Ijemaru turned to Eurich and offered a smile as the princess occupied herself with her makeup. "It would seem my duties here are done, for the moment," he said. The middle Hisuka pulled a slip of paper from his pocket, "Now, I have some brutes that need to be punished." He slipped the paper back into his pocket and offered a slight bow before turning to leave.<br/><br/>The way he saw it, only the ones who gave the orders to try for the princess needed to be eliminated. Typically that would be the head, so those were the people who would be targeted. There was no sense in killing off the entire blood line, as frequently the other family members were kept out of the more dirty business. For instance, he hardly ever told Miku or Claudius what he was planning, and Amadeus was only ever told what was necessary to make him a convincing puppet. More often than not, once the brains behind the operation were dealt with the threat evaporated.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>"I'm back," Ijemaru called as he opened the door to their rooms. Miku immediately gave him an enthusiastic greeting to which he gave a small nod of acknowledgement. Looking around, Claudius appeared to still be locked away in his room, and their father was seemingly still down in the grand hall. He was probably still interacting with the other nobles, which was probably a good thing.<br/><br/>"Would you like to go do something?" Miku asked him hopefully. "There's still some time before daylight." Ijemaru was always working on something, and she wanted to be with him, if only for a little while.<br/><br/>"Sorry, no," he said, retreating to his room. "Unfortunately I have business to attend to." The puppet master began plotting how he wanted to bring down these four heads.<br/><br/>Miku frowned and her fingers began to make dents in the wood of the desk she'd been drawing at. "Kuso!" she swore under her breath in Japanese.<br/><br/>------------------------<br/><br/>Amadeus raised his eyebrows slightly at the noble woman who addressed him... Basically, he'd just been called "Mr. Amadeus" instead of "Mr. Hisuka" which would denote they were on a more personal basis. Well she obviously wasn't Japanese, so he took it that she was trying to be polite by addressing him with the honorifics of his native language, and let the lack of respect slide.<br/><br/>"Good evening, Lady Anna," he said with a slight bow. In Europe, at least, it was expected to use one's first name with such honorifics. It would have shown a lack of respect for him to have returned with using her first name and Japanese honorifics while this was only their second time speaking with each other, and while he knew better. "Yes, they seem to have wandered off somewhere," he said with a slight smile.<br/><br/>At her suggestion, Amadeus smiled, bowing and holding out a hand. "Why of course, my lady. It would be an honor."