Luckily for Tanyuu, if there's one thing Childermass — a now very shark-like Childermass — excels at, it's ruining someone else's day. If that someone else happens to be a pretty mermaid, so be it. The gesture for help is enough to get him to change whatever course he'd been on before and lazily swim around in a wide circle to intercept the two.

He comes to a stop directly in the mermaid's path, so abrupt about it that there's a near collision. It's not something he'll apologize for, either. Instead, he's looking down at them both with the most bored expression he can muster. The 'maid earns herself only one glance before he dismisses her and turns to Tanyuu alone.

"As reluctant as I am to ruin your fun," he begins without an ounce of sincerity about doing just that, "the Ringmaster has been looking for you. It would seem there's been a wardrobe malfunction."