I want to know the limits of my imagination. (AU / X-overs)
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"Ours is a special thing. An intangible thing. But you know it was always there."
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I bashed my head against the tree as I shouted to myself.
"WHY ARE YOU SO GOD DAMN STUPID!"
I did so a few more times before I fell backwards. It's only been 4 months since I started working here yet I can't do anything right. I raised my hand to my face and touched my forehead. Yep it was bleeding. Was this some kind of cruel prank? Was there some unseen force working against me? No I thought and shook my head. I can't blame someone else for this. It was my own fault that I was inept. A short blue haired girl looked over me with a parasol. This was my employer. She smiled down at me under her parasol; It felt like I was some pathetic dog. She then said.
"Are you working hard Sui-Kun~?"
I lied to her.
"Yes Mistress."
I felt awful and disgusted with myself. My name is Suigetsu Ishikawa and I work for the Scarlet Devil Mansion as a butler. Out of the generosity of my mistress Remilia I'm allowed to live on a weekly ration. She extended her hand towards me gesturing for me to grab it. After I got up I dusted myself off. She then left to go back inside the mansion. Lying to her left a bad taste in my mouth. So I decide to head to the Scarlet Devil Pantry to get something to wash it out with. The water tasted funny as it slid down my throat. It was getting really late outside and I haven't even finished all my duties yet. Just perfect; it'll be another long night tonight.
Just as I was walking out the door I bumped into my kouhai Suzuki Mitsumoto. She is a bit clumsy and shy but she's dependable. I could always rely on her to get a request done. Suzuki rubbed her head and looked up at me. I opened my mouth to ask her.
"Hey, Suzuki, do you have a moment to spare?"
Suzuki made an eeping noise before stuttering.
"Y-yes Sui-sempai?"
Talking to her was a pain for me. If only she could speak more clearly. I then said.
"Can you help me with a few of these chores?"
I handed her half of my list of chores that the head maid gave me. Suzuki looked over it once then smiled at you. She replied.
"Yes, of course I will Sui-sempai."
She then went off somewhere leaving me with the other half of the chore list to do. I sigh as I looked at the top of the list. At the top was help the maids organize the storeroom. Just great, working with a bunch of giggling girls. The Scarlet Devil Mansion is on a shortage of butlers. Currently there are only 3 butlers. As you could already tell I was one of them. The other one was my best friend Shun Yuuto. Shun and my sister Kaori came with me to this world and both are my closest friends. The last butler was a beautiful blue haired man wearing a blue celtic armor and holding a red spear. That man served the mistress as a private butler leaving Shun and me to do all the man work by ourselves. I had been walking for awhile lost in my own thought until I saw the storage room nearing my view. The group of maids waved at me as I entered the storage room. I said.
"Alright, what do you need me to do girls?"
The girls all nodded at each other before Mizumi said.
"We need you to carry these boxes over to that corner over there for us sempai."
Mizumi and Koizumi were twin maids that had helped me before. The third maid I didn't recognize. She had short gray hair and a cheerful smile. I nodded to the girls and picked up the first box full of stuff to the corner and placed it down. Surprisingly it wasn't heavy at all. After a few more boxes and a couple of back cramps I finished organizing the rest of the boxes. I then sat down to give myself a rest. The girls sat down with me and Koizumi nervously offered me a soda pop exclaiming.
"Here sempai! I got this for you!"
Soda pops were a luxury in the Scarlet Devil Mansion and was very hard to obtain in the human villages for us employees. I smiled at her and said.
"Thanks Koizumi."
I took the soda pop bottle and sipped it. The taste was bitter at first but then sweetened. As I was enjoying the bottle I noticed the gray haired girl in the corner of my eye. She was fidgeting with her maid dress and I noticed that she was looking away from me. I offered a drink of the bottle to her.
"Are you thirsty? Here have a drink."
She immediately perked up at your offer and nodded her head. She replied.
"Thanks mister!"
She looked cute drinking the bottle in the waterfall manner. I decided to ask her name.
"So whats your name?"
She handed the bottle back to me and said.
"Name... Name...Let's see... I think miss Patchouli said my name was Naomi Mainyu."
After putting on the cap to the pop bottle I stuffed it inside my butler suit. The maids and I then got up and left the storage room. Koizumi and Mizumi waved me goodbye as they left to go to the dormitory section. Naomi walked towards the direction of Voila, the Scarlet Devil Library. I looked at my list to see what I have to do next. Fix the boiler room; this was going to be a pain I thought.