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The urge is powerful, but you manage to suppress it. Of course, going south now would be dumb. You just got here. You should settle in before running off. Besides, you don't want to risk running into another band of fairies by yourself. That would be very irritating.
Going to your room would be a waste, too. You could get settled in better, but you've got all night to do that. Wandering around probably isn't a great idea until you know more about the place and its rules.
Which leads to asking the mistress herself. She offered, didn't she?
"Well, actually, I do have a couple of things to ask about." You respond to her previous statement.
"Oh, alright then. Sakuya!"
The maid appears out of nowhere.
"Yes, Mistress?"
"Show this man to my room." She says so calmly as if it were a completely normal thing to say. Which it isn't. Sakuya raises an eyebrow, but nods.
"Yes, Mistress."
"I've got to go get something to drink if I'm going to be awake any longer in the day. I'll just be a few minutes." She stands up and heads through a door on the side of the room. You're unsure of why Sakuya just stood there waiting for her to leave the room before continuing on, but whatever.
"This way." She states calmly, before leaving through a different door. You follow.
Along the way, you get a better view of more of the corridors in the mansion. It's all lavishly decorated, beyond what you'd expect of even some of the richest mansions in the outside world. Of course, the fact that almost everything is some shade of red is starting to get to your eyes. When you blink, you see turquoise.
The hallways here seem even longer than Eientei's, almost. They're huge. You could get lost in these without a guide.
Eventually you end up in front of Remilia's room. Sakuya lets you inside.
"Please have a seat at the table."
You do as she says and take a seat. She stands by the side of the table as you wait for Remilia to return.
Man, this room is...Huge. Everything in it is huge. Excluding Sakuya and yourself, that is. And this table. This table is surprisingly not very large. Just a bit smaller than the table in that vast empty void you occasionally enter in your dreams with Yumou.
However, the bed is gigantic. For someone as small as Remilia, she sure has big stuff.
The door opens and Remilia walks back inside.
"Sorry about that. I get weak during the day, and I have to replenish my energy."
Awesome, does she have energy drinks or something? You'd like one.
"It's alright, Remilia. I don't realy mind waiting."
"Oh, good. So, you wanted to ask some things?"
"Yeah. I'd like to learn more about this place and its inhabitants." You'd like to know who you're dealing with. It's quite important.
"Oh, I see. Well, let's go down the chain of command. First there's me. Remilia Scarlet, the Scarlet Devil, most feared vampire in Gensokyo!"
Well, she sure does seem self-confident.
...Wait, vampire? Does that mean that earlier, she.."
"I've been living here for a while. Perhaps around a decade? Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. I never really paid enough attention. Regardless of how short my stay here has been so far, though, I am quite obviously the strongest and most important person here in Gensokyo. Except Reimu. Maybe Marisa too. But that's definitely a maybe."
Yeah, she seems a bit arrogant, perhaps. But you can overlook it, it's not annoying or anything like that.
"My good friend Patchouli has been living with me since before I came to Gensokyo. She's taken up residence in the library, even though I've offered her rooms outside of that stuffy place. She doesn't like much other than reading and magic. That being said, she's one of the most knowledgable, and even powerful mages in Gensokyo, definitely outclassing both Marisa and less distantly Alice. However, she loses every time she gets in a fight with them because she has quite poor health and either can't recite spells, gets exhausted quickly, or even faints. I've told her to go see Eirin, but she refuses, stating that if she wanted to do something about it there's undoubtedly something in her vast library that could help. I don't get it, but there really isn't anything I can do but worry.
Then there's Sakuya. The perfect, elegant maid. There are no maids better than her. She can manipulate time. When you and her aren't very acquainted, she'll act to you the same as any other guest- simply obedient to any requests that don't fall under the ones she'll deny. Silent unless provoked. Once you get more acquainted, however, she becomes more friendly, to a point. But when you piss her off, the only way you're going to get out of getting hurt by her is to beg her for forgiveness or get me to order her to forgive you."
Time h4x? So that's how she was seeming to teleport. In any case, she seems dangerous. It's best to stay on her good side, or at least your neutral side.
"Finally there's Chi-er, Meiling, the gate guard. You've already met her. She's a slacker. Not as bad as that Shinigami, but enough that Sakuya has to punish her for sleeping on the job quite often. Good thing she's a youkai, or she'd be too full of holes to do her job properly."
Full of holes?
"The rest of the inhabitants are fairies who I let come and go as they please. They do basic maid work in exchange for meals and a place to stay that's out of the weather. Of course, they're not really that reliable, but that's okay because we don't need to feed them that much and they also stand as a second line of defense past Meiling. Annoyingly, they're often more effective than she is against commoners."
Power in numbers, obviously.
"That's everyone here. E- No, that's definitely everyone here." You get the feeling she was about to tell you about someone else. Huh.
"I see. It's good to know about the people who live at the place I'm staying. It's a lot better than pissing people off."
"Indeed."
"Especially due to the fact that it seems that in Gensokyo, the prettier a girl is, the more capable she is of killing me effortlessly. That means I'm going to have to stay on your good side."
She stares at you for a second before breaking out into laughter.
"Hahahahahahaha! No need to try and flatter me! But it is appreciated."
"You're welcome."
"Well, we've talked about what you want to talk about for enough time now. Time to talk about what I want to talk about."
Well, if you had any more to say, you'd be irritated, but since you don't, you aren't.
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