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The maid bowed low in front of Amane. The maid did not want to lower her head more than she already had. But she had to do all this for the sake of her mission and future.

'Soon, I will be rid of both you and Sakura Tsurugi. Then, no one will be able to look down on me for being a maid.'

The maid thought to herself and sneered inside her mind. Meanwhile, she maintained a pitiful exterior so the other Elders would pity her and help her out.

The plan was solid in her mind and nothing could do wrong. Except, things did go wrong and the maid did not even get to step out of the corridor before she was stopped.

"Oh, and where do you think you are going? I have not dismissed you yet and you are still trying to run away? You truly have no manners."

The maid bit her lip to stop herself from speaking some truly awful words. She needed to calm herself down and think rationally about this.

'I can endure a few jabs. I have endured a lot until now so this much is nothing. I just need to think that Yoko Tsurugi said nothing special and I will be able to get through this.'

The maid planned this in her mind but she did not expect Yoko Tsurugi to reach out for her face and hold it in place. That startled the maid enough to drop Elder Hana's unstable body down on the ground.

"You are only alive because of Elder Hana's grace. I should have you killed for what you did to Sakura. Be thankful that you are alive girl and keep your head down."

The maid was terrified with fear and could not move anymore.

She had thought that it would be easy to deal with Yoko Tsurugi since she was just a kid pretending to be an adult. All the maid had to do was to get Elder Hana to intimidate Yoko a little and that would be it.

That should have been it, but things had changed because of this sudden action. The instincts inside the maid warned her not to go against Yoko Tsurugi again.

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"C-Come on Yoko, calm down and let the poor maid go. No matter what happened, she is our Elder Hana's benefactor. You need to show some grace and reward her for her efforts."

The other Elders tried to get Yoko to let the maid go alive. They needed this maid held to resurrect their body after their death as well.

Yoko Tsurugi kept her intimidating position for a few more minutes even after the Elders asked her to get the maid to go. It reassured the maid and she was able to finally lift her head.

"Hmm, since the Elders have asked me to let you go this time, I shall oblige them this time. But remember, I know your secrets and how you resecured Elder Hana. Don't think that you are safe from me."

Yoko promised the maid this. Somehow, the maid could tell that Yoko Tsurugi was not playing around this time. She meant every word she said this time around.

"Please be careful with Yoko. I don't think we will be able to save you a second time if you are cornered by her next time. Yoko is difficult for all of us to deal with as well."

The maid bit her lip after hearing Elder Fushi speak.

'So even the Elders are no match for that spoilt brat of a family head. I need to find some way to get to her.'

The maid had her next target in mind now.

...

Amane walked out of the corridor with her head held high. She had just bullied Elder Hana's maid and it felt refreshing after getting her words through to the maid.

'Now that the preparations are in place, I am sure the weekend dinner will be a huge success.'

After all, the family dinner was the best time to make any accident happen. And it was also the last time something like this could happen to the other side.

"My lady, you have a phone call from Charlie Suzuki. Should we forward it to you?"

One of the mansion maids panicked-ran toward Amane as she was digesting what happened in the corridor before.

The maid's words were surprising as well since there was no need for Charlie Suzuki to call her at this time. Charlie especially had no reason to call her on the Tsurugi's number when she had Amane's own.

"She made an official house call? Whatever she wants to tell me must be important for her to call me like this. I cannot ignore her call then."

Amane quickly walked through the house to get to the common room where the common phone was being held. It was a shame that the common phone was located on one extreme of the Tsurugi mansion.

"Hello, Yoko Tsurugi speaking. How may I help you?"

"Yoko, I need an official favor from you. It's a request from the divine guild and not from me so let me know if you can accommodate us. There is no pressure for you to help us out or anything. You have your free will and can refuse us anything…"

The person on the other side of the phone babbled all these words. Somehow, Amane had a feeling that Charlie wanted her to deny this request.

Now Amane was even more curious to know what Charlie wanted from her. Just what kind of request had flustered her this much?

"Well, whether I can help you with this favor or not depends on what the favor is. So divine lady Suzuki, kindly stop procrastinating and tell me what kind of favor you want from me."

Amane went straight to the point. She had a feeling that Charlie would continue to beat around the bush if Amane did not straighten her out.

"There is a special envoy the divine guild wants you to meet this weekend. If you are free, I would like to arrange a day for us to meet each other."

That was…surprisingly simple thing to do. With how often Charlie crashed at the Tsurugi mansion, this was something she should not even be asking about.

"You want to arrange an official meeting this weekend? That should be fine since I have no schedule this weekend except a family dinner."

And that family dinner was going to be nothing short of chaotic. So maybe Amane should reconsider this meeting.

"So, you are free? Great, we will see you at the weekend."

Amane was surprised to hear the defeat in Charlie's voice. The female was not happy about the news Amane had given her.

'What's Charlie's problem? She was the one who asked me for this favor and she is also the one who looks unhappy about it. Is she having mood swings because it's her time of the month?'

That was likely not the case but Amane would rather give herself a reason to justify Charlie's actions than to sit around like this and wonder what happened to Charlie.

But soon it was time for her to snap out of her thoughts and pay attention to reality. Sakura had walked into the common room and taken a seat on the comfortable-looking sofa as well.

"So, Yoko, what's the plan for tomorrow? You are not going to let that maid get away with humiliating me like this, right? You need to destroy her and crush her for me to feel better."

Sakura smacked her hand on her fist to show that she meant business. Her eyes flashed with rage and the need to take revenge.

"Sakura, calm down a little. I know you are angry but you also need to consider our opponent a little. We don't need to destroy that maid but capture her so that she could sing about her secrets."

Amane waved her hand in a 'no' motion as she spoke. She had quite a few plans ready for tomorrow's dinner plan.

The first thing she needed to do was to ask the maids and servants to prepare the hall. The surprise should not be ruined before the trick had even begun.

"Well, if you say that this is what we should do, then I will follow your orders. If I can take my revenge, nothing matters to me."

Sakura agreed with Amane and calmed down.

....

"So, what did that person say? Did they agree to meet us?"

Charlie looked at the half-phoenix in front of her with agitated eyes. She hated that Yoko had agreed to do her this favor.

If there was one thing Charlie wanted Yoko to be selfish and not listen to her words, it was this time. She did not want this phoenix and Yoko to meet.

"Well, you heard her. Yoko Tsurugi has agreed to meet you tomorrow. We will head over to her house after dinner."

Of course, Charlie chose the most chaotic time to visit Yoko.