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○ Taisei Project
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Characterization and Story
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■ 0. Information
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This file contains spoilers and other content intended for players who have
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cleared the game.
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If you still wish to proceed, scroll down.
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■ 1. Incident
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[The Hakurei Shrine]
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A shrine located at the border of fantasy and reality.
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Three heroines of Gensōkyō sat drinking tea on a calm day at the end of summer.
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Two of them seemed unsettled, while the third—
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Marisa: “What’s got ya both so down? Did I mess up the tea?”
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Reimu and Yōmu shared a knowing glance.
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Reimu: “The tea’s fine. I just feel weird. I can’t put my finger on it.”
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Yōmu: “Likewise.”
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The bells of the shrine tolled outside. Someone had made a donation. A minute
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later, there was another. And another.
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Reimu: “Something’s definitely not right…”
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Yōmu: “Isn’t it normally comforting for the shrine to receive donations?”
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Reimu: “Normally it *would* be comforting, but…”
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Outside the shrine, nearly every resident of Yōkai Mountain, including the
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kappa and some of the tengu, were lined up one after another to make a donation
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- including the Moriya Shrine Gods, Kanako and Suwako. Everyone seemed vaguely
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fearful.
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Reimu: “Eh? What’s all this, then?”
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Kanako: “We’ve come to ask a favour.”
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Marisa: “What kinda favour?”
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A mysterious force was slowly causing yōkai and humans alike to succumb to an
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intense feeling of “knowing everything.” It would start with figuring out
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simple problems that they’d been struggling with, such as a technical issue
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with a machine or perhaps a eye-catching newspaper headline.
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But as it progressed, they’d become completely enveloped by it, unable to act
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rationally. Yōkai Mountain was usually protected by the Moriya shrine maiden,
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Sanae Kochiya, but even she had been carried away into madness.
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Suwako: “Sanae just keeps talking about ‘video game consoles.’”
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Marisa: “Eh? Like those toys you hook up to TVs, the kind you find at Kōrindō?”
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Kanako: “Right, but she just won’t stop. I’ve seen her excited, but not like
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this.”
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Sumireko: “Hmm. Quite fascinating.”
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Reimu: “Where the heck did *you* come from, Sumi?”
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Sumireko: “I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation. Based on my gut
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feeling, and what you’ve described, the answer is obvious.”
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Yōmu: “Is that so? Care to share it with us?”
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Sumireko: “Some entity on Yōkai Mountain is emitting a powerful eldritch
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lunacy, likely in all directions from a singular point, given how
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indiscriminate it is. Too much knowledge all at once… mm, mm, it can
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potentially be fatal, at least for those with weaker minds.”
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Marisa: “Heh, wanna handle it then, Sumi?”
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Sumireko: “A-ah, n-no, you all know the lay of the land better, a-after all,
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and with it being such a dire situation—”
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Yōmu was distracted by the sight of her mistress, Lady Yuyuko, standing in the
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shade, a fan over her face. She went over to greet her.
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Yōmu: “Lady Yuyuko, why have you—”
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Yuyuko: “The spirits seem drawn to Yōkai Mountain as well, as if they long for
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something. It’s growing difficult to contain them all…”
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Yōmu: “I see. Shall I investigate as well?”
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Yuyuko: “Please do.”
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Elsewhere at the shrine, the kappa were all gathered around talking intensely
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in hushed tones, and the tengu were furiously scribbling on their notepads as
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if they’d just gotten the scoop of their careers. Even here, away from Yōkai
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Mountain, the effects of the “eldritch lunacy” seemed to persist, and continued
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to drive everyone mad…
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■ 2. Characters
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○ Shrine Maiden of Fantasy ~ Hakurei Reimu
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Species: Human
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Area of Study: Literature (Fiction)
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The incredibly particular shrine maiden.
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She’s taking a break from her busy novel-reading schedule to take care of an
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incident.
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Mostly, she has a vague feeling of sentimentality for a bygone era.
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Regardless, when the residents of Yōkai Mountain show up sobbing at her
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door, she has no choice but to put her book down and spring into action.
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○ Unbelievably Ordinary Magician ~ Kirisame Marisa
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Species: Human
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Area of Study: Eclecticism
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The confident, hyperactive witch.
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Curious as ever about the limits of magic and the nature of reality, and
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when she hears about “eldritch lunacy,” her curiosity gets the better of
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her.
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But maybe this “grimoire” is best left unread?
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Not that a warning like that would stop her anyways. So, off she goes.
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○ Swordswoman Between Worlds ~ Konpaku Yōmu
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Species: Half-Human, Half-Phantom
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Area of Study: Fencing
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The swordswoman of the somewhat-dead.
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“While you were playing games, I was studying the blade” … is probably what
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she’d say.
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Entirely too serious about everything, and utterly terrified of (half of)
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her own existence.
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Still, she’s been given an important mission by Lady Yuyuko. Hopefully she
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doesn’t let it get to her head.
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■ 3. Stages
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○ Stage 1: Misty Lake Encounter
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○ Stage 2: Riverside Hina-Nagashi
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○ Stage 3: Crawly Mountain Ascent
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○ Stage 4: Forgotten Mansion
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○ Stage 5: Climbing the Tower of Babel
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○ Stage 6: Roof of the World
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■ 4. Bosses
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○ Stage 1 Boss
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Name: Cirno
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Species: Fairy
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Field of Study: Thermodynamics
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The lovably-foolish ice fairy.
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Perhaps she’s a bit dissatisfied after her recent duels with secret gods and
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hellish fairies?
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Consider going easy on her.
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○ Stage 2 Boss
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Name: Kagiyama Hina
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Species: Pestilence God
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Field of Study: Gyroscopic Stabilization
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Guardian of Yōkai Mountain. Her angular momentum is out of this world!
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She seems awfully concerned with your health and safety, to the point of
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being quite overbearing.
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You’re old enough to decide your own path in life, though.
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○ Stage 3 Boss
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Name: Wriggle Nightbug
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Species: Insect
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Field of Study: Evolutionary Socio-Entomology
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A bright bug - or was it insect? - far from her usual stomping grounds.
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She feels that Insects have lost their “rightful place” in history.
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If she thinks she has a raw evolutionary deal, someone ought to tell
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her about the trilobites…
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○ Stage 4 Boss
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Name: Kurumi
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Species: Vampire
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Field of Study: Hematology
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Vampiric blast from the past. Doesn’t she know Gensōkyō already has new
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bloodsuckers in town?
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Sucking blood is what she’s good at, but her current job is a gatekeeper,
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and her true passion is high fashion.
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Everyone’s got multiple side-hustles these days…
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○ Stage 5 Boss
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Name: Nagae Iku
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Species: Oarfish
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Field of Study: Meteorology (Fulminology)
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Messenger from the clouds, and an amateur meteorologist.
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Seems to have been reading a few too many outdated psychiatry textbooks in
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recent times.
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Despite being so formal and stuffy, she seems to be the only one who knows
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what’s going on.
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○ Stage 6 Boss
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Name: Elly
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Species: Shinigami(?)
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Field of Study: Theoretical Physics / Forensic Pathology (dual-major)
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Slightly upset over being forgotten.
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Has apparently gotten herself a tutor in the “dark art” of theoretical
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physics. Her side-hustle is megalomania.
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Literally on top of the world, without a care to spare for those beneath
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her. Try not to let too many stones crush the innocent yōkai below when her
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Tower of Babel starts to crumble.
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