"All right, it's your house. You make the decisions."
Akasha shrugged and turned to leave.
"Wait, what's with your outfit?"
She turned back and puffed out her chest. "I'm helping Rallard by doubling as his personal valet now. I want double pay for this period!"
"I think replacing the bottom half with a short skirt might suit your current role better."
Akasha laughed. "Should I pair it with black stockings, too?"
Edward looked surprised. "You know about that?"
Akasha said disdainfully, "...Isn't that the fetish outfit invented by that 'Son of Steam,' Roselle? You think this lady... I wouldn't know? Oh dear, you wouldn't happen to have designs on me, would you?"
Holy crap.
It was clearly a normal office-lady outfit. How had it become a fetish outfit?
Emperor Roselle, just what have you done to this world?
"Get out. Chop-chop."
"You got it."
After Akasha left the room, Edward entered Sefirah Castle again and manifested the Green Crystal for divination. "Going to that 'treasure' today will be dangerous..."
After he silently repeated it seven times, the Green Crystal slowly turned counterclockwise.
"Then I'll go take a look today and see just what's in the ruins that 'Intis' mentioned, and what sort of traps are waiting for me."
Hiss-
It looks like I don't really count as a 'purebred' member of the Cowardly Trio.
If it were Klein, faced with unknown 'ruins' like these, he would definitely keep his distance, no matter how curious he was-yes, this must be a lingering aftereffect of acting as a [Mental Patient] back then.
Edward was just about to leave Sefirah Castle when a soft, delicate voice reached his ears, and the star representing Bernadette deep within the gray fog flickered along with it.
"What does that girl want with me so early in