Shimi hit the ground in a plume of smoke, groaning. "Ow. Ok, underestimating Marisa was a dumb idea…" He flew back up, narrowly avoiding another one of Marisa's lasers before firing a wave of bullets at her. She dodged this easily, yawning.

"After all that talk about how powerful you are, I thought you'd at least be able to put up a decent fight, Shimi."

"Well, I'm not that used to danmaku, but don't worry, there's more to come." He pulled a spell card out of his sleeve. "Deus ex Machina: Rain of Blades!" A portal opened above the two of them, and knife danmaku poured out on top of Marisa. She slipped between the knifes, firing star danmaku at Shimi.

Meanwhile, Tokage and Jean watched from Tokage's house, enjoying the view and in Jean's case, worrying that Tokage was going to talk with him. Unfortunately, she did.

"So who do you think is going to win, Michel?"

"I think Marisa will win. And my name isn't-"

"Really? I don't know, Shimi isn't doing too badly…"

"Au moins laissez-moi finir... Well, I suppose he could win, but…" He was cut off by the sound of Shimi's spell card ending.

Shimi laughed, realizing he wasn't really prepared for a fight like this.

"Ah, I should have made a few more spell cards before I challenged you, Marisa. Well, no matter. I still have my last card, so we'll see who's left standing, eh?"

Marisa stared at him, utterly bored.

"Yeah, I guess. Honestly, I thought you'd be better than this. Cirno is better than this!"

Shimi's eye twitched.

"Well, if you're going to insult me like that, then I will show no mercy!" He pulled out his last spell card. "Lunatic Sign: Plot Armor!" A blinding light engulfed him and… absolutely nothing happened. Grinning eerily, Shimi charged at Marisa, firing waves of danmaku at her. Marisa flew out of the way and fired lasers at him, but missed completely. Frowning, she fired again, but he miraculously sped up to dodge it. He spun around to face her, and she fired again, right at his head. There was no way he could avoid this one… so it avoided him. The laser bent and curved around him instead of hitting. Irritated, Marisa fired wave after wave of danmaku at him, but he didn't even have to dodge, it simply wouldn't hit him. After a few seconds of this, Marisa stopped firing, trying to figure out what was going on. "So, Marisa… are you done?"

"How are you doing that! You're not even trying to avoid my danmaku!"

Shimi laughed.

"It's called Plot Armor. Surely you've heard of it? It's protected many a hero throughout countless stories and adventures. It makes sure they survive just about anything, and now it protects me. In short, my friend, you'll never beat me now!"

Marisa smiled and pulled out a spell card and her mini-hakkero.

"Oh really? I'd like to see you dodge this! Love Sign: Master Spark!" She blasted Shimi with a giant laser, completely engulfing him. The laser faded away a few seconds later, revealing Shimi surrounded in what seemed to be a transparent bubble, completely unharmed. He clapped sarcastically.

"Wow, that was a amazing light show. Really, it's almost like you were trying to attack me or something!" His hands glowed, but before he could counterattack, he heard a odd sound. It sounded like something cracking. His bubble fell apart completely, with the trademark sound of a spell card ending. He laughed nervously, and Marisa grinned.

"So, I'll never beat you, huh? Let's see how this works the second time. Love Sign: Master Spark!" She fired another laser, smashing Shimi into the ground. The laser faded away, and Shimi didn't get back up. "Uh, you're not dead, right?" Shimi crawled out of the pit the laser made, babbling to himself.

"So much pain… oh look, it's Mima! Hi, Mima…"

"Um, I'm not Mima. It's me, Marisa."

"Oh, really?" He shook himself. "Sorry, I guess you hit me harder than I thought." He floated up to where Marisa was, looking rather ashamed. "I thought I was stronger than you, but you utterly curb-stomped me. I apologize for wasting your time, Marisa-sama. The next time we fight, I'll be worthy of… well, fighting you. And now, I think I have some editing to do, so I just go now." He started to leave, but Marisa grabbed his shoulder.

"Hold on, I thought you can warp reality or something."

"I can. Observe." He held out his hand and a cake topped with a bomb appeared in it. He closed he hand and it vanished. "See? Warping reality. The problem is that doesn't really translate well into danmaku."

"Can you even hear what you're saying? Warping reality! Danmaku! You could have fired anything at me!" Realizing she was right, Shimi smacked himself in the face.

"Why didn't I think of that?" A brick wall appeared in front of him and he started banging his head on it. "Ugh, I'm so stupid! Stupid, stupid!" Marisa watched him bang his head for a second, and asked worriedly,

"Um, don't you have editing or something to do?"

He stopped banging his head.

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot! I have to go, Marisa, see you!" He started flying to Tokage's house, still shouting, "And thanks for the advice, our next fight will be a lot better, I swear it!" He flew to Tokage's house and ran inside, Tokage right behind him. As for Jean, he hopped on his broom and flew up to Marisa, who was tying some rope around Shimi's floating wall. Confused, Jean asked,

"Um, Marisa, what are you doing?"

"Well, I figure if I can put a few spells on this thing, I can get it to fly around."

"Why would you want to do that?"

"I'll make good target practice. Plus, if I run into any fairies or youkai, it can be one of my options! It'll smash them into the ground!"

"Seulement vous pouvez penser à quelque chose comme ça…"

"One of these days you're going to teach me that language of yours… anyway, we should get going, I'm sure those two are busy."

Shimi sat down in Tokage's chair, with her watching him warily. "Ok, so we're going to start the second chapter… any objections before I say anything?"

Tokage considered this.

"You're not going to really change the story, are you?"

"No, I assure you, it's still going in the same direction, but there will be some differences." He pulled out Tokage's second chapter and flipped through it. "Well, what about this at the beginning? Where Yukari's thinking getting Dawitsu away from Yutaka? It's fine that they're together or something in the story, I can work with that, even if it's not true."

"It's not?"

"No, Yutaka isn't interested in him. Or evil, for that matter. She's a pacifist. You do know what that means, right? Anyway, my main problem is that Yukari seems to think she doesn't deserve to be with Dawitsu… that's just stupid. She's one of the most confident people I know. If anything she'd think she's overqualified."

"Well, I guess that makes sense…"

"And then there's Ran to consider…"

"Hey, I wrote her perfectly!"

"Then why did she threaten to kill you in the reviews?"

"Because she didn't like how accurate it was! No one likes to think they're horrible people, even if they are!"

"That… actually makes sense… but no, she really isn't like that. For one thing, she's very loyal to her master, she wouldn't try to attack or upstage her. I mean, I've heard that 'love makes you evil' but there are certain things that never change."

"Well, what will you do then? You said the story will be the same!"

"It will go in the same direction, but not exactly the same. Anyway, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I think I can figure it out as I write. So, let's get started, shall we?"