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Cirno’s cold hands went to Shou’s belly, sending a shiver up her spine.

“I reckon it’s only a little while till ya deliver, isn’t it?” Suwako said as Miyoi handed her another bottle of black oily liquid.

“Yeah, it's only a little bit now until I can lay my eggs.” Shou flashed Cirno a kind smile as she responded to Suwako.

“Eggs?” The Yorigami sisters said in unison.

“Well I am a cat Youkai after all, wouldn't it be weird if I didn't lay eggs?” Shou rubbed her belly, somewhat defensively.

“Eh, it would be weird if you did, everybody knows cats give birth.” Joon tilted her head in confusion.

“Yeah, me and Joon have seen plenty of cats give birth in the outside world.”

“Huh.” Suwako scratched her head. “Now that you mention it, I think Sanae said something about that…”

The entire bar stood in silence as they contemplated the issue.

“Well, I’ll be going to Doctor Yagokokoro anyways, I’ll just ask her then.” Shou nodded her head. “Anyone else have any interesting gossip?”

“Oh, I do, I do.” Cirno waved her hand excitedly. “Apparently Remi and Flan are gonna be helping Miss Yukari ‘cause Remi’s mad at Okina.”

Shou’s ear twitched in surprise. “Huh? How’d you hear about that?”

“Kasumi, one of the fairy maids told me.” Only Patchouli could identify every fairy maid, and she had been a bit off recently, luckily the scary head maid was also busy.

Shion sighed, slumping against the booth and laying her head on the table as she held a bottle of Sake in one hand. “Well, that’s one more god on the Yakumo side.”

“Eh, aren’t those two just vampires?” Suwako hadn’t really interacted with them much, but she was pretty sure they weren’t gods.

“They do have those relics, don’t they? The little sister's sword-wand and the older one’s spear, at least I think those are relics.”

“Yeah, and ‘fate manipulation’ and destroying things, don’t some of those Norse gods have powers like that?”

“How would I know, I’ve never met any of them, and besides weren’t those gods men?” At least, Suwako was sure they weren’t secretly little girls, the vampires were pretty young anyways, only in their 500s now.

“Maybe they’re like Okuu and somebody put a god inside them?” Cirno volunteered, her mind going to the friend she hadn’t seen in such a long time.

“Well… I can't say it's impossible, but, ah.” Suwako shook her head. “How about we talk about something else, you pick any names yet Shou?”

“Ah, no… Well I did, but apparently they weren't very good names, Chisazu and Nazrin said they were too obvious.” Shou shrunk somewhat in embarrassment, remembering the desperate pleading of the rat and mouse. “Everything star-based is off of the table.”

“Ooh, ooh, I have an idea!” Cirno flew around the idle idol. “What about a foreign name? That way even if they are star names nobody will be able to tell.”

“Well maybe…”

“Ugh, can't we talk about something else, practically every other party I’ve been to has had these same mom discussions.“ Joon complained, rolling a jewel to dust in between her fingers.

“What is this, one second you complain about everything we’re getting up to, the other you want our lives to be more interesting
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“Please, neither of us is ever having kids, we already have each other, it's not like we need anybody else.”

“Eh, Joon?”

Sensing the chance to give the god some grief Suwako spoke up. “Except Tenshi and Hina, not to mention Reimu, and Yukari, or what about-”

“Fine, fine, I get it.” Joon shut up, sulking inside of the booth.

“Maybe you two do need to spend some time apart, I think you’re slipping back into old habits Joon.”

“Says the-”

A sharp look from Shou prevented the pestilence god from finishing her sentence. “Perfectly upstanding Buddhist role model Miss Idol.”

Shou sighed.

“Joon be nicer, and Shou don’t be so down on yourself.” Suwako put a hand on the tiger’s shoulder. “Besides that youkai-phile of a god is one of the least Buddhist Buddhas.”

Shou held her head in defeat, the honest and kind words of Suwako having damaged her heart.

“Well we better get going, after all that horse isn’t going to impoverish herself anytime soon,” Joon said, picking up her elder sister and putting her on her back.

“Ah, Well don’t worry about that Joon, ” Shou gave the two gods a sharp and too wide smile as they exited Geidontei. “But if this does turn south, I suppose I’ll be relying on you two to help us out, so don’t get in too much trouble.”

Joon once again wondered why things couldn’t be simple for a change.

"Byeee," Shion called as she clung to her sister's back like a cat, already missing the other gods.

The rest of the night, the gods soberly whittled the night away, much to the annoyance and financial ruin of the Miyoi, with the sisters already having discreetly done their work on the bar.