> Keine: Investigate.
You ask Tokiko for the details. She tells you that a monster came out of one of Kosuzu's books!
Damn that KOSUZU MOTOORI! A girl as young as her has no business keeping a collection of cursed books. Reimu said everything was under control, but this is getting to be a real hassle.
You apologize to Ichirin and tell her you'll have to take care of this, but Ichirin says she'll take care of the bill and catch up to help. You thank her and go to meet Tokiko outside.
(Out of the corner of your eye, you see Ichirin scarf down the rest of the purple mangosteen as you leave the restaurant. Oh well. She IS paying for it.)
> Be Tokiko for a moment.
You are TOKIKO. Just Tokiko is fine. Your hate your real name; it's long and flowery and incredibly pretentious, so much so that you are too embarassed to even have it written in your introduction. It was given to you by your mother, who just so happens to be an incredibly pretentious hipster beatnik poet. Compared to that, being called "Ibis Girl" is just fine.
You are a decidedly civilized youkai with a distaste for violence. Although it is common for animal youkai, you have never eaten a human. Not that you particularly like humans or anything (you find them to be shallow and short-sighted), you just don't want their blood on your hands. You sustain your youkai identity by writing INCREDIBLY SPOOKY GOTHIC HORROR STORIES and leaving the books in random places.
Your live-and-let-live policy hasn't stopped humans and youkai alike from hassling you, though. You used to live in the Forest of Magic, but you decided to move near the village instead to escape the constant fairy pranks and shrine maiden encounters (apparently she has a friend that lives in the area? You don't really know). Unfortunately, the village hasn't proved itself to be very peaceful either, especially since the buddhists moved in and brought all sorts of minor incidents with them. Can't a girl just read her books and drink her coffee in peace? APPARENTLY NOT.
This current crisis is a fine example. Why does the only bookstore in town that welcomes youkai have to be full of goddamn CURSED BOOKS? Maybe Kosuzu will get eaten and replaced with a more sane librarian...but you guess that wouldn't much help the youkai reputation in town. Oh well.
You have the ABILITY TO READ IN THE DARK, which is the most useless ability out of everyone you know. Maybe if you could stretch the definitions of "read" into "observe" and "dark" into "unknown" you could turn it into something good, but you are currently unable to grasp that kind of vaguely defined bullshit. You can't even see anything else in the dark. It sucks.
> Be Keine again.
Tokiko joins your party, and the two of you fly off towards Suzunaan. You arrive to see Kosuzu blocking the entrance.
Oh dear. Some kind of tentacled monstrosity has taken hold of Kosuzu!
Wait! This adventure isn't rated for this kind of content!!
Oh, nevermind. It just wants to kill her and eat her. We're in the clear!
> SET SPELL CARD
You'll have to be careful not to use multi-target skills, or you'll risk hitting Kosuzu. What will you do?
Your SILVER COMMAND INTERPRETER gives you control of Tokiko too, so enter a command for her as well.
> _
