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7. "RE: GG 3/I: Nuits à Paris"
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   >Compared to those two, their companions were almost unremarkable—a handsome
>young woman in a maid's uniform, notable at first glance only by the
>steel-grey color of her hair, and an extremely tall redhead dressed in green
>and white, her clothes of a distinctly foreign cut. Given her height and
>exotic dress, she would have been the most instantly noticeable member of
>virtually any other group, and yet compared to the two with wings, she almost
>slipped into the background.
>

It says some things about how noticeable the Scarlet sisters' wings and general fashion are that this statement can be made about Meiling and Sakuya of all people. Though Remilia's ability to simply... take over a room, seemingly any room she is in, also feeds both into and from that. I'm actually impressed at the fellow manning the desk's ability to recover as well as he did.

>"But of course, Madame la Comtesse."
>"Mademoiselle," Remilia corrected him.
>

I'm mildly surprised that this correction is necessary as often as it seems to be, Remilia doesn't exactly look even a fraction of her age (surely not a day over 399, and I'm really glad she can't actually punish me for that joke) so I wonder is it just the title that leads to the assumption?

Also, is it just how I'm reading it, or does she enjoy, at least mildly, correcting people about this, possibly because of how soon that status is scheduled to change?

>Oh, thought Berjeau, she's going to be one of those guests.
>

Probably not a fraction as much as he fears, at least not without being given cause.

>Then, the matter disposed of to her satisfaction, she went to the table in the
>corner where the suite's telephone sat and picked it up, wondering if there
>were anything she had to do besides that to get it to work.
>

This threw me a little. Telephones were invented well after the SDM was shoved into its bubble, and I believe after Sakuya vanished, certainly they wouldn't have been well known until after that point at any rate. So how did remilia become familiar with them?

>"I'm not sure she even really understands money," said Gryphon with a
>thoughtful look. "She's never had to. Ah well, I'm sure Sakuya can keep her out
>of trouble. Her maid," he explained to Whittle's questioning look. "She's the
>real brains of the operation," he added with a grin.
>

She's probably not likely to need to, unless she brought the lion's share of the Scarlet fortune with her to Paris (and even then.)

Also, while Remilia might quietly agree with the sentiment, the bit about Sakuya seems like the sort of comment that would demand some small retribution if word of it gets back to her.

>Remilia blinked. "Ah. That's... rather more than I was expecting," she
>confessed.
>"As it turns out," Sakuya reported imperturbably, "two-hundred-year-old gold
>louis are worth even more than their considerable weight of metal, if one finds
>the right buyers. The concierge was most helpful in that regard." Seating
>herself elegantly next to Meiling on the opposite side of the table, she went
>on with a slight smile, "I fear we may have destabilized the market in
>collector coins of the period for the present, however."
>"So noted," Remilia said. "Still, this should get us through, if we're
>careful," she deadpanned.
>

Remilia may not fully understand money, but clearly she knows when she has Beyond Enough of it.

Also, the Neuroi are noted to take iron, did they go after other metals like gold? If so, destabilized or not, the collector's market is going to be ecstatic at that treasure trove appearing.

>"I read books, m'lady," Sakuya replied placidly, causing Flandre to snicker.
>

I recall Sakuya being noted as having a neutral accent in whatever language she's speaking, but that line just demands the standard issue British servant's accent in my head.

>"Then the Fourth Republic is a damned disgrace, and we'll have to overthrow it
>and set up one that isn't," he said, and though he grinned as though it were a >joke, something in his eyes told her it wasn't, really.
>"We're kind of busy," she pointed out.
>

So others have commented on the setup line here, and I had the same thoughts, but I thought it noteworthy that Shizuka could receive that, including the darker undertone, interpret it correctly, and then respond not that G was insane or somesuch, or that the 501st wouldn't want to take part in overthrowing a duly constituted allied government, but just that they might not be able to squeeze it into their schedule.

>"Mnnn... you beast," she mumbled, and then, blushing in her sleep, "... the
>kitchen? control yourself..."
>

And so we have proof that 'you beast' is Remilia code for 'keep going', but I am especially impressed by Sakuya's ability to maintain her composure through this scene. Forget an iron will, that an adamantium will in action right there.

>"The contract does not name the target any more precisely than that, but it
>does specify, and in very strict terms, the exact date on which it was to take
>place: the 10th of Floréal, Anno II of the Republican Era." Folding her hands
>in her lap, she maintained eye contact with Remilia and continued calmly, "I'm
>convinced that this document refers to the attack on your family. In that
>context, certain surviving scraps of reports made after that date to Deputy
>Robespierre take on a significance they have never before possessed. It's my
>belief that this evidence, taken together, confirms everything you described in
>your letter to President Auriol."
>

On the topic of people with wills made out of exotic, durable metals Madame de Moret is clearly no slouch in that department either. I wonder if she was chosen for the assignment based on that trait?

>"Music is music," Flandre said pragmatically. "We'll figure it out!" She
>grinned.
>

This makes me look forward to Flandre crossing paths with the rather large number of musicians either in or somehow attached to the Greater Gryphon Clan one day. Shimakaze's keyboard etc. will probably blow her mind in the best possible way.

>Lacking much of an eye for such things herself, Flandre was content to leave >the job to her elder sister and instead go a-viking among the bookshops and >music stores.
>

Unavoidable, and amusing, mental image of Flandre wearing the cliched, and inaccurate, horned helm and wielding a preposterously huge battleaxe goes here.

>That's the one, she thought. The other was a scantily-bearded young man,
>in his late teens or perhaps early twenties, sitting at the far edge of the
>café's iron-railing-enclosed outdoor seating area. He had a sketchbook propped
>on the table before him in one hand, and the other was drawing furiously, his
>eyes flicking intently between her and the paper.
>

Flandre acquires her first admirer from the outside world. At least this is all pre-paparazzi, pretty sure a few folks would end up eating their cameras after a while in that situation.

>Remilia shook her head. "No, M. Boissard, we are not witches." Then, smiling
>her slightly-edged smile again, she went on, "We're vampires."
>

I don't quite know why, but I continue to take joy from this revelation being dropped on people throughout this series. Clearly Remilia is enjoying it as well here.

>"After which," Remilia put in, sitting back in the chair with steepled
>fingertips, "let us discuss your commission rates. And if the offer is still
>open, I believe I'll have some wine after all."
>"I... think I need a bit more myself," Julien agreed.
>

Julien is fortunate they not only want him to keep and finish the portrait of Flandre, but produce more, because otherwise his compatriots would assume he'd swapped out wine for full potency absinthe if he told them about his night.


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