You woke up with heavy eyelids as you slowly get out of bed. You rub your eyelids to cast the sleep away. As you regain your consciousness, you look around the room you're in. A Japanese style room. Getting out of the futon, you walk towards the sliding door. You can hear noises outside the room. You try to listen in, but you can't make anything out of it. Brimming with curiosity, you open the door.
Opening the door, you are greeted with two individuals inside -what you assume to be the living room-. One is sitting under the table while the other is standing near the porch.
"Ah, you're awake," the one in red said, drinking her tea. "How're you feeling?" she shoots you a question.
Before you can answer, the other one chimes, "Oh, you're the guy Reimu talked about!" the one in black said, pointing her finger at you.
"Hey, hey? Who are you? Where did you come from? What are you doing here?" she bombards you with questions.
"Oi, Marisa! He's still confused, let him gather his thoughts first," Reimu interjects. "Why don't you sit down, I'll get you some tea" she gets up from the table and starts walking towards the kitchen(?).
"One for me too!"
"Get it yourself."
"Eeehh, is this how you treat your friend?" Marisa pouts, slowly coming to the table to sits down.
Not too long after, Reimu returns, bringing a tray with her. Setting the tray down, you can see two glass of tea and a plate of Senbei Crackers. She puts the glass in front of you and Marisa respectively while the plate on the middle. Marisa grins and slowly taking the crackers and eating it.
"Now, can you tell me who you are? I've never seen you in the human village before," Reimu asks, sitting down.
You try to tell Reimu and Marisa everything, but you couldn't. You have no prior memory before coming here and when you try to recall anything, your head starts hurting. The only thing you remember is your name.
"You can't remember? Did you lose your memory?" Reimu ask, snacking a cracker. You slowly nod. "Not a surprise, seeing you were laying in front of the shrine floor, unmoving. Thought you were a worshipper at first. Not to mention, you slept for the whole day." She turns to Marisa. "Have you seen him before?
"*munch munch* Nope, never seen him before. *munch munch*" Marisa replied, snacking on more crackers.
"Hmm, maybe someone will recognize you if we walked around the village. Alright, let's head out now. Reimu stands up, ushering you outside.
"W-wait for me!" Marisa downs the last crackers and tea and rush to catch up to us.
Thus, we headed to the Human Village. Along the way, Reimu tells a bit about herself. Her name is Hakurei Reimu, a shrine maiden. The place where we were before is the Hakurei Shrine. Despite being a shrine maiden, she mostly solved the incident that happens around Gensokyo. What kind of incident, you have no idea. Next, Marisa introduces herself.
Full name: Kirisame Marisa, a magician. She lives inside a house in the Magic Forest. Your face show a sign of confusion, and Marisa said she'll show you her place later. She helped resolved the incident and have a rivalry with Reimu. Hearing that Reimu rolls her eyes. She also carrying a broom with her.
Along the way, you can't help but feel something is watching you along the trees. When you tell Reimu and Marisa if there's any wild animal, they say to just ignore it and if there is any trouble, they'll protect you. Heeding their advice, you continue walking.
Eventually, you arrived at the human village. Rows of houses and shops with a lot of human moving about their day. With post-haste, you start asking. You went from houses, school, izakayas, bookstore but bear no fruit. Feeling dejected, you three went back to the shrine.
"Sigh, how tiring,' the shrine maiden sigh. You and Reimu arrived at the shrine nearing sundown. Marisa left a while ago, saying that she needs to be somewhere while flying off with her broom. You were surprised at first, but then Reimu shows that she can fly without anything assisting her. You just accept it by then.
Reimu lays down on the porch, sprawled out. You sit next to her and apologize.
"No, no, it's not your fault. It's just annoying how we couldn't clear this in one go. Looks like I have to ask Yukari. Aaahh, I hate asking her for favours!" she scratch her head.
You both stay quiet. You don't know how you can help.
"Well, everything's going to be fine. They always will be. Now, I have to start preparing for dinner." Reimu stretches her body, gets up and enter inside. But you didn't move. Noticing that, Reimu ask, "What's wrong?"
You stay silent for a few second. Your throat is dry, but you muster your strength to speak. You said to Reimu that you don't want to impose on her anymore for all her done to you.
You hear Reimu start shuffling her feet to you and when she calls your name, you turn around and was a greeted with a flick on the forehead. It hurts. You feel like it'll leave a bruise.
"What are you saying? Imposed? I did this because I want to. And if you did leave, where will you go? You don't even know where you are right now. And Im not that of a youkai to just kick you out. Now get up, we have to start preparing for dinner." Reimu walks away.
When Reimu left, you sat there, unmoving. But your body feels light. It feels that everything's will be okay if you stay with her. You believe in her. Wiping your eyelids, you stand up and heading to the kitchen. Before heading there, with a smile you mutter under your breath,
Thank you, Reimu.
Months passed and you are more accustomed to your life here in Gensokyo. Reimu said that to live here, I have to help her with her work around the shrine. You thought it will be hard at first, but to your surprised, it was surprisingly simple. Clean the front yard, brew some tea, clean the shrine, advertise the shrine, and help with the banquet that held whenever the residents feels like. The only place off-limits is the shrine offering box, but hey, one less place to work at. Not to mention, not a lot of people came visiting the shrine and that's because
"The human worshipper won't come here because they said that this is a youkai shrine! Can you believe that?! Not to mention there is another shrine that stealing all the worshippers from this shrine. If it came down to this, I just have to eliminate all the youkais in Gensokyo. Hahahahahahaha… zzzzzzzz" a drunken miko tirade.
You also met Aunn, a komainu of the shrine, Clownpiece, a fairy from the denizen of Hell, which led you to meet with more prank-loving fairies and Suika, a constantly drunk tiny oni. Other's have also met with you some being vampires, reporters, youkai, sages, and a lot more. Even if your memory hasn't returned, you're sure that you live your best life here.