It'd be pretty depressing for the grand gods of old to be disregarded in the modern age, bound as they are to the very masses who discredit them. Lots of points have been made about how the gods must be crazy or cruel or sadistic, but Touhou points out that the people aren't too kind to them either. Beneath the idealistic trappings of faith, it's all naked materialism, but I guess religion is the process of always wanting to find something more. I like how vulnerable this story made Kanako and Suwako seem. Did Azuma never write the second part, or was it just never uploaded here?