> Keine: Go to a thrift store.
Ichirin takes you to a side shop that's a little less popular than the ones you know about; no other customers besides you are inside. Seems Ichirin likes having the run of the place.
Ichirin dives into the racks like a shark smelling blood in the water. You start picking a few things, but the variety of old clothes is so wide you're not really sure where to start.
Well, it's okay, but it's pretty boring.
Yeah, this is too plain; not much reason to switch out of your SCHOOLMARMOR for this. Maybe you need to get more adventurous and try some of the goofier stuff, like the other youkai wear.
...
Ichirin promptly provides some recommendations. She says the aesthetics of your SCHOOLMARMOR were designed to take advantage of your strong upper body with a form-fitting top, so you should stick with that.
Oh my.
Goodness gracious.
You tell Ichirin you're not sure if you want to wear something so, er, attention-grabbing.
There, this is a little more up your alley. It's made of light material and has a nice business casual look to it. Ichirin assures you that handbags are a very important part of fashion, even though the fact that your INVENTORY exists renders it pretty pointless.
(You do hang onto the other two outfits, though, for...reasons.)
Meanwhile, Ichirin is trying outfits on so quickly that you can't even register them. She has obtained some kind of state of FASHION UNCERTAINTY. FASHIONTECH is a powerful and frightening thing.
Eventually, her shifting image seems to settle into a narrower pattern of outfits.
> Keine: Examine merchandise.
Ichirin shows you a variety of bizarre merchandise plastered with gaudy designs and questionable grammar. They're obviously from the outside world, but they all seem to be shoddily made knock-offs. You and Ichirin have a good laugh over them.
But wait, what's this?
Well, that's bizarre. You can sense that it's a pack of functional spellcards, but why is it in packaging that would suggest it's from the outside world? It even has a picture of Reimu (sort of...) on the package. The back label says the product is MADE IN CHINA. They don't have spellcard rules in China, do they?
Ichirin is similarly baffled. The two of you ask the shop owner about them.
She says everything in the back corner was sold to her by a strange youkai. The asking price was dirt cheap, and she figured she could sell them as novelty items, so she took the offer. There were a bunch more of the SPELL CADE packs, but the one you're holding is the only one that hasn't sold yet. Most of the other ones were bought by fairies, she says, thinking they would be able to become DEATH FAIRIES by obtaining spellcards.
The price of the cards (cades?) is negligible, so you buy them out of morbid curiousity.
Ichirin rings her things up next.
You understand what she's getting at. The plate was 3000 yen, but you didn't think much of it since you can afford that kind of luxury every once in a while. On a monk's salary, though...
Yeah, I know what you were gonna choose.
You smile and gladly cover Ichirin's tab. She seems relieved to have the issue resolved with no drama. Unzan was eyeing her accusingly for bringing up money issues with a friend, but he lets the matter drop.
> Keine: Exit.You and Ichirin leave the shop, but there seems to be a disturbance up the street. You push through a gathering crowd to see what's going on.
Oh, great. They're at it again.
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