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She was making small talk with Marisa, who had apparently struggled too much to change from her normal outfit and had instead opted to wear a longer version of it. It seemed like it was sleeveless under the capelet that she wore, though she'd added elbow-length gloves in black. Her boots stood out in contrast to the rest of the outfit, as if she'd not been able to let go of that one bit. They were big and clunky, while the rest of the outfit seemed to try aiming for something sleeker. Her hat, too, but I'd never really expected her to get rid of that. Her hair, though…She’d cut it. It was short, shoulder length, and the brain was probably the lost part of it now.

Next to Marisa, staring at Mugenkan, was Tenshi, and she'd gone to great efforts for her outfit. My first thought was that it looked regal but also slightly militaristic. She wore a massive white coat, very similar to the kind that Murasa and I wore, but even more extravagant. In fact, it wasn’t quite a coat, in that it fit at her torso as if it was a suit, then blossomed outward as it was a coat lower down. It had plenty of decorative sections in black running across the shoulders and at the edges of the lapel. The coat ran down to a hem with more decorative black swirls almost at her ankles. While it was mostly white, the two sides at the front had some differences. Each side had a segment where the white was delicately cut off and replaced with strips in all the colours of the rainbow, much like Tenshi's usual dress had. The black swirling patterns that ran across the hem of the coat also ran up the sides in more curious swirls. She wore a pair of large, black gloves, which had decorations in gold and looked very impressive.

Around her waist, where the coat and the suit section met, she wore a blue belt with yet more golden patterns running through it. It hung slightly at an angle, connected by what looked like a silver sigil, with intricate patterns and shapes upon it. Underneath the coat was a black shirt with a large red bow, which was visible as the suit was only buttoned just slightly above the navel. She wore white trousers tightly, which tucked into her boots, calf-length and black, but with decorative gold like the gloves. The boots folded over at the top, revealing the interior to be blue, as was the inside of her coat. Her hair still came down in two large curls over her shoulders and cascaded down her back, shimmering like the ocean, and her hat was mostly the same, though a little bigger and a little more stylish. On her hip was the hilt of her flaming sword.

"Wow." Reimu muttered as we came in for a landing. "She really went all out. I wonder how she got hold of that." Maybe she pulled in a favour from Heaven, I supplied. "Ha! As if she has any favours there." Which...Well, it was certainly a good point. Dropping me much more gently than usual, I landed in the Garden of the Sun. Reimu landed beside me. "Alright, so...We're at the end, right? Here's the Shrine." She turned to indicate the small Shrine she had made. Nothing more than a raised plinth for Reimu to set two small bottles of sake, some shimanawa running around it, and some decoration in the middle. "Don't need much for a Shrine. Just a little decoration and a vessel for the gods. This'll do just as well as if we'd done this at my Shrine. I'll put the Yin-Yang Orb here, and we'll be good to go." I nodded, surprising myself at how calm I felt. "Well...I need Yamame here for anything else - And her sisters, since the ones who are coming to this bit are all with her. Oh, and her mother too. So...You might as well go and talk to people." I nodded, then stepped away while Reimu busied herself around her little Shrine.

The first to spot me was Tenshi. "Ah, lovely day for a wedding." She said cheerfully, spreading her arms. "Nice outfit. Very traditional. Impressive." I was more impressed with Tenshi's outfit, actually. "This thing? Yeah, it's quite...I was amazed that it fit so well." Something about that sounded...Off. "Well - Uh, don't tell anyone, but I might have stolen it." I stared at her with a deadpan expression. "Don't look at me like that! I stole it from my own family, and it's the sort of thing that I should be wearing to a big formal event." Frowning slightly, I thought for a moment and decided that it was very in character for her, actually. When had she gone and done that? "Er...You know how you found Marisa and I getting kicked out of Heaven?" I nodded slowly, feeling apprehensive of what she'd say next. "I didn't like any of the alternate outfits I'd come up with, so I just...Went back a few days later, after they'd finished their banquet, since it was far less busy then. Much easier that time." She smiled widely and extraordinarily smugly. "Maybe I'll return it later...If I feel like it." I hoped that she wouldn't be inviting a reprimand from Heaven any time soon.

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