>Before going inside: "Rin already knows that I have been chosen to fight. And my friends know that something is going on, although I haven't yet told them what. It's too late to keep this a secret from Rin, although I could probably still hide it from the others. But I choose not to. I cannot win this fight alone. If I am to be victorious, I will need their help. I can keep this a secret from the general public, but I will need my friends to know, as I already know that I can't do this without them. And if the enemy does try to use them against me, the enemy will fail. If my friends are attacked, I will protect them. If they are corrupted, I will purify them. But I will not leave them in the dark. Even if I didn't need their help, I owe them that much. So thank you for the warning, but I intend to tell them everything."
>The expression on the doll's face never changes, neither does it's tone of voice. "That is, ultimately, your decision. But you're only making your task harder on yourself, and placing a burden upon them that they're not prepared to bear. Consider, you're prepared to tell your friends that the only hope your world has against a greater threat than it has ever known, a force born from a nightmare darker than the darkest dream of any mortal... is a teenaged human girl. What you've seen here today was but a taste of the trials to come, you know that. Sharing that knowledge with them means that they share that fear, that worry, that they would sleep every night wondering, 'Is this my last night?' 'What if she fails?' 'There's nothing I can do to help her.' You may not be alone in your heart, Lotus, but you are alone in this fight."
>"Also, you said this ring I purified might me useful. Could someone else gain power from it the way I did with the ring you gave me?"
>The doll does not answer that question for a couple of seconds. "It could be useful to our enemies, not to us. In the hands of terrans, even yourself, it's just a plain gold ring. It has no properties or signifigance beyond whatever meaning it has in your society. But if
she got it back, she could turn it into a youma again, and would do a better job of it this time around, now that she knows she has to work for her energy. I'm a bit surprised she found an item with Potential so soon, but I suppose we should be glad she did. That's why it was so easily beaten."
>Go look inside, after grabbing that ring.
>Securing the ring, you move to explore the shed. It is indeed an equipment shed for the sports teams, and a bit of a mess, at that. Nets, tennis rackets, basketballs, baseballs, there's something for every sport played at Mayoiga in here, and it appears to have been basically chucked in here willy nilly. Lying atop a small stack of wrestling mats is a naked woman with long blonde hair and feathery white wings. This would be Kyouko's girlfriend Lily White, and the fact that she's wholly unclad, her clothes strewn about the place, gives mute testament to what she and her girlfriend were up to before being interrupted by the ring-turned-Youma. Visual inspection tells you that she's in about the same shape Kyouko's in.
>Of the 'other one' the doll mentioned, you see nothing inside the shed.
