[h2]Konpaku Youmu[/h2]

The meat sizzled in the pan.

It would time for dinner.

The girl currently checking to ensure the meat was well on its way to being properly cooked was quite petite, tiny even, with silvery hair and blue eyes. Her skin was quite pale as well. Over her usual clothing she wore an apron, and behind her drifted a strange, teardrop-shaped translucent cloud.

Konpaku Youmu took a deep breath as she began to move the meat off of the pan with a pair of tongs. She was trying something a little new tonight, hopefully with good results. Given Yuyuko's gluttonous habits, it wasn't exactly difficult to be hopeful. As long as it tasted good, Yuyuko was seemingly quite willing to try anything. It was hardly the first time Youmu had done this, as well. The diminutive silvery-haired girl had cooked for her mistress time and time again

"... Hm," she looked thoughtful for a moment. "Yuyuko-sama might like more of that... right."

Nodding to herself, turning away from the sizzling meat, comfortable that it wouldn't burn, Youmu began to head over to the cupboards... but then something caught her eye, stopping her dead in her tracks.

A door. A door that had never been there before. It wasn't as if unusual or surprising things were something uncommon, but Youmu couldn't recall any occasion where a door spontaneously appeared from no-where. Warily, she grasped her sheath katana, Roukanken, from a nearby table...

And then the timer went off.

"Ah!"

Dinner had to be handled first!

But after both Youmu and Yuyuko had eaten...

The small, pale half phantom returned to the door. She'd informed Yuyuko-sama, who had simply told her to go inspect it. Approaching it, Youmu placed one small hand against it. It didn't feel abnormal, or anything of the sort.

After a short pause, and a deep breath, Youmu made her decision.

If this was some sort of threat, she would face it head-on as Saigyouji Yuyuko's retainer.

Hand on Roukanken's hilt, she pulled the door open.

... Beyond was something difficult to understand. A... some sort of... city? But it didn't appear to be any sort of settlement Youmu had ever seen or heard of. No, it was a ruin. Everything was run-down and destroyed. What could it possibly have been? For a few moments, blue eyes narrowed, Youmu peered through the doorway...

At this point, there was only one thing that could be done.

The half-phantom stepped through it.

It was... considerably desolate here. Unlike Gensokyo's landscape, for certain. Proceeding forward, eyes peeled for even the slightest sign of a threat, Youmu paused once more to glance over her shoulder.

She was immediately confused to see she had seemingly exited another worn building, with a huge sign exhibiting an animated version of herself and Yuyuko, standing out in front of Hakugyokurou.

"... I... what?"