Testing the girls takes most of the day, but since you had to test all six you were somewhat limited in how far you could actually go with each of them. Retiring to your room you let your scientific side take over for a little while as you type up the current results of your testing. You didn't know how much it would help, but you knew from experience that being organized was always better than doing things haphazardly (especially when explosive chemicals were involved, and you figured that these girls were probably just as dangerous in their own ways).

You wrote them up in the same order you had tested them, with Cirno first. The girl was flighty and easily distracted, getting her to even stay still for the test had been something of a chore though once started she seemed to progress okay. Her social skills were as low as expected, as was her understanding of maths, science and technology. She was easily the lowest scoring of all the girls in all areas.

Utsuho was only marginally better though, with reasonable but minimal social skills, next to no scientific ability and even less in the field of maths. Her understanding of technology seemed to be low, but spiking in places - she did, after all, pick up the use of a cellphone faster than her low ability would predict. She also, you thought, had some difficulty reading - though how much exactly you didn't know, it was possible she wasn't able to read at all.

In contrast to this, Hina seemed to be well rounded, though definitely below average in all areas. Her social skill, despite - or perhaps even because of - her formal behavior seemed to be fairly low, but higher than that of Cirno or Utsuho. She had a little understanding of technology, as well as science, and she seemed to have some maths ability but on the whole you thought that she needed some work in all areas.

As you arranged the girls into a vague order of those you thought would require the most to the least work, you ended up placing Suika next. Though she seemed bad at science, she was easily better, or perhaps just more coherent, than the prior girls in all other tested areas. Really the only problem you could see with her was that she looked like a child and simply wouldn't stop drinking - but any fool could see how that might be problematic, so you had hardly needed a test to spot that.

The last two girls, Meiling and Ran, seemed to need little to no work. What Meiling knew was pretty good, but seemed so archaic that by modern terms she was only a little above average. It was her science, especially, that seemed to suffer from this as you knew that the world of science had changed greatly in the past several years and most of what she knew was simply behind the times.

Ran, lastly... was something of a problem. Simply put she seemed to know everything already. Well, everything that you had tested at least - without further testing you felt you had little hope of actually finding any weaknesses in her knowledge. On the plus side this meant you didn't have to do much, if anything, to bring her to a level where she could be self-sufficient in the modern day world... but on the minus side you had the feeling that it wouldn't be looked on kindly if you simply ignored her in favor of everyone else.


As you finished typing up your report you frowned in thought. It was obvious which girls needed more work to bring up to an acceptable standard, but you had the feeling that you were still missing a lot of information about a variety of things. Cirno, in particular, had shown the odd flashes of knowledge that didn't fit with her results, and Utsuho's understanding of some technologies over others also seemed odd - Hina, likewise, seemed to have scattered bits of higher knowledge which seemed to be all over the place. Meiling, from what you could tell, must have been educated properly at some point in time... a point very far back in time going by the indications you had been given. Suika seemed to have something of a childs education... Did Gensokyo have any schools? You'd noticed a few similarities in what Cirno and Suika had known which implied that, if there was a school, they had probably both been taught there. You'd have to ask someone about that later, maybe even try and sit down with Ran to ask specific questions about Gensokyo.


A ringing from the front door made you pause in your report and frown. You weren't expecting anyone other than Renko and her delivery... Saving and shutting down your work you head out of your room and to the front door in order to greet the woman, only to find that Meiling had apparently beaten you there and was even now standing, arms crossed, glaring at the brunette.

“Ah, Renko, is that you?” You call out, causing Meiling to glance back. “Er, you can let her in,” You state, which makes her glare soften and, with a nod, she steps out of the way to let the surprised-looking woman into the house. Hadn't Ran told you Meiling used to be a door guard of some kind? Evidently she still held the instincts of such close to her, something you'd probably have to speak to her about at some point.

“Ah! Ryogi!” Renko graces you with a grin, “I bring deliveries! Clothes for everyone!” she declares, causing you to regard her with a flat stare. Shrinking back ever so slightly the girl waves your disapproval off with one hand. “Don't worry! It's all there!”

“It's late.” You state, “You said you'd bring it by yesterday.”

“No worries! No worries!” The woman declares happily, “No one ever worried about late deliveries before, right?” She smiles and looks up at Meiling, “The car is open, if you want to go fetch your stuff...” There's a pause and the brunettes eyes suddenly look sly, “Miss gate guard.” Meiling stiffens slightly at that, and gives you a questioning glance to which you respond with a shake of your head. You certainly didn't tell Renko that, so the only way she could have known was thanks to...

“Inside.” You declare, glaring at Renko, “Now. I need to have a word with you.”

“Ooh,” the girl goes, giving you an appraising look, “You certainly grew a spine in the past few years. I don't recall you being this assertive before.” She grins, “Then again you did have your moments, like that time when you punched Takeda sempai in the face after he tipped his drink over Maribel for turning him down. That was pretty awesome you know.”

Oh... you vaguely remembered that. Specifically you remembered the beating Takeda and his cronies had given you after school that day, you'd been covered in bruises for weeks. On the plus side that had been one beating too many and the boy had ended up being expelled and sent to a 'correctional school' instead. Not that it had made you feel much better, as all that had happened was a new school bully had risen to take his place who also delighted in beating on you.

“Yes. Well.” You sigh, “Just come in already.”