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Koishi

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Koishi and Kokoro sat side by side on a doctor’s table as Eirin inspected them from her stool, rubbing her hand on her chin. “Hmm I see,” Eirin said, flipping through her clipboard with an even expression on her face, “So this is the-”

“The third time, yes,” Kokoro answered, a tired mask covering her face as Koishi, still holding Kokoro’s hand tried to separate herself from the tsukumogami’s grip as she tried to leave the room.

What they were talking about didn’t need to be specified, both parties understood Koishi’s abilities, and both were not totally immune. Three times they had attempted to find out if Koishi was pregnant, three times they were distracted, the memory faded from their minds immediately, and three times they started over from the beginning due to the results appearing completely.

At the very least they were now aware of the fact, but their being impeded in such a manner, as well as Koishi’s attempts to flee pointed towards active interference from the empty-headed satori, or at least as active as she was capable of.

“How about we go get some ice cream Kokoro? I’m sure Cirno could make us some.” Koishi said as she pulled a knife from somewhere. Kokoro caught the hand heading towards her harmlessly, Koishi was just trying to avoid them, she wasn’t actually trying to hurt her Kokoro knew, but that didn’t make it any less annoying.

Thinking for a moment with her hand on her chin Eirin announces. “The answer is obvious!” She gets up from her chair striking a pose and pointing at Koishi. “I just have to read the results of the previous tests subconsciously and then internalize them as fact, when I next try to recall the memory it will be second nature.” Koishi and Kokoro got the feeling the doctor was doing something outrageous and unnecessary.

Before either of them could do something Eirin had downed a handful of pills she materialized from somewhere, promptly falling flat on the floor with a resounding thud as her face met the floor.

“I-Inabi!” Kokoro exclaims, her mask shifting to one of shock in response to Eirin’s bemusing actions. “Please get Reisan-san, or-or-” She could hear the Inaba leave the room as she stuttered in her monotone voice, the face of the mask once again shifting.

-several minutes later--

Picking herself up from the floor as the sixth Inaba doctor had left the room, Eirin spoke. Kokor’s mask shifted to one of relieved shock in response. “Well Koishi…” Eirin dragged the moment onwards, slowly dragging out the syllables of each word until Kokoro’s mask changed to a furious one. “You’re pregnant.”

The mask of hope reverberated inside of Koishi as her eye twitched. ‘Ah.’ she remembered, ‘it was a mistake, I closed my mind on accident.’ maybe she should apologize to satori, Koishi thought. It was the first fleeting thought Koishi had had in many years.

Koishi seemed to be at a loss for words as she sat perfectly still, blank eyes staring into the void. “Koishi..” Kokoro puts her hand on the satoris shoulder to comfort her, pulling her into a hug.

“I don’t know much about Satori reproduction, so you’ll either have to come in later or I can make a house call to the Earth Spirit mansion,” Eirin says, writing on a slip of paper, handing it to Kokoro who grabbed it absentmindedly.

Blinking Koishi focuses her gaze on her friend. “Don’t worry Kokoro, I’m sure everything will work out, or at least I think it will.” Koishi smiled as she said this, but Kokoro balked. Her mask shifted to one of shock, while Eirin looked intrigued. “Eh? What's wrong?” Koishi tilted her head inquisitively, somewhat like a dog as Eirin and Kokoro stared at her in shock.

Finally breaking the silence, Eirin spoke, writing something down on her clipboard erstwhile. “It seems that monks' efforts weren’t completely useless, although it seems this was completely unintended.” Of course, it went unsaid that Koishi wouldn’t be allowed at Myouren temple anymore or to be able to visit the surface, Satori would vehemently disagree and Koishi wouldn’t disobey her sister.

Thinking about something for a second, Koishi asks. “Is pebble a good name?” Eirin just smiled as a tiered expression graced Kokoro’s face, ‘I’m going to have to move underground aren’t I?’ She thought, as the next decades of her life flashed before her eyes, ‘at the very least Miko won’t be able to bother me down there.’

Of course, Koishi still isn’t any less foolish, this was still the Satori who accidentally lobotomized herself by complete accident.

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Originally I just started mentioning Koishi due to that Anon who wanted to, but didn't end up writing her. This takes place shortly after Cirno and Kokoro left the underground so before the endgame and poster reveal. Koishi hasn't so much opened her third eye here as she's once again becoming a new type of youkai.