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"Sorry to accidentally disturb everyone's breakfast, I'm just here for Flandre."
Remilia Scarlet, who had been following elegantly and leisurely behind the running clones, walked calmly into the farmhouse kitchen, followed closely by Sakuya Izayoi respectfully carrying the empty bamboo basket.
As soon as she entered the room, she immediately noticed the massive, heavy oak dining table currently in full vibration mode... and the massive, fluffy blonde tail behind Lady Ran vibrating just as much against the chair.
Leo desperately held a hot coffee cup that was about to completely spill over with one hand and aggressively pulled the three groaning Flandre clones, who had curled into tight, defensive balls, out from under the dining table with the other. Lady Ran, blushing furiously, also shook her large, fluffy tail, and the terrified Main Body Flandre fell out while spinning dizzily.
After being completely exposed to the sunlight, the four unlucky children instantly maintained a perfect, head-clutching defensive squat, nervously shuffling their little buckled shoes on the wooden ground. They quickly gathered tightly together in a circle, heads facing inward and butts sticking outward, hilariously cosplaying as terrified ostriches hiding from a predator.
Remilia walked over with a cold smirk and lightly kicked the frilly butt of one of the Flandres with the sharp tip of her red shoe. Unexpectedly, the Flandre who was kicked silently, rapidly moved to the side, and the two clones next to her instantly followed suit, sliding away. In the tragic end, those three cowardly clones huddled into a tight group by the wall, leaving exactly one terrified Main Body Flandre entirely alone in the center of the floor, looking especially conspicuous and doomed.
"Wait?! What are you doing?! Leave a safe spot for me!"
The betrayed Main Body Flandre looked up blankly at the wall and then desperately tried to violently squeeze herself inside the clones' huddle, but she absolutely couldn't physically fit in at all; they were blocking her out! She was so incredibly anxious and terrified she was actually about to cry real tears. Behind her, her older sister's wicked, fanged grin grew wider and wider—how incredibly terrifying!
"Alright, alright, stop squatting on the floor like commoners. It's absolutely not dignified at all for a Scarlet." Remilia sighed, rolling her eyes. "It's literally just a few cheap bottles of farm milk; if you greedily drank them all, you drank them. Our incredibly wealthy Scarlet Devil Mansion absolutely isn't so pathetically poor that we'd strictly nitpick and beat you over a few stolen bottles of milk."
"However, Leo, you'll absolutely have to aggressively make up today's massive fresh milk quota for me right now."
Remilia gently, affectionately patted Flandre's blonde head. She had genuinely only followed along just to maliciously tease her silly little sister a bit. Since she had absolutely nothing exciting to do every single day anyway, she absolutely couldn't just boringly sit on the Mansion balcony drinking blood tea and pretending to be perfectly dignified all day long, could she? She absolutely wasn't some kind of stagnant, lazy slime monster like Bukubukuchagama from Yggdrasil.
After a massive breakfast, Leo happily took Remilia on a walking tour to professionally visit the newly established, upgraded agricultural facilities on the Stardew Valley farm.
Currently, the massive farm's visual layout leaned heavily towards manicured aesthetics; it absolutely no longer looked exactly like a massive, muddy, chaotic field full of wild farmland at first glance. Most of the heavy, industrial cash crops had been strategically transferred directly to the magical Spring Island for year-round planting. Every single day, Kagerou Imaizumi would reliably have Wakasagihime efficiently take her back and forth to work on the island via the waterways.
The specific crops currently left growing on the main farm were meticulously planted in neat, designated aesthetic areas. Leo carefully kept a few small, heavily fertilized plots specifically to aggressively gamble on growing giant, mutant crops, while the rest were purely ornamental crops specifically used to beautify the farm for tourists.
There was a beautiful, terraced rice field carefully planted along the winding canal, spiky tropical pineapples neatly lining both sides of the main dirt road, and several massive, neat rows of fragrant fruit trees and tall economic trees planted directly near the rocky mountains on the west side of the farm. Heavy wooden Tappers were hung securely on them to constantly collect fresh sap for mass-producing Kegs.
The expensive Maple Syrup he aggressively used for mass-brewing in the Kegs before was simply a massive, temporary batch generously supported by the Tengu Tribe's mountain reserves. If he truly wanted to aggressively expand his alcohol production to industrial levels, he absolutely had to mathematically produce it himself. After all, in the highly profitable 'brewing playstyle' meta of the game, one would ideally wish to completely cover the entire Stardew Valley map with thousands of Kegs; absolutely without using cheat mods, one couldn't even physically finish a single harvesting round in a 24-hour day!
Speaking of which, Leo took massive advantage of the lazy end of the spring season—when heavy farming tools absolutely weren't constantly needed—and aggressively handed absolutely all his upgraded tools directly over to the genius Nitori Kawashiro for intense, reverse-engineering research. When he first saw the heavy construction excavator working in town, Leo immediately, greedily thought of the legendary, game-breaking Tractor Mod from Earth.
This specific, magical vehicle is absolutely one of the most incredibly practical and overpowered mods in Stardew Valley: automatic high-speed tilling, automatic wide-radius sowing, instant watering, and massive AoE harvesting. Although it somewhat violently breaks the pure, relaxing game experience, it magically, massively reduces the physical fatigue caused by thousands of repetitive clicking actions.
Now, every single morning when he happily opened the front door, he desperately hoped to see Nitori Kawashiro aggressively stepping on the gas pedal of a massive, glowing green Tractor, loudly playing incredibly earthy, cheap romantic pop songs over the vehicle's massive speakers, with a cool cucumber slice hanging in her mouth, shouting, "Boss, is it completely safe to parallel park my new, hand-cranked Tractor directly at your front door?!"
"By the way, Remilia, do you want to safely go to the new hot springs today? It'll officially be summer in exactly half a month on the calendar. The massive hot springs are having a private trial opening these few days, and Nitori Kawashiro even explicitly told me to try it out when I have free time."
With exactly half a month left strictly until summer hit, Leo absolutely didn't plan on wasting money planting any new, slow-growing spring crops. When he first foolishly started playing the game on Earth, he didn't logically know the calendar mechanics and wrongly thought a standard month was 30 or 31 days. As a tragic result, exactly as soon as the 28th passed and he confidently opened his eyes the next morning, his entire massive, expensive field of mature crops had violently, instantly turned into a rotten, dead mess of withered vines!
So, this remaining half-month was pure, lazy relaxation time. Aside from lazily harvesting the remaining crops when they fully matured, he was incredibly, happily free at other times to host events.
"Hot springs? It's absolutely not exactly like the dangerous Geyser in the Underworld, which is actually just super-heated, radioactive water, is it?"
Absolutely no one can logically refuse a massive, luxurious public bath, unless they're a strict, conservative Southerner. Hearing about the newly built hot springs, Remilia clearly showed an incredibly interested, aristocratic expression. In the old days of Gensokyo, absolutely everyone would go to the natural hot springs to relax when they had absolutely nothing to do.
But the massive Geyser's hot spring in the Former Hell was actually, terrifyingly caused by the massive, radioactive heat leaking directly from Utsuho's underground nuclear energy facility! That glowing thing was literally a highly unstable, super nuclear bomb. Every single time she nervously soaked in the hot spring down there and rationally thought about the super large, volatile firecracker directly below her that could violently nuke everything into glass at any given time, her butt felt incredibly itchy with anxiety.
"Pure, 100% natural, non-radioactive hot springs! Mixed bathing!" Leo gave a massive, enthusiastic thumbs up, grinning proudly.
At his incredibly strong, perverted request as the World Lord, the thick wooden wall officially used for gender isolation in the hot spring center was still completely knocked through by the construction crew. Leo's official, bureaucratic reason was also quite loudly sufficient and logical: "There are so incredibly many girls here, they can only uncomfortably squeeze into exactly half of the hot spring like packed dumplings, while I, a single man, wastefully occupy the entire other massive half all by myself! It's far too unfair and inefficient. We must absolutely treat everyone completely equally and comfortably soak together to save space!"
Then the greedy Kappa Takane Yamashiro immediately came up with a "brilliant" capitalist suggestion that almost made Leo die of anger on the spot.
"In that highly logical case, Lord Leo, let's just completely knock down the massive partition wall in the middle and designate the absolutely whole thing exclusively as a premium girls' area! Boss, since you're the only single man here anyway, you can just cheaply get a small wooden bucket, fill it with some warm sink water, and safely soak in that outside. That way, absolutely no premium pool space goes to waste!"
"Boss, absolutely don't listen to her capitalist nonsense, she just loves to make terrible jokes! I completely understand exactly what you mean, I understand perfectly as a fellow degenerate! I formally guarantee you'll be 100% satisfied with the mixed layout!"
A dark green figure had violently rushed over and brutally drop-kicked away Takane Yamashiro, who was just about to smugly say 'praise my genius'. Nitori Kawashiro frantically wiped the nervous sweat from her forehead and only barely managed to smoothly soothe Leo's anger after much desperate persuasion and bribery.
"Sakuya, gracefully go back to the Mansion immediately and get some appropriate bathing clothes. Also, let Patchouli and the others know to get ready. Mandatory Team building exercise!"
Leo's enthusiastic words successfully piqued her aristocratic interest. After immediately sending Sakuya home through a Gap to get clothes, Remilia took out her glowing smartphone, sat comfortably on the velvet sofa, and aggressively started ordering expensive, chilled snacks on the app to eat at the hot spring later.
"Let's go, let's go! Xiao Sumi, are you happily coming with us?!"
Leo was now visibly more excited than absolutely anyone else in the room. He quickly, happily packed his swimming things into a bag and even ran aggressively to Yukari Yakumo's locked bedroom to forcefully, happily pull out the tiny, glaring Yukari.
"This specific one... looks very, very familiar." Remilia narrowed her red eyes, tilting her head.
At this exact moment, Yukari Yakumo had already magically changed her long, curly, signature golden blonde hair to entirely long, straight black hair to hide her identity, and was currently forced to put on the cheap, slightly too-large clothes Chen usually wore around the house. When Leo first confidently went into the room to get her, the sudden Kaguya Houraisan visual effect almost hit him with a massive shock at first glance! She looked exactly like a mini Moon Princess!
"Hello big sister, my name is completely Sumi Yakumo. I am Lady Ran's newly recruited, incredibly innocent Shikigami. Please take good care of me."
Yukari Yakumo aggressively squeezed out a sickly sweet, polite smile through violently gritted teeth. Her small, pale hand fiercely, violently attacked the soft, vulnerable flesh on Leo's waist where Remilia couldn't visually see the pinching. Unfortunately, she was far, far too physically weak right now; it absolutely didn't even hurt and barely counted as a gentle massage for Leo's durable skin.
"Big sister? Oh my, this new little sister is incredibly, adorably polite!" Remilia looked at the tiny Yukari Yakumo, who currently heavily resembled Kaguya Houraisan, with an incredibly wicked, half-smile.
A terrifying, faint blood-red light glowed deep in her vampire eyes. With her absolute, conceptual Power of Fate, incredibly few things in the multiverse could ever be successfully hidden from her gaze. She could effortlessly tell at a single, terrifying glance exactly who this pathetic 'Sumi Yakumo' really was, but since the arrogant Sage of Youkai clearly, desperately didn't want to publicly reveal her humiliating identity, she naturally wouldn't actively spoil the massive fun of torturing her.
Besides... in this specific, weak child form, absolutely no matter what humiliating things Remilia said or commanded her to do, this child-form Yukari Yakumo would absolutely have to completely, obediently play along with the charade, unless she wanted to aggressively, proudly announce her own humiliating defeat to the entire world!