Angry Desu !jVJAZ.LN/Q 2008/07/04 (Fri) 11:31 No. 46862 ▼ File 121519627965.jpg - (127.12KB, 650x650 , Cirno-chest.jpg)
“So,” you say as the waitress walks off with your groups orders. “This Cirno character, it sounds like you all know her?”
“Pff!” Marisa snorts as she slouches down in her seat. “Almost everyone in Gensokyo knows that nineball!” The brightly-attired girl shrugs, “She gets up to something stupid every other day at least, but then that's to be expected from the strongest idiot.”
“Nineball?” you ask, not understanding the reference.
“It's the nickname Cirno has earned herself,” Keine explains, “Although I don't think I know how she earned it.” She frowns, “Then again, I am not entirely sure I would want to know either.”
“Cirno isn't an idiot.” Letty states with a slight pout, “She's very smart! She can even read and write!” Meiling nods in agreement with Letty.
“Yeah,” says the chinese girl, “That would make her maybe the only fairy to be able to do that - the ones up at the Mansion are all pretty dim about things like that. Even that one that follows Cirno around everywhere... Daiyousei? She can't read, but I've seen Cirno trying to teach her before.”
Letty blinks and looks at Meiling in surprise, “Cirno is teaching her? She never told me about that.” Again you notice a slight frown flit across Letty's face, “Little Cirno, teaching, imagine that.”
“Hey!” Meiling grins, “She tell you about that time she got eaten by a giant frog?”
The lavender-haired woman scowls. “She showed me the newspaper she was in.” She stated, “Why didn't that awful tengu actually help her out instead of just taking pictures?”
“Eh, it's nothing special.” points out Marisa, “That nineball is always getting into trouble with frogs 'n stuff. She keeps freezing the little ones then wonders why they attack her when the grow up. Seriously, so stupid.”
“Pretty much,” agrees Meiling, “It wasn't so bad until those new people came to the mountain, one of them is a frog youkai or something I think. She and Cirno are always fighting each other whenever they get the chance.” The redhead smiles thoughtfully, “I think they're really friends though, they just like to squabble a lot is all.”
“Frog youkai?” Letty asks, “Cirno hasn't mentioned a frog youkai to me before...”
“Eh?” the chinese-girl blinks in surprise, “Really? Well, I never hear the end of Cirno's victories over her... and Cirno's oaths of revenge and stuff when she's the one who lost. It's cute really, but I guess it's better than some of the really stupid ideas she's had before.”
“The soy sauce incident?” Keine spoke up suddenly, “That was one of hers if I recall correctly, although I never found out why she was stealing it all.”
“She was stealing soy sauce?” You ask, wondering what kind of weirdo would want to steal soy sauce of all things! “That's kind of...” you glance at Letty and pause before casually insulting her friend by accident. “... weird.” you say at last, noting a tiny smile on the lavender-haired woman's face at not calling Cirno stupid.
“Hey!” Marisa yells, “Foods up!” You look up in surprise and, indeed, she's correct. The waitress has returned laden down with several plates full of small cakes and treats as well as a glass full of ice-cream which Letty quickly lays claim to. Komachi's hand darts out to snatch a small plate of frosted donuts that she immediately digs into. Meiling and Keine had both ordered chocolate-topped eclaires while Marisa had... well, it was chocolate covered at least. You assumed there was probably some cake under the several layers of frosting somewhere though. Given how quiet she was being, Marisa seemed to like it though.
You take a bite from your own order, a layer cake made with green tea. Rather plain but it would do for now. “So,” you ask, “Why was miss Cirno stealing soy sauce anyway? I can't imagine anyone would do something like that without a reason.”
“Exactly!” Letty agreed, rather loudly. “Cirno isn't some everyday thief, unlike some people we know.” That last part quietly and you had to hold back a smirk as everyone elses gaze flickered over to Marisa for a moment. The witch, thankfully, didn't seem to have heard as she was too busy enjoying her chocolate-covered delight. “She is a very kind person inside.” There was a pause, then Letty spoke up again. “Why... why was she stealing soy sauce? I asked her but she seemed to embarrassed to say and never told me.”
“Little Cirno,” began Meiling, “For some reason, wanted to look more... ah...” she glances at you, then coughs slightly, “more mature. If you know what I mean.” The girls, except the still unaware Marisa, nodded. You yourself had a pretty good guess what the redhead had meant too. “Somewhere she heard that washing in soy sauce could... improve growth?”
You stare at Meiling. “That's absurd!” you declare. Then glance around conspiratorially, “So, did she actually try it?” Letty frowns at you but also leans in slightly, wanting to know the answer herself. Keine, however, suddenly sat upright and banged her fist into her palm in an 'aha!' gesture.
“So that's why all the animals were after her!” she declared, “It wasn't mud, it was soy sauce! They were after the salt in it!” Looking around at the surprised girls she elaborated, “It was not long after Cirno's soy-sauce stealing spree had hit the village, she came tearing through the village gates covered in gunk and screaming her head off. A good ten or twenty animals were chasing after her, we never did understand why.”
“Yup!” Meiling nodded, “She actually went and had a bath in the stuff. I only know 'cuz she wanted to know if we had an old tub or something in the mansion she could borrow.”
“Oh man,” Marisa groaned, looking up from her cake for the first time since receiving it, “This wouldn't have been around the sixth moon a few years back would it?” Meiling and Keine nod an answer to her question. “Oh man,” repeats the witch, “Reimu so would have killed Cirno if she found out it was her who brought all those animals to the shrine. She spent days cleaning up! Only reason she didn't go off an investigate was... well, other stuff came up.”
“Oh... Cirno.” Letty sighed, “She just lets things get the best of her is all. She's a nice girl, really. She always plays with me in the winter.” You're not sure, but you could have sworn Letty had placed extra stress on 'me' when she said that.
“Well,” you say, “I learned about Shinigami, and I learned about Cirno. That's enough learning for now I suppose.” You glance at you watch and nod. “We still have to get some food, which means I'm going to have to introduce you to the modern supermarket.”
Keine looks at you, “Super... Market?” She asks, “I understand what a market is, but a supermarket? It sounds to me like it's just a very large market.”
“Sort of,” you reply, “I's much more packed in, there's a lot of stuff and they usually specialize in food and drink.” Komachi perks up when you mention 'drink' and you smirk at her. “Yes, that does mean alcohol too, we can stretch to buying some to replace what everyone had yesterday.”
Waving the waitress over you pull a few bills out of your wallet to pay for the food. The girls finish up and are soon ready to continue, though you note that Marisa still has chocolate smudged all around her mouth.
[ ] Wipe if off for her,
[ ] Leave it, she deserves it.
[ ] Laugh at it,
[ ] Tell her discretely.
Okay yeah, delay on this one. Took me a while to think of something stupid enough for Cirno to have done. Post would have been MEGALONGER but i decided to put a choice in since otherwise i'd keep writing until tomorrow.
