Touhou: X Dimension Chapter 5: New Resident of Gensokyo, a touhou project fanfic

Chapter 5: New Resident of Gensokyo

Hmmm… where am I?

The world is pure white, except for the swirling lights inside the white space. Chris was laying down on his back staring up into the endless white space with swirling lights.

"Well good morning! Or is it good evening? Hehehe… well any way it's good you've woke up Chris! I was getting a little worried," said a cheery voice.

Chris leaned his upper body forward and looked in front of him to see Virus several feet away from him who was sitting in Indian style with his arms folded.

"Virus! Good morning!" Chris smiled as he put his arms behind his head as he greeted his inner-being friend.

"Heh… same as usual, friendly and cheerful," Virus said as he shakes his head with a smile, "You have to be more careful… it's not easy restoring your lost blood like that!"

Chris tilted his head in curiosity and then snapped his fingers. "Oh! I remember, Lady Remilia took a bite of me…" Chris holds his neck where Remilia bit him as he nervously smiles, "Thanks for that buddy! It's nice to know I have someone who's got my back!"

"Indeed… I live inside of you, you know? If you die I die as well, but it's good to finally get to see the real you! Honestly always closing up and acting all like a perfect business man was getting a little unnerving since it's not the real you," Virus sighed, "Then again society has become a place where it's not easy for people to show their real selves and develop masks to protect themselves."

"That is true," Chris sighed with a hint of sadness, "It's sad to think people can express the real selves."

"The same holds true to you, too, Chris," Virus pointed out looking at Chris.

Chris scratched the back of his head. "Well… it's hard and painful to express myself back home… people are so critical about everything there."

Virus smiled "I think this world is a good place for you… I can see you slowing opening up your real self to the people around here."

"Yeah… everyone I've met so far seem so carefree and relaxed and don't seem too surprise by anything out of the normal back home… I feel like I'm at home here," Chris said in a melancholy tome as he places his hand over his heart.

"Yup, it's like you fit right in here perfectly! Just don't keep everything to yourself again, you're not alone here and I'm always here to help you," Virus said with a heart-warming smile.

Chris cheerfully smiled then his eyes narrow themselves to a serious expression looking at Virus as he return to a neutral expression. "Anyway! There's something I want to talk to you about Virus!"

"It's about the transformation form of me and that ability canceling skill? I'll start with the latter first," said Virus as he closes his eyes and reopens his eyes in a more serious manner.

"It has no official name, but the name 'Ability Cancel' as you call it is a good name is a power that makes us immune to other people's abilities whether they be harmful to us or not, however there's more to that ability than it meets the eye," explained Virus.

"What? Not harmful? You mean if someone had the ability to heal wounds I can't be healed?" asked Chris worried.

"Yes and no, it depends. If it's a skill, technique, or spell they can heal you but the Ability Cancel halves the affects so you don't get the full benefit but if it's a special ability, something that a person is born with, then no you cannot be healed this way. It's has its drawbacks you don't try not to get hurt as much… you have to rely on medicine and ointments to heal yourself," Virus spoke, explaining the Ability Cancel's effect.

"I see… that's unfortunate, but I'm curious I can also cancel out other people's powers as well however it doesn't seem to last long? That's because I input some of my energy into them or into the area around us that prevents their use of their abilities, right?" Chris answered.

"Hehe… that's right! Glad you pick up on these so quickly! Yes, you can only disable their use of their abilities on living and non-living materials for short period of time, you can only disable their usage of about a minute or two. However you can only do this when they haven't activate their abilities right away, but it you use the Ability Cancel when they're performing their ability… so it's not a pleasant feeling…" Virus winced casting a dishearten look.

Chris perked his brow. "What do you mean by that? I have to use more energy to do that, right?"

"Let's say this… this Gensokyo place is in another world…" Virus started.

"It's actually world within a border… in other worlds someone with the power to manipulate boundaries created this place within that world," Chris chimed in.

"You understand that Gensokyo is really a border inside the outside world?" Virus inquired with a curious expression. "Your Ki Sensing skills are very resourceful… I already knew it before we came here, but it makes things easier to explain."

"Well yeah, think about it. Gensokyo is another world right, different from ours? How did this world came to be and where does it lay? Someone created and placed it within the current hidden from everyone's eyes, and yet what purpose does it have? Since Youkai have disappeared from this world it's safe to say that this place is home to them… or that's I think in theory given the circumstances," explained Chris with his hand on his chin thinking about his theory.

"That's how you always come down with these theories and they're usually spot-on! That's why you've got quite the perceived skills ever since you were young!" laughed Virus.

"Well for one… I've seen Onis, Vampires, and Witches… oh my, what else I am forgetting? Divine-empowered Shrine Maidens and time-space controlling Maids as well in this world… it's only naturally to think that," replied Chris with a goofy grin.

"Well normally… no one would think that and couldn't accept such a thing within their realm of common sense," Virus digresses, "But this world seems to lack common sense in a way, so it's not that bad."

"Huh? But if we let common sense hold us back on something like this, then we wouldn't be able to move forward and evolve our surroundings as we encounter the great unknown," Chris stated like it was the most naturally thing to do.

"Unfortunately not a lot of people think like that… 'tis the fault of mankind, they have great potential but ignorant to the world around them" Virus gently placed his fingers to his forehead. "Well anyway back to Gensokyo and your Ability Cancel."

Chris perked up and listens intently to what Virus has to say as he hugs his legs in anticipation.

"Gensokyo was created by someone's special ability right? And your Ability Cancel can disable, make you immune, or remove someone's effects of their special abilities in place. However there's more to this Ability Cancel but I'll save that for another time."

"That's pretty cool! But what do you mean that? I could destroy Gensokyo by simply using my Ability Cancel to remove it!" Chris winced not liking the idea of mass destruction of a world by his hands.

"Yes… but absolutely no, you cannot." Virus blankly and plainly said as Chris sighed with relief. "The Ability Cancel takes a small amount of your energy to disable their abilities, but using it on something of this magnitude like Gensokyo would require using a lot of energy… so if you do that you're die instantly and the person who create can similar rebuild it with ease so it's not worth it and it's doesn't just apply to the border but everyone else's ability that's already in motion though it wouldn't kill you and it varies."

"I see… that's definitely big drawback to have, but at the same time it shows you cannot abuse its power and learn self-control and understanding of our powers. I can see why helpful and hurtful this ability really is," ponder Chris as he thought it.

"That's right, plus the Ability Cancel is always on so you cannot turn it off at all," stated Virus with his index finger in the air.

"What! I can't turn off the Ability Cancel? That's rather… inconvenient," Chris said with a dishearten look on his face.

"Well I'm glad to see you understand my powers a bit, the Ability Cancel and the few other abilities originate from me before I fused with you so be grateful! I'm giving you my powers as I live inside your body," laughed Virus.

Chris gave a cocky smirk. "Well then! I guess I'll find a way to turn it off myself!"

Virus perked his head to the side. "Oh? And what makes you say that?"

"Because nothing is impossible! If there's no way to turn it off then I'll make one! Even if it's 0% I'll turn it into 100%... hell even if it's 1% I'll still try and succeed!"

Virus blinked a few times then starting to chuckle. "Hahaha! Indeed, that's you alright! You've always thought like that! However these are my abilities and I get to say which ones you get to have and use and I can even deny you access to your own abilities, but I do that for your own good."

"That reminds me… how long have you've been in my body Virus and why? I'm stumped on that, you've got incredible powers and abilities, and yet you're living inside of me giving me your abilities… why?" Chris asked looking at the dark counterpart before.

"Why indeed… I've lived a long time before meeting you, but I can't tell you anytime soon as it involves… a few other things you're not ready to hear… not just yet," said Virus as he looked away with an almost ashamed look on his face and then looked at Chris with a bright smile. "But there's one thing certain why I fused with you despite my powers… I always wanted a friend."

"Virus…" Chris said with astonishment.

"Sorry for fusing inside of your body without your permission and not telling you everything about the truth," said Virus with a slight dishearten tone.

"I don't mind letting you stay in my body. I like ya Virus! You're an awesome guy and good friend, besides I'll wait until the day you tell me everything," Chris answered with a goofy grin with his arms behind his head. "I trust you."

"Honestly… I'm glad to see you so understanding," Virus perked up visibly surprised and happy with Chris's response.

"Well it's a matter of your feelings and mine that you're taking into account and it's not right forcing it out from you, besides sometimes it's better to wait since sometimes as learning everything too fast can really mess someone up in the head," said Chris looking into his own hand with a sad look.

Virus smiled. "Very well… and now about the transformation forms you have. And I personally like the name 'Divine Darkness' for your dark form, as you have almost full access to my powers that you take on my form since there's so much it has to alter your appearance but you're free to change it if you like."

"I see, and I like the look so I won't be changing it though that does answer why my clothes change when I turned into you," said Chris with a pondering look with his finger on his chin.

"Indeed, my powers enchant your strength and stamina greatly but due to the overwhelming powers of mine I have to slow your body down to adjust to it and become more familiarize with it. Trust me, having ALL of my powers pouring into you at once will cause you… undesirable results which would do more harm than good especially with others around you," Virus explained.

Chris cringed. What did he mean by that?

"And secondly you have to have a perfectly healthy body with lots of energy to execute the transformation, so it's you're too heavily damaged or if you're energy is too low you cannot enter into your Super Level or Divine Darkness form and if you're energy is low enough in either forms you would be knocked out of them as it puts enough stress as is already from using them," said Virus raising his hand up with two fingers pointing up.

"Thirdly I advise against using your forms for the time being as you're still not at full power and you're body needs to rest as I fix the crude Ki system in your body. Serious I have never seen a human being with such a horrid Ki network flowing throughout the body, I'm amazed you can do the things you can do with it even if it's only one fourth of your overall power! Then again I did help a little by easing the pain of using your Ki, as I'm sure you cause damage to your body using it am I right Chris?" Virus said with a glaring look starting at Chris as he looked away nervously.

"Well… yeah, it does hurt sometimes when using my abilities… But I have to improve my control over them so I can help people and…" Chris started to say.

"NO! That's not right, you're teacher said it before about your lack of talent of Ki control, but don't force the Ki out of your body like that! You will break your body like that… though naturally flowing Ki throughout your body to strengthen it is ingenious in its own right but you're not the first but that doesn't mean you should kill yourself using your powers like that!" Virus yelled at Chris clearly displeasure on how Chris uses his powers.

"Your Ki Network has… Ki Clogs, similar to Blood Clogs to your blood vessels, which makes it hard to use Ki and causes discomfort using it. Doing so can cause you to shave a bit of your overall lifespan if you over use it. I will fix your Ki Network so you can use your abilities without stressing your body… and restore your lost 1 or 2 years of your lifespan from overusing your Ki for 10 years. Though no one loses a great deal of their overall lifespan by doing this, but even losing a year is bad enough!"

"Sorry…" Chris winced, but he smiled. Virus nodded and returned a warm smile as well.

"I know you've never been scolded before or the like except from your uncle, but please don't overexert yourself with these tasks and try to have your friends help you. Taking everything onto yourself will only worsen your situation," sighed Virus with a worried expression. "I'm here to help you, so don't go thinking you should burden this task alone… and since we're going to be dealing with the ECHO monsters you'll definitely need some assistance."

"I'll try," Chris said with a solemn look.

"Also… talk to that Ki User over at that Scarlet Devil Mansion, even though I was partially asleep I did notice she had excellent Ki control and I'm pretty sure if you study under her you will definitely be able to use your Ki properly without stressing you body anymore as I continue to fix the crude network system you have," spoke Virus with his head up and eyes closed.

"Of course! I want to learn more and I want to get to know her too! I'm pretty sure she's really nice!" exclaimed Chris with such joy in his voice.

"Hmm… I'm glad to see your excited… hehe… are you interested in her?" Virus asked with a mischievous grin.

"Wha-Wha-Wha-What! Hold on, I hardly know her and I know she's really beautiful and… oh shoot not helping… I really don't think I should… erm…" Chris stuttered something he usually doesn't do often as his eyes form in a typical anime freak out expression with the bugged out white eyes with no pupils. "I-I mean… that is to say… erm…"

"Hahahaha! You're too much Chris! Your expressions are always hilarious!" Virus cried out with joy.

However Chris wasn't pleased with that comment and he started to yell. "Excuse! Well I'm glad you're having fun!"

"Well you… how to say it… you are seemingly perfect in everything you do and you have a seemingly flawless personality that you don't seem to make any mistakes! Glad to see you not being so tensed as usual, then again you're uncle beat that 'perfect gentleman' persona into you so you're not your fault to better maintain your emotions," Virus pointed out as he laughed, "But this is priceless!"

"Are you implying I'm a Gary Stu! I am NOTHING like one I'm just being me so excuse me for being nice! I mean no one likes to be treated poorly… and I…" Chris started with an angry glare then slowly looking away with a shy yet scared expression at the end as Virus stopped laughing.

"That you really believe in the good in people? That's what I like about you Chris… you are truly and honestly kind to people and you respect them and say what you really feel about them, nothing wrong with that," Virus said with a heart-warmth smile. "Don't worry, I understand how you feel about treating people…"

"T-Thanks…" Chris scratched the back on his head with his face blushing with embarrassment. He looked back up to Virus and gave him a smile.

"It looks like it's time for you to wake up in the real world," said Virus pointed at Chris as Chris looked down at himself.

His body was slowly faded away, little sparks of lights coming out from his body and dispersing in the air.

"Oh well… Thanks for answering my question Virus! I'll take care, but I'm still going to fight the ECHOES and protect everyone from them and Levin!" Chris said with a goofy grin with his arms behind the back of his head as he disappeared to reawaken in the real world.

Virus just shook his head with an all-knowing smile. "Even after I told him to take it easy. He can be so dam stubborn sometimes… and I hope you make new friends out there my soulmate…"

And hopefully the girls in this world can break down that little wall around your heart Chris so you can be the real you again… Virus thought with a warm smile. Hmm… I should tease him more about the girls in this world… I have to have fun once and while myself as well.

"I wonder if should indulgence Chris about my other abilities as well? Even though that doesn't mean he can use all of them even if I gave him permission… hehe," chuckled Virus as he materialized a cup of green tea and sipped it as he mused to himself.

Chris slowly opens his eyes looking up to a ceiling, finding himself once again in a familiar futon and room. He blinked his eyes a few times to get rid of the sands in his eyes, shaking off his sleepiness.

"Ahh… man that was such a good sleep!" Chris yawned as he stretched out his arms slowly getting up from within his futon.

"So good of you to finally wake up," said a female voice as the slide door open revealing Reimu walking into the room and sitting in Japanese style next to Chris smiling at him.

"Oh! Good morning Reimu! How are you?" asked Chris with a cheery smile as he greeted her.

"I'm doing fairly well, but what about you? You lost a bit of blood thanks to a certain vampire," asked Reimu pointed to Chris's neck.

"Don't worry I'm fine," Chris nervously said as he covered the side of his neck, "By the way, what happen to me? Last thing I remember I was going to do something and then I fainted…"

"Oh that? You were going to come back with me to build me a new donation box for the one you and Marisa destroyed earlier," said Reimu saying 'build' with such displease as her face frowns.

Chris slowly digests the information before him with a pondering look until it took on the form of fright as the realization dons on him.

"Oh shoot! I fell asleep when I had something to do! I am so sorry Reimu-chan! I'll get right to it!" Chris bellowed as he quickly gets up from his futon, however he tripped and fell flat on his face from his sudden outburst to exit out of the futon.

"Ittai! Ittai!" Chris winced in pain as he held his face. "Sorry! Sorry! I'll get ready right now so I can start working on the donation box ASAP!"

Reimu giggled at the sight. "You don't have to be so worked up like this! However if you do go back on your word I will punish you. Isn't that right Marisa?"

A familiar girl with blonde slowly creeps into the room with a nervous smile.

"Come on Reimu! It was an accident, we didn't mean to blown up the donation box even though no one has made in a donation here for such a long time!" Marisa said becoming slightly less nervous.

"Marisa… I will forever remind you and Chris of what you did to my beloved donation box for the rest of your lives. So make sure the new one is better than my old, understand?" said Reimu with a carefree smile, however this smile had a dark aura about it as Reimu continues to smile Marisa.

"Aww Reimu! Why do you have to be so scary, ze!" Marisa pouted.

"So where's the supplies I need to buy you a new donation box Reimu?" asked Chris as he fully recovers from his sudden fall.

"I unfortunately don't have the materials to build another donation box as the shrine… haven't been getting donation lately," said Reimu becoming dishearten by mentioning the 'lack of donation' part.

"What! Then where do I get the materials? From a village nearby hopefully?" asked Chris becoming a little worried about helping Reimu and properly apologizing to her.

"You can get the materials from Rinnosuke's shop, Kourindou, as Marisa knows where it is and she'll take you there so you can get the supplies, right Marisa?" Reimu spoke and giving Marisa the eye.

"Yeah! Yeah! Don't worry, we'll be back before you know it!" exclaim Marisa with excitement like this whole situation was a game.

"Alright!" said Chris as he quickly exits the sliding door where Reimu in blindly speed as Reimu and Marisa turns around to see him doing a sharp U-Turn on the floor.

"Wait! Where's my sneakers! Ah!" cried Chris as he tripped once again from the brief stop from his sprint as he falls onto the dirt floor outside. "Dammit! Why am I so accident prone!"

Reimu and Marisa blinked dumbfoundedly at Chris's sudden careless antics as he searches for his sneakers which were right in front over him as they were under the porch as he grabbed them.

"Oh! I need my backpack to hold the supplies!" Chris jumped back into the room and grabbed his backpack while holding his sneakers by the strings in this mouth. "Come on Marisa-chan! Let's go!"

Chris dashes out of the room out more, and almost trips again trying to hurry to quickly finish with his task he promised Reimu. His eyes had a fiery passion and serious expression that otherwise wasn't present when Reimu entered the room to see him awaken.

"Hahaha! He's got so much energy and so much fun! I like him a lot, ze! Chris-kun wait for me!" said Marisa as she jumps onto her broom and zooms out through the window instead of the sliding door at high-speed kicking up some dust.

"Marisa, wait you can't! *sigh* Nevermind…" Reimu gave a heavy sigh as Marisa carelessly exits out from the window without thinking she could've knocked something over or smashed into the wall from her abrupt getaway.

But still that Chris… what a silly boy he is… Reimu giggled to herself remembering how fluster Chris was trying to leave the room to go get the materials to build her a new donation box.

"So the quickest way to Kourindou is through this forest?" Chris asked as Marisa caught up to him and explain where they were heading.

"Yup! This is the Forest of Magic and my house is located just in there so I can get to all my favorite places as quickly as possible! It's the best place to live!" Marisa cheerfully stated.

"That's interesting… and I can totally picture it. By the way Marisa-chan, what's like Rinnosuke-san like?" Chris asked curious about meeting another resident of Gensokyo here.

"Him? Well he runs a shop with all kinds of weird items that he can't really sell, but he does have some normal items like the materials we're getting, and he's an old friend of mine! I always pop by to say hello to Kourin when I get the chance, ze!" Marisa explain while riding on her broom.

"Is that so? That's interesting," Chris smiled, it was nice to know that the person he was going to meet was a male. Truth to told Chris was started to feel outnumbered as he's only met girls so far in this world and was beginning to wonder if any males existed at all in this world.

"So what exactly does he sell?"

"Weird items like I said!" replied Marisa.

"Erm… not exactly what I asked," Chris nervously chuckled.

The pair made their way to a clearing in the forest with the trees all around them. However Chris's head perked up, something was strange about this forest. It wasn't the magic he can feel in the air, but something different… something weird like the air is being sucked up like a vacuum.

Marisa quickly ascending into the air above Chris snapping him back to reality and looked up at Marisa.

"OK! Kourin's shop is in that direction! Let's race to see who can get there faster!" Marisa exclaimed with delight.

"Hmm…" Chris ponder with his hand under his chin, "Why not? I'm in a mood to race right now… and besides, think you can keep up with me? I'm pretty fast for a human!"

"Really? I'm so glad you're so much fun, Chris-kun!" Marisa cried out with joy as she started to zoom out of sight above the forest and out of sight as Chris ready himself to run.

However just is she was about to pass the first tree Marisa stopped in midair, prompting Chris to turn his attention toward her, as Marisa started to look woozy a bit and her face looked like all of the emotions were drained from her and her eyes were half-closed and she was frowning until she fell right out of her broom with it soon following after her.

Chris wasn't sure what just happen but he sprinted like crazy and caught Marisa before she landed hard into the ground from the sudden free fall she did with her broom landed where she would've had. The way Chris was holding her was like a groom holding his bride from their wedding.

"Oi! Marisa-chan! Are you OK?" Chris frantically ask as Marisa looked like she didn't care what happen until her face lit up again and stared directly at Chris for a moment and survey the situation she was in and smiled at Chris.

"Oh boy… thank goodness you're alright! What happened Marisa? Why did you sudden fall like that? And why… are you looking at me like that?" asked Chris as he perked a curious brow at the way Marisa was staring at him with that smile of hers without saying a word.

"Erm… Marisa-chan?"

"Thanks for catching me Chris-kun!" Marisa said, brimming with energy once more, and hopping back on her feet from Chris's arms.

"OoooK… so what happened?" Chris asked once again.

Marisa placed a finger on her cheek as she tried to recall what befell her as she started to fly away. "I'm not sure, I was about to go flying off but sudden it felt like… all of my emotions were leaving me and soon I didn't care about the race, about flying, about everything anymore and…"

Chris's eyes widen in shock… her emotions were? He did not like the sound of that.

"Hold on, let me check it out!" said Chris looking above the forest.

"Huh? Does that mean you can fly then?" Marisa looked at Chris with playful curiosity.

"Nope," Chris smiled, "But I jump really high!"

On that note Chris lightly jumped off the ground, causing a small sonic boom to take his place as the gust of winds caused Marisa to shield herself and then looked up to see Chris a little higher than she was scanning the forest.

Chris quickly looked back and forth before he could feel gravity taking a hold on him, but not before he felt something. He felt like he didn't care anymore about what he did, what he could do, nor did he care about his life however he grasp over his chest as to prevent himself to lose anymore of his feelings.

What in the world…? Chris thought as he finally landed and he started to feel normal again.

"That was weird! What in the world? Is that normal around here?" Chris asked looking at Marisa as he wasn't familiar with how this place worked.

"No! And see? I felt weird too… something's not right!" said Marisa with a pout as she tried to fly above the forest once again and almost met the same result but manage to fly back down without falling again and gaining her emotions back.

"This isn't fair! I can't fly over the forest anymore!" Marisa complained with her hands on her hips, clearly she didn't like the thought of not flying anymore to her favorite spots or flying back home to work on new spells.

"Can't be helped right? Let's investigate, as it stands we won't be able to get to Rinnosuke-san's shop at all before sundown and I doubt Reimu would be happy about that," said Chris thinking about how the consequences of being late as Reimu has a punishment in mind for them.

"Yeah! I want to know why I can't fly pass the forest now! They most fun part of traveling in Gensokyo is flying, ze! I wonder if Alice knows what's going on?" said Marisa as she started to hover herself above the ground on her broom.

"Who's Alice?" Chris asked as he walked beside Marisa.

"She's my neighbor! She's a Youkai Magician who controls puppets and it's so much fun bringing her everywhere you go!" shouted Marisa.

You mean… drag her against her will everywhere YOU want to go… Chris shook his head with a grim smile.

"Alright let's meet up with Alice and find out what's going on in the forest and head to Rinnosuke-san's shop to get materials to build Reimu a new donation box. Man today's going to be a long day," Chris scratched his head, "But it's my fault for what happened and I'm worried about Alice now."

"Don't worry she's strong!" Marisa reassured him.

"Strong against what's sucking up our emotions?"

"Of course! There's no way she'll go down that easily, ze!" Marisa joyously shouted.

"Well then let's go!" said Chris as both Marisa and him entered deeper into the forest.

A sea of forest spread of far as the eye can see, a beautiful paradise untouched my man with the sunshine shining through the leaves lighting the path in the shadowy patches of the forest as a pair of individuals navigate through the tranquil domain to search for a girl named Alice and the mysterious cause of preventing people from traveling by air above the forest.

Even the small wildlife brought this place alive with the birds singing and flying in the air, the fresh smell of tree leaves in the morning, and the warmth of the family of trees huddle together to create natural paths leading deeper into its maze.

Though Chris wasn't a mage or use magic he could feel the forest's magical life force energy in the air singing to him, listening to the forest's song with his body as it greatly hinted in its song that something was amiss in its home as the pair slowly enter the forest.

"So how close by is Alice's house?" asked Chris.

"Not too far from here, ze! Just follow me!" said Marisa flying above the ground on her broom, but not too high up.

She can still fly just fine, but she and other cannot fly above the forest without having to deal with whatever is causing the anomaly within the forest.

Just a few minutes of wandering around in the forest Chris picked up a strange energy signature and looked around to find the source.

"Oi! Marisa, come over here for a sec!" called out Chris as he ducked behind a bush.

"Huh? What are you doing? Alice isn't hiding in there!" Marisa playfully teased but followed Chris into the bush as well.

"Over there! Look!" Chris whispered as he pointed in front of him.

Standing there in the clearing was a couple of Youkai, an umbrella-shaped one and a furball-like one, were arguing with each other mentioning about 'black monsters' in the forest now and wondering where they should go. But it wasn't the Youkai that caught Chris and Marisa's attention, it was the thing hiding behind a bush like them staring at them.

It was an ECHO Vocals grinning mischievously at the pair of Youkai.

Chris's face twisted with worry, he didn't like the look that ECHO was giving the pair of Youkai. It looked hungry, haunting with a hint of sadism in its eyes. Marisa however blinked, she was never saw a creature like that before and was curious why it was staring at the Youkai.

Then it opened its mouth. A small gray-colored aura seem to be sucked into its mouth, it was so transparent that you could barely see it as the ECHO silently swallowed up whatever it was from the direction of the Youkai.

Just then the Youkai suddenly looked dizzy and looked very tired.

"Hey… you know what I don't feel like arguing anymore…" said the umbrella Youkai.

"Yeah… I don't feel like doing anything at all too…" replied the furball Youkai.

They both had the monotone and unfeeling tone of voice that Marisa had earlier. It dawn on Chris before, but now he was sure! ECHO monsters feed on emotions, since they're born from emotions it makes perfect sense! And not only that they seem to suck up a bit of the host's energy which most likely helps them gain that person's special ability.

"Hey! What are you two doing?" said another Youkai that looked like a small man with a white mask. He seemed unfazed by the unknown ECHO's feeding ability lurking behind the bush which was a good mid-range away.

But as the Youkai got even closer he started to waver a bit.

"What the? I feel strange…"

"Hey! That black Youkai there is causing it right! Let's go beat it, ze!" said Marisa getting excited, now knowing who the culprit was.

"Hold on! I still need one more bit of information!" said Chris sticking his hand out in front of Marisa stopping her from exposing themselves.

Just then another Youkai came by, but this time much closer to where the ECHO was but it didn't notice. It was a red humanoid bull Youkai with red eyes to match with golden horns slowly approaching the three Youkai in the clearing but still keeping to the shadows.

For whatever reason, the ECHO seem to choke itself when the Youkai got too close to where it was and looked with great annoyance in its eyes but it spew out that same gray aura which then turned into another ECHO Vocals and the pair of dark creatures sink into the shadows. Chris blinked upon seeing the ECHO's reaction and the sudden birth another ECHO.

Interesting… ECHO monsters can feed on emotions of others but they can only do it to a mid-range with anything too far away they can't suck up the emotions and if it's too close they suck up too much emotions for them to handle like shoving a huge piece a steak into your mouth so they choke on it. And not only that, but by spitting out all of the emotions they eat they can quickly spawn a new ECHO… Chris analyzed the situation in hand in his mind. How troublesome…

"Sensouke? Eh? What were we doing?" said the umbrella Youkai returning to normal.

"Like I can read your minds? We have to make haste, those black creatures will be back again," said the red bull Youkai called Sensouke beckoning his fellow Youkai brethren to follow him.

Just as the Youkai left both Chris and Marisa went out of the bushes and stood where the ECHO once stood.

"Whoa! I never see such a Youkai before! I can't wait to tell Alice about this!" exclaimed Marisa, not seeing the big picture or the problem of these emotionally-sucking parasites running around.

But there's something Chris doesn't get. Why does Levin need these creatures for his plan? They suck up emotions and gain the abilities of others, even if they're weaker versions of it and the person returns to normal after the ECHO shuts its mouth after feeding and it looked like they can only eat up so much emotion on their own.

Plus when you figure out how to deal with these creatures they're not that powerful despite being on the same playing field as high-level Youkai, however these were just the low-level ECHOES and Chris could only imagine how powerful the high-level ECHOES are. Though his point reminds, why does he need them? Levin's powerful on his own, what other secrets do these creatures possess?

"Chris-kun? What are you doing just standing there! Let's go and see Alice, ze!" Marisa waved at Chris who was meters away from she was snapping Chris back away from his train of thoughts.

For now he's gain important information regarding the ECHOES now and he'll know exactly where to find them. Plus he's gain another piece of important information regarding the ECHO that was related to their feeding, something to help them track down their 'nests' hopefully.

"Sorry Marisa-chan! I was just curious about what the ECHO monsters will do from now on," said Chris as he caught up with Marisa.

"ECHO monster? So that black creature isn't a Youkai?" Marisa said pointing out what Chris said.

…

….

Oops, I wasn't supposed to mention about them but seeing as there's no point in hiding it…

"Alright where do I begin?" said Chris nervously scratching the side of his head.

"I see… so these ECHO monsters are creatures of darkness born from everyone's positive and negative emotions?" said Marisa repeating in simple terms what Chris told her.

"Correct, not only that they gain the special abilities and something their objects which makes them ever troubling to fight against," sighed Chris thinking how he's going to fix this mess he couldn't stop.

"Well that's OK then! We just have to beat them up right, ze!" shouted Marisa throwing her fist into the air.

Honestly, what a straightforward person she is but I like that about her.

"True, but I prefer not to fight and talk things out unless there's no other way or unless I like to test my abilities. And since these ECHO monsters prefer actions over words, there's no other way around it. Though I'll admit it IS every fun fighting these monsters," said Chris with his arms behind his head with his goofy smile.

"That's the spirit! Let's go beat the bad guys, ze!" said Marisa as she zoomed into the forest at great speed.

"Hold it! Not without me!" said Chris already at Marisa's side as the pair hurried through the forest.

BOOOOOMM!

An energy blast shot passed between Chris and Marisa as the two came to a stop and looked in the direction from the blast and saw a group of ECHO monsters standing in their way. Chris noticed the Vocals and Howl ones in the group, but he saw a new one.

It had a short feminine figure, though its arms looked very scrawny, with a hat or something covering its head with the same Vocal's headtail pattern with gray skin showing and its black lips arc into a sultry smile. The ECHO symbol seems to be armor as the long arc edged out its body covering its shoulders with the rest covering its upper torso.

"ECHO Smooch… echo, echo…" giggled the new type of ECHO.

The way it said 'smooch' was like how the sound smooch is heard. Chris realized already, but the ECHOES's names are sound-based which is ironic since their energy being with only one sound-based attack.

"This is going to be so much! Time for me to try out my new spell card!" exclaimed Marisa with joy in her voice as she pulled out a card from her pocket.

New spell card? Chris couldn't help but sweatdrop, what monstrous spell did she come up with this time?

"Love Sign: MAAASSTER…"

Huh? Wait, this isn't a new spell! But why is it a card this time… and why is it spinning with rainbow-colored aura around it?

"… HAND!"

Wait… what?

A giant white gloves seemingly appeared out of air where the spell card Marisa laid out as it began to spin itself around with a rainbow-color aura coming out from the pocket end of the glove as it rocketed off at high-speed knocking the surprised ECHO monsters away shoving them out of the and it seemed like the glove was pulling something from their bodies… was that a paint brush? The final strike was a huge explosion lighting up the air and the hand returning dropping the paint brush into Marisa's hand as she placed it into her pocket and the giant white glove disappearing.

Chris shielded himself from the bright and looked where the ECHOES were. They scattered across the clearing, with some of them dispersing already but there was quite a few left standing.

"Whoa! That was impressive! But did it have to be so explosive?" asked Chris pointed where the giant glove exploded.

"OK course! If it isn't flashy, it isn't magic!" said Marisa wiggling her finger, apparently that was her motto for life.

Chris blinked for a second and chuckled. "I see, I see! Well it isn't flashy, but my Ki attacks are something else!"

"Yeah! They're so much fun to fight against! We got to have another sparring duel real soon, ze!"

"By the way, what is the purpose of that spell card?" Chris asked, somehow knowing the answer wasn't going to make him feel better for some reason.

"That? I made it so it's much more easier to burrowing things from other people, especially Patchy's books!" said Marisa like it wasn't a bad thing.

Chris grimaced. He could totally see the horror and angry face of Patchouli's face upon learning or seeing this new spell card in action.

It looks like I'll be helping Patchouli protect her books than reading them if I go to see her again…

"Can't you just read the books there?" Chris asked, but he knew the answer to that question.

"But it's more fun this way, ze!" Marisa smiled.

Cue epic faceplam, and Chris planted a facepalm with a wry smile. Sweet merciful god… I can see the chaos this spell card will bring…

The ECHO monsters slowly got up and glare at the pair with a mischievous look, ready to have fun messing with them.

"I guess we'll save the conversation, let's kick butt for now!" said Chris pulling out his twin swords in reverse grip.

"Yeah! Let's have fun!" said Marisa standing on her broom this time.

Some of the ECHOES dived into the shadows, surfing along the ground like fish in the sea, with their hands popping out of the ground like daisies clawing at Chris and Marisa.

"Magic Sign: Stardust Reverie!"

Marisa charged in with her broom and as she flew in a single straight direction a stream star-shaped bullets were released from the blue stream coming out from her broom blasting several ECHOES in the face but they took the assault head on and blasted out yellow Ki blasts from their mouths or hands chasing after Marisa.

Chris hack and slash at the ECHOES with a splendid display of swordsmanship with each arc beautiful leaving a trail of silver light from each swing as he slashed an ECHO in half from top to bottom causing it to disperse as Chris sidekick an ECHO in the gut he leaped into the air and twirled himself until he looked directly at the ECHO Vocals.

"Fire Style: Fireball!"

A stream of red and orange flames erupted from Chris's mouth blasting the ECHO with intense heat until the ECHO Smooch waved its hand healing the ECHO Vocals as it leaped around.

So these are healer types? Chris thought as he glared at the ECHO pair laughing at them with their 'echo' chant.

The feminine ECHO danced around with energy empowered fists trying to strike Chris, causing the ground and nearby tree to explode on impact. Though Chris dodged the attack successfully the ECHO launched a surprise sidekick him sending him flying into a tree, his back smashing against it while he was upside down.

Why… is it always… the back? Chris thought as he slide down the tree with tears streaming down his face thinking why the universe punished him like that.

Chris picked himself up and patted the dust off of his clothes and glared at the new ECHO as it giggled with delight.

OK… and it's a martial artist type… Chris nervous sweating dodging each attack with ease until another ECHO attacked him from behind as Chris did a spinning roundhouse kick to both ECHOES however missing them but causing them to retreat.

"Magic Sign: Illusion Star!"

Marisa called out another spell card and waved of green and blue star-shaped bullets erupted around her shooting in an unplanned pattern striking the ECHOES in front of her blowing up trees, rocks, and the ground apart with each explosion. Most of the ECHOES were blown away, but they all stood standing.

"Wow! I never see anyone survive my spells like that, like they were nothing! Is this so much fun, I'm having a blast, ze!" said Marisa enjoying the little battle with the ECHOES.

"Ice Style: Diamond Dust!"

Chris gracefully swings his swords around him causing a cold mist to form where he was shooting small ice shards at the ECHOES, only managing to nick them in the limbs at they huddled together and unleashed a huge energy beam from their mouths and hands at them which rivaled the Master Spark in size.

"No you don't! Light Style: Aura Sphere!" shouted Chris encasing both him and Marisa in a translucent white sphere shielding them from the large energy attack.

"OK new strategy! Marisa feel like hitting them with a combo attack?" asked Chris as he sheath this swords.

"Yeah! I'm game!" Marisa smiled excited about a more fun way to fight.

"Well here's the plan…" Chris whispered into Marisa's ear.

Marisa nodded with each response and smile. "Wow! That sounds like so much fun, I can't wait until we do it!"

"Shall we? Ladies!" said Chris allowing Marisa to attack first.

"Thank you!" said Marisa as zoom to the right side of the ECHOES while Chris took the left side, with both of them shooting magical bullets and in Chris's case Ki blasts bombarding the ECHOES from the side until Chris and Marisa zoom back to where they were but further away.

"Ready?"

"Yeah! Love Sign: MAAAASSTER…" said Marisa pulling out her special magic box of destruction

"CHAOS BEAM…!" Chris pulled his hands to the side of his body with a red and black aura encasing them.

"SPARK!" both Chris and Marisa declared as both of their attacks erupted as they twirled themselves together forming one massive beam spark of destruction swallowing all of the ECHOES whole dispersing them into nothing.

"Yeah we did it!" said Chris high-fiving Marisa as she did the same.

"That was fun, ze! Let's do it again!" exclaimed Marisa not wanting her fun to end.

If you ever need someone to overpower your opponents with sheer force, Marisa is your girl!

"Unfortunately we have a donation box to make, but let's check on Alice first to see if she's OK. I think the forest is safe for now," said Chris reminded Marisa of their task.

"Oh? Oh yeah, that's right! Let's go meet up with Alice!" with that Marisa flew away into the deeper part of the forest.

Chris smiled. Never a dull moment with Marisa around, eh?

Just as he was about to leave a couple of ECHO monsters hiding in the bushes sneered at Chris.

"Sheesh! We missed all the fun, echo ze! Well Levin did mention we could do as we please until his next orders!"

Chris stopped in his tracks, were they aware they were speaking out loud at the moment and he could hear him? And Levin contacted them already?

"Yeah! Three months of fun until Levin can reopen the gateway again! Well better cause as much chaos as possible until then…" said the other ECHO and the two disappeared into the shadows.

Something didn't sit right with Chris. Did they not notice him? They're weren't whispering…

"Chris-kun! Hurry up or I'll leave you behind, ze!" called out Marisa.

Chris chased after Marisa, but he couldn't help what he heard. It was too suspicious…

"Hey… why did Levin ask us for the red-black to hear about the gateway opening in the three months from now, echo?"

"Well I care, echo ze! I'm not sure why he's going to open it anyway when he's not going to even use it to come here! Let him spoil his plan if he wants…"

And with that the two ECHOES disappearing, leaving an ominous and eerie feeling in the air.

The pair continue through the forest, encounter even more ECHOES but they were soon dispatch by Chris and Marisa, as they made their way to a house in another clearing.

It was a moderate-size white house with a few windows and a small white tower by its side which could possibly be a storage room, overall it was a very normal looking house in the middle of the forest.

"So Alice-chan lives here? Doesn't look like anything… hey! Marisa-chan! What are you doing!" shouted Chris as he watched Marisa getting ready to kick the door down.

"What? I'm going to see if Alice's home! Hey Alice, are you there, ze!" said Marisa as she knocked on the door by kicking it.

"Not by kicking the door! Show some decency!"

However the door flung opened causing Marisa to jump back a few feet before getting hit in the face by the door and a blonde-hair girl with a red headband on her head stepped out accompanied by a small doll floating next to her with had a blue maid outfit and a red ribbon tied to its blonde head.

She wore a long blue dress with frilly pink ribbons wrapped around her waist and collar with a white cloth draped above her shoulders with a black stripe line near the edge of it matching the black bands wrapped around the white sleeves of her elegant dress while holding a black book with a pink ribbon wrapped over in her hand.

"Marisa, I rather you not knock on my door like that," said the girl who is most likely Alice.

"Why? It got your attention didn't it?" Marisa said without a care in the world.

Chris simply shook his head in astonishment. Honestly…

Chris got another look at the girl and noticed that her clothes were a bit tatters like she came out from a fight. His head started to think about what kind of trouble she got into with the ECHOES, if that was the case, and panicked in bit inside his head.

"Hey, are you OK? Why are your clothes tattered like that?" Chris asked with a worried expression.

"These strange black creatures suddenly ambush on my way home and I had to fight them along the way, though when I got closer to my home they started to leave," sighed Alice thinking back on the ordeal she had to survive then her dark green eyes locked on the new face before her with an unchanged blank expression, "Anyway who are you? I don't recall seeing you before."

"My name is Christopher Trevas Corona, it's nice to meet you Alice-chan! You can call me Chris!" said Chris with a smile as he pointed to himself with his thumb.

Alice tiled her head in curiosity at the boy. "I see, so you're from the outside world judging by your… interesting clothes."

"Well I'm from a parallel dimension actually, but think of it as a second outside world," said Chris as he scratched the side of his head.

"A parallel world…? Have you been drinking?" she asked thinking Chris was crazy.

"I DON'T drink sake!" cried Chris with an annoyed look on his head then he realized he shouted at her and bow to apologized, "Sorry… I shouldn't have yelled like that. But it's the truth, I'm from another world."

"Yeah! This big green vortex appeared in the sky and me, Reimu, and Suika find him in a crater all banged up! He's so much fun ever since he woke up, ze!" Marisa butted in not wanting to be left out of the conversation.

"So I didn't imagine that vortex… every well then. Is there a reason you two are here?" asked Alice curious to why the pair are here to talk to her.

"Well when Marisa-chan couldn't fly over the forest, because of the ECHOES which are the black creatures you saw, we came to investigate and such she mentioned you were here I wanted to make sure you were OK. I was worry they would have hurt you in any way," said Chris rubbing the back of his head.

Alice once again tilted her head and gave a small smile. "You don't know me, yet you were worried about me? You're a very kind and thoughtful person, aren't you?"

Chris face heated up a bit, that smile was cute. "W-Well I mean… wouldn't anyone worry about someone with strange monsters where they live? Besides I can't stand someone suffering in front of me… it puts me in the spot when it does."

Alice brought her hand up to her mouth as gave a small giggled. "I see, you're very kind. Now then, where are you two heading?"

"To Kourindou, ze! We have some business there, so come with us!" said Marisa as she started pulling Alice's arm.

"Do I have a choice?" sighed Alice as Marisa ignored any attempts to stop what she's doing.

"What a minute! That doll, can I see it for a minute?" asked Chris pointing to Alice's doll floating around her which had its dress ripped possibly from the ECHO attack.

"Hmm… I don't see why not, but why?" Alice curiously asked as she handed her doll over to Chris.

Chris put down his backpack and opened up one of its pocket and pulled out… some sewing tools complete with a needle and thread. Both Marisa and Alice blinked, they didn't expect a boy to be carrying a sewing kit of any kind on them.

Chris took the needle and started to sew up the doll's dress, carefully watching where he placed the needle and slowly repaired the doll's dress with precise and gracefully movement. With the last sewing part done he used his teeth to cut the thread and cleaned it up before handing it back to Alice. Her doll's dress looked brand new, like it was just recently made or bought but the sew part it still invisible upon closer inspection.

Alice's eyes widen with amazement and looked at Chris who was beaming her with a smile. "A-Ah… T-Thank you! But you can sew?"

"Yeah, well you see my little sister had a lot of dolls when we were young and she would somehow manage to rip their dresses or bodies and since we were tight on money at the time I started to sew them back together for her… but I suck so bad at it. They quite deformed after I was finished with them," said Chris scratching the side of his head in embarrassment, "Though she didn't mind and say she loved them! It made me happy, until she started to show it off to others. I got made fun of for sewing doll dresses because of it, but I didn't care since it made my sister happy."

"I see… you're wonderful big brother, aren't you?" Alice gave Chris a small smile.

"Really? That's still kinda weird for a boy to sew, ze!"

Both Chris and Alice sighed.

"Anyway, why didn't your sister come with you here? I'm sure she would've had a blast here!" said Marisa.

"You see… my sister passed away 10 years ago. I live alone without a family anymore," Chris said with a sad melancholy voice as he looked up at the sky.

Both Alice and Marisa flinched with both of them looking dishearten about that little piece of information.

"Haha… ha… sorry," Marisa apologized.

Chris smiled, so she not a complete lost hope, and shook his head. "It's OK, you didn't know. Besides we're just starting to get to know one another, besides I can't run away from my past since it was what made me to the who I am today and if people want to know everything about me I have to share my past a bit, you know? Well let's get going to Kourindou! Marisa if you please?"

Marisa bounced back to her usual self and shouted in the air. "Yeah, let's go ze! No more frown faces!"

With that Marisa bolted away with both Chris and Alice tagging along, with Alice flying and Chris walking.

The young blonde girl looked back at Chris with a wry expression.

Is he really OK? Why did he seem… angry with himself?

"So this is Kourindou," Chris declared out loud as he, Marisa, and Alice came across an antique shop near the forest's edge.

Out in the front of the store were many items scattered around Chris can relate to, while Marisa and Alice thought they were strange and unusual objects.

A bike, a computer, a basketball, a toolbox, and a few other electronic devices like cell phones were around which Chris looked through each item with a delightful expression on his face like a kid in a candy store.

"Sheesh! I'm surprise some of these are here! But then again no one buys these, right?" asked Chris picking up a cell phone from one of the piles.

"Yes, they're interesting to look at but since no one knows how to use them so they remain here," said Alice as she approached the door.

"I see, well let's get what we came for Marisa-chan," said Chris as he put down the cell phone.

SMASH!

Marisa knocked down the door with a kick.

"Hey Kourin! Are you there, ze!"

Both Chris and Alice looked at Marisa like she was crazy.

"M-Marisa-chan! Why did you do that!" Chris pointed at her as he couldn't process what she just done.

"What? I'm just saying hello!" said Marisa as she walked in.

Alice shook her head and Chris planted his palm in his face.

A pair of human customers walked by them as the exited the store.

"What the hell is wrong with that girl? She almost hit me with that door!" said a male customer with brown hair accompanied with a black-hair female.

"I wonder if she's a Youkai? I really dislike them, I still don't understand why we came here in the first!" bellowed the black-haired girl

"I wanted to see what the store was like… well it's not like we came here to buy anything," said the brown-haired male as the pair left the forest ignoring Chris and Alice who were standing there.

Chris gritted his teeth and clenched his hand as he glared at the pair as they walked away. "Sheesh, what the hell is their problem?"

Alice blinked, she may have not known Chris for so long, but the way he said it with a venomous tone and spite caught her off guard as it didn't seem to fit his kind nature.

"Chris-san? Are you alright?" asked Alice.

Chris looked at Alice and shyly looked away with an ashamed expression on his face. "Sorry for you to see that, it's just that. I absolutely loathe discrimination and prejudice and hate any forms of practice. To ostracize someone because they're different, that's not right."

Chris said all this with a troubled and hurt expression on his face and Alice could feel the enmity radiating off of him.

"Chris-san… were you ostracized before?" Alice asked with a worried tone.

"Hehe… sorry, don't worry about it. Let's get going," said Chris as he entered the store with Alice following behind with the same worried expression.

I see he's the type to keep things to himself…

As both Chris and Alice entered the shop, the pair saw Marisa talking to a man behind a counter.

The man talking to Marisa had short silver hair and golden eyes wearing a pair of glasses and wore black and blue clothing with a strange small red bag wrapped in front of him on his stomach.

"Marisa, how many times do I have to tell you not to knock the door down?" sighed the silver-haired man displeased that his door was kicked down.

"Come on Kourin, you can just put it back together like always, ze!" replied Marisa.

"That's beside the point Marisa-chan. Anyway, my name is Christopher Trevas Corona but you may call me Chris. It's nice to meet you Rinnosuke-san," said Chris as he politely bowed.

"Ah, yes! It's nice to meet you too, though this is rare. Marisa hardly brings any visitors here and Alice is a regular already so…," said Rinnosuke as he adjusts his glasses, "Hmm? Those clothes? Are you from the outside world?"

"Well yes and no, let's say I'm from a second outside world. Anyway this is an impressive collection of items here! Computers, Cell Phones, Board games, and more!" said Chris as he looked around the store checking out many different items on the shelves and floor which many, if not all, of them were from his world.

"Will this is certainly a surprise! You wouldn't mind if I ask you about the items here!" asked Rinnosuke.

Chris perked a brow. Do I detect a glimmer of stars sparkling in your eyes?

"I don't mind! I like to help people whenever I can, but you don't know how to use these items?" Chris asked quite surprised that a collector such as himself didn't know how to use them.

"Ah well you see, I have a special ability which allows me recognize the name and purpose of any items upon seeing it however I am unable to found out how to use them… and because of that hardly anyone buys them," said Rinnosuke dishearten.

Funny you don't seem to care all that much if they were sold or not…

"I see that's a rather intriguing ability. However I came here with Marisa today to buy materials to build a box," said Chris.

"Build a box… why?" asked Rinnosuke with a worried and fearful tone of voice.

"Marisa… did he do something to the donation box?" Alice asked as well with the same tone of disbelief.

"Yeah… ugh… about that… Chris and I had a little sparring duel… and well we kinda destroyed the donation box… hahaha…" laughed Marisa half-heartily.

"De… Destroyed!" both Rinnosuke and Alice said in complete unison.

"Yeah! Chris deflected my Master Spark with his bare hands and it shot in the direction of the donation box and now we're here to buy some materials to build a new one on Chris's suggestion," said Marisa nervously scratching the side of her head.

"He… he WHAT!" both Alice and Rinnosuke were verbally surprise as this was too much information to take.

Apparently I have a knack of surprising people here… Chris thought himself with a nervous chuckle.

"Ah… ah, I see. You manage to convince Reimu to allow you to build you a new donation box? I can honestly say I'm surprise, I can't believe you're still alive after doing such a feat!" said Rinnosuke slowly recovering from the shock.

Chris cleared his throat. "Yeah… though I had to run away at first until she calmed down after a while, however she did capture Marisa first."

Alice and Rinnosuke looked at Marisa and then back to Chris. "You… you escaped Reimu!"

"Yeah! Chris moves really fast, ze!" Marisa exclaim as if she was the one with super speed.

"Indeed, anyway I'm sorry to trouble you about this but where are the tools and materials I need?" asked Chris trying to accomplish his task.

"Yeah! Make sure you have plenty of room in your backpack Chris-kun!" said Marisa with a smile.

"Marisa did you take anything from him?" Alice gave Marisa the 'look'.

"Hey! Don't give people the wrong impression! I borrow, not steal!" pouted Marisa.

"Eh?" Chris blinked and then he double checking every pocket in his backpack to make sure he had EVERYTHING before arriving in Gensokyo.

"What? I didn't borrow anything from you Chris-kun!" said Marisa.

"Just making sure…" said Chris giving Marisa a little glare.

"With that done, follow me. I'll show you the materials you need," said Rinnosuke beckoning Chris to follow him to the back.

As Chris went to the back of the store with Rinnosuke pulled out a trunk from a closet and opened it up showing different kinds of wood to build a donation box and pulled out a toolbox from a pile of electronic pile nearby.

"This is perfect! I'll take it, thank you very much Rinnosuke-san!" said Chris as he grabbed what he needed and brought it over to the counter.

"I'm glad… but are you going to pay for all of those?" asked Rinnosuke as he approached the counter.

Chris looked at him funny and tilted his head. "Of course! This is a store, right? I have to pay so here, I think this is the right amount!"

Chris pulled out a bunch of yen and placed it into Rinnosuke's hand.

Rinnosuke looked very pale with the look like he saw a ghost from his past.

"Rinnosuke-san…? Are you OK?" Chris asked with a worried tone

"It's nothing… it's nothing, it's just that I can't believe you paid. No one other than Alice pays for the items here… please excuse me as I savor this moment," said Rinnosuke breathing deeply.

Chris had an anime sweatdrop behind his head and looked at Alice with a face saying 'is he going to be OK?'.

Alice gave a small nod. "Don't worry about it."

"Well with that done it's time… eh? Eh! Is that!" Chris said as he turned to leave the store until something caught his eye and ran over to the shelf to his left.

It was a Playstation 3, the new slim one with backwards compatibly and it was in mint condition. Chris's eyes light up with delight and it looked like he was going to cry.

"Words… cannot describe the beautiful that this machine represents…" said Chris getting teary-eyed.

"Chris-kun? Are you alright? Do you know what the machine is?" asked Alice tilting her head in wonder.

"Know what it…? OF COURSE I DO! This is the almighty Playstation 3, or PS3 for short, and it one of the three greatest console system ever made for the gaming world! I know what there is to know about all gaming, I'm the go-to-guy when comes to video games!" exclaimed Chris with a great passion in his voice.

He looked and sounded like a completely different person that threw off Marisa, Alice, and Rinnosuke by the sudden change of demeanor of Chris' behavior.

"Chris-san? Are you alright? The power in that thing isn't all that great, and what is a video game?" asked Rinnosuke as he perched his brow together.

Chris looked stunned and insulted by the look of his face. "Excuse me! It's a crime to even say that, even worse not to even know what a video game is! I guess I'll have to teach you the glory that is video games!"

The two girls and Rinnosuke flinched. Oh dear… we found his crazy switch…

Chris explained in great detail the wonders about video games and what joy they bring to the world. Chronicling the first video game ever and the first game console, also detailing all types of games and how they have evolved over the years. He was a walking video game encyclopedia and his eyes lit up on ever detail he call forth from his mind and enjoy explaining the best point of each games and all the hardware and software features of the game consoles.

Rinnosuke and the girls barely understood what Chris was talking about as he went on and on without realizing they didn't understand what he was talking about as they simply smiled and nodded.

"Rinnosuke-san! Please allow me to purchase this device! I already own the amazing Nintendo Wii and the revolution Xbox 360 and can't wait until I add this to my collection! Please, please, please!" Chris begged as he placed his hands together with a puppy-dog look in his eyes.

"O-Of course! As long as you pay you can have it!" said Rinnosuke throwing his hands up into the air in surprise. I think it would be hazardous to my health to keep it here any longer with him around… hopefully he'll calm down after a while…

"Ah! Thank you so much! Well then I'll just…" said Chris closing his eyes in delight as he turned around to grab the machine.

"Huh! Chris-kun wait a minute!" Alice cried out.

"Huh? What do you mean… eh?" said Chris looking back at Alice as he grabbed the machine, but something didn't feel right as he squeezed whatever it was that he grabbed.

What in the world was this round, firm, and soft object?

"Oh my~~ Aren't you the bold one?" came a sultry voice near Chris.

Chris faced forward and saw another woman who looked between mid to late 20's, this one with an immense beauty and class as she is very gorgeous looking as she stared into Chris's eyes with her golden eyes in a somewhat flirty manner.

She had long golden blonde hair passing her shoulders tied with red ribbons, a white and purple dress that looked like a combination of Chinese and Japanese dress, and a white mop hat with a thin red ribbon fasten on the front of it as she is carrying a closed pink parasol over her right shoulder. She had this incredible overpowering aura about her that greatly hinted she was a very important figure in this world.

Just where and when she did come from? And why was she standing in front of…

Chris sweated a bit, his eyes widen in suspense, and nervously looked down. Please don't tell me…

He saw that he had accidently grabbed her left chest by mistake as he went to grab the PS3, and the horror dawn on him at what he did as he blasted himself to the wall behind at great speed to distance himself from the woman leaving a trail of dust in his wake. He can't believe he just did that!

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Chris said as he bowed in an apologetic manner to the woman he just disrespected.

"Chris-kun! You might want to look out above you, ze," said Marisa pointed above Chris's head.

Several objects from the shelves above Chris fall from the sudden impact of Chris ramming his back to the wall and the object landed square in his head with three heavy objects hitting him with Chris saying 'ow' for each object that smacked him in the head as he crouched with his arms wrapped around his head in pain.

"Ha ha ha, well this is quite entertaining! I never expected you to have such a colorful range of expressions!" laughed the woman who was leaning out of a gap in the air with a red ribbon tied at the end of them with eyes looking out from it.

Wait… what kind of gap!

"Eh? Oh… I-I am terrible sorry for doing that to you! My name is Christopher Trevas Corona, though you can call me Chris. I want to say it's a pleasant to meet you… but I rather not want it to… say… ugh… not helping," Chris stuttered as he couldn't find the words as his face heated up after that.

But still… this is the first time I've ever felt such soft, supple, and firm… eh! Curse you male hormones… stop thinking pervert thoughts about this amazing beautiful woman… and thinking how lucky I…

…

DAMN YOU HORMONES!

"Oh dear, I hope I didn't scare you, young one. I wasn't expecting you to be… so flirty, I'm quite honored actually. Seeing as how you're the little troublemaker who entered through a disturbance recently, I wanted to personally meet you," said the woman in the gap with a sly smile.

"Disturbance? Ah I see, I wasn't supposed to be here even through normal circumstances, am I right? Since the way I got here is quite interesting," said Chris regaining his composure and giving the mysterious a sly smile myself.

The mysterious woman raised her eyebrows and leaned out even further, showing more of her body which she seems to be wearing long white gloves and boots, placing her head in her hands as her elbows lean in place in the air giving the boy in red and black a very intriguing and mysterious smile.

"Well, well, well aren't we the sharp one? Not only is your aura around you alluring, but you're quite perceived. I say, you've piqued my interest even further young one," said the mysterious woman in a sultry voice. She seems to be enjoying her little conversation with the boy.

She knows about my transformation abilities without me even changing even once here? Color me surprise!

"I see, but since I gave you my name shouldn't you give me yours?" said Chris folding his arms and giving a smug look at her. Honestly, Chris wasn't sure why he's acting like this around this woman but he enjoyed it… there's something about her that makes him want to understand her even more.

The woman giggled a bit before retreating inside the gap as it closed and then reappearance above Chris a few feet away and jumped right down in an elegantly performance with her parasol open as she twirled it around and gave Chris a mischievous smile.

"Yukari Yakumo. The Youkai of Boundaries," she declared with a smile.

Chris's eyes widen with surprise. "I see… so you're the creator of this world."

"Oh ho ho, what makes you say that?" the woman called Yukari perked a curious brow at the boy.

"Well I can sense the flow of energy around the world since I'm a Ki User, and I can sense the unique flow of time-space energy encasing this world, and since you said you're a Youkai that's special ability to create and manipulate borders it's only naturally to think that. Nothing's out of the realm of possibilities, right?" said Chris pointing his finger in the air.

I don't know why, but I'm enjoying this conversation with her! This is really fun!

"Oh my… Christopher you are most intriguing! Of all of the humans I've seen throughout my life I have never had the pleasant of encountering a unique individual quite like yourself. Your sudden appearance and actions in Gensokyo have stirred up quite a bit of restlessness in the air as well, I'm so glad I decided to pop a visit," said Yukari gesturing to her left.

Wait a minute! She also…? Chris's eyes widen with surprise then quickly turn in delight. Nothing gets passed her.

"Yukari, what exactly are you doing here?" asked Alice.

"Hmm? I believe I said why I came here. I'm here to personally welcome our newest guest to our world," said Yukari.

"Really?" Alice was exactly sure of that.

Besides did Yukari purposely appeared in front of Chris like that? Did she really set herself up for such a compromising situation? I'm not sure…

"Really. I'll have to keep a special eye out of you my special guest, however wasn't there something you have to do? Honestly I'm surprised you did something like that," said Yukari giving Chris an all-knowing mischievous smile.

"Oh shoot! Marisa! We're going to be late returning to Reimu's shrine!" Chris said a frantic and panicky manner.

"Oh yeah, you're right, ze! She's not going to be happy!" stated Marisa without worry.

"I like to inquire you for a bit longer, but I must take my leave. I'm sure you got everything you need to know about me from our little chit-chat Chris-chan. I have some research I like Ran do for me, but we'll meet again. With that I bid you ado, young one," said Yukari and with that she fell backwards into her gap she just created.

Chris winced at the 'chan' honorific. Again…?

Just then Yukari popped back out from the gap she just entered in. "Oh, and another thing… you've got quite the gentle hands. Mind giving me a massage one day?"

Chris's face instantly turned red as Alice eyes widen with surprise on that comment and Marisa laughing in the background.

"You… what the heck!" Chris bellowed totally embarrassed by that little remark.

Yukari gave a small giggle left once more.

"Oh well… well then time to grab the PS3!" said Chris a little disappointed that Yukari left as he wanted to continue the conversation however the little comment at the end really was unnecessary, but proceed to grab the PS3.

Another gap appeared above the PS3 and Yukari grabbed it.

"I forgot… I came to pick this up," said Yukari as she snatch the PS3 away from Chris.

"Hey! That's mine, I ask for it first!" yelled Chris glaring at Yukari.

"First come, first serve, right?" smiled Yukari obviously enjoying the little rant Chris is going through.

Chris blinked in astonishment then it dawn on him. "What! Hey, you're enjoying this aren't you!"

"Yes, quite so!" Yukari said as she finally leaves from everyone's sights inside her gap.

Chris sighed heavily. Oh man… those are the rare and expensive PS3! I should've just used my Ability Cancel on her! I like to see how she's counters against that!

"What was that all about, ze?" said Marisa tilted her head in wonder.

"Huh? You didn't understand what she said?" said Chris confused in his face.

Alice looked at him funny. "So that means you knew what she was talking about."

"Yeah, she mentioned about how she was aware of my presence by night fall the other day as she pointed in the direction of the Scarlet Devil Mansion and probably watched the whole event there somewhere," said Chris pointing his finger into the air as he explained.

"You were at the Scarlet Devil Mansion? What did you do there?" asked Alice quite astonished.

"Helping the residents there getting rid of an ECHO that popped up around there," explained Chris, "Also Yukari seems to be aware of my other abilities including… one of my distinguish aspect…"

Alice perked a brow. "You understood all that from just talking to her?"

"Yes… though she was hiding a few more things, but it's alright. I find that having a few surprises in store for you is quite fun!" Chris said with a goofy grin as he placed his arms behind his head.

"Yeah, that's the spirit Chris-kun!" chimed Marisa.

Rinnosuke stood there in the background, not understanding what's going on before him. I'm being left in the dark again… oh well…

"Oh… Alice-chan can I ask a favor?" asked Chris with his head dropped down.

"Erm… yes? What is it?" said Alice tilting her head in curiosity.

"Please slap me as hard as you can right here," Chris flatly said pointing to his right cheek.

Marisa, Alice, and Rinnosuke blinked their eyes. What kind of favor is that?

SMACK!

A loud and painful sound echoed throughout the air as the birds flocked away scared from the noise in the distance. Chris gently carcass his newly slapped face with his right hand trying his best to ease the pain.

"Was that good enough?" asked Alice with her hand in the air after slapping Chris.

"Yes, thank you," said Chris with a painfully smile.

"May I ask why did you ask of me to do such a favor?" asked Alice narrowing her eyes on Chris.

"Well… I disrespected Yukari by… grabbing her like that and she let me off easily… and I didn't think I should of so…," said Chris pushing both of his index fingers together.

Alice blinked and gave a small smile. "I see… you're a very strange one aren't you?"

Chris nervously laughed.

"Yeah! You're very weird Chris, ze!" said Marisa laughing in the background.

"Well I must be going, I have to restock so I'll be heading to the Human Village," said Alice as she stepped out of the store, "See you around then."

With that Alice disappeared leaving Chris and Marisa back at Kourindou.

"Hey Marisa-chan, on our way back to Reimu's shrine can you tell me where the Human Village is? I like to go visit there after I'm done with building Reimu's new donation box," said Chris stepping out of the shop with Marisa.

"Sure thing, ze!"

"Yo Reimu-chan, we're back!" Chris called out as he and Marisa returned to the Hakurei Shrine after their little adventure through the Forest of Magic and to Kourindou.

Reimu was sitting on the pouch of her shrine sipping some green tea as she await for the two to return from their errand to buy new materials to build her a new donation box.

Reimu glared at the both of them as they approached her, and placed her cup of tea to the side. "So glad of you to make it, you've been gone quite some time… more so than I liked. Why did it take you two so long?"

"Sorry about that Reimu-chan… we had a few problems along our way to Kourindou," Chris nervously said, he felt uncomfortable under that glare of hers.

"Problems? What problems?" asked Reimu glaring at Chris even more.

"Yeah! There were these… mmph! Mmph!" Marisa started to say, but Chris covers her mouth before she could continue.

Uh no! Marisa uses Embarrassment Dialogue, Chris tries to dodge the attack. Chris successfully dodges! Chris counters with Cover Mouth tactic to prevent Marisa from using her ability. Chris successfully hits his mark! You prevent Marisa from using Embarrassment Dialogue! You win!

Oh man! That was too close! Chris nervously smiled to myself as he prevent something that shouldn't be heard.

"Why are you covering Marisa's mouth Christopher?" Reimu asked without taking her eyes off of him as she narrowed them into an even menacing glare.

"It's nothing! It's nothing! We're here now and with the materials!" Chris said as he left go of Marisa's mouth, relived he could avoid that. Explaining it right now when Reimu was edgy is NOT a good idea.

"Hey Chris! Why you do that! It would be so much fun explaining what happen! Or do you prefer talking about how you greeted Yukari at Kourin's place?" shouted Marisa with glee paying no mind to what she's saying.

Chris's face instantly turned red and Reimu gave Marisa a curious look.

"Yukari? You mean that she was there? What was she doing there in the first place? What do you mean 'how he greeted her' and why is your face red?" asked Reimu looking from Marisa to Chris looking at him with a suspicious look.

"I'm in more in declined to mention about that more so than the forest bit! Can we forget about that please Marisa!" Chris cried out.

"Nope! Your expressions are really funny!" she replied with a smile.

Straightforward as usually… Chris thought with an anime sweatdrop above his head.

"Huh? What EXACTLY happened?" asked Reimu, stressing the word 'exactly', looking at Marisa, but still glaring at Chris on the corner of her eye.

Did I do something wrong here? Why are you glaring at me like that Reimu? OK, I was late but why must you look at me like that!

"I'm not entirely sure, but Yukari sure likes him now! Especially when Chris…"

"Ah! You shouldn't worry about that! B-Besides… don't we have a new donation box to build!" said Chris putting a stop to that conversation any further, as he held his hands together secretly begging them to stop it there.

"That's true… alright I won't bother you about it if it bothers you that much, though I don't really care what happened! But make sure you do a good job building it or else!" said Reimu was she took out her gohei in one hand and card in the other hand.

"We understand! Let's go Marisa-chan!" said Chris as he pulled Marisa's arm as they handed out back of the shrine.

"Hey! Wait a minute! We haven't even gotten to the best part of the conversation, ze!"

Chris took out all of the tools from the backpack and the materials off of the backpack and laid them on the ground. He took out the hammer, saw and screwdriver and told Marisa to start cutting out the pieces of board with the measurements he placed on them to get the right size for them.

She looked a little bored while doing some, wanted to use her magic to speed it up but Chris told her otherwise and mention how fun it is to build something with your own two hands without magic. Marisa shrugged it off and continued to saw the pieces of wood and Chris took those pieces and started to hammer some of the nails in and took the screws and screwdriver to add in the final pieces of the materials to hold the new donation box in place.

The process only took about an hour to do as Chris swipe the sweat from his forehead and smiled to himself. He was proud of his and Marisa's accomplishment with the new donation box and can't wait to show it to Reimu.

"OK Marisa-chan… let's go see… huh? Marisa-chan, where did you go?" said Chris looking around to find the black-white witch but she was no one to be found. Apparently she left sometime when Chris was working on the donation box.

"She disappeared didn't she? Anyway Chris, is that new donation box done yet?" Reimu called out from the front of the shrine. It seems Reimu was aware that Marisa already left for somewhere sometime ago before Chris.

"Alright I'm done!" Chris called out as he gently placed the new donation box in front of the shrine.

It had a dark brown color to it now with golden corner pieces which gave it a brilliantly glow, much different from the regular plain old brown donation box, it was brand new and the fresh smell was quite enchanting and relaxing.

Reimu blinked, it was better than she thought. She wasn't expecting a beautiful looking donation box like this but she was indefinitely happy about it as he face lit up with joy and excitement.

"I-I can't believe it… it's amazing! Thank you so much Chris-kun! I completely forgive you for destroying my old donation box now!" said Reimu as she ran over to the new donation box checking every aspect of the box.

You mean to tell me you didn't completely forgive me for what I did here day one? Well… I guess that's understandable…

"I'm glad you like it! I made sure to give it new look as a fresh new start to the shrine!" Chris pounded his chest with proud. "I always added in my Ki bit by bit for each wood to strengthen it so if something like… what I did… happens again it will be able to withstand it."

"Thank you! Now hopefully I'll be getting donations soon! I can't wait!" said Reimu with glee in her eyes.

From what Chris can understand Reimu goes around Gensokyo solving incidents to prevent any harm to the people of this land, but it still isn't enough to get people to come here to donate. Chris ponders on that fact, but he had something to do first before thinking of an answer to it however he remember an early question he had.

"By the way Reimu, where's Suika-chan and Yuugi-san?" Chris asked wondering where the two Onis went.

"Oh? Them? Suika is sleeping sounding in the shrine and Yuugi already went back to Hell," Reimu plainly stated uninterested in the matter.

"Hell? You can travel to Hell from here? That's… really cool? I wonder what it's like?" Chris asked entertaining the idea of traveling through Hell to see what kind of residents live there.

"Huh? Are you serious? Most people prefer to stay away from there?" Reimu looked at Chris like he was crazy.

"Nothing venture, nothing gain right? It will be an adventure, besides if I'm going to Heaven or Hell when I die years much later shouldn't I at least check out my retire home?" Chris said slyly but with a playful tone.

Reimu looked at him with a somewhat amused expression. "Yup, you're crazy."

Chris chuckled on that comment as Reimu shake her head back and forth, but she looked like she was enjoying herself before checking what the inside of her new donation box looked like.

"Hey Reimu, I'm going to check out the Human Village," Chris stated out loud so Reimu can hear him.

"Huh? You're leaving already?" she asked as she finishes checking out her new donation box.

"Yeah! I need to buy something there to help me with… some research I want to do, plus I like to familiarize myself with this world. Wouldn't be too good to stay here and not know a thing about this place," said Chris with a smile as he started to leave, "Well I'll be back soon."

"Is that so? Hold on…. I still have some questions I need to ask you!" said Reimu with an annoyed looked on her as she places her hands on her hips.

"Don't worry! I'll be back, promise! And I never go back on my promises!" said Chris as he leaped away from the shrine where Reimu stood there as the boy disappeared from sight.

The shrine maiden shook her head in annoyance. "Honestly… what's with him? Well he'll be back soon I suppose. He hasn't shown any intent of not coming back… well then back to my relaxing afternoon."

The Human Village, the only place in Gensokyo where humans live and it was a wonderful sight to behold. The houses and buildings are fashioned like the old traditional Japanese houses of old with sliding doors and wooden materials.

Chris was strolling down the streets looking back and forth scanning each building he passed, he noticed several things as he passed by like a food stands, a few merchant stores with different items for sell, a fish market, and he's favorite so far a sweet shop where they sell chocolate and cakes here to his surprise and delight. Apparently there was a school in this village as while and Chris plans to take a look at it soon while he was here.

The thing that caught his attention the most was that not only humans walking around in the village, but some Youkai as well. Chris couldn't help but smile at the sight, to him it was like a perfect unity between the two races and to him it showed that despite their differences they can walk together side by side in peace.

As the boy in red and black looked around the in the village many eyes were directed at him, both Human and Youkai, though Chris didn't pay no mind. They were curious about the boy as they never saw clothes he was wearing before nor have they seen him in the village before.

"Huh? Who's that boy? Is a Youkai?"

"I don't think so… I think I've seen that type of clothing at Kourindou before. But they ARE strange, but they look fine on him…"

"Hey, hey! Mom why is that cute boy wearing such weird clothes?"

"Dear! It's not polite to point to people like that… and he is rather cute in those clothes."

Chris sweatdropped a bit… I guess not many people from the outside world or beyond it come to Gensokyo very often as a group of people came up to him and ask him several questions about where he came from, but most of them were about his clothes as they drew the biggest attention.

He answered all of their questions and mentioned that he came from another world, a second outside world he stated to keep it simple, and told them he made his clothes himself and liked it giving the people some impressive nods and stares while others, mostly the guys, thought that to be weird and girly.

Chris asked around if there were any stores around here selling a map of Gensokyo and a kind elderly man pointed in the direction of the store Chris was looking for as Chris bowed and thanked him for helping him and left the crowd.

It was a merchant store that Chris hasn't spotted before as he went sightseeing in the village and noticed it mentioned a 'Help Wanted' out front, as Chris took a mental note of it, he walked into the store.

He browsed around the shelves as soon as he entered the store and spotted a shelves with maps of Gensokyo right away, with a note next to it mentioning that a crow tengu made this to help people find their way around Gensokyo.

Again with this mention of a crow tengu… I wonder who this tengu is?

Chris picked up two copies of the map and checked his pockets to see how much money he had left and he made more than enough to buy ten or so maps but he needed two. As he got closer to the counter to pay up front he noticed someone else was already there talking to the Store Owner who appears to be ordering a stack of history books.

She had long silver-blue hair and brown eyes and wore a beautiful dark blue dress with white sleeves and a red ribbon tied to the bottom of the collar of her dress, but the most eye-catching piece of fashion she had was a bento-shaped like hat on the top of her head with a red ribbon on top and glyphs inscribed on the side of it too.

"And here's the last of the books you requested for Kamishirasawa-san!" spoke the Store Owner as he placed the next stack of books next to the one he already had out, which seems to be 25 or so books altogether.

"Thank you very much Tenchō-san!" replied the lady in blue as she handed out the money to pay for the books and pushed them to the side to allow the next customer in line to come forth.

"And what can I help with you Okyaku-sama?" asked the Store Owner looking at Chris as he approached the counter.

Upon seeing the boy in red and black both the Store Owner and Kamishirasawa-san blinked, not because he was a new face around the village but because of his surreal clothing which greatly hinted to them that he isn't from Gensokyo.

A human for the outside world? That's very rare… I wonder if Yukari-san is responsible for this one's appearance… thought Kamishirasawa-san looking at the boy from the corner of her eyes as she adjusted the books in an orderly fashion to make it easier to carry.

"Just buying these today sir!" Chris exclaimed as he laid the two maps of Gensokyo in front of the Store Owner.

"I see, well then that will be 580 yen please!" said the Store Owner as Chris handed him the money and stuffed the two maps of Gensokyo into his backpack.

"Thank you very much!" Chris politely bowed and turned away to leave the store but before he did that he noticed that the woman before him looked a little troubled about something.

"Oh dear… I had a feeling, Tenchō-san sorry to ask you of this but can you help me deliver this to the school? I'm afraid I have look over my students homework this afternoon, but taking two trips from here to the school will cut in my time to properly finished my work, if it's not too much to help," asked the woman called Kamishirasawa-san.

"I would like to, but I have other engaging appointments to attend to soon as I have a few other shipments to deliver to the locals around here. I'm sorry to be of some inconvenience to you Kamishirasawa-san," apologized the Store Owner as he rubbed the back of his head. His schedule is filled today and he regrets having to put such a heavy burden on one of his dear customers like that.

"I can help," Chris spoken up as he listen to the conversation the two had.

Both the Store Owner and Kamishirasawa-san looked their attention towards Chris and blinked. They weren't expecting the boy to lend a hand so a briefly.

"Are you sure? I don't want to burden you with such a task, I appreciate the offer thought," said Kamishirasawa-san taken aback a little by the boy's offer.

"Not at all! I don't mind, I like helping people! Please I assist, let me help you out! You have some work to do at home right? At least this way you can finish delivering the books on time and you'll have time to keep up with correcting your students' assignments right?" Chris asked with a smile.

He didn't mind not one bit.

"He's got a point Kamishirasawa-san, you shouldn't let an opportunity like this go to waste. You have a lot of work to look around, right?" the Store Owner chimed in thinking it was a good suggestion to help his customer out.

"Very well then, sorry for troubling you like this," said Kamishirasawa-san with her hand over her heart with an apologetic look on her face.

"Not at all! Glad to be of some help!" said Chris as he took the stack with the most books, "Besides these are a little heavy, right? Don't want to stress yourself too much!"

"Thank you," Kamishirasawa-san said with a smile and took her stack of books and left the store with the boy to her school.

"By the way, I'm Christopher Trevas Corona but you can call me Chris. It's a pleasant to meet you!" said Chris as he introduced himself to the woman he was helping.

"The pleasure is all mine Chris-san, I'm Keine Kamishirasawa. I can't thank you enough for helping me!" said Keine returning a warm smile.

The two of them idly chatted with each other as the pair made their way to the school and upon the conversation Chris learned that Keine is the history teacher of the Human Village school here and knows everything there is to know about Gensokyo much to his surprise and delight, since history and math are his two best subjects.

Keine on the other hand learned that Chris isn't from the outside world per say, but from a parallel dimension of some sort which is like a second outside world, though she found it hard to believe but the boy's kind and honest gestures and his pure innocent nature made it otherwise true to her and learned that he appeared near the Hakurei Shrine upon his arrival after a certain 'incident' back home where he didn't indulge a lot of information about it.

"There it is," said Keine as the pair reached their destination.

Chris looked up and saw the school that Keine mention as the two walked together here, it wasn't a very big school but still had a lot of space for a few classes as the two went inside to Keine's classroom to place the books inside.

Keine turned her direction towards Chris after placing the new books onto the shelves in the classroom, ready for the students tomorrow morning. "I can't thank you enough for helping me with this!"

"It's nothing! I'm glad to help out! And it was pleasure to get you know you, I'm glad I'm making some new friends while I'm here," said Chris as he scratched the side of his head.

"So I take it you plan to leave Gensokyo one day?" asked Keine curious about the boy's future plans.

"That… I'm not sure…" Chris looked away with a crestfallen look as he said this, "I like Gensokyo quite a lot now that I'm here and the residents are so nice to me… but still back home… I'm…"

"I see, perhaps I shouldn't have touch up on that subject," said Keine with a sad look on her face, apparently he had issues somewhat back home that she wasn't aware of and decided not to press any further.

"Well anyway… if you ever need me for something don't hesitate to call me! I'll help you with anything you need!" Chris said with energy quickly recovering from his previous state as he gave Keine his signature goofy grin.

"Eh? No, no, no! That's alright, I don't want to burden you with too much trouble!" Keine shook her hands in the air, she didn't want to feel like she was using him for her own benefits.

"It's no trouble at all! I can help with you anything at all, like I said before I like helping people! It just makes me happy to see them smile!" said Chris as he placed his arms behind his head.

"Really? Even Youkai as well if they asked?" Keine said as she looked away for some reason.

"Of course! I'm not going to turn a blind eye to someone because of their race! But not if it helps them to hurt others, that I will not do regardless of race!" Chris said with a tone of serious, he was kind and helpful but not to the point someone would take advantage of his kindness.

Keine blinked. Did he really say that just now?

"You… you don't hate Youkai?" she asked with disbelief in her voice as she spoke.

"Of course not! Why would I? Because they eat Human? Last time I check people eat animals and I'm pretty sure they don't like to be eaten as well," Chris said as he pointed his finger into the air. "I shouldn't judge a person until I get to know them, right? Besides I see plenty of Youkai around the village, though I guess some people are uncomfortable around them."

Keine stood there for a moment, as she couldn't find the words to speak right now. "I-Is that so? Well I'm glad to hear that, though it's surprising to hear that from a human not from Gensokyo."

"Really? I guess so, I'm not the average human you see everyday back home," said Chris scratching the side of his head. "Well then I guess I should be heading back to the shrine, I did promise Reimu I would come back after looking around in the village to tell her about my plans."

With that he left the school and started to head in the direction to the shrine, but a voice called out to him to stop.

"Please wait a moment!"

Chris turned around to see Keine hurrying after him. "Is there something wrong? Did I forget something with the books?"

"No! Nothing like that it's just that… I've been seeing these strange black-colored creatures in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost recently and it's gotten me a bit spooked as they don't appear to be any Youkai I've seen before," she said as she looked away with a worried expression.

Chris's face went blank first then slowly twisted with worry, it was them again. But why the bamboo forest? I wonder…

"Really? Does anyone live there?" asked Chris with a worried expression.

"Yes! My good friend Mokou and the people at Eientei, which is a pharmacy clinic where people go to when they're sick or injured, and the occasionally wandering Youkai," Keine answered, "Some Youkai from there in the village mention how it wasn't safe around there anymore with those things lurking about."

"I see," Chris brought his hand to his chin, "I'll have to investigate this, I'm going to let Reimu know where I'm going when I head back to the shrine."

"I see, wait… you're not asking her for help?" Keine looked at him with a narrowed look; she didn't like the thought of him tangling with those creatures alone.

"It's no worry, besides I feel responsible for this so let me take care of it! Well then see you around Keine-san," said Chris as he waved his hand and started to leave.

"Wait a moment! I'm not exactly sure why I told you this all of a sudden… though it feels like I should as it seems to be connected to you somehow… you mustn't endanger yourself like that! You're a human, aren't you?" she looked quite angry this time for some reason as she stopped Chris from leaving once again.

"But you're worried about your friend right?" Chris plainly stated.

Keine stopped and looked at him. "Huh?"

"That's why! Besides Marisa-chan mentioned about helping me with this matter so don't worry about it! I got some help with this," Chris said with a cheerful smile like nothing was wrong.

"But still…" Keine wasn't satisfy with that answer, even though she knows Marisa and how strong she is, but she didn't entertain the thought of another human unknowingly stepping foot in the bamboo forest without knowing the danger of the place with those black creatures around.

"It's no problem! Hehe… I'm glad I met you Keine-san!" said Chris with his arms behind his head again.

"Eh? Why's that?" Keine said with a curious look on her face.

Chris gave her a warm smile and said, "You're a good person who cares about other people, and I like people like you!"

She blinked, but then looked away with an ashamed look on her face. "Really? Even if you don't know who exactly am I?"

"Doesn't matter to me!" Chris said without a second thought, "I like you for who you are! To me it's not what you are that matters to me, it's your heart! Well then I have to go, later!"

This time the boy hurried off at great speed leaving behind a stunned Keine behind. She couldn't believe the conversation they had nor was she sure why she ask him that all of a sudden. Why it because he was heading out somewhere dangerous because of her or was they something else? The boy had an alluring friendly atmosphere about him that made it seem like he could befriend just about anyone.

She couldn't help but smile at the words he said, but did he really mean it? She wants to believe that.

"Keine-sensei!" cried a little girl from the distance.

Keine snapped back to reality and turned her attention to a small group of children heading in her direction.

"Children? What brings you here?" asked Keine with a warm smile as she greeted her students.

"We need some help with the assignment you gave us," one of the boys said in the group.

"Not at all, let's take a look at it together," Keine responded with a kind and warm smile happy to help her students.

"Hey Keine-sensei who was that boy you were with? Is your boyfriend?" asked one of the girls with stars in her eyes.

"Yeah! He's got to be Keine's boyfriend!" shouted one of the boys in the group.

Keine's face lit up with a red hue on as her students spoke their minds, and some of the people walking around to hear that did not help.

"O-Of course not! We only met just today and he was helping me with carry your new history books for class!" Keine scolded the children though he looked less menacing with the blush on her face.

"Really! He helped you, he must really like you Keine-sensei! Are you going to ask him out?" the same girl who thought he was her boyfriend asked.

"Alright! That's enough children, let us review the assignments together sure we or do I have to punish you taking away your time to work on your homework?" Keine ended the conversation with her usual punishment threat.

"Aww… sensei!" the children cried out as they wanted to continue their discussion on the mysterious boy in red and black.

Chris returned to the Hakurei Shine once again after checking out the Human Village as he wanted to inform Reimu about his plans as she helped him out so much after the share amount of trouble he's caused her and he wanted to thank her properly for helping him.

Upon arriving at the shrine a familiar shrine maiden in red and white with a broom in hand was talking to someone Chris haven't seen before, another girl, and both of them turned their heads at the shrine's entrance and saw Chris standing there looking at them as he arrived at the top of the step both looking surprised at his appearance.

The girl in question looked like she was around Chris's age and she was wearing a white shirt with a dark blue skirt, and a red hat on top of her disheveled black hair as her red eyes locked with Chris's blue eyes and slowly a somewhat mischievous smirk etched onto her face as she as suddenly appears in front of Chris in an instant.

CLICK-SNAP!

A bright flash occurred in the same instant as she as the girl got closer to him.

"Wha-What the!" Chris blinked and rubbed his eyes. Oh! Someone else around here moves super fast like I do! And who also likes to take pictures…

"Well this is a surprise! I hardly expected anyone coming here, to this shrine of all places, much less a boy in strange clothes! And I got a perfect shot as well, thanks!" the girl exclaimed as she put away her camera as Reimu complaining about 'what do you mean here of all places' comment in the background.

"Ah… you're welcome? I'm Christopher Trevas Corona, it's a pleasant to meet you! You can call me Chris if you like!" said Chris snapping out of his daze and smiled with a polite small bow.

The girl in question smiled back and she struck a pose and declared, "So you're the Chris I've heard so much about recently? It's nice to meet you Chris-kun! I'm Aya Shameimaru, the great news reporter of the Bunbunmaru, at your service!"

Apparently Reimu scoffed off at the 'great news reporter' bit as Chris smiled and replied back. "Ah! So that's why you took my picture. Hmm… does that mean I'm going to be in the newspaper?"

She laughed and leaned in forward a bit getting closer to Chris. "Of course, I am a journalist! Pictures go great with articles and having you in my article, a boy from the outside world coming here out of blue, will definitely make a great story to cover!"

"You sure? I don't think I'm that interesting or anything to be put into an articles, much like yours. And you're sure?" Chris said as he scratches the side of his head.

"Oh don't you fret! I know a scoop when I see one, you're definitely a big scoop I have to interview! You and Reimu are going to be on the front page!" Aya said as she did a small victory dance thinking about how great the article will be.

"Wha! I told you… I don't want to be in your article!" complained Reimu as she gave a heavy sigh.

"Haha… I see." Chris smiled, Aya's overzealous about journalism is quite admirable and he couldn't help respect and feel envious of her ambitious nature, "So what would you like to know?"

Reimu blinked not believing what Chris said, but shook her head and sighed. I guess he'll learn the hard way then…

"So you're going to answer my questions?" Aya said with joy in her voice as she pulled out a pen and notebook from her satchel strapped to her side and shirt pocket, "Well then… what do you think of Gensokyo so far? And those sword, are you a warrior by any chance?"

"Hmm…" Chris pondered a bit, "Well I have to say it's a very mysterious and place filled with many different kinds of Youkai and where magic is the norm here and I have to say… I love this place! It's a really amazing and awesome place! And about my swords, well I do practice to keep up with my training and learning better control over my Ki but I don't fight, I prefer talking things out first but if it can't be help I'll fight though I do like to test my abilities against someone in a friendly duel."

"Really? You're just like that certain sleeping guard at the Scarlet Devil Mansion," Aya widen a bit with delight, " Though most humans would freak out and want to return home after learning about Youkai living here, it's a bit of surprise you're not afraid."

"Is that so? I know there are Youkai here, but why would I be scared? I think the Youkai are pretty cool and I want to get to them know better and be their friend!" Chris said with a goofy grin with his arms behind his back.

That little comment he said apparently blown both Reimu and Aya away. Both of their eyes widens with surprise and did a double take, Reimu being a little more of shock despite the fact she knows he doesn't mind Onis or Vampires, as no humans would ever say something like that.

"Seriously?" both Reimu and Aya asked blinking still taking in that last bit.

"Yeah! I mean Youkai do eat humans, don't get me wrong, but not all of them are bad just like how not all humans are good. It doesn't matter to me who or what you are as long as you're a good person, that's all that matters. Why? Is something wrong with that?" Chris asked not understand why they seem surprised by his enthusiastic views on Youkai.

Aya looked at him and laughed. "Well! Aren't you the interesting human! I knew you were a big scoop, but not THIS big!"

Aya was delighted, she never expected a more interesting human to interview than Reimu. This is going to be the best article she's ever written yet!

"OK onto the next question!" Aya said after jolting down at an incredible pace in her notebook, "What do you think of the residents here so far in Gensokyo?"

"Each person I've meet so far are both interesting and unique and quite colorful personalities. I happy I got the chance and experience to meet such wonderful people and I hope I get to meet even more!" Chris said with a beaming smile remembering his pleasant and somewhat less pleasant encounters, with the people of Gensokyo.

"Is that so? Even me?" asked Aya leaning in a bit more.

"Of course!" Chris replied with a bright smile.

"Why thank you! Aren't you a thoughtful person!" Aya said with a smile. "OK then what do you think of… Reimu?"

She asked the last question with a slight mischievous and daring tone that Chris didn't pick up on, but Reimu did as she glared at her.

"Hey! Why are you asking that kind of question all of a sudden!" Reimu ranted out in angry however Aya paid no mind.

"I think Reimu is a wonderful, bright, and kind person who helped twice already since I got here and I appreciate it and would hope to repay her kind favor in any way possible," Chris said as he stared at Reimu giving her a warm smile.

Reimu blushed a bit and looked away. "I-Is that so? Well… you're welcome than!"

"I see, I see," said Aya her mischievous smile growing more as she lean in even closer to Chris, "But… what do you think of Reimu… as a boy?"

Reimu's face lit up with embarrassment as her cheeks started to heat up and she looked at Aya with an annoyed look.

"Aya! Why are you asking that type of question!" Reimu declared as her eyes narrowed in a dangerous glare but her embarrass face made the menacing expression less frightening.

"What? Don't you want to know what he thinks?" Aya asked ever so slyly.

"I don't care! But don't ask someone that kind of question like that ever again… especially in an interview!"

Chris blinked and placed his hand on his chin as he closed his eyes, and then replied with a warm and gentle glow in his eyes and sweet honest smile.

"What I think of Reimu? Well… I think Reimu is a really cute girl!"

Both Aya and Reimu stopped and turned towards Chris as Reimu's red face become even more red than before as Aya looked on with a victories look on her face.

"Ooooh~! Now that's juicy! I have to put that down!" she said as she jolted it down in her notebook.

"Eh? Eh! EH! Wha-Wha-What did you say!" Reimu stuttered like she wasn't expecting that kind of answer with a blush on top of her blush as her face was completely red now. "And why are you putting that down Aya!"

"Now then!" Aya said once again as she leaned closer. "Who do you think is prettier? Me or Reimu?"

This time Chris blinked and had a surprised look on his face. When did this interview switch from his thoughts on Gensokyo to his thoughts on them? Granted it was an interesting transition, but this feels… awkward now.

He doesn't mean that he dislikes them, on the contrary he found them both very cute and pleasant to be around however though he seems comfortable around girls and can easily talk to them… he was in fact somewhat shy around girls and does his best to hide that fact.

Aya had a small smile on her face as she asked Chris this question, but her eyes became more focus and serious when she asked this which became apparent that this question held a great importance to her personally but Chris wasn't sure why.

"Huh? I can't answer something like that!" Chris declared with a frantic look on his face.

Both Aya and Reimu blinked at first and then looked at him with bit of an annoyed expression and glared at him.

"And why's that?" asked Aya not sounding too please with that response.

Chris step back a bit and looked away with a blushing face. "Well… I'm not sure how to answer that, it's just that both of you have admirable and outstanding qualities and you're both amazing beautiful in your own way that I shouldn't decide which one in a way I think would both insult you."

Both Aya and Reimu's face flustered upon Chris's answer as they were not expecting that kind of answer, though Aya's expression slowly melted into a relaxed expression.

"I-Is that so?" She said with a stun look on her face.

Chris blinked, not sure why they suddenly changed their expression like that. "Yeah… why? Did I say something wrong?"

Aya stood there with a blank expression and then smiled. "Not at all! Well then thank you very much for answering my questions!"

Reimu was a little too stun to say anything at this moment and just looked on with a blank expression.

"Well I guess that's enough for today for the interview! Please look forward to tomorrow's Bunbunmaru newspaper by yours truly!" exclaimed Aya as she put her notebook and pen away and pulled out a spell card and sported feathery black wings on her back.

"Spell Card: Illusionary Dominance!"

With that she blasted off at the speed of sound and left the shrine.

"Well that was quick! I was expecting more, oh well," said Chris with a slight frown, he was enjoying the little interview he had with Aya, as he watched Aya disappear.

"Trust me when I say this, you'll be glad it ended that quickly," stated Reimu regaining her composure, "Anyway what were you thinking! Are you trying to hit on me!"

Chris tilted his head back at Reimu and looked confused. "What do you mean? I wasn't trying to hit on you or anything! I was just saying what I really thought about you!"

Reimu's face started to blush again. "You… really think that? You mean… you find me… cute?"

She stuttered in between her words, no one has ever called her cute before especially a boy and Reimu did in fact find him quite cute herself which made her face blush even more, as she twirled a small piece of her hair with her finger as she said it.

Chris closed his eyes and smiled. "Yeah... I really honestly think you're a very beautiful girl, Reimu."

Reimu's face became a tomato once again and looked away as she cleared her throat. "That so? Well I guess I can't blame you for answering Aya, she's always pushy anyway, but… thank you very much. You're the first person who's ever called me 'cute' before."

Chris tilted his head in wonder. "Really? I'm surprised, I'm pretty sure you go to the Human Village from time to time to restock… I would definitely think the guys at least would come to the shrine to donate just a chance to get to see you."

"I probably would've punish them if that was the deal if they're going to be ogling me all day," Reimu scoffed, "But I would still gladly accept their offering if they came by and donate."

Chris smiled and then suddenly walked over to the donation box.

"Huh?" Reimu watched where Chris went, "Chris? What are you doing?"

"Just checking the new donation box… it's a fresh start for a new beginning, right?" Chris said turning his head towards Reimu.

"Yes… I suppose, but what are you up to?" Reimu nodded her head and looked at Chris with a suspicious look.

Chris smiled and looked back at the donation box as he held his hands together to pray and finally… he took out some money he had from home and drop them into the donation box.

Reimu's eyes widen in shock and dropped the broom that was in her hands and ran over towards the donation box to look inside and then looked back at Chris.

"You… you donated!" her voice shaken with surprise and disbelief, she couldn't believe it.

"You've helped so much after I got here and caused nothing but trouble, sorry. So what other way to repay your kindness than by donating?" said Chris smiling as he scratched the side of his head.

Reimu blinked a few times and then suddenly burst into a smile and hugged Chris. The sudden action from the shrine maiden caused Chris to almost lose his balance and blush, a girl has never hugged him before especially this affectionately, as he scratches the back of his head shyly.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much! I can see it now!" Reimu said with cheerful glee. "This is a sign of good luck for the shrine, for sure! There's no doubt people will come and donate to the shrine now!"

Chris smiled at Reimu's optimism as she let go of him, he'll have to help her with that, and he started to leave the shrine.

"Huh? Where are you going Chris?" Reimu asked as snapped back to reality and saw Chris beginning to leave.

"Well I don't have a place to stay and so I have to see where I can stay at the Human Village plus I need to get a job to earn some money as I don't have a lot on me. And I've caused you too much trouble by being here so I'll be on my way… thank you for everything Reimu and I'll be sure to visit!" answered Chris as he started to walk away.

"Hold it!" Reimu cried out.

Chris stopped in his tracks and turned in Reimu's direction.

"Is there something wrong?"

Reimu stood there for a few moments thinking over what to say and she looked away for a slightly blushed, and somewhat annoyed-looking, face with her eyes.

"You can live here with me if you want."

Chris's eyes widen with surprise. "Really? You sure? You don't mind me staying here?"

Reimu opened her eyes and looked at Chris, then returned his question with a sweet and genuine smile. "Of course, I don't mind having you stay here with me."

"Thanks! Oh wait a minute… that doesn't sound good actually." Chris stated as he brought his hand to his chin looking up in the air with a pondering expression.

Reimu took that comment offensively and scowled. "Excuse me! What exactly does that mean!"

"The way you're saying it… it seems like I can stay here for free without doing anything, that's not good. That's way I said it," Chris answered back as he pointed his finger into the air as Reimu calmed down listening to him, "That is to say I'll help around with the chores and such. I don't want to be a freeloader and cause you more troubles so let me help out, don't worry I'm a hard-worker! Sound good?"

"Of course!" Reimu declared, "Like I was going to let you off the hook like that! I'm glad I have someone around here who will actually help me and instead of lying around!"

Chris smiled. "Alright, that's settled then!"

"Not quite…" Reimu stated cut Chris off short as he pondered a curious look, "I want to know how exactly you got here and how these… ECHO creatures are related to you. Sakuya was kind enough to inform me about this as she and I brought you and Marisa back here last night."

Chris nervous laughed to himself. It looks like there's no way around this…. He didn't want to worry the residents about this, but he can't keep this a secret forever so there's no choice now then to tell the truth.

"But before that Chris…" Reimu started to say as Chris looked up at her as she smiled at him.

"I want to officially welcome you to this world as a new resident. Welcome to Gensokyo."

Author's Note: Finally I got this chapter finish! However I'm a little disappointed in the beginning segment as I had a much better dialogue in mind, but I couldn't remember as I thought about it at work or a school with my fanfic at home. Don't you just hate it when you think up some superb lines but don't have anything to write them down on and later when you can write them down you've gotten them entirely? And holy cow, over 20,000 words in this chapter! This is by far the longest chapter I ever written!

I don't want to toot my own horn or gloat, but I have to say I out did myself in this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it! Though I REALLY hated writing such a long chapter!

I finally got to explore Chris's Ability Cancel a bit and showcase its pros and cons to it, though I originally had something else in mind to explain it but alas I couldn't remember. There was more I wanted to explain in this chapter about Chris's ability but I'll save it for next chapter and originally Virus was suppose to appear once more after talking to Chris, but I'll save that for next chapter too.

Actually I was unsure where Chris would go to next after this chapter as I was debating on him returning to the Scarlet Devil Mansion or going to Eientei, but since I want Chris to meet the other Touhou cast I decided to have him go to Eientei but soon after that he will return to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Also I'm happy I got to flesh out more of Chris's character in this chapter which shows a more goofy and funny character. And a little bit of a pervert side, I mean he's surrounded with many beautiful women and after (accidently) groping Yukari who wouldn't think about her busty chest?

And that's not all… soon I'm going to have fun messing with and abusing my original character later in the story for fun, I mean he's got to have a few misfortunate in life, right? :-)

Here's some pictures I've drawn on my original characters, Chris Corona and ECHO Vocals along with Chris's twin sword.

CHRIS CORONA:

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CHRIS'S SWORD:

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ECHO VOCALS:

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I'll probably provide more artwork of my original characters to help you guys get a better look at them so I hope you like them! While you wait for the next chapter I recommended you check out these other great Touhou fanfics; Human of the Other Side, From the Sky and Beyond, Unparalleled Ayakashi Incident, and Touhou Chronicles.

I do hope I got everyone's personality done right in this chapter, though I think I nailed Marisa's personality quite well in this one.

Well then, see ya until then!