Kasen and Kogasa

Kogasa's slumber came to a sudden and abrupt end when something loud slammed, shaking her. Groggy and disoriented, she attempted to recollect herself. She was... at her desk, she fell asleep there if the drool was anything to indicated. But... She lifted her head, vision bright, before things began to fade into view.

"... can truly be called..." The voice seemed to fade in and out of focus, and the figure hard to see. The item that woke her was... A cage! "... Hey...stening to..." A cage had been placed on her desk, waking her! But why? Maybe... Oh yeah, she was a blacksmith! And... Why yes, this cage indeed appeared busted in areas! So it seemed that- "HEY!"

Kogasa lifted her head, her vision having fully recovered. A woman with pink hair and a bandaged arm stood before her, looking down at her. Oh! She recognized this woman! It was Ibaraki Kasen, that hermit lady! Well, one of the many hermit ladies, there were a lot in Gensokyo these days. "Were you listening to me at all?" She scolded.

"I.. Um... Y-Yes, I..." Kogasa still felt a bit disoriented from having just woke up. Kasen sighed.

"I needed you to fix up some of the animal cages I use, but I heard from Youmu and that journalist that you hadn't been working on anything here for a while now. I come here and the first thing I see is you snoozing away on the desk! What kind of blacksmith even has a desk?" Kasen stepped away and looked around Kogasa's forge. "And this place is in such disarray! Tools lying everywhere, dust and ash all over the floor, when was the last time you've cleaned up?

"Well, you see, I... It's been kinda slow lately." It was a half truth. In full truth, Kogasa just hadn't felt passion recently, she had begun to let things sort of slip, and fall away. As she got further and further behind in her work, she felt less and less drive to do anything. She couldn't scare anyone, and now she couldn't even pick up her hammer, the one thing she was actually good at. It made her feel...

Kasen sighed a second time, looking at the umbrella leaning over her desk. "Well, I certainly can't leave you in this sort of state, and it doesn't do anyone good to have the best blacksmith lazing about all day." Kasen made a thinking pose, though in truth Kasen had already decided what she would do before even entering the smithy. "Alright! I've decided I'm going to be sticking around her until you're whipped up back into shape!"

"E-Eh? Whipped?"

"That's right! Whipped hard!" Kogasa didn't like the sound of that, as she grabbed a broom tossed her direction. "Now, let's get started! The first thing place needs to facilitate proper workflow is to be clean and tidy! We're deep cleaning this entire place from top to bottom!" Kasen flashed a thumbs up with her bandaged arm. "Let's get to it!"

And so began Kasen's mission to bring the umbrella back to peak form and beyond.

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Pub: 17 Dec 2021 15:22 UTC
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