Re: Touhou CYOA - Second edition
"Travel with you? I... do not know if there's anything out there for me at this point, but.. sure.." the somewhat confused Parsee tells Byakuren as she proposes a truce and a companionship. Nitori releases the bridge princess from her bondage, who proceeds to slowly get back on her feet. She behaves well enough as the trio go ahead and eat breakfast, Parsee being quiet the entire time, clearly not up to a discussion at this new turnpoint in her life. After a few moments of gathering belongings, Byakuren offers goodbyes to the kappa inventor before she heads out to the trail once more, a new companion with her.
They travel forward following the bank of the stream, still gunning for the highest areas of the mountain. Byakuren notices that nothing tries to approach them, even the predators stay away when Parsee turns her glowing gaze towards them, nothing natural daring to get near the bridge princess. Now that they are alone, Byakuren feels it necessary to discuss the importance of life with Parsee, since she was concerned about the bridge princess' uncaring attitude towards her own precious life.
"Now, Parsee.. how can you be so callous with your life?" she starts, trying to poke the hashihime into a conversation, but is met with a blunt reply
"And how does my life concern you?" Parsee replies, speaking for the first time in a few hours. Losing her temper at the unstable youkai, Byakuren slaps her across the face.
"Yes it does, you're my pa----" her reply is cut short as Parsee gives Byakuren a slap of her own, walloping the mage to the cheek with enough force behind it to make Byakuren fall onto her back
"DON'T YOU LECTURE ME, WITCH! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH!" she yells at Byakuren, her gaze burning with green energy once more. Byakuren clambers back to her feet, fearing for another fight, but the bridge princess turns away and starts to walk upstream.
"Let's just.. move on... the faster we find Yuugi the better.." she can hear Parsee say, taking heed of the hashihime's words and not trying to lecture this tormented soul any further.
A few more hours later, the stream starts to widen, the pair still follow it along the banks. After a while, a clear, beautiful voice can be heard singing in a strange tongue that Byakuren is unable to recognise. The two of them soon spot a blonde girl sitting on rock, singing as she paddles her feet in the stream. She is quite young-looking, dressed in a purple and white dress that sports a few frog patterns on it. On her head is a hat that Byakuren finds somewhat disturbing to look at. It would look like a normal wide-brimmed hat if it didn't have the two life-like eyes on the top, making it resemble a frog. The girl looks unaware of them, still singing with a happy face as they approach behind a nearby bush.
"Rrrgh, how can she be so happy, a little brat like that..." Parsee can be heard muttering under her breath as her green energy starts to converge again.
"I'll take that happiness away" the jealousy-struck bridge princess continues, striding towards the bush.
A. Stop Parsee from attacking, then approach the girl
B. Stop Parsee from attacking, then ignore the girl and carry on
C. Let her do as she wants