>"Oh. Okay."
>Nod in understanding.
>Look curious but don't say anything out of respect.
>be ready to help select a wheel.
>Out of curiosity do we know of Mystia and Kyouko?
>Wait until cart is stable
>When Mystia is ready, take one end of the nearest wheel.
>Who said that?
>"Eh?"
>"Come again...?"
>Keep working on the wheel as well.
more crazier
>"Check that grammar, Mystia"
>"So this isn't the first time they did something like this?"
>"I see..."
>Frown.
>"Maybe you could have a friend watch your stand when you're away? Someone capable of fighting...?"
>Keep working on the wheel as we say this.
>"I see..."
>"I'm a kirin. And that wouldn't surprise me, to be honest. People tend not to notice me most of the time."
>Do we recall why? Is it just because we're stealthy?
>"Like, even when I'm not being stealthy, people don't tend to notice me. I'm not sure why, it just happens..."
>Wheel progress?
>How often do we do such a thing?
>"Well, granted, I don't tend to do noticeable things often, but still..."
>Keep up the wheel work
>Do we even desire attention?
>"Well I guess that'd be nice... But I've never gotten any. And it could be bad attention too... I do things wrong, become a criminal, wish I never had attention... But if I did things good. I could become popular. People would love me. People would know me..."
>"For other people?"
>Have we considered it, at least?
>"Sort of..."
>"Um..."
>What is suika referring to?
>Shrug
>"Alright."
>Progress?
>"I was trying to stop the fairies from taking the wheels... Soothing them to sleep didn't work, so maybe scaring would have..."
>"I tried to..."
>"I don't really know. It was a few different kinds of music to... try and incentive them to leave, but it wasn't working."
>"W-Well originally I played to stop them from taking the wheels, and then they decided to investigate inside so I started playing badly. I was planning on going back to the good music when I heard them planning not to enter b-but it didn't really work out as you can see... A-Again I'm sorry..."
>Girls are repairing~
>inspect work
>"No problem."
>Is the door still broken?
>if yes:
>>"What should we do about the door?"
>Look slightly confused and look between them.
>"So we're leaving it?"
> "How many times did she make the door worse?"
>Regret that we can't repair doors with music.
>Does our Erhu actually have powers out of curiosity?
>"SUIKA. SHUT UP!"
>Who said that?
>briefly snap back to reality to see what those two are up to.
>Still it would be nice if our erhu did more than just play music... or rather, could use music for some nice applications such as repairing...
>"You two are hearing it too?"
>Look around.
>"I-I hope not."
>"D-Did you two hear that?"
>"E-Eh!?!"
>Do we have any unusual growths there?
>"W-Who's there!?"
>Who said that?
>Look around again.
>"S-Show yourself!"
>Blink.
>Stare at Erhu.
>Realization
>"E-EEEEEH!?!? You can talk!?!?!"
>Look at Mystia.
>"I-It's... um... never talked before..."
>"A-Are you a tsukumogami...? Wait... That can't be right... Those are born from abandonment, right? I've always had this erhu with me so that couldn't have happened..."
>Horrified realization.
>"Y-You're a tanuki aren't you!?! W-Where's my erhu, d-did something bad happen to it!?!"
> "You said you didn't have a mouth like this. That means you're hiding your true appearance, right? Then you're a tanuki or something. I don't see you giving any proof to otherwise."
>"That's-"
>...Try to listen to what it's thinking.
>Blink
>"A-Am I going insane...?"
> "...What was I thinking of when my erhu was repaired then?"
> "And... What was it like when you were... broken?"
> "So you say you're me... but inside the erhu? What happened before today then? Things I can't remember?"
> "You're really not being convincing."
> "Play my favorite tune."
> Look around.
> Gently set the erhu on the ground.
> "Back up..."
> Do so. Keep wary though.
>"H-Hang on a moment!"
>"You tricked me!"
>Look around for it.
>"Where's my erhu!?"
>Don'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanic
>The panic sequence was initiated the second we realized our erhu was missing!
>faint
>We think she's gorgeous looking... and she looks kinda like us... does that mean we have a problem?
>Blink.
>"Um...."
>Now take a look at her hair.
>Does she use her hair to express herself?
>"Huh?"
> "Uh..."
> Examine our hair.
> "But my hair isn't like that. You said you were me... And yet the Erhu too..."
> "Then what's the use of me? I don't have great hair like that... Why's there a me with less affinity to my erhu?"
> Blink.
> "What do I do to have... like, full affinity to it?"
>"This is wrong. All wrong. Your hair... the strings... You can't be... You're... you're not me! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IORp_o7bnvM)"
>"I'm feeling so confused right now..."
> "Hm..."
> "I... understand, I guess... So I can't play you like this, right?"
>Blink
>"Uh... h-how would that work... um... I-Itwouldn'tbeawkwardwouldit!?"
>"A-Alright..."
>Approach and lightly "strum"?
> "Just with my fingers? Not the rod?"
> "Huh?"
> "I... don't get this though... You never talked before. I think... And you never had a body before either."
> "How was I supposed to know?"
> "Well if you sneak around like that and not tell who you are, we'll think it's a ghost or something... Each time you spoke to me you could've said "This is your erhu"..."
> "There wasn't good proof..."
> "Then give proof! Like this."
> "Well uh... I know your my erhu now though... Isn't that good?"
> "What's that supposed to mean? Of course I did. She's my erhu."
>"Dirt their..."
>Realization
>Flush
>"-- OH MY GODS!"
>"A-AH! I'm going to feel dirty every time I p-play my Erhu now..."
>Bleach! We need bleach!
> "It's just her hair! It's just her hair! It's not like that!"
> "Just stop thinking about it already!"
>Fail to do so
>Was the thicker part towards the bottom her bu-
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>Can we hear what she's thinking? or is it just one way?
>Wait.. if she's us, does that mean we have a big rear!?
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>"How can I not? I should know everything about my erhu, and all of a sudden there's a bunch of new embarrassing things that have probably happened now! Did you know about these and not tell me!?"
>Rin.exe has stopped responding.
> What if... what if this IS it though. What if all of these things happened in these ways? How could we tell that they didn't and they weren't... Oh dear no...
>D-Does she like it when we play her!?!
>WHY ARE WE STILL THINKING THESE THINGS
>Skip across the ground from the momentum of the slap.
>Who said that?
>Is Eri the Erhu (Working name) thinking anything right now?
> "Y-You don't have to hit me. I'm not trying to think of these! It's you suddenly revealing you're a person."
> "I'm not! It just.. happens!"
> "And how do you suppose you get my mind to stop being on the topic of touching you and-"
> Shake head.
> "T-The topic we're on."
>"Y-You know we would've never even be on this train of thought if Suika hadn't brought it up in the first place..."
>Who shouted that?
>Prepare to dodge slaps.
>What is Eri thinking?
>"C-Calm down. None of this or that of what Suika said matters. R-Right?"
>Continue thought snoopingas usual
>"I'M NOT A PERV!"
>ThotThought snooping continues
>Wildly wave at Mystchi and Suika ~~Blyat~~ I?m a vain attempt to get them to stop laughing.
>"ARE NOT!"
>Snoopingas
>"ARE NOT!"
>Thoughts
>That pout is kinda adorable
>"I'm totally not!"
>Thoughts
>"Stop being like this anyways. You're my erhu, so it's fine any way!"
> "It's not like that... You're not listening."
>"I'm not!"
>thoughts
>"A-all right then... I'll... I'll try not to think that sort of thing again..."
> "Sorry er... Erhu."
>"Um... what is your name anyway...?"
>I'll probably start calling her Eri the Erhu if she doesn't have one.
> "How about Eri?"
>"Of course. Eri the Erhu has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
>Smile.
> "Would you be fine with it? The last call goes to you, since it'd be your name."
>Pat her.
>"That's good."
> "Um..."
> Mentally wonder what her full range of abilities is...
> "What... can you do, Eri?"
>"Ability-wise I mean... Anything special with your music."
> Nod.
> "Anything else?"
>"Is that all?"
> "We can't put people to sleep then?"
> "That takes a bit..."
> "Mm..."
> Nod.
> "Yea."
>"D-Didn't we move past that topic!?"
>examine thoughts
> "Now you're trying to bring it back up..."
> "We can ignore Suika on this."
> Check thoughts.
> "So... what now?"
> Nod.
>"...Do you think we should help with Mystia's door? I still feel bad about it..."
> Think this?
> "So what will we do?"
> "How? Can you repair things?"
> "Well... I guess we can try to help..."
>[Er... Did I say that out loud?]
> Approach the door.
> ("Are you sure we can't do any repairing magic? What about healing?")
> ("What is it?")
> ("Thanks, that doesn't help Eri...")
> ("I wouldn't say that losing my memory and being not private was just fine. And Megumi could've nursed me. But you did repair on your own earlier, right?")
> ("Alright. So... that's your thing right? Take the lead.")
>"Yes, that's my name"
>"...Eri?"
> ("Because you healed yourself somehow. And I don't know how you did it. So unless you tell me...")
>"Um ...Really?"
> Hold our hands out towards the door.
> Will it to fiiix!
>"I hope they don't think we're stupid for posing like this..."
> Play Eri as we had before. Try to focus on restoring the door with our music.
> Continue...
> "Huh?"
>Envelops what exactly
>Keep playing.
>How are we playing her? Is she in Erhu form or are we slashing her hair with the bow?
> Keep playing until it's fully repaired.
> "H-Huh..."
>Blink
> "Amazing... That's really useful..."
> "Good?"
> Look boastful as well.
> "You're welcome."
> "How bad is it usually with Suika's 'help'?"
> With Mystia's business helped and taken care of, what were we going to do before?
>"So Eri... are you going to be staying like this for a while, or are you going to change back into an erhu?"
>...
>"I-I don't mean any offense, I mean. I respect your decision either way. I'm just curious..."
>"W-Well, I know you're a person now. Just be in the form you're most comfortable with, I guess..."
>What are Mystia and Suika doing?
>"Um I dunno, really... We just wanted to help to be honest..."
//Anything you want to add Neo?
>Wait for him.
//If we're hungry...
> "Oh, could we get anything to eat?"
//Otherwise, no, not really.
> Do we like Lamprey?
>Even something as freaky looking as a lamprey?
> Oh. Awkward.
> "Er... If I may be a bit picky though, could it not be meat?"