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"So, in other words..."
Standing directly atop the kotatsu table in the center of the shrine, Reimu folded her arms across her chest and looked down at Wu Yan, Marisa, and Shameimaru Aya, who stood side by side in front of it. Her expression grew increasingly hostile.
"You came to the shrine to ambush me just to get a drop of my blood?..."
Hearing that, Wu Yan raised his head and looked at Reimu standing on the kotatsu table. Though he really wanted to complain about why she was standing up there, he obediently nodded.
"That's right! That's all there is to it!"
"I-I was forced into it!" Shameimaru Aya hurriedly spoke up with an ingratiating smile.
"I only did it to get my camera back, Reimu. Besides, I didn't even succeed in ambushing you..."
"Exactly!" Marisa planted her hands on her hips carelessly.
"I'm personally very against doing things sneakily. Rather than sneaking around to ambush Reimu, it'd be better to give her a blast openly!"
"Give her a blast, my ass!" Before Reimu could react to Marisa's words, Wu Yan beat her to the complaint.
"Against doing things sneakily? Aren't you always sneaking around when you steal things, you black-and-white thief?..."
"I don't steal things!" Marisa retorted with a dissatisfied look.
"I'm just borrowing them for a while! I'll definitely return them someday!"
"Really?..." Wu Yan looked at Marisa skeptically.
"So when are you planning to return them?..."
"Isn't that obvious?..." Marisa spoke as though it were only natural.
"After I'm dead, of course!"
Wu Yan did not even want to keep complaining.
Still, Marisa's way of thinking could not exactly be called wrong. The cheapest