Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun. Everything else belongs to their rightful owner. I do not own any of the things from this story, and am merely making use of them.

A/N: And finally this Makai Route is coming to a close! Will our hero make it make it in time? Is Sariel evil? Find out next time o-

Y/N: This time.

A/N: This time?

Y/N: This time.

A/N: ...Right... Erm, find out this time, on this episode of... of...

Y/N: ...This is getting to be depressing. Just call it maiden ball z, and be done with this rather weak joke.


Hm...? I sense a rather potant holy relic headed this way... That wouldn't be a particularly wise idea, what with a city full of daemons being rather near, so I had best intercept them. Rising from my meditation with a single flap of my four unbroken wings, I landed gracefully on my feet. With a vague destination in mind, I began to walk towards the source of this mighty energy. Best meet them half way, lest they be forced to walk all that way, and only be rewarded with what is likely a swift death. Or fly, for that matter.. It's not as if I have knowledge of their method of travel after all. I'm no god, nor am I plagued by all that that would entail, good or bad.

After a somewhat lengthy walk through this plane of eternal twilight, I arived upon a young human. "Hail, human of seemingly few years! Are you the one who is waltzing about with a hol-" Finding the holy relic I was inquiring about being chucked at my head, I deftly caught ot in a hand, before narrowing my eyes are the young one. "...Why, may I ask, are you throwing a holy relic around like a toy, girl?"

Tearing up with more than a slight amount of fear, but still standing her ground with trembling legs, the young girl began to respond. "Y-you broke my house, you big meanie!"

House? ...Is she reffering to that shrine of the eastern gods I landed on, when I fell? Well, regardless of that, I cannot tollerate such treatment of such a powerful holy relic. "Before I address that issue, do tell me what possessed you to use this artifact for blunt force trauma."

"I... I have to make you pay, and things keep on being mean! ...A-and gimme back grandpa Genji's ball! It's scary here, without it..." She looked about, hearing all sorts of hisses and growls from the daemons that she had been using the ball to fight off.

With a sigh, I held up the orb, and tapped into a bit of its power, using it to radiate a large dome-shaped shield of pure holy energy. "The daemons will not harm you, now. Or to be more exact, they are now unable to, due to the power of this sanctifier."

At what I told her, she looked about in wonder. "How'd you do that...? There's so much of the yellow energy stuff from the inside of it on the outside, and it's keeping the monsters away!" Ohh? She can see the holy energies of this orb? ...I see, she must be from a line of holymen and the like.

With that done, I began to make my way over to the girl, earning me a flinch. "W-what are you..." Once more fear began to be shown through those windows into her still pure, untainted soul.

As I made my way towards her, she slowly back away, extending my walking distance just a bit. However, with the length of her legs being significantly less than my own, coupled with how she was walking backwards, while I was walking in the proper direction, she made little ground. Once I had finally reached her, she stopped trying to back away, and looked up at me with tears of fear in her young eyes.

Letting out a sigh, I knelt down to her height, so as to make myself seem far less intimidating. Just as I had hoped, her knees had stopped knocking together, if only just a bit. With a slightly forced smile, I handed the orb back to her, before ruffling her hair slightly. Humans like that, if memory serves, and that goes double for the little ones. "Now, as you were saying about what I assume to be your family's shrine to the gods?"

The little human perked up at that, her confidence regained now that she had the relic which seemed to belong to her parent's parent back in her grasp. "You broke my grandpa's shrine!" Her body began to suck up a bit of the energy from within the ball, showing me that she was subconciously preparing to battle. Ahh, the things that ancestry can do for humans...

I waved my hands infront of my face rather calmly, knowing exactly what to say to fix the situation. "Than I shall repair that which I have detroyed."

Before me, the youngling blinked in surprise. "...Really?"

Giving her a nod, I replied, "Really. Although, I shall need you to lead me to the gate of this place; I know not where it is..." My sense of direction has never been my strong point, which was actually what caused this little mess in the first place, along with my broken wings.

With an easily ignored awkward air surrounding us, she motioned for me to follow after her, which eventually ended us up at the gate back to earth. Finding it curious that she knew where to find it, I asked, "How did you find it with such ease?"

The human puffed her chest out with pride, seeming to find her supposed skills to be impressive. "I followed my gut!"

I rose a brow at the odd sense of pride she held in not actually knowing the way home, but chose not to speak up about it. Needless conflict is just as needless as the first half of the term points out. As such, I had no reason to incite it, and instead had reason enough to avoid it.

It wasn't long untill we reached the world not filled to the brim with daemons, and we made our way to the point in which I had ever so gracefully landed. The crater of what was once a shrine.

Pointing to the massive crater, the little girl calmly demanded, "Fix it."

I rose a brow at the vague demand. "I shall need materials to do as such."

Tilting her head, the girl replied, "Than go get them?"

Giving a sigh, I made off for a forest in the slight distance, followed by the little girl the whole way. "...You realize that you needn't follow me, correct?"

Looking over my shoulder, I saw the human nod, and simply let out a sigh. This shall become tiresome, but I suppose this is my fault. Had I not fallen off of the heavens, I wouldn't be in this mildly irritating situation; I had no one to blame for that mistake but myself.

And so we set to work on building a new shrine, which she was far more help in than I expected her to be, as I was expecting no help at all. Although, I do have to wonder when this grand parent of hers might return, and proceed to have a heart attack for various reasons.


Waving to the angel as she flapped her now healed wings, I watched as she flew up into the clouds. "Bye, miss angel!"

She looked back to me, before calling out, "My designation would be Sariel, little human! Do try to remember it, although I doubt that you will, given your current track record on that regard."

That was a tough week... With the angel gone, I headed back to the new and improved shrine, now with the blessing of an angel to ward off destruction. ...No idea how that works, but it does sound nice enough.

As I made my way inside, I noticed that grandpa's ball was twitching about, and so padded over the freshly made tatami towards it. "What's wrong with you...?" Did I... I hope I didn't break it with hitting things with it so much!

And then I found yet another shocking thing happening. The orb split in to equal halves of yin and yang, seperating the black and white from eachother. Picking up the yin half, I found it to have a concave inside, making the whole thing hollow. When I looked at the other half, I found a cute little fairy to be sleeping inside of it. Ahh! This reminds me of those seven balls that summon a strange creature that grants wishes!

I began to poke to silky smooth cheek of the cute thing with my index finger, wanting to wake it up. I want my wishes!


Ugh... What's poking me...? I cracked open an eye, and looked to the source of my aggravation, finding a little brat to be poking my cheek. What in the...

Seeing that she had interrupted my beauty sleep, the brat cries out, "I want a bajillion yen!" ...Is this a robbery? Am I being held up by an irritating little human?! Continuing on, the human ticked off a finger. "And a delicious cake!" ...I'd better get some, if she plans to make a slave of me! "Ahh! And... And a nice, hot meal!" ...So, hot cake...? What's going on, it's as if she thinks I'm going to- "And the answer to life, the universe, and everything!" ...She thinks I can grat wishes, doesn't she?

Thinking for a second, the little brat added, "And I want to blow the world up!"

...What? ...Why...? "Who the heck'd wish for crap like that?!" I couldn't take these requests. I mean yes, I could grant wishes, but that doesn't mean that I will!

Getting a devious idea to get me a bit of peace, I asked, "...Now, hows about I give yas an interestn' life, instead?"

Looking at me with glittering eyes, the human began to grin. "That sounds like fun! Yeah, do that! Do that!"

Grinning wickedly, I worked up a bit of magic into my hands. "Hasta la vista, baby!"

Tilting her head, the brat asked, "What's that mea-"

While she was busy asking that question, I threw my orb of magic at her, causing her to pop out of this reality, and into another. Ahh, peace and quiet...

Not particularly caring for what sort of interesting life I had given the girl, I got back inside my yin-yang orb of a bed, and went back into hibernation. "Maybe another hundred year nap's..." I opened my ever so adorable little mouth in a yawn, as I began to drift off. "...What I need..."

Soon I was snoring yet again, not thinking at all on the fate of the brat in the least.