There's a tie right now, but no one's breaking it. Saying no was in the lead 5 hours before the tie, so I'm going with that.
>>354 Magic! Also, she can fly.
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You come to the conclusion that the park may be better than your place. The weather is nice and you imagine camping out might be good for some people. Not you though, you live too much of a sheltered life and rely heavily on technology. "No, there's no problem. This place is great!"
"That's good to hear. I rather like this place. It has a certain homely kind of feel." Homely? Well, she is an animal.
Suika steps up to add "And it's clean, too. Cleaner than Onii-chan's house. His place is worse than when Reimu finishes a job." Suika starts laughing like she just told a funny joke.
"Suika!" You try to hold her back. You don't know how bad that is, but you can't picture it looking too good.
All Ran can comment is an astonished "Oh my."
Chen speaks in disbelief "Really? That Red-white is always leaving a mess in her wake. It can't be that bad."
You try to steer the conversation elsewhere. "Hey, is there anything else you know? Have you seen anyone else from Gensoukyo?"
Ran shakes her head. "I'm sorry, besides the flower youkai, you're the only ones we've met."
"Oh, that's too bad." It looks like that's all you'll find here.
"It's getting late, you two should be returning home. If other youkai have appeared in this world, it may be dangerous to be out in the dark."
She's right. There's no more reason to hang around here. "You have a point. I better get going. It was nice meeting you." You shake Ran's hand and ruffle Chen's hair, but she's wearing a hat so it's more like a pat to the head.
"It was nice meeting you, too. It's a relief that Suika has made such a good friend. If something happens, you can find us here. I hope we can see each other again."
Suika has a look of disappointment. "We have to leave now? But we just found each other!"
Ran puts her hand Suika's shoulder and looks her in the eyes "Suika, we can play again together when we return to Gensoukyo. You should stay with the human. He seems to be trying to involve himself in this. I can tell he has good intentions, but he could end up pushing himself. Take good care him."
Suika understands and cheers up. "Okay. Don't worry, he's not getting into trouble on my watch! And we'll find all our friends and go home!"
With that out of the way, you wave goodbye to your new friends and leave the park.
At the entrance, you notice the time. It really is late, you need to get back home.
It's unlikely you'll see any people walking the streets this late and it's hard to see in this darkness. Suika probably doesn't need to hide, although it looks like she wants to as she's smiling and seems to be about to shrink down.
[ ] Let Suika ride on your head again.
[ ] Tell her to walk. It hurts your head to carry her.