Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun, and the only things that belong to myself would be Usagi the mimic, and Moegi the japanese beetle. Everything else belongs to their rightful owner.

A/N: And so we've reached the end of your little tale.

Y/K/N: That we have~

A/N: ...Okay, that was just plain creepy.

K/N: Sorry, couldn't resist~

Y/N: Indeed, and neither could I~

A/N: ...I look forward to when you two become one. You're starting to sound the same...

K/N: Are we? I hadn't noticed!

Y/N: Like mother, like daughter~

A/N: You were only the one to initiate it. Mima was the one to truly bring her into the world, wasn't she?

Y/N: Ahh, but little me was crafted to be Tadanaka and I's child.

A/N: Perhaps it would be best to call you the mother, and Mima the... foster mother. Or adoptive mother, if you will.

K/N: Ahh, but we consider both Mima and Master to simply be our mother~

Y/N: Indeed, we do~

A/N: ...I miss when Kogasa was more serious. At least then we had a balance between silly and serious. Now it's just double silly, forcing me to be serious. Anyways, now that our silly and serious final bit of chatter is over with, how about we open the curtain one last time and start the grand finale?

With a pout on her face, the froggy goddess asked, "Where were you...?"

Grinning, I replied, "Ohh? So you actually do care about how I'm doing? Well, if you must know, I accidentally slept in the rain and caught a cold~"

Giving me a flat look, the goddess stated. "You caught a cold."

Nodding, I replied, "Indeed, I did."

Still giving me that same look, she added, "From being out in the rain...?"

I couldn't help but giggle a bit at the back and forth. "That's what I said, is it not?"

Furroring her brows, the goddess replied, "What's with you karakasa and getting colds from being out in the rain...? First Kogasa got sick from it, and now you...? Plus, aren't you a bit old and powerful to be getting sick?"

At this, I laughed, claiming, "You're never too powerful to get sick. Sure, I can resist getting sick quite well, but it was bound to happen eventually~" Of course, I have gotten sick only twice, but I wasn't about to say that. What if she asked questions? "Well, I should get to sweeping now, Lady Moriya~"

Sighing, the goddess replied, "You know you don't have to call me that, right? We're friends, for crying out loud!"

"If you say so, Lady Moriya~" I giggled as she let out a groan of frustration.

With that over, I went outside and began to sweep. This continued for a good few hours, and by the time I had finished, it was time for lunch. Exactly time for lunch. As such, a gap opened beside me, and Ran said, "Master, it is now time to eat." Opening the gap wider for me, Ran busied herself by stiring a pot.

After I placed the broom against the usual spot of the shrine, I walked through the gap in which Ran had opened for me. A sweet kitsune, she is. Always takes good care of me, she does. "Something smells good~" I peeked over Ran's shoulder to see just what it was that she was cooking, and was pleasantly surprised. "Ahh, curry, huh? Looks tasty~"

At the statement, her tails twitched a bit. Not particularly responding in a way that communicates anything but neutrality, Ran replied, "I would certainly hope it does, Master. I have been preparing it for a fair while now, and have not left it unattended once. I would honestly be surprised if it was anything but."

Having a gap swallow up my legs, I used it to float far easier than if I had floated myself. While in the air, I wrapped my arms around the back of Ran's neck, and gave her cheek a little kiss. "Of course, Ran. Nothing you make on your own ever turns out bad.

At that point, Ran simply went silent, a blush creeping over her cheeks. With my compliment given, I headed out to the dining room, and sat in wait. Soon Chen, Suwako, and Ran joined me, as Ran had, as per usual, given them the ultimatum after me. On her hands were a pair of oven mitts, which she used to carry the pot with less discomfort than if she had forgone them.

When the food had been eaten, I said my thanks, and headed out to do some final touches to the grounds. Being a shrine maiden, while boring as can be, is quite the way to stay entertained. When the grounds were clean as a whistle, I opened a gap and headed back to my room.

Flopping onto my bed yet again, I let out a sigh. Speaking to nobody at all, I asked, "I wonder how the faith is doing? Lady Yasaka should have been able to materialize by now, right...? Letting out another sigh, I reached for my book, and found it missing again.

When I looked with a bit of panic in my eye, I found myself face to face with Kanako, who was holding the book. With a slight smirk, the goddess of the Moriya shrine said, "To think that Kogasa had gone on such a trip just to try, and fail, to save our Sanae. Commendable, really."

Paling a bit at yet another person finding out my secret, I stated with a bit of a stutter, "I-I have no idea what you're talking about, Lady Yasaka."

Chuckling, the goddess replied, "Of course not. My mistake, Kogasa." Chuckling a bit more, she placed the book down on my nightstand. "Of course, I have been watching you the whole time you have been the acting shrine maiden. With Kogasa gone, it was ohh so very sweet of you to take her place. In truth, she really didn't put in the effort to be a good shrine maiden."

My brow twitched at this, and I replied, "I tried my best! I couldn't help that I had a lot on my plate at the... time..." ...Crap.

"That is true, Kogasa. Trying to make it so that Sanae would never have stopped being the shrine maiden would have been quite the good way to help us. If only it had worked... But, now that you are older, and have less pressing matters to attend to, you have been a rather swell shrine maiden." Grinning a bit, she added, "Even if both of your plans failed."

My shoulders slumped a bit at the bringing up of the fact that I couldn't even condemn Sanae to working off her evils. Letting out a long sigh, I replied, "It's the least I could do for how the three of you treated me, Lady Yasaka. If even my power wasn't enough to be of help, I must be of help in some other way."

Chuckling once more, Kanako replied, "Who's to say that you failed?"

At this my eyes widened. "What do you mean?" I hadn't this excited to hear news in quite some time, and with good reason. What could it be that she means?

With a smile, Kanako replied, "Sanae was a goddess, if only a minor one. She had few followers, as she gathered faith for the two of us. Do remember that gods can't truly die. They can lose their body, and lose their faith, but they shall always be around. Sanae is not exempt of this. While you didn't fail, you also didn't succeed; she is still around in her own way, but you had nothing to do with this. She is merely a dead god. Should someone gather faith for her, however... Well, I'm sure you know where this is going."

A smile slowly spread across my cheeks at the thought. Sanae is still alive... I can still save her! The smile grew into a bit of a child-like grin at the thought of having Sanae back. As I was about to ask the how, Kanako added, "But that can wait. First you should calm down. Read some more of the book. I've been reading over your shoulder the whole time, you know. Also, I'm going to have to request that you please gather faith for myself as well. I'm, well... about to fade again."

As the last word left her mouth, she turned into water, and became quite the puddle on the ground. ...Making goddesses come to life again is tricky, it would seem.

Thinking a moment, I let out a sigh. "Guess I'll do as she requested..." Time to get to reading~

You know, I wonder what the limit of animals living for a long time is? That is, to become youkai, I mean. To find this out, I've decided to go microscopic with my next pet. An amoeba seems like the perfect choice for such a thing! I mean, what's the worst that could go wrong? They seem harmless enough.

I cringed a bit at how stupid of me that was, and read the next entry.

Well, I think I underestimated amoebas. That little bugger tried to eat me! I was forced to remove it from my home, which it ate a bit of the floor of, and send it somewhere else. Out into what will some day become Gensoukyou.

On that note, it's not much longer until I feel I shall be ready. Perhaps a bit over a decade.

I sighed happily at the memory of the black pudding that would prove to be an important part of Gensoukyou some day. Not that she wasn't still around, but... well, I haven't exactly met with her in quite some time. She likely has still not forgiven me for what I did to her... crush, after all. Although, I suppose I technically brought her back to her as well.

As I read on, I finally reached events I knew well. The day I summoned the dragon, and the fact that Mima and Miko's yin and yang were swapped in a way to reinforce their good and bad traits, and beyond. Soon enough, I had reached the point in which my crush, Miko, was murdered, and then I proceeded to make Mima kill herself.

After that, the barrier started to crack until somehow a virgin birth was initiated, and the next Hakurei was within the womb of some poor woman.

From there, the recordkeeping of my diary flashed forward a hundred years, to when the next event of every Hakurei dying repeated itself, and... I found myself pregnant with a little boxy bundle of joy.

With a child now in my care, the diary once more flashed forwards a bit, to when I let Reimu fend for herself.

After that, a vague recounting of dozens upon dozens of incidents became one of the main goals of my diary, with nothing else to write about. That is, until Sanae died, and I stopped keeping track of incidents. After that, my training of the various youkai began. The girl who would one day become Kurumi, my other self, my daughter, and eventually a rather special satori.

At that point, new entries just about stopped, and I soon reached present day.

With a smile on my face, I pulled out the pen hidden in the spine of the book, and began to write a new entry for the first time in quite some time.

My, it certainly has been quite a while, hasn't it? I've barely written a thing in the last thousand years. Reminds me of the first time, before I looped around. When I learned of border manipulation from Master. Today, I change that. Today I resume my writing. After today? I shall stop writing for as long as I must to get Sanae back.

I'll start from the beginning. It turns out that Sanae isn't truly dead! She actually became a goddess, and through that is still around. While her body did die, and she is rather lacking in faith, she won't simply disappear from such a thing! If I can manage to bring faith to Sanae, she should, in theory, come back to life in a sense! Well, I suppose it will be like Miko's lack of faith. I would consider lumping her in, but she would likely go on a rampage if she were to gain more faith.

Removing the bookmark from the book, I opened the drawer of my nightstand and dropped it in. Wouldn't be needing that anymore~

5 years later:

Returning to the shrine after another bit of successful faith collection, this time from some fae, I had a bit of a smile on my face. "It's only a matter of time~

Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw someone walking beside me, and so I looked. Nothing. I could find nobody there. Could have sworn... Ohh well. Nothing too important.

When I finally arrived at the top of the mountain of steps, I was greeted by a courtyard covered in leaved. Sighing, I headed towards the other side of the shrine, where I kept the broom. When I arrived, I was surprised by a lack of broom. Blinking in confusion, I asked nobody in particular, "Where could that broom have gone..." Had it come to life, and made off with itself? Hearing humming from the other side of the shrine, I went to investigate.

I was greeted by a green-haired figure in an all too familiar shrine maiden outfit sweeping the courtyard.

I ran at the figure, and tackled them in a hug with no hesitation at all.