Three Fairies Quest

[Tapsa]

>"H-hi, Suika! You're standing really close..."

>Suika doesn't respond. Instead, she quickly grabs your arm and pulls you in, forcing you to stand up! This also causes you to turn around and face away from Suika.
>"Gotcha~", says Suika as she grapples you by the waist with both arms.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Blaaaagh!"
>Flail!

[Tapsa]

>"Blaaaagh!"
>Flail!

>You scream and try to struggle free from Suika's reverse hug, but your attempt to outwrestle an oni is futile.
>"Wh-what are you doing!? Hands off Sunny!", Star finally reacts to what's going on.
>Suika frees her left arm off your waist, still keeping a tight hold onto you with her right arm. Soon, you feel an arm wrap around your neck. She's got you in a headlock! At the same time, Star dashes in front of you and tries to pry Suika's left arm off your neck by jabbing and pulling at it.
>"Let her go, you brute!", Star yells.
>You hear an annoyed grunt coming from Reimu's direction, followed by a "The hell are you three doing?"
>"Ya drew on my face, didntya? You rascal~", Suika playfully says.
>"Now... Prepare for hell! Ehehe...", says Suika as she presses her right hand's knuckles against the top of your head. Oh no...

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Nooooo! Mercy! It was the one-armed man!"
>Squeal and writhe.

[Tapsa]

>"Nooooo! Mercy! It was the one-armed man!"
>Squeal and writhe.

>Suika giggles as you beg for mercy. "No regrets, Sunny!"
>Squealing and writhing is about all you can do while Suika gives you brutal noogies! Her fist of fury ravages your scalp, sending your headband flying away!

>You lost: Maid headband

>Star has long since given up on trying to break you free from Suika's grapple. Instead, she stares at you with eyes wide from terror.
>"She, she's too strong! I'm gonna go get backup!"
>Star scrambles for the front door, but she is tackled by a squad of mini-Suikas - the ones you saw earlier - going for her legs.
>"AAAHHH! I'm hit, I'm hit!", Star shrieks and panics as the mini-Suikas pin her limbs down.
>"Yeah, that's right! Ya giving up, uh-huh!?", Suika talks you down as she continues to torment you with her unrelenting noogies. Aarghh! Your head is going to catch on fire at this rate!
>You hear a meaty THWACK, and feel something like a bunch of papers brush against your right cheek for a split second. Suika falls over on her left side along with you, and her left arm loses its hold on your neck!

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>Squirm out and hide!

[O4rfish]

>Shout "FREEDOM!" while bending the light beans around us to divert the phonetons.

[Tapsa]

>Shout "FREEDOM!" while bending the light beans around us to divert the phonetons.

>It would be a serious crime for such a freedom-loving fairy like you to not announce their fondness for freedom after escaping from that world of pain. So, you do what has to be done:
>"FREEDOM!"
>While shouting, you use your ability, manipulating the light around you to make yourself invisible.

>Squirm out and hide!

>You're invisible thanks to your ability, but that's not enough. You want to be double invisible!
>You dive under the kotatsu to hide from the madwoman while she's still dazed by whatever it was that hit her. You rub your aching head, but the sharp, throbbing pain doesn't seem to care for your massaging.
>"Knock it off, Suika!", you hear Reimu's stern command. Her voice is close and you think she's somewhere near Suika.
>"Ow! Why'd you hit me?"
>"You were getting carried away."
>"Hmph! When giving a lesson in humility, you gotta do it real proper!"
>"It won't be a very useful lesson if you accidentally splatter somebody all over a room with your strength."
>"A lesson in humility. Not lesson in dead!"
>Reimu grunts a frustrated grunt. "You'd better start showing some humility yourself before I kick you out!"
>Suika mumbles something unintelligible to herself before they both finally quit arguing. There is a short lull, which is disturbed by Reimu's voice:
>"You don't need to hide.", says Reimu.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Nuh-uh! I need to hide all the time, you saw that!"

[Tapsa]

>"Nuh-uh! I need to hide all the time, you saw that!"

>You hear light, shuffling footsteps move diagonally away from the kotatsu, stopping for a moment before returning back. The part of the cover in front of you lifts up, revealing Reimu's hand, which is holding on to your crumpled headband.
>"Here. This is yours, right?", says Reimu.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>Take headband, replace it.
>"Thank you..."

[Tapsa]

>Take headband, replace it.
>"Thank you..."

>You take back your headband from Reimu's hand, straightening it out a little to do away with most of the crumples, before returning it back to its place on your sore head.

>Item equipped: Maid headband

>"No problem.", Reimu says.
>"Psssshhhh...", hisses Suika. "Yes problem! Can't even dish out a li'l corporal punishment these days."
>You hear a long, horrible wooden creak come from Suika's current position. In fact, you can feel it too as the floor shudders briefly until the noise is over.
>Reimu lets go of the cover of the kotatsu, leaving you back in the shadows. "Did you just..."
>"Huh? But I thought I did the thing to get my horns not do this thing!"
>"Okay, that's it.", says Reimu who stomps over to where Suika's voice is.
>"Hey! Where are you taking me? That's it what?", says Suika, whose voice seems to be now following Reimu's stomping away from the kotatsu.

>_

[O4rfish]

>Peek out.

[Tapsa]

>Peek out.

>You peek out to get a proper picture of what's going on.
>Diagonally to your left, Reimu has grabbed Suika's wrist and is walking kitchenwards with the hornhead in tow, while Suika is doing her best to fight against Reimu's pulling. She drags behind leveraging her weight and wags Reimu's arm up and down, but Reimu keeps on pushing forward with determination.
>"Wait! It was an accident, don't toss me out!", yells Suika, trying to sit down.
>Straight ahead, you see a hole in a floor mat, near the spot where Suika was standing before she got thumped and fell over. Your best guess is that she punctured the floor with her left horn when she fell over, and that horrible noise probably came from her unskewering that horn from the floor.
>To the right, you see a motionless Star lying on her stomach near the front door. Her arms and legs are still splayed, even though there's no mini-Suikas pinning her down anymore. What is she doing?

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Star! Quick! Over here while they're distracted!"

[Tapsa]

>"Star! Quick! Over here while they're distracted!"

>Star groans and hammerfists the floor with both hands. "Oh come on! I was being a great corpse."
>As Star begins speedcrawling towards the kotatsu, you glance at the kitchen. Suika is sitting on the floor with her back against the stove, frowning.
>"I'm going to lose it if you guys interrupt me one more time. Stay here!", Reimu says while grabbing Suika's right horn, using it to rattle the oni's head lightly.
>"I got it, I got it!", says Suika. "No fun allowed!"
>Reimu lets go of Suika's horn and gets on with the cooking. Suika starts rocking back and forth, hitting her head and back against the stove repeatedly while whining, but she quickly stops after failing to elicit a response from Reimu.
>Star is now very close to the kotatsu. She dives under the kotatsu from the side facing the front door, ramming you right in the ribs with her head! Argh!

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>Fall over and groan.

[Tapsa]

>Fall over and groan.

>You roll over and clutch your side in pain.
>Star lies trembling on her side with her knees pressed against her face. She holds onto her head with both hands.
>"Nghhh... W-what're you doing unvisible down here?", Star forcefully whispers.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"So they can't see me!"

[Tapsa]

>"So they can't see me!"

>"But they can't see you under here anyway...", says Star as she unfurls from her balled up state.
>"So you just gonna keep hiding here?"

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well it's better than your plan."

[Tapsa]

>"Well it's better than your plan."

>"Nah! Didn't you hear how hard they were ignoring me there? My plan was the best. I was right next to the door too, I coulda ran away any day."

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"But you could get stepped on!"

[Tapsa]

>"But you could get stepped on!"

>"Yeah, so what?", Star says with bunched up eyebrows, "You could get kicked under this kotatsu even if you're unvisible!"
>You hear the sound of something tapping against metal coming from the kitchen.
>"Alright, done.", says Reimu.
>"Yay! Let's dig in!", shouts Suika, who sounds to be running towards your hiding spot.
>"Stop!", Reimu yells, and the approaching running footsteps come to an instant halt. "I don't think I allowed you to leave that spot. Go eat on the porch!"
>"What? The porch? Why!?"
>"That faerie still hasn't come out from under the kotatsu, and the blue one's gone somewhere too.", says Reimu, "I'm starting to suspect that it's because of you. Just go to the porch."
>"You'd rather eat with a bunch of faeries!? But... But..."
>"They're my guests, Suika. Guests that I even invited! I didn't wake up this early in the morning to get these faeries over here, only to have you scare them away!"
>"B-but... At least I've got table manners! A-and... I, I didn't mean to scare them that bad... I'm sorry...", Suika says with a wet and thick voice.
>"Last warning. Go to the porch.", says Reimu.
>Suika doesn't respond. All you can hear coming from her direction are sparse footsteps and the dragging of her chains, both which eventually fade away as she presumably exits the shrine. It is silent for a while, until Reimu exhales, making a frustrated pfffftt noise.
>"Okay. So are you guys gonna stop hiding now?", Reimu asks.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Maaaaybe."
>Peek outside to make sure the coast is clear.

[Tapsa]

>"Maaaaybe."
>Peek outside to make sure the coast is clear.

>"Yeah, sure! It's too hot down here!", Star says as she slides backwards, exiting the kotatsu.
>"Oh, so that's where you went.", says Reimu.
>You peek out. There is no Suika, but only a Reimu who's making her way kotatsuwards, carrying a pot filled with steamed rice on one hand and a large plate lined with sliced pieces of tamagoyaki on the other hand.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh!"
>Scurry out as well, forgetting about any unvisibility

[Tapsa]

>"Oh!"
>Scurry out as well, forgetting about any unvisibility

>You get out by sliding backwards as well and sit down next to Star.
>"Can you tell your friend to quit hiding already?", Reimu says as she lowers the breakfast on the table. That's strange, shouldn't she be able to see you?
>"Hey, Sunny. You forgot to go un-unvisible.", says Star.

>_

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh, right!"
>Undo that thing.

[O4rfish]

I'm really feeling sorry for Suika here. She was peacefully taking a nap in a safe place, but fairies invaded and pranked her, and Reimu isn't sympathizing with her at all.