Spring Feast
:春色小径 ～ Colorful Path Spring Lane ~ Colourful Path
Reimu sighed as she took another two bottles of sake from the storage house at the Hakurei Shrine. There was going to be another feast again after she returned from defeating Toyosatomimi no Miko, the reason behind the increase in divine spirits. As she settled the bottles next to a large tree in the backyard, she began to reminisce about the past incidents and the annoying celebratory feasts.
The cherry blossom tree was in full bloom, Reimu noticed, and she slowly paced towards the storage house yet again, searching for sake which would be pleasant for flower viewing. When she returned, this time with a crate of sake, the numerous youkai, vampires and witches greeted her with cheers. The newcomers, Miko's crew, were invited to the feast, which served as an ice breaker to them. They gave Reimu a range of grins, from slight ones from Seiga to large ones with giggles from Futo. Reimu, initially shocked from the sight, took a minute to absorb the scene before her before she announced the beginning of the feast.
Even though Reimu disliked how annoying the youkai would get when it came to this kind of events, she still allowed them to come anyway. Marisa tapped her sake cup against Reimu's before sipping hers. Reimu, however, gazed into the sake cup, as though the clear liquid held answers to world problems. Her thoughts began to trail back to the very first incident she solved with the Spell Card Rules.
Remilia proved to be a tough challenge. Reimu had to weave through pattern after pattern of dense scarlet bullets. Even though she managed to defeat Remilia, she had to admit that her spellcards required much agility trying to go through them. There were close calls here and there, especially when facing Scarlet Meister. It's hard to forget those ridiculously thick and large bullet clouds she sent everywhere.
As a cherry petal landed gently on her sake surface, Reimu's memories then paced back to the Cherry Blossom Incident. As ripples formed, Reimu recalled Yuyuko's numerous butterfly-shaped danmaku which made her danmaku incredibly hard to look away from. Even when she faced Yuyuko's soul, she would be lying if she said that the danmaku was not eye catching. That Youmu was pretty annoying though.
Her mind shifted its focus then on the incident with the lunarians. The moon princess had beautiful danmaku, however, they were made mostly from the 5 Impossible Requests she had. Their house was extremely large and was very irritating to navigate through, thanks to the moon rabbit she had. When she received the promised payment from Yukari, Reimu then knew that all her effort weren't in vain. I should have Kaguya manipulate the shrine's space sometime.
Reimu's train of thoughts came to an abrupt halt when she noticed Marisa trying to stop Suika from going on a drunken rampage while Yukari and several other youkai stood by and watched, amusement clearly sparkling from their eyes. Reimu gave a light chuckle at the hilarious scene as she finally brought her sake cup to her lips. She examined the scene before her, listened to the laughter and chatter in silence as she lifted the sake bottle next to her for a refill. Cherry blossom petals drifted along with the gentle breeze as they settle on the surfaces of sake belonging to various youkai. Reimu's lips cracked into the faintest of smiles.
The only reason why I'm doing this is because all the feasts never ended in anger.