Chapter 15: Chapter 15

“Huh? What in the world is this?”

Remelia pointed at the broken cup with a tired air

Can't you see that it's a broken cup? Jeez… You need glasses.

She leer at me, seemingly knowing I thought bad of her

“Hmm? ‘What’, you say? Why they are teacups. Are they not to your liking?”

Correction suffix 'Broken' is needed

“It's a remarkably avant-garde design. For example, even if you take it by the handle, one-third won't come with it, so you almost wouldn't think it's a cup at all… But it would be better if more of it could hold liquid.”

“But isn't it a nice style? I like the relaxing and refined antique feel it has. And the shopkeeper also said he liked it, right?”

“So even the shopkeeper likes this odd design.”

He liked it if it was not broken, but it becomes broken, so I doubt he will like it

“Oh, and what is this paper?”

She gets the paper from Sakuya

“I believe it to be an expert's appraisal or something like that.”

“Are there such things as appraisals with only ‘Sorry’ written on them?”

“It is an ‘I could not appraise it.’ appraisal.”

Okay, I get it, Sakuya is messing with this girl

“It's like a magician's introduction of ‘Nothing up my sleeves.’, then?”

I'm having tea with Reimu right now, and we never talk because I'm busy hearing the conversations while Rinnosuke looks at us with surprise

“I will ask again, Sakuya. Just what in the world is that?”

“As I said, it is an avant-garde teacup.”

“Did I ask for such a thing?”

“Indeed you asked for it to be small, light, unusual, pretty…”

“Well, this one is pretty, though.”

“And besides, it has a more refined air than the ones at the shrine, does it not?”

*Snort* damn… I almost spit the tea.

Reimu's eyes are staring at me like she will hit me if I laugh

This is injustice be angry at them, not me!

“Their shapes are indeed similar, but…”

“Reimu do you have avant-garde cups at the shrine?”

Rinnosuke asked Reimu

“I don't know about any cups like that.”

“Oh, you don't? They were there just before I sent Sakuya out.”

“She could not know about that, Mistress. It was after we arrived that the cups became ‘avant-garde’.”

Ahh… They broke Reimu's cups.

“What…? So you broke my cups!?”

After that, Reimu throw a fit of anger toward them while I just look at the scene like I'm watching a telenovela

“Sakuya, I did indeed ask for cups that looked like Reimu's. But, I didn't mean how it looked afterward, but how it looked before it changed. Didn't you understand that?”

“Oh, is that so? I was sure you wished for a cup that made a set with Reimu's.”

“This is not a set, it's a mix.”

“But if I bought normal cups, you were planning on saying something like ‘What were you thinking!? Their shapes are completely different!’, correct?”

“I… I wouldn't say that.”

Even though I don't know you but from your tone alone I could conclude that you are lying

“I understand. You want normal cups, then?”

“If that is what you think, do as you please, Sakuya.”

“Of course, that is just what I am thinking.”

“Well, these teacups are trash, then.”

Sakuya remarks, then she throws the cup fragments towards the air

The little girl showed off her wings, Reimu has a surprised face, while Rinnosuke has a face of fear

While me looking at the surroundings, I could conclude the ability of this maid

Is without a doubt is the fabled manipulation of time and space

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The surrounding time flow becomes slow as it comes to a full halt

In a split second, the maid already has a fixed cup

“So, how was it? Real sleight of hand, without any props.”

Reimu and Rinnosuke expressed amazement and the little girl has a smug expression

While I stayed Stoic, but my inside is frozen solid

She could kill me and I can't do anything to protect myself

I should take note that I won't cross her path

Sakuya looked at me

“how much for it?”

“3,500 Mons”

“very well”

They bought the cup and goes on their way

“Reimu isn't that supposed to be your cup?”

“Ah…”

She immediately runs towards the exit, leaving her half-finished tea

“Ibaraki”

“What is it?”

“What happened? And how did she make the broken cup fully fixed?”

That isn't your cup, though… But I won't spoil a magician's trick.

“She can stop time”

That's the most simplified answer I could think of

“what?”

“You heard it right, you know how absurd this place is, so I doubt controlling time is a big deal”

He stayed silent and thought too deeply

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I am cleaning the floor with a mop and a bucket full of water

“Ibaraki, I know you are very diligent, but can you not clean everything every few minutes?”

“You do know there's nothing worse than an Oni that's bored, right?”

“Probably”

“I guess you are right… This place is spotless because of me, should I learn Blacksmithing?”

“Do you know how?”

“Nope, I just wanted to learn”

*Smash* “Ibaraki!”

“Marisa, can you tone it down?”

She is carrying some sweets, so I prepared some teacups

“Marisa, about the cups”

“What?, Nothin' weird about that”

He started to scold her while Marisa just ate sweets with me while we treat Rinnosuke as a radio of some sort

He suddenly stopped

“if she could stop time, then isn't it impossible for her to fix it?”

He looked at me and I just nod

“Did somethin' interesting happen?”

“I will tell you the whole story later”

He started to rummage everything, every hard work that I put is being undone by him

Until he grabs something that is under the pile of neat newspaper

It's a refined-looking case, it's the case that he used to put his treasured teacup

I and Marisa goes towards his side as he slowly opened it

There are two papers on it, a letter that has 'sorry' and a paper that has 'my apologies'

I guess the trick has been revealed

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