[b][i][u]Location: Spring Zone- Hakurei Shrine[/u][/i][/b]

[i]While Marina decided to study at their room and Xaizor was training behind the shrine, Reimu was once again trying to estabilish connection with Lumino in Lacrima. However, steps could be heard. When the person arrived, she was taken by surprise.[/i]

[b][i]BGM: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMn8DAKOMw]The Doll Maker of Bucuresti (Perfect Cherry Blossom)[/url][/i][/b]

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???: Excuse me, Reimu. Were you, per chance, going to talk with Lumino?
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Reimu: A-Alice?!

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[b][i]The Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Alice Margatroid[/i][/b]

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Alice: Are you sure it was a good idea for you to leave Gensokyo in control of Yukari?
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Reimu: Oh great, she simply explained everything to you. Nice.
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Alice: I'm not the only one who knows that. With your shrine gone, some of us actually have been worried. You are the shrine maiden that protects Gensokyo from the Outside World.
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Reimu: Kasen will keep an eye on Yukari, but I trust that she's going to keep everyone safe. She likes our world more than I do.
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Reimu: Anyway, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back home and doing whatever you want?
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Alice: I'm doing exactly that. I'm going to aid Lumino at the protection of his children.
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Reimu: *sigh* Alice, if you're trying to take his heart, you should give up. It's mine.
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Alice: Ha ha. It's not for that reason I'm here to do this.
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Alice: You're not the only one who owes something to Lumino and wants him to be happy in exchange for what he did to us.
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Reimu: ... I know that.
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Alice: So, even if you say no, I will aid them.

[i]Reimu knew how Alice can be persistent when Lumino comes to be the matter of case. She wouldn't just stay quiet at this and there was nothing Reimu could do to change that.[/i]

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Reimu: Like you said, my no doesn't matter in this, so what can I do? But you better help instead of just talk.
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Alice: Thank you for comprehending. I'll take my leave now.
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Reimu: Don't you want to meet them, at least?
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Alice: Another and better opportunity will arise for us to meet. Now, if you excuse me.

[i]Alice bowed and then left the shrine, heading back to the streets of the Spring Zone. Reimu sighed once again.[/i]

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Reimu: The less problems I want, the more I have. *sigh* Thanks a lot, gods...
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Xaizor: *appears* What's with the sighing, Reimu?
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Reimu: It's nothing. Get in and call your sister, I'm going to make dinner.
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Xaizor: OK, just give me one second. I need to try something with my katana real quick!
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Reimu: Training time's over, Xaizor. Do as I told you.
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Xaizor: Damnit, I just thought about a new technique...