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She stood outside Marisa's door, looking down. She was nervous.
Very nervous.
Keine's words stuck in her mind, like a dagger
-It's the end of Gensokyo.
Her eyes widened in surprise.
-Keine! I... don't understand.
-Now everything depends on you.
-Then I'm going.
Keine nodded. Reimu thought it was a joke. And at the same time, she knew it wasn't.
The way to Marisa's house was difficult. Although there weren't any hungry youkai or nosy fairies, it became hard for some reason. She walked more than half of the journey rather than flying.
Once she arrived at the Forest of Magic, even it seemed devoid of life. Beyond the bush was Marisa's house. She was nervous.
Very nervous.
She knocked and waited a long time. Marisa was not one of those who rushed to open the door. But this was taking too long, even for her. She knocked again. There was no answer.
She tried to open the door, even though Marisa usually locked it tight. However, it opened. Reimu carefully entered the house, looking all around so as to not tread on any of the piles of junk and stuff that Marisa liked to collect.
-Marisa... Where are you.
On a small wooden table, situated in one corner of the house, Reimu saw Marisa's signiture Hakkero, along with an open book and an unlit candle. She went and leafed through the book.
-It seems... A study of the spellcards and its users -at the top was written, with the carefully crafted title "Grimoire of Marisa"-. You're always working on something... -she thought with a smile- I envy you, Marisa.
The friendship-rivalry relationship she had with Marisa was for her something valuable, and irreplaceable. Her head was filled with memories of when Marisa had been a minion of Mima, and all they troubled that had been caused…
-Do you miss her? -Keine's voice roused her from her thoughts.
-Yes. It was like she haven't seen her in years. A void... I still don't understand what's happening. But I know you have something to do with it.
She approached Keine and placed her hands on Keine's shoulders.
-Help me, Keine. I want to get rid of this bad feeling.
-Take the Hakkero -Keine said smiling weakly-. She would like you to have it.
Reimu took it in silence and looked it for a long time. She ran her fingers slowly over the engravings of the wood surface, representing the yin-yang and the eight trigrams.
-What now?
-Visit the rest. All of them have something to say.
Reimu left the house leaving Keine reading the book. She looked for a moment the cloudless sky, and turned to head of to Alice's house.
