… Just kidding!
Tatara Kogasa, in an uncharacteristically brutish manner, pushed an unfortunate, anonymous person out of the way and made a mad dash for the back a petite, two-horned Oni.
"Huh? Koga- SAH…! ! !" Suika just managed to get the last part out before her windpipe had collapsed under her collapsed ribcage, an equally petite, umbrella youkai having latched onto her front and around her back like a limpet.
"I… I…! I CAN'T DO IT AFTER ALL! ! !" Kogasa wailed.
"W-Wait! Ko… gasa…! I-I can't-"
"I'M SO USELESS! I'M SO USELESS! ! !" Kogasa sobbed into Suika's chest.
"Kogasa... P-Please… I can't- …! I-Is that person unconscious…? !"
"I CAN'T DO IT AFTER ALL! I CAN'T DO IT AFTER ALL! ! !" Kogasa continued to cry without regard to the random, anonymous and now unconscious person behind her, the person's head bleeding profusely with the collision from the floor.
"Kogasa…! Kogasa calm yourself-"
"AFTER ALL THE TROUBLE YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH TO GET ME A PLACE HERE! I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO SORRY! ! !"
"Ko- Kogasa…!"
"I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO SORRY! ! !"
"Grr… Kogasa…"
"I CAN'T DO IT AFTER ALL! I CAN'T DO IT-"
"KOGASA YOU'VE MURDERED SOMEONE! !" Suika yelled point blank at Kogasa's face.
"…! U-Uu…" Kogasa shut her mouth but kept streaming waterfalls from her quivering eyes.
"Ah… I-I didn't mean to shout at you like, I'm sorry…" Suika apologised sheepishly.
"I… I'm sorry too!" Kogasa threw her face into where Suika's bosom should be and sobbed, "I just can't do it! I can't bear the thought of leaving you!"
"I... Sigh… Kogasa…" Suika's eyes began to tear up a little and she stroked the crying karakasa with a slightly amused smile. "Hey… How's that person doing?" Suika asked Satori, who was by now stooping by the side of the near dead anonymous person and feeling for a pulse.
"Quite a bit of bleeding, but otherwise it's a superficial wound, it'll be okay in awhile- Orin not now…" Satori deadpanned as her sometimes overeager kasha came bounding around with a wheelbarrow before her.
"The person's not dead yet?" Orin asked disappointedly.
"No… No corpses for you to cart away, I'm afraid…" Satori then turned to Okuu at her side, "Would you mind taking the poor soul to the infirmary?" she asked.
"Immediately," Okuu replied, and carried the person away in her arms. (a/n: Hehehe…)
"… Well that was awkward…" Parsee remarked towards Yuugi.
"Yeah… And now it looks like Kogasa won't ever leave Suika's side…" Yuugi crossed her arms and grinned at the little umbrella youkai weeping away into Suika's front.
Suika, arms still busy with comforting Kogasa, looked at Kogasa's current employer Satori silently, as if to leave matters in her hands. Satori, coolly meeting her gaze for a moment, then stood up with a sigh.
"Ehem… Kogasa?" she softly but clearly addressed the karaksa.
"…! Y-Yes, Satori-san?" Kogasa jumped and turned around to meet her judgement.
"… You are my employee now, you know that right?" Satori reminded Kogasa sternly.
"Y-Yes…" Kogasa bowed her head apprehensively.
"You're not allowed to just decide things on your own," Satori continued coldly.
"Y-Yes…"
"Whether or not you want to continue to stay here or leave is now entirely up to me," Satori pressed on without mercy.
"Y-Yes…"
"So what you've just done… Is entirely inexcusable!"
"S-Satori-san…!"
"That's 'Satori-sama' for you now!" Satori reprimanded Kogasa fiercely, with just a hint of mischief tugging at the corner of her lip.
"S-Satori-sama!" Kogasa meekly corrected herself. Parsee and Yuugi looked at each other flatly, and Suika face-palmed. Satori was taking this too far…
"Hurting your customers like that just now… Behaving inappropriately, even intimately on the resort grounds during work hours…" Satori narrowed her eyes in convincing anger, "And now… Now deserting your contract barely a second into your employment!"
Kogasa hung her head in heart-breaking shame.
"Kogasa… I'm afraid that we here at the Chirei Onsen do not stand for such employees…"
"Y-Yes- Eh…?"
"Kogasa… You're fired!" Satori barked as fiercely as she could while suppressing an urge to smile foolishly.
"… Eh…?" Shame slowly morphed into understanding as Kogasa started to realise what had just happened, "S-Satori-sama, what do you…?"
"What I'm saying is… Go back to your Suika, you silly karakasa!" Satori placed her hands on her hips and sighed, "There's no place for you here," she smiled gently.
Kogasa spun towards Suika in shock. "S-Suika… I've been fired… Hah…!" she threw herself around Suika's neck, "I've been fired!" she cried out jubilantly.
"… I… I don't think that's the appropriate response to losing your job…" Suika said with amusement.
"Yeah… Not especially after just a mere second of being on the job… Might be a new world record…" Yuugi chuckled.
"… You didn't plan to do this right from the start, did you?" Parsee asked Satori suspiciously.
"I'm a mind-reader, not a schemer…" Satori replied airily, which did not convince Parsee.
Regardless however… Satori thought as she observed Suika now trying, and poorly doing so, to fend off Kogasa's attempts to kiss her all over, I can't say I didn't see it coming…
"Right… You sure about this?" Suika asked Kogasa, as Kogasa beamed at her. Except this time, Kogasa was not standing across her, but by her side at the main entrance, as all four youkai that came to this hot spring a few days ago prepared to leave.
"Sure!" Kogasa replied without hesitation.
"I'm not sure how Reimu's going to take this… You coming back with me that is…" Suika said pensively.
"Notice how Suika's not even refusing to let Kogasa come back with us," Yuugi said to no one in particular.
"And you! Could you try to be helpful for once!" Suika snapped at Yuugi.
"Ah don't worry about it… The worse will be that the both of you get kicked out of the Hakurei shrine together," Yuugi most helpfully suggested.
"… And I'm not all too confident I can take good care of you if that's becomes the case…" Suika said to Kogasa worriedly.
"Hey… I can take care of the both of us just fine, you know!" Kogasa retorted, "I mean, as long as we're together, we can work something out, right?" she drew herself closer to Suika around her arm.
"… Maybe we should have done this from the start," Parsee sighed with a smile, "Ah well, it was some good soul searching anyways. Your resort's been really great, Satori," Parsee complimented the mind-reading proprietor of the place.
"Naturally…" Satori nodded, "Now hurry! I think you've wasted enough time here as it is," she urged the four youkai along.
After waving their goodbyes for one truly final time, Suika, Kogasa, Yuugi and Parsee took their leave and started their long journey back…
"… Where are we going, anyways?" Yuugi asked.
"The Hakurei shrine first, I guess…" Suika answered.
"To break the news of your failure to Reimu?" Yuugi taunted.
"Grr… You…"
"Or to ask her for help with your marriage with Kogasa?" Parsee added with a smirk.
"G-Gah! Parsee…!"
"P-Parsee! Please…!" Kogasa pleaded with Parsee, "Don't tease Suika like that!"
"Ah, Kogasa…?" Parsee startled a little, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"
"And anyway, there's no need for Reimu to involve herself, we're practically inseparable!" Kogasa happily clung onto one of Suika's arms. Suika nearly coughed blood while Yuugi and Parsee broke into laughter.
"I… I swear… One of you three will definitely kill me one day…" Suika grumbled.
"Which is just as well, isn't it?" Parsee smiled, "Better a death by our hands then a death at the hands of some other stranger- Hang on…"
"What? What is it?" the others asked her.
"I've just realised…" with a gasp, Parsee held up the bag of bentos Okuu had passed her earlier. Yuugi, Suika and Kogasa looked closer and after a moment, gasped too.
"Th-There are four bentos in here!" they exclaimed in unison.
"… Good luck, little karakasa…" Satori smiled as she watched the four youkai walk off into the distance, a cheerful Kogasa amongst them.
"Come on Orin... Our vacation ends here. Back to work!" she gave the command and with one last glance towards the long gone group, headed back to her resort with Orin behind her.