SBS Time!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord
: In this story, which one, between Meiling and Yoshika, is physically the strongest?
Game2002:
If they were to try to lift cars, Yoshika would lift it easier than Meiling.

Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And who might that old man be?
Game2002: Someone insignificant you'll never heard from again.

Guest: I apologize for my earlier comment.
Game2002: It's all right.

For people who didn't realize it, the title of the previous chapter has been changed in order to avoid religious references. If you don't see anything different, that's because you are already looking at the new one.

Chapter 29
Secret Island


Underneath the water surrounding the barren, rocky island, a submarine traveled at a moderate speed towards the side of it. When it was close to touching the wall, the part of the latter slowly slid upwards to reveal a secret entrance, and when it was fully open, the submarine went inside.

This was when Aquaman, Wakasagihime, and Nitori, who had a breathing apparatus on, swam inside before the wall came back down to hide the entrance again. After going through a short passage in there, they emerged at a wide space of water, where they saw the submarine coming to a stop and raising to the surface.

Aquaman looked around to see if there was a place for them to emerge without being spotted, and then he told the two girls to follow him to the side. They swam close to a wall at the far side of the place, and then the king of Atlantis peeked out from the water to make sure the coast was clear before telling them to come up with him onto dry floor.

Once they were out of the water, they quickly hid behind some machines that were close to the wall and looked at the submarine from there. They saw several people coming out of it, and some of them were carrying crates.

"Those must be the serums," he thought, and then he saw the man in the black armor with a disc-shaped head. "And there's Black Manta…"

"Now what?" Nitori asked him.

"We'll find out what exactly this place is first before deciding on a fight," the Atlantean told her. "Of course, we have to look for your friends as well, assuming they're really here."


Letty and Mystia were still hiding in the corner that has mostly concealed by crates. After peeking out from the side, Mystia turned to Letty and said, "There's no end to all those people walking around the place… I don't know if there's a way we can sneak out of here without being seen…"

"If we can sneak our way to this place, then I'm sure we can sneak our way out," said Letty while seated on the floor.

"We don't even know if this place has an exit… We arrived here in that black boat and never knew how it came into this cave in the first place, remember?" Mystia reminded her. "Without knowing how it came in here in the first place, it's going to be hard for us to find our way out…"

"Then I guess we should ask some of the people here?" asked Letty.

"I'm not sure if it's a good idea…" replied Mystia. "They don't strike me as being nice people who would take kindly to those who don't belong here…"

Mystia peeked out from the crates again and saw lesser people than before, and when she looked in the direction of the submarine, she saw only two people dressed in black armors that resembled diving suits standing close to it. "Perhaps we can use that boat over there to get out of here?" she suggested. "We'll just hide in there and hope that it leaves this place eventually."

Letty got up and went over to look at the same submarine. "I guess that's the best idea. If we came here that way, then let's get out of here using the same way."

The night sparrow nodded in agreement, and after making sure that the two people standing in front of the submarine weren't looking in their direction, they sneaked out of their hiding place and quickly flew towards the submarine.

When they were close to the submarine, the sound of Mystia's wings flapping was heard by the two men. They turned to them with their guns pointing at them. "Halt!" one of them loudly said.

Out of hesitation, Letty pointed her hand at them and released a blast of cold wind that quickly froze them before they could do anything.

As she was recovering from the shock of being spotted, Mystia said, "That… That was close…"

Letty walked up to the two frozen henchmen and started moving them towards the water. "Better throw them down there than to leave them here in the open… Less likely to be seen down there…"

The snow woman managed to throw both frozen henchmen into the water, where they sank into it for a few seconds before floating back up. After doing that, Letty told Mystia to quickly fly to the submarine's hatch and enter it.

All of a sudden, something leaped out of the water at a fast speed and tackled her, pushing her onto the floor and pinning her against it by the neck.

Mystia gasped in horror at the sight of what appeared to be a humanoid shark with large muscles pinning an equally horrified Letty onto the floor. The shark lifted the snow woman into the air using only one hand and said in a rough and deep voice, "I've never seen you around here before."

Letty blew cold air into his face to make him drop her. She then moved away from him and pointed her hands at him to fire cold air. The humanoid shark—King Shark—shielded himself with his arm, but when he realized that it was starting to freeze over, he quickly got out of the way.

Letty aimed her hands at him to continue trying to freeze him, but King Shark quickly jumped at her before she could do so and punched her away in the face.

Mystia angrily flew at him with her claws extended to slash him, but King Shark easily caught her by the hand before flinging her against the floor violently. Mystia slowly pushed herself back up and looked at him with a face full of fear. In an attempt to defend herself, she started singing an incomprehensible song that could be described as confusing-sounding.

King Shark was confused as to why she was singing at a time like this, but the more he listened to the song, the more he started to feel weak and even dizzy. While the humanoid shark was unable to act properly, Mystia ran up to Letty, who was getting back up, and said, "We must run now!"

Suddenly, two red beams were fired at them, making them cry in pain and falling back onto the floor. Black Manta and a few of his henchmen arrived at the scene after that, and while watching the two groan in pain, the former asked, "Who are these two?"

King Shark shook his head and came back to his sense. "Whoever they are, they have powers. One of them obviously has ice-based powers, while the one with wings made me feel strange just by singing…"

Black Manta walked up to Letty and Mystia and asked them, "Who are you? How did you get here? Answer me at once!"

Letty looked at him while grunting in pain and then said, "We didn't mean to come here… We were looking for a way out…"

"Japanese? You don't speak English?" asked Black Manta when he heard the language she was speaking in, and then he turned to his henchmen. "Is there anyone here who speaks Japanese?" Everyone shook his head. "Tsk! Whatever! I don't know who they are, so I have no use for them! Kill them!"

Two of his men stepped forward with guns and readied to shoot the two girls, but they were interrupted when a trident was thrown at them and knocked away their guns. They all turned to the direction the trident flew in from and saw Aquaman, Nitori, and Wakasagihime.

"Aquaman!" said Black Manta in shock.

"You will not lay a hand on them, Black Manta!" Aquaman said to him. "They are friends of these two girls with me, and we have been looking for them for a long time already! Also, your crime comes to an end here! You have been smuggling the serum that grants people power, right? I will not allow you to do so anymore!"

"You won't stop me!" Black Manta angrily said to him. "You won't be getting out of here alive as well, now that you've learned about this place! Get them!" The villain's henchmen pointed their guns at the three and fired, but they quickly got out of the way.

Aquaman ran at the henchmen while skillfully dodging their shots. He stretched out his hand to the side and made his trident appear from a burst of water, and then he deflected some of the laser beams fired at him before closing in on the henchmen to knock them away with his weapon as well as by kicking.

More henchmen entered the scene and fired at them. Wakasaghime flew around very fast to avoid the beams and then swung her tail hard to fire a large amount of scale-shaped projectiles that knocked out the henchmen.

Nitori activated a green, spherical barrier with a turtle shell pattern to protect herself, and then she fired missiles from her mechanical backpack that homed in on them and blasted them away. She was suddenly tackled by King Shark, who managed to break through her barrier with ease, and knocked her onto the floor.

When King Shark tried to hammer her with his hands, she quickly rolled to the side and then got back up to attack with a boxing glove that came out from the side of the backpack, but the humanoid shark easily shrugged off the attack before catching it and then tearing it away, much to Nitori's surprise.

King Shark then threw a punch at her, but to his surprise, the kappa managed to stop his fist using her bare hand. However, the former was stronger than her, so he was able to push her back when he used more strength. He ran at her afterwards and swung his fist into her head from the side to send her flying in the direction of the water and into it. He then jumped into the water to go after her.

Nitori recovered from the punch underwater, but she had no time to do anything, as King Shark swam up to her at a fast speed and bit her shoulder, causing her to cry in pain. As he was pushing her deeper and deeper into the water, Wakasagihime swam up to him from behind very fast and slapped him across the head with her tail so hard that he lost his grip on Nitori and flew away.

"Are you all right?" the mermaid asked the kappa, who put on a breathing apparatus before nodding. "You get out of here! We're underwater, so I'll handle him!"

King Shark swam at them again, so Wakasagihime swung her tail to fire scale-shaped projectiles at him, to which he responded by shielding himself with his arms. While he was doing so, Nitori fired homing missiles from her backpack, blasting him from various directions and covering him in a large amount of foam.

King Shark swam out of the foam while growling angrily and going after them once again. Nitori made a large mechanical fist appear from her backpack and clashed with him. Both sides had very powerful punches, so they came to a stop when they came in contact with each other.

While they were pushing against each other with their fists, two wires came out from Nitori's backpack and came in contact with the sides of King Shark's head, and then electricity was transferred from them and into him, zapping him badly.

BZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

The humanoid shark cried in pain, and when Nitori separated the wires from him, Wakasagihime hit him from above with her tail really hard to send him shooting downwards.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!


Aquaman and Black Manta were the only ones left fighting each other back on top, as all the other henchmen present were taken out. The latter fired laser beams and missiles from his suit at Aquaman, but he was able to either avoid or deflect them while closing in on him to attack him up close.

While the two were fighting each other, Letty and Mystia had recovered from their wounds. Looking at Black Manta from behind, Letty pointed her hand at him and fired a blast of cold wind. Aquaman quickly backed away from the villain when he saw this, while the latter was caught in the wind and started to freeze over.

As the ice was freezing towards the other half of his body below his neck, Black Manta fired a beam from his visor at Letty, hitting her in the hand and causing her to stop the attack. He then fired electric blasts from his wrist gauntlet at the frozen parts to shatter and melt the ice.

Immediately after he did so, Aquaman tackled him. Black Manta backed away from him and aimed his wrist gauntlet at him, only to be interrupted by a claw swipe to the head from Mystia, though she ended up breaking her claws because of it. "Ow!"

This gave Aquaman the opportunity to punch him across the head. Growling in anger, Black Manta retaliated by firing missiles from launchers equipped in his shoulder pads. Aquaman was going to defend himself against it when Letty fired a blast of cold wind at them from the side to freeze them and also blow them to the floor, where they "became duds."

"Thanks!" Aquaman said to the snow woman, who nodded with a smile.

"You won't be taking me down so easily!" Black Manta angrily said as several more of his henchmen arrived at the scene with guns. "Get them!"

At the same time, Nitori and Wakasagihime, both of whom had finished off King Shark, came out of the water and joined their comrades. The former got in front of the others and activated a force field while telling them to stay behind her in her native language.

Letty, however, suggested something else. "I have a better idea! Just keep up your barrier, okay?" She then floated into the air, grabbing the attention of everyone. With her arms raised slightly to the sides, she caused snow and cold wind to build up around her, and in an instant, a strong blizzard that covered the surrounding area was created. "Mystic Sign: Table Turning!" Blue laser beams were even hidden in it.

The blizzard blotted out the view of everyone, and the snow somehow managed to hit the villains hard enough to knock them down. Some were even hit by the laser beams and got frozen solid.

Thanks to his visor having different kinds of visions that allowed him to see things more clearly under certain conditions, Black Manta was able to see what was happening in the midst of the blizzard. However, he didn't switch to the right kind of vision fast enough, so by the time he did that, Nitori, who was wearing a specialized pair of goggles of her own, was already in front of him and delivered a punch to his face

POW!

The force of her punch managed to make cracks appear on his visor and thus returning his vision to normal, rendering him unable to see clearly in the blizzard.

The blizzard subsided, thus allowing one to see clearly. Aquaman quickly ran up to Black Manta and delivered a punch so powerful to his head that a part of his helmet actually shattered.

"Surrender now, Manta! You've clearly lost!" Aquaman said to him.

"Never!" Black Manta angrily said as he readied to fire missiles from his shoulder pads, but he was interrupted by Mystia latching onto him from behind and clawing the side of his face. "GAH!"

Letty then pointed both hands at Black Manta and fired a blast of cold wind that froze him from head to toe. Obviously, Mystia got out of the way when the wind came.

Seeing that the villains were dealt with, Aquaman gave the girls a thumb up. "Good work, all of you!"

"Yeah! We won!" said Nitori happily.

"Who is this man?" Letty asked Nitori. "And what are you doing with him?"

"You can say he's the reason we are able to find the both of you," the kappa replied. "And what are the two of you doing here?"

"We wandered into that guy in black armor's ship," replied Mystia, pointing to Black Manta's submarine, which could be seen in the same pool of water as the submarine that arrived at the place. "The next thing we knew, it arrived at this place…

"Stowaways, huh? Albeit unintentional," said Aquaman. "Anyway, it's good that we found you! Thank you very much for the help in defeating Black Manta! There should be some more henchmen here, so let's round them up and then bring you back to your friends."


TO BE CONTINUED

Please stay tuned for something surprising in the next chapter.


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After hurling the amanojaku against the wall, Eiki approached her in rage and stopped just in front of her.

Despite the intimidating look the judge was showing her, Seija was undaunted and still managed to look at her with a smile that could be described as mischievous. "You can only blame yourself. You and your system of justice or whatever you called the likes of you created! You think you can make me reform by locking me up over and over? You think you can keep everyone around you safe just by locking me up? For some people, once they have experienced the pleasure that crime brings them, can't and will not walk away from it! Think of all the deaths you could've prevented if you didn't think locking me up is the worst thing I deserve!"

Eiki angrily lifted her up by the collar and then slammed her back against the wall while continuing to glare at her.

"So…? Are you going to lock me up again?" Seija asked her. "Or are you going to do something you wished you could've done before all this mess happened?"

The rage in Eiki's head boiled even higher than before. As her grip on her Rod of Remorse tightened, Seija patted her on the shoulder and asked, "So… what are you going to do? If you've got nothing else to say, then I've got to break out of here and think of what I can do to top all this… or are you going to do something that will make you unable to love anyone or be loved by anyone… forever?"

The next thing Eiki did, she screamed in pure rage at the top of her voice while pulling back her Rod of Remorse. Realizing what she was going to do, Kotohime and Reimu yelled for the judge to stop.

Eiki then saw red and Seija's twisted smiling face as her laughing became slower and fainter…

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TOUHOU PROJECT

WHITE WORLD

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