#aethercoercion

He had been told to go and pick out clothes but this was a bit ridiculous. No matter where he looked the previous holiday was lingering. Either those in the Hive really enjoyed the passing of Christmas or no one had bought the products so they were left on ever shelf.

As he would prefer more choices than this the next course of action was to hunt down a worker for this shop. The bowman scanning over the racks of clothes to locate such a person now. Eyes honing in on a purple cap which bobbed between the isles. That person, they looked to be of importance here. Why else would they be so thoroughly going through each and every tacky holiday sweater?

[Rumors ran most of the city. No matter where you were, it was a guarantee that there would be at least one group of NPCs talking about the newest gossip floating around. Usually, it was about something some citizen happened to do, blown completely out of proportion. This person stripped, that person made out with the majority of the population, those kind of annoying stories.]

[However, every once in a while, the rumormongers came up with some interesting stuff. Which is why the shrine maiden was currently sitting atop a fire escape, watching over an abandoned lot, in the middle of the night.]

[Reimu let out a sigh. She shouldn't be so eager to jump onto these kinds of rumors so quickly, but 'monsters' terrorizing the public was kind of hard for the shrine maiden to ignore. It was probably some misguided animalistic youkai brought here and scared out of its wits. A quick beat down should calm it. Of course, worst-case scenario, it was a humanoid one, causing mayhem for their own enjoyment. Or it could be nothing at all. Her curiosity was too much to ignore, so here she was, in the middle of the night, staring at concrete.]

[Right as she thought that, she noticed a purple-clad woman appear. It seemed her worst-case scenario was now the situation she was in. Why else would someone come out to this place so late at night?]