Ichihiro spent a good few days in the works, Nitori installed new, more powerful brakes on him. Once Ichihiro would go back to Gensokyo, he would be given his shorter axles for the 3 foot and 8 inches track, but he would keep his upgraded brakes. The new brakes were sufficient enough for pulled British trains, but would be absolute overkill in Gensokyo.

Ichihiro saw Gordon arrived at the works.

"What happened to you?" asked Ichihiro.

"Oh nothing." said Gordon, "Just routine maintenance, even though my driver says I'm ready for an overhaul. But its probably just age. You'll feel how I feel one day."

"I saw that Marklin engine."

"Marklin? He's a strange engine. Then again, I think all foreign engines are strange."

"Yeah sure, whatever." replied Ichihiro, slightly offended, "But he talked strangely. He mentioned a war and a guy named Tojo, and something called a few-roar guy."

"Your kidding!" chuckled Gordon.

"No I'm not! Besides, what's a few-roar?"

"You mean a-" Gordon's mood suddenly changed, "a fuhrer?"

"Yeah."

"Well, it all started back in 1933..."

Nitori was wrenching in the last few parts, she didn't think much about how much time had past whilst installing the brakes. She was so busy building the other engines in Gensokyo that she never really stopped and took a look at her own engines. Of course she knew where every part and every gear and every mechanism was and where they were, but usually another kappa would do this.

She remembered actually building Ichihiro back in 2013, it was before any of the mainline stations were built and the only track built so far was the middle section of the mainline and the Kappa Valley yards. Just enough to test the engines. On the first four engines she helped to create, on the frames, boiler, smokebox, and cab, she etched her name on them using a welding torch.

She remembered was Gensokyo was like before the railway, she remembered when very few humans dared to leave their village and go wherever, especially to the shrines. She remembered how few people actually went to the shrines. She even remembered how decrepit Reimu's shrine was, and how poor she was. Now Reimu had plenty of money and a good looking shrine.

The railway changed everything in Gensokyo, it changed how faith is distributed to its resident gods and goddesses, it changed how humans traveled, it changed the face of Gensokyo itself.

"If the merger is to go through..." she thought, "It will make Gensokyo known to the outside world, more humans would have to come, more humans means Gensokyo youkai will become a minority. More humans in more safe places in Gensokyo would mean the youkai will become more desperate. The more desperate the youkai get, the more..."

Nitori pictured Gensokyo. The destruction caused by the starved youkai, Keine would probably become useless if the youkai managed to undo her protection of the Human Village. She thought of the railway, the passengers will be raided, the rails will be damaged as to derail the engines and kill the humans onboard. Nitori tried not to think further, but now she wanted to stop the merger and prevent the destruction of Gensokyo.

She wiped her brow and marveled at her work, now she had to leave and try to stop the merger.

"...and that concluded the Second World War." finished Gordon.

"So Marklin is..."

"Probably." replied Gordon, "But we need more proof, we need to catch Marklin doing something...I'm not sure what he'll do, but we need to put an eye on him."

"I'll see if I can work more closely with him." said Ichihiro.

"But whatever we find, we must tell the Fat Controller!"

"Right."

Nitori climbed out of the pit she was working in and went in front of Ichihiro.

"Your brakes should be all set. That should prevent any further runaways on this island." said Nitori.

"Thanks, Nitori. Bye Gordon!" said Ichihiro.

"Bye Ichihiro, but remember! Keep an eye on that Marklin!"

"Right!"