"You screwed up. The shrine maiden is probably making her way down the geyser now. You'd better fix this before the Mistresses come back."
Orin was pulling the strap around the brace. "Ah, ah...that's a little tight." She loosened it up a little, and secured the strap.
"Don't put any unnecessary stress on it or try to move it much. I wouldn't advise any fighting for awhile, best to say at least a week and a half."
"CAUTION! FOREIGN SUBSTANCE DETECTED IN MAIN REACTOR!"
"Well," Orin said, "she's here. Geez, doesn't she ever take the route through the Underground City? Isn't that much exposure to radiation hazardous to humans?"
"She did, that one time..."
"Whatever. Come on."
When we arrived, I unlocked the door to the direct maintenance bay of the main reactor, and went out into the reactor.
"Oi, oi! Up here!" She saw me, and instantly started throwing talismans at me. I ducked back behind the door and shut it, putting my back against it. I heard the paper talismans hit the door.
Orin looked at me with her arms crossed. "She's pissed, isn't she?" I nodded. "Dammit, Okuu," she sighed, "you are more trouble than you're worth, sometimes... Go get your buster and I'll hold her here!"
"You're going to attack her!? Won't that make things worse!?"
"You know how that shrine maiden is! Now go!"
I gave a quick nod, and ran back from the reactor. I ran through the primary core management terminal room, and turned to the corridor. It was at this point when...BLAM! A loud explosion rocked the corridor, followed by the blaring of a klaxon.
"CAUTION! REACTOR RUPTURE-LEAK IN MAIN REACTOR! SEALING AREA!"
I stopped as I heard the sounds of spells being called out and colliding, along with the various alarms. The red rotary lights on the ceiling lit up and started spinning. I started sprinting back to my room.
My room was red with the overhead alert light. The speaker was still dismounted from the wall, so the klaxon wasn't as loud in here. The terminal in the corner, however, was persistently beeping another alarm, but for the same reason. I reached towards the work table and grabbed the Third Leg, and put it on.
As I ran like hell back up the corridor, I heard the clamour of spells being declared, explosions from colliding attacks and bullets sent astray, and the seemingly omnipresent alarms. I stopped at the automatic door, which, when I moved toward it, started to open slowly, then stopped soon after. Sparks came from the touch panel next to the door, and it began to flicker as it blinked, 'SYSTEM MALFUNCTION.' I pulled at the door, but it wouldn't budge. I kicked at it several times. 'Clang! Clang! Clang!' Nothing. I started bashing at it with the buster, making even more clanging noises.
This was pissing me off, and stressing me out more than I needed to be stressed at this point. I pointed the Third Leg straight at the door and fired a medium-sized burst from it, which sent the steel door flying into the management room with an even louder 'CLANG!'
When I entered the room, I could see the blast door was already sealed. I wasted no time getting to the terminal. I immediately began instructing the console to shut down the main reactor and divert all jobs to the three secondary reactors, and typing in the override command to unseal the door.
'EMERGENCY OVERRIDE REQUESTED. UNLOCK TO CONTINUE.'
A panel opened up in the lower front of the terminal's base, and a hexagonal impression with six specially-formed keyholes was visible, along with the engraved text: 'Master Override.' I placed the end of the Third Leg into the impression, and waited briefly for all six keys to unlock before pulling it back out.
'ACCESS GRANTED.' Yet another alarm sounded as the blast door slowly opened.
"Okuu! What took yo-" Orin's greeting was cut short by an energy-composed Ying-Yang orb that hit her square in the back, hurling her into the wall by the blast door.
"You're next, crow!"
