Hikikomori Quest - Remaking my Life: Part 3

[Monarda]

Niji:

>Nod and follow !

[Tashi]

Niji:

>Nod and follow !

> Everyone follows Mokou.
> It's not the big deal. It's just a small japanese house.
> "So, are you-" Mokou let's herself falls in a large pillow in the floor. "-some kind of special being? Like a spirit or so? Having multiple souls in one body must be exhaustive." Mokou says while looking to the ceiling.
> "Let me bring some tea." Keine goes to another room.
> _

[Monarda]

>"We dunno... Daiko-kun is a Half-Human and Half-Yuki-onna hybrid, Kiku-chan and Bastet-chan are Neko Youkai, and i am a fairy, we are really different but seem to all have connections in a way."
>Sit down somewhere.
>"And none of us that live in Daiko-kun's body have  much memory of our past lifes, i just know that i had a best friend that wasn't a fairy..."

[Neovereign]

>"Lemme bring the genius himself."
>Swap to Daiko.

[Tashi]

>"We dunno... Daiko-kun is a Half-Human and Half-Yuki-onna hybrid, Kiku-chan and Bastet-chan are Neko Youkai, and i am a fairy, we are really different but seem to all have connections in a way."
>Sit down somewhere.
>"And none of us that live in Daiko-kun's body have  much memory of our past lifes, i just know that i had a best friend that wasn't a fairy..."

> You sit in a pillow, the others doing the same in other pillows. You are in front of a table.
> Clownpiece start to inspect the house with her look.
> "Connections in what way? I can't see the relation between cats, a half human and a fairy." The fire girl looks at you. "And even then, probably that relation would be more complex than it already is."
> Keine returns with a plate and several cups in it. She puts it in the table in front of everybody.

>"Lemme bring the genius himself."
>Swap to Daiko.

> You swap with Daiko.
> "Huh..." Mokou says, returning her look to the ceiling. "It's a really interesting ability... You have more surprises or what?"
> _

[Monarda]

>"Um... i do in fact... i can foresee the future and stuff, but please don't spread that."

[Tashi]

>"Um... i do in fact... i can foresee the future and stuff, but please don't spread that."

> "Foresee the future? Gods, you surely are a surprise box." Mokou laughs, sitting up and taking a cup of tea. "Thanks for the tea, Keine." Mokou drinks it... in one sip.
> Keine giggles and sits down in a pillow.
> Mokou puts the empty cup in the plate.
> "Anyway... if you only want to, of course, but can you tell us why you were so mad a few minutes ago?" Sakura asks.
> "..." The fire girl sighs. "I'm immortal, if you don't know that."
> _

[Monarda]

>"Immortal ?! Wow... that's quite the surprise."
>Ponder.
>"But... it's a very big double-edged blade too..."

[Neovereign]

>"Living forever..."

[Tashi]

>"Immortal ?! Wow... that's quite the surprise."
>Ponder.

> "Uh-huh. It's immortal like daddy." Kokoro adds.
> For the very first time, excluding any fairies, you finally met a immortal being. It's quite impressive... but how one can achieve immortality? What kind of hard and impossible tasks are needed to achieve that level of power? That kind of things sound like a tale... but you are in front of, as it seems, a carefree immortal.

>"But... it's a very big double-edged blade too..."

>"Living forever..."

> "Yea, you catched it very fast. Maybe I can't die, but that implies I have to see the people I care about die in front of my eyes, and a bunch more of things that I don't want to mention because I'm not in the mood." Mokou says, resting her chin in the palm of her left hand, her elbow resting in the table.
> "Why is that?" Sakura asks.
> "Kaguya Houraisan... she... ... rejected me..." Mokou says.
> _

[Neovereign]

>Look confused, then look sympathetic.
>"Kaguya?"

[Tashi]

>Look confused, then look sympathetic.
>"Kaguya?"

> "Yes, the princess of Eientei. It's a mansion that it's in the bamboo forest." Mokou adds.
> _

[Neovereign]

>"A princess. I see..."
>Blink a bit.
>"Oh!"
>Mind: "Wait, t-they're both girls then!"

[Tashi]

>"A princess. I see..."
>Blink a bit.
>"Oh!"
>Mind: "Wait, t-they're both girls then!"

> "Hm? Something wrong?" Mokou asks.
> Sakura it's silent, apparently thinking.
> Kokoro it's just looking around, the same for Clownpiece.
> Keine sips a bit of her tea.
> _

[Monarda]

>"Ehm, uh.... nevermind..."
>Take a sip too.

[Neovereign]

>Do we even have any?

[Tashi]

>"Ehm, uh.... nevermind..."
>Take a sip too.

> "..." Mokou sighs again, looking away. "Now I feel I have no purpose in life."
> "Don't say that, Mokou..." Keine reassures.
> "But it's true! The only thing I focused in all of this years was to aim for that princess and keep killing her!" Mokou says.

>Do we even have any?

> Keine left a plate with cups of tea in the table. It seems you grabbed one.
> _

[Monarda]

>"Um... why keep killing her ?"

[Neovereign]

>"Is she immortal too?"

[Tashi]

>"Um... why keep killing her ?"

>"Is she immortal too?"

> "She is. We killed each other for so many years... I have my reasons... but now... she just rejected our battles..."
> "... O-Oh... by "rejected", I thought you were talking about other thing..." Sakura says.
> _

[Neovereign]

>"O-Oh! I thought so too... Um, now that it's come up, me and the others in me have been thinking about our body. Like, if one of us gets hurt, what will happen when we switch? Any clothes we have on switch appropriately, underwear, scarves, whatever. But actual pain or scars, we haven't found out yet..."

[Tashi]

>"O-Oh! I thought so too... Um, now that it's come up, me and the others in me have been thinking about our body. Like, if one of us gets hurt, what will happen when we switch? Any clothes we have on switch appropriately, underwear, scarves, whatever. But actual pain or scars, we haven't found out yet..."

> "Then sorry in advance for this." Mokou manifest a tiny fire ball in her right hand.
> "M-Mokou? What are you-"
> Keine it's interrupted when Mokou throws the fire ball at you.
> _

[Neovereign]

>Ball? Catch it!
>Brace for it to hit and block it with our arms.

[Tashi]

>Ball? Catch it!
>Brace for it to hit and block it with our arms.

> You catch it succesfully. Your hand it's burning, but who cares? You become the best ball catcher of Gensokyo in no time... Wait... That's something to be proud of?
> You cover your face with your arms. The fire hits you, and maybe it was a tiny fire ball, but it burns so bad. The sleeves of your kimono are burned up near the forearm.
> "There you go. Now switch. And sorry again." Mokou says.
> "That was mean..." Kokoro says.
> "I already said sorry."
> _

[Neovereign]

>"I-It's alright. That hurt a bit though, and our outfits..."
>Swap to Kiku-chan.
>Check it.

[Tashi]

>"I-It's alright. That hurt a bit though, and our outfits..."
>Swap to Kiku-chan.
>Check it.

> You swap with Kiku. After this, you check the burn.
> It's there, and it is the pain as well. Your kimono have the same burn too.
> "You may be different souls, but you still share one body." Mokou explains. "When my body it's obliterated, I re-appear seconds later with no wounds. Of course, being immortal doesn't mean I don't feel pain, and that's actually the only way to defeat an immortal in battle: make him unable to endure more pain." She sighs.
> _

[Neovereign]

>"...Fairies come back to life after they die, right? What happens to us if Niji is killed? Or if we die? Will Niji be the only one to come back?"
>Reswap to Daiko.
>"That seems scary to think about too..."

[Tashi]

>"...Fairies come back to life after they die, right? What happens to us if Niji is killed? Or if we die? Will Niji be the only one to come back?"
>Reswap to Daiko.
>"That seems scary to think about too..."

> You swap with Daiko.
> "Fairies are symbols of the nature." Keine says. "I can't ensure this, as is only speculation, but I think if Niji dies, she would only respawn with another body, retaining the souls."
> "And as I can see by how your body and clothes changed when the cat girl appeared, I speculate that your souls have their own "things"." Mokou adds.
> "Hey, she's right... If they are just souls that never were out until now, your body doesn't need to change at all in the first place! Because they never have been in the real world!" Sakura points out.
> "Yes. They can swap and the soul of the current host makes the body change... Makes you wonder if they really never have been here in the real world in the past..." Keine says.
> "Huh... If any of you dies, Niji it's the one that can "survive", because she would only respawn with another body. While you three, not having any resurrection attribute, will die." Clownpiece says.
> "But if Niji dies and she respawns with another body, albeit retaining the souls... doesn't that mean the original body of Daiko will disappear?" Kokoro asks.
> "Most likely." Keine says. "Maybe you will be still able to swap, but you may never have the original body back..."
> _

[Neovereign]

>"If such a thing happens but we're at least all still alive and we can experience the outside, that's enough for me... If possible though, I'd like to avoid something like that ever needing to happen..."
>Sigh.
>"Huh..."
>Think for a bit.
>"First, Kiku-chan's box appeared a while after I met Kokoro for the first time... Then, Bastet's key and box appeared when we were near the Hakurei Shrine, talking about things that were pretty happy. Now, a feeling that lead to Niji's box appearing happened right when Kokoro and I were... um... Anyways, it was another happy moment for me, just like the other two."
>Turn to Kokoro.
>"I think their appearances might have something to do with us, or, at least me being happy. I don't think it's the latter though, because nothing seemed to happen when I finally got to apologize to Keine...

[Tashi]

>"If such a thing happens but we're at least all still alive and we can experience the outside, that's enough for me... If possible though, I'd like to avoid something like that ever needing to happen..."
>Sigh.
>"Huh..."
>Think for a bit.
>"First, Kiku-chan's box appeared a while after I met Kokoro for the first time... Then, Bastet's key and box appeared when we were near the Hakurei Shrine, talking about things that were pretty happy. Now, a feeling that lead to Niji's box appearing happened right when Kokoro and I were... um... Anyways, it was another happy moment for me, just like the other two."
>Turn to Kokoro.
>"I think their appearances might have something to do with us, or, at least me being happy. I don't think it's the latter though, because nothing seemed to happen when I finally got to apologize to Keine...

> "Uuuh...?" Kokoro expresses.
> "Huh, that sounds like a possibility." Mokou says.
> "... I wonder if daddy know about this..." Kokoro says.
> _