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RESUME!
>Zanmu and Hana finish their little talk, with Hana agreeing to help Zanmu as long as she's right about Keine and Anon. Chen arrives at the scene and Zanmu has to fuck off to keep up appearances unless their conspiracy is discovered so she attacks Hana, who responds by cutting her arm off. She leaves then, and Hana freaks out at Chen, the classic Hana move of dumping her trauma on unassuming children, and asks whether she wants to go out that night despite knowing how busy Chen is. Chen accepts it;
>Chen is working as a Gap Sage around the clock to unfuck the many lasting fuck ups of the Solstice, all the while Shadow Yukari keeps giving her QTEs that, when failed, show Chen some fucked up shit. Yamame keeps Chen together by caring unendingly, and Toutetsu keeps her grounded while helping her with sage duties. Chen lives in a youkai haven under the city called Spiderweb. They visit a gingko tree, which is a main site in the nu-underground for funeral rites, to replace a scarf from Ran and Reimu's memorial because some yogger stole it. On the way there they talk about the main fuck up left by Yukari, the "glitched winters," that nearly killed Chen back in her first season as the gap sage. They're why winter was so harsh and the barrier so easily breachable after Yukari died. Chen is keeping it together. Later that day, Yamame summons her after a wild child tackles her in the middle of the Spiderweb. Aki urges Chen to help Hana, and Chen says she'll go there to Yamame's dismay, who's still traumatized about natural-born onis. Chen reassures her and leaves. After that whole thing, they meet on the surface. Shadow Yukari is suspicious of Hana and keeps seething to Chen about it, but Chen doesn't care. Chen has a nice chat with Yamame while they watch a latino family fight in the streets;
>while everyone is all doom and gloom, Sekai is living her best life. She works as a maid in the Ruby Fiend's Longhouse overlooking the Nebulous Lagoon. She goes to Meiling to deliver hot cocoa and they go on a walk together. They see Wakasagihime swimming in the Foggy Pond. She'd recently married, and Sekai (supposedly) attended the marriage. Sekai pesters Meiling about asking Patchy's hand in marriage after eight years together; Meiling deflects before relenting, and they have a cute conversation about marriage that goes nowhere;

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[Chapter count]
33(+15)
[For phoneanons, here's the last thread.]:
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/51295271#p51295271
[Autosage time: 11/23 - 11/30]

Thank you.