# show text " {font=m3x6.ttf}For this reason the great man dwells in the thick, and does not rest with the thin.{/font}\n{font=m6x11.ttf}He dwells in the {color=#cc2222}fruit{/color}, and does not rest with the {color=#ffff00}flower{/font}{/color}.\n {font=m3x6.ttf}- Laozi, Tao Te Ching{/font}" at truecenter
show text "{alpha=0.2}For this reason the great man dwells in the thick, and does not rest with the thin.{/alpha}\nHe dwells in the {color=#cc2222}fruit{/color}, and does not rest with the {color=#ffff00}flower{/color}.\n {alpha=0.6}- Laozi, Tao Te Ching{/alpha}" at truecenter
yuuka "I've been teaching Botany, a topic on which I am {sc}incredibly{/sc} overqualified for, to idiots younger than you, but still very much similar to you."
narrator "{i}A few nervous chuckles break throughout the auditorium.{/i}"
yuuka "{i}When I first laid eyes on the school, I found its exterior to be less than appealing to me.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "What?"
yuuka "{i}Now I'm no stranger to different architectural sensibilities, I've had the privilege of owning mansion myself, but we all ought to admit...{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "The hell am I looking at?"
yuuka "{i}This school is very out of place for Gensokyo.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "Gaudiness aside, this is absolutely where that outsider is."
narrator "{i}That's Reimu realized her folly, allowing Yuuka to use her new assumed position to do something unforgivable: mildly inconviencing her.{/i}"
marisa "Plus, all of the students? They're not from the village. They didn't even know about Reimu! We're thinking this is a major breach of the barrier."
marisa "We're thinking this is a major breach of the barrier. I already said we think these students aren't from the village but they don't even know the first thing about Gensokyo!"
alice "Look, this is the first time I've seen you talk with humans without it being some kind of underlying threat or overlying threat. This could be good for you."
yuuka "They are living things just like any of you, smarter, more articulate than you could imagine."
yuuka "Has anyone here heard of the language of flowers?"
narrator "{i}One or two hands went up.{/i}"
yuuka "In the back row."
"Student" "It's the use of flowers as symbolism in poetry and letters: telling things without saying them directly."
yuuka "Not entirely wrong but it extends past use OF flowers. Rather, it is the language that flowers themselves use."
yuuka "Today, I'll be teaching you all to learn to listen, not just to me, but to the flowers. If you can learn to hear their voices, there may be hope for you yet."
yuuka "{i}And really, I was staking Alice's plea on this.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}A week of my time is a valuable thing, so unless there were results, I would not wait.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "Split off into groups of three, pick your members yourself you're old enough not to need to be babied."
yuuka "I've brought one sunflower for each group and I want you all to try and discern what your flower is telling you."
"Various Students" "This is crazy.{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "We're listening to flowers talk now?{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "Well, we are learning magic aren't we?{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "Magic that can't be understood is indistinguishable from...{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "It's CAN be understood not CAN'T, you dolt.{nw=1.0}"
yuuka "Do not harm any of the flowers. You {sc}WILL{/sc} pay your debt if you do."
narrator "Marisa, Alice, and Reimu shivered."
yuuka "Now get to it! We'll discuss the results in 15 minutes."
scene bg black with fade
$ renpy.pause(1.0)
marisa "Hey, teach! I think my flower's broken!"
alice "I'm not getting anywhere with this."
narrator "Reimu was the only one out of the three still taking the assignment seriously."
reimu "Listen to their voice..."
yuuka "{i}She was staring at her group's potted plant so hard you'd think she'd burn a hole.{/i}" (cb_name="")
marisa "I guess you'd be pretty used to this kind of thing, huh Reimu?"
alice "Marisa, shut up. Let her focus."
reimu "{cps=1}...{/cps}{nw}"
reimu "...{fast}I've got nothing."
yuuka "Let's wrap this up class! Return to your seats."
yuuka "{i}After that, the session continued on/ For the most part, no one felt they managed to hear the sunflowers' voices.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}But...{/i}" (cb_name="")
"Various Students" "But don't you think they're pretty? I wonder if they could sense radiation.{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "For your sake, I hope you don't test that out. I don't know how much our substitute was joking.{nw=1.0}"
"Various Students" "Actually, we can't just call her the substitute for the whole week right? What is her nam{nw}"
"Various Students" "I dunno about you guys but I think my sunflower can hear me.{nw=1.0}"
yuuka "{i}There was more enthusiasm than I had expected.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Still I had made my decision.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Next few days, actually.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}But I spent those days doing the same thing.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Teaching.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}I learnt that this wasn't necessarily a normal school with my time here.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Well normal as far as circumstances could allow.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}It was specifically a school merging Outside World education with magic.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Now, I've no experience with the former but when it comes to magic, I think of myself as being above average.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Things did get tense from time to time.{/i}" (cb_name="")
# cutaway
yuuka "Are you just dense or did your mother replace your brain with wool?"
# cutback
yuuka "{i}Yeah.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}The students kept attending, for the most part, which was a surprise.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "Professor Okazaki was apparently equally eccentric as I was.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Part of what convinced people I was the real substitute.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Which only made it more odd that the real one never showed up, if there ever was one.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Soon however, the midterm exams would come.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}No, it's not as dramatic a climax as final exams but who would allow an untrained substitute that late into the semester to dictate the class?{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}That's why it would've have made sense if it were midterms, but unfortunately Professor Okazaki is, again, very eccentric.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}I am also prone to lying. Apologies/{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}The FINAL exams would come soon.{/i}" (cb_name="")
# faculty room
scene bg faculty
if attacked_student:
"Student" "Please, you've got to tell me how you did that giant sunflower!"
"Student" "I'd kill to know how, it'd impress so much!"
yuuka "{i}The final exams were to be a presentation of your best magic. Whether it be the most perfected, most flashy, most personal, most elegant.{/i}" (cb_name="")
"Student" "That's right! So you see, I'm trying to get a good score in the Mass section of our rubric, based on last year's finals. As far as I can tell your magic is the most massive I've seen so far! Bar, Professor Okazaki's masterstroke, of course. On that, have you communicated with her? Are we still using last year's rubric or-{nw}"
yuuka "{i}The final exams were to be a presentation of your best magic. Whether it be the most perfected, most flashy, most personal, most elegant.{/i}" (cb_name="")
"Student" "That's right! So about our final exam, I was wondering about the rubric if we're following last year's system or if you'll be using your own? In which case, I'd like to ask what criteria are you using, are taking into account the student's participation in class because Professor Okazaki will attest that I-{nw}"
yuuka "Please close the mouth-shaped whole on your face."
"Student" "Okay.{w=1.0} Now what?"
yuuka "Now what, what?"
"Student" "Now what do you want me to do? If it means a good grade, I'll do anything!"
yuuka "...I'll need you to turn around."
"Student" "Sure, done."
yuuka "And walk outside the school. Find a nice meadow to relax. Don't come back until I've left the building."
"Student" "I will do everything you say down to the most minute detail."
yuuka "And that's why you're my favorite student."
yuuka "{i}She left soon after.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "Favorite to tricking into leaving."
"Faculty Member" "Having trouble with the kids, Miss... I don't believe I've gotten your name?"
yuuka "No, you haven't gotten it. And yes, I didn't expect consultations. I'd have thought the buggers, given how happy they are when class ends, wouldn't want more."
"Faculty Member" "Well, I'm sure they feel they need any advantage they can get this late into the semester."
"Faculty Member" "Has taking over Professor Okazaki's Magi-Physics class caused any issues?"
yuuka "Magi-what?{nw}"
yuuka "I mean, no, absolutely {sc}no{/sc} issues."
yuuka "{i}I soon realized an issue.{/i}" (cb_name="")
scene bg classroom with fade
yuuka "Class, given your final exam is literally in two days, I've come to a decision."
yuuka "Class, I'll be opening up student tutoring regarding Magi-Physics."
"Various Students" "It was weird we suddenly started doing Magi-Botany.{nw=1}"
"Various Students" "I took it in stride, this is easy shit in comparison.{nw=1}"
"Various Students" "We changed teachers?{nw=1}"
"Various Students" "How have you just now noticed? Professor Okazaki is bright red from hair to clothes, you'd have to be blind to confuse her and... uh, I know this... it was...{nw=1}"
"Various Students" "To be fair, I thought she could've just dyed her hair.{nw=1}"
yuuka "Are we clear on this?"
narrrator "{i}A familiar hand went up.{/i}"
yuuka "Yes?"
"Student" "May I volunteer my friend, my inspiration, Ga{nw}"
"A Different Student" "You backstabber! You should be tutoring, you actually like this class!{nw=1.0}"
"Student" "Right, because you only like Professor Okazaki and her strawberry red hair, and her cape, so cool, and{nw}"
"Once Again, A Different Student" "Can it, you two! The only person who should be handling other students is someone with experience. That's why I think Li{nw}"
"Another Student Entirely, This Time" "You skunk! I taught you one time!{nw=1.0}"
yuuka "Wow, I've really imparted my values onto this class haven't I."
alice "That, for better or worse, you have."
marisa "Worse. Definitely worse."
reimu "Eh. It's about the same as how they'd react in the school in the Human Village."
alice "But those are kindergarteners?"
reimu "Exactly."
narrator "{i}Reimu pointed at the class, arguments in various small pockets melding into a cacophony of voices.{/i}"
reimu "Kindergarteners."
yuuka "I'm glad you all see it my way~"
marisa "Let's take this outside if we're actually going to talk. I'm getting a headache from listening to this."
scene bg hallway with fade
yuuka "So?"
alice "What do you mean, \"so\"?"
yuuka "Weren't you the one, Alice, that said I had to interact with humans more? I've been doing exactly that and see how it ended up."
yuuka "Chaos and rage directed at one another: treating each other like how they treat the rest of nature's providence."
yuuka "I simply let them be as they are."
$ renpy.pause(1.0)
alice "You know, what Yuuka?"
alice "I'm not even going to argue with you."
alice "You've determined you're right and that's all that matters to you."
alice "Not the students, not me, and certainly most of all: not the flowers you seem to act like you're a representative for."
yuuka "I quite literally am as a flower youkai."
alice "No, I don't think you are. You just took it up as a face for yourself."
alice "You don't seem to think of anything as different from playing with your food."
alice "And frankly, I'm done trying to work with you. I'm going to be working around you from here on."
yuuka "Is that a threat?"
alice "It is the opposite of one. You're not my concern anymore."
yuuka "Oh for your mother's sake, Alice. You know fully well what they've done, the thousands of lives beneath their feet, taken carelessly, thoughtlessly."
marisa "Should we really be here?" # talking to reimu
reimu "I say we stick to the sidelines for now."
yuuka "You keep telling me to be mindful, to be considerate. Why, when so few will give the plants, give me that same chance?"
yuuka "It's hypocrisy to demand of me so much when you don't speak the same way to those... children."
alice "..."
alice "I speak that way to you, Yuuka, because you are my friend."
alice "But I don't know if you feel the same way."
yuuka "{i}To a degree I did, and still do, understand what she was getting at.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}Stubborn as we could both be.{/i}" (cb_name="")
alice "It's not our problem if the students don't pass their class."
reimu "Only if it turns into trouble for the rest of Gensokyo."
marisa "And ya did kind of start a shouting match back there. That's noise disturbances at minimum."
yuuka "Humans could do with being quiet a bit more often."
reimu "Well, let's try and contain this before it erupts into something worse."
if revolution != 0:
yuuka "I was serious about there not being an exam."
yuuka "I've seen their curriculum, it's all useless, extraneous topics."
yuuka "Who would ever need to know how to file taxes when Gensokyo has no taxes?"
alice "Agreed. If only they taught more important things like geography and linear algebra."
marisa "Are we doing a bit? Who uses those things?"
alice "Me."
marisa "Why?"
alice "For making my dolls and... making my dolls. They're all named after cities, did you never notice?"
marisa "Well, you did name one of them Hourai."
alice "That's a mountain. The elixir is named after the mountain."
marisa "Ohhhhhhhhhh. Explains that, I thought it was just a funny name."
else:
yuuka "Would you all happen to be familiar with the Magi-physics that was previously taught?"
marisa "Yeah, I know magic and I know physics."
alice "Skilled as a practioner you are, you're hardly theoretician when it comes to magic, let alone physics, Marisa. Do you even know Netwon's three principles?"
marisa "Drop a ball from a tower and it falls, shoot someone with a spellcard and they fall. Same thing right?"
alice "That's Galileo."
marisa "I thought Newton invented gravity?"
yuuka "Do you actively try to be an idiot, Marisa?"
marisa "I don't have to try; skills just come naturally to me."
reimu "This is going nowhere."
reimu "Yuuka, you're clearly more invested in these students' education that your attitude lets on."
reimu "If you care about their exam, then do you have a plan? A next step?"
if revolution != 0:
menu:
"What does Yuuka decide?"
"Convince the faculty to not give the exam":
# DONE
$ revolution += 1
yuuka "I'll talk with the actual teachers, see if I can't twist their arms into dropping this exam buisiness entirely."
alice "Okay. Don't actually twist their arms."
yuuka "It's just a figure of speech."
# cuts to yuuka twisting their arms
scene bg faculty
yuuka "And repeat it back to me, slowly."
"Faculty Member" "Yes, yes! No exams, I get it! Now {sc}LET GO{/sc}!"
scene bg classroom
yuuka "I glad to report to you all that the other teachers and I have come to a consensus regarding your exams. There will be no final exams."
"Student" "I'm happy we have a substitute who's so forgiving, huh Alice?"
alice "Right, forgiving."
"If no one goes on exam day, there's no one to fail":
yuuka "Thinking about it, I don't even need to talk to the teachers do I?"
yuuka "So long as there are no students, there's no one to fail."
alice "Then they'll just fail everyone."
yuuka "Does it mean anything at that point?"
alice "Well... yes. They'd held back a year."
yuuka "But so would everyone else."
marisa "And so nothing would change! Not a bad idea!"
alice "They'd still have to repeat a year?"
yuuka "We could use the same tactic to stop them from repeating a year."
reimu "That might actually work..."
alice "This all seems terribly planned out."
yuuka "Stick in a mud as usual, Alice. Don't worry, I'll handle everything."
else:
yuuka "I said what I said. The students are just going to have to teach each other."
yuuka "Besides didn't they have an entire semester to learn this, surely they know something about the topic they've taken up thus far."
yuuka "Students wouldn't be unprepared for an upcoming exam, would they?"
alice "No, surely not. They also would not procrastinate on their studies even if under a subsitute teacher."
yuuka "I'm glad we've got our thumbs to the beating heart of the students, Alice. Knowing that, it's probably best to assign them to each other than leave them to their own devices."
marisa "I am deeply uncomfortable with you saying you're holding the students' beating heart."
yuuka "{i}Not just that, but the faculty of the school went on a walk out, in protest of what they called my \"heavy-handed approach\".{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}I became very popular with the students however.{/i}" (cb_name="")
yuuka "{i}That's why as you're sitting in your seats, waiting for Professor Okazaki to sweep in and replace me, the menace you welcomed in,{/i}" (cb_name="")
