Yukari reclined in her chair. She'd heard about the miraculous recovery of Sanae's Hair Styling Co. and was considering purchasing it, when she heard an explosion.

Ran ran (I love doing that, you know) into the room. "Yukari! Chen's missing, and I found a note written in cheese that says 'if you want her back, send 500000 yen now!'"

"Really?" Yukari asked.

"Well, it really said 'we want teh muns, giv us 500000 muns or chen ded', but you know what I mean!"

"Hm... Send it to where, I wonder. It doesn't say, so that's not an option. I don't know anyone who spells like that, except... no, it can't be..."

"Yukari? Do you know who it is?"

"It's one of my enemies that I defeated long ago, after she did a thing. And I heard her zombified corpse was vaporized... meaning..."

"Meaning she's a ghost now?"

"Meaning she doesn't owe me three ficuses anymore! Debt doesn't apply to ghosts! That's it: I shall find her ghost and kill it!"

Meanwhile, in... well, somewhere

"It's so dark..." Chen said. "Who... who would kidnap me?"

"Hahahaha... You didn't expect you'd see me again, did you, little girl?" a ghostly voice said from the darkness around Chen's cage. A form floated forwards.

"No... it's impossible... you died!"

"I didn't die, I merely... ahaha... left for a while."

"Where am I?"

"You're in the Void of the Forgotten Ones. The place I was banished to upon my death, back when Yukari was just becoming a fine gentleman. And now, we just need Yukari to come here..."

Later, in the Scarlet Devil Mansion

"Impossible!" Remilia said. "I vapourised Zombie Reimu!"

"Ah, yes... I forgot about your British spelling. Anyhow, we've found this note." Yukari held up the ransom note.

"Oh. That's Reimu's writing for sure. But zombies can't become ghosts..."

"We might need to ignore that for a bit. Anyhow, where's Sakuya?"

"Over here," Sakuya said, suddenly appearing.

"We need your help with a bit of a mystery. Someone's kidnapped Chen and we need to rescue her." Yukari sighed. "We would just pay the trivial fee but it didn't say where to send it to, and paying a ransom never really works out in the end."

"A mystery... Well, the way I see it..."

"Yes?"

"From the writing I'd say it's Reimu for sure. But the issue here is the ink used. It's from the fruit of a Mimus carica plant, which only grow in the Void of the Forgotten Ones. That means someone who's been forgotten by the beings that created the world up until recently has taken Chen there. And that means that in about day from now, you'll forget all about her, and she'll become one of the Forgotten Ones, because of the Void's power. And that raises another question: who is the littlest known person in Gensokyo? They would be the only one unnafected by the Void."

"Almost certainly Reimu. She died towards the beginning of Gensokyo's reformation into gentlemanliness, and was quickly forgotten about."

"Ah, yes. But... well, I suppose the Void is your best bet. You'll have to be in and out in... seventeen hours- no, wait. When was she taken?"

"This morning."

"What hour?"

"I saw the note at 7:00 AM," said Ran. "If that helps."

"You've got two hours. I'd leave now, if I were you."

"Thank you, Sakuya," Yukari said. "I shall leave upon this very moment." She gapped herself away. Ran sighed.

"She does this a lot," Ran said. "She gaps away without me... I'll just head home and continue fixing the boiler Nitori blew up." She flew away.

Inside the Void, twenty minutes later

Chen shivered. She was feeling very weak, almost as if she was vanishing.

"How does it feel? To be forgotten? Yukari, Ran, Nitori, anyone... they're not coming."

"I-I... the Void's doing this, isn't it...?

"Welcome to your final resting place, Chen."

"Not so fast!" Yukari said, dashing into the room. "I don't remember there being a maze there, dang it, but I got through!"

"Why didn't you just gap through it? It would have sapped your powers if you did, but..."

"Because I needed exersize!" Yukari shouted. "Now, reveal yourself, Ghost of Reimu!"

"Oh, I'm not Reimu. Although I bet you wish I was..."

"Who... who are you?"

The figure lifted up a staff with an end shaped like a crecent-moon, which began to glow, illuminating the darkness of the Void.

"No..." Yukari said. "Mima? I thout you'd been completely forgotten!"

"Oh, you wish..." Mima said. "There's only one person that remembers me now... and their singular belief allow me to use this Void to do whatever I wish! Give my deepest thanks to whoever destroyed Zombie Reimu- without them, I couldn't do this."

"What do you want?"

"Oh, it's simple... I want to be remembered! And to do that, I need to sap your power and drain it all into the Void, reversing its polarity and making me, its master, a memorable person! Such a shame you didn't gap through my maze. I'll have to use the attack I've been developing ever since back in good old '98, the year of the Mystic Square incident- when I was considered the most memorable person around!" Mima aimed her staff at Yukari. "GOODBYE." The tip of the staff began to glow. Yukari thought she knew what was coming, and dodged quickly.

"TWILIGHT SPARK!" Mima exclaimed. Energy flowed through her staff, culminating at the point. Space began to distort around the tip of her staff, and as Yukari knew it was about to fire-

it didn't. The distortion in space stayed on Mima's staff.

"Now that Twilight Spark has been aborted, it's still trying to draw power from the air. And if I hit you in our Gentleman's Duel..." Mima smiled. "It'll draw in your power to the Void."

TO BE CONTINUED