Chapter 4: The Rage of an Immortal
The sun was beginning to set on Gensokyo, the pale orange glow of lights filling the once blue skies as the Seven-Colored Magician Marisa Kirisame flies on her trusted broomstick over the Forest of Magic, having accomplished her tasks in the Human Village for the day just moments ago. She sits sideways on the broom, her feet hanging dangerously out in the air as she lays her palms beside her hips…Really, such reckless behavior perfectly reflects what type of person Marisa is, and one should not ever been concerned when they see her doing such things on her broom.
At the moment though, Marisa isn't fully into her ride across Gensokyo, for hidden behind her halfway smile is a mind reflecting on that rather strange occurrence she saw in the Human Village. "I still can't get over that…Was that actually Keine and Rinnosuke I saw? They acted completely different from how they usually do…Hell, I don't think Rinnosuke even knew I was there as he ran past me."
Marisa lets out a light "Tsk" and says in a boyish tone "I really should run this by Reimu…This could be the start of another incident…"
After voicing her idea, Marisa pokes her eyes up and thinks about things a little further, in her mind debating "Of course, I could just go and solve this incident by myself…" against the point she brought up just now. In the end she decides against going solo on this mission, rationalizing out loud "Eh, Reimu hasn't solved the last few incidents at all…She's probably itching for a chance to solve one. I'll still try and solve it myself, but its only fair to let her know what's going on."
With a zip through the skies commanded by the click of her fingers, Marisa flew through the skies towards her destination at the very edge of Gensokyo, which is a small run-down Shinto shrine standing at the end of a lone stone road at the top of a tall staircase. Behind the shrine lied a miniature warehouse, but that was literally all there was to note in this area. The person running the place was obviously poor, but it would not be wise to remind her of such things…Marisa knows this from experience.
Sitting on the front steps of the shrine is a lone girl of moderate height and age. Her brown-black hair is long and loose, connected together by a large red ribbon at the back of her head and red rubes on her side locks. She wears a miko uniform, though it varies different from the norm thanks to the red skirt, sleeveless red top with a white collar that is tied with a blue ribbon, and a pair of white detached sleeves which expose her armpits and the sarashi around her moderate chest. Currently the "Shrine Maiden of Paradise" Reimu Hakurei was hunched over with a somber blush on her face as she lifts a bowl of sake towards her mouth and takes a sip from it, a few droplets leaking out from the sides and trickling down onto the warm dark red cloth that is wrapped around her body.
The girl pokes her head up with eyes deeply glazed over, but upon noticing Marisa descending from above a smile crosses her face and her eyelids shut tight as she greets her friend with a prolonged "Heeeeello Marisa…"
Marisa is naturally puzzled by Reimu's behavior as she lands on the ground and sweeps the broom out from under her body, grasping it tightly to the right of her as an exasperated look crosses her face and with a hesitant tone she greets her friend with "Ummm…Hello to you too Reimu. What's up?"
"Oh nothing…" Reimu responds with an innocent smile, and as Marisa walks closer she turns her head to the left and is surprised to see about three piles worth of sake dishes standing beside the shrine maiden. "Oy, Reimu…Why are you drinking so much sake?"
Reimu tilts the sake dish in her hand to the right, the empty bowl falling out of her lanky grasp as she creates a drunken smile and says to Marisa "Well…I have a lot more time on my hands to drink sake these days…After all, nobody needs Reimu to solve incidents anymore! Nope, Miracle Girl, Holy Bitch and the Egotistical Taoist can handle things just fine on their own!"
The shrine maiden swings her body back in a bare bones attempt to express rage at the situation, her back plopping hard against the hard wood porch of the shrine as the cloth unfurls around her in a wrinkled manner. Marisa blinks twice while her face remains relatively surprised, in her mind she thinks "Oh great, this is worse than I imagined…Reimu is becoming self-destructive because she hasn't solved any incidents lately!"
Snapping into reality, Marisa exclaims to her dear friend in a blunt tone "Oy, Reimu…You can't just sit on your ass like this! There's something wrong going on in the Human Village again! When I went down there earlier today, Keine and Rinnosuke were acting completely different than their usual selves…Keine had become a gigantic skank and Rinnosuke was nearly in the buff…And I think they were expressing love towards each other."
The very thought of that word nearly made Marisa revolt, but not because she dislikes the concept but rather because of the two people involved in the emotion. Despite hearing this news, Reimu continues to lay against the ground and weakly replies to the Seven Colored Magician with "…They could really have feelings for each other…Rinnosuke did seem kind of like the lecherous type, and we can't really say that Keine didn't have it in her to become a skank…This isn't the start of an incident Marisa…So don't try and get my hopes up like that again…"
Reimu, after sharing her view on the matter to Marisa, shuts her eyelids and lets out a prolonged, merry sigh thanks to all of the sake flowing through her body. The witch still doesn't believe that everything is right in the Human Village despite what Reimu said. With an annoyed grunt Marisa declared to Reimu with an impatient, booming voice "You listen to me Reimu Hakurei, there is an incident going on right this instant and if you don't get off your ass and solve it then I will simply have to have Suika drag you to the Human Village with her bare hands!"
Reimu, barely concerned with Marisa's threat, turns her body sideways and responds "Go right ahead and try…Suika hasn't been at the shrine for the last couple of weeks anyways…" This information surprised the Seven Colored Magician, who calmed down for a moment and thought to herself "Wait, Suika isn't around? …Where the hell could that oni have gone off to at a time like this?"
With Marisa left to deal with the unmotivated, drunken Reimu, its time to return back to the "protagonist" of our story, Tenshi, who has carried the unconscious Hata no Kokoro through the skies of Gensokyo via her arms and keystone. After a decent trip, the Celestial descends into an inconspicuous thicket of tall bamboo shoots, finding a lone patch of dirt amidst those shoots that she can plant her keystone into and swiftly leap onto the ground, turning around and summoning forth another keystone to create a stable enough bed to lay Kokoro down across and give her a decent enough chance to recover her lost energy without anyone disrupting her.
During Kokoro's rest, not a single mask appears around her, which Tenshi finds rather interesting considering that there certainly had to be a "Mask of Sleep" or something that the Youkai could use at this moment. Or maybe Kokoro did have such a mask and simply couldn't use it because of a lack of energy needed to maintain its physical form around her body. As the Celestial pondered these ideas in her mind, she stood over the Youkai with arms folded, paying close attention to her young, lithe little body and her flowing pink hair as it hangs over the sides of the front keystone…As a matter of fact, Tenshi may be paying too much attention to Kokoro's appearance, a warm smile crossing her face at that very moment that expresses an emotion completely unnatural for the type of person the Celestial is…
Tenshi, with her heart pumping twice and her face growing warm with an overflow of blood, suddenly snaps back into reality and realizes that something is definitely wrong with how she is behaving at that moment, and with a shake of her head the Celestial denies what she just felt welling up inside of her heart and thinks to herself "She's just a tool for my own ends…I don't see her as anything else…" But as her eyelids creak open and she stares down at Kokoro, another thought that fights against her denial emerges "…Don't I?"
The Celestial is thankfully, in her opinion, distracted by the sound of footsteps beyond the bamboo shoots to the right of her. Drawing into her right hand the Hisou no Tsurugi in the form of a sword, Tenshi rushes towards the bamboo and cuts it down easily, the split shoots falling left and right in front of her and opening the way into a more open part of the forest where the noise she heard lies. Leaping beyond the pocket after glancing back to make sure that Kokoro will not be awoken, Tenshi lands before a lone person and finds her body temperature suddenly rising as sweat begins to form across her forehead.
Her body's reaction is caused by the heat exuding from an aura of wild flames surrounding a girl of indiscernible age. This mysterious flaming girl has burning red eyes and ankle-length pale violet hair that almost deceives Tenshi into thinking its white due to the flames. Her clothes consist of a light brown shirt and dark red overalls that are decorated with paper charms that the Celestial recognizes as the type that help protect the wearer from being burned by flames. The girl's hair is also tied with these very same red and white charms, thus further confirming Tenshi's suspicions.
The girl's expression is currently painted with pure rage, her scowl matching the intensity of her flaming aura as her fists are clenched tightly beside her body. Tenshi takes up the Hisou no Tsurugi in defense, but after a momentary glance the girl calms down and the flames mostly subside from her body as she straightens her posture and tucks her hands into her pants pockets. Only a few embers floating around her hair as she looks down at the Celestial, her height upon fully standing being a couple inches above Tenshi's own. With a quiet, partially apologetic voice the girl says "Sorry…I thought you were someone else…"
The girl turns around and stares up at the fading sunlight sky as Tenshi cautiously dispels her sword and stands up straight, listening as the girl asks "So…Are you lost or are you trying to head to the Eientei?"
The girl apparently assumed that Tenshi was a flightless human by asking that, meaning that she didn't notice her descend into the forest. Wanting to clarify on the situation for the girl's sake, the Celestial says "Neither one. Me and my companion are simply resting before we head on out to the Human Village for the night."
The girl tilts her head, saying in a partially intrigued voice "Oh, so you can fly? I suppose I shouldn't have mistaken you for a normal human after seeing your sword…Still, a part of me wishes that you were heading to the Eientei…"
The girl raises her left hand out from her pants and draws forth a melancholy flame, the crackling of its heat entering Tenshi's ears as a curious, awe-inspired look is made visible through her eyes and she lifts her up to ask "Oh, how come?"
The girl, with a neutral expression, asks the Celestial "You said you were from the Human Village, right?"
Tenshi nods, and the girl goes on to say "Well just today I was planning to head there and say hi to my friend Keine, but before I got the chance I saw her dashing through the forest with a frivolous, nearly bare-naked man following close behind…And with the way she was acting I almost couldn't recognize her. She didn't acknowledge my presence, she didn't have that tender smile like she always had whenever we walked…It was like she had become a completely different person…"
The girl was clearly saddened by the changes that happened to Keine, but Tenshi merely chuckled in her mind upon being updated on the actions and whereabouts of her first victims. However, her sly grin vanished and was replaced with a sudden heartbeat and flinch of shock upon seeing a gristly aura of flame appear around the girl as a hard grit scowl crosses her face and she declares in an unnerved manner "And I just know that Kaguya is somehow behind all of this! She probably had Eirin change Keine to get me riled up for another fight with her! But I won't play her sick game by her rules! If she wants to fight me, she can come here and fight me and not hide in Eientei like a coward!"
From the rage spoken by this girl, Tenshi quickly pieces together a few things, the most important of them being the identity of the girl in front of her. She was Fujiwara no Mokou, an immortal human forever interlocked into battle with the Lunarian Kaguya Houraisan thanks to both of them consuming the famed Hourai Elixir. Despite the legend of their conflict predating Tenshi's birth by a good many centuries, the Celestial did remember it being discussed long ago in Bhavaagra. After that long-winded recollection Tenshi continues piecing things together, realizing that Mokou wanted to take her along to the Eientei to use as bait in order to see what type of traps Kaguya might have set for Mokou.
After Mokou had let out most of her rage in that single declaration, she reverted back to the quiet, reclusive person she was beforehand and calmly says to Tenshi "Forgive my outburst…You probably don't even understand what I'm saying."
"No, I've heard about you and Kaguya." Tenshi chooses to be honest, for there was no harm in doing so at the moment. Mokou nods her head, but despite the knowledge the Celestial has regarding her name the immortal doesn't bother to ask the same of her.
Mokou begins to walk away from Tenshi, saying to her with her hands folded into her pockets "I will leave you be now…Soon enough, I will make Kaguya pay for her defiling of Keine with blood and fire!"
However, as much as the immortal wanted to leave, in her mind Tenshi desired for Mokou to stick around as a sly smile crossed her face and the shade of her hat hid her mischievous glare. Mokou's appearance would prove most beneficial to the Celestial, for with her mind focusing on emotions she tries her hardest to deny, the best way to distract herself from those very thoughts would be to engage the immortal in a Spell Card duel. And the best part about this whole set-up is that Tenshi has the perfect way to instigate a battle with Mokou that would make her fight to the fullest extent of her rage.
"Actually, what if Kaguya isn't the one responsible for Keine's emotional shift?" Tenshi says the first words needed to start things off in an alluring tone, causing Mokou to take pause for a moment before turning to face the Celestial with a puzzled "What do you mean by that?" emerging from her lips.
Tenshi lays the tips of her fingers against her chest, grinning coyly at the immortal before saying in a nonchalant voice "I was the one responsible for changing Keine's personality!"
Mokou's expression immediately becomes dumbfounded for just a moment, her eyes twitching for a few seconds before she snaps and with fists tightly clenched she erupts in a flurry of fire and proclaims as her body rises up off of the ground "YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Her flames take on the majestic shape of a Phoenix, the crest of the wings singing the bamboo shoots around her as Tenshi grins brightly and relishes in the rage of the immortal.
However, the flames were problematic. If they were allowed to keep going, then there's no doubt that Kokoro would be gravely harmed. As Mokou declares "I will incinerate you where you stand!" the Celestial quickly works up a plan to deal with the problem.
"If you burn me, then Keine's personality will never be restored to her true self!" Tenshi declares through the loud crackling of the flames, the reasoning she gives causing Mokou to temporarily pause and consider what she was about to do. Through the shade across her eyes cast by the combination of her hair and flames, Mokou gives the Celestial an angered glare before lowering the intensity of her flames to the point that they were no longer a threat to the Bamboo Forest. While Mokou still floats in the air, Tenshi latches onto the lip of her hat with her right hand and lifts it up slightly, mentioning to the immortal "There's one chance for you to free her personality…As Gensokyo dictates, you must face me in a Spell Card duel to solve this problem."
From underneath her hat, Tenshi draws out a single card with a mysterious picture on it. Grasping it between her fingers, the Celestial says to Mokou "I have one card on me at this moment…Pick a card of your own and if you manage to defeat me I will change Keine back. But whatever card you choose, we should duel above the forest to avoid harming anyone who might be lost right now, yes?"
Mokou looks around to assess the damage caused by her initial outburst that made Tenshi make such a remark just now, and with a brief nod the immortal rises up into the darkening sky beyond the canopy of the Bamboo Forest. Stamping her foot against the ground, the Celestial draws a keystone out from the ground that she uses as a platform to follow the immortal into the sky, flipping her spell card around a few times as a mischievous smile crosses her face. Once the two duelists were high enough into the air, they met their glares halfway, Mokou reaching into her pants and pulling out a burning white spell card without so much as a second thought towards which one she planned to use.
Simultaneously, the two duelists called out the names of their spell cards "Immortal 'Fire Bird -Flying Phoenix-'!" "Earthquake 'Evacuation Along the Steep Path'!" Mokou's card is activated by her crushing it in a hand set ablaze with fire, while Tenshi draws the Hisou no Tsurugi and cuts the levitating card in mid-air.
Behind the immortal appears the glowing crimson outline of the Phoenix, while Tenshi keeps her blade drawn and grasps the top of it with both of her palms. Mokou unleashes the first salvo of Danmaku, a large outward ring of burning white bullet followed up with a collection of glowing light-red spheres shaped to look like a miniature bird that thrusts forward faster than the rest of the bullets and goes straight for the Celestial herself, the gathered spheres releasing a series of feather shaped Danmaku in the process along its path of flight.
Tenshi dodges the initial onslaught of Danmaku with a smile, her eyelids closing as she pounds the Hisou no Tsurugi into her keystone, the entire sky quaking as from high above descends a meteor storm of keystones towards the immortal. However, as she starts off her spell card the feather Danmaku from earlier stop their pause and move towards the Celestial, forcing her to fly around in an upward curve to avoid them as Mokou unleashes another ring of bullets and another miniature bird. Most of the Danmaku is destroyed as the keystones collide through them during their descent, but their destruction merely releases thick spheres of scarlet Danmaku that home in on Mokou and fly her way. The immortal barely notices this thanks to the bullets sharing a similar color tone to her own attacks, but when she does she swings to the left and glows brightly before unleashing seven rings worth of bullet-shaped Danmaku that spread across the sky like a burning sun. Mixed within these rings are more miniature birds composed of Danmaku, one being fired off in each direction but from differing heights to throw Tenshi off.
The sky quickly becomes filled with red bullets, all of them lighting the darkness aglow with crimson and scarlet as miniature explosions caused by the keystones impact with the thicker bullets mix in with the rest of the Danmaku and leave very little space for either duelist to move around in. Tenshi has the easier time of the two though, for she only has to pay attention to Mokou's bullets and make sure that none hit her, using whatever free periods she can to slam the Hisou no Tsurugi on top of her ride and summon forth even more keystones from the heavens to rain down upon the immortal.
The first hit is dealt to Mokou, who is struck with two of Tenshi's scarlet Danmaku bullets after one of the rings she fires off passes between some of the shots scattered from the destroyed keystones. The Danmaku makes her feel weaker, but doesn't do anything spectacular besides touch her and vanish. Meanwhile, the Celestial zips around the skies gracefully, sometimes leaping off of her keystone to dodge the Danmaki with ease. Despite not ever seeing this spell card in action before, Tenshi has already figured out the pattern of bullets and has learned of every single opportunity that she can take to use her spell card, all the while her mind remains merrily focused on the joyous sensation of aerial combat in contrast to the blinding anger of the immortal Phoenix.
Mokou is angered even further at the fact that none of her Danmaku bullets are even grazing the Celestial, but because she agreed to a one-card duel she cannot change her pattern even in the slightest. Two more bullets hit Mokou, followed up by three more after she launches a ring of Danmaku and another crimson bird at Tenshi. The Celestial's bullets packed the punch of fifty miniature ones that Mokou had felt when she faced a particular shrine maiden long ago, which means that it would only take a few more of the Celestial's Danmaku to finish her off. For Keine's sake though, the immortal Phoenix would refuse to bend to this impure being's will.
Mokou calmed down slightly, focusing more on the Celestial's bullets instead of her own and trying harder to send out her Danmaku to avoid destroying the keystones. With the wide range of the multi-directional bird Danmaku though, this would prove to be a difficult challenge for the immortal, but one she would surely have to triumph over if she wanted to free Keine. Tenshi notices Mokou's change in tactics, but despite a brief flinch of her expression from merry to shocked she grins once more and finds herself greatly unconcerned by the immortal's decision.
The keystone's from Tenshi's next assault slip between the Danmaku bullets just like Mokou intended for them to, a sly smile appearing on her face as the Celestial stands still on her method of transportation and a bird of Danmaku flies straight at her while the keystones fly behind the immortal. "Hehe…" The Celestial calmly chuckles, and with a swing of the Hisou no Tsurugi across the air the keystones behind Mokou detonate and release an instantaneous barrage of Danmaku that strikes the immortal on her back and causes all of her Danmaku to shatter apart as with widened eyes Mokou explodes in a flurry of burning clouds much to Tenshi's surprise.
"Whoa, hold on a moment…I thought she was immo-" Before the Celestial could finish her sentence, Mokou reforms from the burning clouds, all of which collapse inward and form into the shape of her body before it solidifies into the flesh, bone and muscle of the immortal Phoenix. Though she was defeated in the Danmaku duel, Mokou refused to give up, and as fire flares up intensely around her body the immortal declares "Do you think I'm just going to let you get away because you won a spell card duel?! I can still burn you to ashes with ease, and you would not live through it like Kaguya or I would!"
The Celestial rolls her eyes upon hearing the immortal's blind threat, and with a raise of the Hisou no Tsurugi towards the sky Tenshi draws Mokou's attention above herself where a large ring of keystones has suddenly appeared, and with a swing of her heavenly sword downward the keystones drop upon the surprised immortal and form a pile around her that drags her into the ground of the Bamboo Forest with a mighty crash that plows apart the dirt and shakes the very foundation of the area to its core. A plume of dust arises, helping the Celestial determine where the immortal impacted as she descends from the night sky and lands in front of the pile of keystones that Mokou had been buried under.
Tenshi couldn't see a single part of Mokou's body through the pile, the immortal having been buried so deeply within the keystones that most of her oxygen had been cut off. With vapid breathes, Mokou angrily says through what little cracks exist within the pile "I…I'm not afraid of your…s-stones….I…I…I will burn them…apart…"
The Celestial grins and after dispelling the Hisou no Tsurugi she holds her right hand against her hip and says to Mokou "You would need the heat of a thousand suns to burn apart the keystones, and if you go that far then you will burn Gensokyo to the ground and kill Keine in the process…All you can really do is let your oxygen run out and perish so you can come back to life outside of the keystones, and by then I will be long gone and you will never find me no matter how hard you try."
"Y…You won't get away with this…" Mokou mumbles, her breaths becoming more pained yet her desire to tell the Celestial off overriding all her pain as she goes on to mention "S…Someone…Will stop you…"
Tenshi lets out a light laugh through her grin, boasting to the buried immortal with her head held back and a haughty sneer on her face "And just who will stop me? The shrine maiden? The ordinary magician? Perhaps that half-ghost swordsman or the border manipulating witch? Hahaha…Foolish Mokou, none of them are capable of stopping me. In fact, no one in Gensokyo can defeat me! I am the strongest there is!" (Meanwhile at a mysterious location, Cirno sneezes)
Mokou grunts in pain and anger beneath the keystones, but before Tenshi can laugh at the immortal's misery she hears a meek groan coming from behind and turns to see Kokoro floating out of the pocket she was laying down in with a tired expression on her face and a Sleep mask floating beside her body before it swiftly switches to that of a Monkey upon seeing the Celestial standing before a pile of her keystones and a quiet noise seeping through the cracks. "…Tenshi, what is going on here?" Kokoro asks in an innocent, quiet voice. Mokou cannot hear the Youkai's voice, and Tenshi recognizes this upon failing to hear a reaction from her.
Thus, after taking a couple steps forward to put herself by Kokoro's side Tenshi puts on her false act of kindness and rests her left arm along the Youkai's back, laying her right hand out towards the keystone pile before lying quietly to Kokoro with "Somebody sent an assassin to try and kill us. I defended you to the best of my ability, but the person is immortal and cannot be permanently stopped."
Kokoro is confused by Tenshi's explanation, and quickly asks with her head tilted to look at the Celestial "Why would someone try to kill us?"
Tenshi responds to the Youkai with "Remember what I said early about how people wouldn't be too receptive to their true emotions being released? This assassination attempt is merely one of the ways the people of Gensokyo have chosen to react to the changes we have begun to make…"
Kokoro trembles slightly upon hearing this news, the mask beside her changing to the wrinkled face of a blue man with puckered, frightened lips and green eyes, this mask representing the fear that the Youkai is now experiencing. Tenshi notices this fear, and with false reassurance she kneels in front of Kokoro and says with their glances meeting "Kokoro…I know you are scared of dying…But that's why I am here. I am your guardian angel, here to escort you through this sacred mission to fix the cynical ways of Gensokyo via emotional release. So long as I stand beside you, no one will harm a single hair on your body."
Tenshi's words, however false they may have been, were believed by Kokoro instantly and the Mask of Fear is replaced with the Ko-omote mask of joy. The Celestial rises, satisfied that her manipulations are still taking effect. There was still one issue that needed to be dealt with though…
Turning to face the pile of keystones, Tenshi points with one hand towards it and thinks to herself "I can't take the risk of her telling anyone…One person I can handle, but if everyone rallies together everything will be ruined."
She then says to Kokoro "Let us dissuade the nay-sayers…Change our assassins emotions to make her unable to follow us ever again…Perhaps make her tired or lazy, its up to you."
Turning away from the pile of keystones to let Kokoro take of business herself, Tenshi grins and glances over her right shoulder as the Youkai takes out her Mask of Sleep and despite the weariness of awakening she uses her powers on the person inside of the pile, unaware that said person was suffocating because of the Celestial's efforts. Before the grip of Kokoro's powers take hold as she simultaneously runs out of oxygen, Mokou thinks to herself "Keine…I'm sorry…"
Mokou's body dies, and the keystones above her crumble. However, Kokoro's powers managed to work just in time and Tenshi quickly turns her around before she sees the immortal being revive once more. With a smile on her face, the Celestial says to the Youkai "Good work Kokoro. So, are you ready to go help other people out in the brisk of night?"
Kokoro flinches in surprise upon hearing what time of day it was. She hadn't actually taken a moment to feel the atmosphere or look up into the sky. Pulling away from Tenshi, the Youkai mentions stoically "I have to get back to the Human Village. I have to perform another dance for the people tonight."
"…Oh." Tenshi was partially disappointed by the fact that she'd have to stop transforming people's emotions for today, but at the same time she figured a break to watch Kokoro dance again under the pale moonlight would be a perfect way to relax and prepare herself for the next day. "Alright then Kokoro, lets head on back for today." The Celestial pats the young Youkai on the head, for once giving her an honest, approving smile before they both fly off into the night away from the Bamboo Forest.
Mokou revives, her body lying on top of the keystone pile as she lets out a lazy yawn and stretches her arms out, smacking her lips a few times as a figure slowly walks into view and observes the changes in the immortal's emotional state and personality. "…So even the famed Hourai Immortals are being affected…This isn't good. But there's something strange about the Celestial's actions that I can't quite put my finger on yet…Before I act, I must continue to observe…" The figure then vanishes from the Bamboo Forest in a puff of smoke…
Next Time: The Tiny Night Parade