim to-"
"Yeah, well, slight problem with that." Marisa interrupted again. "We live in this land, and we ain't gonna just hand it over to ya."
While Marisa is correct in her statement, she pointed it out in such a way that made Reimu cringe.
Apparently, Remilia, while retaining her evil grin, did also cringe at the witch's statement going by how she rolled her eyes for all but a second before recovering herself. "In that case, I shall des-"
"Destroy us two before ya can 'lay claim' to Gensokyo." Marisa interrupted for the third time. "Yeah, yeah. Reimu and I get that a lot. Get to the point already, drama queen!"
That third interruption was what made Remilia break character, as her evil grin faded away and she face-palmed in annoyance.
Despite the tense moment and facing an intimidating villain who could be very powerful, Reimu had to suppress the urge to chortle at the sight of Remilia getting annoyed by Marisa's antics.
The annoyed vampire stood up from her throne. "Foolish mortals..." She declared, as magic energy with the same blood red hue as the Scarlet Mist suddenly gathered on her right hand, forming into a large spear that is longer than she is tall. "I shall destroy you, then subjugate the inhabitants of this land! The stronger ones shall kneel before me, while the weaker ones..." Remilia then started twirling her spear as a show of force and intimidation. "The weaker ones shall feed me with their bl-"
Remilia's spiel is promptly interrupted when she accidentally hit herself on the side of her head with the shaft of her spear, causing her to jerk her face to the left.
Reimu once again suppressed the urge to chortle at the sight. Marisa, on the other hand, burst out laughing. "Oh, this feels like a scene from right out of Thor: Ragnarok!"
Remilia quickly recovered, her expression indicating her fury about the embarrassing moment just now.
"Fine!" Remilia said, having decided to drop her thick foreign accent and melodramatic vocabulary. "If it's a fight you're looking for, then so be it!"
"I knew her accent is way too thick to not be an act..." Reimu remarked under her breath.
...
Touhou-ri Village
"What is going on?"
"It appears that the mist has just become thicker!"
"What is going to happen?!"
"Can the Hakurei shrine maiden even handle it?!"
The villagers, who are already worried because of the Scarlet Mist, started to panic when the Mist suddenly became an even deeper shade of red. The red hue cast by the Mist on everything became so deep in shade that nearly all of the light from the sun is blocked out by it.
Chaos ensued as the villager began running about, unsure of what to do in the current situation.
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Mistress's Room; Scarlet Mansion
Reimu and Marisa both took a step back when they saw Remilia's spear starting to radiate an aura so bright that the red in its hue can be seen even despite the Scarlet Mist suddenly becoming thick enough to block out the sun near completely.
"I think she just got pissed!" Marisa exclaimed.
"Perhaps you shouldn't have interrupted her, then laughed at her..." Reimu pointed out as she summoned forth the Ying-Yang Orb in preparation for a fight.
"It ain't my fault that she nailed herself in the head while tryin' to look badass." Marisa argued. "'Sides, ya laughed at her too, didn't cha?"
The two girls then turned their attention back on Remilia, who is now radiating the same red aura as her spear.
"En Garde!"
Yeehaw! I'm glad that I'm finally to post another update after two months of hiatus!
For those of you who don't follow the YMC Tumblr, the hiatus in the past two months is due to me getting really busy with stuff IRL. No Writer's Block are involved, its just that the event that got me busy came so sudden I don't even have time to post this chapter before I had to start dedicating my time to deal with it. And now that it's over it, updates to all of my stories will resume as normal until the next period of hiatus.
Yeah, I admit this chapter is a bit disappointingly short. That's because I just wanted to post it ASAP so as to tell you guys that I haven't decided to make an unannounced retirement. Believe me, I won't stop writing until I finish the YMC franchise as a whole (or until I die IRL).
"And that, as they say, is that..."
Afterwords end here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: remember that time from half a year ago when I said I had to postpone updates to the Fanfiction Dot Net version of the stories due to an outdated DNS blocking my access to the site in general? Yeah, well, I think it's happening again. Had a new wifi router installed in the house two days ago, and that access blockage happened. I had to get a VPN network just to be able to post this chapter. Another problem: the VPN network is a three day trial run, and it expires tomorrow. Which meant that I may have to postpone updates to the FF Dot Net version of all my stories indefinitely AGAIN. I'm terribly sorry for the unforeseen circumstances...
