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[X[ Take the package with you.

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Vincent returns to the dining room with the package. Yuyuko has already started eating. She waves at him energetically. Youmu sighs with exasperation.

"We just started eating," Yuyuko says. She passes her bowl to Youmu for a refill. Youmu takes it with a frown. Looks like Youmu hasn't started eating. Vincent waves back as he takes his seat.

"Feeling better?" Youmu asks.

"Yeah, I had some time to think. I suppose that I will just need some time to adjust to this strange new world." he says.

"Wafs fafd?" Yuyuko asks. Her mouth seems to be full of rice and fish.

"Please swallow before speaking." Youmu says lightly.

"This?" Vincent says. "I found it near the entrance."

Vincent gives the package to Yuyuko after she puts down her chopsticks.

"Oh," she says as she reads the label. "It's from Yukari! I wonder if she asked the fox to deliver it."

"I was busy earlier," Youmu says, giving Vincent a stern look. "I might have missed her."

"Let us see what~ Yukari sent us~ on this pleasant day~" Yuyuko says in a sing-song manner.

She removes the package bindings and opens it slowly. It looks like an ornate box. Vincent looks at it with interest. A glance to the side tells him that Youmu seems interested as well. Yuyuko opens the box slightly and peeks inside. Her smile widens. She closes it before Vincent and Youmu can identify its contents.

"She finally sent it!" Yuyuko says. "Yay~"

She prances around the room happily like a child.

"Sit down and finish your food, Lady Yuyuko," Youmu says.

"Oh right!" she says, recovering immediately. "Sorry about that, I just got a bit excited."

Yuyuko turns to Vincent.

"So, as a ghost hunter," she says. "You must know some great ghost stories."

Vincent pauses to think. For some reason, he can recall a few recent incidents. Perhaps his memory is beginning to recover. He doesn't notice Youmu shudder slightly.

"I wouldn't say that they are ghost stories, but I can talk about some of the things I've encountered..."

Vincent starts describing an incident at a rural village. He was sent to investigate a series of unusual murders. Every year during a festival, one person would go missing while another would be found brutally murdered. Yuyuko listens intently as she eats. Youmu seems disinterested, but her movements seem oddly mechanical.

"... so on the third day, we discovered one of the villagers dead on the road. By the wounds and markings on his neck, we concluded that he must have clawed his own throat out and bled to death..."

"E-excuse me," Youmu says as she stands up from the table. She looks quite pale. She gives a polite bow before leaving the room. Yuyuko chuckles a bit.

"Did I say something wrong?" Vincent asks.

"She won't admit it," Yuyuko says. "But she hates ghost stories, especially scary ones."

"I see..."

"Please go on," she says. "So, what happened next?"

...

After dinner, Youmu leads Vincent back to his room. She gives a few directions to the bathrooms and the other places in the mansion before leaving. Vincent doesn't have a chance to change the subject. Perhaps she doesn't feel like talking right now.

Alone in his room, Vincent starts looking at the futon longingly. He hasn't properly slept in a soft bed for the longest time (being knocked unconscious twice doesn't count).

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