@0racleray said: Examine! kourindou :3c
“I see... so you’re interested in the shop itself? Ever the inquisitive one, I see— but I’d be happy to tell you about this Kourindou.”
He looks around the walls of the store momentarily, before turning to the large glass window behind him. Watching the green sakura trees behind the shop shake comfortably in the wind he’d exclaim, “First and foremost, Kourindou is a second-hand curio store.”
“Here, I deal in unique objects that I find during my ventures into Spirale proper— along with other services. Back home, however, besides rare antiques, I would deal mainly with goods from the Outside World... or rather, the modern world as you know it, Oriko-san. According to a girl I know from that place, most of the items I find are out of date by a few decades, but they’re unique goods that can’t easily be found in my home of Gensokyo. Indeed, that is Kourindou’s purpose.”
“However, this place is also my home. I built it all myself. I’ve had it for over thirty years now. Originally I worked in the local village at the Kirisame-ya Second-Hand Shop, but decided to strike out on my own in order to help further foster my ability with more interesting items. I built it on a place between both the humans, and between the youkai— at the edge of a dense wood called the Forest of Magic.”
“It’s a special place to me. The character of ‘kou’ for incense is related to the gods, and the character ‘rin’, like the same character in my own name, relates to drizzle. The Forest of Magic was a place where lots of rain would occur, you see. Combined, ‘Kourindou’ is like a shrine that sits atop the border of human and youkai, as well as drizzle and forest. ... I picked the Mistwood as it’s location here for similar reasons, in actuality. Mist and drizzle are different in nature, but both stem from the same element of water. Furthermore, where the Kourindou of Spirale is located is at the border of civilization and nature. ... I thought of changing the name, but I simply couldn’t. It just wouldn’t be home if it wasn’t Kourindou...”