>Do people even visit the Akinators? Like, normal friendly visits? Or are divinities above that?
>"I see. Dare I ask how the Moriya Shrine is taking their world coming back to haunt them?"
>You... really don't know what etiquette is like among the goddesses. From what you've heard, Kanako sounds like the type for formalities, but you don't know about the others.
>Actually, you're not even sure you know who he's referring to...
>Isn't it sad, Shizuha?>Seigo shakes his head. "No idea. We're a bit far out of the way to get visitors from the mountain often. I'm pretty sure Aya's getting help with the paper these days, but I dunno about the Moriya Shrine regulars." He frowns. "Though I guess there's always rumors of Suwako and Cirno getting into fights on general principle?"
> "And, if I may ask a personal question of my own, why do you all come here? Surely you had lives and families on the other side. Were they really worth abandoning in favor of us, where you have no idea how well you'll be received or how you'll even survive?"
>The cook raises both eyebrows in surprise. "I'm flattered you care."
>He shakes his head. "But that isn't an accurate picture. First of all, most fanboys end up here as part of Yukari's whims, rather than arriving under their - our? - own power. I just woke up outside Yuuka's field one day and sprinted for the human village." A shiver. "Scared the hell out of me, let me tell you."
>"Secondly, if Perfect Memento in Strict Sense was any indication, Yukari is careful about what sort of people to bring in from the outer world. People that won't be missed, or that were expected to be suicidal." Seigo smiles sadly. "Mom was always worried I wouldn't make it past high school with all that time spent on Nicovideo... in a way, she was right."
>"So basically, the Touhou fanboys end up here by no choice of their own, carefully pre-selected by Yukari to make sure that the outer world doesn't miss them. Too much, at least."
>"Even then, a lot of us prefer living in a world where magic is real, even if it means struggling with losing some conveniences of home and having to get some sort of real job. For my part, I love meeting actual youkai, and even if things started out bumpy, this spot at the stand ended up being great." He grins. "You'd have never seen me this outgoing in the outer world, but somehow I picked it up. So many interesting things going on!"
>"And since a lot of people that wouldn't be missed in the outer world are people that would have few friends or only loose attachments, well... we might not miss family as much as you'd think."
>"Not to mention the rather successful push to bring in the more useful ideas from the outer world. Every week that goes by, there's one less excuse to go home for conveniences' sake. Dunno if we'll catch up perfectly, but some creative use of magic might do even better, so who knows?"
>Seigo frowns. "Then there's the weird part: Yukari doesn't want any fanboys returning to the outer world, because they'd try and lead the fanboys of the outer world to find a way into Gensokyo that they can use themselves. She doesn't seem to mind sending back people that don't know about Touhou, but if it's someone that would flip out and spam futaba with claims of waking up in Gensokyo, she doesn't let them leave."
>He shakes his head. "And frankly, she's right. I know a couple of guys at the human village that would love to raise a stink online to drag Mary and Renko in here kicking and screaming. And who knows what that would lead to."
>He glances around and leans in a little for a conspiratorial whisper. "If you ask me? The really weird thing is that Yukari's allowed Gensokyo to get access to the internet, even if she's set up some way to censor it so no convincing evidence of Gensokyo's existence gets uploaded. People are still going online with the same identities, or at least identities easily linked to what they called themselves back outside, and families still get a vague idea of where their not-so-precious kids have vanished to. But that doesn't sound like a good idea for keeping the reality of Gensokyo secret, does it?"
>... well that was one hell of an info dump.
