>"Goodnight."
>Promptly collapse in an appropriate place.
> "Please do. I will see you in the morning."
> We have a lot on our plate for the next while, don't we? We should see if we can get an audience with Eiki and find out if she has any idea why what happened happened, and we should also probably have Iku send a message to the Dragon for other ideas. There's keeping an eye out throughout the cosmos for that last missing piece of music. There's returning to the Renko issue. Gotta check up on Mary tomorrow morning, too, while we're thinking about them, as well as helping Mary obtain a ring if she reminds us about what we said (though it'd be better to pursue an existing one than use Materia Prima if we can avoid doing so). Would be nice to figure out why those fake memories keep popping up, though it could be amusing to keep them, as long as they don't interfere with life. And then there's the mahjong tournament, of course.
> But all of that can wait. Adult responsibility time is later, sleep time is now. Go to bed, girlie, you've earned it.
>Bothering Keine should be on that list too, right? Since she's the one who cleaned up the Gensokyo Isle incident whose memories came back?
>But yes. Sleep. Glorious, glorious sleep. Is all that matters. The rest is all just busywork in comparison.
>With things tended to, you drop off into a well-deserved rest. Sleeping well into the next day, you are slow to rise and tend to the variety of problems the world has left you. First of all, you go to have a chat with the authorities at Higan. This is something of a difficult process; you are not very welcome at all there. But, Komachi is kind enough to pass along your request for an audience without giving you any trouble, a rare and welcome trait for someone involved with the Celestial Bureaucracy. Sadly, the Yama herself has little to add; lost memories are not her domain, nor are gods that have passed away; save for the living variety that Sanae claims to be. She is about as befuddled with the events that have happened as anyone is, and seems to be willing to chalk it up to Gensokyo being a new and unplanned region. Finding her less than helpful, you don't feel particularly rude for leaving when she begins to lecture you.
>Finding Iku is slightly difficult, but she is more than happy to carry a message for you. You suppose she must still be grateful for your assistance with her little poltergeist problem.
>From there, you follow Yuyuko's advice, and have a discussion with Keine. She is about as clueless with regards to the incident as anyone else, but as you describe it to her, she grows visibly uncomfortable. With some prodding, she confesses she may be partly to blame, When she took it upon herself to restore Gensokyo after the Moriyas' tampering with it, she had to make a lot of decisions very quickly, while dealing with the tools that she had. She did what she could to restore time to its proper place, but quietly admits that some small things were not able to quite fit back like they should have, but she did what she could to make things fit smoothly. With regards to the things that were lost, she doesn't know what happened to them, but she will admit that it may have been her fault that they ended up as they did, particularly the lost memories. While you can't say she is truly to blame, it isn't as if she caused the original problem, you are rather vexed by this if only because it puts the possible cause largely out of your own hands.
>From there, it is time to investigate the border, particularly with an eye on the anomaly you noticed yesterday, and you are not pleased with what you discover. The best way to describe it is a small flaw in the foundation of Gensokyo's borders, a tiny fracture that's particularly easy to overlook. You can tell it's been there a little while and has been subtly widening, to the point you might well have even noted it without this incident to prompt you. However, what makes it particularly noteworthy is that it has definitely taken some recent damage, which seems to physically correspond to Mayohiga. You believe you have found its point of entry. If nothing else, the early damage is enough that dimensionless things like loose memories could easy slip through if they happened to drift around it, and being at such a "low" point, you imagine they would end up here, and you wonder if there have been any recent amnesia cases that fell through this and ended up a part of the entity as well. Regardless, this is enough to leave you rather irritated with the world in general and takes priority.
>It takes an annoyingly long time for the crack to be fixed to your satisfaction, forcing you to set most other matters aside. Thankfully, it is not necessary for you do anything overt like physically isolate anything, which would draw an undesirable amount of attention, which allows you to work on it quietly. As much as it annoys you to admit it, you suppose it wasn't bad work for someone who didn't know what they were doing and just trying to follow a blueprint, so to speak. Still, you have to all but rip out the region and rebuild it from the ground up by hand, which is slow and terribly irksome work. If nothing else, at least Ran focuses on cooking your favorites during this time.
>Eventually, though, you finally get the thing repaired to your satisfaction and actually have some decent amount of time to yourself again. You quickly find that that Maribel and Renko wasted little time with their wedding arrangements. Seeking out Maribel, you find her in the middle of a small quest to make the perfect wedding ring, gathering up elements from all over Gensokyo to go into it. This, unfortunately, has not dissuaded her from asking for the piece of materia prima that you asked for, but you are eventually able to turn her fro the idea by pointing out in a couple hundred years after she and Renko has passed away, wars would be fought over the possession of a piece of spent materia prima, just in hopes of deriving something useful from it. To make up for it, you help her gather a few more exotic ingredients, such as a small emerald from Makai and golden decoration from Higan that you're sure no one will miss once it's melted down.
>As for Renko, it seems the recent news has done a lot for her insecurities; frankly you don't recall the last time she's been so friendly. It might help that you are treating her to lunch and have nothing but congratulations for the two of them. Still, you suspect this issue is effective buried; she seems genuinely surprised that you didn't try anything untoward. You decide to allow them a little time before resuming usual activities, regardless.
>As well, you are able to meet with Iku again, who confirms your message has been carried, and replies that The Dragon had wondered where you had vanished to; which is curious, you wouldn't have thought that it would be unable to find something it is actively looking for. You had suspected there were limits to its reach...
>The wedding itself is an interesting affair. Unlike most people, they seem to feel the need to get married twice, which you suppose is popular in the outside world these days. Realistically, you think they just couldn't decide whether they wanted to exclude the Moriya Shrine or the Hakurei Shrine. Regardless you decide there's no point in complaining about two celebrations, though you wonder what kind of favors each of them had to pull to get it. The celebrations at the Moriya Shrine take on a decidedly foreign flavor, both of them in elaborate white dresses and involving many customs you aren't particularly used to. Sanae seems to have a blast presiding over it, though you can tell Kanako isn't particularly pleased with the non-traditional theme. The ceremony was supposed to simply involve friends, but the two of them turn out to have a lot of friends. Later, the second ceremony at the Hakurei Shrine is a lot more familiar and traditional, and not particularly noteworthy until the party that follow is swarmed by faeries. You do take the opportunity to have a discrete chat with Utsuho and Parsee during this time, as the only two people who can truly remember Gensokyo Island, and find they have nothing useful to suggest. You are careful not to suggest too much, but you can tell that Parsee is quite suspicious that it has come up at all; this isn't particularly surprising.
>With regards to yourself, the memories continue to come and sometimes intrude upon your dreams. Ultimately, you decide they are harmless and form an interesting piece of speculative fiction. As well, it is a bit strange to consider yourself having ever been a child, or caring enough about a political situation to personally organize and intervene around it. Or working for a government in any capacity! As near as you can tell, if anyone else is recalling anything, they are not mentioning it. You suppose, like the music, they were lost. Perhaps they'll pop up again at some point if they weren't completely broken up in the cosmic background. As well, there is still the materia prima to consider. With some work, you could use it to greatly stabilize Gensokyo's borders, or perhaps quietly expand it out...
>With all that aside, there is still a tournament to plan!
>You have gotten a
Happy End!>Original Inspiration: TranceHime
>Programming, Music, Typos, Database Errors: Purvis Hobotech
>Title Art: Past Himiko
>Ending Art: Current Himiko
>Supper Player: You!
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