The Voile, Scarlet Mansion

"So, Pache, how long do you think it would take Sakuya to finish her deliveries in the human villages?" Remilia, not using her usual melodramatic persona, asked Patchouli in a casual tone.

Patchouli, however, did not respond. She continued silently flipping through the various grimoires that she levitated with magic.

"Miss Patchouli is still sulking about getting the spell wrong..." Patchouli's assistant informed Remilia.

The vampire mistress raised her eyebrows. "Still? Hasn't it been five months already?"

The assistant looked to her left and right, as if to confirm there are no eavesdroppers, before she approached Remilia.

"Maybe that black-and-white witch was right about Miss Patchouli having a huge ego..." The assistant whispered to Remilia.

Patchouli did apparently hear that as she suddenly turned to glare at her assistant and mistress.

Both Remilia and the assistant felt a cold shiver running down their spine.

"I-I will be going through the bookshelves to make sure all books are accounted for and in the right place..." The assistant said as she took off and flew into the inner section of the library.

"I-I will be in the basement, playing with Flandre..." Remilia said as she then stood up and excused herself from the Voile. Of course, the vampire mistress is lying as she has no plans to go anywhere near her insane, destructive little sister. But she didn't care as she just wanted to get away from Patchouli's cold glare as quickly as possible.


Since my Writer's Block has gotten worse since the previous chapter's posting, I figure I should try something a bit different for once by writing this really short Interlude chapter, which I'll also be using as an excuse to make a few announcements.

First of all, I have decided to retire the official Young Maiden's Chronicles Tumblr. As it turns out, that wasn't the right way to use Tumblr at all, as all the other fanfic writers I met there post their fics in their main blogs instead, and were able to get at least some attention that way. From now on, everything regarding YMC or anything stories I write will be posted in my main Tumblr blog.

Secondly, I will be putting Young Maiden's Chronicles, the Atsuko Kagari series, and the (currently still has only one chapter) Modern Witchcraft (original fiction only available on AO3) on hold, as I'd be spending the next few weeks or months writing one-shots to fight my Writer's Block. So sorry about that...

I blame the quarantine for throwing everything out of whack...

"And that, as they say, is that..."

Afterwords end here.