Reuniting Kafei and Anju

Kafei and Anju hugging each other as they are reunited in at the end of the sidequest in Majora's Mask 3D

Reuniting Kafei and Anju is a task in the Bombers' Notebook in Majora's Mask.^{[name reference needed]} It includes various characters and spans all three days. In order to complete every entry in the Bombers' Notebook, Link will have to go through most of the sequence twice, which means returning back to the First Day to fill in any remaining gaps in the Notebook he was unable to complete in the standard three-day-span. This is the longest sidequest in the game.

Involvments

Characters

• Anju
• Kafei
• Madame Aroma
• Mayor Dotour
• Sakon
• Man from Curiosity Shop
• Postman

Items

Required

• Ocarina of Time
• Epona
• Garo's Mask
• Hookshot
• Deku Mask or Room Key

Involved

• Kafei's Mask
• Room Key
• Letter to Kafei
• Pendant of Memories
• Special Delivery to Mama (Priority Mail)

Places

• Clock Town
  • Laundry Pool
  • Stock Pot Inn
  • Mayor's Office
  • Milk Bar
  • Postman's Office
  • Curiosity Shop
• Ikana Canyon
  • Sakon's Hideout

Rewards

• Keaton Mask (plus subsequent Piece of Heart)
• Postman's Hat (plus subsequent Piece of Heart)
• Chateau Romani (plus the Bottle)
• Couple's Mask (plus subsequent Piece of Heart)

Event Procedure

First Day

As Link exits the Clock Tower, he will see a boy in purple wearing the Keaton Mask put a letter in the mailbox and run away. After that, he returns back to the Laundry Pool to enter his hideout, where Link himself cannot enter.

On the First or Second Day, Link can talk to Madame Aroma in the Mayor's Official Residence (which is open to the public from 10 am to 8 pm), who will send him to look for her missing son Kafei, giving him Kafei's Mask to do so.

The Postman teases Anju while she begs him to tell her which Mailbox the Letter From Kafei was removed from, in Majora's Mask 3D

From 1:50 pm and 4:00 pm, if Link speaks with Anju she will tell him about his apparent reservation and give him the Room Key (in Majora's Mask 3D, she will only give Link the key if he is a Goron).

At 2 pm, the Postman will enter the Stock Pot Inn. He delivers a letter to Anju from a mysterious person. She insists that he tell her which postbox it came from, but he refuses. After this, the Postman leaves. From the moment the Postman leaves (2:20 pm) to 9:05 pm, if Link speaks to Anju wearing Kafei's Mask, she asks the young hero to meet her in the kitchen at 11:30 pm. As Link got a reservation for a room in the second floor, he is able to stay in the inn even after it closes at 8:30pm. In the event that Link fails to receive the Room Key, he can still enter the Inn through the unlocked door on the veranda.

If Link scheduled the meeting, Anju will exit the staff-only room at 11:30, arriving in the kitchen at 12 am. If he speaks to Anju before she leaves, she tells Link that she received a letter from Kafei himself, then gives him a letter addressed to Kafei and asks Link to put it in the postbox. She then asks him to meet with Kafei in person, as she is scared to see how he had become.

Quest-Ending Actions:

• If Link goes to the restroom and gives ??? the letter, he uses it as toilet paper, and the item will be lost.
• If he stops Sakon from stealing the Bomb Bag from the Old Lady from Bomb Shop in North Clock Town (or blows him up therefore killing Sakon), the thief never sells it to the Curiosity Shop, halting the storyline by causing Kafei to never leave the Curiosity Shop.

In any of these cases, as they are not recommended to do, Link will have to restart the quest again.

Second Day

After Link deposits Anju's Letter into the mailbox, the Postman eventually takes it while examining every mailbox. Meanwhile, Link hangs around the Laundry Pool until 3 PM on the afternoon of the Second Day. The Postman delivers Link's letter to the young boy he saw on the First Day. Following the boy into the door at the Laundry Pool leads him to a hidden room of the Curiosity Shop. Once inside, Link speaks with the boy to learn that he is actually Kafei by removing his Keaton Mask to show his face, who himself has an uncanny resemblance to the young Hero of Time.

Link and Tatl meeting Kafei behind the Curiosity Shop in Majora's Mask 3D

Kafei tells Link that he has been turned into a child matching his age by the Skull Kid using the Majora's Mask's powers and his ceremonial mask for the Carnival of Time, the Sun Mask, was stolen by Sakon. Kafei promised Anju that he would come with the mask, so he refuses to return until he has the mask back in his possession, as the two are engaged to be married. He then gives Link the Pendant of Memories and asks him to deliver it to Anju. If Link hurries, he will become able to give it to her on the Second Day (the Bunny Hood or Inverted Song of Time is helpful). If not, he can still wait until the Final Day to deliver it.

In any case, two optional events can be witnessed from this moment on. At 9:30pm, after entering the room he reserved in the First Day, he can hear a dialogue from Anju's room, where the aforementioned owner of the inn is arguing with her mother, who suspects that Kafei fled to the ranch to join her friend Cremia, but Anju refuses to believe that, and decides to patiently wait for him (either until he finally comes or until 6pm from the next day if Link hasn't given the pendant to her yet); at 1am, Sakon goes to the Curiosity shop to sell the shopkeeper the Bomb Bag he stole the previous day (this is why Link shouldn't stop him at that moment). Kafei sees the thief from the back room, then plans to follow him.

Final Day

If Link has already given Anju the Pendant of Memories, then the hero can sit around the Laundry Pool until the afternoon. If not, he needs to deliver it first (in this case, Anju is found in the room where Gorman, Guru-Guru and the two pairs of twins were), then head to the Laundry Pool.

At 1pm, the door is unlocked and Link can go back inside. Once there, he meets the Man from the Curiosity Shop; He tells Link that Kafei has left for Ikana Canyon and gives him both the Keaton Mask and Priority Mail for Madame Aroma. If Link has saved the old lady of the bomb shop from Sakon on the night of the First Day, Kafei will still be there since Sakon wouldn't have come yet to the shop (not without something stolen to sell); therefore, Link cannot continue this sidequest, and must start the quest over from the beginning.

Controlling Kafei while inside Sakon's Hideout in Majora's Mask

Link then goes to Ikana Canyon, and finds Kafei where the river leaves the area, behind a rock. Sakon's stronghold is here, and Kafei tells Link that it's only matter of time before the thief returns there. At 6pm, Sakon indeed returns to his hideout and opens the door.

Quest-Ending Moment: As Sakon approaches, Link must not be seen; he must hide behind the nearby pile of rocks or use the Stone Mask. If Sakon suspects that someone is watching him enter the hideout, he flees and never comes back. The sidequest then ends at this moment. Nonetheless, Link may still take the priority mail to the Milk Bar and obtain the sixth bottle.

Once inside the hideout, Kafei accidentally sends his mask down a conveyor belt. It is soon realized that the switches and the doors in the place are mixed up, meaning that at least two people are required to infiltrate in the hideout, one in each route. For the next few minutes, the player will control both Link and Kafei as the two team up and work through Sakon's Hideout (this is arguably a first for The Legend of Zelda series).

• As Kafei, the player needs to solve some simple Block puzzles. The blue Switches open the doors from Link's route. If Kafei steps on a red Switch he and Link lose some time, as the conveyor belt temporarily moves faster; but if he steps on a yellow Switch he and Link gain some time because the belt temporarily moves slower. If Kafei pushes a block into one of those Switches, it will permanently be in effect until he removes it.

• As Link, the player fights off Deku Babas and a Wolfos. The death of these enemies opens the doors from Kafei's route.

Quest-Ending Moment: If the two heroic characters take too long, the mask will fall into a hole leading to Sakon's whereabouts (where the thief is waiting for his acquisition to flee from Termina for good). If this happens, the sidequest is over.

At the end, Kafei gets the Sun's Mask back. Link then sees him start running back to town, and Link also needs to get back there himself, but the Eve of the Carnival of Time has already begun and therefore the player has a few real-time minutes left. It is recommended to warp to Clock Town using the Song of Soaring.

It's over 12am when Link goes to town, but the anticipated reunion only occurs at 4:30am. He can, meanwhile, do one of these two things:

• Route 1: He can head to the Milk Bar and go inside; he then puts on Kafei's Mask, and speaks to Madame Aroma. She takes the Priority Mail Link received from the Curiosity shop's owner and then gives the Hero a Bottle full of Chateau Romani as a reward for his actions.

• Route 2: He can head to the Post Office and go inside, and show the aforementioned Priority Mail to the Postman, who is deeply worried because he wants to flee, but he also wants to fulfill his scheduled activities. He gets ready and takes the letter to Madame Aroma at the Milk Bar, with Link following him. After the Postman exits, Link can speak with him to receive the Postman's Hat as a reward for helping the postman to fulfill his last duty and enabling him to flee.

Note: Any player who wants to accomplish a 100% completion in the game will therefore need to guide Link through this long sidequest twice in order to get all rewards. Because the quest can be started early in the game, it can be played as soon as possible to help either Madame Aroma or the Postman, then once more after access to Ikana Canyon to help the other character and to further proceed in the task. It helps that the bar is open to the public between 6 and 9pm on the Final Day.

Finally, Link heads to the Employees Only room of the Stock Pot Inn, whose door has been unlocked by this point. Inside, Link sees Anju waiting for Kafei, but only if Link gave her the pendant. At 4:30am, the two receive Kafei, who finally comes in. The two engaged characters hug each other and then exchange masks, the Sun Mask and Moon's Mask (guarded by Anju), which magically merge to become the Couple's Mask, and the couple gives it to Link for witnessing the act (and obviously for helping them reunite).

Reunited, Anju and Kafei wait for the morning together, in Majora's Mask 3D

As rewarding as it feels to reunite them, Link only gets to enjoy it for a brief moment; As the Moon is dangerously close to Clock Town at this point, about one Terminan hour after he has reunited them, it will crash into Termina. So, to prevent a Game Over, Link needs to play the Song of Time immediately to save his progress, or hurry to the Clock Tower if he plans to confront the Skull Kid and, if the Four Giants were freed, to complete the game's main objective by ultimately defeating Majora.

Aftermath

If returning to the First Day was the chosen option, there is one more action that can be performed, thanks to the availability of the Couple's Mask. At 10am of the First or Second Day, Link heads to the Mayor's office but this time he goes left. He enters the middle of a fierce meeting, and puts on the Couple's Mask and speaks with the Mayor to end the meeting and receive a Piece of Heart. Likewise, if he got the Postman's Hat, he can view any mailbox to receive another Heart Piece.

Finally, if the Skull Kid was defeated after completion of the sidequest, Anju and Kafei's wedding will be shown during the ending credits.

Trivia

• Due to its romantic story and unique gameplay during when Link and Kafei must team up inside Sakon's Hideout, this sidequest is arguably the most popular among fans who played Majora's Mask or its remake.
• If Link does not talk to Anju with the Kafei Mask during the First Day, she will go outside to the Laundry Pool.
• If Link forgets to give the Pendant of Memories to Anju, she will flee Clock Town with her family into Romani Ranch. If Link still helps Kafei, he will go to the Stock Pot Inn anyway and ultimately find that Anju is gone.
• Interestingly, during Link and Kafei's teamwork in Sakon's Hideout, Kafei, when controlled by the player, can perform punches when pressing the Sword button. However, there is no legitimate use for it, as he himself does not face any enemies in his route, unlike Link.
  • When close enough to Link's area, however, the Deku Babas do attempt to attack Kafei but cannot reach him.
• This sidequest is also useful to test one of the glitches involving the free use of the Fierce Deity's Mask.
• The manga adaptation of Majora's Mask by Akira Himekawa references this sidequest as part of its story.

  

  The wedding of Anju and Kafei at the ending credits of Majora's Mask, when debug codes are used to show the unseen angle

• The scene framing during the end credits' wedding sequence is done in a way that avoids directly showing Kafei. While this is most likely to avoid the need of developers to create a second character model for Kafei, some fans have joked this could imply Kafei hasn't (or won't) change back into an adult and is an attempt to make the sequence look less awkward.
  • However, it is revealed that if debugging codes were used to freely move the camera in an attempt to see Kafei, he is not visible in the wedding at all. This because Kafei does not have an adult model in-game in spite of concept art suggesting this was planned.

Gallery

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  Link and Kafei meeting each other in Majora's Mask
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  Sakon entering his hideout in Majora's Mask
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  Anju and Kafei reunited in Majora's Mask
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  Link wearing the Kafei's Mask in Majora's Mask, one of the important items in the sidequest
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  Kafei unmasked in Majora's Mask 3D
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  Kafei's Sun Mask as seen Majora's Mask 3D
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  Anju's Moon Mask as seen in Majora's Mask 3D
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  The Couple's Mask as seen in Majora's Mask 3D, Link's reward for completing the sidequest

Nomenclature

Names in Other Regions
Language		Name
	German	Hochzeit mit Hindernissen