>"Mkay" nod to Mokou.
>In we go.
>get my cool glasses on. Look at Mokou and scan surroundings.
> You nod to Mokou. Cirno responds by saying "Yes".
> You don't have or need glasses, but you pretend to be cool anyways.
> The three of you enter the Bamboo Forest. The first thing you notice is it's very cool inside, almost like you're back at the lake. The grass is also looks rather untended to, and you can't see a single soul around.
> You take a look at Mokou. She still has her hands in her pockets, and still doesn't seem very excited. She is, however, taking survey of her surroundings, looking around with a wary eye.
> You also look around. No stalk of bamboo is entirely straight, and it seems to get taller and taller as you look up at the sky. It makes you kind of dizzy. You look behind you and find that you can't exactly see the entrance anymore.
>"Wow, that's pretty messy. Don't worry, though, I borrowed a compass."
> "Smart. Where'd you get it, some shady second-hand shop?"
> Check inventory. We do still have the compass, right? (It wasn't in the inventory list last time we checked.)
Inventory:
> Foreign-looking dress (currently worn)
> Scarf (currently worn)
> x1 newspaper fragment
> It has a missing ad for Komeiji Koishi on it. You'd better hang onto this for reference.
> x3 sweet potatoes (roasted)
> You got these from Mokou when you first arrived outside the Human Village.
> x6 spellcards
> Taken from the comatose surface world girl. Copying down the characters written on them would have been a pain, so you took them with you.
> According to Tokiko, the cards are named "Long-Arm and Long-Leg", "Moreya's Iron Ring", "Jade of the Horrid River", "Frog is Eaten by Snake due to Croak", "Native Myth vs Central Myth", and "Mishaguji-sama".
> x1 chair
> Souvenir from the lake mansion's gate.
> x1 bottle of spring
> It's a sealed bottled with a pretty flower inside. It's a one-use item that doubles as an attack--a strong gust of wind--and a way of being able to produce flowers.
> x1 seeing stone
> A triangular stone with a circle inscribed in it. If you hold it up to your eye, you can see things that are normally invisible.
> x1 compass
> Borrowed from Kourindou for the purpose of navigating through the Bamboo Forest.
> That was the parser's mistake.
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