>The conclusion of this story made me just about fall out of my chair.
>Oh god. Oh boy. Oh this is actually happening. I am about to lose it.
>Oh ****.

That is pretty much the reaction I had in mind when I got to that point in the scene and realized, "Oh. The episode ends here." :)

>Also considering most people ship Marisa with Alice I'm surprised you
>went with Marisa/Reimu, but I guess that is also a popular pairing
>since they're both the MCs.

I feel like this came up when "A Day at Crone Rock" came out, but just for the record: I haven't made a scientific study of it, but as a general wild-ass guess I feel like the split in fanart and doujinshi I've seen is more or less even (not counting the occasional outliers like that one where it's Marisa and, uh... Shanghai??). Although I didn't go that route because I reckoned it was the most popular, as such; it just feels right to me, for the particular versions of the characters that have emerged here.

Mind you, as we have seen toward the end of this episode, there are probably days in Marisa's life when she wishes she had fallen for Alice instead, just because she's less enmeshed in a bizarre relict feudal magocracy. Or at least Marisa thinks she is. Given that Alice's mother is a noble of the Scottish Saelig Court, this may be a mistaken assumption on her part. :)

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