[vinedeo]

[majin_fukushou]

-Hey kids! It's Goddess Shinki! And she's enjoying the company of tiny robots serving her some delicious and colorful looking sponge cake.-

Hmm... These little golems are quite talented pastry chefs. It's so tastey! I just couldn't help myself~

Oh, Yumeko, dear, I believe we are due for a trip to this library Alice told me about. I've been wanting to gather some new reading material, after all. Bring a satchel.

Also, a query... What IS this Christmas thing I heard whispers of?

-She takes another bite of her cake, giggling.-

[[ Chronologically speaking, the first person she's going to see for the effects of the cake is Yuuka ]]

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[majin_fukushou]

-Shinki had done the same... and immediately regretted it, dropping the book at her feet. It was then she actually started to look around at specifically what was lining the shelves...-

[swordthrowing]

Shinki-sama...?

[She glances up at the sound of something hitting the floor, turning a page of the book in her own hands as she does so. Idly, she skims down a paragraph or so, and...]

[...Wait a minute. She huffs and blushes a little, pointedly snapping its covers closed and moving to return it to its place on the shelf.]

[majin_fukushou]

-Another book on the floor. And another. Shinki was bright red when she turned to her maid.-

Y-yumeko... What sort of books are you finding?

[swordthrowing]

Pornographic ones.

[It's rare that she says something like that so bluntly. She must be bothered. She scowls at the shelf of books in front of her.]

And you said Alice told you about these?

[majin_fukushou]

Was this her idea of a prank?! -They were pretty much surrounded by smut. Why on earth...-

[swordthrowing]

Maybe it was. Alice does seem to have a...particular sense of humor. [Yumeko rubs her forehead.] I can't imagine why else she would tell you to come here.

[Mostly because the idea that Alice actually enjoys these kinds of books is TOO HORRIFYING TO CONTEMPLATE.]

[majin_fukushou]

Oh she is in for such a scolding! Come, Yumeko, let's not dally here!

[swordthrowing]

Of course, Shinki-sama. There's no need for us to remain here.

[majin_fukushou]

-Of course her attempt to storm off is cut short as she just sort of... stops. With the entrance to the section still a ways away.-

[swordthrowing]

[. . .]

Shinki-sama?

[She sounds a little cautious when she speaks up.]

[majin_fukushou]

-... And then she starts hammering on the invisible wall.-

Oh what fresh hell is this, now?!

[swordthrowing]

[Woah woah woah hold on now. Yumeko will just...try to gently pull Shinki away from the barrier.]

Sh-Shinki-sama, please calm down!

[majin_fukushou]

I am sick of it! This queen, her games! How dare Alice subject us to this!

[swordthrowing]

Shinki-sama, I don't think Alice knew this part would happen.

[She says, awkwardly rubbing Shinki's shoulders.]

[majin_fukushou]

-She does start to calm, somewhat, but it would seem the frustration is giving way to sadness as her shoulders begin to shake.-

[swordthrowing]

[She keeps rubbing, anyway.]

...Shinki-sama...?

[majin_fukushou]

I apologize... for losing my composure. I just... I just wanted a nice day out. I had been in such high spirits. The whole day was planned. Afternoon with you, evening with someone else.

[swordthrowing]

I'm sorry, but that's not how things worked out. [Soothing tone to go with the soothing backpats.] We'll just have to make do with the situation as it is, Shinki-sama...

[She only didn't ask about that "evening with someone else," because Shinki seems so upset about the situation.]

[majin_fukushou]

And now it seems we can't even leave. A barrier keeps us from the exit.

I'm just going to assume her thread with Raven happened before this.

[swordthrowing]

...Ah. I believe I...may know the reason for it.

[And whatever the reason is, it's making Yumeko seem unusually embarrassed.]

[majin_fukushou]

You... knew off this? And didn't tell me?

[swordthrowing]

I didn't know that it would happen here, or that it would happen to us. But it seems there's a tradition re... Related to kissing.

[majin_fukushou]

-... Pardon the blank, flushed look.-

I beg your pardon?

[swordthrowing]

[That really isn't helping Yumeko's composure.]

K... Kissing! There's a plant, and we have to kiss if we're underneath it!

[majin_fukushou]

Well that's just stupid. We shouldn't need a plant to kiss.