Yumemi smiled at Reimu, it definitely wasn't a kindly smile that one would give to a friend - especially as Reimu doesn't consider herself as a friend of Yumemi, at least for the time being. It wasn't even a malevolent smile, or even a cocky smile. It was simply a regular smile; one that was owned by someone who was certain that they would win.
Yumemi shot a hand towards the duo's direction, outlines of holy crosses appearing around them. Already knowing what is to happen with these outlines, Genji flew away from them as they turned into crimson crosses made of magical power, capable of hurting a ton more than danmaku, disappearing shortly after. Yumemi just smirked, snapping her fingers and making other crosses appear, albeit instantly and around her. The professor pointed towards the moving duo, the summoned weapons flying towards them as projectiles.
Reimu fired danmaku at the crosses, though only some of them were destroyed as they came nearer and nearer. As it became obvious that the shrine maiden trainee's idea to just shoot them down was not going to work, Genji flew himself and his trainee out of the way of the crosses, the red items grazing at the human's and turtle's bodies.
"Hmm, so you're having a bit of luck with dodging my special crosses, aren't you?" Yumemi said, keeping her smile as she raised a hand into the air. "That's no mater, no matter at all. I, of course, have managed to learn all sorts about danmaku during my time here. Allow me to demonstrate."
Yumemi released a barrage of the standard white pellet danmaku and larger, spherical orange danmaku, shooting out in every which way as a dense wave. Reimu fired danmaku at Yumemi as Genji flew so that they could both avoid the danmaku that the Outsider was sending towards them, though with how little space Yumemi was giving Reimu (a thing that the shrine maiden trainee was noticing to become very common), they were grazing at a lot of it. Though it was no problem, in fact grazing the danmaku felt like it was giving the shrine maiden trainee some extra energy to continue fighting against Yumemi.
What was also a good thing was that Yumemi was just staying there in the air, withstanding all of the holy danmaku that Reimu was firing towards her. Reimu didn't know if Yumemi had just simply forgotten to dodge, if the danmaku was just barely hurting her at all, or if she had some trick up her sleeve related to the danmaku, but honestly the Hakurei member didn't care or think about it much at the moment, right now the top priority was defeating the Outsider.
Yumemi pointed a hand towards Reimu, firing a tornado of white and orange danmaku towards the shrine maiden trainee.
Reimu had little time to think, the shot of danmaku coming towards her at high speeds. Maybe Genji was think of a way to easily dodge it, like he usually does, but it seemed like the purple-haired maiden was now operating under a different brainwave than the ancient turtle.
Using her link with the Yin-Yang Orb, Reimu made the two duplicates form back together into the singular, real thing. Reimu grabbed hold of it and threw it towards the stream of danmaku with all her might. The ancient and powerful relic destroyed the artificial danmaku like it would with real danmaku, continuing to shoot through the air until it hit Yumemi square in the forehead.
The Outsider ceased her attack as she grabbed hold of the red mark that was now on her forehead because of the relic, throbbing with pain from such a hit. Reimu managed to calm down as she not only stopped the danmaku, but had also done significant damage to Yumemi, the shrine maiden trainee using her link to make it fly towards her and split into two duplicates once again.
"Lady Hakurei, that was a risky decision." Genji said. It didn't sound like he was scolding Reimu for her decision, but the maiden still had a feeling that he wasn't much of a fan of it. "We're lucky that Yumemi didn't use any of her mysterious tricks to capture the Yin-Yang Orb."
"You sometimes worry too much, Gramps." Reimu responded, making the two duplicates fly once again as she used her link with the Yin-Yang Orb. Reimu looked up from the holy entity, seeing that Yumemi was writing something down on a notepad with a pencil.
"Interesting. Interesting." Yumemi mumbled as she continued to write down on the book. "So the power of the Yin-Yang Orb can even break through my powerful artificial danmaku, very interesting. Looks like I'll have to improve on this artificial magic. And even with the tremendous boost to my physical abilities granted by the artificial magic, the Yin-Yang Orb still managed to hurt me. In fact, the pain is still a little throbbing right now. I'm very happy that I picked you out specifically as one of the residents of Gensokyo that I'm taking to the Outside World. Maybe I can get some of the greatest scientific minds in my world to work with yours truly to undertstand how the Yin-Yang Orb works. After, not even you two fully understand it."
"Even if you are right, that is still a very arrogant thing to say." Genji said to Yumemi, the professor putting her notepad and pencil into an unknown area within her dress. "The Yin-Yang Orb is a sacred and powerful item, and if you are willing to make your own, fake version of magic, I'd hate to see what you would do with this. Besides, we are not going to let you take us to the Outside World. The place of both us and the Yin-Yang Orb is in Gensokyo."
"Yeah, Genji and I are going to stop you." Reimu said, pointing her gohei at Yumemi. "We're going free the others, you won't be taking any of us to the Outside World, especially not by force!"
Yumemi made a laugh at the maiden and turtle duo. "It wasn't like I was giving any of you options." The red-haired responded, creating the same black infinity symbol with a dark purple glow that she created earlier ago shortly after Reimu and Genji escaped from that cage they were imprisoned in. Yumemi held her palm out in front of her face, the symbol still bobbing up and down over her hand. "Remember this? Well, prepare to see what it is truly capable of."
Yumemi threw the infinity symbol towards the holy duo, the two already knew to dodge the symbol, exploding as it reached where they were. Reimu and Genji looked at the explosion, seeing a dark purple sphere that was the result. The sphere went away, shrinking and fading out of existence as it no longer pushed out any force. Just when Reimu and Genji were going to look back towards Yumemi, they saw the sphere suddenly bring itself back to life, exploding once again in the exact same form before dying the same way as before. And, like time was on a loop, the explosion happened once again.
"Surprised, aren't you? Even I would be if I didn't spend many sleepless nights working with my artificial magic and genius to create these." Yumemi said, her voice full of pride. The holy duo that she was fighting looked at her, seeing the smug expression on her face. "This is something that I like to call an Infinity Bomb. It's much like any regular bomb, magical or non-magical, except that it takes on the form of an infinity symbol before exploding. But that is not the greatest part about it, for you see this bomb is made out of special particles that make an explosion when too many of them are nearby each other. And after these particles separate as they create an explosion, they then form back together to where they were in the first place to create another explosion. Unless if I want them to stop, these bombs can explode again and again indefinitely."
"So she's created a bomb that can explode again and again?" Genji muttered in disbelief.
"That's a really unfair move." Reimu said.
"In the world of science, it doesn't matter if you're fair or unfair." Yumemi said, making more Infinity Bombs appear around her as she was going to use the perpetually exploding symbols. "As long as you have the skill, the power, whenever you cheat or play unfair, if it allows you stay on top of those around you and succeed, then it's what you have to do."
"Yo, Eggplant, defeat this crazy bitch already, it's boring sittin' in here, y'know." Marisa yelled out from with in her cage, using her magic to augment her voice. "Also, teach me 'bout that endlessly exploding bombs thing."
"Show that heathen what she deserves for her misuse of science!" Rikako yelled.
"May your beautiful danmaku dispel the evil witch taking us hostage." Kotohime said, keeping a calm and happy expression on her face.
"You seem strong, you just have to last longer and defeat her." Kana said.
"Free us of the Spiderwackle Curse!" Ellen yelled from out of the blue, the witch falling asleep in less than even five seconds.
"For as long as I can remember, you Hakureis never give up." Mima said. "If you didn't give up when you fought me in Reimaden, then you shouldn't give up now. She's just a human, a very mortal creature, with fake magic. You should be able to defeat her. Remain determined, win this battle."
Reimu looked at the other trapped maidens, all relying on her to win this for their freedom from this seemingly crazy Outsider. "I wasn't really planning on giving up anyways." Reimu said calmly, all of the other maidens (sans Ellen, who was still sleeping) letting out a droplet of sweat in response.
"Sometimes I wish they would remember my importance." Genji thought.
"Your words of courage seem like something in an anime that I'd watch, but it seems like something the supporting characters would say to the main protagonist as they are trying to defeat the main villain." Yumemi said, the scientist keeping the Infinity Bombs surrounding her, a wide smile still on her face. "Well then, if I have to play the role of villain, then I guess I'll just play that role. Let's try to keep this from becoming anticlimactic, Hakureeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"
The Infinity Bombs flew towards Reimu and Genji at high-speeds, the symbols exploding as they came near to the duo, the bombs exploding in the same spot over and over again, making the battlefield even smaller.
"How do you like this, Reimu?! Doesn't this make things more fun~?!" Yumemi said, summoning multiple crosses and a few more Infinity Bombs, all of which she shot towards Reimu and Genji, the aforementioned trainee and spirit firing danmaku at Yumemi once again, the professor still preferring to just take it instead of fly or teleport away. "This is the power of my marvelousness. This is the power of the Outside World~! See what a normal human can do~? When the scientific community sees this, they'll have no choice but to accept my theory of magic~!"
"I think she's starting to go a little crazy." Reimu mumbled, the shrine maiden trainee still firing danmaku and even ofuda at Yumemi as Genji flew out of the way of the white and orange danmaku and crosses, whilst also avoiding all the continuously exploding spheres that were the Infinity Bombs.
Reimu summoned one of her black-white yin-yang and threw it at Yumemi. This time the scientist did teleport away, though she was secured as she was behind multiple bombs that were exploding again and again.
"I won't let you win." Yumemi said, summoning more crosses around the shrine maiden trainee in an attempt to stop her. Genji flew around the crosses and Infinity Bombs, though that was becoming harder and harder with each second as more and more of them took up space. "I won't lose and let everything - let all of that hard work - from these past weeks - these past months(!) - just go to waste by losing to someone like you!"
"Fantasy Seal!" Reimu yelled, summoning her six glowing yin-yang the shot towards Yumemi. The red-haired professor, knowing just how powerful and destructive such attacks are, teleported to avoid the attack, though she didn't have a clear idea of where to teleport outside of somewhere in the control room of the Probability Space Hypervessel, thus she found herself at a random area in the control room. Wherever she was, she was in the air and she wasn't facing towards Reimu. There were multiple Infinity Bombs that were exploding over and over again, and red crosses, but that didn't really help her with knowing where she was within the control room.
Yumemi was suddenly hit in the back by holy danmaku, the bullets doing greater damage to her than before as she wasn't prepared for the attack.
Yumemi was sent flying around the control room from the force of the attack, the world seemingly spinning around her before she was finally able to get the better of her flying abilities and stop. Yumemi made a groan as her head felt a little light, the professor knowing that her Infinity Bombs had ceased as she could hear no explosions. But that was no matter, as long as the particles for the explosions haven't been separated for more than a minute, she can still make them come back together and continue their indefinite exploding.
Yumemi was able to gain sight of Reimu again, the shrine maiden trainee firing holy danmaku at the Outsider. Yumemi quickly flew out of the way, summoning more infinity symbols that she threw at the duo, the symbols exploding as Infinity Bombs. Even though the Infinity Bombs were taking up a lot of space, Reimu and Genji were having no real problem dodging the constant explosions, especially as the aforementioned explosions didn't move from place to place. Yumemi glowered at the two as she summoned more of her crosses and aimed them at the duo. She could possibly trap the two in a cage of Infinity Bombs, like what Marisa did with the star-shaped danmaku, but it was hard as they continued to fly all around the area.
And it wasn't like Yumemi herself was immune to the Infinity Bombs; artificial magic or not, bombs are still bombs!
"I will not lose! I will not lose! I will not lose!" Yumemi began to yelled as she was firing endless orange danmaku and red crosses towards the holy duo, repeating the same words over and over again, like it was some mantra that she needed to repeat to make sure that she will succeed.
While Reimu had personally understood that it may take a lot of effort to get where she is, and the trainee would otherwise sympathize with her to lose everything she's worked hard for, but with what was going on, with her plans to kidnap the people of Gensokyo just to bring magic to a world without it.
In the end, Gensokyo is above all in Reimu's eyes, and she'll do anything to protect it.
"Fantasy Seal!" Reimu yelled, becoming surrounded by the holy attack. Yumemi flew away from the attack, though it seemed like the Fantasy Seal was flying even faster than her, catching up on her, even as she flew away with all her might. Yumemi teleported away, though this time she had more of an exact area in mind within the control room; a tiny corner that was completely free of all Infinity Bombs and crosses.
Thanks to combining her artificial magic and the space-manipulating technologies, Yumemi and Chiyuri had mastered using the teleportation vectors to move somewhere else like how a high-levelled magician can teleport. It may be tiring to use at times, but it was also very helpful.
Yumemi teleported to the safe, little space free of the crosses and Infinity Bombs. The Fantasy Seal changed directions and went towards where Yumemi was now, the professor certain that the attack wouldn't hit her now.
However, it was to Yumemi's surprise that the Fantasy Seal was destroying the crosses and even the Infinity Bombs. Yumemi began to panic, the red-haired teenager looking around to find another safe space to teleport to. But it was meaningless as, when she finally found a good area to teleport to, the Fantasy Seal had hit her and exploded upon contact, filling Yumemi's vision with myriad colours and dancing swirls.
Yumemi felt like she was no longer using her flight ability, though a sensation of floating was still overcoming. Yumemi blinked her eyes, the colours and their dancing swirls fading away until she realised that she was falling. Thinking quickly, Yumemi used her artificial magic powers to make herself float once again, stopping as she was still a certain distance away from the floor.
Yumemi looked back towards where Reimu and Genji are... Or at least where she thought they were. Yumemi looked around, trying to spot the shrine maiden trainee and magic turtle, but she couldn't see them anywhere, like they spontaneously gained the power to turn invisible. Considering that spontaneous teleportation trick that Reimu used in her battle against Marisa, Yumemi wouldn't be too surprised if Reimu had other powers and abilities hidden up her sleeve, or if she was gaining powers from out of nowhere.
Yumemi looked at the imprisoned maidens, they obviously wouldn't help her, so there was no point in asking them for it.
Yumemi then tried to see if she could find Chiyuri, though the sailor-cosplaying student had mysteriously disappeared from where she was.
Yumemi then felt a presence behind her, the Outsider turning around to see a young-looking purple-haired shrine maiden trainee riding on a giant, flying turtle with a large beard, the maiden of the two holding a wooden wand high and above her head. Yumemi could basically feel her iris and pupil shrink in her eyes as the shrine maiden trainee was swinging her gohei down towards her with powerful force, the professor not having enough time to do anything other than scream.
Yumemi was sent shooting towards the floor, hitting it with a loud thud that made Reimu flinch a bit. Yumemi was still on the floor for a few seconds before slowly standing back up, the Outsider floating up into the air.
"I'm not... defeated just yet." Yumemi muttered, covered in bruises from her fall alone. "I can still... win this...!"
Reimu just looked at Yumemi silently as the latter slowly raised higher into the air. "Fantasy Seal!" Reimu said, her multicoloured spheres surrounding Yumemi, hitting her before she had even the chance to escape or block the attack. Yumemi made another plummet to the ground, this time defeated as she slammed against the metal floor.
Genji lowered to the ground, Reimu immediately hopped off and walked to Yumemi, the trainee bending her knees and poking the unconscious girl on the cheek with her gohei. Yumemi just groaned, turning over like she was asleep and didn't want to wake up.
"She's defeated. Definitely defeated." Reimu said, the purple-eyed girl standing upright and looking at the glass cages that were containing her fellow Gensokians flawlessly. Reimu tilted her head as she looked at the cages and the magic-using beings they contained, wondering on how to get them out. "So, umm... does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of those things?"
"Well you could just do what ya did to get outta your owns cages, with the yin-yang hittin' and Fantasy Seal." Marisa suggested, the protégé leaning against her floating broomstick.
"No, it would take too long and use up my energy. Besides, I don't want to." Reimu moaned, causing most of the trapped girls to slap their foreheads in disbelief. "Are there any other options that I can use?"
"How about you try using that." Rikako said as she pointed at a piece of the wall that stuck out, a screen showing a bunch of numbers and words and a lot of buttons attached to the piece of the wall that stuck out. Reimu approached the thing, trying to understand what it was.
"Hey, does anyone know what this thing is and what it does?" Reimu asked as she looked back at the others.
"That is a thing from the Outside World called a computer, or at least that is my hunch." Rikako said, the self-proclaimed scientist regaining her emotionless guise. "I cannot be certain as I have a very limited experience with computers, since when most of them come here from the Outside World, they tend to be broken or work terribly. Luckily I have also read some Outside World books about computers, even if they also are mostly destroyed, I can still..."
Reimu had gotten impatient, and with absolutely no knowledge on how to use a 'computer', the shrine maiden trainee summoned a yin-yang, throwing the item right at the computer. The screen was cracked and the keyboard smashed as the summoned item broke it with extreme force, causing sparks of electricity to escape and bounce around it like lighting before the entre thing exploded.
The glass cages containing the magical maidens suddenly disappeared. Rikako looked dumbfounded, the former magician having nothing to say in the slightest.
"Yes, finally free!" Marisa cheered as she flew into the air, no longer feeling claustrophobic as she rode the normal broom freely.
"Now that that is over, I think I can finally have what I have been wanting for the last few years~." Kana said as she appeared above Reimu, the poltergeist resting her arms and head on the trainee's head. "I hope you don't mind, but I'll be haunting your shrine for a while~."
"WHAT?!" Genji outburst at the blonde ghost. Genji then turned his head towards Mima, glaring at the ghost as he knew that she had something to do with this decision, especially as she smirked darkly at them, taking clear joy at this new predicament purely because they were happening to Genji and Reimu.
"How long will you be staying?" Reimu asked, not really taking notice of anything except for the spectral being that was leaning on her.
"I'unno~." Kana responded casually with a shrug. "Maybe only for a few years, maybe forever. Only time can tell~."
Reimu sighed, looking at the others, seeing that Kotohime was talking with Rikako, the former having a relaxed smile on her face while the latter kept a bored and emotionless expression. Ellen was just randomly looking into the air, humming a tune to herself as she smiled.
"I'm not defeated just yet!" Yumemi yelled as she suddenly rose to her feet. Yumemi hunched her back and bent her legs as she stood back up, breathing deeply, her uniform covered in tears, her body bruised and damaged. Still huffing and puffing, Yumemi reached into her cape and pulled out a steel ball of with a blinking, purple light on one side. "This...! This is my Four-Dimensional Positron Bomb, a weapon that was capable of destroying the entire world that I have came from. If I can't defeat you and force you to come to the Outside World with me, then I'll just blow this entire place sky-high! Hahahahahahahahaha!"
Yumemi held the Four-Dimensional Positron Bomb high, laughing madly. Something was suddenly behind Yumemi, the unknown thing whacking Yumemi on the head, causing her to stop laughing and remain still before falling down unconscious. As Yumemi fell, Reimu and the rest were able to see that the 'something' was in fact Chiyuri, the blonde still damaged from her battle with Reimu. And the thing that Chiyuri was holding was a metal thing that looked like a chair, except bended somewhere in the middle.
"That was for constantly whacking me on the head." Chiyuri said as she dropped the metal thing beside Yumemi. The Outsider then faced towards the Gensokyo residents that were captured just a few minutes ago, giving them a respectful and apologetic bow. "I'm sorry; Yumemi has been working 24/7 when it came to researching magic and she gets rather delusional and crazy whenever she goes on for too long without sleep. Just let her rest for a few minutes and she should be able to regain her wits and act like herself."
Yumemi regained consciousness, blinking as her vision started blurry, though everything returned back to normal with each blink until she was alright once again. She sat up, rubbing the area of throbbing pain on her head until it went away. The red-eyed professor looked to her side, seeing all of the Gensokyo residents that she trapped. Except that every last one of them were no longer in their cages and completely free to do what they want with her, especially as she was still weak and tired from her battle with Reimu.
A thing that Yumemi noticed about them was that none of them were looking at her, instead being in a circle and seemingly talking about something. Yumemi didn't know what they were still doing in the Probability Space Hypervessel, as she would leave a mysterious place where someone from another dimension tries to kidnap her in - that was just Yumemi thinking things in their perspective.
Yumemi quickly darted her eyes around the control room, completely unable to find Chiyuri anywhere. Yumemi just decided that it would be best to just assume that she left and leave herself.
Yumemi was able to move silently, the woman checking to find that she still had some energy left, so she could still teleport out of the Probability Space Hypervessel, or at least out of the control room and still escape. However, Yumemi started to feel a sensation in her nose; a tickly sort of sensation. Yumemi's blood ran cold as her heart slowed its beats, knowing well enough what the sensation was.
"No no no no no no no!" Yumemi mentally screamed as she tried to stop herself from sneezing through pure willpower alone. "Don't sneeze! Don't sneeze! Don't sneeze! Don't sneeze! DON'TSNEEZEDON'TSNEEZEDON'TSNEEZE-!"
Yumemi let out a sneeze, the sound causing all of the magical maidens to look at her as they were now aware. Yumemi immediately let out a loud scream, believing that this was now the end of her as they waiting for her to wake up so they enjoy killing her.
This was it, she is already dead. She lost and now they're going to get revenge against her for trying to capture them.
Yumemi was still screaming, though her loud screaming had soon stopped as Mima tapped her hardly on the head with the crescent of her sceptre. "You can stop it with the screaming now, just because I'm dead doesn't mean I'm okay with something loud blaring into my spectral ears." The green-haired ghost said, floating back towards the other maidens as Yumemi finally shut her yap.
"What are you going to do with me?" Yumemi asked, scared of what they could do. She doubted that Reimu or Marisa could do something bad to her, as they were still innocent-minded little girls (though Marisa's willingness for Reimu to be killed during the Story of Eastern Wonderland incident did give Yumemi doubt), but she knew well enough that Kotohime would get her locked in the dungeon (or prison as she liked to call it because of her dreams of becoming a police cop) and that her parents would allow it if they found out about Yumemi's attempt to take her away to be some test subject for magic. Yumemi also knew that, from her legendary infamy alone, Mima would be more than willing to put the Outsider through some horrifying, sadistic torture in revenge. And even though Yumemi knows next to nothing about Kana, she wouldn't dismiss the thought that the poltergeist probably knows some great ways to deal revenge, or that she would be willing to kill, despite her young appearance.
Mima made an evil smile, the ghost using her magic and natural ghost abilities to grow in size until she was gigantic in comparison to Yumemi, her eyes covered in mysterious shadows, the aforementioned organs glowing a menacing red. Mima turned her teeth into sharp fangs like that of a monster, making her fingernails grow longer and turn a scarlet red.
"We'll rip out your organs and burn and cook them in an iron pot." The ghost said, her voice suddenly deeper and more demonic. The others behind her looked at each other, feeling a little worried about her threat. This was with the exception of Kana and Marisa, who were quite enjoying the idea and knowing that the green-haired ghost was just jesting, respectively. "Oh, but that is just the start. First we're going to cast a spell on you make you survive having your internal organs ripped out, and then we're going to cast a spell to make you feel your organs as they are boiled in oil, even after they are removed. And after that is over, we're going to make you eat your organs. And when they inevitably come out of the hole in your stomach, we're going to restore them and cook them again, and then feed them to you again. And we're going to do it again and again, without end. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha."
Yumemi let out a bloodcurdling scream, her body turning a pale as a sheet of paper. Mima then shrank back down to her regular form, the ghost laughing in her regular voice, her hands on her spectral stomach.
"Jeez, I'm just kidding. It's honestly nothin' to fear about, I'm totally out of that phase." Mima said, wiping away a few tears of joy that she made from her laughter. "It's so funny how you humans overreact whenever the macabre is brought up. Besides, it's not like we would do that since we're the protagonists of this arc."
"What are you talking about?" Kotohime asked, confused by the last sentence of the ghost.
Yumemi was clutching her chest as she was calming down from the morbid 'joke', her heartbeat slowing down and her breathing returning to normal. Yumemi then noticed a certain blonde among the magical beings, one that was still noticeably damaged from her rather recent battle. "Chiyuri, you're alright." Yumemi said, the student walking towards her as she noticed her. "When Mima made that... joke, I thought that they might have killed you, or have done a horrific and supernatural torture on you, like I thought they would do with me."
"Yeah, don't worry." Chiyuri said in a relaxed tone, most likely having already gotten on friendly terms with the magic users. "They're not the best, speaking in terms of being moral, but they're not evil or sadistic. At least not all of them."
"Oh, well then, I guess we can thank The Lord for that." Yumemi said, the red-haired female having regained her senses after actually resting a bit. Yumemi faced towards the maidens and their magical animals, bowing down respectfully towards them. "I'm sorry for the inconvenience that I caused you, but those battles were necessary to gain data on magic. Luckily I have had all data on magic saved on my computer, so it..."
Yumemi turned around towards her computer as she talked, her words slowing down and dying as she took in the sight of her device; seemingly imploded in on itself, smoke emitting from the burnt black corpse of it with electricity sparking from it as its last breaths of life.
Yumemi stared at it blankly, looking like a mother who just saw her child die; like she had stared into the deepest, blackest, darkest void in existence and lost her soul a she saw the oblivion. Yumemi honestly didn't know how to react, because all the data that she spent months of non-stop work to achieve was all gone.
"MY COMPUTER! MY DATA!" Yumemi screeched like a banshee, clutching her temples as she screamed at the top of her lungs, the scream being on an even higher volume than Kana's scream.
"Told you." Chiyuri said to the girls as Yumemi continued to grieve the death of her computer. Chiyuri walked towards Yumemi, the blonde kneeling down and putting a hand on the redhead's shoulder, causing the weeping woman to look up at her with teary eyes. "Hey, don't worry, Yumemi. Remember that we stored all of the data that we collected into the extra files in the second computer."
Yumemi's eyes widened, the professor quickly rising to her feet, the tears around her eyes vanishing in an instant. "Ah yes, the second computer~! How did we forget about that?" Yumemi responded, instantly cheerful. The teenager turned around towards Reimu and co once again. "Thank you for participating in this data research. I promise that I won't get the scientific community to come here and mess things up, but I do hope that all this research and data is enough for them to add magic to the Grand Unified Theory, as well as start production on more artificial magic; it can benefit humanity in ways that we can't even imagine."
"They're going to ruin the name of science forever..." Rikako wept dramatically, brushing away her tears with her hands, the self-proclaimed scientist being ignored by everyone else, with the only exception being Kotohime; and even then, the princess was sweat-dropping at the sight of her friend being overly dramatic.
"Well now, we should be going." Yumemi said, the professor and her student turning around and walking to somewhere else within the Probability Space Hypervessel, a door opening on one side of the room and another on the opposite side. "Be sure to leave the Hyperbessel soon, lest you wish to go to the Outside World~."
"Oh no you don't~!" Mima said, pointing a finger at the two Outsiders. Yumemi and Chiyuri were lifted off the ground by an invisible force, unable to do anything more than kick their legs as Mima used telekinesis to pulled them towards her, turning them around. Mima swiped her finger towards the ground, causing the two Outsiders to slam onto their butts. "You promised us that you would grant our wishes if we fought, and that is exactly what we did. So not only did you not hold up to your end of the bargain, but you also nearly kidnapped us to be experimented on. You should either grant our wishes, or else we should give you some punishment."
"Ah yes, that sounds like a good idea~." Marisa agreed.
"Heeheehee, I think I'm going to have a lot of fun either ways~." Kana said.
"Maybe I should get the royal punishment team, they know what to do if you don't grant our wishes~." Kotohime said, a happy if not slightly sadistic smile on her face.
Yumemi and Chiyuri looked at each other before looking back at the looming ghosts, magician and princess. The two sighed, knowing that they'll have to think and do something quick before they receive whatever twisted punishment the Gensokyo residents were thinking.
And that is the end of the Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream arc, unless if you consider the next chapter, which is meant to be a breather chapter that takes place between this arc and the Lotus Land Story arc.
The Infinity Bomb idea was created when I thought about the infinity symbol-like bullets that Yumemi shot as her default bullets in the original game, and her charge attack that was like a giant bomb, though the indefinitely exploding part was completely a liberty.
A part of me fears that the battle against Yumemi may have been underwhelming, all things considering, though it was already over 3,000 words when I finished it, so I also think that I did a good job in writing the fight scene, though it is all subjective.
The New Year is coming up real soon, in which all I can say is that this year has been equally horrible and equally amazing. There have been many things that I have hated and many things that I loved, and I know there will be many things that I'll love and that I'll hate when 2019 comes, that is to be expected of each year.
True, things may always get worse, but things can also get better. Here's an early Happy New Year to all readers (if you're reading this chapter on the date that it's been posted or just reading it before the New Year), and may you remember that both good things and bad things are expected in life and in the next years, but you can still find ways to enjoy life nevertheless.
Also yeah, the title of this chapter is shamelessly the name of Yumemi's theme.
All reviews, even ones of constructive criticism, are accepted and allowed.