“So …” Snek stood between Bliss and Lati (both of which were seated) at the table. “Everyone understand?” She clasped her hands together, her brown eyes flashing red.

Bliss took one of the papers from the table, her golden eyes scanning over it. Her bunny ears twitched. Does she honestly expect us to be able to figure out anything from this? She continued looking over the paper. Well, she is a horrid artist? I guess I figured that out. What the heck is this supposed to be a drawing of anyway? She put the paper back down and glanced over another. Is that … a stick figure? Seriously, what the hell? She sighed and turned to Lati. Lati glanced at Bliss in turn, the eyes of the two demonic women meeting. Bliss’s cute bunny ears twitched again. “Please tell me this means something to you.”

Lati turned back to the miscellaneous papers Snek had produced. Her tongue flitted out as she brought a hand to her chin. Sighing, she closed her red eyes and then looked back to Bliss before shaking her head. “Sorry. I have no clue what these are even supposed to be drawings of.”

“S-Seriously.” Snek stuttered in that high-pitched voice of hers, her brown eyes going big. “How can you not get it? These drawings are utter perfection.”

I think my definition of perfection is a bit different from hers. Bliss closed her golden eyes for a moment before glancing back to the papers and then shifting her gaze to Snek. “Maybe your artwork is just …” she looked back to the obnoxiously bad drawings, both her white bunny ears and tail twitching, “too advanced for us. Why don’t you explain?”

Snek’s eyes lit up, momentarily flashing red once again. “I see. I see.” She clasped her hands together happily. “You two clearly lack my artistic prowess. I’ll explain. I’ll explain.” She gestured to one of the drawings that lay on the black, stone table. “This is a door.”

Wait. That is supposed to be a door. Bliss tilted her head to the side, her bunny ears twitching again. Well, I guess I can kind of see it … if I squint.

Snek continued gesturing animatedly at the badly drawn door. “Such a great likeness of a door. This door is deeper in the complex. We will be heading through it. Oh and look at this drawing.” She held up a paper containing a literal stick figure and showed it to both Bliss and Lati. “What do you think?” She held the drawing next to her and puffed out her admittedly small chest proudly.

Bliss blinked, her bunny ears twitching yet again. What is the deal with the stick figure? Why can’t she just get to the point? “It looks … uh … nice.”

“Of course it looks nice. I drew my own likeness.” She tossed her actually-a-stick-figure self-portrait back to the table.

I so should have expected that. Of course she was showing off a drawing of herself, and of course said drawing was a literal stick figure. Bliss sighed, and then she returned her golden eyes to Snek. “Can we please get back to the operation?”

“Operation?” Snek tilted her head to the side in puzzlement.

Oh hell. Not this again.

“Oh, right.” Snek clasped her hands back together. “That operation.” She swiftly turned back to the table before gesturing to yet another drawing. “Here we have …”

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Bliss looked to the referenced drawing. This one was quite different from the badly drawn door or Snek’s stick-figure portrait. This is actually pretty detailed. Her golden eyes scanned over the drawn image. Scratch that. This one is not just pretty detailed. It is extremely detailed, but … Bliss winced, pulling back and pushing against her black, stone chair. Looking at it is kind of giving me a headache. It may be highly detailed, but it looks like it had been drawn by a madman. She shook her head, her cute bunny ears flopping about. I cannot actually make sense of it.

Snek snatched up the drawing and quickly put it away. “Actually, forget you saw that one.”

I guess that is another thing to add to the suspicious column for her. Bliss rubbed her eyes, the headache brought on by the suspicious drawing already fading.

“Anyway,” Snek continued, pointing to yet another drawing, “there is a dungeon through that door I mentioned earlier.” The paper she was currently referencing contained various badly drawn monsters. “A great treasure waits in the dungeon. We will head in to get it.” She pointed to a specific badly drawn monster. “There is a guardian we will need to get by though.” She shifted her gaze between Bliss and Lati, clasping her hands together cutely. “Any questions?”

So a dungeon mission. Makes sense for a fantasy world, I guess. Bliss shifted her golden eyes to the collection of badly drawn monsters, a sweatdrop forming on her temple as her bunny ears twitched yet again. I really can’t make any sense of Snek’s drawings though. Well, a monster is a monster, I guess. The bunny succubus sighed. “I’m good. What about you, Lati?”

Lati’s crimson eyes went to the assortment of bad drawings, and she sweatdropped. Not able to make any more sense of the drawings than Bliss had, the snake woman leaned back in her seat and sighed before looking to Snek. “We are getting our cut of this treasure, right?” Her tongue flitted out.

“Cut?” Snek turned to Lati and tilted her head.

Seriously, who wouldn’t call this woman suspicious at this point? Bliss sighed, her bunny ears and wings dropping. The bunny succubus glanced to Lati. Lati, for her part, narrowed her red eyes, looking quite a bit unhappy at the answer she got from Snek. Lati looks pretty mad. I don’t actually know the details of the deal we have with them, but I guess Lati does.

“Forty to sixty split of this treasure!” Lati spat, rising to her feet, fiery anger burning in her crimson eyes. She crossed her arms and thrust out her very impressive bust. “We get forty percent as per the agreement! Did you forget, or are you trying to play us for fools?!” She leaned closer to Snek, fire still burning in her eyes.

“Oh. That cut.” Snek shrunk back, seemingly taken aback by the irate snake woman. “Y-You will get your cut. Don’t worry about it.” Snek stumbled back before recomposing herself. “Yes. You two will definitely get your cut.”

Lati glared at the black- and gray-clad jester before finally lowering her arms and smiling. “That is good.” She sat her big butt back down on the seat of her chair. “Do not forget. Our cut is forty percent as was previously agreed.”

“Yes. Yes. I won’t forget.” Snek spoke with confidence, glancing to Bliss and then back to Lati. “I most definitely won’t forget.” She joyously clasped her hands together, her eyes flashing red. “Should we head to the door now?”

Bliss looked to Lati, who gave her a cute, little nod in return. Well, I guess we should get this over with. The bunny succubus got up from her chair and turned to Snek. “Sure. Let’s go.”

“Good. Good.” Snek swayed from side to side in an overly exaggerated manner, her hands clasped together. “This way. This way.” She bounded over to the exit beside the grandfather-clock. For a brief moment, she stood there, swaying from side to side. Oddly enough, her sways were in sync with the grandfather-clock’s pendulum. She stopped swaying soon enough though and gestured to the passage beside the clock. “Right this way.”