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[Reimu :: Road to Shrine -> Hakurei Shrine]

"Not exactly." Of course this wolf wouldn't know what Spell Cards are. "It's a dueling system. I can teach you if you want, but right now, food takes a priority."

It takes normal humans a good full day of traveling to reach the Hakurei Shrine, but Reimu and Chiyo both were capable of making much better speed. Before too long, they arrived at the torii, not moments after Kyouko dragged Sukina off. The shrine looked small and just a little run down, fitting for a shrine maintained by a single, somewhat lazy, maiden with minimal funds. Reimu, however, didn't seem to mind it's appearance.

She gestured widely. "This," she said, "is the Hakurei Shrine. I live here. You can rest here for a while, I guess. We have food, too." Her affected disinterest was slipping, just a little. She still was speaking in a sort of bored seeming voice, but had stopped her scolding completely. She'd been answering Chiyo's questions the whole way to the Shrine, and honestly was begin to warm to the wolf.

Reimu reflected a bit on what Misae would think of her deliberately bringing a youkai back to the Shrine so soon after her lecture. She sighed a little, but somehow couldn't bring herself to be mean to such a helpless seeming girl.

[Sakuya || Hakurei Shrine -> Scarlet Devil Mansion]

Sakuya frowned as she watched Kyouko take off without a second thought of anything else. How was the girl so scattered-brained? She knew she could easily overtake Kyouko and beat her to Remilia-Sama but at that exact moment was when Reimu entered... being followed by a wolf youkai.

"What timing Reimu, you returned just as Marisa's scatterbrained girl made off for Remilia-Sama.," Sakuya was a bit annoyed that she was going to have to deal with Kyouko twice in one day but instead, she almost smirked, since Reimu was around, obviously Kyouko was wrong about everything... as per usual. "She was ranting about all the humans being kidnapped, if you see Marisa... tell her to tell Kyouko to stop bothering my mistress please."

With that, her eyes flickered over to the wolf that accompanied Reimu in a brief acknowledgement before announcing her leave... murmuring something about saving her mistress from certain inflicted insanity from a certain someone. She disappeared down the stairs and once she was out of sight, time froze and she traveled towards the Scarlet Devil Mansion... intent on stopping Kyouko. She made relatively good time, chuckling to herself at the pun and went to place the fish in an ice box for dinner.

[Reimu :: Hakurei Shrine]

Reimu introduced herself: "I'm Hakurei Reimu." She didn't ask Chiyo's name. If the wolf felt like introducing herself, fine. Otherwise, Reimu was alright with continuing to not address her by name. "Pity Sakuya didn't stick around. We could've got her to make us some food! I wonder what that was about Kyouko, though." Reimu briefly considered pursuing the matter before deciding that whatever the crazy oni girl was up to, it was adamantly not her problem.

Reimu led her companion up to the shrine, and went to the kitchen area, putting on rice and getting out a large stewpot. She tossed a set of keys to Chiyo: "Here, could you head to the store room behind the shrine and get some stuff to cook with? There are some skinned rabbits and leeks we can make stew with. Get some sake, too. We might as well make this a proper flower viewing."

Reimu never went to get her own supplies when there was someone else there to do the work for her.

[Kyouko :: Forest of Magic]

As Kyouko cruised through the forest at top speed, with Sukina on her back, she listened to the Youkai girl's question. "Because if this many humans disappeared, it would upset the balance in Gensokyo, and I'd have no other humans to be friends with! We have to save them! Plus, this is an incident, and without Reimu here, someone else has to solve it, so it might as well be us! And the more people working on it the better right?" It would still be a while before they got to the Misty Lake, and then they'd have to get over the water to get to the mansion.

[Remilia Scarlet :: Scarlet Devil Mansion :: Magic Library Voile]

Remilia was in Patchouli's library, dwarfed behind a pile of books that she was really only sort of reading. Open on her lap was a marine encyclopedia, with many informative and beautifully illustrated entries describing sea life and naval technology. Indeed, if one were to examine the books piled all around the little girl vampire whose feet did not quite reach the floor from the stool she was sitting on, one might observe the common theme between them: they all dealt, even if only tangentially, with the sea.

Why was the Invincible Scarlet Devil so engrossed? Well, in just the last hour or so, she had decided to become suddenly obsessed with underwater travel. She would go on an undersea trip - that was simply the end of it. The fact that there aren't actually any oceans in Gensokyo was a mere setback, one that would be overcome. Somehow.

Unfortunately, Sakuya was out doing errands, so Remilia couldn't bug her to go find materials for constructing a submarine. She was taking an uncharacteristically long time, too.

[Kyouko :: Forest of Magic :: General -> Alice's house]

"Right?! We need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possib- OH HEY, ALICE'S HOUSE IS NEAR HERE." Kyouko suddenly shouted. "Maybe she knows something, or maybe she's seen Marisa and has a clue as to where the humans have gone!!" And with a sudden swerve, they were careening through the forest in a different direction than before. "Should be right up here in a minute..." Just then, they entered the small clearing where her house was, and Kyouko skidded to a stop. "AAAAAAAALLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIICE, YOU HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE?" She yelled. "ALSO, IS MARISA HERE? SHE'S NOT AT HOME OR AT THE SHRINE!! OH, AND REIMU SEEMS TO BE MISSING TOO!!"

[Sakuya || Scarlet Devil Mansion || Kitchen -> Library]

Sakuya moved lithely, placing the teapot on the stove and with her powers, effectively made blossom tea in mere seconds. Smiling slightly to herself, she set the pot on a tray followed by four small porcelain teacups. She was already behind schedule, concerning her errands. Stupid Kyouko. Luckily the oni had not reached the mansion or else Remilia-Sama would also be bothered. Sakuya sighed and figured she would be better off serving her lady first and if she asked questions, she would answer them. Knowing her mistress... she would probably... be in the library, so that was where Sakuya would check first.

She stopping time, Sakuya walked through the great length of the hallway all the while ensuring that the tea was still hot. It was much easier when one could control time to ensure small things such as the temperature to tea, but to Sakuya, such trivial things mattered immensely.

And of course, the chief maid was right. She quietly walked up to the little side table and deftly poured a cup of steaming tea, its fragrance soon filled the room. "I'm sorry I was gone longer than usual. Would you like some tea Remilia-Sama?"