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>>46326854
Lewd!!!!
Yams is too pure for that kind of degeneracy!!
At least try and take her out to dinner first!

"She is a bit easy to scare sometimes." Yamame finally said. "But she's really good at handling situations that are scary, as long as they aren't sudden scares." That explained why she'd managed to handle the mine so well, but had completely lost her wits at Kogasa and whatever that weird not-villager had been. "Alright, so...If my mother's planning to come here, you need to keep some things in mind." Was this going to be training? I wasn't sure I was up to that sort of thing right now. "No, it's just - Look, just keep this in mind. Don't back down on anything with her, because she'll get into your head really fast. And, though this one should go without saying, don't let your eyes...Um, wander. Trust me, she'll notice." Any other great tips? "Er...Just be confident? Look, she doesn't mean you any harm, just...She's looking to trip you up. Honestly, I'm amazed she gave us two days and didn't just show up right now."

Like being struck by a bolt of lightning, things suddenly seemed to connect in my mind. Yukari Yakumo. She'd shown up out of the blue. I thought about it some more. She'd shown up out of the blue to ask me questions about what I was up to with Reimu, and she'd called Reimu 'her Shrine Maiden', so she had been doing the exact same thing that Yamame's mother was planning to do. And that meant that I could deal with her in a very similar way. And if I dealt with her in a similar way, I hoped that I would be just fine. "Are you...Thinking?" Yamame asked me tentatively. I blinked. Yeah, I replied. I was sure that things would be fine. "Right..." She didn't sound all that convinced. "Well, I really hope so." Absent-mindedly, she rubbed her ring.

But...Two days, she'd said. And that meant that I could get something else done in the meantime. I went ahead and asked Yamame if she wanted to come to the village tomorrow in order to invite Keine, Oseki, and her boss to the wedding. In fact, the café might even be able to provide food. I'd not thought much about that, but this wedding seemed to already be ballooning out of control, so we'd probably need to figure out how to feed everyone. Either way, the invitations needed to be done first. "I - Yeah, okay. I mean, there's no point sitting here worrying about the visit, anyway." Yamame sighed. "Let's just hope nothing weird happens there, either." In the village? What were the odds of that?

The next day, Yamame even managed to withhold her complaining about the cold. She didn't exactly look pleased, but it wasn't snowing, and it wasn't all that windy, so she seemed content as long as she was allowed to wear enough layers. She'd still had to change her appearance up enough to not obviously be a youkai, but apart from that, it had been a positively breezy process to reach the village.

Since the snow wasn't coming down heavily anymore, there were plenty of people out, and a lot of them were children playing in the streets. Snowball fights and building sculptures with the snow seemed to be the order of the day. "Don't really get snow underground..." Yamame mused, watching a group of kids ducking into a snow-filled alleyway as we walked past. "But I'm built to not really like it, so I'm mostly okay with that." I wondered if there were any strange spiders who did like it but decided not to bring it up. Soon enough, we were up in the older parts of the villager, near the Temple School and where the Hieda lived. School clearly wasn't on at the moment, given all of the kids milling around, but I knew that Keine tended to go there from time to time regardless, if only to work on lessons and homework.

So, leading Yamame, who was unfamiliar with this part of the village, I headed over to the Temple School and slid open the door, poking my head inside. The classroom seemed to be empty, but there was a sort of staff room that Keine and Akyuu used when they weren't teaching, so, after calling out and getting no response, I kicked off my boots and stepped inside. Yamame followed after a moment. "So...This is where the village kids learn lessons?" She asked me. I nodded, explaining the sort of things that we had learnt in the School. "I think we all just...Sort of taught each other." Yamame mused, her fingers tracing one of the small tables used for the lessons. "Nothing like this." It was definitely a unique experience, I supposed. Well...Maybe not to the Outside World, but still...

I like spiders because they kill bugs, and I hate bugs.