This does make me wonder why Marisa doesn't have a familiar yet. Reimu has one plus two roommates, yet the secret overachiever Marisa hasn't tried to get some kind of familiar? While Koakuma's position towards Patchouli isn't officially made clear, I feel like Marisa would at least attempt to one up Alice and her dolls in some form.

This does make me wonder why Marisa doesn't have a familiar yet. Reimu has one plus two roommates, yet the secret overachiever Marisa hasn't tried to get some kind of familiar? While Koakuma's position towards Patchouli isn't officially made clear, I feel like Marisa would at least attempt to one up Alice and her dolls in some form.

She sort of does. There's a snek that lives with her (I think she keeps it in her hat), and factoring PC98 in, she also has Mimi-chan, the magical ICBM.

According to Grimoire of Marisa, she does really want some kind of servant since that'd open up a lot of spellcard options.

Thanks for the translation. I think I saw a sample on pixiv and really wanted to read this one.