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Belle love her dear brother she really do, but everybody have their limits and she is at her. One may wonder what can trigger such happy, full of positive energy person and it's nothing else that Wise constant wining about certain wolf Thiren. But only talking would not make her reach her limit no, there are bigger problems that makes her frustrated with this.
Every day her brother can't stop with constantly talking or thinking about Lycaon, behaving like love sick puppy because of that he often ends up in different troubles be it something less harmful like writing with Lycaon and almost walking in to street lamp or something more serious like almost geting hurt during their proxy missions when he got to much distracted daydream about wolf Thiren and almost get attacked by Ethereal in Hollow.
When she proposed for him to just ask Lycaon out Wise always declined and tried to change topic. That's why Belle have finally enough, she doesn't want her brother to get hurt in any way, so that's why she decided to ask Wise one more time.
"Soo maybe you will ask him out finally? I can't stand your constant wining about him and then you still refuse doing anything about it brother."
"I can't Belle we are both very busy, I don't want to bother him or in worse case scenario destroy our actual relationship."
"Nonsense I'm sure that he like you too, you just need to try."
"Maybe another time."
Belle rolled her eyes. "Brother you always says that, but that time never came in the end."
And as always that 'another time' didn't happen at all. That's why Belle decided to take matters in to her own hands and try to help them two date. But first she needed some help and most importantly confirmation to make sure that her intuition and observation is right and that Lycaon is feeling the same as her brother, so she will not end potentially hurting Wise, she will never forgive herself it that would happen.
That's the reason why she appointed meeting in small cafe with Victoria Housekeeping maids Ellen and Corin. Girls meet in quiet corner of the cafe and sit round table with different desserts and cups of tea in front of them.
"Thank you both for meeting with me I want to talk about important thing and need your opinion and potential help."
"W-what it is miss Belle? You didn't wrote about topics of this meeting." Asked Corin.
"First thing first, what do you think Lycaon feelings for my brother are?"
"Hm... honestly I will say that he fell really hard for Master Wise doesn't he miss Ellen?"
"That's true he doesn't talk about Master Wise like he talks about other clients he always have this found expression. Oh and often he have this dreamy look when anything about Master Wise is mentioned also his tail sells his feeling a lot too."
"Great then I want to ask you two for help."
"Help with what?" Asked Corin and tilted her head to the side.
"With hooking up those two pathetically in love puppies that can't express their feelings themselves."
"I'm in, I have enough of additional work when Lycaon gets distracted when somebody just mentions anything about Master Proxy and then he becomes clumsy and end up crashing something with his waging tail." Said Ellen.
"M-me to I want to see them both happy." Add Corin.
"Perfect then we need to think about plan that will help them out. Operation Hooking up the Dummies officially starts."
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"Come on Wise you promised me that we will go where I want this time and I want to go to this nice cafe down street."
"Alright Belle you was working very hard on our proxy assignments, so you deserve that, you can order whatever you want my treat."
'I needed to make sure that you will not close yourself is staff room working all day again, so our plan will work that's why I rushed through commission's. Eous agreed to help, but I still feel bad for this amount of work I put it thru. Eous I will pay you back soon for your hard work.' Belle smiled wide grabbed Wise arm and lead him to cafe. "Thank you brother you're the best!"
"I need to admit that you're surprisingly enthusiastic I mean more than always, did something happened?"
"I don't need special occasion to be happy brother!" Then she spotted three people she was waiting for. "Oh isn't this Victoria Housekeeping workers? Let's go and say hi."
Immediately Belle brought Wise in front of Lycaon, Ellen and Corin.
"Hi everybody nice to see you, what are you doing here?"
Wise smiled softly and greeted them after his sister.
"What a pleasant surprise to meet you here Master Proxies. We just finished our mission and agreed to take break in near by cafe." Answered Lycaon after bowing.
"What a coincidence we was planing to go to cafe to if you don't mind Lycaon we can go there together."
"We will be happy to accompany you there."
When they entered building they were meet with pleasant smell of fresh made baked goods that were nicely displayed around.
"Alright guys find nice place to sit and I with girls will see what interesting they have here." On side Belle said quietly, so only two maids can hear. "Alright let chose for them something nice and then we will disappear."
Two girls nodded and went to order, but before they were able to get their chance to order they saw Lycaon coming closer to them.
"I need to apologise, but our new Master gave us another important task and we need to go immediately."
"But..."
"I'm really sorry that our meeting need to abruptly end, I hope that we will have another occasion to meet and enjoy some delicious desserts, but now we need to go. Ellen if you need something sweet we will buy something fast in nearby shop as for now good bye Master Proxy."
As fast as they showed up they disappear even faster leaving suprised Belle near counter.
"So did you chose something for yourself Belle?"
Asked Wise that came to his sister.
"Yea... just let me order."
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"Let's go to the cinema brother!"
"We have a lot movies here though."
"That's not the same we can go see something new and..."
"And pay for expensive snacks. For the same amount of money we could buy a lot more food here at Sixth Street."
"Come on brother don't be like this. From time to time we can try something else, pretty please?"
Wise sighed. "Fine, when you want to go?"
"What about this evening?"
"Alright."
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"And bought we have the best seats now snack time!"
"M-master Wise and Belle it's nice to see you two again." They heard Corin voice behind them and when they turned around they again met Lycaon, Ellen and Corin.
"Nice to see you too. Did Victoria Housekeeping finally got some free time?"
"Kinda, after our previous long mission we propose to go together to cinema as recompense and Lycaon agreed. Now excuse me I need to see what types of sweets they have here." Said Ellen and went straight to her destination.
"What movie are you guys going for?" Asked Belle.
"T-The one with this couple of people standing at beach during starry night called At the Midnight, miss Ellen said its pretty popular around her classmates, but they didn't want to spoiler her anything about it, so we decided to try it out." Said Corin.
"That's perfect because we are going for this movie too, so let's get seats near each other!"
Enthusiastically said Belle and went together with Corin to buy tickets. When girls looked at Lycaon and Wise that stayed behind they noticed that they were happily talking.
When time for movie was about to start they went together to their seats making sure that Lycaon and Wise are siting near each other. Girls was hoping that they will see a little of romance movie and then leave them alone, but in turned out that this movie isn't even a comedy it was very gory horror. Not only they didn't made romantic background, but Wise was watching movie with his eyes hiden in his hands from time to time when more brutal scene showed, gave his snacks to Belle who was hoping that he at least hide in Lycaon arm, but that didn't happen only small reassuring pats from wolf Thiren from time to time.
"I will eat vegetarian noodles for at least week after that." Said Wise when movie finally end. "Let's go now Belle I want to buy some before we go home and before it's get to dark."
"Alright just a moment. I need second to end what I was talking with girls before and then we can go."
Girls went to the side and looked at Ellen. "It was supposed to be romance."
"The title and movie cover looked like one I should read tags..."
"T-they talk a little, but this movie destroyed whole mood." Said sadly Corin.
"Alright we will try something else now I need to go buy some noodles with Wise."
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"Alright now let's try something less unpredictable this time. I asked Fairy if she can send message to them asking for meeting at Park near river at Lumina Square. Sun going down behind the horizon, nice quiet and pleasant atmosphere let's hope that will work and make them talk things out."
"Nicely planned miss Belle."
"That's true. I don't want to jinx it, but with their luck I recommend to beware for any disturbances."
"Miss Ellen you shouldn't said that..."
"Corin is right now I'm getting afraid."
"Don't worry nothing will happen."
"It's better be true Ellen."
Moments later Lycaon arrived to agreed place and then a little after him arrived Wise. They seemed to enjoy this pleasant meeting talking and enjoying each other attention.
"See told you it will go good and nothing will..."
"Oi partner and lupine bro what a coincidence seeing you both here isn't it Ben?"
"Oh no, no, no. What Anton and Ben are doing here? They will destroy our plan..." Said frustrated Belle looking from behind building corner.
"M-miss Belle don't feel down maybe they will go away after greetings." Said Corin that was trying her best to make Belle feel better.
"Oh I don't know if you two know each other, so let's me make official introduction this is Von Lycaon from Victoria Housekeeping and here is Ben Bigger from Belobog Heavy Industries."
"Nice to meet you Lycaon Mr. Proxy friends are our friends."
"Nice to meet you as well."
"What are you two doing here?" Asked Wise.
"We ended our shift and was planing to go eat something and what about you partner?"
"We just meet and talk a little here, but we doesn't have any big plans."
"Great then if you want you can join us I heard that there is this new eating challenge at hot pot restaurant, so we can try it out." Said enthusiastically Anton.
Wise looked at Lycaon and noticed that Thiren softly smiled at him and nodded his head.
"Sure let's go there then."
"Thanks for jinxing it Ellen." Said Belle.
"I really should stop talking next time..."
"Yes you should." Said Belle and Corin in unison.
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"Wise I will be busy doing some appointments in city, so I will be taking car. I just want you to know that somebody from Victoria Housekeeping will come here with their Bangboo that got some problems after mission, so please check out what is wrong with it."
"Wait why somebody will come here if Enzo is near by? Also they heve Rina there, so why us?"
"I agreed to help them after they helped us so much lately and you know thing or two about repairs, so we can help them especially now when Rina is away on a mission, also appointment is already arranged, so take tools and wait in storage room."
"Fine, but warm me faster next time okay?"
"Sorry it totally slipped from my head. Alright I will go now good luck."
Belle raise two thumgs up and went to the car only to drive some buildings away from Random Play and meed with Corin and Ellen.
"Alright I'm done with my part what about you?"
"Lycaon was stubborn saying that he doesn't want to waste Master Proxy time like that, but when I said that we already have appointment and not coming will waste time even more and will be impolite for Master Wise he immediately changed his mind and moved some time later." Said Ellen that took out three lollipops and gave one to each of her companions.
"B-but how will we know how it will go?" Asked Corin.
"Don't worry we have monitoring there, so I will just use application on my phone that will show us them on live. I just hope battery will be enough with how fast things between them move or more accurately crawl. For now let's don't worry, let's sit somewhere and see."
Girls sat down at near bench and looked at Belle phone. Not long later to Random Play came Lycaon holding Butler Bangboo.
"Greetings Master Proxy, I apologise for taking time from your busy schedule, but we have appointment and I don't want to waste more of your time."
"Welcome Lycaon it's really no problem and I'm not that busy today, so let's go and check what is the problem."
Then they went to staff room and Wise with Eous little help begin check up. He go through everything from system to physical condition, but he didn't find anything. When he was about to say to Lycaon that he doesn't see any problems and he should better to be absolutely sure everything is okay, check with Enzo, Butler Bangboo jumped down from table and bowed.
"En-nah nhe-nah. (Thank you very much good Master your great skill helped me a lot.)"
"I don't think I have done anything to help, but I'm happy that you're okay now. Still I recommended to go to Enzo to make sure that whatever happened to you will not come back later."
"Un-nhe, nu-na. (Not only talented, but also selfless the best Master one can wish for.)"
"I'm very grateful for your help Master Wise if you ever need any assistance don't fret from asking Victoria Housekeeping for help. Now when this is all settled I will take my leave. I don't want to waste more of your time."
"That's really nothing, have a safe trip you two."
Lycaon again picked up Bangboo and slowly started to head in direction of door."
"Wait that's it? We was doing everything we can to give them some free private time and they don't even sit for some tea." Belle put her phone to the side and hide her face in her hands.
"I hear about some hard cases, but they are hopeless one... because how you can pin so hard to somebody and still be so dense. They are making me tired I need something sweet to survive it."
"M-maybe we should take some break... and go eat something sweet, so miss Ellen will not fall asleep."
"You're right Corin let's go. We can brainstorm something in the process or just simply get some break I'm geting tired too." Belle turned off her phone and went to car.
"Master your sister stopped monitoring Random Play and is driving away together with Ellen Joe and Corin Wickes in direction of Lumina Square."
"Thank you Fairy. Now if you don't mind you can spend some time with our Bangboos here at store Butler Bangboo."
Lycaon turned around and put down Bangboo that immediately moved away with others.
Wise sighed and stepped back till he felt hard chest on his back and then strong arms sneaked around his hips and pulled him closer in to warm hug.
"They're getting more interesting ideas with time aren't they my Lycaon?"
Thiren put his muzzle on gray haired man head and answered. "Indeed they do. Do you want to end your sister games and tell her about us?"
"If its not problem with you we can wait a little longer and see with what they will come next because I really like how many more time together we got thanks to that. I will repay her later for everything. Ofcourse if you don't mind."
"As you wish, then we can wait more. I need to admit that I also enjoy our time together." Then Lycaon spinned Wise around and faced him. "I don't mind it as long as we can be together more often because I cherish every moment spend with you." Then he bended down till their noses touched.
"So do I."