Sunset sat at the table on the living room of the priestess' house, the priestess sitting on the other side of the table as she processed the information Sunset had told her.
"Okay, so, if I'm getting this correctly: you're a unicorn from a land filled with magical talking ponies, who jumped through a portal and landed on the human world. You stayed in that world for years, and without warning, Yukari came up to a princess of the pony world you're from, and after kicking your butt in a danmaku fight, she sent you here in order to get a blank card?"
Sunset scratched the back of her head with a sheepish smile. "Yeah, now that you say it like that, it does sound pretty weird, doesn't it?"
The priestess rolled her eyes and chuckled. "Girl, my world out-weirds both of your worlds by a mile. There's nothing to be embarassed about."
The priestes took a sip of her tea. "And besides, I'll take this moment to give you some advice: try not to put too much trust on Yukari. She may seem nice on the outside, but she's a youkai; her thought process is not something a human or a pony-turned-human can understand."
"Trust me, I already got that impression from her," Sunset took a sip of her tea. "My name is Sunset Shimmer, by the way. What's yours?"
"Hakurei Reimu, or Reimu Hakurei, going by your world's naming order," Reimu answered with a little smile. "And another thing I have to tell you is that, whatever money you put inside the donation box is sadly mostly useless; I can convert it to Gensokyo currency, but on its own, it's worthless."
"Gensokyo... that's the name of this place?"
"Yeah, you're right now in Gensokyo; a world hidden from the outside world, and any other world, through the Great Hakurei Barrier. Although, judging by what you told me, Yukari wants Gensokyo to not stay hidden from your world, if not merge them together."
"Really? That's not the impression I got," Sunset put her arms behind her head and leaned back. "She seemed more like she wanted to help introduce a hybrid system between Gensokyo's spellcards and my world's magic-"
"Again, her thought processes can't be understood by humans or ponies, you have to keep your guard up at all times," Reimu took a deep breath. "Anyway, you need a blank card in order to try create your own spell card, right? I can help you with that."
"Really?!" Sunset chirped.
"Yeah, there's a guy here in Gensokyo that sells a lot of stuff, I'm sure blank cards should be among his merchandise," Reimu answered as she stood up. "However, I'll have to ask you to stay right here while I go get. No offense, but you could probably cause a scandal if you go out like that."
"Because I look like absolutely alien in a world that seems to be like an interdimensional Feudal Japan?"
"No, because your lack of headwear makes your head look naked. Anyway, stay here, I'll be back in a moment."
Reimu left, and Sunset rested her chin on the edge of the table as she thought about her situation: In less than five minutes, she had the idea of a magic system brought to her, faced off against some kind of interdimensional monster, sent to another dimension that was vastly more medieval compared to the human world, and was told her bareheadedness would make a scandal in this place called Gensokyo.
Overall, it was only a slightly weirder day than usual.
Regardless, Sunset took a deep breath and stood up, taking a look around the living room to see what it had to offer: a modest table with a tea set, old-styled windows for doors, a moving closet-
Wait, a moving closet?
Sunset walked closer to the moving furniture, and stopped just before its doors burst open, unleashing a bunch of clothes as well as some horned creature that burst out of the clothes to reveal herself as an orange-headed horned girl.
"G' mornin' to tha world!" she chirped, moving left to right with half-open eyes. "'As Gensokyo 'rought a new girl t'day?"
"Okay, I have no idea what you were doing inside there, but you should probably get up before that shrine maiden comes back," Sunset said as she helped the horned girl stand up, only to drop her when she sniffed her breath. "Ugh, you reek of cider! What were you drinking!?"
The girl reached for her back and took out a sake bottle as big as her, which she promptly leaned towards Sunset, trying to get her to drink it.
"I don't want your bag of whatever that is!" Sunset snapped, pushing the bottle back. "I want to know who-"
The horned girl immediately leaped forward and got the top of the bottle on Sunset's mouth, forcing her to drink it until she took it out. Sunset would've complained about this... if she didn't immediately fall to the highly "interesting" contents of the bottle.
"Wow, that's some heavy stuff! I think I'm starting to see some colors where they shouldn't be, or maybe it's just a kaleidoscope? Regardless, I don't think I'll last long in this-"
Sunset suddenly dropped to the ground and fell unconscious.
A half hour later, Sunset woke up to see the horned girl and Reimu looking at her, the former looking vastly sober than before, while the latter looked fairly unimpressed.
"W-What happened?" Sunset asked.
"Suika here chose to give you a little Oni-styled greeting with her sake bottle," Reimu said, before shooting a look at the horned girl. "Even though I told her not to do that unless the visitor's an oni too!"
"I wasn't really sober when I saw her, so I must've gotten confused," Suika said, gently hitting herself in the head. "My bad!"
"Well, as long as nothing bad happened while I was asleep, I accept your apology," Sunset said as she stood up. "Anyway, Reimu, did you get the blank card?"
Reimu reached for her back, and took out the card itself, showing its blank front immediately. "It took quite a lot of haggling, but I managed to get one."
Sunset sighed in relief and reached for the card... only for Reimu to pull it back.
"Now, just because I got you the card doesn't mean I'll give it to you with no strings attached," Reimu answered as she saved the card on her pockets. "I want you to do something for me in exchange."
Sunset folded her arms. "Well, okay, what do you want?"
"You see, the Hakurei Shrine is... not a very popular spot: I have a very hard time gathering faith towards it, and most of the time, the money in the donation box is only able to help me scrape by. I would like that to change with your help."
Sunset raised an eyebrow.
"I want you to take one of the priestess outfits in my closet, take it with you to your world, and give some promotion to the shrine, see if doing that can help me get a couple more donations."
"But my world and Gensokyo are separate, right? It's not like they can just teleport here and back whenever they want. Heck, I don't know if I can teleport back to my world."
"As far as we know, Yukari could end up giving your world a pathway to Gensokyo. If she ends up doing that, you giving the shrine some promotion will surely help me increase my life standard a slight bit!"
Sunset thought about the proposal, and quickly came to the only conclusion she could make. "Fine, I'll do it."
Reimu smiled and handed the blank card to Sunset. "Be sure to grab and put on an outfit before you return to your world."
"Yeah, got it," Sunset looked at the card. "Alright, so, all I need to do is focus my magical energy on this card, right?"
Reimu nodded. "That's all you got to do."
Sunset snapped her fingers and summoned a small sphere of yellow magical energy, which she edged closer to the card as Reimu and Suika watched intently.
"Okay then, let's give this a shot..."