One day Yukari found a grimoire. Seeing that she herself had no use for it, she placed it in the center of a field. Yukari then told all the magicians in Gensokyo of the grimoire and that the magic they desired most was held within it. Every magician quickly sought out the grimoire looking high and low. Alice and Patchouli worked together to find the grimoire and quickly discovered its location, but when they looked at it, each wanted it all to herself. They fought each other and quickly resorted to blows. The fight lasted until each was so beat up that neither could move a single inch more. Then Marisa who had been circling the field, watching the fight from a distance, on her broom, swooped in and swiftly claimed the grimoire, flying off as quickly as she flew in. Alice and Patchouli were unable to even lift a finger to stop her.
"How foolish we are," said patchouli, "if we had shared the girmoire we could have both gotten what we desired, but because of our selfishness, a thief gained the spoil while we got nothing."
