[h2]Kirisame Marisa[/h2]

"Oi oi, he's fine, right? He took hitting the dirt and kept trying to lecture me, I'm sure he can take emptying out my storage spell," Marisa said, stuffing Othinus quickly into one of her pockets as she strode forward to pick up her hat. Jeez, how was she going to get all her belongings... and 'borrowed items' back into her hat [i]and[/i] get away with Othinus? Well, at least she knew the tiny girl's name now. "And it's not like I'm keeping you, I just wanna dress you up a bit. Keeping a person, that'd be kinda weird, right?"

Marisa shrugged, before returning her attention to Touma. Now him... he was pretty weird. How exactly had he done that stuff? How could a human being do that sort of thing? Spell interference? He hadn't used any kind of magic that she recognized(or even that she didn't as far as she could tell). The throbbing pain in her skull from cracking her head on the concrete was fading now, as well, thankfully. That had been pretty awful.

"How'd you do that?" she asked, prodding her hat. Her spell was still there, but it had just been shut off, something had totally cancelled it. She'd have to reactivate it and everything so she could use her hat as easy convenient storage once more... and get all her stuff back. "That's not something people can do, just turning off magic by touching it."

[h2]Outside the Castle[/h2]

It was not much longer until Anette returned with Gintoki's water, on an ornate silver platter because, to put it simply, why not use an ornate silver platter? Moments after handing the water to him, however, the damn seemed to break. Tears, more tears them seemed humanly possibly, streamed out of her eyes an splashed onto the ground.

"W-we w-work s-so h-hard... Her H-Highness says w-we do a g-good job... but th-that's just t-to make us feel better, i-isn't it?! If the g-guests don't like it..."

She trailed off, still crying away.

Things were really intent on being difficult for the white-haired warrior, weren't they?