"Yo, Natsuki, up early today?"
Seeing Minamiya Natsuki walking out of her room, Ren greeted her.
Last night, after briefly explaining the world's situation to Remilia, Ren went to sleep.
As for Remilia's question about helping Patchouli recover—Ren could only say…
It might be possible, but he hadn't met her yet and didn't know what treatment to use.
The multiverse had countless ways to help Patchouli recover. But since he hadn't met her and didn't know the specifics, he couldn't promise anything. He just told Remilia to be patient.
After hearing he might have a way, Remilia relaxed and took her sister to bed.
There was a small episode last night—when Remilia tried to sleep, her little sister clung tightly to Ren, insisting she wanted to sleep with him because he had "five, six, seven" nice smells. The look in Remilia's eyes back then clearly said she was ready to stab Ren a hundred times over.
If Ren hadn't calmed her down, Flandre might still be clinging to him.
Natsuki glanced at Ren, frowning.
"Those two vampires aren't up yet?"
"They're nocturnal. Can you really expect them to wake up early?"
"That's true..."
Natsuki nodded in agreement, then looked at Ren thoughtfully.
"Flandre…"
"Don't worry, I'm watching her. But honestly, I'd prefer if you could take her to school. That way, she might mature faster."
"Spare me… if she uses her powers in school, it'll be a disaster."
After interacting with the two vampires yesterday, she'd learned a few things.
Remilia had no familiars but possessed an unusual power—manipulating fate. Her words could accidentally change people's destiny. But according to her, it only worked passively, so it wasn't very useful.
Flandre, on the other hand, could destroy anything—literally.
Every object has a "core," a fragile point. Flandre could shift that "core" into her hand, and if she clenched her fist, the object would break. That included meteors.
Yeah—according to Remilia and Flandre, she really had shattered meteors before.
Thinking back to her fight with Flandre, Natsuki instinctively held her arm.
If she'd been just a bit slower, she might've lost it.
Although this body was just for use in the outside world, getting it blown apart up close still sucked.
If Flandre went berserk at school, it would be chaos.
Even if Natsuki could restrain her, innocent people might get caught in it.
"Of course, I was joking. They can't even move under sunlight, let alone attend school."
"Huh? They can't go out in the sun?"
Natsuki was stunned. Her expression said it all.
In this world, while sunlight affects vampires, it's not that extreme—just tiring.
But Ren just said… they couldn't even be in sunlight?
"Yep. Remilia and Flandre can't go out in the sun. They fear sunlight, flowing water, and hate garlic. If they stand under the sun too long, their bodies start turning to ash."
Ren was straightforward—it wasn't something that needed hiding.
Living here, such weaknesses would become obvious eventually.
And yeah, their weaknesses were that exaggerated. In certain manga like Memorizable Moonlight, Remilia's wings started smoking under sunlight.
She admitted she couldn't stay in sunlight long. Still, with vampire resilience, even if she burned to ash, she'd regenerate—then burn again.
She once took a full blast of Amaterasu from Toyohime and collapsed, but after Reimu fought Toyohime for a while, Remilia got back up like nothing happened. Sakuya even fell asleep watching the fight.
So sunlight hurt Remilia, but it wouldn't kill her.
Hearing all this, Natsuki was speechless.
"This is what vampires are like in other worlds? With such glaring weaknesses?"
"Why else do you think Flandre could fight you so long yesterday? If it were daytime, she'd have been toast in minutes."
Ren stood and headed for Remilia's room.
"You're going to wake them up?"
"They said they wanted to explore Itogami Island today. Since you're up, I need to get them up too."
Without hesitation, Ren walked into the girls' room.
Seeing this, Natsuki grumbled, "Not shy at all, huh? I better be careful."
If he barged into her room one day and caught her off guard, that'd be a problem.
Sitting down, Natsuki covered her ears preemptively—as if she knew what was coming.
Then—
"AAAAHHHH—Who let you into my room? Delete those photos on your phone or I'm going berserk!"
"Whoa—Big Sis is so cute when she's mad! You think so too, right, Big Brother?"
"Flandre! Don't look at those pictures! I didn't make that face—AAAHHHH! Where did this garlic come from?! Why are you throwing garlic at me?!"
"Big Brother, look! Big Sis is squatting with her hands on her head acting all cute again. Just like that crow tengu said—her dignity is as small as her chest!"
"That damn crow tengu said what?! When I get back, I'm having Sakuya catch her and stew her alive!"
"Whoa, Big Sis is so scary..."
As the racket filled the air, Natsuki sighed deeply.
After seeing Ren's photo collection last night, she knew this guy had a wicked streak.
No way he'd wake a vampire without teasing her a bit.
The sounds of chaos rang out.
Thinking about how lively her life was about to become, Natsuki felt utterly exhausted.
Couldn't things just be quiet for once?