>Wait til staring contest is over.
>Say hi to both Mokou and Keine
>Ask Keine if the situation has been resolved.
>You realize this contest is going to take awhile to resolve. Mokou's got all the time she needs, and oni don't like to lose anything without trying their damnedest. Thankfully, Keine sees you, waves, and walks over toward you. "Mokou's being silly and trying to get a two for one deal," she says.
>"I don't sense anything anymore. I think it vanished about an hour and a half ago. I don't know what happened, but I guess you did it. So thank you again, I'm really happy to have that dealt with."
>Make a horn joke
>You try to make a horn joke, but you got nothing.
>briefly wonder why we pawned off Youmu's sword when we could have easily just promised to make him another copy of a book we wrote ourselves.
>Attribute temporary stupidity to panicking.
>It's quite simple, really. Finders keepers, and like hell you're going to give away another one your works.
>wonder whether Sakuya and Remilia would kill you for performing the humidity spell without warning them first
>Well, Sakuya might frown a bit, but you can't imagine Remilia be too terribly upset at the improvement.
>Ponder the feasability of using the trumpet to somehow get Merlin to work with her sisters again
>Recall locations of Prismrivers
>You did ask Merlin to gather information for you in exchange for it. You don't think you could really expect her to do two things. And given she was willing to break up the band over ideological differences, you are not sure if threatening the trumpet would be enough.
>You left Lyrica at the Palace of the Earth Spirits, and sent Lunasa and Cirno that way some hours ago. You have no idea where Merlin is.
> We don't have access to a printing press. Rewriting the entire book would take forever, and would have Rinnosuke breathing over our shoulder, and that's something that needs to be avoided.
>Yeah, multiple copies are presently right out, as well.
>Though we could have tried to dry the book...even if it wouldn't have worked.
>You suspect he might not have been pleased with that anyways, the damage to it would have still been pretty bad.
>or maybe we could have been responsible thieves and, y'know, not taken what we didn't legitimately need to defeat a cosmic horror. But too late now.
>That too. Maybe you just thought it would have come in handy? You never know when something like that has a lunar-based weakness. Though you wonder if you could have even opened it with time being frozen as it was.
> Make a mental note to listen for any happenings in the next couple of days that may mean Jeff reincarnated.
>You make a note to keep an ear open for news of births or unknown troublemakers manifesting out of the aether.
>_
