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>>45122402
god fucking dammit

All entries in chronological posting order!
>>44783853 | 1-4-Yukari starts the HSE, unfortunately
>>44783859 |
>>44783865 |
>>44783869 |
>>44789500 | 1-2-Hana regrets everything
>>44797583 |
>>44801201 | 1-Marisa jobbs
>>44808699 | 3-Hana
>>44813876 | 2-Marisa
>>44823600 | 4-Hana
>>44824137 | 1-Chen makes frens
>>44826502 | 5-7-Hana
>>44827141 |
>>44827779 |
>>44828232 | 2-Chen
>>44828303 | 8-Hana
>>44829240 | 1-2-Aya gets a scoop
>>44829742 |
>>44830460 | 1-Ran conspires to save Anon, Chen makes a promise
>>44830530 | 3-Chen
>>44831787 | 3-5 Aya
>>44831959 |
>>44832166 |
>>44833004 | 2-Ran/Chen
>>44833632 | 6-8-Aya
>>44833913 |
>>44834188 |
>>44836175 | 3-Ran/Chen
>>44837584 | 1-Kasen, sadly the hammer type
>>44838354 | 4-Ran/Chen
>>44838572 | 1-Hijiri does things not recommended to monks
>>44838849 | 1-Yuuka destroys Anon's pelvis
>>44839020 | 5-Ran/Chen
>>44840553 | 1-2-Reisen gets a bad case of heathbleed
>>44840644 |
>>44841739 | 9-Aya
>>44842051 | 2-Hijiri
>>44842176 | 1-Yukari has commit sins aplenty
>>44842793 | 10-Aya
>>44843053 | 3-Hijiri
>>44843501 | 11-12-Aya
>>44843706 |
>>44844619 | 6-Ran/Chen
>>44846129 | 4-Hijiri
>>44846904 | 1-Toutetsu does goat things
>>44847934 | 1-Alice, the femcel
>>44848916 | 7-Ran/Chen
>>44849075 | 13-14-Aya
>>44849823 |
>>44851670 | 2-Toutetsu
>>44852394 | 15-Aya
>>44856869 | 2-Yukari
>>44857107 | 8-Ran/Chen
>>44857828 | 3-Yukari
>>44859128 | 9-Ran/Chen
>>44860148 | 16-17-Aya
>>44861513 |
>>44861980 | 3-Marisa
>>44862210 | 1-Okina jobbs
>>44863801 | 1-Kanako also jobbs, but cutely
>>44865416 | 4-Yukari
>>44869347 | 1-Seiga converts Anon to tao
>>44869783 | 3-Toutetsu
>>44871249 | 18-Aya
>>44871671 | 5-Yukari
>>44875949 | 9-10 Hana
>>44876544 |
>>44878300 | 1-Patchouli does detective work
>>44878759 | 10-Ran/Chen
>>44879741 | 19-20-Aya
>>44881701 |
>>44881786 | 4-Toutetsu
>>44886059 | 6-7-Yukari
>>44886659 |
>>44887390 | 11-12-Ran/Chen
>>44889812 |
>>44890248 | 11-Hana
>>44890814 | 21-Aya
>>44891520 | 1-Youmu/Yuyuko saves us
>>44896317 | 13-Ran/Chen
>>44897089 | 2-Patchouli
>>44897477 | 12-Hana
>>44897833 | 2-Youmu/Yuyuko
>>44897919 | 1-2-Seija is my favorite retard
>>44898943 |
>>44899064 | 5-Toutetsu
>>44899119 | 3-Youmu/Yuyuko
>>44900150 | 8-9-Yukari
>>44900352 |
>>44900601 | 22-Aya
>>44903464 | 3-Reisen
>>44903607 | 14-Ran/Chen
>>44905197 | 23-Aya
>>44906051 | 1-Nazrin does a little bit of trolling
>>44906510 | 1-2-Tewi does it for the family
>>44906965 |
>>44907154 | 1-Ran/Aya promote the perks of healthy competition

>>45122456 (part 2)
>>44907384 | 3-Tewi
>>44908592 | 24-Aya
>>44908918 | 4-Tewi
>>44909105 | 25-Aya
>>44909220 | 4-Youmu/Yuyuko
>>44909263 | 26-Aya
>>44909353 | 5-Tewi
>>44911312 | 1-2-Reimu fucked up big-time
>>44912652 |
>>44913719 | 2-Ran/Aya
>>44914774 | 10-Yukari
>>44915111 | 13-16-Hana
>>44916379 |
>>44917697 |
>>44918036 |
>>44918148 | 1-3-Yamashiro is our unsung hero
>>44918170 |
>>44918191 |
>>44918347 | 15-Ran/Chen
>>44924744 | 17-18-Hana
>>44925132 |
>>44925254 | 3-4-Patchouli
>>44925265 |
>>44925872 | 19-21-Hana
>>44926335 |
>>44926709 |
>>44927409 | 6-Toutetsu
>>44931860 | 1-Mima (lol, lmao)
>>44933112 | 1-Cirno, the coolest fairy
>>44933132 | 7-Toutetsu
>>44933611 | 2-Mima
>>44934207 | 2-Cirno
>>44934368 | 3-Mima
>>44935149 | 3-Cirno
>>44935409 | 2-Yuuka
>>44935615 | 4-Mima
>>44935923 | 1-2-Shanghai, the doll, experiences horrors beyond our comprehension
>>44936519 |
>>44937250 | 5-Mima
>>44937732 | 4-5-Yamashiro
>>44937742 |
>>44938226 | 19-21-Hana
>>44938409 |
>>44938736 |
>>44942709 | 4-Cirno
>>44942784 | 6-Mima
>>44944278 | 16-Ran/Chen
>>44945041 | 5-6-Cirno
>>44945060 |
>>44945869 | 22-23-Hana
>>44947647 |
>>44947675 | 17-Ran/Chen
>>44950744 | 24-Hana
>>44951188 | 7-Cirno
>>44951243 | 25-26-Hana
>>44952493 |
>>44955030 | 1-Shou is not having a good time
>>44955143 | 18-Ran/Chen
>>44955880 | 6-8-Yamashiro
>>44955891 |
>>44955900 |
>>44956184 | 27-Hana
>>44957621 | 11-Yukari
>>44959795 | 4-Alice
>>44964702 | 4-Reisen
>>44966321 | 19-20-Ran/Chen
>>44966328 |
>>44967465 | 9-11-Yamashiro
>>44967473 |
>>44967476 |
>>44967784 | 1-2-Evil Nazrin, Chizasu; the broken cheese soup eater
>>44967812 |
>>44969267 | 5-Reisen
>>44972984 | 12-Yukari
>>44973031 | 21-Ran/Chen
>>44973594 | 1-2-Junko comes, sees, adopts
>>44973614 |
>>44973752 | 6-Reisen
>>44975642 | 12-15-Yamashiro
>>44975651 |
>>44975677 |
>>44975699 |
>>44982466 | 22-23-Ran/Chen
>>44982473 |
>>44984190 | 1-Genji... :(
>>44984244 | 13-Yukari
>>44984612 | 16-19-Yamashiro/Seija
>>44984628 |
>>44984638 |
>>44984652 |
>>44984847 | 28-Hana
>>44993555 | 1-Momiji awoos and get fucked
>>44994352 | 2-Okina
>>44994577 | 2-Momiji
>>44995493 | 27-Aya
>>44996217 | 20-22-Yamashiro/Seija
>>44996233 |
>>44996253 |

>>45122492 (part 3)
>>44997641 | 29-30-Hana
>>44998503 |
>>44998741 | 24-Ran/Chen
>>44998996 | 3-Evil Nazin, Chizasu
>>44999273 | 31-32-Hana
>>44999754 |
>>45000620 | 1-3-Rikako and Lemontene open a lemonade stand
>>45000634 |
>>45000657 |
>>45000831 | 23-26-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45000837 |
>>45000845 |
>>45000859 |
>>45004812 | 3-Momiji
>>45007083 | 3-Okina
>>45009988 | 28-Aya
>>45010541 | 25-Ran/Chen
>>45015046 | 1-3-Hata no Kokoro is searching for our favorite autistic, heart-throbbing girl
>>45016324 |
>>45018993 |
>>45019978 | 27-31-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45019995 |
>>45020008 |
>>45020023 |
>>45020036 |
>>45021307 | 4-Hata no Kokoro
>>45021686 | 1-Yuugi learns about the birds and the bees
>>45022345 | 29-Aya
>>45022717 | 2-Yuugi
>>45023522 | 8-Toutetsu
>>45023676 | 30-Aya
>>45023914 | 32-35-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45023923 |
>>45023935 |
>>45023945 |
>>45024014 | 3-4-Yuugi
>>45024332 |
>>45024409 | 31-32-Aya
>>45024760 |
>>45029254 | 5-Hata no Kokoro
>>45029834 | 33-Hana
>>45030600 | 26-Ran/Chen
>>45030706 | 6-Kokoro
>>45030840 | 33-Aya
>>45031498 | 1-Kosuzu will save us with her detective skills
>>45031643 | 34-Aya
>>45032173 | 1-Marisa's dad is one stubbed toe away from meeting Eiki
>>45033088 | 3-Reimu
>>45038227 | 2-Kosuzu
>>45039622 | 27-Ran/Chen
>>45040174 | 36-37-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45040182 |
>>45042898 | 3-Kosuzu
>>45043356 | 1-2-Meiling goes to retrieve Mukyu from the brothel before she passes out
>>45043367 |
>>45044232 | 2-Kasen
>>45045245 | 8-Cirno
>>45045552 | 5-Alice
>>45045925 | 34-Hana
>>45046716 | 38-42-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45046725 |
>>45046750 |
>>45046755 |
>>45046767 |
>>45048091 | 35-Hana
>>45049471 | 9-Cirno
>>45050505 | 28-Ran/Chen
>>45051241 | 10-Cirno
>>45054707 | 29-Ran/Chen
>>45054718 | 4-6-Rikako/Lemontene
>>45054727 |
>>45054739 |
>>45055476 | 43-46-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45055483 |
>>45055495 |
>>45055513 |
>>45055840 | 36-38-Hana
>>45055851 |
>>45056540 |
>>45061196 | 1-Koishi starts to wake-up and is eating for two
>>45062069 | 3-Kasen
>>45063295 | 39-Hana
>>45063772 | 35-Aya
>>45063782 | 40-Hana
>>45063892 | 47-50-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45063909 |
>>45063917 |
>>45063923 |
>>45064640 | 41-Hana
>>45065142 | 3-Shanghai, the Doll
>>45065564 | 42-43-Hana
>>45066190 |
>>45066405 | 36-Aya
>>45066523 | 2-Koishi
>>45070388 | 3-Junko
>>45071691 | 37-Aya
>>45072028 | 4-Kosuzu
>>45072430 | 44-Hana
>>45073503 | 30-Ran/Chen

>>45122514 (part 4)
>>45074641 | 51-55-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45074646 |
>>45074653 |
>>45074659 |
>>45074661 |
>>45075451 | 38-39-Aya
>>45075498 |
>>45078389 | 31-Ran/Chen
>>45079622 | 3-4-Meling
>>45079627 |
>>45079877 | 11-Cirno
>>45080741 | 32-33-Ran/Chen
>>45080756 |
>>45082418 | 4-Kasen
>>45082902 | 5-Kosuzu
>>45083103 | 7-8-Mima
>>45083141 |
>>45088318 | 14-Yukari
>>45090126 | 12-Cirno
>>45091141 | 40-Aya
>>45091358 | 13-14-Cirno
>>45091390 |
>>45092705 | 9-Toutetsu
>>45093479 | 4-Marisa
>>45094419 | 45-Hana
>>45094778 | 56-57-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45094780 |
>>45099005 | 15-Cirno
>>45099713 | 58-59-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45099726 |
>>45099904 | 1-Keine is gasligthed into birthing Touhou Jesus 1 and Touhou Jesus 2
>>45100154 | 34-Ran/Chen
>>45104338 | 60-63-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45104346 |
>>45104354 |
>>45104368 |
>>45104478 | 4-Reimu
>>45104822 | 46-Hana
>>45110119 | 1-Satori Ace Defective on the case!
>>45110223 | 2-Keine
>>45112527 | 6-Kosuzu
>>45112718 | Halloween Special! Anon and the house of even more horrors; The HSE is commemorating
>>45112769 |
>>45113643 |
>>45113846 | 47-49-Hana
>>45114279 |
>>45115139 |
>>45116623 | 7-9-Rikako/Lemontene
>>45116634 |
>>45116654 |
>>45118881 | 50-52-Hana
>>45120127 |
>>45120409 |
>>45121101 | 2-Satori
>>45122165 | 64-65-Yamashiro/Seija
>>45122178 |
(350 entries)

>350 entries
>32 days of HSE
damn

This play, the writing is intensifying to a point where we may not be able to contain it.

>>45122651
>contain it
huh? Will we need the SCP Foundation to help us, by any chance?
but really, what do you mean by that?

>>45122651
>This play, the writing is intensifying to a point where we may not be able to contain it.
Why contain it? Let it spill over into the other threads and boards, let the bans pile up in the logs. In the end, they'll beg us to stop.

>>45122683
don't do that. That's Yukari behavior.

>>45122397
tranny mods hate nogizaka
how surprising
MODS = FAGS

>>45122662
I want to cuddle that Fran and calm her down from what surely must have been a scary experience with men in black suits shouting at her.

>>45122706
try here >>>/pol/

>>45122716
Unironically the same, Flane unlike her sister seems like a normal young girl for her relative age, with normal levels of chuuni behavior when taking into account her power.
She's excitable and thinks of Marisa and Reimu as her friends and seems a bit lonely due to her self isolation considering how fast she attaches herself to people.
The biggest problem is I don't think she could let her guard down around someone how lack durability.

>>45122733
that'd be nice if her hugs didn't eviscerate people

>>45122733
We're just tickling the dragon's tail for someone to write Flan into this, aren't we?

Seeing as Sakuya is always the one to feed her, there's a good chance she actually hasn't directly killed anyone knowingly at least. It then follows that from her isolation, and very naive mind which is already pretty mentally fragile, killing 4 people in self-defense after having them scream at the top of their lungs (And probably shoot at her as well) might really upset her.

Unfortunately CDS is a thing.

>>45122803
the SDM is cursed in this story anyway
patchouli died of exhaustion and meiling jobbed to death
if you write flan in she'll end up turning to ash in the sunlight

>>45122803
>probably shoot at her
There are bullets holes on the door behind her, so more like a fact
Writing Flan is hard because Meilinganon has already stated the entire SDM is trying to keep her away from the HSE. With some bending there can be a non-canon event of her visiting lile Lily White did.
I can give it a shot if Meilinganon is okay at that, though

>>45122846
what actually happened was patchouli told meiling to tell remilia not to go to the village, but then meiling forgot and told sakuya to go to the village instead
so the floodgates are open

>>45122803
Her morality also seems pretty childish, she seems fine with most people like Reimu and Marisa, even if they don't like her, but when she meets somebody who she thinks is evil like Mizuchi and the goate while she'd blood drunk, there' no holding back for her.
Honestly that's probably the biggest problem, she'd just try to kill the people she thinks are evildoers right away unless Okina was wrangling her.
Also before Marisa and Reimu she seems to have never meet any humans ever, it's implied she was born a vampire and when the duo meet her she says she's never met a human before, except in the form of the food Sakuya gives her.
Other than that she's a bit of a fight fag, but isn't trouble making about it like Tenshi, or any other of the strong Youkai.

>>45122918
>Okina wants to mess with Yukari before the final showdown
>tells Flan who's playing with the tards of the Land of the Backdoor about the HSE and how fun is there, and that Anon, the kind human she met sometimes, will play with her
>Even better, the nice lady, Yukari, wii be there and they can all play together
>Flan is exhilarated, and decides to go. Okina tps her to the door of the HSE
>immediately sensing Okina's door in the premises, Yukari goes to see what's happening and encounters a extremely excited Flan and has to thread EXTREMELY careful to not bring forth the destruction of not only the HSE, but the entire village
>what follows is Yukari, Anon and Flan all playing together; Flan having a great time; Yukari on the fucking edge and Anon wondering how he's still not dead
fuck, now I want to write it...

>>45122846
>Writing Flan is hard because Meilinganon has already stated the entire SDM is trying to keep her away from the HSE.
And remimi
Though it would be simple enough to do a flan story where she does a reverse EoSD to see this cool new place where everyone goes to play with this super cool friend.

>>45123048
Only if Flan can get a warm hug (And a sweetie) for being a good little girl at the end

>>45123093
you can still write it, you just have to add in that sakuya's going to stick meiling full of knives for telling her that they could go

Writefags are writing preparing...
Please wait warmly ~

>>45123177
Writefags ar-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

>>45123177
Writefags are only going to writing fluff from now on. There will be no more plot development.

>>45123287
>>45123268
back to work! I don't pay you to... well, I don't pay you at all....
oh no

>>45123287
I can't believe they're literally ZUN

>>45123363
I was wrong, they're literally Anon
We're are all anon...

Oh boy I love Ran and Chen!

>>45123406
this is too 3D Anon...
... the horror...

if HE'S found these threads they're all doomed
we're all fucked

>>45123465
Shhhh... Just accept she is beautiful and move on.

>>45123501
ZUN doesn't use 4chan

>>45123287
Did I miss something or has Goro-kun blown up already? Or has Seija that filthy amanojaku 'saved' him yet?

>>45123593
goro-san is still alive
Ran will gap him to the sun at the slight sign of danger, since Anon and Chen are inside the building still
and Seija is going there to publicly announce she raped him and, somehow, save him

Remember to R&I shitposters

>>45123118
I still want Meiling and patchy anon to finish their stories before I do any side stories with Flan, its why I never touched her yet. Surely they'll be done soon...

>>45123729
>patchyanon
anon... I have terrible news
patchyanon has, sadly, passed away...

>>45123729
>surely they'll be done s-
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

>>45123287
is that even possible? IIRC last thread people said was supposed to be the final "normal" one before moving the story along with things like Anon finally being freed from the dreaded HSE and the Yukari Okina duel

>>45123782
never believe a writeanon
they're just having too much fun writing and shitposting, the bloody dragons

>>45123759
No... I can't believe he took five steps outside before tripping over his shoelaces...

Hanaanon, how'd Hana move with the non-euclidian movement in an "empty" area? Would she need to use things close by like in example 1, or can she use things like air particles like in example 2 to reach her destination?
just for testing purposes, of course

>>45123782
That depends on whether we feel like talking about how we want the ending to go in detail and planning things out.

>>45123782
We've been stuck in a filler arc for several threads now. You'll have to wait until the manga gets a little further ahead.

>>45123831
example 2 is the most accurate, she doesn't actually need objects to move and reference off of.
Its hyperbolic movement so it'd look more like she was moving off to the side or even shrinking as she flew towards the screen before appearing at the end spot.
Yes its confusing and thats before we get into elliptic movement. Those poor village-kuns are going to think she turned into a youkai or something.

>>45123910
thanks for the clarification!

>>45104478 (3/3)
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I… really don't know how to feel about this. I just stare straight into her belly, frowning. Ran, as if expecting that, approaches Chen. "Let's leave Ms. Aya and Ms. Reimu alone, okay? They need to have a conversation." So she catches the bakeneko's hand, opening a gap. Distraught with the sudden leaving, Chen asks Ran something, the fox youkai appearing surprised before nodding, slowly.

I share one last glance with Chen and smile before waving to her. In the next moment, they leave.

Toutetsu stares at the both of us, rhythmically hitting the spork on her shoulder, as if pondering, waiting. Aya paces in place, nervous to the point she's sweating… What am I missing here?

"We don't have the entire night, reporter," Tetsu says bluntly, squatting on a tree branch and watching us from above. "Don't worry—am not letting you and your little bastards die tonight."

… What? I tensed, digesting the words. She expects me to attack Aya in some capacity.

I feel betrayed—Toutetsu has seen it again and again, saw me changing, trying, and still… The thoughts are short-lived, followed by an even shorter meditation. No matter what, change is not ultimate. Without strength, there's always the chance everything returns to how it was before…

If anything, Tetsu being here is a challenge.

I've changed. I've become someone better.

And I'll show that with whatever Aya has to tell me.

The seconds pass in silence, a tarp of pressure layering the air, Aya uncomfortable, struggling to stay in place, tears welling behind her eyes as her trembling arms held dear to her belly, wings quivering uncontrollably and ready to raise flight at any given threat to her or her kids.

I wait, patient.

Truth comes one time or the other; "I-I'm… pregnant—you already know t-that—" The following words must've felt like lead in her mouth. “But, the f-father—" tears streamed, thick and of a regret so immense it was like looking into a mirror. My body perked up, hairs like metal rods. "… it's Anon." It was a whisper.

One that sounded like thunder.

… I'm not that far away from Aya. One swing, her head turns into tree decoration. It'd be immensely easy, and not even Toutetsu—watching like a hawk—would be able to do something…

But I don't move. Another time, I would've.

In the silence, I look up at the moon and stars, my eyes a bit droopy; breathe in and breathe out, then I fluff my scarf. It's so warm and cozy…

Aya's body trembled like a leaf in the wind with that small gesture. "It wasn't right, I know! I spoke of your crimes in my newspaper and profited out by calling them out—I-I, Anon… I didn't know at the time that he wasn't there by choice! I did not, too! And what it'd entail next—I—I—" Despite the breakdown, there was a smile on her face, one so fragile yet bathed in love. "—I love my children… They haven't been born yet, but I love them… Please don't kill me!" She kneels. "I know my mistakes; I've raped him, he doesn't even know he'll be a father yet! Please…—N-No! No! I won't bow and beg anymore! I'm tired of bowing to powerful monsters like you and Yukari! I'll be a mother, and I'll live! I WILL not let you kill us!"

… Woah. The range of emotions she showed felt like a metronome, going from one extreme to the next quickly. The words, however, struck true like a sword, the pain a deep wound that overflowed with memories of my little Hana, so tiny and so precious, yet with a shadow always looming, never able to see the sun properly with it on her back.

A shadow called 'me'.

A single tear escaped me, eyes turning down from the stars and looking into Aya's eyes, her body fervent with fight spirit…

I get my gohei in between my fingers. Aya tenses up like never before, tears still there, but facade and posture never breaking, danmaku shining at her fingertips, prepared to do whatever it takes to live.

… The moment stretches.

I smile, then sigh, storing the gohei in my sleeve. "… Congrats."

"… H-Huh…?"

I pity this smile forming on my face; having to fight so many dark emotions, explosive rage and regrets—just to show up in this moonlit face of mine… Though I don't think it cares, "It's your first, right? I dunno how it's for Tengus, but I know mine was tough. Ah, I'm so lucky he was there for me—he's a great man for the job… Under him, Hana was happy."

Her eyes shine, mouth opens, cheeks glow red—tears falling just as much. Oh, the metronome broke. Happiness.

"… Thanks…"

"You have everything prepared already?"

"I… need a bigger house. Some cradles… and a lot of diapers."

"You happy?"

"Never been happier."

"… You love him?"

"I do." No hesitation. Good.

"You should go tell him."

"… I will…" The smile growing on her face trembled like an earthquake.

"… Want a hug?" A hug can do wonders for someone in a bad spot—right, Chen?

Aya stared, pondered…

Toutetsu will never admit it, but I think she was crying too when I held Aya, crying like a kid, in my arms—smile wide.

"Thank you so much, Reimu…"

I cried too.

and that's the 'mu set for the finale!
but still, feel free and, if you want, DO write about her in your own stories! It's always a treat!

Here's the flowchart! For writeanons to guide themselves and to readeranons to skim through and create 70 hours videos of the deep lore or something. Sorry if I missed anything or got something wrong!
>forgot to post the flowchart earlier...
god fucking dammit

>>45124907
Thank you for your work as always

>>45125569
no, thank YOU for the support as always!

>>45123841
>talking about how we want the ending to go in detail and planning things out.
Well there's been a few things decided on.
>The jailbreak we've been building up for the entire story
>Yukari vs Okina fight offscreen that causes rips in the fabric of Gensokyo
>Jobber Squad vs Jobbier Squad
>Kasen overcomes her Hammer curse
>Scarlet Devil Mansion find out where the FUCK Patchy went
>All those characters who got gregnant

(1/4)
—
As time passes and two events barrel down in my direction—one personal, the other life-changing—it's no surprise that stress piles up like a mountain.

Anon reads that on my face the moment I enter the fake shrine—outside, the moonlight soft and the buzz of the extended night a nice song—tea for two on the kotatsu; "Hard day, Ran?" I mumble, settling down by his side and laying my head on his chest, letting out a deep sigh—he giggles, a strong and gentle hand on my back pulling me closer. "Sorry—I forgot all day is a hard day for you!" He laughs, and I want to punch him, frowning and locking our eyes, ears twitching—

Am welcomed by a kiss. I don't want to punch him anymore.

Still…

"… Things are not slowing down…" I taste the tea, which is so routinely good and calming—once a balm for the jaded heart, but now… "Every day is more of the same bad, it's getting so hard to manage everything and—" I feel the area. No signs of Old Magic. "—we are threading the line: every day Yukari becomes more observant of Reimu, of Toutetsu; Aya… It's getting impossible to navigate beneath her nose safely. I fear we may slip up—or, worse, already have slipped up and simply didn't notice it yet…"

His hug tightens, sweet lips kissing my ears. I try to enjoy, I do—yet I can only imagine how easily it'd be to lose this while trying to build something new…

"… There's also my estrus. It's a fear of 'will it, or will it not' when it comes to Yukari and the actions she'll take, and it's so inconsequential, yet I cannot stop thinking probabilities and chance—" I sigh, and my eyelids feel like lead. I stare at the distance, through the window, the fake ceiling—and just wish… For something better.

Something that won't eat me inside every waking hour; that won't need a hard-to-maintain facade just so I don't screw up…

A house, children, this man—that sounds like THAT something…

… Yet, it's a world of distance away from now. A world I cannot fully grasp until—

"Ran," his voice calls to me, sounding unsure, my slits locking with his humane eyes. There's something in the air with the stretching moment of silence, his face tensing up a bit and pupils going from side to side on the sea of white, as if pondering; confused, anxious… I hold his hand on mine and gently squeeze it. His eyes calm down gradually, then focus on mine, and whatever he was considering was answered with: 'It is worth it'. "This fear of yours, of what Yukari may make you do during your estrus… I want to erase you from it."

… Huh?

My mind, one of the most powerful in Gensokyo, blanked.

I blinked and frowned, foxed, before understanding grew like a weed; "Anon, you—"

"I k-know… And I know it will never go away. What Yukari has done to me, to my body, what she makes me go through—it'll never go away…" There's a sad truth to his voice, and I squeeze his hand harder. He smiles, weary. "Yet, what we have, silly as it may sound… is special to me, and I don't want to lose it."

"Me too," I say as a reflex, and it feels natural, nine tails swarming between us in a fluffy sea of warmth. "Because of that, Anon, you shouldn't—"

"Ran, I don't care—I… want it!" He smiles, and it's full of hopes and dreams for a future. A good future. "For 19 years… I didn't want to have it. The choice was always taken away from me—here, it isn't a choice at all…" I reach for his face, caressing the rough skin. He leans on my palm, smile growing. "But, with you, the thought…" He gulps down one last fear, one last doubt, and opens his eyes pulsing with determination, placing his hand on top of mine. "I want to make love with you, Ran… Do you with me?"

I breathe in heavily, staring wide-eyed—my face burns… Are those tears? Of course, they're tears! Words like these from a man in his situation…

My heart grows tenfold as I let slim tears down, struggling between a smile and pursed lips, a trembling midterm that just grows and grows when his forehead touches mine, and his laugh in my ears is like a beautiful melody. The bright image, as if a photo held over a fireplace, of beautiful children with thick tails and pointy ears as mine, eyes like his…

"I do."

An image that didn't leave my mind as he took me off the ground and ran outside—because what we have is ours and ours alone.

Clothes flew off, kisses everywhere burned like scalds, and soon we're as natural as the day we came to this world, nine tails embracing him like an infinity of arms. The windy and cold breeze hits, yet the warmth dispels it like it never existed, nature surrounding us as, gently, Anon places me on a flat stone by the pond.

We stare at each other, breathing heavily, and though it's night and the moonlight is little, I still can perfectly see him—oh…

I didn't notice it at first, but fireflies surrounded us, casting spots of beautiful golden light over our naked bodies. The atmosphere; scenery; scents and temperature—all great…

But it takes him here with me, his smile fond and eyes shining, to be perfect.

So...can Anon and Reimu even get back together at this point or is there still no hope for that yet?

>>45125744
Reimu has totally given up on him here >>45124407, which cements her change, since she won't be going after Anon as a man, but after his forgiveness
at least that's what it seems. If anyone writes an ending when they make amends and get back together, then good for the mu!

>>45125724
Going to throw this out there, if Suika does get involved Yuyuko will step in. Not to help Yukari help, but to help her lose less.
She'll probably step in to save Yukari if someone is going for the kill but she wouldn't resist if someone only tries to seal Yukari.
I say Suika because the Yuyuko and Suika dislike and know of each other, Suika also seems to know Yukari so it seems they were all around each other some 1000 years ago which is the only time in the past these three could have interacted pre-PCB.
Whatever happened back then influenced Suika's negative opinion of Yuyuko and made her think Yukari is an autist. SO I think it makes sense for Yuyuko to fight Suika if she steps in.

>>45124907
God, this is so fucking retarded.

>>45124407
Damn.
Reimu and by proxy Rananon supports Aya ending so she's confirmed winner, gonna make Anon a happy mountain man.
Good shit. I lost my best excuse to put off the next Aya update. I have some shit to do before the sun rises until noon tomorrow but I should have something out tomorrow.
>>45123782
We're going to keep putting off the finale until the IRL Winter Solstice and there's nothing you or anyone else here can do about it. Simply the way of the HSE.

>>45125867
though, the Oni faction is really just Yuugi and Suika. They got to pump these numbers up tho

>>45126090
Yuugi's powers allow her control over unexplainable phenomenon, which includes general strangeness, courage, devious rebellion, strength, spirits, and fierce gods. That's fucking cracked, she legit only uses her strength 90% of the time for good reason, she the weakest of the oni big 4 we know of, but that's because she neither as bloodthirsty as arm kasen so has less feats and isn't as cracked as Suika.

Suika can control density of the materiel and immaterial, being able to turn things both physical of non-physical such as desires into a hazy mist like state of a hot hyper concentrated state, can become giant, can make black holes, mass mind control by dispersing herself over an area and solidifying/concentrating certain desires, can destroy the image of the sky and moon using them as weapons, and can heal by assembling/dissembling herself.
Suika is probably the single strongest fighter here excluding Yukari and Okina, and even then she'd probably wipe then in certain scenarios, in order to properly kill her you'd probably need a sage, Byakuren or Miko with prep time to do their magicy thing, and Flandre. She's cracked and has some of the highest feats in the setting.

>>45126135
very cool Anon... but:
>manipulates the gap between adult intelligence and newborn intelligence
Yukari Winnakumo strikes again

>>45126090
drag Zanmu in (comes with Hisami as a free bonus)
you'd expect Oni Kasen to be in the Oni faction eventually, but she'd have to break Yukari's control and Reimu's seals before she could, which is a whole undertaking that would need setup

>>45126162
It's already been established that Ran is going to be contesting Yukari's gaps, Yukarin needs someone a dedicated fighting in order to deal with Suika or else she disperses herself and just wins, she probably wont use blackholes in the village and with won't be able to break the moon, sun, or stars due to Okina's and Yukari's domain clash + the makai teleportation, but even without those she's really fucking strong.
Yuugi and Kasen can fight, but somebody NEEDS to fight Suika.

>>45125867
Yuyuko will surely swoop in last second and scoop up the sealed Yukari like it was the last manju bun in the fridge. She will talk to her and nurture her back on the right path every day for the next few centuries.
Yukari png for those inclined https://files.catbox.moe/vcdkiv.png
>>45126069
Yes. A convoluted backwards plot and timeline is the hallmark of any great fanfiction. I wouldn't have it any other way.
>>45126088
>Reimu and by proxy Rananon supports Aya ending so she's confirmed winner
I dunno about you boss, but the man did just princess carry and sex the fox on his own will. We'll see where it goes, but I don't think Ran's letting go that easily. Aya's gonna have to fight tooth and talon for her spot.

>>45126088
I support a good challenge, not really? Considering there'll be multiple endings and all
good luck getting the chapter out! And don't write it in the 4chan textbox like our resident Reimu!
>We're going to keep putting off the finale until the IRL Winter Solstice
it really is just 50 days from here...
... nah, that'd be too much of a coincidence

>>45126196
>Yukarin needs someone a dedicated fighting in order to deal with Suika
>the prompt of earlier
I know the perfect gal for that...

>>45126283
Flan betrayal? Yukari seducing the SDM into doing her bidding?!

(1/2)
“…and yet by his labour and thought displays the animosity of the poor; thus dishonoring…” I chanted.
It was difficult at first to chant 24/7. I made mistakes, got distracted, was harassed by passersby’s, yelled at from all sides, but at a certain point, things fell away.
The surrounding stalls, the people, even the sky and earth left my perception. All that was left was the building, and it too was slowly being pealed apart bit by bit as my focus narrowed.
It was like a strange puzzle. I would jiggle a window and a roof tile might shift, blow on it instead and the glass might shatter or smell differently. Seemingly insane rules starting to emerge in my head, don’t ever touch the doors, ask rudely before biting something except when it was porous in which case be polite, the eyes would gaze at things that were part of the building or would become part of it.
I used to think hermits where insane, that they were so far into esotericism that besides their magic, long lives, and choice of dress and residence, there was little to distinguish them from crazed street urchins, but now, slowly walking this path toward hopeful annihilation, I knew for certain that they were all loons.
My focus became so honed and my connection to the target of my observation so intense that even when I physically felt myself being pulled away from the HSE, it did not appear to move, and this did not surprise me. Some buildings were made to move, others were forced to, but not this one, never this one.
When finally, I had collapsed all the walls and tied the pipes into the correct formation of ribbons the true work began, finding the path.
I started at a course granularity with kernels the size of small children from all sides and directions. The rays shot toward the place and moved on the map I had made, none making it past even the most meager of defenses. Over time I reduced the kernel size, made the rays non-uniform, cast at different angles, and slowly I began to see the way, even though maps had to be redrawn and promising solutions discarded.
Some collection of forces had to be helping me. The realization came before I could witness them and perhaps, I could not observe them until I had seen their efforts. Sometimes it was a unique freak circumstances that lead to a realization which made me magnitudes more efficient other times it was a surge of will when I thought I had expended all effort possible. When I watched them manifests these situations, I could not describe their appearance to intently, but I knew there was more then one force aiding my efforts and that not all of them aligned with each other.
It could not have been whatever sacrifices lead to the bracelet. No, this ominous thing did not a have a will of its own it only appeared to and that was the worst part. When I failed at the first step of a path, I felt it burning and when I took a step beyond what was normal, I felt my hand calm. This was a product of my mind, my attributions of these phenomena to my shackling to an awful death. The faces on the beads didn’t mean anything, but it would soothe me much if they did.
Yukari’s barriers did valiantly resist my intrusions, but it was a futile attempt on their part. For nothing I did would place me inside the HSE itself and the design of her defenses were built under this limitation, perhaps a necessary compromise? I didn’t know.
When finally, the solutions started to converge, where the seemingly infinite possibilities and aggregations of steps and scenarios began to collapse in upon themselves, I felt an elation and then dread.
My solution was flawed, it would annihilate my target.
Painfully I began from step one, but my methods remained, and a new solution began to emerge. One that would rebound the path many times over within the area and on several occasions slip into places which I could not see into, only surmise their output, and in some cases travel to distant planets and other astronomical bodies before returning. Sometimes the path would decelerate, shed excess power when it wasn’t needed, other times it would accumulate strength to defeat defenses.
The final result was a hand from the heavens, nudging Anon’s soul just outside of his body.
Until this day I have never held a sword in my life and as I put the final step into the answer, I knew it was like this. Materials and information from across the universe traveling at unfathomable speeds and entropy put together into a craft that would terminate.
The culmination of my life I would trade for his, in return is the end I asked for.

>>45126196
Yukari can actually counter Suika's splitting and force her into a single form. Might even be able to counter her expansion but that isn't confirmed

>>45126529
>>45126529
(2/2)
I never thought I would wake again, in fact, I hoped that I’d never fall asleep at all.
Yet here I was, in the bed of creaking, ornate wood room. Outside the window I could see clouds just beneath me and birds flying in formation atop them. Above me stood a tiny woman, no taller than a teacup, wearing glasses, holding what looked like a tiny clipboard, and looking at me expectantly. She said something.
I heard someone rushing toward me and the wood creak under their steps. I rose to see who.
She stopped just before she got to me, her arms almost outstretched, almost, but before she reached me, she slowed down, her expression going from elated surprise to quiet anxiety. As if I was someone who looked like a dear friend she knew, only for her to realize I was just a look alike, no, it was more as if her heart moved before her brain and the brain warned her too late to save face, but early enough to prevent a disaster.
Whatever the case, Seija stood before me and meekly uttered a single question.
“Why?”

>>45126222
>We'll see where it goes, but I don't think Ran's letting go that easily
Counte4 point, once he learns Aya is eggnant he'll be very inclined to go with her

>>45126546
counter counter point, if he finds out he just got Ran pregnant (volcanic ash and whatnot) he'll be very inclined to go with her
checkmate taoist

>>45126563
Fertility nullifiers here:
N O

>>45126529
>>45126543
so no nuke? Sadge.
What exactly happened here? I'm too dumb for this...
>Goro hallucinates, chants in front of the HSE, collapses from exhaustion and lack of meds and someone would carry him to Eientei, but Seija comes first and return him to the Byakuren
that's gonna be my headcannon until the next posting

>>45126614
Anon. You're forgetting one, small, crucial detail. Ran borrows Yukari's gap powers. The same powers Yukari uses to zap the fertility blocker/enhancers out of his body when she's done with him. Who's to say Ran just didn't do the same with the nullifiers? The same Ran who doesn't need cyclical hormones to fantasize about having his children and who's happy he took the initiative. Even without enhancers—the likely permanent changes to his body's physiology to match that of a fertility god notwithstanding—Ran could easily get perginat from the raw love he just packed her full with.
Maybe Ranfag left that bit out because of character limits, maybe it was deliberate? Or he could've just forgotten. Who knows. It is ambiguous enough to give hope and leave it open for later (such as endings).

>>45126228
>Considering there'll be multiple endings and all
No? There's can only be one. And that one in question will be everyone's characters teaming up to defeat Quiznos The Destroyer (He was the one who manipulated Yukari into starting the whorehouse)

>>45126742
that fucking eyeball man...
... should've guessed it

>>45126742
It will end when anon have a heart attack and dies.

>>45126725
extended pregnancy talk would ruin the moment, tho. Reserving that for after seggs bliss

>>45126765
>It will end when anon have a heart attack and dies.
can't fucking believe the HSE will never end.....

Cant wait this to end so writrfags are set free and go back on the fics they paused on the other threads.
Specially Hana's original fic.

>>45126616
I'm hesitant to say anything until I get the next bit out because I'll either sound really dumb or make people feel really dumb for not understanding it, but remember the bit where Ran described what he was doing as plotting a 'firing solution'?
Also just to make it worse I've been thinking about The Dark Tower and Marathon recently which both have very 'dream like' ways of describing things.

>>45126920
Yes, I understand now. That's a lie. But it's inside a spoiler tag, so it doesn't exist.
Well, it's not a community project without the esoteric crackhead chanting. It's nice of you to fill that role, Yamashiroanon!

I have hope for the 'anon becomes a god and marries Kanako' ending. Who else is with me?

>>45127562
Anon doesn't want to be a shitty god, he just wants to live a normal life with his family.
At some point, at least. I'm pretty sure he's given up on just about everything by now.
But he certainly doesn't care about godhood and other crap. He's just a really normal dude at heart.

>>45127562
Gotta get to writing, one writefag can handle so many plots
>>45127589
No interest, yet

>>45126952
A firing solution is data used to determine where something will land. Goro-kun knew and didn't want to Explode over random people, so he's aiming himself at Anon, he and his curse are the sword and the hand that wields it. After he passed out Shinmy and Seija have him now and Seija is sad about him turning his souls into a targeted anti-anon war crime device.

>>45127589
That's why Suwa's mad at Kanako, thought people caught onto that. But anyways those chapters take place weeks before the festival begins so somebody can works backwards from there.

>>45128371
>second spoiler
I figured it was the case but with no build up i disregarded it. I just consider it a 'maybe' sort of thing if someone wants to write it in later

I just realized something. A benefit to Ran apart from the obvious is that it feeds Anon's knitting/crocheting hobby. She has big huge fluffy tails which no doubt shed a lot; you could collect a load of long soft fur from that. You can wash and spin that into thread and yarn to make clothes out of. Imagine Chen's elation when she gets a new scarf from Anon made with Ran's soft fluffy fox fur, both symbolizing their love put into it and the new future they'll have going forward.

>>45128738
Ran is an evil fox who abused her position to get close to Anon(the first human male to treat her kindly) while knowing he can't escape
Ran is EVIL

>>45128738
holy shit, can you fucking imagine it?! No doubt the fluffiness would mog the likes of mulberry silk all the way through; and probably would be also a massive challenge to knit it without bumps or messing up a pattern
It'd be Anon's ultimate material gift
man...

>>45128371
Oh, now I understand! That's true. Thanks for spoon-feeding this retarded mind; your patience is commendable man

>>45128371
I'm not sure what you were even expecting from this thread, given that people are still trying to push an Anonbowl even in this story, despite the fact that just about every competitor is a self-centred cunt primarily concerned with themselves.
As things stand, there's really no chance for a happy ending for him now, and he's far too traumatized to live anything resembling a normal life. It's very much a pick your poison deal at this stage.
He'd probably be best off getting as far away from Gensokyo as possible. Maybe get a job at the Ministry or something. Those folks seem to be one of the few who still have a set of morals going for them.

>>45128873
Only issue is that you kinda need to die first for that kind of job

>>45128888
I'm sure the Yama Kings can make an exception, just this once. It would be best for everyone.

Besides, Anon is clearly already dead on the inside, which is good enough.
And his hard work and ingenuity might just be what the a Ministry needs to turn their fortunes around, so everyone wins here.

>>45128873
>>45129018
being a doomer won't get you a man, Eiki

>>45128888
I don't think you necessarily do, since reimu was able to travel across the sanzu river to meet eiki while still alive, so it must be possible to go to the ministry too
plus I don't think kutaka is dead, since she lives up on the top of youkai mountain

>>45129209
difference is that Reimu is Reimu, and the protags have plot armor.
I'm pretty sure that generally speaking the sanzu is meant to filter anyone that tries to cross.
I do suppose there are backdoors into hell, but without an invite theres no way a normal human like Anon will be able to cross safely

>>45129044
Some people are actually sincere when they say they want to help people, instead of using it as an excuse to try to spawn the worst abomination the world has ever seen.

Fortunately for all of us, this horrific pregnancy will never happen, and the world remains safe. Mostly.

>>45128873
Jeez, like the other Anon said, the Kanako-Suwako plot can be ignored by writer if they want to. I purposefully wrote it in a way that hinted towards something, but could be ignored or retconned into something else by another writer if they wanted to.
The Cirno, Kokoro, Koishi, and Saotir posts are already dubiously cannon, and even if you kep the plot point a writefag can just have Suwako tardwrangle Kanako.
Like here's an easy alternate explanation for why Suwako was mad at Kanako. She blames Kanako for her husbands death, but is too practicle and not emotional enough to attack her, so they keep working together.

>>45120409

Swaying in the wind a grassy field shone with the amber colored dying light of the sun, the cool breeze was unmolested by the treeline in the distance and chilled it to a temperature that teased the coming winter. Small rodents and other such life scurried to and fro trying to find enough sustenance for the coming freeze, the coming of Letty was inching closer and closer.

Defying common sense and all reason one women and one girl stood facing each other, bundled up in thick cloth they buffeted the wind that swirled around them. Their words nor intention were not lost on each other, like two predators rearing up for a fight they stood tall against each other sizing up their opponent.

Well, at least as tall as a witch that hasn’t grown since she was 12 and a shrine maiden of 16 years of age could be.

Hana was getting no where fast and she knew it, her mentor simply stared at her with a blank stare only broken by a trace of confusion flitting across her face as she responded, “Non-whatidean hyperdaze…?”

Not for the first time today Hana had felt like an idiot, she was fresh back from the Eientei mid-morning appointment. Which after the procedure, fun on the psych-whatevers, and some testing of her abilities she rushed to her mentor’s cottage… well Alice’s at least… or did it belong to Mima now…? Yuuka sometimes stayed over right…?

Well, whatever.

Details aside she sought out her master for a private bout much to Marisa’s dismay. Mima and the others seemed busy at the moment anyways, which suited Hana just fine since green haired women were just… a little much. She still had her misgivings about pretending to be Mima’s miko but that was a problem for later.

Marisa was clearly unenthused about the whole thing, undoubtably today was her one day of relative peace since it seemed that stupidly powerful flower youkai was keeping Mima preoccupied. Regardless, Hana just had to do it. She had to brag to her mentor about her cool new ability!

Even if she did try using all the fancy and big words Eirin used on her, even if she did feel her face flush in embarrassment as she tried and failed to explain the simplest concepts, even if she didn’t have any sort of knowledge about the academic side of her power; she was going to show off her power to its fullest!

Raising her Gohei she shouted to her yawning mentor with a pose and voice like one of those heroes from those smuggled outsider action manga, “I’ll show you how much stronger I’ve become and force you to acknowledge my progress!”

To Marisa’s credit she did start hyping herself up despite her tired appearance, she let out a smirk and pushed her hat down with one hand letting it tilt back snugly on her messy hair, “Oh? Hanarin is that confident about her ability to ‘never be chained’ ze~?” Marisa clutched her broom tightly, “Fine then, if you can outlast two of my spellcards, I’ll tell you the secrets behind one and let you use it daze!”

Hana felt her blood get hot; her past embarrassment forgotten. This is exactly what she wanted; she’d prove she was strong enough to gain her mentor’s full trust! She’d get that spell card and make it her own… then she’d start making her own too! And then she’d bust her father out and then… It was perfect!

With a shout the miko exclaimed, “I’ll do more than that, I’ll force you out of the sky!”

With bold words shouted the two women took to the sky, getting up a few dozen of feet into the air, more than enough to maneuver easily.

Marisa lifted her finger and pointed it up, one of those large cutesy stars shot up into the air nearly a hundred feet up above her before exploding into a shower of smaller stars and bullets. Her usual signal to start was launched, and within the moment dozens of smaller stars of various speeds shot towards Hana.

>>45129458
>Well, at least as tall as a witch that hasn’t grown since she was 12
Jesus Christ man…
I have this weird feeling Hana set herself up for an almighty beating after saying she'd get Marisa out of the sky. But maybe I'm wrong, and the shorty will finally know pain! Good luck, Hana!

>>45129458

The first of the bullets were simple to dodge, smaller stars that were of variable speeds spread over a decent enough arc enough to keep her moving to and fro. Hana wanted more; this wasn’t nearly enough to force her to use her ability!

The wave of training bullets was just the start of course, the stream of small stars narrowed as her larger bullets meant for herding shot out in a loose spiral out from around her in all three dimensions. It was almost too much but Hana didn’t want to use her ability just yet, she could last a bit longer.

She focused her mind from all extraneous thoughts, ducking, weaving, and misdirection were the way to go right now. Eventually she got into the swing of things properly. Now that she was in the zone, she even had time to let her mind get in an extra thought or two. She swam against the bullets letting them misdirect and she took that break in the flow to shoot up for a second as she summoned a magical seal onto Marisa which latched onto her clothing.

Grinning as she did so Marisa waved her hand sending an arc of bullets her way which Hana hurriedly dodged before feeling the heat of it across her face, way too close! Still now that Hana had backed up, she was safe enough and had proved her point so it was worth it.

The real test was now to come. She saw Marisa reach into her pocket and pull out the characteristic cards she favored, complete with little hearts and stars completely unbefitting of a woman her age. With a shout she heard Marisa whip out the spell card she favored using for Hana’s training, “Love sign, non-directional laser!”

There it was! A sphere of light comprised of magical script surrounded Marisa and bathed her in that light the flashy multi colored lasers Hana dreaded burst forth from in all directions along with torrents of bullets big and small! Hana could do it, she studied this card enough to know that they had a pattern, as hard as it was to see in the moment.

The bullets flew at her guiding her into a laser, the laser flew at her guiding her into a bullet. The smaller stars worked tirelessly to do the job of sorting her out. It was a storm that she normally couldn’t last against for this long, but Hana wasn’t the same normal Hana. Or so she would brag later if she could pull this off…

Letting the grid that formed her world squeeze the reality in front of her was no longer the world she was born into. Like she was looking through a sort of lens it became ‘distorted’, but to Hana it was just as natural as her mind grasped it perfectly. The lasers and bullets which surrounded her were formidable, they came from the ‘front’ as she would understand it normally but here? It was different.

Flying diagonally, she lurched ‘forward’, the bullets passed by her harmlessly as she simply flew to where they weren’t allowing the world to roll on itself as she found herself to the side of her mentor. A laser was coming now as well as the herding bullets, the path ‘forward’ was clear.

She ducked ‘into’ the laser and wall of those large bullets as the magical smaller stars doggedly followed her strange movements with, well… magic. Hana grinned as she saw the surprise on her mentor’s face and shouted out, “You’ll have to pull out a million cards before you can hit me like that!”

Hana knew she was acting way too cocky, but she didn’t care. This freedom, this unbridled feeling of superiority, breaking past her old limits and becoming more; it was intoxicating! She knew that like this, she could take on anyone in danmaku or direct combat. She’d be unstoppable! With this ability could be anywhere, move wherever she pleased, go through anything she wanted. If she wanted, she could even condense herself so no human eye could find her!

Finally, the spell card wore out and not being able to help herself Hana appeared ‘above’ Marisa taking the long way of spiraling around her and flipping several times over. An action which in reality took less than a moment, she shouted, letting her voice follow the strange spaced-out lines so it came from below, “Over here Marisa-sensei!”

This naturally caused the witch to look down, and with a grin like a fairy pulling off the funniest prank in the world she launched a true seal down on her mentor’s head. Hana couldn’t help but laugh knowing that her mentor felt the disruption to her magic.

She reached up and fired off a few lasers in a cone but Hana saw this coming and dodged out of the way of the blast. She could see Marisa squint as she deftly tore off the seal on her hat and let it fly away to the dirt. Marisa’s face was appraising, no longer was it confused nor bored and, there was something else there.

Hana however, dismissed it as she danced around in the air going where she pleased dodging the shots in the meantime. She knew her sensei had more tricks up her sleeve if she wanted to get serious, but she read all her abilities so surely nothing could sneak up on her.

>>45129834
>She knew her sensei had more tricks up her sleeve if she wanted to get serious, but she read all her abilities so surely nothing could sneak up on her.
IMPALING BROOM!!

>>45129225
oh I didn't mean during PoFV
she does it in the manga and remarks that knowing a shinigami is useful for this sort of thing, and komachi says that she's the only shinigami who'd do this sort of thing
plus, anon still was reimu's husband, so komachi might find him interesting too
he could also try and become friends with blue heca, who's probably on earth somewhere (and probably is in gensokyo because everyone who's anyone is)

>>45130014
Fair point, it was a thing that in the OGabuse fic Anon was friends with Komachi so if he paid her off he'd be able to cross

>>45129834

A second spell card was in Marisa’s hand before Hana knew it, this one decorated with thunder clouds raining hearts of some kind and with another shout Marisa exclaimed loudly, “Love storm, Starlight Typhoon!”

Hana almost scoffed at this as another sphere of magical energy burst forth from Marisa, but it didn’t stop at hovering around her casually. It expanded past Hana a good distance; Hana was confused at first as she tried to recall her mentor’s moves she read in that grimoire Marisa gave her long ago.

Finally, and just in time, she remembered. Those large herding stars flew in from ‘behind’ Hana as smaller stars shot out from Marisa’s little furnace in front of her. It was intense, even for Hana as the bullets flew out at her causing some near misses. She only had eyes on one side of her head after all! Still, she knew the smaller bullets would follow her with those tracking spells as certainly as the larger ones would.

She used the squeezed reality to maneuver off to the side suddenly letting the bullets follow her before she ducked back to her original position. She even took the ‘long’ way around by dipping and curving towards her mentor. She couldn’t help but tease her again, firing off a singular paper seal as she shouted, “Are you asleep Marisa-sensei!?”

The crisscrossing streams of large herding bullets were absurdly easy to dodge when she could just thread around and to the sides of them. The smaller stars were a bit more annoying but nothing she couldn’t handle. If she wanted too, she could probably pelt Marisa with fantasy seals, even needles if she was a youkai. It was something that was beyond her just earlier today and it felt great.

The sphere had shrunk as she dipped and dodged, making the spell lose most of its effectiveness as the lasers themselves were easy enough to dodge with her new perspective on things and the spell faded soon after.

Hana was left hovering in front of Marisa after she maneuvered ‘away’ from her. With a grin on her face she proclaimed, “How was that Marisa-sensei, you think I’m good enough yet?!”

Marisa sighed as she nodded, “Its true, you did win and those movements are hard to keep track of. You really are a lot better than you were, and as your mentor I’m proud of your progress ze!”

Hana grinned widely; it was exactly what she wanted. Recognition as being strong, maybe she could even- Marisa cut her off, “However, as your mentor I also can’t let you get too big for your bloomers ze. That’s why… I’m going to teach you thoroughly what happens when you pick a fight against someone with more experience than you da ze!”

Huh? Did she piss off Marisa? Uh oh…

>>45110223 (3/-)
—
It's easy to feel defeated after a terrible day, but I'm a teacher—I eat bad days for breakfast. Well, the analogy sounded better in my head as I left my room, eyes droopy and hair a mess, the sun just appearing on the horizon, not hurrying my routine: do my hygiene, get dressed, review the material for the day, catch the Bunbunmaru on the way to the school—and maybe, if I'm on a good mood—yeah…—pray at the Dragon Statue.

Thing is, it's never that simple; "Good morning, Keine!" Mokou yelled, all smiles as yesterday. I stare at her blankly, the immortal taking my obvious silence as a cue; "Sorry for barging in—that spare key you gave me came in handy! Just wanted to make sure the expecting mother would eat nicely!" She proudly glanced at the kotatsu, white rice—an immense bowl of it—thick broth soup, and a big fish all set. It looked like the feast of a sumo wrestler.

Frustration boiled just beneath my skin. My storage room was flooded yesterday with babyware, and Mokou was already planning to make it into a baby's room… Babies that, for the millionth time, do not exist. I breathe in and breathe out to control my rage—I don't have time for this. I do not. I have to get everything ready, or I might be late for class…

"Mokou…" I reminisced about how Mokou thought it was a joke yesterday. "… Good morning." So I sit at the kotatsu, fishing my teacher bag from the side before pulling out my big notebook full of colored and scribbled bookmarks. She giggles a bit, finishing cleaning the dishes before joining me. My worries about fitting all the leftovers in the fridge soon dissipated into thin air.

"So, when are you visiting Eientei?"

"Hm?"

"For your pre-natal accompaniment," she tossed a book to me after fishing it from a pocket; on the cover was the silhouette of a woman holding a tiny baby. "This helped me understand how to manage a pregnant woman—needs, changes in everyday life, cares, and signs something might not be okay. You know, that kind of important stuff."

… I stared at her, dumbfounded, then at the book, then at her again. "When did you study all that, Mokou?"

"Last night." Wide-eyed, I gave her face a closer look, spotting clear signs of a night not well-slept. She spent the whole night studying how to help me during my pregnancy…? I would be ecstatic and probably crying in her arms… if this was not a phony pregnancy. So all I did was look at her like she had grown a second head. Mokou, 'course, laughed. "Don't worry, don't worry! I wouldn't leave my best friend hanging during a life-changing moment like this—I'm not an ass, Keine! A bad night of sleep is nothing!"

"Mokou," I call her again: ‘I am not pregnant’. I wish I could say that and make that big, empty head of hers wrap around EXACTLY what those words meant. Still… "Why are you so excited about my… pregnancy?"

She stops laughing; her red eyes, normally so lively and energetic, taking on a tinge of… anxiety. "Huh?"

"I mean, you're more excited for that than I am."

"Well, you see…" The anxiety doesn't fade away but shares space with a weird desire-like feeling. My heart withers a bit as a hypothesis starts to form. "I don't think I'll ever experience it, you know? I love this immortal body of mine, but… Knowing it'll never change—it'll be forever like this—can be disheartening. I don't think much about it, but with the passing of the decades, it's hard not to wish something more…"

Oh. So she wants to experience the 'joys' of pregnancy through me… The person who's not even pregnant.

Way to strike the heart, Mokou, gee…

Now I feel terrible about telling her the truth. I look at the tiny book in my hands, bitterness taking over my tongue—not even quenched by Mokou's great cooking—and feel my bosom contort. What exactly should I do in this situation? Telling her would be for the best, not letting the lie grow roots. Yet, as I listened her go on and on about helping to build an extension for my house, the hours we’ll spend choosing the perfect spot for a cradle, the decorations, the plans…

I don't even notice I'm caressing my belly, feeling only blood circulation.

Mokou smiles fondly. "Are they kicking?" Her voice is soft as a pillow. I glance again at her face, my body trembling a bit.

… It won't take long.

Pregnancies usually show up six or seven weeks after the fertilization period. It'll be cruel when the time comes and the truth is revealed; I'll maybe even say, 'I told you'… but I nod anyway, tense, watching as she gets up from the kotatsu, treading lightly as if to not wake up a slumbering beast, kneeling by me, staring from below with eyes of pure expectancy and anxiety just as great…

"They… can’t kick already," she nods, frowning. "But it's about that time—their hearts have started to beat."

"… Can I?"

I nodded, and Mokou put her ear on my belly. A tiny pulsating danmaku pellet in my stomach simulated beating hearts.

Her smile was the biggest I’ve seen.

I can’t shake the feeling this is a mistake.

>>45130310

Hana was having trouble now; the bullets were flying relentlessly and even though Marisa was still on the ‘defense’ as it were. It was taking all of Hana’s concentration just to keep in the air and keep dodging even with her advantage of her ability. Despite her strange movements that would unnerve the inaba from earlier she remembered that the strong are simply different like how Eirin and Kaguya seemed to be able to track her just fine. Marisa seemed to get a grasp on her movements as well.

Well, that wasn’t exactly true, it was more like Marisa could mostly guess where she’d head to and let Hana fall into a routine. Then she’d pull the rug from under her with streams of merciless bullets that would start and stop in short order to track her down. She hadn’t even used any new spell cards just yet which worried her.

Still, even if Marisa were pull out a final spark or something she could dodge it as long as she knew it was coming! Well, that’s what she thought at least, Marisa shouted out something as she pulled out a spell card decorated with two hakerro sitting on a large star, “Double magic, Duospark!”

The fucking what?! It was at that moment that Hana realized something about the grimoire Marisa gave her to study. It was old, nearly as old as her. Naturally, Marisa came up with new moves and cards in the meantime, it wasn’t like incidents stopped happening in recent years. They may have gotten a bit sparser but that’s all.

Hana learned the meaning of ‘improvement’ as Marisa became surrounded in blinding light. Like looking into a sun comprised of the colors of the rainbow Marisa summoned waves and waves of those large herding stars around her.

However, they didn’t venture forth, not yet, like a flash she vanished to the side as she did it again in the span of a second. To cover her movements smaller stars showered the field like a typhoon forcing Hana to continually dodge without rest, even her strange movements didn’t allow her a moments rest.

She could go to where the bullets weren’t, that was easy. What if there were nowhere bullets weren’t? What if they were always falling and never giving her a chance to rest? Hana was already out of breath, and that was before those two balls of rainbow light burst forth. The waves crisscrossed in all directions cutting off all escape routes and Hana regretted losing her composure and taunting her teacher so much.

In a last desperate gambit, she made her world go wide, looking into the distance behind her mentor as she tried to throw off her aim. Barely able to keep all but the heat of the bullets off of her. That was hardly the end, those smaller stars and herding bullets were just a ploy to keep her busy.

The real show began when Marisa took out her second furnace, a thin beam of light erupted… erupted…? No that wasn’t right, it was just the tracer. A sudden wide and bright light erupted where she was just a second ago, it took all her focus just to find a path into the beam that could even avoid it.

She tried to appear above the witch and do anything to gain some reprieve by finding a blind spot in between the waves of thick and clogging bullets. However there was no safe space, and before Hana even finished moving Marisa was already raising her Hakkero up and it was emitting a thin tracer beam as the other was just finishing.

Hana’s world went white

I call this section: Hana learns what hubris means
or
Jobbing to a jobber: a Hana Hakurei story

>>45130317
Oh boy, now the guilt is getting to her. I wonder what her plan is now, how long till she's negotiating with Ran for a full fertilization session?

>>45130393
>>45130310
you think Junko regrets adopting someone that'd job to Marisa of all people, or does she find the jobbing endearing?
some humbling will do Hana just fine; better than rushing into the HSE and having Ran kicking her ass like it's just another chore, no worse than solving a petty conflict between two kappas

>>45130393
I wonder who did better Cirno or Hana, Cirno was on the back foot the entire fight, but she was up against an opponent magnitudes stronger than her who was trying to teach her how to not die against similarly monstrously strong opponents, and she basically did her replica of four of a kind on the spot.
While Hana fought fairly equally with Marisa in spellcard rules, but still lost due to overconfidence and having a stronger ability which she makes good use of, although she doesn't pull new techniques on the spot like Cirno did.

>>45130600
both lost to funny blonde 'lolis'
Hana's defeat was just immensely more funny, so she earns the badge of 'Mega Jobber'.

>>45130600
As well cirno is still an experienced fighter thats been in many incidents over the last 60+ years. Hana is still an absolute novice in danmaku and combat

>>45130442
somewhere on the northern hemisphere, og Hanaanon is laughing his ass off

Miss me with this shit, when is hananon writerfag going back?

>>45131858
Come back after the winter solstice
I'm think he's quite enjoying this though, or he would have restarted in the other reimu threat before it died

>>45126510
>betrayal
it's not a betrayal if the SDM never sided with anyone, Okina groomed her, so that's doesn't count

>>45130659
True, Cirno is around 80ish years old and has spent the plot of of EoSD forward trying to become the strongest, so he has an experience advantage.

>>45131576
Picrel: the very fitting sister image, considering the discussion that was had.

>>45126792
>>45131858
I made an entire other thread just for that and you wanna know what happened?
Died in like 20 posts.

>>45132176
You shouldn't bother replying, its pretty much one guy samefagging.

>>45130503
For someone like Keine that would be a bit much for her character. Having a child is a big thing, and getting one you didn't want because you were peer pressured, and without the father to raise it with (no, Mokou doesn't count) would be irresponsible.
She does have a soft spot for Mokou and will probably play along longer than she should before getting Eientei to clear things up.

>>45133359
>no, Mokou doesn't count
why...

>>45133379
because mokou's permanently a depressed teenager that keine already has to take care of, like yelling at her to brush her teeth and comb her hair because she'll just ignore it until she dies and it resolves itself otherwise

>>45133379
Moko's from the 9th century anon, that kind of thing doesn't sit well with her.

>>45133395
>>45133417
can't argue facts

>>45133359
Something does have to give and its clear she was seriously considering letting it go till she can't hide it anymore.
I seriously wonder where writefag will take it, maybe he'll opt for the silly route and Kiene will visit the HSE.
Maybe Kiene will be commissioning the kappa for a pregnancy suit and adopt one of the conveniently born child
Maybe Kiene will resort to other methods so intelligent that we can't list them here

>>45133832
>maybe he'll opt for the silly route
Ah, time to put on the aya playlist. I see it now:
Keine spends the next few months stuffing her dress with pillows to make it look like she's coming to term, carrying on the charade all the way to Eientei where she """"gives birth"""" in front of an excited Mokou, and an exasperated Eirin who only put up with it because it was funny to Kaguya.

>>45133876
while it would be funny, I don't think it'd fit with keine's sensibilities since she cares a lot about true history, and I don't think it'd fit for mokou either since she's (harsh as it is) built for suffering
plus I just think the eventual scene where a heartbroken mokou discovers that keine isn't actually pregnant would be more interesting than ten scenes of keine trying to pretend she's pregnant

>>45133896
So what you're saying is that Kiene is going to do something so intelligent, so groundbreaking, so innovative that we can't even comprehend?
I see, you are truly a genius without peer, anon!

>>45133876
>just a fucking pillow with goggly eyes
>Mokou call it perfect and cry of joy

>>45133925
anon you can't even spell her name right

>>45133936
Thats why you're the genius and not I

>>45130597
>does she find the jobbing endearing?
children are cutest when they job

>>45134585
anyone who's played a card game with their family can attest to this
there's nothing more satisfying than making your dumb kid try and balance half a deck in their tiny hands

>>45134650
I remember a rule I created just to fuck with my sibling while playing UNO with the family. Our country had just got mogged in the world cup, so now, every time someone throws a 7 or a 1 in the pile, you HAVE to hit the card, as in placing your hand on top of it. Whoever hits it last has to fish a +1
my sibling had to compete with me, my mother, and my dad. He'd never win, but would always try, resulting in him sometimes buying a +1 or having his hand smacked by at least two other hands much bigger than his. It was funny every time.

>>45134705
Sopa de macaco uma delicia.

>>45125743 (2/4)
—
There is no need for words.

His lips on mine are lava, my hands running across his back and feeling each individual sulk; each lump that didn't heal as properly—this is not the back of a fighter, no matter how toned or worked it is, but even so, these scars tell stories. They're sad stories… Yet, my fingers touch them gently, respecting their stories and the man that carries them, whose eyes just found mine, illuminated by dots of gold and pale moonlight, breathing struggling to recompose, back arched outwards, as if afraid to touch, to feel more than the focus of his eyes.

My hands go down, around his lower hips, then up, following the trail of his chest—the same book as his back—and end dearly holding each of his cheeks. I slightly nod to him, a reassurance. The moment he wants to stop, that he doesn't feel comfortable—that's when we stop.

He nods back, a bit uncertain but still here with me, and fondly presses his lips a little lower, following that line of the neck and trailing it down with a multitude of kisses, pinching on the right spots to make my back arch up—biting on the jawbone and pulling ever so slightly. I'm moaning, a jolt coursing through me like the flow of a river and tensing up my tails. The cold of the stone, the nearby pond, and the wind are dispelled as his mouth finally reaches its destination between my breasts.

His lips work, explore, teeth pulls and pushes, his hands following true and holding each of my hips, guiding the laying dance, caresses not lacking, his touch going from inch to inch with a sort of adoration that melts my heart—

—I moan louder, mewling sweet as the tip of his penis touches my entrance, no more than a chaste kiss… Which freezes him like a statue.

Anon's eyes are not of love anymore; they're wide, and behind his shrunk pupils I see fear, anxiety, a weight only those scars painting his body know of, his breathing going from a stream to a tornado, sweat forming in puddles. He trembles like a leaf…

I hold him. He's crying in my arms.

Even though his dick is still close by, poking my thigh, I simply don't care. I don't move forward or try to get more than what he's already giving me…

I wait patiently, drawing circles on his back and whispering truths in his ear—truths of love that blossomed even here, in this accursed place.

It takes a while—I don't mind—but soon, he calms down, the words from before, about the things Reimu and Yukari have done to him ring loudly.

They'll never go away.

Our eyes find each other again, and I'm about to reach his face, say 'It is okay', that we can stop here. I won't be mad.

He holds my wrist, and I watch as a courageous smile cross his face, tears forgotten, and even though some time has passed, the fireflies around us shine brighter, as if challenging the absolute shine born in his eyes. The fireflies lose.

Because each scar tells a story only they know.

… Yet, there's one thing all those scars, so silent and stoic, tell me just by existing: that the man who carries them got up and marched forward after each one, no matter what. Personal strength; strength harvested from the love for his daughter or maybe the hope for his wife… In me, his light… Strength nevertheless.

A man who never let fear chain him down.

I kiss that man, he kisses back, and his hand gently guided inside of me what many considered a simple tool for carnal pleasure—I welcomed it as he welcomes me every excruciating day: with fondness, care, and love.

We moaned to each other, never breaking eye contact, foreheads touching—my ears poking his scalp—the member inside me moving in and out, one of my hands holding his neck and the other having found its way to his free hand subconsciously, our grasp tough as diamonds, love honed just as one, too.

My name escaped his smiling lips, holding my body as if sacred, bushy tails in ecstasy clamping everywhere as if to keep a hold on reality, the growing necessity and the promised satisfaction—exacerbated by being in each other's arms—through the proverbial roof, my legs kicking, trying to get a hold of his waist—his hand goes down, a natural movement, and helps the tense lips to get a proper hold, his thrusting in and out—in and out, in and out—stronger, and I could feel it coming, back curving up, drooling, narrowed eyes, mind clouded, body so very warm it seemed on fire.

His mouth was on mine, and the world went white—

My legs quivered, fluffy tails tense like rods, and I came and, oh… It was like the world had lost its massive weight. He quickly followed suit, as if seeing this orgasmic, derpy-looking woman in his arms was the most beautiful sight in the whole world… The way he held me after finishing, laughing genuinely, eyes wide not with fear, made me think it was possible.

I laughed, too, hand on my full belly, and cried tears of healing with him.

The moments passed in bliss, silence, our personal paradise. Words finally came: "… Wanna go again?" He asked.

"Yes." I answered.

>>45134790
o glória.

>>45134796
sex...

>>45134796
Yukari will NEVER have a man make love to her like this. Kanako has better chances.

>>45134875
S-STOP TALKING! That's not true...

>>45134875
How could you say something like that!?

>>45135085
>filename
Aya's playing with fire with these headlines...

>>45134796
I can't believe Ran had already won the anonbowl. Yuuka, Marisa, Hana, Kanako, Sanae, and Tewi are gonna have to play hardball if they wanna snag an Anon with how much progress Ran has made at having her captive audience

>>45135152
>snag an Anon
maybe they should follow the Seija route, bully a human male and, in a very convoluted way, end with a happy family. They ditch the rape Seija committed; that can sour things up

>>45091141
Seeing Reimu again was supposed to be a death sentence. Listening to her orders was painful enough, but Ran revealing her pregnancy completely destroyed her composure. Some random at a bar, a secret boyfriend, Okina’s backdoor; Lies and alibis were constructed in her head until Toutetsu locked eyes with her. Letting the truth out, guilt burned her heart and her throat as she confessed her sins, begged forgiveness, then realized who she was bowing to. Reimu’s gaunt limbs and heavy eyes were gone: She was once again the Crimson Slasher that defied gods and suppressed the strongest youkai. Even weakened by Sanae, Aya decided that someone had to stop her before she hurt Anon again. Before she hurt Hana again. Before she could hurt her children.

When she put away her gohei, Aya realized the Crimson Slasher wouldn’t hurt anyone. Reimu was standing in front of her again.

Aya clung onto the miko tightly, letting all of her fears, anger and resentment flow onto her shoulders. Two decades of animosity were swept away in a tide, revealing the good days of banquets, incidents, and friendship that were smothered underneath. The tengu wouldn’t stay dry either: Like a little girl who found a lost toy, Reimu returned the embrace tenfold, releasing the heavy chains that weighed her heart down. Slowly, the stoic mistress that held Anon in bondage faded away, replaced by a mournful woman searching for atonement. The tengu could hear sniffling coming from neither her nor Reimu, but it wouldn’t hurt to keep that a secret. She’d make the mob boss cry another day, this moment was between her and Reimu!

Reimu composed herself first, letting go of the mother-to-be. Whether it was some senior instinct to protect her younger friend, maternal hormones, or a fear that letting go of Reimu would mean losing her again, Aya pulled her back in twice before Toutetsu had to force them apart. “Alright, alright, that’s enough now! *sniffle* Crying over each other isn’t a planning meeting. Look — Ranni and Chen already left us behind!”

Aya wanted to retort, but Toutetsu had a point: She came here to discuss liberating Anon and just started fighting with Reimu and Ran. It would be inevitable, sure, but freeing Anon from Yukari’s treacherous clutches took precedent over the cunning shikigami and the somewhat-less violent miko. Instead Reimu spoke up: “Sure, but isn’t the meeting pretty much over without Ran? She’s going to be necessary for a fight against Yukari, so there isn’t much left to talk about without her.” With those characteristically aloof words, Reimu turned towards home and prepared to leave.

The reporter chirped up: “We can still discuss an escape plan!” Capturing the miko’s attention, Aya delved into her proposition: “My delivery day is only two months away, so I’ll still be able to fly when the solstice comes around. Between Eirin’s pills and Okina’s backdoor, I’ll have the strength to locate Anon and pull him out of harm’s way before anyone” — that’s too broad, be specific! —“working with Yukari can catch me. Physically. Yukari’s barriers probably have secret countermeasures made to stop a jailbreak and the HSE building itself is definitely full of kappa traps that won’t be merciful.” She looked over to Toutetsu, signaling her to share.

“Yeah yeah, there’s a shitload of distractions packed into every inch of that place. I’ll take care of the most important trap since it’s not something you guys can handle delicately.” Toutetsu pointed her spork towards the miko and tengu that relied on strength and speed over strategy, annoying both. “The rest of them shouldn’t kill anyone of your caliber, but it’s another story for a human. That’s why you’ll take the easy way out.” Breaking out a grin, Toutetsu started describing the system of interconnected staff tunnels that held fewer traps and predictability than a frontal assault. While Reimu listened intently, Aya tried her best to to simultaneously remember everything and think about nothing.

This was it! This was what Aya needed to save Anon — and that’s the furthest she could let herself think. While Reimu discussed ways to pull attention away from the exits and entrances, Aya halfheartedly responded with affirmations of “that could work” and “I should be able to manage that.” Come on, stop thinking and just soak it up! She tired distracting herself with her tengu problems for a bit: Maybe she could use the staff entrances to catch the rumormonger when they left the HSE… It hit her immediately: The rumormonger was using the secret exits!

Saving Anon, protecting the Moriya Shrine and securing her happiness, Aya gave Toutetsu a big hug before flying off for her reservation. While the taotie was caught off guard, she squeezed back hard enough to remind Aya of her massive strength. Heh, secret plans and powerful friends; Everything was coming up Aya!

(Part 41)

>>45135152
Stockholm syndroming a guy doesn't count as winning, anon. Anon will wake up to the truth and realize none of the women in his life can be trusted, and decide to marry Goro.

>>45136054
Sanny, not everything is like your BL doujins. I know Kanako edging you out of competition must've been hard on you, but no need to make him gay just to cope with your failure.

>>45136054
Damn, now that's a plot twist

>>45134796
They finally did it, happy for them.

>>45135517
after a long time of getting egged, it's nice to see Aya go finally winding down a bit. The Dragon God knows this silly tengu needs it, or the funny terrorism may be much worse than anticipated

>>45136933
Well, happy for Ran, at least.
Anon's psyche and relationship to sex have been so thoroughly destroyed that he's no longer capable of a healthy relationship. It would really take years of healing before he's ready to even attempt a romantic relationship, let alone anything involving sex.

I delight in seeing all these selfish people justify their actions to themselves, but I only really root for the few people who have absolutely no designs on Anon. The poor guy has suffered enough.

>>45137104
When I wrote the first toutetsu piece I'd actually planned for her only motive to be helping ran because of their old friendship, but I'm still pretty happy with the direction that rananon took it in

>>45137133
glad you like it man, writing her is a treat

>>45137133
I imagine that Yuuma is pretty happy to see her old friend act so selfishly, even if she presumably doesn't really care for the associated savior complex.
It's funny to think that Yuuma is one of the few people who didn't end up becoming worse as a person as the story progressed because this is just the kind of person she is. She's entirely true to herself.

g-guys, what's happening?! Why are there so many black boxes in the thread? Did Rumia cursed us or s-something?

>>45137341
glowies are redacting this thread as we speak
soon you'll to be able to read anything

>>45137341
Obviously they're to hide the many sex scenes involving Anon, Rumia, and their many children, as the Youkai of the Dusk and her impossible fertility and incredibly short pregnancy cycles threaten to flood Gensokyo with little man eaters.
Quick, anon, escape while you still can!

>>45137005
Sleep well Aya, good luck being a single mother!

>>45137397
she's too powerful!!

>>45137407
she has Momiji tho, which makes it two single mothers

>already scrapped two half-done Keine scripts because of autistic perfectionism
today's gonna be one of those days...

>>45138548
>Have next chapter plotted out
>Meanwhile tons o's meetings and social engagements are getting in the way
It'll be out tonight I swear!

>>45135517
>but Ran revealing her pregnancy completely destroyed her composure
You meant Aya right? I'd be shocked if Ran getting pregnant already happened
>Everything was coming up Aya!
Heh

>>45138548
Be like me, empty your head and simply start writing

>>45137104
The best choices avaliable to Anon are going to wind up being Ran, Kanako, Tewi, or Suika in the end.
They're the only ones who haven't raped him. Well Ran kind of stockholmed him but let's not talk about that.
Tewi can unironically get him enough therapy and professional help to fix him

>>45138690
you guys actually plot things out?

>>45138817
Honestly it flabbergasts me to think some writefags actually plot things out

>>45138807
>Well Ran kind of stockholmed him but let's not talk about that.
it's not Stockholm if it comes with a cool cat

>>45138918
>>45138817
it's a community project and people like to have what they create praised, so they write it with care.

>>45138817
I always have a second reference window open to make sure my story stays "consistent" (i.e pictures of characters, other HSE posts, chapters from a manga, checking the exact names of spell cards, etc.) When I was checking the archive I saw one of my posts saying I was in the "final arc" of a story. That was on Oct. 8. Sometimes planning shit works out. Other times you just have to wing it because the cute scene of Aya sleeping on Anon's lap turned into heavy interrogation and Momiji became a rapist EX.

>>45139154
... holy shit
you're literally me...

I've noticed something
>writeanon at the KMS is obsessed with Yamame
>ranfag is obsessed with spiders
collab when?

>>45139002
This. All you fags saying "noh nuh uh it don't count" to Anon trusting, confiding, and inseminating the fox discounts all the legwork Chen did to bring him out of his despair spiral and keep him from becoming a complete husk. If it wasn't for the cat Yukari would've won months ago… She even fixed Reimu who we believed to have been a lost cause, Sanae aint got shit on Chen's miracles.
Out of the four choices, Ran's done the most to actually help him and give him insight and updates that things are in motion to help him and give him something to cling to, both figuratively and literally. Kanako hasn't spoken to him since the Hana timeline, Tewi took advantage of her old friend by raping and baby trapping him, and while Suika tried to bust him out once she doesn't do much else to actually help him in the then and now.
>>45139154
>>45139182
We're going to end up finishing this on the actual Solstice at this rate. It supposed to be a quick in and out side story, how did this happen?

>>45139334
>how did this happen?
writeanons saw potential, and struck.
it is a very volatile story, after all
>goal was clear from the start: get Anon out of the HSE and defeat Yukari. Extremely wide range of options on how to proceed, from the silliests to the more serious
>the HSE affected the entirety of Gensokyo, so everyone could come and see, take sides and interact in other ways with the HSE as it interacted with them back (like Kasen coming; discovering the Hammer side; Yukari using that against Kasen and now Kasen is on Yukari's palm)
>easy to write about it; some will just write an one-off, maybe a two, three shots; while others will write extensive story moving the plot forward. It's not exclusively one or the other
>side-story friendly, which means that, even if someone wants to write a character not always interacting directly with the HSE, they can still write it and have the HSE as the background, like in the Goro and Cirno stories, and things will still make sense
or, in short words: it's a sandbox story

>>45139334
>Kanako hasn't spoken to him since the Hana timeline, Tewi took advantage of her old friend by raping and baby trapping him, and while Suika tried to bust him out once she doesn't do much else to actually help him in the then and now.
Kanako has been doing things, really!
I swear!
Tewi didn't baby trap him exactly, it was more like her inaba had some fun and her biological clock started pyon pyoning. Tewi can unironically provide the best aftercare.
Suika has been going in often and keeping Anon company platonically. She's been acting as a secondary lifeline the whole time, even got a ton of fire power for Kanako's gang to bust in! its just that I haven't had the time to write suika's stuff since i've been busy with Hana

>>45139585
I love u Hanaanon, thanks for the laughs

So you guys wanna know something funny? I was rereading some of the earliest Ranon sections and realized that there was a little bit that mentioned that mentioned that the grassroots were regularly visiting Anon. Though it was entirely forgotten in more recent lore with Kaggy being recruited for the babysitting job and the grassroots being hired to evac the village for the big showdown

>>45139673
I'm about to commit a fucking crime...
can you point the section for me? Can't believe I forgot something of that caliber

>>44838354
>Each day, youkai and human alike, they arrived. Some were bashful about their intentions, like the lesser youkai who comprised the Grassroots Youkai Network. Some weren't ashamed in the slightest, and Kazami Yuuka's wide smile followed by the screams of pain that had emerged from the 'Shrine' bedrooms still stuck in Ran's memory. Some were adamant that they wanted to save the Shrine Husband, like Ibaraki Kasen and Kirisame Marisa
>>45139711
Just one of those things that got forgotten. Its fine, much like ZUN we take pride in forgetting our own written words

>>45139673
>Though it was entirely forgotten in more recent lore
Man and Ransimpy have a good working relationship so it's all good.
I will be writing that fluff section about boiling Ran alive in a mother's interrogation at some point to apologize JIC regardless.
>>45139759
>like the lesser youkai who comprised the Grassroots Youkai Network
This is actually an interesting point, I don't think it's every said that the network is just three people. So actually, I'm the one with the biggest brain and the tallest moral high ground.

>>45139759
that's because those weren't rananon's written words
they're mine

>>45122456
ran/chen 6 is the wrong link

>>45138807
>Ran
Blatantly taking advantage of Anon's vulnerability and extremely fragile emotional state, while convincing herself that she's the only one who can help him and that he totally loves her for real and isn't just clinging to whatever he can. Her writer's laying it on really thick now, too.
Chen has done far more for Anon than Ran ever will.
>Kanako
Just wants to use him and prop him up as a new god. Highly self-centred.
>Tewi
Wants to use him as a breeding stud. Close association with Eirin makes her a very bad choice.
>Suika
Made Anon take Yuugi's innocence.
Also, I'm pretty sure she has been fucking Anon aplenty. She's probably the least bad of these, but still not a great pick, unless Anon really wants oni to run a train on him every night.

>>45139802
Just yooks doing yook things, Anon
turns out your morals get fucky wucky when you live over a thousand years under a blue-orange, distinctly inhuman mindset

>>45139778
bad tetsuanon
bad gote!
bad!

>>45139759
oh, I didn't write that. If you want to spot what I write, a nice clue is that I rarely write in the third person; always first

>>45139816
in my defence, I wrote two ran posts back when the story was in its infancy and then I bequeathed control to Rananon, so it wasn't like I had any input
>>44838354
>>44844619
these are both me

>>45139798
thanks for pointing it out! Will fix next thread

>>45139802
>Also, I'm pretty sure she has been fucking Anon aplenty
surprisingly no, unless I missed someone else's story saying such the current meta is that Suika hasn't touched him at all sexually. The logic is that Oni are ultra resistant to drugs and the like so the magic and incense haven't affected her at all like it didn't Yuugi in her chapters. Its been platonic fun times with lots of alcohol and pure games. Yukari hasn't interfered for obvious reasons.
Doesn't help that nobody has had the time to write her chapters yet

>>45139802
You an look for self centered motives in anybody's love, same thing for positive. I think the most important factor is if Anon and the perspective bride are in love with each other and willing to work towards a relationship together.
Any motive or action can be twisted to look cruel or kind.
Honestly as long as the girl in question didn't rape him, use him to take someone else innocence, or abuse him in someother manner, it's fine in my book.
Also we don't know Kanako's motive as we haven't had a PoV of her and the story which hints towards Kanko doing that is questionable cannon.
But I do agree that Tewi and Suika are bad picks.

>>45139826
Ah, fair enough. Sorry for bullying you.
>>45139846
I also wrote one of the first Ran chapters >>44830460

I can't believe Ran got passed around by three different Anons...

One of the things I love the most about Touhou is perspective. Everyone sees Gensokyo differently, and it reflected nicely in this community project;. Always have fun reading the discussions

>>45139888
>Suika are bad picks
Suika is a good girl that didn't even touch Anon sexually! Suika visits him regularly and plays with him a bunch! She's pure(as an oni can be)!

>>45139888
Trips of truth. Anyway, I'd say the real emotions and motivations under their relationship is ambiguous enough since some anons are wrongly saying Ran is either deluding herself from stress or knowingly manipulating and taking advantage of him. It isn't a cut and dry win if you interpret it as such, so it leaves plenty of room for other possibilities to come up when we split for endings. Ran's ending obviously would just continue off this and could be clarified that it was all genuine affection, while other character endings can say that there were actually underlying problems that caused them to break up and Anon can go with another gal or Goro.

>>45139999
>quads
beautiful
>spoiler
Yamashiroanon, you have your work cut out for you!

>>45139802
Kanako is the most pure of the bunch
Kanako's plan is entirely vague and barely canon anyways. Since we have no chapters from her POV it can go any way a writefag wants without being an issue. Plus she's way too much of a dork to do it without Anon's consent(not like it'll matter considering all it'll take is one villager to start praying to him to get the ball rolling on his ascent to divinity)

I still have to say that Tewi is one of the best options insofar as Anon overcoming his massive amounts of trauma and life threatening breakdown to come after he gets out. Sure Eirin was complicit in the HSE but the fact is that her and Kaguya are the only ones that could actually treat Anon without the use of any special abilities and genuinely let him heal mentally.

>>45139999
I meme about it but honestly Ran is a shoein for the winner as long as Anon has a choice in the matter. Unless something happens to her during the final fight I don't see anything but his sense of duty letting him choose anyone but Ran to live with in the end.
Though the big pregnancy reveal of literally everyone in gensokyo having his child will certainly make things complicated.

>>45140058
I don't think he should actually live with Ran, though, or anyone who's been fucking him at the HSE (or Eientei, since they were complicit too)
the SDM has remained pretty much entirely neutral though, patchouli has no interest in him and meiling's probably immune to the incense through funny martial arts bullshit, so they're probably not going to fuck him either
I think remi would see it as a great PR opportunity if she graciously took him in and gave him somewhere to heal

>>45140080
wouldn't that go against his somewhat character arc? Anon has been chained down since he got with Reimu again and again; letting others decide for him where he'll live, what'll he do, wouldn't be as cathartic as Anon saying; "I WILL do this."
that's the plotline I'm following, at least

>>45140080
As much as it'd be funny there wouldn't really be a reason to do so unless Flan gets involved like what was memed about earlier with her going to the HSE to play with Anon.
The most likely scenario is him moving back to the shrine after total mu death, him moving back into his house at the village, or him living in the house(?) Alice has been making for him(?) for the past few threads(update never ever)

The only reason for him not to do one of the three above options is because he would make a life for himself with Ran or one of the other main heroines. Dude just wants to live a normal life for Dragon God's sake.
>>45140091
Ideally it will be Anon choosing, but I can still see endings where he ends up getting nabbed or asked by x to go with them. Since we're going to get as many endings as writefags want its the only way it can turn out

>>45130317 (4/-)
—
I regretted it immediately.

Feeling strained after two hours of listening to Mokou gush about all things baby-related and what she read about them, I—surprisingly—felt some relief when we went our separate ways and I got to the school. In the hallways, I got looks and whispers, and I probably should go and have a talk with the headmaster to clarify things… Nah, better do it during break.

My eyes focus on the papers in my hands as I reach my classroom, ready to start the day, at least feeling at peace with the predictable fact most of my students should've already forgotten what happened yesterday—

"CONGRATULATIONS, MS. KEINE!" A chorus of shrill voices scares the ever-living crap out of me, papers scattering as I almost stumble backward. Rice flies over me, my eyes broad, heart through the roof. The classroom had been transformed: tables joined together to make a big one, a nice towel and a big cake over it. Students stood at the front, parents at the back—even Kosuzu-san, bless her soul, was beaming—then it started: the children rushed towards me, all screaming with smiles on their faces, and soon enough I was sunk into a massive group hug of tiny bodies, everyone trying to put their flag of affection on their teacher's body—and the parents were laughing.

"W-Wh—"

"Congrats on your pregnancy, Keine-sensei!" All yells followed that pattern as I, having to leave my stupor before drowning in a sea of softness, began hugging back each kid and putting them back down. It was immensely sweet, but it gnawed on the back of my head how far this lie was going, making the prospect of having to come clean just that much more harrowing… The parents then came forward, congratulating me with words of encouragement, small gifts—even hugs—mothers telling me how good of a mother I'll be…

I had to smile through it all. Say to their proud, smiling, and even jesting faces, 'Yes, I'm an expectant mother'.

Too overwhelming, too overwhelming…

… But why?

And then came the headmaster—I hadn't noticed Mr. Hieda in the bunch of parents, but I was wide-eyed when he hugged me, congratulating me and saying how he's gonna bring sweet Akyuu here when she's free, then guiding me to the cake—chocolate, beautifully made, yet it made the food inside my stomach turn and turn and oh—

"Excuse me!" I stumble to the class door, holding my mouth—I won't have time to get to the bathroom—

I blindly pick the closest thing to me and, unceremoniously, vomit inside of it.

The cheer stops, soon a sweet hand drawing circles on my back. "Oh, these are the worsts—I remember mine." It's Suzu's voice, Fumiko and Daisuke watching from behind, other mothers getting close to shield me from the curious students' eyes, fathers calming them and explaining it's a 'normal thing that comes with pregnancy'. I breathe heavily, slowly pulling my face from inside my… my teacher bag: full of class material, corrected tests, and agenda. All covered in gastric acid now. Great. Just great… "You okay, Keine-san?" Suzu asks, getting a bit closer—the other mothers are just out of hearing range…

"I'm not pregnant." I blurt out to Suzu, barely a whisper.

"… Huh?"

I'm trembling a little—her eyes are wide with disbelief… Layered on it, Mokou's face, disappointment; rage and… betrayal.

It was a terrible mistake. At the time, it sounded okay; it'd hurt only a little… Yet, remembering Mokou excitingly going around, happy like I’ve never seen because she thinks she’s a part of the biggest change in my life—her ear on my belly, her smile…

It was just too much at the time and I—

"Is she okay, Suzu-chan?" A parent's voice takes me out of my little world, and Suzu's face, frozen in utter confusion, tells me a terrible story; I was whispering all of that. Gladly—why?—it seems only she heard it all… But it'll be short-lived. Suzu will tell them the truth, which is sad considering all the effort that went into this sweet little party, but it has to be done—

… Please don't, please don't…

Suzu takes a good look at my begging face, moistens her lips, and, with an easy, simple smile, turns to the herd of mothers. "Oh, don't worry! Keine-san was telling me about this unfortunate incident," she points at my bag, heavy with foreign liquid. "Let's go, Keine-san, let's get you cleaned, so you can enjoy the party—don't let the kids take more of the cake, okay?" She commands the parents with a smile so sweet and empathy so affable it hurts, gentle hands guiding me out of the classroom—

"Get well, Keine-sensei!"

"We want to know what names you'll choose—"

"Oh, name them after my dogs, please!"

"She won't—name after mine, Keine-sensei!"

The kids said things, the parents said other things…

It was gradual, but their voices eventually condensed into a howling beast's idea of voice. We left, the silence between me and Suzu tasting like expired milk; "Keine-san…" She starts after we got to the women's bathroom…

“I’m not pregnant…” I repeat, crying, holding my face.

sorry for hijacking your character, Suzuanon! I really needed an empathetic woman outside of Keine's circle for this one! I swear I'll treat Suzu well!

>>45140864
>he's gonna bring sweet Akyuu here when she's free
poor Mr. Heida, still thinking his daughter's alive...

>>45132243
Yeah because only one person can find this shit repulsive am i right?

>>45140864
>>45140873
>how he's gonna bring sweet Akyuu here when she's free
Anon... she's gone...

>>45141097
>>45140875
lies

>>45141128
Anon still sees here in the hearts of the children and smiles of others faces...
Unironically she's dead though, it was a point in the OG hanafic, and mentioned again in the Hana sections. She died when Hana was a child

>>45141167
oof, completely slip by me... At least I can say her father went bananas or something. Or never mention it at all. Yup.

>>45141097
She's just a little delayed. You know how hell's traffic gets at this hour.

>>45141181
Heh no worries, it happens to us all. Let's just retcon that little line

>>45141233
>brought back for one (1) line
>immediately killed off again
I'm sorry little one....

>>45140873
It's all good. I was planning on mentioning Keine anyway.

>>45141743
all calculated

(1/3)
“Why?” I had said.
All that time I had to think since I snatched Goro from the front of the HSE and brought him to the Inchling Castle and that was the best I could come up with.
Shinmyoumaru had told me, she had said ‘You’d better think good and hard on what to say before he comes out of that trance.’, but of course wouldn’t elaborate or give me any advice regarding that ‘it should be obvious.’ Is all she said.
So, what the hell? I figured I’d just wing it and come up with something on the fly and I go and mouth out something dumb a human child would say when a Youkai was about to bully them. So stupid of me.
“Eh-hem.” The little Inchling doctor interrupted, “It seems like your body went into a bit of coma after your trance ended. You seem better now, try to get some rest in the meantime.” She told Goro.
“I’ll leave you two alone for now.” She said, waddling to the room’s door and exiting through a much smaller door embedded inside it.
I suppose these were guest rooms for normal sized folks, but they still had to accommodate the castles residents.
Goro’s expression was a strange mixture of shock and spiritual calm. It’s as if the face of despair that he had when last I saw him conscious, when I debased him, had imprinted itself unto his being, but over it was a serenity, some universal acknowledgement of things. I wasn’t sure what to think of it.
“’Why?’ That’s a strange question to come from a traitor.” He said plainly. “Whatever could you mean?”
“I mean why were you trying to blow yourself up?!” I said, surprising myself with how frustrated I had gotten.
“Because of what you did to me perhaps?” I felt my blood pressure rise. “No, no, don’t misunderstand, I didn’t just lose my will to live because you took the possibility of a good death from me.” He waved, almost laughing.
“I’ve set my soul to target Anon’s. When I die so does he by that much.” He said, making a pinching sign with fingers. “of course, I didn’t think too long about how I’m going to die, but it must happen before the winter solstice. Say, that window doesn’t open does it?”
“You’re giving up? I thought humans were supposed to treasure their short lives!” I screamed.
He closed his eyes and exhaled, as if he were about to lecture a child.
“Humans molt into new lives several times before we die, we treasure it as much as we do the passing of the seasons. You Youkai just reflect that change back at us. Our ‘living’ isn’t that important.” He waved.
I gritted my teeth. “And that fancy little philosophy of yours justifies a little murder-suicide?”
“Oh no, just suicide. Anon will survive I saw to that a long time ago with that underground cat. No, my actual objective is taking Anon of the table while everyone has all those arms on hand, but no Yukari to throw them at.” He said with a smile.
“Turns out you were right Seija, the whole system was lopsided and balanced on the Hakurei family. Now that the one pillar supporting Gensokyo is gone, we have a good century or so of stagnation until everything disappears and I’m not going to let that happen. No, instead there’s going to be one big firework display where everyone’s going to duke it out, so this ‘harmony’ doesn’t end up being the death of us all.” He explained.
I almost couldn’t recognize Goro. Every dealing I’d seen him make seemed pragmatic, sickeningly kind, and honest. Now he was gleefully talking about igniting a cataclysm by striking his soul like a match. A lot of me liked that.
“Every deal I’ve made was based on that harmony, that the best thing for humans was a good life and a peaceful death, based on the lie that I always dealt in my client’s best interests. And all I must do to atone for that sin and escape a cursed existence is trade my life to topple it all over.”
“Goro…” I began to say walking to his side. “…That’s fantastic.”
I grab him by the robe and pull his face to mine, kissing him. He was shocked, it was messy, but I didn’t mind. Then I slapped him across the face.
“But it’s wrong.” I said, grinning.
“You- “He began, but before I could I jumped on the bed, straddling him.
“Don’t misunderstand, I don’t disagree with a word you said, but you’re mine and I’m not giving you up just to save this rotting place.” I tell him.
“I’m not owned by you.” He sneered.
“I ate a piece of your soul, and you took my flesh, so we’re practically married.” I said, crossing two fingers in the air, smiling.
“But I suppose it’ll take a little more convincing.” From my pocket I take a bottle of pills, extract one and pop it in my mouth.
“Fertility enhancers.” I say, shaking the bottle before slipping it back in my pocket. “I picked some up at Eientei since it didn’t take last time.”

>>45144056
(2/3)
Goro’s eyes widen, then narrow. “Just where is the bottom with you? How do you keep finding new lows to stoop to?”
“But lover…” I begin, laying down on top of him putting my face to his. “…You did this to me, you seduced me over and over again. If you could’ve been a little less confident or lacked a little backbone, I wouldn’t have done those things I did. I’d have served my time with you, maybe burned down your house, and been on my way.”
I can see his eyes twitch and feel his arms trying to push me away, but he’s too weak.
“And I’m sorry.” I say.
He stops.
“I’m an Amanojaku, but you were right, I am happier with you. Just because I’m twisted doesn’t mean I want to be hated and alone more then I want you around. It’s so stupid.” I say burying my face in his chest.
“I’m just so stupid. I didn’t rush you to Eientei because the shrine maiden threatened me, I wanted to see what kind of person was nuts enough to bite my neck off. I wanted to be alone with you when I asked you to take a different route back to the hospital room. I was happy when you pulled me close under the blanket. I laughed when we pulled that joke on Hijiri, doubly so when we embarrassed Okina! I swooned when you fooled me in the bamboo forest! Every night we were together I thought about sneaking into your bed cause’ I wanted to ruin your good night sleep and just be closer to you!” Once I start, I just can’t stop.
“I want to keep messing with people with you for the rest of my life.” I tell him.
“You’re lying.” Goro told me.
I was, in part, but a lot more of it was embarrassingly true.
“All you ever do with other people is use them like tools. That’s the kind of person who I hate, no, who’s the most boring to me!” He yelled.
“What good is it tossing perfectly good people aside? Even if I dealt with a devil, I would do what’s best for both of us! I can’t stand that waste, that, callousness you and everyone else has toward all the people around them!” Goro continued.
“That’s why I despise you so much. I believed in you, despite what everyone told me. I held you close because I know there’s a lot more you’re capable of, if you just stopped throwing people away. But I guess Amanojaku aren’t just twisted, your also entirely stuck in your own ways. Always a traitor.”
“I won’t. Not again.” I say.
He doesn’t answer.
“I’m not the type of woman who’d be satisfied with a reaction like ‘oh, she did it again, shame on me I suppose’!” I yell. “So, I’ll, I’ll never do that again, to you.” I stutter.
“And did you forget that you cursed me?” Goro said.
“We can find a way to undo it! And if we can’t, we can find a way to extend your life until we do!”
“And the rape.”
“I was… I can take responsibility.” I gnashed my teeth. How many more embarrassing things was I going to have to say?
“I won’t say it again, I can never trust you.” He resigned.
We both laid there in silence for a while. To calm down, I listened to his heartbeat. I knew what I had to say.
“Then I’ll drink poison with you.” I finally said.
“I’m not giving you away to this awful place and if your gonna go ahead with it anyway then I’ll follow you as far as I can.”
Reaching around him, I hugged him. Hoping he’d understand.
Goro sighed.
“You are so embarrassing.” He said, patting my head.
“And stupidly tactful. Seriously, how did you know I needed you alive for any of that plan to work?” He asked.
“I…”
“You didn’t even know? Oh man, I didn’t think my father would ever be right about woman’s intuition…” he said, shaking his head. “…what good is it to suddenly turn things on its head if there’s no Amanojaku to take advantage? Really, you were that worried about me that you didn’t think about that?”
Ugh, I was, and I’m never living this down. If people, all at once suddenly became afraid of upheavals I’d pretty much be unrivaled and could do as I pleased. Which would probably be necessary for change to come to Gensokyo.
“And I really thought you’d just let me be after you had your fun. Guess I was stupid to think you were that shallow.” He said, stroking my hair.
“Are you saying you’re not gonna, I mean, that you’ll let me, uh” I couldn’t get a word out.
“All I’m saying is that someone has to fall on their sword for such a horrible woman like you and you’re lucky I’m just dumb enough to do it.” He says, Hugging me.
I start tearing up and clutching him. It’s sickening being shown such affection, but my hearts fluttering at being berated all the same.
Then a telltale warmth starts to rise throughout my body.
“Uhm, you know that pill I took?”

>>45144064
(3/3)
“Em?” Goro murmured.
I could feel myself going lightheaded and my body start to tingle. That damned Eiren, did she put an aphrodisiac in the pill as well? She had to have thought about it, she knows she has to reverse the dosage for me after all! Damnit now was not the time! Needed to think of something fast…
“Goro, move over!” I tell him, struggling my way under the blankets beside him.
He’s surprised at first and is about to say something, but I interject “I don’t want to conceive like this, and I don’t want to be apart from you right now, so I need you to help me handle this!” I hurriedly complain.
I position myself to face away from him and grab his hand, pulling him into a spooning position and guiding him under my dress to my sex.
“Just, just touch it okay.” I whimper.
He does. Gingerly, until I force his fingers with my own to enter it. The sensations tickle up my body and cause me to quietly moan as I feel him touch inside me.
“Rub it, please.” I tell him.
I was going to kill Eiren for this, that much was certain, but how many times? That I wasn’t sure about. I couldn’t think about that now with my body convulsing against his touch, amplified by whatever drug she laced that pill with.
With all the sudden sensations and his warmth against me I didn’t hold out for long, after all, when he was in a trance and sleeping, I hadn’t touched him except to bring him here. Shinmyoumaru told me it was a condition for hiding him here and I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I was cursing her now.
“Ahh, augh.” I cried, biting into a blanket to suppress my moans.
The orgasm felt painful at first, causing my body to jerk and flinch in strange ways, but the familiar wave of pleasure surged over it, stupefying my senses, and making me lose proper motor control.
Goro took his fingers out from my woman hood and examined it. In my haze, I saw the trail of fluids that came from it.
“Yeah.” I say. “You want to taste it?”
In a gesture that implied ‘no thanks’ he wiped it on the sheets and just put his hand across my stomach.
“You know Goro, I can feel it pressing against my back.”
“Yeah?” he says.
This idiot. Don’t make me spell it out.
“You can use my thighs, just make sure you take care of me to.” I offer.
Wordlessly, he shifts behind me until I feel something warm between my legs. His right hand finds it way back slowly into my crotch and he begins moving again.
The pleasure isn’t as intense, but I felt a serenity, like a oneness with Goro at that moment. I don’t know how to feel about something so sappy, it’s just I didn’t want it to end, and I wanted more.
“Goro, your other hand…” I said between moans.
Gently I guided his boney left hand under me, under my dress, under my bra, and felt it’s exoskeleton against my sensitive flesh. He got the message and started moving, feeling, pinching me, all the while pushing and touching me a little faster.
I could feel myself reaching my limit when the tiny door opened.
“Goro! I hear you finally woke up, I’m so glad to finally meet you!” Shinmyoumaru said.
I freeze and curse, but it’s too late, it only amplifies the incoming crash. I cry out without even biting into the sheet and Goro holds me tight to himself as the feelings take hold and peak over and over again.
Shinmyoumaru’s is stuck all the while, her friendly and enthusiastic expression stuck on her face, but the light completely dead in her eyes.
When I finally recover enough from the high, I toss a pillow in her direction.
“Do you mind!” I yell.
“Ah my deepest apologies, no, a thousand apologies!” She says, bowing formally before departing and closing the door.
“Seriously.” I sigh. Trying to get comfortable in the sheets. “You think the nurse would have dropped her a hint.”
“Mehm” Goro murmured, pulling me close.
I guess resting a little more was fine.

---

Last plot relevant bit should be next post. But they'll probably be a fluff piece or two.

>>45144068
>>45144064
>>45144056
Amanojakutey strikes again
Damn, how can one troll be this adorable?!

>>45141308
Its how it had to be

Anon lay on his futon after the world turned dark. Sleep was coming to him, tomorrow wouldn't be better but at least for now he didn't have to be conscious.

His eye lids grew heavy, there was snores on his lips already, Ran's vermicelli... Anon sank into the worlds of dreams, grateful for the respite of the horror he faces everyday.

His lifelines were few here, very few could resist Yukari's machinations after all. Fortunely he had one friend he could rely on. It was his memories of the time before he migrated to Gensokyo.

His dreams came alive and he was watching a stage, lights shone down onto it. It was a simple thing, Japanese style and with artful scrolls and other decorations lining the wall behind a few chairs.

On those chairs there sat three women, he recognized them all. Yukari, Nitori, Ran who sat on Yukari's lap and Chen who sat on Rans. It looked uncomfortable...

Nitori was babbling about something, it was boring and Yukari had that gleam in her eye of pure mischief. It was fine though, anon was the crowd and nothing bad happens to the crowd.

As Nitori rambled on about Shikigami operating systems Yukari spoke up, holding up Ran in both hands while she maintained that perfect sitting pose as she wasn't being held aloft.

Yukari began her rant as she stared straight at Anon, "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Chen, is in fact, RAN/Chen, or as I've recently taken to calling it, RAN plus Chen.

Chen is not a shikigami unto herself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning RAN shikigami made useful by the RAN houselibs, math
utilities and vital spin components comprising a full shikigami as defined by ZUN.

Many shikigami users run a modified version of the RAN system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of RAN
which is widely used today is often called "Chen", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the RAN shikigami, developed by the Touhou Project.

There really is a Chen, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the shikigami they use. Chen is the servant: the part in the shikigami
that is just a stage 2 boss without the RAN component; but an extra stage boss with it.
The servant is an essential part of a shikigami, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete shikigami. Chen is
normally used in combination with the RAN shikigami: the whole shikigami
is basically RAN with Chen added, or RAN/Chen. All the so-called "Chen"
distributions are really distributions of RAN/Chen."

Anon finally understood.

I'll actually be writing tomorrow, got busy today despite finishing a section and didn't commit since the rest wasn't finished

>>45146014
Thank you Doremy, very cool to give us "Yukari spouts esoteric nonsense dream #12"

>>45146014
Anon is getting too self aware! Strike him down at once!

>>45146014
>dreams have meanings
what the fuck is doremy thinking about? Is she just shitposting in people's mind at this point?

>>45144068
>Last plot relevant bit should be next post.
oops, almost jumped the gun

anyone has plans for Flandre? Am intending to write about her tonight when I finish the Ran piece

>>45146014
So Anon has finally realized human's don't have green skin and he's a self insert into a video game franchise?
Of course as this is a dream he'll forget everything the moment he wakes

Gotta love Ran and Chen!

>>45147993
Go for it

>>45148098
>human's don't have green
get the fuck out of here, glowie

>>45139888
>You an look for self centered motives in anybody's love, same thing for positive. I think the most important factor is if Anon and the perspective bride are in love with each other and willing to work towards a relationship together.
It's really less about looking for hidden motivations, and more about the simple fact that the entire premise of the story makes it impossible for Anon to enter a genuine relationship right now. There's simply an immense power imbalance between Anon and everyone involved, and he's so traumatized that he's just not capable of a fair, well-balanced romantic relationship. Dude needs a lot of help, assuming that he could ever fully recover from this.
Like, the guy just barely escaped from a long-term abusive marriage and moved out with his daughter. And while Hana might've liked to see her dad hook up with someone new and try over, I'm pretty sure that Anon himself wasn't nearly ready for that. And that's before he got trapped in an even worse nightmare, where things just kept getting worse.
The charitable interpretation would be that Ran isn't aware herself of how much she's effectively taking advantage of Anon, and she genuinely thinks this is the best for Anon, but actually sexing him is definitely going too far. The dude is not in a place where he needs sex. Entirely the opposite, in fact. If Ran truly loved him and wanted what's best for him, she'd push her own feelings aside and focus entirely on helping Anon as a friend. My man needs to be supported and pulled up until he can finally stand on his own two feet again, not being pulled into a devious fox' eager womb, dragging him from one prison to another. Genuine love means making such sacrifices.

I basically think that any romantic ending to this story would be considered a BAD END. That's not to say that it wouldn't be a suitable end to this story, and I'd likely enjoy reading it, but it would really need to have undertones that show that it really isn't the best ending for Anon himself and that he'll never truly recover.

Ran needs swimming instructions!

>>45149787
This is why I keep saying the tewi ending would be the best. Yes it is a romantic end but if anyone could fix him up it'd a guilty doctor with mastery over the human body and mind with a princess that could heal his soul.
The man genuinely needs professional help and that can only come from Eientei.
Well I suppose totetsu could 'eat' it or satorin could alter his mind, but that wouldn't be anything but a bandaid

>>45149787
I get what you're saying, thanks for explaining it, still I'm heavily biased in favor of my favorite 2hu. Ran, Tewi, Suwako, Kanako, Cirno. So as long as it isn't rape I'm fine with any of the girls sexing him.
There's also the fact that he'll need protection, even powerful youkai like the Sages have hands in the outside world, and there are probably other strong youkai out there, as well as nascent or new youkai like the urban legends.
So he'll need somebody to protect and help care for him wherever he goes, and since this is touhou and they're all going to be girls and I've just been under the assumption whatever girl he ends up protected by will want to marry and fuck him.
He probably has some good alternatives like the Earth Spirit Mansion, since the Komeiji's+kokoro have no interest with him sexually or romantically, but would appreciate him being there for his mutt child, but other than that everybody else, with the exception of Cirno. Is either in faction with somebody who wants to jump his bone or wants to jump his bone themselves.

>>45149834
I believe that the best way Tewi could help is by making rabbit stew.

>>45149869
Please do not bully bnuuy

>>45150031
bully Reisen instead
she's going to be the only lonely bnuuy while all the others will have children to love and care for

>>45149787
Giving here my thoughts while writing the Ran chapter:
>the point of the sex scene
was Anon choosing to overcome his trauma, although not to erase. It's pretty much there still, but for the first time in his life he faced it and, even though Ran was ready to stop when he froze, he kept going. It also served to remember him what actual sex is about: sharing a special moment with a significant other and respecting each other's boundaries; and nope, Ran's not pregnant, she wasn't on her estrus
>what is sex to Anon
since he got in the HSE, it was the dominant force in his life, always out of his hand to have or not, and it rapidly deteriorated his mind. With Ran there were explicitly consent on both parties; they did it outside the fake shrine, symbolic to "outside Yukari's and Reimu's grasp", and was special.
>aftermath of the sex scene
Anon was, naturally, relieved and at peace, since it was the first time in almost two decades he made love with someone he loves and had a saying on it -- that's why he asked to go again at the end
that's my reasoning for it.

>>45150082
are you really sticking to estrus with the volcanic soil hu?

>>45150088
what does that mean? I'm too dumb...

>>45150082
I personally wouldn't say that having sex with a different woman is symbolic of escaping the cycle of being forced to fuck other women

>>45150104
It does make sense actually, I agree

>>45150100
Volcanic ash is incredibly fertile, he's that rans estrus is like a volcanic going off, leaving fertile ground in it wake which anon will impregnate with his seed.

>>45150144
I see. Thanks!
>>45150088
kinda, Ran getting pregnant would be much problematic, unlike Aya's. So I'm saving that for the epilogue

>>45150104
I personally do. Thank God the mongolian basket weaving forum is a place for discussion where other opinions are respected

Time for a ride!

>>45150082
I was thinking of writing another long response, but you could really just sum it all up as "lol. lmao, even".
The entire idea of any kind of sex being healthy for Anon in this story, especially since he's still being forced to have sex with strangers 24/7, is just plain silly. He really doesn't have the emotional room to fall in love now, nor is he really in a position where he could refuse Ran's wants without the underlying thought that saying "no" would mean losing what little emotional support he has left. The situation is just not fair to him.

I really think you've missed the mark with your writing here. Doubly so since the general tone of this stories is that everyone else who wants Anon is extremely selfish and only seek to use him for her own ends. Writing Ran as not only the obvious winner, but also the only "good" person feels really out of place.

>>45150144
more than Ran is simply so fertile that she's like volcanic soil at all times

>>45150224
I guess while the core is a fuckup, how it turned out kind of fits with the theme using your logic
Ran really thinks she's a winner, when in reality she's just as selfish as all the others
Chen will be his lifejacket, keeping him from drowning in mental illness with her wholesomeness

For the Good Ending, we're at least on track for Reimu letting her family go and heal without her. It allows Anon to start a new life and move on, and it'll help Hana's anxiety about taking her mother's place and becoming like her.

>>45150224
agree to disagree, then. You made fair points, and though I don't agree with them, it's okay, it is a community project after all, and how people see character's actions should vary greatly.
thanks for talking about them, though, discussion like these are good for engagement with the overall story, some people are so shy to say what they think sometimes...

>>45150242
That was what I thought he was going for, honestly.
Ran starting out well-intentioned, sincerely wanting to help Anon, but gradually catching feelings for him, and then eventually falling prey to her own desires and seeking to claim him for herself, while convincing herself that all of this is for Anon's sake and that he's the one instigating all of it. Her good end would pretty much involve realizing how she's been taking advantage of his trauma and vulnerability and giving up on him, understanding that he needs to find his own happiness away from all this.

>>45150272
But the best worst ending would be Anon stopping Reimu's suicidal charge, remembering their love, and moving back into the shrine with Hana, where everything returns to how it once was, except for the incestuous threesomes.

Christmas Ran is right around the corner!

>>45150346
Is Koishi really going to be the one to win the Anon-bowl by virtue of not being insane or a rapist obsessed with him?
Combined with having enough protection between her, Orin, Jobori, and Kokoro to keep him safe, and both not being under the jurisdiction of the sages or Gensokyo, while also having access points for Anon to visit through.
Also for clarification, since I was writing Satori while she faults Yukari, and Byakuren for getting Koishi pregnant, she doesn't fault Anon himself who she sees as another victim of Yukari.
And while she isn't keen on taking him in, Koishi would appreciate his presence, and if she doesn't have to fight Yukari, she's fine with it. Even if she wakes up directly after Yukari is defeated and, let's say Orin and Okuu swoop in and force everyone else to give them Anon, she'd be fine with that as long as they aren't picking a fight with a sage.
Koishi herself is very neutral on Anon, and while not wanting to cause him trouble, and not desiring him, and not especially caring about marrying him. She would appreciate his presence for their child.
Somehow it's hilarious that the ex-lobotomite and her jobber sister might be his best option.

It's interesting to me that out of all the bachelorettes, the pregnant ones get the least meta-discussion for how well they'd suit Anon.
Marisa had a decent chuck of "she's the closest to Anon, she can make him happy" and then she got pregnant and just stayed with Hana. I guess it's more a symptom of not having a dedicated writefag. At least she's watching his daughter become a youkai fucker.
The Myourens just want Anon as a status symbol, which I guess is them being soulless youkai. Even Byakuren is more interested in Anon as a figurehead than as a possible caretaker for the rest of the followers (or all of their children).
Aya being fluff, having 3 subplots and explicitly raping him probably isn't doing her any favors in the public eye. Perhaps her writefag needs to try harder to make her likeable instead of a birdbrain that rapes first and falls in love second.
Tewi isn't even pregnant but all her children are, jobber bnuuy is trying to get pregnant but even Kyouko is ahead of her.

>>45150482
I can't get into aya here because she's just so far from canon aya that I'm struggling to keep things together, even though HSE aya's fairly well-written, she's basically aya in name only
canon aya is far more intelligent and wouldn't even be as scatterminded as HSE aya
and yeah, who cares about canon in the porn spinoff-spinoff-spinoff but I like my characters to feel more like they're evolving from canon to what they are in this and it felt like aya devolved more than anything else

>>45150510
I personally like Ayaanon's Aya, she really screwed herself in every possible way during this fic
>messed the pills, one of the pillars of the Pregnancy Crisis
>fell for Yukari's trick; then got her newspaper stolen from her
>had the best intentions, got cucked by her good intentions with trying to speak to "True" Anon
>got tangled up in the Alliance
>her best way of helping was getting a 24/7 camera on her back from a lolicon sage
>had to come face to face with the 'Mu twice, one thinking she'd just die, the other fearing for the life of her children
>all while carrying the crushing guilt of the rape; the fake news and so on
i like the underdogs... ungercrows?
no wonder she's turning to terrorism

(1/2)
Recently I’ve felt conflicted.
Anon and I had slept together. He’d ask for it, wanted it, offered to help me, and I had given him every opportunity to say no, encouraged him to even. So, I was so happy when he joined with me anyway, that he’d do that for me willingly even though it was the source of so much torment for him.
But in the end, he was still trapped here and maybe I wasn’t so different from the other woman who’d come to him time after time forcing him down. Perhaps I had just coerced him, strung him along so Anon would love me honestly and not feel obligated, when in the end I’d just tricked him into loving me. Something Yukari might’ve been proud of if it was any other man.
It would do me no good to agonize over it! I had to tell him honestly, confess how I felt instead of letting this shame eat me alive. So, I went into the fake shrine during his break period alone and made for his bedroom.
What I found was the Yamawaro, Yamashiro, stroking his sleeping head. When she noticed me, she put a finger to her lips, warning me not to disturb him.
It irritated me. Anon had confided in her, she’d helped him, and unlike the rest of the woman she hadn’t had her way with him, for that I was grateful. She even took on whatever task was thrown at her, no matter if it was tutoring Chen in math or getting a trench dug, what’s more, she lately had become less apathetic more, caring. And that’s what made me itch, all that, yet she was also a beneficiary of this cursed place, even if she wasn’t personally tormenting Anon, she made sure it happened in the most efficient way possible.
Maybe I was angry because she was a better hypocrite.
After a while she beckoned me out of the room and out to the porch where we both sat down next to each other.
“So, you took the plunge?” She asked.
I nodded.
Yamashiro sighed. “I should have guessed with how close you two were getting. That man has no control over his own charms after all, it was only a matter of time until you were bewitched.”
This surprised me. “I hadn’t asked him, I told him about my estrus and my concerns and he, just wanted to help.”
It was surreal saying these things to such a younger Youkai, let alone hearing me talk about it out loud. What trick had this Yamawaro learned…
“Makes sense, he always wants to help, to support the people around him, those he loves. That’s the worst part about this place.” She waved her finger in the air, as if pointing to the entire space at once.
“He can’t meaningfully do anything for anyone from here. It’s all a façade to him, being the center of attention, and having to put on act of himself. The bedroom, however much of a performance he must put on, is maybe the one place he can genuinely love people here, and you know how he feels about that.”

>>45150691
(2/2)
“I’m sorry.” I say, before Yamashiro slaps me on the back of the head.
“Fool, I don’t have the right to condemn anything you did to him, and it was his choice to reciprocate your feelings. He’s not such a trophy or so weak that he’d cuddle up to you like a child craves the love of an abusive parent, even if he is stuck in this place.” She explained.
Yamashiro exhaled. “Some annoying guy once told me: ‘Good business is built on good deeds and evil acts lead to no business at all’, and we’ve both done a lot of bad things to keep this place running. Eventually it’ll all come crashing down and those of us complicit with this place will have to answer for what we did.”
I bite me tongue thinking about it. All this time I’d paid attention to Anon, Chen, Yukari, and myself, but this place was taking its toll from so many others as well. So many people we’ve ignored, so like me to not see the bigger picture and trust Yukari.
As if seeing my frustration, the Yamawaro speaks “You two are alike in a way, both bound to abusive people who monopolize your attention, your love. It’s a wonder what the world would be like if either of you could’ve worked together with those people instead of being bound. I think you both just wanted to escape that toxic partnership with one another.”
I felt flush with embarrassment at her words. It’s as if Anon and I were some runaway teenage royalties eloping against the wishes of our parents. Ah, such romantic thoughts were unbecoming of me, I didn’t deserve them-
Then I felt Yamashiro’s hug from behind. It wasn’t sudden or quick, but a slow, warm embrace.
“It’ll be hard Ran. After this you’ll want to monopolize him, have him all to yourself like a fairy tale. But that won’t make Anon happy, so don’t try to re-tread the mistakes of the past or he’ll just drift away.”
“You mean, the others?” I asked.
“Yes. He’ll want to help them, love them as well. It’ll make you more jealous than you’ve ever been and maybe even bitter. Just remember, this is the price we pay for our sins. Bad business just means you pay a greater cost later.”
I placed my hand on hers and let myself feel that warmth. It wasn’t clear how much of what she said was for me and how much was for herself, but that made it feel authentic. Unlike an impassionate judge, more like an understanding mother.
“I’ll try.” I answered.
“Good.” She said, slapping me on the back of the head again.
I turned around, surprised, to be greeted by Takane’s cruel, angry looking smile.
“Because if you hurt him, I’ll make sure to repay the favor with compounding interest.”

>>45150510
I'd like to make Aya smart (all the scheming with Momiji) but I made her too fucking stupid in previous posts. Being secretive, selling half-truths when she doesn't have to tell the whole truth, making long term plans, thinking deeply about connections, etc. All of this would fit well enough into the HSE narrative but I fucked up with the tea switcheroo joke and it all went downhill. Now making her serious might have too much whiplash from all the slapstick and levity.
I blame the incense and pregnancy hormones not really. Just trust the funny terrorism plan and lesbian rape blackmail. She's got something up her sleeve.
Thanks for the honest feedback. I've had the same feeling that HSE!Aya isn't as cunning as she could/should be. It'll take a while, but I hope the payoffs will be good enough to recompense all the humiliation and vauge setups so far.

>>45150482
>Aya being fluff, having 3 subplots and explicitly raping him probably isn't doing her any favors in the public eye. Perhaps her writefag needs to try harder to make her likeable instead of a birdbrain that rapes first and falls in love second.
It was never going to be clean for them since Aya was the first one to profit off of Anon's suffering, treating his familial drama like a cash cow.
It was a good idea to make Aya lose her paper though, sort of karmic justice.

>>45150708
The way I headcanon it is that she's at the end of her rope and barely has a hand to play from. She had a head on her shoulders going in, then the incense happened, then the pill fuck up, then pregnant, then her newspaper (her life's work) got pulled out from under her, and now she has to juggle all that with her feelings, her misconceptions from limited information, and a comedy of compounding errors which ended with the tea trainwreck and it went downhill from there.
She had so much whiplash from back to back life changing events that she was still spinning. Getting into the "Anon's Frens" alliance and making the deal with Okina is about the first time since it all started that she can get back on track.

>the silly struck back

>>45150700
>Bad business just means you pay a greater cost later.
It's funny she says this cause Marisa and Takane 100% got away with the Black Market incident.
That's the power of corruption for you.

>>45150972
you make a good point but unfortunately absolutely no one cares about 18.5 so it might as well have not happened

>>45150777
When all else fails, you can always blame the pipe fox.

>>45151025
Pipe fox?

Ran and Family!

>>45150691
>>45150700
i thought it was gonna be funny and silly...
I have my work cut out for me now, it seems

>>45150981
True, I don't even think ability cards where mentioned when Mima cleaned out her house, you think she would've kept them around in a binder somewhere.

>>45135517
Time was ticking as Aya rushed into the HSE, a look of determination on her face. Today, she’d tell Anon how she felt. Reimu gave Aya her blessing (in a way), so this wasn’t homewrecking. Plus, that damn fox would seduce him if Aya didn’t strike first. Yet again, that tall hooded customer walked past her. Now wasn’t the time to draw attention to herself. The tengu simply walked over to Ran, whom had a conflicted look on her face. “My reservation is open, right?”

“You’re right on time. Please enjoy your stay.” It was lip service, but a tinge of wisfulness seeped into her tone.

The reporter waited until the third party left before replying. “I’ll be sure to, and so should you. It’s all for his best interests, right?”.

The kitsune’s expression darkened at Aya’s apparent challenge. “My motives should be the least of your worries.” There was emphasis on the “your” part. “Everything I do for Anon is to help him, nothing less.” Under her hat, Aya could see Ran’s ears standing at attention.

The reporter adopted a slick smile. “Good. Second-guessing yourself isn’t going to do favors for either of you. He needs our full support and if you can’t provide it, I’ll just have to pick up the slack~”

The shikigami’s face brightened and returned a knowing grin. Their banter over, Aya went to the changing room. She knew she’d crush her rival for Anon’s heart, it just wouldn’t be worth it if Ran didn’t put up a fight.

Entering the shrine grounds again, the reporter felt as accustomed to this walk as she did the journey to the real shrine. Perhaps it was for the best that her next two visits would be the last, otherwise she might be ensnared like the rest of Anon’s clientele. Attracted to a simple life with Anon… Her thoughts began to wander, reminding the tengu to choke down her little survival aid. Can’t lose control or she’d lose every bit of progress she made. Opening the doors to the main building, Aya invited herself in. “Honey, I’m home!”

Anon was still in the kitchen, an apron with the HSE’s trademark two ying-yang balls and gohei emblazed on it tied around his scandalous juban. “Oh, Aya! Nice to see you again. I was just starting on dinner, could you wait a moment?”

“Did you really forget what I said last time? ‘I’ll cook for you in the future.’ Guess what today is.” Without missing a beat, Aya reached around Anon’s waist, untying the apron and donning it herself before the human could stop her. “You’ve been so good to me this week, it’s time I return the favor.”

“Really, it’s no trouble at all. You’ve been a lifeline of information, and good food is best accompanied by a good story.” There was hesitation in his voice. Was it from yesterday’s visit or something else?

She put his reticence aside. “If you really insist, then this will be your lesson in tengu cuisine. Watch and learn Anon, you’ll never be able to live without my cooking after your first bite!” Watching the human back away from the kitchen, the tea lesson fresh in his mind, Aya made a mad dash around cabinets, gathering and measuring ingredients in a blur. While rice and meat cooked, Anon cleaned up behind the excited chef and brewed tea on the side. It seemed he was using his go-to blend, but mixing a few of Aya’s favorite additions. The tengu’s chest swelled with pride.

After most of her prep was done and she finally kept her feet on the ground, Aya decided to make this downtime meaningful. “Hey Anon, I wanted to ask you something… what kind of meals did you make for Hana? When she was little, I mean. Children are notoriously picky eaters. How did you get around that?”

The question struck deep, as Anon took a deep breath before replying. “Why are asking?” There was no levity in his voice.

Aya had the perfect reply. ‘Oh, no reason. I just have four of your kids on the way and wanted to know their pallet.’ As if! His daughter was a touchier subject than she expected. Telling him her situation might be too much for him to handle. Yet, something flippant like a column in Bunbunmaru might sound too shallow (to him, that is).

“I’m not going to just force some food down your throat and call it a day. Cooking for someone else is a meaningful gesture. Whatever you made for Hana shows how much you care about her, right? You can still cook what you want here, so don’t forget about the person you made it for. Those good times won’t fade away if you remember them.” Hoping and praying that Ran wouldn’t gap her out into the street, Aya watched as Anon picked up pack of spaghetti noodles.

“Watch carefully.” He washed the pasta and set a pot to boil, his face softening and slowly returning to normal. Yes! It worked! Maybe a little more prodding with Hana and—

Anon broke the noodles in half before dropping them in. Aya nearly broke down herself.

(Part 42)

>>45151036
Yes Snake, Tsukasa Kudamaki, colloquially known as the "Sex fox" or "Pipe fox" is a Japanese "Youkai-fox" under the category of Kuda-gitsune. While she might come off as harmless, she has been known to be excellent as spy and informat, taking numerous espionage missions for many contractors due to her unique ability to exploit the souls of others for her own bidding. Snake, what ever you do, don't let her get to your skin, while we don't think she is working for FOXHOUND, it's better to leave this Mata hari alone. You can ignore her seduction by pressing the action button when ever she attempts to speak into your ear.