I was a huge Touhou fan, much like everyone else. I loved the mainline games but i didn't mind playing the fightans and photo games. I listened to arrangements on Youtube and proudly owned a Futo fumo. She was my favorite Touhou character, her clothes, her hair, her manner of speech, everything about her was so perfect. You may have noticed a lot of "was" by this point and that's because, after that horrible incident i can't look at the Touhou franchise with the same eyes...

I was bored one afternoon and decided to look at my chart for missing 1CCs. There was still a lot of work to be done but i didn't have any extra clear on TD despite my love for Futo. I had to rectify this mistake so i booted the game up. Once the title screen loaded, i realized there was no music. Pretty odd since never have i experienced a glitch like this in the other games but i paid no mind to it, these games can be unstable in the most unexpected ways.

I clicked on Extra Start and instantly raised an eyebrow at what i saw. A phantasm stage? I thought only PCB had one, potentially IN according to those unused files. How did i even unlock it? It wasn't on any chart I've seen and i haven't seen anyone talk about it online. It didn't look like the rest of the game's UI and its description was out of the ordinary, almost as if someone modded it in. Curiosity was getting the best of me and, putting my plans to beat Mamizou for later, i decided to check out this phantasm stage...