> Enter!
>You open the door. Inside is a modestly sized room, tightly packed with bookshelves and curiosities. You can identify alchemy equipment, small statues, odd lumps of rock, and bottles of various things at a glance. In a way, it reminds you of Kourindou in its heyday. A low, circular table dominates the middle of the room, with a number of curious lines dangling from the ceiling on thin strings. What walls are not covered by bookshelves are covered by strange charts, some bearing diagrams and some bearing abstract pictures. At a glance, none of them make sense.
>Sitting at the table, on a cushion large enough for you to lay on, is Ran. You recognize her immediately, as her face and such seems unchanged. However, you also immediately notice where she once had nine tails, she now has four. What she lacks in number, however, is easily made up in volume, with each golden tail bearing an immense volume of fluff, each easily putting to shame the tanuki you watched during the incident with the menreiki a little while ago. She wears a white robe with a purple tabard marked with trigrams, it takes you a moment to realize it is quite similar to the one that Yukari favored in your era. Her hands are folded into her sleeves, and she observes you for a moment with an unreadable face, before she says, "Curious."
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