[MnS;challenge] the fine art of blackmail
Kanda, Yamada Tami
Note: Spoilers for Mei-chan no Shitsuji episodes 6&7.
For 31_days. March 3rd 2009. that unnoticed & that necessary
They actually have the run of the Ombra mansion, what with being the only pair to use it in the last two years. Kanda thinks that it mostly used as the final straw for any disgraced, legitimate lady; it's certainly humiliating enough faced with the very bare necessities and little else, especially if one liked the good life in the academy.
Not that Tami is phased by it. She asks very little of him, only that there is food during mealtimes and that her clothes are acceptably clean; she can turn the pages of her textbooks herself. There is only one other thing she asks of him.
Together, they transform the mansion into a mini war-zone, and the wooden walls start bearing marks of various sharp, pointy things being flung into them. It's a little surreal to be playing again, Kanda has no other word to describe the things they do.
Then the first new lady came, and another, and another. Rules have changed at the academy, they are informed, all new ladies must begin at Ombra and work their way up. It is then the spying starts, although Kanda's not as well-versed in the arts of ninjitsu as his lady is, he knows enough of what Tami is doing, carrying her reports to Lucia-sama under the cover of darkness or just her own eccentricities. Sometimes the girls move on to the Lunar rank, where they join the rest of the school. Sometimes, they disappear.
Shinobu arrives at Ombra after the second disappearance, all smiles and white clothes, and gently reminds Kanda that perhaps it's best to turn a blind eye, and let Tamihime-sama do what she does best. It makes her so happy, after all. Besides, it's not his place to question why, not as her butler anyway. If anything, he should endeavour to cater to her whims and fancies, and that is something Kanda knows very well how to fulfill, for all of his lack of proper training.
"Be like the air to her," Shinobu says, and it's like a spell that Kanda can't resist falling under. "Be that unnoticed, and yet, that necessary."
Note: Spoilers for Mei-chan no Shitsuji episodes 6&7.
For 31_days. March 3rd 2009. that unnoticed & that necessary
They actually have the run of the Ombra mansion, what with being the only pair to use it in the last two years. Kanda thinks that it mostly used as the final straw for any disgraced, legitimate lady; it's certainly humiliating enough faced with the very bare necessities and little else, especially if one liked the good life in the academy.
Not that Tami is phased by it. She asks very little of him, only that there is food during mealtimes and that her clothes are acceptably clean; she can turn the pages of her textbooks herself. There is only one other thing she asks of him.
Together, they transform the mansion into a mini war-zone, and the wooden walls start bearing marks of various sharp, pointy things being flung into them. It's a little surreal to be playing again, Kanda has no other word to describe the things they do.
Then the first new lady came, and another, and another. Rules have changed at the academy, they are informed, all new ladies must begin at Ombra and work their way up. It is then the spying starts, although Kanda's not as well-versed in the arts of ninjitsu as his lady is, he knows enough of what Tami is doing, carrying her reports to Lucia-sama under the cover of darkness or just her own eccentricities. Sometimes the girls move on to the Lunar rank, where they join the rest of the school. Sometimes, they disappear.
Shinobu arrives at Ombra after the second disappearance, all smiles and white clothes, and gently reminds Kanda that perhaps it's best to turn a blind eye, and let Tamihime-sama do what she does best. It makes her so happy, after all. Besides, it's not his place to question why, not as her butler anyway. If anything, he should endeavour to cater to her whims and fancies, and that is something Kanda knows very well how to fulfill, for all of his lack of proper training.
"Be like the air to her," Shinobu says, and it's like a spell that Kanda can't resist falling under. "Be that unnoticed, and yet, that necessary."