> "Oh, excellent! Yes. Uh, I had heard from a woman named Ichirin that you have gained the respect of Gensokyo's fairies at some point. She wasn't sure how, though. I was hoping I could ask you how you did it. I know this sounds silly and trivial, but it is important to me."
>"To be honest," says Reisen, "I don't fully understand it myself, but I did a couple of things for them. I first caught their notice when I met a group of them having a rather nonsensical debate in the middle of the bamboo forest. They asked for my opinion on what the square root of wisdom was. I tried to answer, confused them a bit, and decided if I was going to get them riled up enough to try something, I was going to earn it. So I remembered as many things as I could from Eirin's lessons and just put them together to make a salad of portmanteaus and puns, and pretty much said nothing at all. They absolutely loved it, and gave me this."
>She tugs aside the collar of her jacket and reveals a bit of white silk ribbon danging around her neck.
>"They didn't give me any problems after that, except for one case. Later on, I sort of had a role in awakening and defeating an ancient evil buried under the lake. Since then, they've pretty much considered me a hero. Sometimes I'll get approached by faeries out of nowhere showering me with praise for it."
>"And three marriage proposals," adds the other woman.
>"...Eirin."
>"Oh, is it more now?"
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