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“Good afternoon, Miss Izayoi.” In a rare turn of events, Yuuka Kazami stood before the infamous Scarlet Devil Mansion, catching a rare glimpse of it’s equally as infamous maid on its boundary-edge. It wasn’t often the Youkai of Flowers was absent from her garden, especially not for any length of time. Still, she had that devilish grin on her, idly twirling her parasol as she stood and waited.

Groaning, Sakuya shields her eyes from the bright torch. “Ugh. I didn’t think that you were awake. Do you really have to make a big show out of this? This was going to be a simple in and out job.”

“... ... ...” Wasn’t this the same maid that Claudia was fighting to the near-death with a few months ago? She that white hair and stoic, yet sadistic manner was too unique to forget. And while Claudia wasn’t adverse to meeting former opponents during odd situations...

“If you want to fight me again, that’s fine. But I’m bathing right now.” Specifically, bathing in the lake a few miles off from that mansion, since she didn’t exactly have money for lodgings at the moment and it was the closest body of water to clean up in after a long day.

And she happened to be completely naked at the moment as well.

“Unless you planned on bathing with me? I don’t mind sharing the space.”

“Ah...”

Oh... wait. God, he’s so stupid. He should have known the ‘maid friend’ Yuri was talking about before was none other than Sakuya. Oh well.

“What? I don’t need your permission! I say it all the time when Meiling’s not around. But sometimes it does slip out…”

“That’s quite the glare you’re giving me, Mademoiselle. And quite the bloodlust as well.” Claudia looked toward the maid with a slight glare of her own, twirling her short spear within her hand.