I'm uncertain as to whether SP's choice of pages shown in Vol. 3 deliberately bamboozled me by hinting at things that didn't happen, by distracting me from other things that ended up being a hell of a lot worse, of both.
I'll point out here that Oriko's imaginary child self/witch (however that works) says as much as we had here at the last chapter of Volume 3: "You will never replace your mother,
because you are the reason your father died."
Sooo... there's that. :U
So, from what I'm hearing , the entire Mikuni family (minus Oriko, and she's technically a Kure) deserves to die in a fire.
Wait, I just had a thought. Is there any chance of the Mikuni Clan discovering Oriko's meguca-ness, and then blackmailing or otherwise coercing her into becoming a threat again? (Yeah, I know, they'll be immediately gutted by Kirika, followed up by us interrogating the survivors and looting the dead, but whatever. Just popped into my brain.)
Eh, from the look of things, Oriko's uncle Kimihide's deal seems to tie into how he explicitly rejected his father's ideals. At least, that's my read of the transcription. But I think it's got fertile ground, since earlier he says that Hisaomi "did what he wanted to do. I only did what was necessary" with regards to the corruption and his respsonse, notably to rebut his sister's supposition that he held a grudge.
Regardless, it looks like Oriko does eventually confront and make a degree of peace with him. But we'll see what it is they actually say.
Since Witch hunting was brought up, I believe one of the plans to make up for our lack of Witch hunting was to... have our Kouhai do it.
So I'm guess we could something like... after lunch, take a Sayaklone (or Sayaka Prime, doesn't really matter) out to hunt Witches, but with us only as an observer; have her use solely clones to hunt, for her own safety, and ask her to take care of patrolling and Witch hunting from then on, until we find other meguca to help with it?
If she finds any Witches she can't take out with clones, she can tell us so we can go and nuke it.
I will sideline any moral concern about this line of action by claiming it will be good training for Sayaka.
Personally, I disagree, as there's a fair amount of research I want to do with witches. Including the whole "try to talk to them" angle. Plus I kinda want to get a couple today to make up for lost time.
RE: The vote, I want to make some changes here
[X] Diary to Cloud Storage. Cloud Storage to Hammerspace.
[X]
Tell Oriko you discussed housing and security regarding the two of them last night, but it can wait until after breakfast if they'd prefer.
[X] Ensure privacy. SCIENCE! Aurora:
-[X] Precaution: Leave you Soul Gem in contact with Hildegarde.
-[X] Observe.
-[X] Feed Grief and cleanse. Note changes.
-[X] Enchant a tiny bit of Grief while thinking happy thoughts. Think of your friends, of Mami.
--[X] Try offering a that bit of Enchanted Grief to Aurora.
--[X] If no results, try (carefully!) poking Aurora with magic.
[X] Discuss House Arrest.
-[X] Explain yesterday's talk.
--[X] Apologize for the sudden birb invasion.
--[X] Offer your thoughts. Progress is gonna be slow, and if they agree to the changes, that would help.
--[X] Ask what they think.
---[X]
Ask if they want to move out into a new apartment.
[X]
Ask Oriko if she knows about the Shirome potentials.
Personally, I'd really rather let Oriko be the judge of whether to do this now or later. She
did ask us a question, and Onmur's proposal seems like it would actually play out as just deflecting and leaving, which would be pretty rude.
EDIT: Also added an explicit note about housing, because in light of our conversation in the thread and some potential confusion, I want it to be extra clear that we're offering the move, not ordering it.
EDIT2: Changed wording on question to Oriko, added talk asking about potentials.
