reimu had tried everything thast she could at this point and she was rather frustrated. but still, the words marisa told her the other day resonated in her head space.

"maybe you just have different taste then them." was what marisa said if your stupid and didnt read the other chapeters

"well, if people have different taste, i guess ill just have to find out what makes they're tastes so much more different than mine. time to stsrt the new phase of this investigation!" said reimu, beginnig a new phase of her investigation, which she called investigation new phase.

but she immediately ran into a problem with her new phase

"wait a minute, im no good at socializing with people. how can i find out what makes like these things if i cant talk to them properly?" reimu pondered to herself

then she had an idea, a stupid idea, but an idea none the less.

"i cant believe im saying this, but maybe aya can be of good assistance. i mean, shes a reporter, she could properly get information out of people." she said, and headed off to the youkai mountain to seek out aya

as she made her way up the mountain, she made it to the spot she was the other day and remembered that wierd tengu girl who was sobbing.

"wasnt she muttering about the moon or something? come to think of it, thats an odd thing to talk about to yourself... or maybe she was talking to me and i was just ignoring her." reimu said before she was rudely interrupted by a loud shrieking sound.

reimu was caught off guard and only was able to make out a silhouette out of the corner of her eye, was it the girl she was just thinking about?

"what the?! hey, i thought you were going to the moon or whatever." reimu said, not fully paying attention.

"the moon, what the heck are you talking about? have you finally gone crazy?" said aya

"what? oh wait, you didnt say that. it was... uh... dont tell me... oh yeah her name was hatate i think." said reimu with fuzzy memory

"what, hatate is going to the moon? where did you hear this?" said aya, confused

"I met her a few days back. she was all sad and miserable and whatnot. then she started to mutter to her self about the moon and how she was gonna run away 'cause noboy liked her." reimu said

"hmmm... she does tend to talk out loud to herself. quite obliviously too. if your correct, this story may have some explosive potential. That settles it. I'm going to eientei to investigate this hot scoop!" saud aya, flying off

"wait a minute! i need your help for once in my life! ...darn. the one time i actually want her around and she leaves." said reimu, now she was stuck with no help

"well, i guess i have to improvise now. oh well, back to the village i suppose." said reimu, with no clear plan.

so that she did, to observe the culture of fidget spinner in the villiage. yes, this fanfiction is still about fidget spinners, dont you forget it.

back in the human villiage, the crowd was acting in a happy manner, as they usually have been since it happened, the fidget spinners, you know. reimu looked carefully, in order to observe the joy they get fron the toy.

but to reimu, it was nothing. just spinning... what a let dow.

"i don't get the psychology of this phonomenom. it looks like they are entranced, or... possesd. hmmm, maybe im onto something." said reimu, theorizing.

just then sanae came up from behind her to say hello

"hello ,reimu, how are you?" said sanae, trying to play it cool

"what? what are you doing here? arent you supposed to hand out fidget spinners at your shrine?" asked reimu

"oh yeah... well, the fidget spinners those kappas were making kept falling apart. kanako got pretty mad so now i have to go into town and get a real one for refernce. you know where to find one?" sanae explained and then asked

"that is what i was trying to figure out. I habe my oen theory about this stuff." said reimu

"well, i heard they were giving them out for free at the myouren temple... lets go there!" said sanae, running off

"darn it, does it have to be there... oh well, guess i have no choice." said reimu, following behind.

soon they arrived at the temple and started to talk with byakuren, who was just casually standing around out front.

"hiya! i heard you were giving out some fidget spinners, can we have some." said sanae, making a good first impression

"well, we would, but we are awaiting a new shipment. you see, we tried to make our own but-" byakuren said but was interrupted from someone coming from the sky.

it was nazrin, a cool mouse person, but not as cool as Mankey mice, because he is god. anyways, nazrin was holding a basket full of fidget spinners.

"oh here they are. you know, usually we only give these out to converts. but seeing you two are shrine maidens, there is no point, so just take 'em." said byakuren, handing both of them a fidget spinner.

"yeah, these things are eveywhere. infarct, they're just falling from the sky. you dont even need to be a treasure hunter like me to find them!" nazrin said, in an attempt to add herself to the conversation.

"ok, see ya then." said sanae, flying back to her home at the shrine

"well whatever. i've got a few thing i need to test out anyways." said reimu, and she went back to her own shrine.

back at the shrine, reimu placed her newly aquired fidget spinner on the ground.

"alright, time to give this thing a proper exorcism and see if there's a demon in this thing or something. i mean, did you see the look on those kids faces, it was creepy." reimu said to herself, as she usually does for some reason.

regardless, the exorcism began, and she did everything she possibly could. just then a special guest dropped by.

"hey, what the heck are you doing to this here thing. i thought you usually exorcised me." said mima (applause)

"what the heck, will you get out of here? you havent even been relevant in like 20 years." said reimu

"dang you, its not my fault ive been forgotten, i just wanted to say hi" said mima in response

"just get out of here you pointless character." said reimu

mima then disappeared, perhaps she was only there as a pathetic attempt at fan service, but who knows.

then shinki appeared- ok no not really, in fact othing happened, the exorcism had no results and reimu was mad.

in frustration, she broke the fidget spinner on the ground. she started to fell a little better after that.

" i just dont get it. every theory ive had so far has lead nowhere, even when i tried to open my mind it failed." reimu said.

she thouhgt hard a again and suddenly hatched a new theory,. one she hadnt thoguht of before.

"maybe the fidget spinners arent the problem here. maybe it's... the people who use them." reimu said, and with this she hatched her newest plan. One she knew for sure wouldn't fail this time...

TO BE CONTINUED...