Shoujo Grand Summoning

Chapter 1719: Impossible in the past, maybe not impossible in the future

Gensokyo, The Red Devil Mansion.

Patchouli was reading a book with her glasses on. 

Akuma was silently watching her mistress nearby.

She might be a devil but she isn’t that powerful when compared to the other members in the Red Devil Mansion.

Familiars like her are usually deal-makers with witches and mages. She would trade her power for prices paid by the magicians.

However, she is weak so there isn’t really anything she could offer to Patchouli.

Koakuma is someone who genuinely respects Patchouli so she got the first look at her master’s inquisitive side.

She also knows that Patchouli isn’t really reading her book. If she wanted to study then it would be in the library, not here in the main hall of the mansion.

Patchouli never flipped the book after Sakuya and Remilia left for the Hakurei Shrine.

In a short glance, Koakuma’s eyes lit up.

“Patchouli-sama.”

Patchouli also looked at the main door where Remilia and Sakuya entered through.

Remilia came back dejected while Sakuya followed behind with a look of consternation.

This is enough to tell them that something must have happened and it isn’t pretty.

Patchouli has seen Remilia’s serious face, her childish side, her selfish side, and more, but never so dejected before.

Patchouli got up with a grave look.

Sakuya sensed her approach, she motioned Patchouli not to raise the matter further by shaking her head.

Sakuya silently told her now wasn’t a good time.

Patchouli could tell the gravity of the situation.

Remilia didn’t manage to bring Flan back despite previously being so determined to do so.

“What happened?”

Patchouli couldn’t hold back her curiosity.

“What happened, eh?”

Remilia sat down with a helpless look.

“Patchouli…”

Remilia asked.

“Where did I go wrong?”

Patchouli urged her to go on.

“Are you talking about Imouto-sama?”

“He said I never tried to understand Flan, I never made her happy.”

Remilia said with a look of void.

“He told me to give up on Flan.”

Remilia always felt bad about Flan and how she had to lock her up. She hated her own powerless self too.

Patchouli guessed that whatever Wu Yan said, it was enough to make Remilia doubt herself and her ability to care for Flan.

Remilia who is always strong and headstrong about Flandre would never be so down in the dumps.

Remilia never even shed a tear when she lost her bid to take supremacy in Gensokyo.

“I don’t know what that person said to you”

Patchouli defends her mistress.

“You always cared for Flan in your own way, nobody can deny that.”

Remilia’s expression turned better.

“That guy never denied my care, he just said I can’t give Flan happiness.”

“Did that guy say that?”

Patchouli gasped with a tense look.

“Imouto-sama’s mental state isn’t stable, she is stable now though.”

“Different?”

Remilia grabbed Patchouli’s shoulder.

“How so?”

“Sheesh, settle down, Remi.”

Patchouli shook her head.

“With her stable state now, you could give her proper care and happiness, no?”

Remi’s eyes lit up.

Why didn’t she think of that?

She could hang out with Flan all day now without risking her going on a rampage.

What was impossible in the past, maybe it isn’t impossible now, right?

Remilia felt like her world just lit up again after a dark storm.

“Phew.”

Remilia took on a smug stance once more.

“Thanks, Patchouli.”

“Patchouli-sama…”

Sakuya is happy to see her mistress being cheerful again.

“Okay, now?”

Patchouli asked them.

“What of Imouto-sama?”

“At the Hakurei Shrine.”

Remilia grumbled.

“With that fellow?”

“How?”

Patchouli gasped.

“You two failed to get her back?”

“Yeah.”

Remilia admitted in frustration.

“If I attacked then I would really be a villain in Flan’s eyes.”

Patchouli looked at Sakuya.

“Well…”

Sakuya explained.

“He said he would bring the second Ojou-sama here tomorrow.”

“I see.”

Patchouli nodded.

“I will attend that reunion tomorrow too.”

Sakuya sighed in relief.

With the sagacious Patchouli around, they are convinced they could persuade Flan to stay tomorrow.

Sakuya wants a rematch after being handed a verbal beatdown by Wu Yan earlier today.