>I highly doubt that's how Renko really is. Especially with Koishi having been spotted in the Forest of Magic, Renko's "benefactor" wanting to be secret, well, it just seems so much like her doing. She could just be doing it for fun, or attention, or have some currently unseeable ulterior motive in mind, or perhaps just wanting to vent for having lost Gensokyo Isle. There' s all sorts of understandable possibilities.
>You really want to believe someone else is at fault... But, well, Renko has always kind of liked money, now that you think of it. You're pretty sure she's not a thief, she's had the opportunity in the past...
>"Hey to you, too!"
>Wave to Yamame and continue onward
> "Been having any good business or luck while I was gone?"
> Come on, we gotta cheer up and hope for the best, and that it will turn out fine. Smile Maribel, smile. Renko is safe and seems to be having fun.
>You wave to your spidery friend, and continue onwards.
>"Been taking it easy, pal!" she says as you make your way past.
>You do your best to cheer up. If nothing else, at least Renko's safe, and really does seem to be enjoying herself.
>True to her word, Kisume doesn't try to mug you again on the way back. You think you get a peek of a bucket dangling from the corner of the chamber with the fissures, though.
>Soon, you return to the bridge. You see Parsee there, doing something with the railing.
>_
