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- [X] Explain to the bird girl that you ’re a new guard Satori just employed.
- >[X] "Woah, calm down. I'm Spectre, and I'm here because Satori hired me to guard the palace."
- >[X] Glance at her wings. "Are you Utsuho?"
- >[X] "Nice gun you have there, it is quite...unique."
- ---
- [i]“… I’ll prepare your meals, so I will ask Orin to call you when it’s ready to be served. You’ll be dining with the three of us, including Utsuho the hell raven.” [i]
- When Satori’s words click back in your mind and a quick glance of her wings, you snapped you fingers and pointed at the hell raven. “You are… Utsuho aren’t you?”
- “Unyu?” She squaked. “Of course I am! How did you know my name?!” Somehow, mentioning her name while she hadn’t known yours was not a good idea. She was prodding you in the chest with her arm cannon, nearly pushing you off the railings.
- “I’m getting there, just calm down, okay?” You said. “I'm Spectre, and I'm here because Satori hired me to guard the palace.” You breathed out. "Nice gun you have there, it is quite...unique."
- “It’s my third leg.” She said proudly, still aiming the cannon at you.
- You sighed in frustration. “For gods’ sake, can you at least put your cannon or whatever it is away for a while? You’re boiling me.” And she did just that. [i]“That’s better.”[/i]
- “Oh. Where’s Satori-sama?”
- “She told me that she’s at her reading chamber.” You replied, but Utsuho didn’t seem to buy your explanation. “Is there anything else that I need to add or explain?”
- The hell raven stared at your face for a few seconds before saying… “What’s a reading chamber?”
- Upon hearing that question, you slapped your hand on your forehead. “How about I just take you there…”
- Before you went down to the reading chamber with Utsuho, you set up the Sentry Gun on the rooftop. After some slight modifications by the kappa, the “Death Machine” can fire automatically at enemies. But it still needs to be spooled up, and you flicked the barrels to cool down the spool time.
- ---
- The reading chamber was easy to spot, since it had double doors as an entrance, just like Voile’s doors. You push one of the doors open, and walked in with Utsuho walking right behind you.
- However, when you enter the library, you tripped on something which made you fell flat on your face at the doorframe. Instead on walking over you or pushing the door on her left, the hell raven simply drops herself on you before you could even stand up.
- “OW!” You screamed out in pain.
- “Who in the blazes is screaming in this room?” Satori’s voice could be heard beneath the bookshelves before she appeared in a distance from the door frame. “Oh, Spectre. It’s you. With… Utsuho…”
- “Satori’s-sama!” Utsuho called out to her master as she stood up and hugged her master.
- “Are you okay, Spectre?” Your employer asked.
- “I felt like someone had dropped a ton of rock on my back.” You mumbled before you got on your knees. “Otherwise, I’m fine.”
- “Good.” She said. “I was wondering how in world you just fell flat on your face without nothing impeding your path.”
- “I felt like I tripped a foot. Someone’s foot.” You said. “And I am sure as heck it was not Utsuho’s because she is right behind me.”
- You hear Satori sigh.
- “Is there some wrong, ma’am?” You asked in a concerned tone.
- She shook her head in a dismissive way. “It’s nothing.”
- “Well then, If there’s nothing else I think should go back to my post.”
- “I’ll be right behind you, unyu~”
- “See you at dinner then.” Satori said. “If you are going to leave for the Underground City Central, I permit it. Just be sure that you don’t leave the rooftop unguarded.”
- “Affirmative.”
- ---
- After Seo and Utsuho walked out of the room and closed the door, you called out a voice.
- “Koishi.”
- A giggle could clearly he heard echoing in the reading chamber before the figure of a girl materialized from thin air. An audible ‘woosh’ could also be heard.
- She giggled again. “Yes, sis?”
- “I was wondering when you returned home. Did you trip Seo while he was walking into the library with Utsuho?”
- “Yes I do.” Koishi nodded to your question. “In fact, he seems easy to tease~”
- “Let him work in peace. He just arrived from the surface world to work here.”
- Koishi pouted at your comment.
- “Don’t give me that look.” You said, before you turned around to sit on your chair. You wore a pair of spectacles when Koishi walked closer to your chair. While you were reading a book, she placed her chin on your lap while she is sitting on the floor. “Have you been stealing other people’s food again?” You asked.
- You hear Koishi hum in delight. “Yes I did. They had wonderful and tasty food; I had a good time ‘sharing’ food with them.”
- [i]“Koishi, Koishi.”[/i] You thought in your silence while reading the book you had in hand. [i]”If only you could just stay around in this palace, I won’t feel too lonely.”[/i]
- ---
- Back at the lookout post, you turned off the Death Machine upon resuming your guard duty. A quick glance at the ammo counter shows that no bullets were spent on intruders. Utsuho on the other hand had disappeared long before you reached the stairs, presumably she flew off to do something else.
- “That’s a good thing.” You mutter, while unfolding the sentry gun. “Urgh. This thing is heavy.”
- “Need a hand?” A voice rang behind you. You turned around and saw Orin; the catgirl with four ears you met earlier today.
- “Nah, it’s okay. I just need to deactivate the device.” You declined, pulling off the car battery attached to the sentry gun. “There we go.”
- After the sentry gun was set to safe, you let out a whistle and rested your arms on the railings. Orin joined by sitting next to you.
- “I haven’t heard about your name, mister. Mine’s Rin Kaenbyou, but Satori-sama might had told you my nickname.”
- “Mine’s Fujisaki Seo. Callsign’s Spectre. And no, I am not a ghost.”
- “I could tell you apart, since your human-ish scent is very obvious. You’re a human after all~” She said with a gleeful tone.
- “Good guess.” You said, before you paused a bit. “Wait, what kind of youkai are you again? A nekomata?”
- “Wrong. I am a Kasha; controller of spirits in the remnants of the Hell of Blazing Fires. I used to drop dead bodies down the blazing fires of hell to regulate them.” She said, while staring at you with a menacing glare before she backed away. “Don’t worry, mister, you are not dead yet, so I won’t throw you down the furnace~”
- “Oh come on, that doesn’t make me feel any better either.”
- Orin laughed when she noticed the uncomfortable scowl on your face. After that you received a pat on your back.
- Suddenly, a hitodama burst into flames front of you, which made you fall on your butt. You’re clearly surprised with the hitodama’s sudden appearance, which later turns into a fairy.
- “You sure are easy to be surprised, mister.” Orin giggled. “It’s just my zombie fairy.”
- “A zombie fairy? Does it eat brains?” However, your question made the small fairy on fire sulk and fly into the kasha’s arms.
- “That’s a mean question you know.”
- “I’m sorry, when ever I think of zombies, I think of those flesh eating live corpses I seen in the movies.” You said as you stood up to your feet.
- “Ah. Our little Zoffiies wouldn’t eat your flesh or your brains.” She said, letting the little fairy fly away and sit on your head.
- “Zoffies?”
- “I have a few of them following me. This is just one of them.” She said. “Well, Satori-sama said that I should call you when dinner’s done, so see you later then.”
- “Yeah. Whatever.”
- A couple of hours had passed after the kasha left your post, and things started grow boring on you again. You glanced at the idle Death Machine, the Underground City, and a green care package right next to you out of boredom.
- [i]”I wonder what I should do now…?”[/i]
- The time is now [b]15:12:32[/b]. Your actions to cure your boredom…?
- [] Open the care package and see the contents inside.
- >[] Write in.
- [] Set up the Death Machine and go to the Underground City.
- [] Set up the Death Machine and go to sleep.
- [] Write in.
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