· Reimu Hakurei

While Cirno and Dai-chan were freeloading food and drink at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the newly appointed Reimu Miko, who had taken office less than three days ago, was sprawled by the window inside Hakurei Shrine, leisurely drinking tea and completely ignoring the red mist drifting outside.

Ever since she had been born, the previous Reimu Miko had kept her by her side to receive the inheritance of the Reimu Miko. To be honest, when Reimu had first been little, she had been full of anticipation about becoming the next Reimu Miko.

Every day, she had been brimming with motivation as she studied knowledge and trained her Spiritual Power. But that had only been at the start. From the year she turned ten, Reimu had already seen straight through the true nature of the Reimu Miko: she was an excuse for those bored-out-of-their-minds people to hold banquets.

That was right. In Reimu's eyes, the Reimu Miko was exactly that sort of existence. Having followed the previous shrine maiden since she was little to resolve all kinds of Incidents and events, she had long since understood that Gensokyo was not actually dangerous. If she had to say there was any danger...

It was that group of people who had nothing to do all day and used every possible trick to find excuses to hold banquets. Whenever they wanted to hold a banquet, the easiest method was to stir up an Incident, then wait for the Reimu Miko to resolve it, and use that excuse to hold a grand banquet.

So this time, Reimu had absolutely no intention of resolving the red mist Incident. Let it do whatever it wanted. In any case, she absolutely would not give those people a chance to hold a banquet. After all, every banquet was held