The Tengu Closest to the Village
Aya Shameimaru
Species: Crow Tengu
Ability: Power to Control Wind
A news reporter on the Youkai Mountain. A tengu who typically writes local news stories about the girls of Gensokyo.
This time around, she got word from the white wolf tengu that an intruder had entered the mountain. Normally, the white wolf tengu are charged by the great tengu with patrolling the mountain, and conducting negotiations and defensive operations.
However, in this case, the great tengu decided to call on this member of the information media to conduct negotiations. Cocking her head to one side in doubt, she headed to the scene of the event, where her confusion was immediately dispelled.
The intruder was one of the girls she was always covering in her newspaper.
In other words, the great tengu understood that Aya had the most in-depth knowledge of the intruder, and had the best chance of being told outright what the intruder's aim was.
Aya went easy on the intruder, put on a show of vigorously defending herself, and purposefully lost. After all, if she let the intruder enter the mountain without putting up a fight, she would likely be suspected of being an accomplice to the humans.
Aya pretended to lose to the humans, and guided them to the mysterious shrine that had appeared recently. She reported to her superiors that the intruders had no business with the tengu society, but were instead interested in the troublesome, enigmatic shrine that had appeared of late.
The great tengu took in her report, and then commended Aya for turning around a potential threat into an opportunity.
He then ordered the underling Inubashiri to continue her observation of the humans by going to investigate the mysterious god.
According to Inubashiri's report, the mysterious god and the humans had waged battle, but it was truly a playful event where the two parties seemed to be enjoying themselves. Their respective personalities were bright, and their heads kept level. There was little, if any, real danger - rather, by pursuing a friendly relationship with the shrine, the youkai of the mountain might be better off in the end.
After that, the chief of the tengu, Lord Tenma, entered into secret negotiations with the mountain god.
The details of their discussions were not made public, but it was made known that they had agreed to share the mountain with each other and pursue friendly relations.
Since then, the tengu and the kappa came to have faith in their new god.
Though, it was really more of an agreement to all celebrate together than a matter of faith.
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