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After everyone packed up their camping tents and prepared to leave, Reimu opened the barrier for them, watching them stride out of the shrine with absolute confidence and head toward the legendary Youkai Sage Yukari Yakumo's home, following the map she had given them.
Once everyone had left, a smile immediately appeared on Reimu's lips. She hurried over to the pond in the shrine courtyard with quick little steps, impatient to admire her now-adorable face in the water's reflection.
Seeing herself restored to normal, she cupped her pretty little cheeks and giggled happily.
Was she pretty?
"Hey, hey, hey, it's only been a while. Do you really have to act like this?"
"Our shrine maiden has actually become this narcissistic?"
The great tengu youkai Aya Shameimaru flapped her wings and flew to Reimu's side. Seeing her admiring her own face, she couldn't help making a resigned quip.
"Tch! Didn't you change back, too? Don't tell me you wanted to keep that eye-searing Aniki look, then rape and transform other people with those twisted tastes?"
Reimu waved her little hand with utter disdain in her voice. Her expression held nothing but relief at having survived the ordeal. She had finally returned to looking so youthful and cute!
"It's not like I have a hole in my head. Why would I dislike my original appearance?"
"But compared to that eye-searing Aniki look from before, I definitely prefer my original self."
The great tengu youkai Aya Shameimaru couldn't help beginning to admire her own rebirth narcissistically as well.
Meanwhile, after following Reimu's map over mountains and across rivers for five hours, the group finally reached the edge of the Great Hakurei Barrier,