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Scaramouche stared at the scroll is his hand.
He had just come from a mission on Fontaine when the Neko Kiara had come to deliver a scroll for him.
He would have accepted the scroll and opened it in Inazuma, if not for the gold details that it was decorated in.
The purple signatures made it clear.
It was from Yae Miko.
With a sigh, he unwrapped the scroll.
It was so long it managed to hit Kirara on the other side of the residence, who was taking a break eating her favorite snack.
After momentary shock on her side, she picked up the scroll with an astonished look.
"Should have guessed" A mission.
Mother and son are close, so Yae Miko
As the cunning Kitsune she is
has sent Scara on a wild goose chase in Sumeru,
To have some more alone time with her god.
Scaramouche got up.
"Kirara, Layla is already in Sumeru, correct?"
After her admission, she added
"should I send a letter to her too?"
"No, since we are already bringing ourselves, we have a Bride snatching ghost to capture"
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Layla
distant cousin of martial rain goddess Mona
and deputy goddess herself, who presides over the icy night sky
the two goddesses have watched over fate and the sky for who knows how long
Their age rivaling even the heavenly Highness!
And as luck has it, she is also close friends with the son of the thunder master, Scaramouche (who goes by a lot of names)
and the material goddess of the north and highly regarded Nekomata, Kirara
Even so, the last thing she would have expected when having indecent actions with the goddess of the lake
was a knock from the two
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The knock startled them, Layla throwing out a quick "who is it!?"
while Nilou got dressed and hid away
"Your homies" "your close acquaintance"
Kirara and Scara said back at the same time
The latter sighing at her antics
After being let in, Scara threw a look around the house
it was - improper in a way
It was well taken care of, but there were shattered and broken objects everywhere
like two people came in and stated fighting! Throwing each other on closest surface possible
a war of dominance if you will
"what in the world has happened here, a hurricane???" the son of the thunder master asked, this might as well be one of his mother's doing judging by the sight.
Layla cleared her throat, which was the wrong thing to do since it brought more attention on her
"Never mind that, what happened to you??"
Scara found Kirara's question to be inappropriate. Not everyone could look good when they woke up in the morning, especially a night goddess
but merit where merit was due, if she wasn't going to say it, Scara would.
Because heavens above did Layla look roughhoused.
"That is of no matter right now,
also by the way, right now before you,
is 'me'
not Layla exactly"
Scara processed that immediately
"night Layla? Isn't it a bit early for you to show up"
"Never mind that, what are you two doing in Sumeru?
We were set to meet a few days after the meeting, no?"
Scara's eyebrow twitched, being reminded of why he was there in the first place
He unwrapped the scroll
"I suggest you sit down"
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"So, to sum up. There is a ghost sealing bride on the run, rumored to be a groom.
And the only way to capture him would be to draw him out with a bride"
After Layla finished, Scara spoke up:
"Yes, but we can't have an actual bride, it would be too dangerous for her"
"But we can't have a normal girl either we will need a martial artist, who would even fit the role??"
Layla and Kirara look at each other
A mutual understanding goes through
"We already have the bride, we just need the artist to do the makeup"
"Who- "Scara said before quickly getting interrupted
"I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO BRIDAL MAKE UP!!!
All three looked in the direction of the door that lead to the bathroom
The goddess of the lake, Nilou stood proud
Scara was quick to reply, in turn
"Where the HELL did YOU come from!!??"
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An hour later, our trio was seated on a small tea shop in the village the disappearing were happening
The village was placed in Sumeru but far away from Sumeru City
Scara remarked that it was far closer to that one haunted island of Fontaine then it was to its capital
He was mulling it over while Nilou dressed him up like a doll
it was reminiscent of how his mother dressed him up once at a time
Nilou dressed him as a bride, clad in red and a veil to top it off
the veil wasn't going to get removed if things are mild and certainly doing the makeup isn't needed
but before Scara could even put that thought out of his mouth, Nilou had already powdered his face and painted the flower in the middle of how brows
He looked in a mirror, the goddess of the Lake was skilled indeed
even better than the servants of the Raiden Shogun palace
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Night fell quickly, and the plan was set into motion
If we are honest, more like the outline of a plan
they were going to draw the bride out with Scara,
Kiara and Layla were going to defeat it
this is the best case scenario
The worst case scenario is them and the crew they hired, all go missing
in which case Nilou has stayed behind to alarm haven
The mountains were rocky, too rocky
But the crew skilled enough, Scara recalled that they were hired from the capital, having been recommended to Kirara by the god of creativity and mathematics
They had once been led by Dehya, Nilou's material sister
But after Dehya ascended to the heavens, she had to step down from the position of leader.
Scara was bored so he decided to tease a bit
"There is something missing"
"What is?" Kirara replied in high alert
"the two maids of the bride"
Since Kirara and Layla didn't really dress up, unlike scara,
in their usual get up, they looked too dressed up to look like fighting guards
but they also looked too dressed down to be in the bridal party
So Scara was practically saying that they should have been acting as his maids to fit in
Layla pinched him, hard
"Your family is too poor to afford brides" she bit back and the crew stated laughing
good, Scara thought smiling,
the ghost won’t be fooled unless everyone is having fun......