Slice o' Life 3 - Reimu's First Exorcism

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Reimu stirred the cup of hot chocolate on her hands as she stared at the rainy scenery before her eyes.

It was a rainy day in Dreamland, the grass and the sakura trees would all be soaked in water and dew as raindrops clattered onto the hard solid bricks and the now mud-ridden ground, a danger to those with slippery feet.
Dreamlanders at this time of the month tend to stay home and hang teru teru bozus - most notably Cool Spook replicas - on the window frames, hoping for sunnier weather by the time the next day rolls in.

So yeah, she's not getting visitors anytime now, her Broomhatter coworkers were taking the time to revisit their families.

Sure they were the silent bunch but they gave Reimu a sense of companionship, something that she herself can appreciate every now and then, so it feels lonelier around this part of Dreamland..

She sipped on her hot chocolate mug, never in her next life would she imagine drinking something like this, not even in Gensokyo.. 
“Sigh..” she exhaled, scratching her hair “I wonder what's next..” She stood up from her seat on the stairs and dusted her bum, opting to go inside and enjoy the warmth of her shrine home.

But just as she was about to enter inside, her nonexistent ears would pick up the sounds of splashing and stomping of puddles, the Poppy Sis turning to look at the shrine entrance to find a Cappy hopping towards the shrine at sprinting speed with a terrified look on his face

“S-shrine maiden! Help me!”

“What? What’s the matter?” She'll spare some of her time to converse with this dreamlander. “Something's got to you?”

“Y-yeah, I just n-need a little help with something back home uh..” He stuttered, the Cappy unable to form a rather coherent sentence leading the Poppy Sis to rub in between her eyebrows

“Ugh, just get straight to the point or I may lose patience, it's raining geez..”

“Okay okay!” He waved his arms around, before clutching his mushroom cap with uncertainty “Okay so I was walking home under clear skies alright? And I feel something chilly pass by me but I shrugged it off at first”

“Uhuh” Reimu folded her arms, listening to his story with narrowed eyes

“And then bad things started happening! My dishes started flying around, my living room became a mess overnight and worse of all, my collection of jewels were being scattered with no one touching them! And I was just there screaming my heart out!”

“Ah..”

Ghosts, how could she have known hmm? Dreamland already has its fair share of ghost beings that she's seen of before in books and such, but unfortunately she barely has seen one in person, just yet.

“Alright, let's take a step back first” She raised both hands in front of her “So you want me to take care of that sort of stuff?”

“Y-yeah? I-I've heard that shrine maidens deal with that sort of s-su.. stuff..” He nodded rapidly, wiping away sweat with his other hand. “P-please..? Anything to shoo away whatever's harassing me?”

She shrugged “Well if you got the money anyway-” She paused upon seeing the Cappy present a sack in front of her, he then proceeded to untie the sack and open it up to her, revealing a bag's worth of star coins inside.
“Well you have my interest” She grinned “Give me a second to prepare..” And the Poppy Sis would walk back inside her shrine to grab her gohei.

She would walk back outside while conjuring up a few ofudas in her hands, examining it before wondering if she can also modify these to fit her new job. They've helped in beating up Dreamlanders so far but what about exterminating the paranormal?
“Aaalright!” She called out to the idle Cappy, all the while she shuffled her ofudas back into her hand, slinging her gohei on her back with a smirk, she's in it for the money of course she would be confident “You got yourself an exterminator on your hands now! So mind leading the way?”

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