"What are you two whispering about?" Remilia watched Kars and Flandre exchanging hushed words. What kind of thing required such secrecy and made them look like they didn't want her to know? That was precisely what piqued her curiosity.
"Are you two keeping something from me?"
"No, we're not keeping anything from Sister."
"Then what were you talking about? If it was about playing a game, there's absolutely no need to be so secretive, right?"
"This matter is Flandre and Kars's secret. We can't tell Sister." Flandre's words made Remilia even more concerned. A secret between the two of you? How dare you exclude me! That's going too far! And you can't tell me?
"What is so mysterious about it? Can't you really tell me? Flandre, we're family. What kind of secret can't be shared? I won't tell anyone else." Remilia fixed her gaze on Flandre, but it had little effect.
"No, I still can't say. If a secret is revealed, it's not a secret anymore." Flandre steadfastly refused to speak under Remilia's intense gaze, making Remilia unhappy. She then shifted her attention to Kars. Since Flandre wouldn't talk, she would try her luck with him.
"Kars, come here." Hearing Remilia's command, Kars's expression froze. He understood her intention, but before he could move, Flandre shielded him.
"No, Sister will definitely demand Kars tells her. Kars can't go to her."
"Flandre, did you do something bad, which is why you don't want me to know?" Remilia suspected that Flandre might have done something mischievous. Otherwise, what could be so secretive?
"No, I didn't! Flandre didn't do anything bad!" Flandre, accused of wrongdoing, replied with dissatisfaction. She was behaving so well now, so what bad thing could she have done?
"Little Auntie Flandre is right, she didn't do anything bad. The reason we won't tell you is because we agreed not to say anything. So, Little Auntie Remilia, can you please stop asking?" Kars also hoped Remilia would stop pressing the matter. In his opinion, breaking a promise was a very bad thing.
"You two…" Remilia felt a sense of exclusion, which she disliked immensely, especially since it was coming from the two people she loved and felt closest to.
Kars saw Remilia's distressed expression and felt incredibly conflicted. He pulled Flandre forward and tried to console her. "Little Auntie, we didn't mean to do this. We're not targeting you. Besides, everyone has little secrets, right?"
"I… I don't…" Remilia replied. She had never had little secrets with anyone else. Now her sister and her nephew had a little secret and excluded her. She strongly disliked this.
"Then… then can't you tell me just a little bit? You don't have to tell me everything, just a little bit so I can understand what it is." Remilia lowered her request, trying to gather some information this way. And when did the two of them even start having secrets I don't know about?
Remilia couldn't find any clues and couldn't even make a deduction based on the information she had. Maybe she should ask Patchouli, since Kars spent a lot of time with her. Maybe she would know something.
"Telling you a little bit is fine. It's just practicing some things you do with someone you like."
"Huh? Practicing? And this is a secret? Honestly, you're making such a fuss over nothing." Remilia, who was momentarily relieved that Kars had agreed to speak, suddenly felt disappointed. She thought it was something important, but it was just this? What was the point of keeping this from her? It wasn't anything special.
Remilia instantly lost interest and stopped dwelling on the issue. As for what they were practicing, she figured it was just some kind of behavior or gestures, which she had learned a bit about from Patchouli before. Seeing Remilia lose interest, Kars relaxed. If the interrogation had continued, it would have been truly difficult for him.
"Fine, if you two want to keep playing, go ahead." Remilia waved her hand and left the room. She quickly sat down on a sofa in the main hall, and Sakuya brought her pre-prepared black tea.
"Phew~ Honestly, Sakuya, you won't believe those two. They were keeping such a small thing a secret from me. I had to spend a lot of effort convincing Kars to give me a little bit of information." Remilia complained to Sakuya after taking a sip of tea. "It's just practicing things you do with someone you like, yet they made it sound like a huge secret. It made me so curious, only to find out it was this."
Sakuya listened to Remilia's complaining. When she heard the part about practicing, the scene she had witnessed in the Great Library instantly came to mind: Kars and Flandre kissing, especially the part with the tongue… Thinking about this, Sakuya felt her nose start to bleed again.
"Sakuya, why are you bleeding again?" Remilia looked at Sakuya, who was suddenly bleeding again, with confusion. What happened this time to make her react like this?
"It's… it's nothing, Mistress. Do you know what Young Master Kars and the Second Mistress were practicing?" Sakuya wiped the blood with a tissue and asked Remilia.
"No, I don't." Remilia shook her head. She truly didn't know and hadn't felt the need to ask Kars or Flandre for details.
"It's… it's kissing, Mistress. I saw Young Master Kars and the Second Mistress kissing in the Great Library before. That's why I lost control." As an eyewitness, and after analyzing Remilia's recent comments, Sakuya quickly deduced some of the facts.
"Kissing?" Remilia blinked, confused, then her face suddenly flushed bright red. She stuttered, "Are you talking about… kissing on the… on the mouth?"
"Yes, that kind of kissing, Mistress." Getting Sakuya's confirmation, Remilia's mind conjured the image of Kars and Flandre kissing.
Remilia: :(⁄ ⁄ᵒ̶̶̷́⁄⚰⁄ᵒ̶̶̷̀⁄ ⁄):
Those two were doing something so embarrassing?! Isn't that like doing something bad?! What in the world is Patchouli teaching Kars?!