In any case, after seeing the young ladies off at Moon Bay City train station on Saturday morning as they returned home, Shade used the Crystal Shoes again to return home.
The Crystal Shoes' destination happened to be Room Two on the 2nd Floor of the house. Fiona, now dressed in a maid dress, was looking around the room with a handkerchief in hand, rather troubled.
"Shade, is there really nowhere in your house that needs cleaning?"
Her large tail drooped onto the carpet, and the Red Dragon Young Lady seemed at a loss.
"Since there's nothing else to do, I wanted to tidy this place up, but your maids don't seem to have left any work for me."
She had probably misunderstood the status of Galina's maids, but Shade did not correct her.
"Fiona, you came here as guests. You don't need to work in my house."
He forcibly took the handkerchief from Fiona's hand. The Red Dragon Young Lady did not insist, merely nodding with her hands behind her back. It seemed that no matter what Shade said, she was happy to hear it.
Besides the corridor, there was also a door in the wall between Room Two and Room One, connecting the two rooms. When Shade and Fiona returned to Room One together, they saw Little Mia lazily sprawled on the windowsill, basking in the Sun, while Miss Feliana stood in the living room, looking up at the brightly colored oil painting of the "Mermaid" hanging on the wall.
The framed painting did not need to worry about fading, so its colors remained exactly the same as when Shade had first brought it back from Green Lake.
No one had ever noticed anything unusual about the painting so far. Shade was curious what Miss Feliana might say,