“My, my… what a mess!” Isis started going about sorting through the huge pile while Material-D rested on the bed. By her side was Material-S, cooling her down with a paper fan like a loyal servant.
“Hm… a bit slower, Material-S.”
“……” If it weren’t for her friend being in this condition, she would have simply walked out of the room. However, being the polite person that she is, she merely did her best to comply with the demands of the bedridden Lord of Darkness.
“You’re still doing it wrong,” complained the Hayate replica. “Maybe I should get the peon in here to cool me down.”
A frown crossed the face of the Nanoha replica. “Yuuno-san’s busy enough working on the repairs of this vessel. That takes priority.”
“Hmph…” She glanced over at Isis who just kept going through the clothes and sorted them out so easily and quickly by size and type.
“Hey… since when did this get torn?” The former shopkeeper held up a pink tunic that had a hole in the area which covered the left armpit. She sighed before digging out her sewing kit from her bag, buried just under the money she earned from the day‘s sales including the three outfits to the Materials. “Guess I gotta mend it.”
Material-D noticed the activity from her bed and as Isis started to get to work, a feeling of familiarity washed over the Hayate replica. For a moment, she could see the best approach to patch up the shirt, leaving no trace of new stitch marks. It was almost like she could see herself stitching but instead of a shirt, she was fixing up some red hat… with dead looking bunnies?
”So what do you think?”
There was an awkward pause from the tiny redhead as she tried the new hat on. “It’s… uh, how do I say it?”
“Come on, be honest!”
The redhead squirmed a bit more before managing to get out a shaky smile. “It’s… a nice hat! Comfortable too!”
“I’m glad you like!”
“W-what was that?!” hissed Yami under her breath before she saw herself again at a sink, peeling potatoes from a chair and talking to… a Book?
”What’s up, B--- -- ----ness? If you do that you’ll get wet!”
“It’s called a fan, ‘Your Majesty’,” droned Material-S beside her.
“No!! I just saw… I saw myself doing… common household chores!”
“Really? In that case, I will consult with Yuuno-san on how to properly treat a delirious patient,” said the Nanoha replica in that polite monotone of hers.
“I’m not hallucinating!” shouted Material-D firmly. “I was actually doing domestic tasks like cooking and sewing!! And I was actually good at them!!”
Isis couldn‘t help but butt in after that last remark. “You don’t seem like the type of person who would be willing to learn how to cook and sew in the first place.”
“I’m not! I have other important things that I want to learn! Like running a kingdom for instance! Somehow… it was like the knowledge had always been there but only triggered when I saw you at your work!”
“Knowledge that triggers…?” Seikou gave it some thought before a memory of her own triggered and she saw herself in a kitchen mixing something in a bowl.
”Like this?”
“Maybe a bit lighter,” replied a warm older male voice behind her. “If that pancake is going to cook properly, then we have to be careful when handling the batter-”
“……!” Material-S glanced at her gloved hands and could easily imagine them taking grip of a frying pan to whip up an edible dish. “How…?”
“That’s what I want to know,” grumbled the Hayate replica before she fell back on the bed again.
“Okay… this last connection should get navigation up and running. I hope to God this works,” grunted Yuuno from underneath the console.
“In this world, God doesn’t exist,” said Material-L in a serious tone from her spot in the empty pilot‘s seat.
“Really? So what do you believe in?” replied the Librarian, curious to hear what type of religious beliefs are held by the Materials.
“There is only one truth. This universe here, our universe… it all came from one man. Masaki Tsuzuki. AND IT BLOWS!!!” screeched Rai.
“Huh?!”
“It started off well enough. Season one sets up a lot of stuff and grows the beard. Season two’s regarded as an awesome sequel, which is probably why the game where we came from was based after that. Season three’s a mixed bag and where the decay began. And I don’t even know what the hell’s going on with the latest two comic titles! Also, the less said about the wasted opportunity that is the movie, the better.”
Okay, she was now starting to scare him. “Um…”
“It’s not the Les Yay that's a huge bother although lately it’s skirting the edge a lot. Really, if you want maximum Les Yay, see something like Aoi Hana or Black Rock Shooter! No, what irks me is how someone who by all means should be serving in a main or major character capacity gets the Shaft or the dreaded Demotion Stick!”
“…… say wha?”
“It happened to you, Yuu-nii!” shouted Material-L as she got right up in his face. “You never got a chance to show what you’re really capable of! Your career is skyrocketing just as fast as hers and who gets all the attention?! She does, just because she has nuke magic to make stuff go boom and you don’t!! So what?! You could have been a Chessmaster or a Magnificent Bastard!! You had the brains and the resources to pull it off!! Obviously, Tsuzuki doesn‘t care much for the general audience except the Yuri Fans who go squee!!”
“Um, maybe you should just-” “And what’s probably his biggest crime of all?! Giving ME the big shaft in my debut appearance! Seikou-chan and Yami-chan get their own CG… hell, Yami-chan gets two!! What do I get?! SQUAT!! Instead of being able to kick the ass out of the original girl I came from in her route, I get shoved to other routes where I fight a big bad wolf and a doctor who can’t even cook if her life depended on it! On top of that, I end up giving out information?! Seriously, I‘m so going to kick her ass if I see the original blondie until she‘s pissing blood!!”
“RAI!!”
Material-L finally stopped her rant and looked at the weary Yuuno. “Yes, Yuu-nii?”
“Just what are you talking about earlier?! Nothing made any sense!”
“Eh…? I think I was talking about…” She thought about it and thought about it some more before she came to an answer. “I think I was talking about how… I want to save the world by kicking someone in the crotch?”
He blinked a few times before finally shaking his head, opting to purge her rant from his memory for the time being. “…… just push the big yellow button to turn on the navigation system.”
“Kay!!”
“You guys getting ready to set a course?” asked Isis as she poked her head in from the back.
“Yeah. I’m planning on heading to Mid-Childa. I can give you a ride if you wish as an apology for what happened earlier,” said Yuuno.
“Mid? Not exactly the place where I want to end up being that it’s a big pain to set up shop there with how strict the processes are for small business owners. Anywhere else along the way?”
“Let me see,” muttered the Librarian as he checked possible routes. “I see an Administrated World that’s on the way. World #23: Ruwella. Based on my calculations, it'll be a 2-3 day trip at current speeds.”
“Sounds good to me! Drop me off there and I’ll consider your apology accepted!”
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