Sorry to say this, but updates will start to slow down a bit from this point.
Why? Because this house has only one computer in it, and now that Lt Colonel Summers has terminated his break, he's going to continue updating his own stories. Which mean that we'll have to take turns at using this computer.
This sucked. More so by the fact that FanFiction Mobile doesn't let people write their own stories. You must use the desktop version if you want to write stories.
Forewords ends here.
Fairy Forest Depth, Outskirts of Gensokyo.
Konngara and her mysterious conspirator stood calmly as a flood of fairies ran or flew past them, some are carrying Kedama with them as they flew by.
The Astral Knight knew that the fairies are frightened and, despite being immortal, are running for their lives.
"For now, I am worried that I may have committed a mistake by hiring that evil spirit to execute part of the plan..." Konngara told her mysterious conspirator.
As if hearing a response, the Astral Knight suddenly turned toward the mysterious conspirator, amidst the still ongoing flood of escaping fairies and Kedama.
"You have faith in the shrine maiden?" Konngara said. "I thought your kind was not the kind to have faith..."
The mysterious conspirator seemed to reply with a hand-sign.
"There are exceptions to everything, you say?" Konngara interprets the mysterious conspirator's message.
The flood of fairies and Kedama ending at that point served to make the scene seem tense.
"Very well..." Konngara gives her response to the mysterious conspirator. "Yours are not to be doubted..."
...
Fairy Forest.
"You're not as strong as I thought, and I am quite disappointed with it..." Mima said to Reimu, as the latter stood slightly fatigued after dodging all the lethal danmaku fired at her.
The shrine maiden trainee stopped for a moment to catch her breath (and that Mima seemed to have stopped as well) before telling the evil spirit, "I am still going to... exorcise your sorry ghostly b..."
Mima became amused at that fatigued statement. "I have never heard your mother sprouting any expletive, but you seemed to have picked up quite an inappropriate language at quite an early age." Mima then crosses her arm, while her left hand is still gripping her knife. "What a shame..."
Reimu finishes catching her breath, and interrupts the evil spirit. "Well, can we please get back with our fight?" She said as she pointed her gohei at Mima.
Mima smiled. "Impatient little girl..." She twirls the bloodied knife in her hand for a few seconds.
Then without warning, the evil spirit swung the knife forward, sending a burst of razor sharp wind toward Reimu.
Reimu dodged the razor wind by crouching at the last second, but she didn't dodge it completely as it still slices a strand of hair right off the shrine maiden trainee's head.
The razor wind continued past Reimu. An overly curious fairy that didn't escape with her fellows and stayed to watch the fight between Reimu and Mima was unlucky enough to be right in the trajectory of the razor wind, and...
What happened next is something that was enough to make both Reimu and Mima wince.
"Ouch..." Reimu said as she saw what the razor wind did to the poor fairy. "Would've been different if she was a Nukekubi... But she'll probably revive somewhere else and won't remember much of it." The shrine maiden trainee turns back toward Mima. "I'm still going to put you where you belong, you know that?"
"I was expecting that..." Mima shoots a deadpan response. "Not the fairy being there. I'm referring to what you just said."
"Well then..." Reimu then gets the jump on Mima by firing several danmaku at her.
Unlike Yuugen-Magan's main body, Mima can be hit by danmaku despite being technically a ghost. The evil spirit staggered back a tiny distance (it would be wrong to say "several steps" as Mima has no legs) as she gets hit by the surprise shots.
"I should have expected such a foul play, since I was the first to commit a foul play..." Mima comments as she recuperates. "Good job, young girl."
The evil spirit then launches another razor wind.
Reimu snatched a rock from the ground and threw it at the razor wind in an attempt to neutralize it. But when she sees that the razor wind sliced clean through the rock, the shrine maiden trainee threw herself onto the ground to avoid being sliced through. Still lying on the ground, Reimu fires several more danmaku at Mima.
Mima staggers back another tiny distance upon being hit. Grunting, she launches a blood red danmaku in retaliation.
Reimu dodges the blood red danmaku by rolling out of the way, but not completely as it still grazed her on her left elbow.
The shrine maiden trainee makes her retaliation. "Give up right now, and I might just consider not exorcising you." She said as she fires danmaku at Mima.
Mima took all of those danmaku directly, including one right to her face, yet the evil spirit still isn't going down. "I won't give up!" Mima's speech tone suddenly became tense and serious. "I wanted to make Hakurei Miko pay for killing me. But since she went and croaked on her own a long time ago, I will dish out my revenge on her offspring - in this case, you!" She then rapid-fires several more blood red danmaku.
Reimu dodges all blood red danmaku but one, which she swats out with her gohei (which weathered the fatal shot quite surprisingly). "I don't even know exactly why my mother killed you!" She then returns fire with a small barrage of danmaku.
Mima is prepared for Reimu's return fire this time, and swings her knife around to block the shots. However, this also proved to be her undoing, as the last shot knocked the knife right out of her hand. The knife landed on the ground behind her, handle first.
Reimu took this chance to pelt Mima with more danmaku to prevent her from attempting to pick up the knife, and then follows up by throwing an Ofuda at the evil spirit.
Getting hit by the magical explosive was enough to truly incapacitate Mima. When the smoke cleared up, the evil spirit seemed to be kneeling on the ground, breathing heavily (ghosts don't breathe, so the heavy breathing may just be an indication of fatigue).
"Okay, you win..." Mima said with no ill intent left in her tone. "Now do your job and exorcise me..."
"You kind of deserved it..." Reimu told the evil spirit.
Reimu seemed to walk up close to Mima. The shrine maiden trainee appeared to raise an Ofuda above her head, but then puts it back down just a few seconds later.
"On second thought, maybe not..." The shrine maiden trainee added.
Mima became confused. "I broke the rules and tried to kill you. What made you change your mind?" She asked.
Reimu crossed her arms and replies, "I didn't change my mind, its just that I'm not qualified for exorcising anything..." She snaps her fingers. "You see, I'm just a shrine maiden trainee. I can't exorcise you... yet."
Hearing that, Mima turned her stare straight at the ground below her. "Heh... It took a professional almost all of her powers to defeat me, but her newbie daughter did the same with much less effort..." The evil spirit then face-palms. "How rusty have I become... How much have Gensokyo and the world changed..."
"But..." Reimu suddenly added.
Mima turned her sight back on Reimu when she heard that.
"I can still punish you for breaking the rules..." The shrine maiden trainee said, before slapping the Ofuda onto Mima's face.
Having the Ofuda slapped onto her face caused Mima to be drained of her powers, followed by a sensation of paralysis.
"...And your punishment is to take it easy for the next hour or so~" Reimu finishes her sentence.
With paralysis in place, Mima could only stay still with discontent.
With the situation resolved, Reimu turned around and said, "Come on, Genji, we're going..."
Genji slowly emerged from the foliage he has been hiding in for the entire battle. "Impressive, Reimu..." The flying turtle said.
Reimu and Genji then continues down the path into the deepest parts of the Fairy Forest, leaving Mima behind by herself.
"This girl, Hakurei Reimu, has potential..." Mima told herself, with the evil tone in her speech pattern completely gone.
The evil spirit quickly found herself face to face with a fairy. The same fairy that got hit by her razor wind earlier, having just resurrected.
Said fairy, seeing that Mima is incapacitated and weakened, approached her...
...And then just slapped her with her fairy hand.
"And that's for slicing me in half!" The fairy lashed out.
Mima could only groan as the fairy sprinkled dried leaves all over her before leaving the scene.
Righto, here's another chapter in this fan remake of Touhou!
Really, I got nothing else to say in this Afterwords section. Other than that you can probably guess who will Reimu fight next.
No changes from canon has been indicated anywhere in this chapter. Mima having two left hands in Highly Responsive To Prayers is just a technical/ visual glitch in the game, so it doesn't count.
"And that, as they say, is that..."
Afterwords ends here.
