The longest Day XII

20:10

Cassandra

Evening.

Since the maids were mostly busy with providing Daddy and the devil with food, we had to actually do most of the menial work ourselves Not that ordering food was particularly exhausting but with nobody in charge of it it was still a hassle and we ended up with a rather belated and not particularly fancy dinner.

Looks like most of the girls were pretty busy today. I sure as fuck was. Beatrice made sure of that. Naturally the little brat accosted me immediately after returning, demanding to know how the meeting went.

The next hour then went with her grilling me about every single little detail and particularly bitching about Ojou’s fickleness. Tough luck, brat.

Still, even so, everyone came together for dinner. It was almost heartwarming, if I gave a shit about any of them. Which I don’t. I’m just here because Ojou is more annoying then these brats.

“You could have told me about your relationship with Minerva”, the biggest brat grumbled as she gobbled up a banana. “You too, Sylphid.”

Sylphid scratched her head bashfully and grinned. “He, he. Sorry about that, want me to make it up to you later?” She winked, much to Bea’s dismay.

I ate an apple. “Who cares. Worked out in the end, didn’t it?”

“Did it aye, Slaver?”, angry little Fisti blustered towards me, which allowed Beatrice to sneakily steal her desert. “But we have no clue if that gangland gal will actually do anything beyond sitting on her fat arse!”

“Oh, she will”, I responded with a confident smile. “Cunt has become way too much of risk for her.

I know Ojou well enough for that one.”

“But even if we can trust this never do weller, will it work?” The(for some reason) naked Sexy-Knight frowned.

“Dunno”, I responded. “Certainly has a bigger chance of working then your find the magic sword plan.”

“W-well! I do have some lead on it! I’m working on it! You just wait! I find it! Definitely! Mostly! Probably!”

“Ah dinnae ken, Sana’s got a point.”, Fisti rubbed her chin as if that would make the little goblin look smarter. “This daft scheme of yers, strikes me as rather willy-nilly put together. Ya know what they’re saying. A nod's as guid as a wink tae a blind orse. We’re getting buttoned up the back here, I tell ya.”

Don’t worry, I didn’t understand any of that either. Sylphid must have fucked her even dumber or something.

“What? After all this time you still doubt me, Punchy?” Witch Brat sighed and gingerly shoved a spoon into Fisti’s parfait, surgically removing the strawberries “My plans are absolutely flawless. This tournament is already won. We might as well start spending the prize money.”

“That we might but not because of your worthless contribution”, snake bitch struck. The Galmon was for once not showing off her resting bitch face but smiled proudly. “Due to our superior skill, we have unlocked hypnosis 2. With this magnificent power not even a fool as foolishly foolish as Mari Beta will be able to make a botch of it.”

“Uhh!”, Sylphid grinned. “I wouldn’t mind doing some more “unlocking” with you m’queenie. By the way, your face is SUPER adorable when you...”

“SILENCE! YOU WILL NOT UTTER A SINGLE FURTHER WORD, YOU FOOLISH HARLOT!”

Looks like the clowns are still in town.

“Yes, yes, very droll”, Beatrice plucked another strawberry out of Fisti’s parfait. “You there, luck girl.”

The blond haired lucky charm, seemed perfectly fine to just watch the spectacle without participating. The moment she was addressed however, she smiled brightly. “Yes?”

Beatrice nodded haughtily. “Luck, your...luck. How exactly does it work?”

I groaned internally. This again?

Lucky cocked her head. “Eh, didn’t we talk about it already?”

“We absolutely did not”, the brat insisted. “Now explain.”

“Hmm...but its so tough to explain”, pouted the blonde Balance Breaker. “If I want something to happen it usually happens, although it doesn’t always work but this is probably because I don’t really, really want something and surprises are fun sometimes, too right?”

Yeah, yeah, we went over all of this yesterday, already. The hell’s the brat going with this?

“Let us make an experiment then.” Beatrice plucked the last fruit from her stolen dessert. “I give you my final strawberry. Provided Punchy will be dancing on the table, stark naked, within the next ten seconds.”

“YA DAFT OR SOMETHING?” Fisti preemptively covered herself up.

Lucky grinned. “But I’m not really hungry anymore.”

“Ugh”, Beatrice groaned. “Can’t you at least try to cooperate? Honestly.” The witch popped the strawberry into her mouth instead and then tossed the rest of the parfait towards Uni who happily gulped it down. “Wouldn’t it be very amusing if Punchy was suddenly dancing naked?”

“Yer aff yer heid! Do something that doesn’t involve me getting bare, ya cheeky bairn!”, Fisti barked.

“Eh, but there is already someone naked on the table, so I’m not sure how funny a second one would be.”

“She is talking about you, Hebi-san”, the Sexy-Knight scowled. “It would behoove you to wear some more clothes.”

“I like being naked”, Aiju added with a yawn. “Is comfy.”

“Alright, girls, how about we all get naked?”, Sylphid suggested with a lewd grin.

Beatrice gasped exasperated but seemed at a loss on how to steer this dipshit conversation back into non idiot infested waters. What a hopeless little brat. I sighed deeply and took over. “Oi, Lucky charm.”

Lucky swished her head towards me. “Yeees?”

I nodded. “You said yesterday you won’t help, right?”

The Lucky charm nodded back. “Uhu. Not even a single bit! So don’t try it! I’m not doing it even if you dance naked!”

“Shame” I calmly poured myself a drink. “Guess we won't find out what happened to her.”

“Eh? Her? Who’s her?”

“Don’t you know?” I casually took a sip and then swung my glass back and forth. “It’s why Daddy is in this tournament. To find his long lost sister, Beri.”

“Her name is Ceri!”, snake girl hissed enraged.

“My Lord has a sister?”, the Sexy-Knight widened her eyes. “Impossible!”

“Is possible”, Kitty nodded. “Have many sisters. One not a problem.”

“Hold on. Isn’t that just Rice?”, Fisti dropped.

“E-EXCUSE ME?”

“I mean. Mari and ye both have black hair and Rice even has the same letter as Ceri. That’s a wee bit suspicious, if yer asking me.”

“What in heavens are you talking about, you execrable dimwit? I am most certainly not this boneheaded Baboon’s sister!”, the brat blustered. “And my name is Beatrice, not Rice! You Punchy!”

“No, No!” Sanakia interjected. “It is always the one you least expect it to be...which means the sisterly culprit is you: Gilbert!”

“DO I LOOK HUMAN OR GIRL TO YOU?”

“Miserable fools”, Hebi-san hissed. “Unlike you, we know the girl named Ceri since she was a child. We already are privy to who that individual is that is her.”

“Really?”, Lucky gasped. “Then tell me!”

“It is not Gilbert, that we can guarantee.”

“Ugh, but then who is it? I wanna know, I wanna know!”, the Lucky Charm pouted.

“Well it’s definitely not me either!”, Sylphid laughed. “I mean yeah I don’t talk much about my past and I don’t know my parents and Sylphid is obviously not my real name but I mean come on! That would just be crazy! There’s no way that can be true!”

But that only caused Lucky to gasp even harder.

“Yer aff yer heid! There’s no chance yer that pervert’s sister Lady Sylphid! Might be it’s not someone here at all? Might be it’s that wee announcer lad?”, Fisti mused. “Has black hair and looks barny good in a skirt. Might be he’s actually a girl all along?”

“Hmm...but it is certainly true that humans without any parents are suspicious”, Bea mused. “Which means Cass is a prime candidate too.”

“Have many sisters”, Aijuka nodded. “Could be one of them?”

“What if it is the holy blade Nikkou?”, Sanakia vomited out.

“Yeah sure, why not”, I calmly sipped at my drink as I let the carnage take it’s course.

“Uniiiii! Uni! Unnni! Uni! Uni! Uni!”

“No waaaay!”, Lucky stared at the unicorn in a complete stupor. “There’s no way it can be her!”

I shrugged and tossed the unicorn my apple core. “Could be anyone really. Maybe...even you.”

Lucky gasped in complete shock. “Me...but...but that would be a CRAZY TWIST!”

I shrugged. “Maybe. Doesn’t matter. Since we never learn the truth if Daddy loses tomorrow.”

The little Balance Breaker was so curious now she seemed ready to cause the apocalypse, flipping her gaze between me and the rest of the girls at a rapid pace “Who is it? Come ooooon you have to tell me! Please! Pleaaaaaase!”

“No”, Snakegirl remained adamant. “We refuse, foolish human.”

“Eeeeeeeeeh? But I wanna knooooow! Gimme a hint at leaaaast!”

“Guess there’s just one thing to do then”, I smirked at the Lucky charm. “You just have to make sure Daddy will be winning. Because if he don’t, well guess the truth dies with all of us.”

“No waaaaaay! Uggghhh” Lucky was excitedly bopping up and down now as if she had too much sugar. “I wanna know. I wanna know. I wanna know!”

“Well”, I smiled sweetly at her. “You know what you need to do then.”

“Urggghhhh, fine!” Lucky slammed the table. “I will give it my best! But McGarnagel will still have to try super hard! Got it? If he slacks off and loses I will be very angry with him!”

“So, ya still can’t guarantee victory?”, asked Fisti.

“It’s just not how it works”, Lucky frowned frustrated. “For example, I like Sylphid and Valk is her friend. But she still lost, right? Sometimes my power work in weird ways. But I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really want McGarnagel to win now! Like 10% hard!”

Ok, sure. Don’t work too hard, you lazy shit.

“I suppose it would be too easy otherwise”, Beatrice sighed. “How positively vexing. Oh well, I certainly won’t factor in your so called balance breaking powers in my calculations.”

“Careful, Rice or yer gonna join Sana on the nude girl bench.”

“W-why is everyone insinuating that?”, The Sexy-Knight scowled. “My attire is perfectly befitting my station!”

“I definitely agree!”, Sylphid, of course, gave Sexy-Knight a thumbs up.

And just like that Lucky was back to giggling “And I agree too!”

“Good taste! Here have a cookie!”, Sylphid fed her, which got Lucky giggling some more.

“Hmph! Luck is for fools. Mark my words our own contributions will outshine all of you!”, Hebi-san declared boldly. “Fufufu….Hypnosis Level 2. Level 2. Fufufu.”

“Do not count your Banberas before they have mated”, nude-knight interjected. “I may have not found the holy blade Nikkou but when I presented my Lord with that brand new equipment I purchased for him he was at a complete lack for words!”

Probably because of the balance on his fighter pass after that purchase.

“Unnnniiii!”

I sighed.

Man.

The girls were pretty devastated about the whole Daddy losing his souls bid, but look at them now. One day later and everybody’s back to their lively and very annoying self. Must be nice to be that young.

Bloody brats.

…

For some reason.

It reminded me of Ojou and Feena.

Femto’s estimate on victory over Minerva

Devil of time(1 hour) (+13.6%/+6.8%)

Amber Dominator Mari Beta invigorated (+5%/+2.5%)

upgrade to high grade equipment (+10%/+5%)

mental anguish due to excessive spending (-5%/-2.5%)

Operation divide et impera (+13.6%/+6.8%)

Hebi-san’s hypnosis LV 2 (+8%/+4%)

Balance Breaker Lucky, trying really, really, hard(+10%/+5%)

chances of victory by kill: 55,2%

chances of victory via surrender: 27.6%