"Problem, Saint-Taiga?!?!"

  This is cssic Madi-san. Butting her way into other people's lives without a care in the world! Without a care for the consequences even! I'm quite sure we aren't supposed to even be in this production truck, but here you are strutting straight up to the head honcho with that exaggerated walk! There will be endless trouble over this, I just know it!

  At this point, Saint-Taiga brushes aside those messy orange curls of hers, looking deep into Madi-san's ruby-like red eyes... Then, without warning---

  --- csps both of Madi-san's white-gloved hands in her own!

  "Mon dieu! [1] Mon dieu...!! Mine eyes hath seen the glory, the great glory of EEEEEEEEEntertainmento...!!!"

  Ah?

  That is a weird way to greet an intruder in your own production truck! Shouldn't you be pointing weapons at this brainless idiot, then take her outside to punish her somewhat?! Instead, Saint-Taiga seems to have been taken by some sparkle within Madi-san instead! Since when did Madi-san become some well-known figure in the entertainmento (with only one 'e' please!) industry?!

  "This IS the production set for 'Keys To The Loft', right, right?! Sachiin' is a big fan! She tunes in every week!"

  Please don't bring Sachiko-senpai into your lies! Next you'll be making up lies about >you being the scion of some power couple in the entertainment industry! Throw her out already, orange-haired woman! She can't get away with stuff like this all the time!

  My endless griping at the differential treatment Madi-san is receiving is totally not out of jealousy! Producer-san seems to recognize Madi-san, and Madi-san seems to appreciate producer-san for reals, no Usodo needed! It makes no logical sense to me, surely Knox has been broken in half at this point! Is this a coincidence, a conspiracy, or some sort of long simmering echo in the long river of E(x1)ntertainmento?!

  "It is a great honor that the [Trabul Twins] [2] pay attention to my obscure little show on OrbTV! Gratitude! Gratitude! It is shameful that one half of the [Trabul Twins] has to overhear our production difficultiés backstage..."

  "Moi' heard! Ehehehe! Is it not [Trabul Twins] traditión to show up and solve problems when we are needed?!?!"

  At this moment, producer-san's grip on Madi-san's hands tighten, two warm stream of over-passionate tears stream down her cheeks, "... but we don't have the vida to pay..."

  "Well! As it so happens! Moi' and my friends," Madi-san gestures to me and Annalie in the back, are in the market for some critical informatión, like have you seen a grey-haired tomboy walking around in your production truck recently?!?!"

  "Why, now that you mention it, La-Roux---"

  "Alright, HOLD IT!"The cutting red fshes the truck interior red for a single moment, Madi-san moving her face with the slightest of moment to dodge the red words sent straight for her! She looks at me with a trollish 'you mad?' face, which infuriates me even more!

  "What IS this pce anyway?! What are you guys producing?!?! I get that the two of you," I point a finger at crazy-Madi and the simirly entertainment-obsessed Saint-Taiga, "are making a show of some sorts, but what IS the show about?!"

  "...its a show about girls who like girls, isn't it?"

  The unexpected answer comes from Annalie, who has remained silent for such a long time!

  "Oui, magnifiqué! Le petite missus has grasped the essentiál of my show, immediately!"

  H-how did you even grasp that, Annalie!

  Annalie turns a deadfished face to me, looking as if she didn't really want to expin, but in the end, she still is compelled to!

  "That's really something that only a [Priestess Of Sharryn] [3] would know... The title 'saint' is given to someone who has mastered great-love and magick in our faction! That, plus all the flowery prints on the outside, really feels like its smacked in your face this is a show about love, isn't it?"

  Annalie's expnation unexpectedly fit the blue! However...

  "... so where does the girls liking girls part come in?"

  Annalie's eyes turn into tiny pinpricks, like she is being forced to reveal a secret that nobody should be privy to! What? Why are you looking at me like that...? What is it that I don't know?

  "Aya-chan, you've been living with the Sorceress for so long, haven't you realized..."

  Meanwhile, back home.

  "Atchoo!!!"

  Sachiko-senpai, who had been sitting over an easel, palette and brush in one hand each, suddenly sneezes cutely! Looking around to make sure that none of her cute kouhai caught this embarrassing moment, she heaves out a breath of relief!

  On the sofa, a dark inky golem the size of a small snowman with crossed human limbs turns its boulder-like head towards its master, whited-out eyes looking upon its sorceress-master with all its expressionless (o_o) concern!

  Sachiko-senpai hold up a hand, rubbing her nose with a bck-ced dy's handkerchief!

  "Don't mind, You Better Run!, it was probably just the wind."

  Sachiko-senpai narrows her eyes,

  "Homu, homu...! Either that, or someone is having misunderstandings about me again!

  I hold both my hands at the side of my head, having overheard a truth that I probably shouldn't have heard! The red! You never said it in red, Annalie! >Implying isn't a good basis for the truth! I won't believe that about Sachiko-senpai unless I hear it in the reeeeeeeeeed!!!!

  "... so this is a show about yuribaiting...?"

  "Non, non, Aya-chan! Why you always gotta be like that?" Madi-san pouts, stomping the ground like I had personally insulted her! "This is about love, pure love, pure and unadulterated magick! Get your head outta the gutter!"

  "Oui, oui! She's right, though! This is a show about girls who pick up girls! We give dies who are unsure, and need that extra shot of confidence, a chance to show off their 'fabuloso', their 'game', live on OrbTV! And we have a panel of 'appraisers' who comment on her performance from the second floor loft. This is entertainment, this is comedy, this is... magick! "

  Annalie's eyes are spinning round and round in their little sockets, like she had realized something important! As the scenes between me and Rufti this morning are reflected in those cherry-tinted eyes of hers; non-detective Annalie connects the dots between deviancy and logic, and looks at me with a half-open mouth...

  "Aya-chan, I think I know where your girlxxxxd went."

  (NO! It's not like that!)

  Go Go And Learn Moonrunes Vespana Culture With Aya-chan La-Roux![1] Mon dieu! - 'This means "OOOH MY GAWWWWD", but in MY ancestral nguage!' 'How are there so many crazy Frxnchwomen in this city anyway?!"

  [2] [Trabul Twins] - "A legendary vtuber duo, La-Roux and Sachiin' who reached 5-view status in the veetubaing sphere!" "We know its you and Sachiko-senpai already, stop that! How do you even do veetubaing as a duo anyway?!"

  [3] [Priestess Of Sharryn] - An believer of the rgest religion on the New Continent, [The Church of Sharryn]! They mostly stick to their city on the high pteaus in the middle-west of Vespana, but there are churches in every major city! "You forgot to mention that Annalie was once a priestess-in-training there, Madi-san!"