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Looking up a Mima with newfound resolve, Hana replies, “Do you think sealing Yukari away will magically make things better? That every youkai who has raped my father will just put it away as some fond memory and move on? That Dad could just live with the people, his friends, who turned away while he was abused only to… to exploit him when the opportunity arose? Why should I care if Gensokyo falls apart? It serves them right. With Yukari gone, we could leave. Would the barrier even stay up? We could… we could go to Dad’s home before all this.”

Mima shakes her head again as she slouches, age seemingly finally catching up to the goddess, “You’ll never escape it if you follow that path. Someone will come after you. It might not even be a friend of Yukari, just someone whose life was ruined by the chaos and needs a living person to blame. You’d kill them no doubt, but the circle of vengeance would eventually consume you. If that is what you want, I won’t stop you. It would be too hypocritical even for me, but if you are going down that path you may as well do it properly.”At that, Mima draws a long and bloody knife from somewhere before placing it on your poem, “Write your death poem and end it. If your hatred burns true, you’ll rise stronger than you ever were before.”

Hana freezes while looking at the knife, the terrible thing emanated enough pain and sorrow that even an inexperienced shrine maiden like herself could feel it. Hesitantly Hana reaches for the knife. It’s what she wanted after all, no? She could have her vengeance and she wouldn’t have to deal with picking up the pieces. No, she’d just leave her traumatized father to do it.

Sighing Hana pushes the knife back towards Mima, “You know I wouldn’t. Even if it was worth it, which it isn’t, I couldn’t do such a thing to Dad. You just did that guilt trip me, didn’t you?”

Mima can’t hide her relief, “I wouldn’t deny you your vengeance, but I may have been a bit overdramatic to push you away from making a mistake. Still, if you truly wanted to…”

Hana deadpans, “You’d claim to help me only to undermine me and try to dissuade me the entire time. T-That’s not a bad thing… but still don’t put on false airs.”

Mima shrugs, “Let’s stop discussing hypotheticals when we could be drawing up plans for where to stick Yukari’s sorry ass. If memory serves, there is a certain little hokora that’s open.”