[video]

[musou_tensei]

-We find Reimu having just completed a work out in the gym, towling himself off and looking quite chiseled and sweaty. Which is really weird because usually this guy is sleeping all day and inhaling the snack cabinet in the lounge. But hey, it's that time again, after all...-

I always get this itch when things feel like they're about to get hectic. Like I can just detect incidents. It's a good instinct for someone in my line of work to have.

I'm guessing this incident with these "U-Men" is going to become our problem pretty soon. So I'm making it official. Team Hakurei is recruiting.

You'll have access to myself, Marisa Kirisame, and Flandre Scarlet for training purposes, as we're the original team. Or at least what's left. So there's that. But for the most part I want to know who's willing to get out there and actually learn the trade of the X-Men.

Serious inquiries only.

Comments

[musou_tensei]

There is when it's the only reason you do something... Anyways, thanks. I don't want to bore you with stories about how I got here.

[leyabout]

Only if that reason doesn't make you happy.

[Nothing wrong with it if doing what you're meant to do feels good to you, she'd say. She shakes her head, though.]

I'm not bored.

[musou_tensei]

... My mother was a mutant. Same powers, even... A superhero back in Japan known as the Hakurei Miko. She was a part time member of the X-men, too.

[leyabout]

[Hm...]

And you were expected to take her place?

[musou_tensei]

Yeah... And I expected it of myself, too.

[leyabout]

That's different. [She pauses shortly, then clarifies:] Knowing people expect something isn't the same as feeling like you were born for it.

[musou_tensei]

You think so?

Well... either way, that way of thinking messed me up. I set myself up for failure.

[leyabout]

That's right. If it's just because other people expect it, you don't really feel that way.

[The feeling has to come from ~your heart~, Reimu. In any case...]

What changed?

[musou_tensei]

... I found a reason to fight. People I wanted, desperately, to protect. A world I wanted to change.

[leyabout]

[At that, she nods.]

I think I understand.

[She can imagine if, say, Illya were in direct danger...]

[musou_tensei]

So...

Wanna join the team?

[leyabout]

[Wait.]

Me?

[musou_tensei]

Yes, you.

[leyabout]

...Okay.

[She didn't think she was team material, but if Reimu says so, he must think otherwise.]

[musou_tensei]

It's important to have people that can easily understand one another on a team.