>Fold ears slightly down in anticipation of her yelling, return them to normal after.
>Then let us regale our young, cute youkai friend with our epic tale of finding a missing permit.
>You brace yourself for Kyouko's enthusiastic reply, but find yourself growing stragely accustomed to her volume already. Then you accompany the junior shrine maiden as she returns to her duties, and make good on your promise to explain the story of the missing export permit.
>This tale is less entertaining than your last, unfortunately, at least by your own estimation. It has a less satisfying conclusion - you never did find out who was responsible - a comparative paucity of humerous episodes, and a complete lack of anything that can be spun into an epic battle. Nonetheless you do your best to make it more engaging than a plain recounting of the bare facts, and Kyouko is frankly a very easy audience. The degree of sympathy she emotes on behalf of spoiling fruit is almost comically disproportionate to their status as food, but at least she seems satisfied that the stakes are important; it helps you in skirting around the issue of
why it was so urgent you leave Braston immediately, as opposed to waiting a few days for the ferry. The interlude with Chisato's pet mouse ends up a particular favorite of hers and you are forced to deploy your poker face again at Kyouko's saccharine intimations about your own take on the issue. And she's probably wrong, in any case.
>"I wonder why somebody would do that..." she comments as you finish up with the Maiden's newly signed certificate and nighttime departure. "It seems like a lot of work to keep them all from leaving with some fruit."
