Hatate Quest Kolme

[Hello Purvis]

>"Either way, once we find our way back, I'd like you to come along. If I'm right, well, it ought to make you real enough. And if I'm wrong, I'll need you to stay around once I leave."

[Oldmansour]

>"Either way, once we find our way back, I'd like you to come along. If I'm right, well, it ought to make you real enough. And if I'm wrong, I'll need you to stay around once I leave."

>"Making plans to leave already?" your counterpart says with a faint smirk. "Really aren't fond of how things are up here, are ya."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Got to report what happened to Aya back home, still. And beat her to the punch on the Night of Rage story!"

[Oldmansour]

>"Got to report what happened to Aya back home, still. And beat her to the punch on the Night of Rage story!"

>Your twin laughs a warm laugh. "Ahhh, that takes me back. But you said yours had gone missing, right? Did you find out what happened to her before you got pulled here?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"No. But with your Aya getting a twin, and your Ran, well...you can see what I'm thinking. I'm going to try to find the Rans soonish, and see if either of them feel right to me."

[Oldmansour]

>"No. But with your Aya getting a twin, and your Ran, well...you can see what I'm thinking. I'm going to try to find the Rans soonish, and see if either of them feel right to me."

>"Keine's."

[Hello Purvis]

>"What's that?"

[Oldmansour]

>"What's that?"

>"She's staying at Keine's for the next couple days."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Which one?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Which one?"

>Your twin shrugs. "We kinda think of them as the same woman."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Heh, let's see 'em try to make that mistake with us. So, can I count on you to tag along?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Heh, let's see 'em try to make that mistake with us. So, can I count on you to tag along?"

>"What, now?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well, not right this second, but soon. I wanna give Momiji and Celes some time to do what they need to do, but after that, this is exactly where I want to go."

[Oldmansour]

>"Well, not right this second, but soon. I wanna give Momiji and Celes some time to do what they need to do, but after that, this is exactly where I want to go."

>"I'd like to have a talk to those two myself. Uh, well...." she pauses. "Momiji anyway. Look, I get that this human's a pal of yours, but I... Well, any Keep that's colored Cobalt gives me the willies."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Reimu will probably get mad at me for saying this, but we're probably gonna have to mess with it."
>"Speaking of Reimu, that reminds me of another I wanted to ask. What's the deal with Marisa and Alice?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Reimu will probably get mad at me for saying this, but we're probably gonna have to mess with it."
>"Speaking of Reimu, that reminds me of another I wanted to ask. What's the deal with Marisa and Alice?"

>"Oh no you won't." Your counterpart says rather firmly. "Only the maniac-al or the suicidal mess with that place, and no Hatate I know is going to be either one of those, not if I have anything to say about it."
>At that, she grins. "What, they're not hitched where you come from?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Nope. But they have been gone for about a month and we found the book at Marisa's house, so you can probably see what I'm hinting at."

[Oldmansour]

>"Nope. But they have been gone for about a month and we found the book at Marisa's house, so you can probably see what I'm hinting at."

>"Point of order, those two don't have twins here." She chuckles around a quick drink. "Well, not YET. Give 'em another couple months, you never know."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yeah, that's where it gets weird. I don't think they have twins. I think they might have replaced the ones here. Marisa is what's making me wonder., because it's like her memory is kinda...gone, you know? She doesn't recall things until someone else does, then it comes back to her. And, well, she's kind of tumbled into her own little slice of heaven, so to speak."

[Oldmansour]

>"Yeah, that's where it gets weird. I don't think they have twins. I think they might have replaced the ones here. Marisa is what's making me wonder., because it's like her memory is kinda...gone, you know? She doesn't recall things until someone else does, then it comes back to her. And, well, she's kind of tumbled into her own little slice of heaven, so to speak."

>"I'd say that's true for Alice, too. Her finally landing Marisa's like a dream come true for her, so she says."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Ha! Knew it! So, anything weird about them you've heard about?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Ha! Knew it! So, anything weird about them you've heard about?"

>'Them' as a pair, or 'them' as individuals?

[Hello Purvis]

>"Both."

[Oldmansour]

>"Both."

>Hatatwin pauses for a moment, then drops her voice an octave to say, "Just between you and me?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Won't say a word. Unless it's really important."

[Oldmansour]

>"Won't say a word. Unless it's really important."

>"All right, follow me on this. Marisa and Alice are really in love. Like, really, a LOT, in love. And they've been married for years now, and they've..... Um, how can I put this delicately? They've been a LOT in love all that time. You read me?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"You're saying they've never cooled down like people usually do, right?"

[Oldmansour]

>"You're saying they've never cooled down like people usually do, right?"

>"In the most diplomatic way I can." your counterpart says with a broad grin. Then she sobers. "Thing is, in all that time, they've only ever had the one kid. I've wondered about that for a long time now. I've never asked, of course. I'm a journalist, but I know when things aren't my business. But I've always sorta wondered...."

[Hello Purvis]

>"I'd figure they know what they're doing. And, just how many people on the side does Marisa have, anyways?"

[Oldmansour]

>"I'd figure they know what they're doing. And, just how many people on the side does Marisa have, anyways?"

>"Trust me, sister, if you'd been around those two any length of time, you'd be wonderin' yourself."
>"On the SIDE? Uh.... Well, no one, not that I can think of off the top of my head. Unless you want to count Reisen, but that was only one time, Youmu was involved, and it was all Yuyuko's fault. And Ranka, but, well, you've met her, you know what she's like."