I said i wanted to write even more so here's even more! Hope it is to everyone's liking. And as always, Enjoy!
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5.The Spring Festival
After having walked in the forest a couple of times, I was starting to know the way around here. It didn’t take long until I found my way out and before I knew it, I was on the road to the village. I walked past Kourindou again but I didn’t bother to go inside there this time, i kept one walking instead. It felt really good walking again and I was feeling good. The sun was shining, it was starting to get warm, a slight wind blowing from behind and flowers were beginning to blossom. At last, I arrived at the village and I went to Keine’s place. When I arrived, I knocked on the door and Keine opened. As soon as she saw me, re ran up to me and gave me a hug.
“Im glad to see that you are allright.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“Alice sent me a letter about what had happened.”
“Yeah, she told me that.”
“Well, come in. I suppose you have quite a story to tell.”
Keine smiled as she showed me inside. We both sat down at the same placed as the first time I arrived here.
“So, Alice wrote that you have some kind of power. Could you tell me what it is?”
“Okay. So, apparently I can manipulate the element of earth or something along those lines.”
“Do you know how to use it?”
“Somewhat, Alice gave me some training.”
“I see.”
“And just yesterday I were attacked by some idiot called Cirno.”
“Oh, the ice fairy. Was she tough?”
“Yeah, I suppose so since she almost killed me.”
“Well, go and take a look in your room.”
I got up and went into my ‘old room’ to see that three, perhaps four robes were lying there. All of them were exactly like the one I was wearing.
“I figured that the one I got for you before might get worn out.”
She was pointing at a few holes in my robe, caused by the fight with Cirno.
“Thank you Keine.”
“No problem. Just like I said before, it’s not every day that we get an outsider here.”
The day went on and all I did the rest of the day was to relax in my bed. I was surprisingly tired even though I hadn’t done anything that tiresome today. Anyways, the day became evening and Keine had prepared dinner.
“What’s the matter? Aren’t you hungry?”
I had barely eaten any of the food she had prepared.
“Im actually not that hungry.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“Keine, I have a question for you.”
“What?”
“You see, I have been slightly confused since my fight with Cirno and during that fight she pulled out what looked like a piece of paper from thin air. You wouldn’t happen to know what that was?”
“That was a Spell Card.”
“Huh?”
“You see, youkai and humans use them to perform ‘special’ attacks. It’s basically a bullet pattern stored on a piece of paper. However, most of them can only be used once in a fight.”
“Oh, so do people name their patterns? Since I recall Cirno screaming something as she used it.”
“Yeah, people do that. It makes them feel their patterns are a bit more unique.”
I slowly stood up and headed towards my room.
“It’s starting to get late, so I think that im going to go to sleep.”
“Good night then.”
“Good night Keine, see you tomorrow.”
After that I went to my bed and tried to sleep. After a few minutes I fell asleep and slowly started drifting off towards the land of dreams. Keine woke me up early the next day. She was rambling on about the Spring Festival and how great it would be. She told me to go out and just enjoy myself today. So I went outside and hoped that I could find the place where Alice was going to have her show.
As I was walking around I noticed that things looked quite differently than the day I first came here. Even though it was early, there were loads of people outside. People had set up stands where they sold food, clothes, various trinkets and other things. After walking around for a while I had made my way to a large scene where I saw a couple of familiar faces. Alice was standing right down by the scene talking to Marisa. I figured I would head over and say hi or something.
“Hey Alice and Marisa.”
“Hello there Iwachi, I see you got here safe and sound.”
“So you have a name? That could have been useful to know earlier, ze. Anyways, nice to see you.”
“Nice to see you too Marisa.”
“So, what brings you here Marisa?”
“I came to see Alice’s show and to see if someone here sells some mushrooms.”
“How’s it going with the show Alice?”
“Great. You know, the training wasn’t only for you. I took the opportunity to train myself some too, it’s hard to control something as large as Goliath.”
As we were talking, someone else approached us.
“Marisa! There you are.”
It was Reimu that had made her way here.
“Hey Reimu. How’s things going at the shrine, ze?”
“No donations as usual.”
She sighed but then she saw me and Alice.
“Hey Alice and you whatever your name is.”
“Hi Reimu.”
Reimu was now looking at me.
“Got any money yet?”
“No, not yet.”
“I suppose I can’t force you to make any money. But if you get some, please make a donation.”
“Yeah yeah, I will.”
Reimu was now looking at the two girls again.
“Anyways, looking forward to your show later Alice.”
“Speaking of my show, I think I have to go and make sure everything is ready. See you all later.”
With that said, Alice ran off towards the back of the scene.
“So what are you people going to do, ze?”
“Take a look around and look for people willing to donate some money for a good cause.”
“What about you Iwa?”
“Im just going to look around.”
“Well then, see ya all later.”
After that was said, the three of us split up and went in a different direction. As I were walking around I came across the same show where Keine had bought my clothes and I decided to sit down on the same bench as last time. I sat there for a while, just enjoying everything that was going on. But then someone caught my eye. It was a woman with silver hair, wearing a dark blue maid outfit. But it wasn’t that which had caught my eye but the fact that she was holding a pocket watch, which reminded me that my own watch wasn’t showing the correct time. So figured I would ask her what time it was.
