Today, Alex tried to take more pictures of Youkai Mountain. He took pictures of the top, the side, and a bird's eye view. None of which he liked. He took a picture with the Kappa Valley in it. He took a picture of the other side. He took a picture of a close up. He could never get the perfect picture. It almost felt hopeless.
He asked Reimu if there was a photographer. She said Aya took pictures, and she lived in Youkai Mountain. Alex went there, and looked around. He found a few tengu, but none were Aya. Nobody paid attention to him. They all did their own thing, and Alex was alone. Tengu passed by, Alex kept asking. What were they all doing?
Alex went back to the Hakurei Shrine. It seemed as if nobody cared. He sat down, but out of ground, Utsuho appeared! She didn't have her third leg, of course, but she seemed to have something else. She had what looked like a laser made by the Moriya Shrine. Alex turned on his sword, and Reimu got her Miko stick. Utsuho fired straight into the shrine. Alex and Reimu dodged, and Alex tried to get close to Utsuho again. He was about to slash Utsuho's new laser off, but she fired, right at him. Luckily, Reimu put up a protection seal in time. Alex then tried again to slash Utsuho's laser, and he sliced off the tip. Now whenever she fired, the blast went everywhere. There were no safe spots. Reimu then plugged the laser's hole and it couldn't fire anymore.
The laser exploded in Utsuho's face, and she fainted. Alex felt a little better now. He looked inside his bag, but he didn't see any sandwiches left. He didn't have any food. If he went back home, all his food would most likely be rotten. He didn't know what to do. He asked Reimu if they could share a meal, but Reimu said her refrigerator was still gone, and she gets her food from the human village. Alex didn't have any money. Oh what to do, he thought.
He decided to go the day without food. The day drifted onward, and nothing much happened. Alex, at the evening, decided to go take more pictures again. They were very nice looking, but not great. Then, he saw a tengu fly at him, with extremely fast speeds. He wondered who it was, and as the tengu appeared, she yelled "ayayaya!" And she got out a camera. She was then taking pictures of Alex, and asked to interview him.
He agreed, and they went to the ground to have the interview. Aya asked a lot of questions, from his personality, to his worst nightmare. Alex answered these all, very promptly. When the interview was over, Alex asked if he could learn a bit better of how to take photos. Aya said she only did mug shots, and nothing else. She wasn't helpful to the slightest. What a disappointment.
Alex headed back the shrine, and saw that Reimu got a new donation box. He went to bed, without any dinner or success. That night, he thought of what his pictures missed. He didn't really know, but they just didn't look right. Maybe they were too crooked, or too colorless. If only he knew what could be perfect.
The next day, he asked Reimu if there were any edible youkai. She said that would be unpleasant, but yukkuris contained food. Alex went to the forest of magic. He found a yukkuri, and it was Remilia Scarlet. He grabbed it, closed his eyes, and took a big bite out of it. The yukkuri tasted like meat. It wasn't bad, and the yukkuri regenerated really quickly. He kept eating it, until he was full. Then he put the yukkuri down, and decided to take more pictures. They were alright, but he didn't find anything to great. He just headed to the shrine.