Of Snakes and Households

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As much as I would love to time skip to when our escort from Sindria would arrive, alas in this new life, time flows just as slowly. Indeed, from the same nap after finding myself in this bizarre predicament, I'm awoken by shouting outside. I try to roll over and block out the sound with a pillow over my head, but to no avail.

With a growl, I push myself out of bed and shakily stalk to the window. It is hard to make out what is going on through the latticework, but I notice a sliding door nearby. So I open it and stomp out onto the deck to see the commotion in the garden: Gaku Kin holding Ri Seishuu by the scruff of his neck and belt.

"HEY! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" I bellow, stopping their squabbling.

Kin drops Seishuu and bows to me on one knee. "Excuse the disturbance, Young Master. I was just following your edict of getting rid of the snakes."

Seishuu pushes himself up off the ground, dusting himself a bit, but still bowing his head towards me. He hisses sideways, "Idiot! I'm not a snake!"

"No, but there's a lot attached to you. Unless you shave your head, you might as well go out with them." Kin strokes his mustache matter-of-factly.

"The day you shave your mustache!" Seishuu jeers.

I give a quick look  around to see if Kougyoku is nearby before demanding, "ENOUGH!" I  straighten up to my full posture and glare down at them in the garden.  "Obviously I do not want to be rid of any of my household! Gorgons are  quite different from snakes."

Seishuu sticks his tongue out at Kin, who in turn slaps his shoulder visibly too hard

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Seishuu sticks his tongue out at Kin, who in turn slaps his shoulder visibly too hard. Do those two ever give it a rest? I roll my eyes. Honesty, how do we expect to unite the world when my own household doesn't get along? Of course this banter was amusing to observe in the anime and manga, but when it unsolicitedly wakes me from my nap...

"I'm starving!" I order, "Seishuu, go have the kitchen prepare more food for me. Kin, continue guiding the snakes out...but do so peacefully so as not to attract any bad karma." When in doubt, temporarily separate the disagreeable parties.

I return to my bed and wait. There shouldn't be boring  downtime like this. And was I dreaming just before being disturbed?  Something about house hunting and this ideal mansion on a shabby street.  The foyer had two curving staircases but I was more interested in the  lower layout. Downstairs, I ventured into a hidden living room, but  there was a spa tub in the center. I couldn't wait to try it, but then  the doorbell rang so I went to answer it, passing a green snake fighting  black snakes in the kitchen sink. Then seeing a sloth lounging on top  of a red ball of fur climbing the stairs as I descended them. How did I  get upstairs? Dream logic, right?

Now in the dream it was  dark outside even though it should have been the afternoon. I could  tell because a little fluffy sun was on my shoulder. Not sure when it  got there, but a pink butterfly pulled on it for a bit then fluttered  off to a...spear? Sweet, I thought, this house comes with suits of armor!  Anyway, I got to the front and opened the door to find a purple goat in  a spotlight. That's about when a ball of snakes fell on my head and I  woke up to the real life squabbling of my household. I wonder what Yunan  would make of my dream.

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