Roughly a week after Ail and Kyo's arrival, Reimu found a letter on the ground, near the shrine addressed to her and "The Two Boys We Sent In Accidentally."

Reimu quietly hides the letter and while Kyo and Ail do the chores she goes into her room and makes sure nobody enters accidentally, or be able to see inside.

She opens the letter and begins to quietly read:

"Dear Miss Reimu Hakurei,

This is Renko and Mary, from the outside world.

First of all, I would like to apologize. We messed up and sent two innocent boys into your world by accident.

We hope that they are well, but I thought you said the portal would open under the tree with the red ribbon, and not 75 feet away from said tree.

Mary has been a little disappointed and it's really getting me down as well. It's not like her to be so sad all the time.

I was wondering if we could try again. Maybe a positive reply from you might cheer up Mary.

She really wanted to go into Gensokyo for real, and not just through her dreams.

To the two boys,

We are truly sorry for the trouble we have caused you, and hope that you two are well.

Your families have caused mass panic around here.

Cops everywhere are looking for you two, and what's worse, the park and forest have been set off-limits due to many investigations regarding your "disappearance".

You friends,

Renko Usami and Maribel Han"

Reimu notices there is something scribbled at the back of the letter and continues to read.

"I know there has to be a reason why you can't send them back, however I cannot think of one.

Miss Reimu, can you tells us the reason? If not, I can understand.

Know that it took us a long time to get you this letter due to the guards and cops in the park and forest entrances. Here's to hoping you get this letter"

Reimu finishes reading the letter and sits in the middle of the room just thinking for a moment, then folds the letter and hides it in her closet that's full of detached sleeves and some extra clothes, including her old clothes from when she was still just starting.

She closes the closet and thinks again for a moment before heading out.

She goes to the storage house and looks inside, and notices there is a little less food in there.

She storms out of the storage house and shouts "KY~O~~!" so loud, the entire shrine trembles.

When Kyo comes by with a bored expression Reimu attacks him with insults, shouting "you bloated cow, you were eating too much again, weren't you!?"

And so another argument over the food begins.

Ail tries to stop them, but instead he intercepted a flying Kyo, then after falling they both fall inside a portal that opens up just below them.

The portal closes quickly, and Reimu; her eyes open wide, her mouth stretched wide, and her forehead turning almost blue; asks "what the hell just happened?"

She panics and as soon as Marisa lands saying "yo, Reimu, I came to play z-", Reimu grabs her by her shirt shouts "they went through another gap! You have to help me find them!"

As she says this, she's shaking Marisa back and forth quite violently.

After she's released, the witch shakes off the dizziness, slaps Reimu across the face and knocks her down to the ground, and says "calm down!"

Reimu calms down just as she gets up from the ground, then says "yes, you're right. Just calm down Reimu, it'll all be fine."

Marisa laughs and says "so you really grew attached to those two, huh? Well, no surprise there. So what have you done with them, eh? Romantic nights? 'Special' afternoons? Candle-lit-"

Before Marisa can continue, hundreds of yin-yang orbs fall on her head, burying her under a large pile of balls, then Reimu, sounding very disgusted, growls "you are just SICK, you know that?"

While Marisa slowly and dizzily gets out from under the pile of yin-yang orbs Reimu says "great, now I'll have to sweep and clean the shine by myself again~!", and then starts to cry.

Marisa chuckles and quietly says "What a lazy shrine maiden..."

Shortly after their safe return to the shrine, the two boys are attacked by Remilia.

Seems Ail's blood is a real treat for said vampire since she almost killed him for it, but thankfully she is stopped in time.

Lucky for Ail he had made friends with quite a few powerful beings, plus Kyo, whose training has paid off nicely, is now able to adapt some magic to his arms.

One thing that surprises everyone is that Ail, from out of nowhere, starts shooting danmaku, but due to his lack of experience at the moment, he can only shoot one powerful blast before draining himself of almost all energy.

Remilia almost kills him after that, managing to slash her claws though his chest, yet he recovers in the course of just a few hours.

Even the wound inflicted by the vampire is almost gone by morning.

After that they meet Kaguya... who, for some reason, did not like Ail ignoring her one bit, then they met Alice who impresses Ail quite a lot with her doll-making and sewing skills, making her head swell up with pride.

After those events with Remilia, Reimu has them training, and in the course of three days only, they already improve their abilities to an impressive level, however they meet Yukari and Kyo opens his big mouth, costing them a trip through one of her gaps.

After witnessing the events, Reimu quietly sneaks behind Yukari, hits her hard on the head with her gohei repeatedly, and shouts "where did you send them to THIS time!"

Rubbing her head Yukari answers "Hakugyokurou".

Reimu grabs Yukari by her ear and pulls her out of her gap, then pulls her all the way inside the shrine demanding "bring them back, UNHARMED!"

Yukari, after finally being released from Reimu's grasp, opens her fan again and covers her mouth while playfully saying "don't worry, this is training for them."

Reimu holds a yin-yang orb on her hand while glaring at the gap youkai.

Yukari knows where she is aiming at and continues "just relax. Yuyuko will take good care of them. When they come back, they'll be able to go off on their own."

Reimu's face fills with panic, then shouts "but who's going to do all my chores now!? And who's gonna go into town to get offerings for the shrine, huh!?"

Yukari looks at Reimu, and whilte still covering her mouth with her fan she says "fu, fu, fu~! You really are a lazy girl, aren't you?"

Unable to dodge in time, Yukari receives a yin-yang orb to the face while Reimu blows steam out of her nose and ears as her face turns bright red.

After Yukari leaves, Reimu sits down and stars writing on a piece of paper.

"Dear Renko and Maribel,

It's me, Reimu Hakurei.

I don't know if this will sound logical, however... It seems to me that it was fated that these two would come in through that gap instead of you.

First of all, the gap opened away from the shrine, sending the two boys falling to their deaths; however they survive that fall and a youkai attack.

After that they landed themselves inside the underground, where many fearsome youkai live, and managed to survive THAT too.

That Ail is crazy. He went in very deep into the underground; however, like I said before, it seems this was fate.

He came back a lot stronger than before. I am starting to wonder if he's even human.

Anyway, after that they were attacked by a vampire; Ail once more being the target.

He almost got killed, yet survived with nothing but the memory of a scratch. He's even learned how to use danmaku and both boys are becoming quite strong while in here.

They have now been sent to train to another shrine. I guess what I am trying to say is that... their coming here was no accident.

There's too much happening since they came. Maybe it was best all together, that you missed that chance.

Don't despair though, I promise to continue to try and "persuade" my friend to get you in here, however in the mean time I ask that you wait a little longer."

Your friend

The beautiful, sweet and powerful shrine maiden

Reimu Hakurei

Characters and scenarios belong to ZUN -Team Shanghai Alice-

Ail and Kyo were created by Willie G.R.

JUN 18 2009

Written by

Willie G.R.

-Edited on MAR 8 2010 and MAY 28 2013 by Willie G.R.-