Rosa: [Rose Wind]

A storm of rose petals is released, very powerful but strictly confined to the small area where Dewdrop are, in literally one second no trace of her is left.

Rosa, kneeling: My lord, I deserve your punishment for my intervention, but I can't spare the life of anyone who intentionally harms the Lord of Yggdrasil.

White Rose: The good news is, butterflies like Dewdrop are going die on its own anyway in a few days. Their lifecycle is very short.

Sola: Seems a lot of things have exception. Even they are all Yggdrasil's offspring, yet they harm our lord.

Rosa: I shall order an extermination of all worms and butterflies immediately.

Lord: Uh...wait. Let me think. I don't want anymore bloodshed.

Rosa: I will stay put on this matter and wait for your next command, my lord.

Wevil walks to where Dewdrop were, sweeping her little hands to gather some dust and pieces of rose petals lying around. Her tears are trickling down her cheeks.

[Lord's bedroom, in the evening of the same day]

Sola: Are you still thinking about what happened, my lord?

Lord: Yes, if we hadn't been there, Dewdrop must still have been alive.

Sola: That's life, my lord. We can't control everything. What we can do is try to do our best. Moreover, if we had relived this day again, other worse things might have happened instead.

Lord: What do you mean, Sola?

Sola: For example, if we rewind time back to this morning and relive this day again one more time, in the end of the day Wevil might fall into a hole and die, resulting in a more loss to us than the death of some butterfly we don't even know. However, in reality, we can't rewind time, so we usually don't realize how lucky we are today.

Lord: That's quite enlightening, Sola.

Wevil: Is there a small deep hole around here where I can...

Iris: Come on. Let me eat the best nectar in the world. Lily, come enjoy free nectar.

Lily resurfaces, makes a bored face, and dives back down to where she was.

Wevil: Iris, now I realize how bad it is to lose someone. How can I go on with my life if I lose you?

Iris: Cheer up! I am much tougher than butterflies, trust me. Today let us live happily as if it is the last day of our life.

Wevil: Iris, hug me and don't die fast.

Iris: My lord, do you want to live happily with me as if it is the last day of our life in some dark corners of the old castle?

Lord: .....

[A while later]

Violet: Primrose came back today. She brought back this weird item from some ruin. She has gone now, to resume her duty as our ruin explorer.

Iris: My lord, are you disappointed that she has gone so soon? Do you want me to send a message to her that you want her to drop all her duty and come meet you as soon as possible? [giggle]

Lord: Uh.....no...no. Let she do her duty. But what item? May I see it?

Violet: Our body and soul are your property, as well as any.....

Lord: Stop. I already have some idea of you will say next.

Iris: Hmm...really weird item. A screen to display numbers and a button.

Lily: Press it, my lord.

Lord: Oh, this is the first time I see you out of the water jar.

Lily: I come out only when there is something interesting. I am a plant, so I can stay in the jar as long as I want if I have sunlight and water, which are abundant around here.

Lord: Hmm...good to be plants, right?

Lily: [giggle]

Lord: Oh, yeah. Now I know why my bedroom is so bright. You girls have stripped my bedroom of all windows and curtains for sunlight to pass through.

Lily: I will sacrifice myself by pressing this button for our lord. Good bye forever, everyone.

Lord: Nope, you just want to play with it.

Lily points the device towards Sola and presses the button.

Violet: The numbers have changed to 1 and 2. Hmm.. what does it mean, my lord.

Iris: Try it on me.

Lily: Now it's 1 and 1

Iris: No, not my cup size. My lord, please don't look at them.

Lord: ....

Iris: OK, now it's your turn, Lily. Hmm, it's 0 and 9. For Violet, it's 1 and 1 like me. That means we have the same cup size? But how? I'm sure I...

Lord: Don't tell me you really thinks it's cup size.

Iris: Wevil got 1 and 3. Noooooo. This thing is broken. Let go play something else, my lord.

Sola: It's our maiden age, in year and month, respectively. Yes, Wevil was born before us, and I'm sure this is her fully grown form. However, due to the effect of.....

Lord: Let explain that some other time, would you. For now let concentrate on the device, or else things might get too complicated for some dumb guys out there.

Sola: I'm not sure whom you are talking about but...

Lily: Nice, let go play this on other victims, no, I mean our lovely sisters.

Wevil: Yeah, let's go. I will lead the way.

Sola: You guys go on and have some fun.

....This is rather silly. Besides, I already know the age of practically everyone.

[Somewhere in the castle grounds]

Lily: Help me search for a target, my lord.

Lord: I remember that sakura shrub. It was in my room earlier.

Iris: That's Almond, my lord. Yes, as a plant, she is closely related and looks similar to a sakura.

Lord: What is her maiden form look like?

Violet: She is a small girl, about jasmine size, with pale grey hair. Her dress is mostly dull white with pink patterns here and there. Fair complexion like most of us. She sports a big braid in the back with a bunch of white sakura-like flower at the end of it, with some petals and black seeds inserted along the braid itself. She has a rather 'calm' and 'neat' personality.

Iris: Wow. That's quite a lengthy description. In retrospect, it would be easier if we just wake her up.

Lord: Nah, same effort. Someone has to type in the same length of description anyway.

Iris: Huh?

Lord: Never mind.

Lily: 0 and 5. It starts to get boring.

Violet: She is sleeping. Let us not disrupt her sleep, unless you want to talk with her, in that case...

Iris: ... or unless you want to do something with her flower while she is sleeping, in that case...

Lord: Let her sleep for now.

Lily: What is that flower over there, red and white flower in weird pattern. Is that even a maiden?

Iris: Silly, you sleep in the jar all the time. That's our new member, Astille. She is still a small girl in maiden form. Oh, she got 0 and 2. This device is very accurate.

A girl with slightly dark complexion, with several long thorny vine in her hair and some thorns all over her body is approaching.

Holly: Hello, my lord, My name is Holly. I am one of the maiden born to serve you. My body and sou...

Lord: Stop, everyone please stop saying that line. I have heard it like 10 times.

Lily: She got 0 and 7, boring.

Iris: What range of number did you expect, huh?

Holly, with some tears filling her eyes: .....

Violet: My lord, she cries easily. Please don't..... and don't approach her too. Her thorn is dangerously sharp.

Lord: I'm very sorry Holly. Walk with us. We are playing some interesting...

Holly runs away in tears.

Violet: Don't worry about it, my lord. She is always like this.

Iris: If you feel guilty, you can kiss her on the cheek some time later. Not many thorns there.

Lily: Oh that's Grapefruit, she is almost always in her plant form, photosynthesizing all days. But that's probably the reason why she can produce a lot of grapes.

Iris: Don't ask me how her maiden form looks like. I don't want to describe it to you.

Wevil: Food time. Dig in!

Wevil is eating the grapes.

Lily: 0 and 6. I'm done. You guys play on. See you later.

Iris: Did she expect 199 or something. Let go to the main hall in the castle, my lord, if you still want to play. There might be someone in the main hall.

[In the main hall]

A slender girl that looks like 20 years old if she was a human, with slightly wavy long blonde hair, wearing frilly white dress with the slightest shade of pink. She has bunch of small flowers of various color on her head.. Her skin is quite pale as if she stays indoors all the time. The fabric of her dress looks a little different than that of the other maidens.

Violet: We have found aunt Petunia. Oops, better drop the word aunt. Not my fault, right? Somehow the word Aunt and Petunia seem to rhyme with each other. I think we will get about 1 and 4, as she is one of the first.

Iris: Press it already.

Violet, shouting: What! She is 9999 years 11 months old?

Petunia: You girls are making fun of me or something?

Iris: Huh? It's not possible that she was long born before the yggdrasil tree itself. Press it one more time, Violet.

The device is not working anymore.

Lord: Too bad it's broken.

Wevil: Aunt Petunia, our device is broken because you are too old.

Petunia sighs and walks away.