Fujiwara no Mokou

Mokou is an NPC and Rare Customer found in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.

## Descriptions

### Bond Lv1

An incredible human living in the depths of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. She has almost no desire to get involved with the rest of the world. She became immortal as a result of eating something strange. (That's why you should never put anything you don't know in your mouth)

### Bond Lv3

Miss Mokou is so handsome! She's extremely powerful as a human and is always straightforward and to the point! I heard that spicy food lovers are all extra-extroverts! Well, Miss Mokou couldn't have a meal without spicy food!

### Bond Lv5

She's actually more selfless and caring than I originally thought. It seems that she has suffered tremendously in the past. Despite this, she's still helping others without expecting anything in return. I am very confident that many people will like and respect her!

## Tag Requests

* Hot: *“The immortal smoke floating atop the Youkai Mountain, even without a flame, one can feel its heat.”*
* Aura-Bursting: *“The rebirthing phoenix always has a bursting aura that can never be extinguished!”*
* Spicy: *“Spiciness is one of the only things that can make me feel alive.”*
* Fruity: *“Fruits offer both liquid and food. They are truly gifts from the heavens.”*
* Grilled: *"I'm pretty good at grilling meat myself, actually."*

## Spell Card

### Undying "Fire Bird -Feng Wing Ascension-" (Reward)

Mokou releases flames that increase the temperatures of all kitchenware, enhancing their efficiency. (Don't ask me how that works on the cutting board. It just works, OK?) For the next 20 seconds, dishes can be completed 50% faster.

*(Recipes are actually completed twice as fast as they normally would be: the cooking time is 50% as such.)*

### Fujiwara "Wounds of Metsuzai Temple" (Punishment)

For the next 30 seconds, it doesn't matter how good the dishes are, guests will only give at most a "fair" rating.

*(All ratings are capped at green while this effect is active.)*

## Tasks

As part of the main story (First discussed on March 13th, but starts on the 14th), you will be asked to settle a duel between Kaguya and Mokou. You do not have to actually do anything for this quest, but there are a few rewards you can collect from it: For the next two in-game days, they will reward you with 10 of each ingredient required for the dish the following morning. This is particularly useful as a source of Bamboo at a point in the game where it is not easy to get in large quantities.

There is also a unique achievement and picture in the album for each outcome. To get both, talk to Kaguya again after completing the main story; she will offer to restart this competition again. (You will not gain extra ingredients, however.) You will once again have three in-game days to sell the two cuisines. With this, you can restart the competition as many times as needed and get both outcomes in a single save.

## Bond Rewards

* Lv2: Mapo Tofu recipe
* Lv3: Sichuan Boiled Fish recipe
* Lv4: Fuji's Lava recipe
* Lv5: Unlocks "About Gathering (will spend 30 minutes)" dialogue option. This will yield all gatherable items from the Bamboo Forest of the Lost at 18:00.

## Strategies

Roasted Mushroom is a cheap, one-ingredient, high-availability recipe that achieves Hot and Grilled. As the player can add Spicy and Fruity to it, it is possible to easily cover four of her five tags.

If she asks for Aura-Bursting, your most likely option is Niten Ichiryu—it has Grilled as well, but is Expensive and Premium, thus having a net value of 0 in ratings (see The Rating System). By adding Fruity and Spicy, you can hit a net value of 2, and as you can always guarantee 2 tags from the drink, you can guarantee a pink rating. After advancing her bond, giving her an unmodified Sichuan Boiled Fish achieves the same value more cheaply.

Mio has Bitter and Dry, Fruity Sour has Bitter and Shochu. Use whichever matches the specifically requested tag. Dry and Shochu only coexist on expensive drinks (Oni Killer, Fire Rat's Robe) that Mokou's budget can't handle without assistance from another character's reward spell card, and neither of those have Bitter.

Mokou is, overall, a **high priority character.** Sichuan Boiled Fish is a frighteningly cost-effective recipe and another source of the extremely rare Aura-Bursting tag, while her other recipes are also quite effective. As the area's gatherer, she is naturally a valuable character, especially as the Bamboo Forest of the Lost is the only place where Bamboo and Bamboo Shoots (the latter a particularly useful ingredient) can be gathered.

Mokou's reward spell card cuts down on time spent cooking, which is a pretty valuable effect.