Gensokyo does not exist.

In fact everything goes through the mind of Maribel.
For studying psychology, she went to a hospital, patients' lives is transcribed in those dreams where she says “going to Gensokyo”.

Fairies are little girls playing in the hallways and courtyard.

Cirno is a brave little girl who suffers from a kind of hypothermia. Letty is her mother, she did just come visit for the winter holidays and do not really like her daughter.

The Satori sisters are in intensive care, they do not see many other patients and their rooms are far from other girls. Komeiji have a cat that has often come sleep in patients before they died.

Yuyuko has had a very long coma, she awoke completely amnesiac. After months of intravenous, her appetite is just bigger than ever.

Patchouli is a patient who was admitted after a suicide attempt. Since she refuses to leave his room, she became a hikkikomori in the hospital. She speaks with the two sisters who are suffering from porphyria (one of which suffers from hyperactivity.)

Kanako is the new head of the department of pediatrics. it causes commotion because of her revolution idea about the functioning of its sector. She had her post in scheming against the former head, an old doctor who had a face like a frog.


Reimu is the priest's daughter from a local religious establishment. Her beliefs are never specified, she might be agnostic, but she visits each and every patient with confidence and dedication to try and help people secure their already-tenuous tethers with the real world. Not every patient likes her for it, and her down-to-earth ways even lead to some friction with the institution employees, as well. Nonetheless, she's a fixture in the halls of the institution ever since her infrequent visits with the now-deceased Mima, her third-grade teacher who found out, much too late, that she had a brain tumor.

By the time of Mima's death, she was as pale as a ghost, always in a wheelchair with a blanket and pan over her legs because she was having trouble keeping her food down. Mima's death was unceremonious, she just kind of faded away, and with that, Reimu came to visit only to find that her old teacher wasn't there.

In a melancholy, Reimu wandered the halls of the institution, falling into her own dark world, until she ran into Rumia, or rather, Rumia ran into her. Rumia was a recently blinded girl who couldn't quite cope with the stick she was given to find her way around, so she just stretched her arms out and hoped for the best. Even though she clearly had no vision, the girl couldn't quite accept that she was handicapped and tried to run around aimlessly like any child does. Watch out for that tree, little Rumia..

That little encounter made Reimu interested in the other patients, and soon, she was visiting illustrious characters like the albino wishful young gardener with an attachment to her pillow, the caped Wriggle, and a little girl with recently amputated legs who had the absolute time of her life when Reimu carried her around in a bucket.

Marisa was actually Mima's daughter, made a frequent visitor by that fact. One Halloween, she visited her mother in costume, and Mima's twisted mind had her thinking that Marisa had grown up and made something of herself by becoming a magician. Faced with the possibility of having her mother die happy, Marisa continued the facade and went on to show little tricks to her dying mother to entertain her.

What really got her mother going was the little trick where you spray through a lighter with an aerosol can, making a flamethrower-like effect. The institution didn't condone her doing this, so she visited the man next door, a grey-haired man with Asperger's who made it his duty to collect and pretty much just look at whatever odds and ends he could find. He had delusions that he could sell his collected junk, and Marisa wound up trading him a scrap of metal for a metal music box, which she loaded with a lighter and a small aerosol can. You can imagine what she made of that.

Donning an interesting outfit earned her attention among the patients, and she eventually got around to performing tricks for them, starting with Alice Margatroid, a girl with severe autism who was overcoming her disorder by using dolls and puppets as her proxy to connect with people, though initially, she couldn't speak. When people picked up her dolls and started playing with them, she used dolls she was holding to interact with dolls they were holding. However, she was entranced by Marisa herself, a girl dressed like a doll. Noticing this, her chaperon Shinki pointed one of Alice's dolls toward Marisa, and Alice approached. Shinki explained the situation to Marisa, who was a little annoyed since she had come to visit her dying mother. Nonetheless, Marisa led Alice and Shinki to Mima's room and spent time with them there. When it got to entertaining Mima, Alice was dazzled by the glitter, smoke, and laser show coming from the living doll Marisa..

Sakuya was transferred to the institution as one of the caretakers, and she was assigned to attend to the orphaned Remilia and Flandre. The two sisters have the aforementioned afflictions as different ways of dealing with the loss of their parents, and they're often apart because Flandre's fragile state doesn't mesh well with Remilia's drive to exhibit her childish power.

After an incident where Remilia stashed silverware and started playing with it, Sakuya would occasionally be seen confiscating forks and butter knives from Remi's room. The patients who saw didn't quite know what to make of that, but Hong Meiling, a young girl with a pituitary disorder, took a particular interest in how Sakuya was taking weapons away from the little monster in that room. Meiling then began her imaginary martial arts training to become "the crouching dragon" so she might one day be as strong as Sakuya.

Patchouli, after having been admitted as a suicide risk, refused to take solace from people she believed didn't understand. She became a shut-in and referred to other people as her demons, calling her attendant "Little Demon" because of the woman's stature. Koakuma wound up writing notes to Patchouli, eventually writing down the stories of other patients and leaving them by Patchy's bed side, just to show her that someone understands. One of the first stories, the plight of the Scarlet sisters, is what triggered Patchouli's approach to Koakuma. Patchy met the sisters, and she was charmed by the dejected little Flandre. As Patchouli underwent treatment, she made frequent visits to Flan, culminating in Patchy reading books as bedtime stories for the younger Scarlet. She was a major factor in Flandre opening up, though the nature of the stories made Flan into a little oddball. "One little soldier boy left all alone. He couldn't dodge bullets, ..."

TBC