It was another bright and sunny day in Gensokyo, a cool breeze flowing throughout the country; a faint moment of serenity and peace in a land of endless magical battles and other anomalies.
And Reimu Hakurei, now unofficially the shrine maiden of the Hakurei clan, no longer just another trainee, was sitting down near the pond behind the shrine; a grass-covered area with a little grove of trees surrounding its boundaries.
And the shrine maiden wasn't on her own as she celebrated this new leap in her life.
"Lady Hakurei, I understand that you wished to celebrate your new status," Gyoku said as he and his sister sat outside of the Yin-Yang Orb, the red-haired priestess of the two twins was next to the pond, even letting her spectral feet soak in the water, casually eating some rice and yams without a care in the world. Gyoku, of course, was sitting next to Reimu, though he was also technically near the pond, as that was where Reimu sat. Reimu looked at Gyoku, the human-turned-guardian spirit having a somewhat nervous look on his face, "But did you really have to invite so many people that attacked you in the past?"
Yes, that is right! Reimu is holding a celebration for now becoming a shrine maiden, even though it is unofficial until she learns to fly. And, with all the saved donations that she got during the morning of the Lotus Land Story incident, she decided to get as much food as possible to celebrate with all her friends.
But, as she didn't really have that many friends, she decided to instead invite most of the people that she had met throughout her training. Thus multiple opponents from the past were there, seemingly celebrating Reimu's triumph.
Mima and Marisa were sitting next to Reimu, the former reading one of the new grimoires that Yuuka brought to the Hakurei shrine a few days ago while the later was eating some beans with rice. Konngara wasn't far from the shrine where she sat, the oni once again in a reduced size more akin to that of a human adult, proudly talking about something to Ellen, Sokrates, Noroiko, Kurumi, Kotohime and even Mugetsu as they all listened with interest, the oni occasionally stopping to drink from her sake dish, the aforementioned dish was constantly being refilled by Kikuri, the bronze disk entity having a calm and happy expression on her face.
Kana had a large smirk on her face as she used her telekinesis to make Rikako's glasses fly around, the scientist chasing after them in vain.
Chiyuri and Yumemi were sitting next to the poltergeist, not minding or caring for her pranking antics, as they weren't against them or on them, or anything of the sort. The blonde of the Outsider duo was eating watermelon slices while the older Outsider was eating an Outside World food. Apparently they are something known as strawberry-flavoured sweets that were wrapped in... something. Of course, since they were sweets, Reimu was naturally interested, and had thus 'persuaded' Yumemi to give her some, the aforementioned some being eaten by Reimu right now.
Elly was sitting next to Yuuka on a plaid blanket, the shinigami pouring her master some tea as the youkai was using her parasol to shade herself from the sun. Gengetsu was sitting next to them on the blanket, eating a slice of cake from the Dream World.
"It is a little unnerving that Lady Reimu invited them all over, especially as a good amount of them had any qualms with hurting her, even though she is a child." Genji commented as he floated in the lake, the turtle looking rather relaxed. "But it seems as though they are all on friendly terms with her now, so I guess I can ease up on it."
A purple-haired figure appeared from the side of the shrine, looking at the little party from behind; the party that she was invited to.
"So this is the celebration that I was invited to." Meira said calmly as she walked into the back of the shrine, passing by the youkai and few humans that were enjoying it with Reimu. "This is not what I expected, especially as I'm still trying to revive my clan... But, I guess I can enjoy this moment."
"Oh Meira~, you're finally here~!" Reimu said excitedly as she suddenly ran up to the samurai, grabbing her by the arm and pulling the surprised, older woman to where she was sitting. Pure confusion was written on Meira's face as she was pushed onto her butt, the confused not being redacted as Reimu was instantly by her side, hugging the samurai's arm whilst giggling happily.
"Aww, young love~." Yuuka commented teasingly.
"We're not in love, dammit!" Meira yelled at the powerful youkai, the aforementioned non-human chuckling as she annoyed the samurai as planned. "I barely even like her as a friend, nevertheless love her. Hell, I'd get arrested if I was in a romantic relationship with someone as young as her!"
"You're not as old as you think you are, Meira." Mima commented, the ghost eating some yakitori as she continued to read the book in her hand. "Give a few short years, and it's perfectly legal."
"Aww, poor Rei is so ill that she's lovesick." Marisa joked as she also had some yakitori, the magician munching the chicken rather loudly. Marisa looked at Meira, the samurai blushing a deep shade of pink, especially as Reimu didn't cease her hugging of her arm. "You better treat her right, 'cause she has no dad. And as her best friend, I'll break anyone who breaks her heart."
Meira proceeded to become so mad that she was spouting incomprehensible gibberish.
"Oh just eat some tempura and calm down, Samurai." Kana said, the poltergeist having ceased toying with Rikako, the same spectral entity sliding the dish of fish and vegetables towards her with some dipping sauce. Meira's gibberish died in an instant, her dark eyes completely focussed on the meal.
"Tempura...!" Meira said hungrily, the girl wasting no time in dipping the seafood into the sauce and eating it. It was a secret that tempura is her favourite food, her love for the dish almost being a weakness. Putting some of it in front of her, or just letting her take in the scent, was enough to block her mind from the rest of the world as she ate it. "The texture, the fish, the salt, everything of tempura! This ambrosia; food invented and created by that god of wisdom that the Greeks worship! I love tempura~!"
Reimu decided to separate herself from Meira, the shrine maiden walking towards Yumemi and Chiyuri as the two were now enjoying some sukiyaki, the older of the two Outsiders having some sake with hers.
"Hey, do either of you two know where Rika is?" Reimu asked the two Outsiders, causing them to look at her with their full attention. "I remember inviting all of you four here, that is you two, Rikako and Rika. I know you two are here, and so is Rikako, but I don't see Rika anywhere."
"Oh, she's still back at our new base in the Kappa Village... which is still the Probability Space Hypervessel." Yumemi answered, the Outside World scientist putting some more beef from her sukiyaki in her mouth, eating and swallowing it before continuing. At least she was finally eating something other than strawberries. "She's working on improving her Evil Eye Sigma; she promised that she'll come over sometime later in the afternoon, she is just so busy on improving her greatest achievement."
"What a hard-working girl." Chiyuri commented of the brown-haired engineer, proud tears in her eyes. "She just always works so hard to prove herself, especially in a world like Gensokyo. I knew it was a good idea to work with her once again."
Rikako huffed through her nose. "She's just an antisocial slacker that wants to make it look like she works hard to create those pathetic creations of hers." Rikako said bitterly about her rival, the aforementioned rivalry between the two similarly named girls haven gotten a bit worse as Rika was proving herself to be more favoured by their mentors (Yumemi and Chiyuri). "If you ask me, I'm sure she is just lazing around, happy that she has no one to bother her."
"That's quite hypocritical, y'know." Chiyuri said, giving Rikako a large grin, the smile growing as she saw the blood drain from the self-proclaimed scientist's face. "You prefer to stay away from overs, and how many achievements in Gensokian science have you achieved since we took you under our wing?"
Rikako began to make indecipherable sounds, the scientist just silently moving towards Kotohime, the princess enjoying some tofu and rice. Chiyuri just let out a chuckle, the assistant continuing to enjoy her dish of beef, vegetables and tofu.
Reimu decided to walk back towards the spot where she was earlier, the shrine maiden a little glum that Meira had walked off and was now chatting with Mugetsu about something, but she simply shrugged it off as she sat down next to Marisa.
"Damn, it feels like only yesterday I was fightin' you so Mima could destroy humanity and enslave the humans that survived." Marisa said in a cheerful sort of way, causing Reimu to look at her with a large droplet of sweat falling down from her temple. "I never thought I'd see you become a full shrine maiden, at least so soon. Congratulations."
"Yeah, I really didn't expect it." Reimu said, a large smile on her face. "I thought I would have a few more years before I stopped being a trainee, not that I'm complaining. It's nice being a Hakurei shrine maiden, especially as I'm the last one left."
Reimu looked at the rest, seeing Yuuka make multiple small, beautiful flowers grow out of the ground, Gengetsu and Mugetsu were speaking with Kana, Kotohime and Rikako were sitting next to each other, chatting about who knows what, Konngara drinking sake with Kikuri by her side, Noroiko eating radishes as she next to Meira, the beautiful samurai eating even more tempura, Ellen had Sokrates sleeping on top of her head as she was speaking nonsense towards a very confused Elly and Kurumi, Yumemi and Chiyuri were still eating their meal.
And a girl with green hair, curved, red horns, a light-blue dress and large, bat-like wings floated over the shrine, with golden, slit eyes and an abnormally long mouth with sharp teeth in the shape of a mischievous smile, her forked tongue doing a hissing motion like a snake.
…Wait, what?
Everyone (with the exception of an oblivious Ellen and Meira, who was still busy eating her tempura) looked up at the odd girl, especially as she had an aura that felt really weird, of a completely different and alien nature. Reimu, Genji and Konngara recognised that kind of power, and Mima and Yuuka had a suspicion of what kind of power that was.
"Ooooooh~, what's this~?" The demon girl said. Multiple other demon girls appeared beside her, some looking like fairies with bodies that were slightly older in form than that of a real fairy, some looking like her with their slit eyes and sharp teeth and snake tongues. "Looks like these Gensokians are havin' a party~!"
"Oooooh, I love a party~."
"This looks kinda lame, we should show 'em how we do it in Makai."
"You gonna eat that?"
"Meat! Meat! Meat~!"
"Yay, party!"
"It's a bunch of demons from Makai..." Mima commented, the spectral being gaining everyone's attention (with the exception of the speaking demons and the still oblivious Ellen and Meira), her fingers pressing against her chin, her spectral lips turning colourless as she pressed them against each other. "That is... very odd. I thought that Yukari and Shinki made an agreement that residents of each other's domain never enter the other, or something like that... I'm so old that I keep on forgetting things, especially when there is so much knowledge that I can keep in my head, especially as I mostly remember magic and spells."
"Makai...?" Kurumi said.
"I think I remember hearing about it once in a storybook that Mother told me." Kotohime said, the princess deep in thought. "I remember that a long time ago a god... or a demon that is like a god... had created an entire dimension for herself, and then created a bunch of demons to keep her company."
"It is a lot like that." Genji responded, the turtle looking up at the Makai demons, obviously being lower-levelled with how low their magic levels were. They were talking with each other, seemingly having forgotten about the others. "Hey! What are you doing here?! I thought that Makai demons didn't enter Gensokyo."
One of the lower-levelled demons blinked and looked at the old turtle-like entity. "Huh? Oh yeah..." She said, flippant about the situation. "Lady Shinki has let us visit Gensokyo freely, and now we can do whatever we want in here. So, how's about we show some Makai fun~?"
The leader demon, who was the one that spoke, pointed her index finger out in front of her, a dark purple sphere of light appearing in front of the finger, firing a laser towards the group of Gensokians and other people at the party...
And the single beam hit Meira's tempura and the plate that held it, shattering the item and making the fish and vegetable meal make contact with the ground. Meira looked at the ground with wide eyes, disbelief and surprise in the wide orbs.
Her tempura... It was now on the dirty ground, on the dirty mud; utterly ruined. Those demons... they ruined her perfect meal!
"How dare you! You malevolent bitches!" Meira yelled, standing up and glaring at the demons flying in the air, not the slightest emotion of regret on their faces. Everyone took a step back from the samurai, even Ellen had taken notice of what was happening and stepped back, now becoming aware of everything that was happening. "You ruined my tempura! Do you understand what you did? You just ruined a perfect meal; an amalgamation of the amazing taste of fish and the healthiness of vegetables. Can you comprehend what sin you just committed?!"
"Fish and vegetables? Yucky!" The head demon said, sticking out her tongue in disgust. "Fish and vegetables taste like crap! That dirt has probably made it taste even better, it's not hard to make something that tastes better than yucky fish and yuckier vegetables."
"Yeah, yeah, fish are crap!"
"Crap food! Crap food!"
"Yucky! Yucky! Yucky~!"
"It doesn't even have any meat in it."
Meira was silent, looking at them with blank eyes, unable to believe their words. Not only do they feel absolutely no guilt for their heinous action, but they even go as far as to say such slander?!
"You demonic, diabolical monsters! It is clear as daylight now that you are beyond redemption, that there is a certain event horizon that you must have never crossed, but you clearly have crossed it with glee of evil on your faces...!" Meira said, drawing her katana. The purple-haired samurai raised her head up towards the group of demons, her dark glare showing nothing more than a desire to end their immortal lives. "There is no retribution for you, nothing that you do will allow you to be forgiven for your sins! I will kill all of you, and the weight of your actions will finally shine to light...!"
Meira suddenly vanished in the blink of an eye, seemingly turning invisible. Before any of the Makai demons could react to what happened to her, the leader of the group was suddenly cut in half vertically, right in the middle. The other demons looked horrified at their friend, a blur suddenly moving around the demon, the same demon being cut by the neck, her wrists, her elbows, and the joints of her shoulders, even her knees and ankles were completely cut, allowing purple blood to flow out of the demon, though every part of her corpse, even her blood, evaporated into a white mist.
The same blur moved around the other demon girls, causing the Makai citizens to be in pieces before they too had turned into mist.
"Well... this just got dark." Gengetsu commented.
Meira landed on the ground, sheathing her sword once again. "Your sins may never be repented, but you can still suffer from them." The samurai said, standing back up.
"That won't end them for long." Konngara said, the oni looking at the mist as it began to repair back into the Makai demons. "Makai demons are a lot like regular demons and youkai; you can cut them pieces and 'kill' them as many times as you want, they will still regenerate perfectly as long as something like their mind remains."
As the Astral Knight said that, the Makai demons were completely healed.
"Aww man, are you serious?" Chiyuri whined. "How do you even defeat those? Wait, do we have to defeat them?"
"That third question is dependant on whenever or not you want to fight them." Konngara responded, the ruler of Jigoku holding out her sword, lightning sparking around the blade. "As for defeating them, it is actually a lot easier than defeating a youkai. You see, Makai demons have a limited supply of energy, energy which gets used up whenever they regenerate."
"Horrible, old bitch!" The leader of the Makai demons yelled at Meira, even though she is far older than the human will ever live to be. The fellow demons yelled in agreement, all them charging up magical attacks that they sent towards Meira. Before the human could dodge the demons' attacks (something that she can easily do), Konngara went in front of her, the powerful oni quickly pointing her sword towards the demons and their attacks, sending out a powerful bolt of lightning that not only destroyed the spheres and lasers, but even the Makai demons themselves, even if for a transient moment.
"Thus, if you hurt them enough, whenever it is destroying them completely or simply hurting them, you can cause them to become too exhausted to fight anymore, especially if they use up their energy fighting against you." Konngara said, the Makai demons reforming back into their bodies from the mist they were turned into from Konngara's lightning bolt. "The more you damage them, the more energy they use to heal."
"You're all so awful~!" The head Makai demon yelled. "What kind of vacation is this?"
"You're right, Iyo." Said another Makai demon, being one that looked like a fairy, having short, brown hair, pastel pink eyes, and wearing pink dress with a pink ribbon tied in her hair. "Lady Shinki promised us that we could do what we want in here, and as our benevolent goddess, she would never lie. Clearly we need to teach these humans and youkai who is superior."
"You're so right, Sayo." Iyo agreed with the fairy-like demon. The green-haired demon then looked at a demon that was to her side, her blue hair tied up in a ponytail, wearing a white dress with purple flower patterns, her eyes normal and yellow-coloured. She was also wearing a small sunhat. "Haru, what do you think we should do~?"
"I think we should be them senseless." Haru responded, her (clearly fake) posh accent not fitting her tone of voice. The demon then raised a palm up to the sky, a blue sphere appearing above the palm. "Let's make them go boom~! We'll teach 'em a lesson for trying to ruin our vacation."
"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah~!" The other Makai demons agreed uproariously. Everyone who was at the party behind the Hakurei shrine was fully focussed on them, ready to fight. Reimu had her gohei out with a few ofuda in her other hand, Sin and Gyoku had merged back together in their yin-yang form, Marisa was floating on her broomstick with her magic wand out, Mima had her crescent sceptre in her hands and pointed towards the group of demons, Konngara kept out her katana with the blade sparking with lightning, Kikuri kept her happy expression on her face as her orb glowed bright.
Meira still glared hatefully at the demons with her sword tight in her hand, Noroiko was surrounded by black orbs of pure curse energy, Yumemi had an infinity symbol floating above her palm, Chiyuri looked like she was ready to teleport around and pierce the demons with lasers, Kana had made a stop sign materialise in her hands while fake phantoms floated around her, Kotohime was now in her officer uniform with her own katana unsheathed (a lot of characters with katanas, huh), Rikako was some spiked balls while flying around on her jetpack, and even Ellen was surrounded by her golden tornado (though she was still on the ground) with a glitter-like substance sparkling around her fingers.
Elly kept her curved scythe out, Kurumi was baring her fangs, Yuuka was pointing her parasol at them, Mugetsu had a magical sphere above her respective hands, and Gengetsu looked like she was preparing a Nightmare Spark.
"Well, well, well, looks like these Gensokians wanna fight back." Iyo said, a smug smirk on her face with her hands akimbo. Iyo and the other Makai demons let out a loud laugh. "This ought to be a joke, everyone knows that Gensokians and everyone else that hangs out at the land are complete weaklings, do you seriously-?"
Iyo and her comrades were then utterly obliterated from a Master Spark shot out of Yuuka's parasol, the green-haired youkai opening up the parasol and resting it on her shoulder once again. "You shouldn't brag about a specific kind of people being weak, especially if you have already been defeated by them." Yuuka said with mild disdain in her otherwise calm voice. Her red eyes were glaring at the mist that was slowly reforming back into the Iyo and her gang, the old lady letting out an angry sigh. "How rude of all of you. I will give you all one last chance, fly away and stop such rudeness, or you will know how powerful Gensokyo is."
Iyo, Sayo and Haru turned back into their demon bodies, the girls growling angrily. "Okay, that's it! The gloves are off and thrown in the trash!" Iyo yelled, looking back at the other demons. "Let's show them how strong we truly are!"
The demon then began to fire at the Gensokians and dream demon sisters, with varying results. Reimu ran out of the way of the danmaku, the shrine maiden jumping onto Genji, the turtle-like entity flying out of the pond. Marisa and Mima evaded with ease, the two shooting a massively dense barrage of star-shaped danmaku at the Makai demons. Unlike the last time, the demons had actually decided to dodge and split up, still firing their own danmaku of varying shapes, sizes and colours at them. Some of the Makai demons were hit, but few of them were defeated by the star-shaped danmaku fired by the protégé and master.
It didn't help that more Makai demons were appearing from nowhere and deciding to join in on the fun.
Kana was of course careful to not get hit by the danmaku, the poltergeist knowing well enough that the magical bullets would cause her to feel pain, something that is most unwelcomed. The blonde girl was able to use her stop sign to whack their danmaku out of the way and even back at them. Kana was also using her telekinesis to force the demons to slam against the ground, causing a few snapping sounds to break through the air, including the snaps of neck bones for a temporary death.
Kotohime had used her unique slash attack, the purple line cutting through the demons' danmaku and even cutting some of them in half, the princess even throwing some of her bombs at them, causing giant explosions that destroyed the Makai demons, at least for a while. Why did she bring the suit and bombs to a party?
Yumemi was teleporting around in the air, the Outsider creating Infinity Bombs that she threw at the demons, making it harder for them to fly around and dodge the constant barrage of danmaku aimed at them from the Gensokians as the aforementioned artificial magic bombs were exploding indefinitely.
Chiyuri was not far from her superior, the blonde also teleporting around in the air, though she was more focussed on using lasers and danmaku, not that she really has access to any of the Infinity Bombs in the first place.
Mugetsu and Gengetsu were somewhere around the borders of the Hakurei shrine, the two demons of the Dream World making sure that none of the Makaians would escape; they were, after all, the ones that started this battle; they can't raise the white flag or abscond because they don't like the way things are going. Nevertheless, any Makai demon that tried to escape were pelted with an impossibly dense amount of danmaku; the same treatment was also brought to the demons that dared to fire at the two most terrible, most fearful demons of the Dream World.
Everyone else was doing their part too. Ellen was casting multiple spells (mostly fire and freezing spells) and summoning her metal orbs, Rikako was flying around on her backpack and throwing the spiked balls at the Makai demons (mostly because they were the easiest things for her to do), Elly was throwing her scythe around like a boomerang, causing multiple Makaians to be cut in half and turned into mist, and Kurumi was firing danmaku at the demons and even using her fangs to suck out their blood (and spitting it out afterwards because their demon blood tasted awful). Meira was vanishing in an instant and dicing up the endlessly regenerating demons, Noroiko was simply using regular danmaku and hand-to-hand combat to defeat the demons, and Konngara was using the lightning that was being generated from her sword to annihilate the demons whilst Kikuri was using her laser eyes to blast the Makai tourists into vapour.
Yuuka, on the other hand, just sat down and continued to drink her tea, using her open parasol to block all danmaku that was shot towards her, the youkai also using her magic powers to send out golden-coloured, jagged danmaku that would home in on the closest Makaian demons.
It was soon that the Makai demons were defeated, even after regenerating to their full forms, even after constantly being destroyed to the point where they had to turn into mist to return to their full forms, they were defeated. In fact, it was the regenerating thing that caused them to be defeated, as too much energy was being used up to return them back to those forms.
"No... fair...!" Iyo groaned, the horned demon trying to push herself off the ground, only to fall under her own weight, her muscles burning as she lacked the energy and strength to really do anything more than talk. And even then, the demon could barely do that simple action. "There were so many of you... We were so out numbered...!"
"That is a lie." Rikako said, the magician-turned-scientist lowering herself to the ground, giving the demons an emotionless and disdainful. "You all outnumbered us by the multiple of six, at the least. You have no right to complain, especially as you started all of this."
"It's strange." Genji said, the turtle lowering to the ground, the ancient spirit having flown Reimu around as she shot danmaku and threw ofuda at the demons, the aforementioned shrine maiden hopping off him. "Makai demons rarely appear in Gensokyo, mostly because they have no interest in it. I know a Makai demon appeared a few months ago, at the least, but that was sort of a special occasion..."
"What special occasion?" Kotohime asked.
"One was sent to take me to Makai to fight someone..." Reimu answered, having a serious expression on her face, if only because of the moment at hand and not because of the incident itself.
"Sariel...!" Konngara said, the oni's face wrinkling into a grimace.
"If that is so..." Yumemi said, the Outsider approaching the demons, looking at them intently. "Why are you all here?"
"L... Lady Shinki said that we... could come here..." Sayo responded, the fairy-like demon lying flat against the ground, conscious but unable to move. "She said... that Gensokyo was somewhere... that we can go to... and do as we please...!"
Sayo then rested her head against the ground, the demon unconscious.
"Shinki sent them?" Genji said, the ancient being confused by the information. It was beyond odd, as Shinki has rarely ever in the past shown any interest in bringing any of her creations into Gensokyo. If she really did send the demons to Gensokyo, what is her motive? Did she...? Genji's eyes widened, that couldn't be the case! "Is Shinki really planning to invade Gensokyo?!"
"Shinki?" Marisa asked, the blonde's eyes widening as she realised something. "Hey, she's the demon that created Makai, like in the story that Koto-koto described, right?"
"Yeah, that's her." Genji responded, looking at the group of defeated Makai demons; demons that looked like they were already starting to recover. "I don't know why she would send her creations to Gensokyo, unless she wants to take over the land."
"What?!" Ellen and Kana shrieked.
"A take over of Gensokyo? I thought only Mima was capable of such an act." Noroiko said, the curse youkai looking at the demons as they slowly rose up, preparing to lay a horrible curse on them, mostly for her entertainment.
"My, and on such a lovely day." Yuuka complained nonchalantly, taking the situation with little to no seriousness.
"But that doesn't really make sense, Shinki obviously has never had the slightest interest in ruling over anything except for her own domain, and even then she is more of a benevolent ruler among her creations than a dictator." Konngara argued, the oni looking at the ground for a few seconds of silence before continuing. "But... nevertheless what her goals and intentions are, if she is really letting Makai demons enter Gensokyo - or even making them enter Gensokyo - then she needs to be stopped as soon as possible."
"And why would she need to be stopped?" Chiyuri asked.
"Because, as you have just seen, Makai demons won't hold back in fighting others. In fact, Makai demons are rather fond of causing as much destruction and chaos as they want. They even make their own towns outside the capital back at Makai so they can destroy them for entertainment." Konngara answered. Reimu briefly had a flashback of when she was in the Ruins of Vina, when Elis explained that she and a couple other demons worked hard to make Vina just to blow it up for fun. Konngara then looked up at the air, letting out an audible gulp as she saw multiple demons fly up in the sky; the demons obviously being ones from Makai. "And there is another reason: Makai's air is toxic, and the demons that inhabit it can bring around that toxin."
"What?!" Reimu screamed, the blood draining from her face, primarily because of the fact that she went into Makai in the past, and was in there for who knows when.
"Makai's air is completely poisonous to humans and animals, even plants wither away and die when exposed to enough of the poison." Konngara explained simply. "They are made by a demon, after all. Even if Shinki is a master of the Ultimate Magic, she still thinks like a demon; a dimension with air that is completely poisonous to humans and the like is definitely something a demon would make."
"SinGyoku..." Reimu said impassively, her eyes shaded by her hair.
"Yes, Lady Reimu?" The Hakurei twin guardians asked, appearing at her side.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS WHEN I WENT TO MAKAI TO FIGHT ELIS?!" Reimu yelled angrily, whacking the twins as hard as she possibly could with her gohei.
"You were protected by the holy power you are born with..." The twins struggled, unable to protect themselves as they didn't have any hands in their yin-yang form. It truly showed how much stronger that Reimu has gotten, now that they are actually being hurt by the shrine maiden's gohei. "Even if you were too weak for your ofuda to purify the Makai demons like you can against youkai, it was still enough to protect you against the poison in Makai's air."
"Wait, did Gorilla just say that those demons are poisonous?" Marisa questioned, the magician protégé not looking too afraid of the fact.
"Only slightly." Konngara responded in a matter-of-fact voice, the Astral Knight shooting lightning out of the blade of her katana, the lightning bolt turning into an explosion of the element, destroying all the demons that were currently floating in the sky, at least for a little while. "You may be human, and unprotected by holy power, but the magic that you have is enough for you to have a stronger resistance than a magicless human."
"Umm... I'm a magicless human." Yumemi said worriedly.
"Me too." Chiyuri continued, sweating buckets at the thought that she could die at any moment because of some poisonous demons. "We only use artificial magic; we have no real magic, not a single drop."
"Just consider yourselves lucky that you kept your distances, and that you are more resistant than grass." Konngara responded calmly, pointing at the Makai demons. They were still unconscious, but the grass beneath them was black and dead, a sign that the poison of Makai's air had clung to them and was already killing parts of Gensokyo, at least if they were there for long enough of a time.
"Yeesh, they sure don't look good for this world." Elly said, the shinigami keeping close to Yuuka, as her loyalty was towards the youkai.
"As you can see, it doesn't matter what Shinki's goals are, her demons are nevertheless dangerous to Gensokyo. Even if youkai and other supernatural creatures are immune to the poison, humans and animals still are - particularly the former. Not only will the Makai demons cause mass destruction without a second thought, but the poison will eventually make Gensokyo impossible for humans to live in, especially as there will be no plant life and or animal life. And, without the belief of humans, the youkai and gods will die out. Of all the incidents to have ever plagued Gensokyo throughout the years, this is one of the worst." Konngara said, the oni turning towards Reimu and Genji. "Reimu, Genji, you must go to Makai and stop Shinki, whatever she is doing this for."
"Okay..." Reimu responded, the shrine maiden getting back on top with Genji. "If my holy power really does protect me from the poison in Makai's air, then I guess I have nothing to worry about. Come on, Genji, let's go and fight this Shinki."
Genji flew forward, the turtle silently agreeing with the shrine maiden. There was a deep feeling of fear in his heart, that Lady Reimu may end up losing her life in this battle against Shinki, if she even will be able to fight the creator and ruler of Makai.
But it isn't his choice. As much as he cares for Reimu, he can't just not let her go to Makai when the biggest threat that Gensokyo has face in a long time - maybe even its biggest threat period - unless if the Gap Youkai herself decides to appear and tell them that she will handle the problem herself.
"Wait," Konngara said from behind the duo. Genji stopped, the ancient entity turning around as both he and Reimu looked at the oni. Konngara had a solemn expression on her mind, the Astral Knight putting her hand on her chest. "I know I no longer live in Gensokyo, but that doesn't mean I don't still care for it. And... you don't stand a chance against Shinki on your own. Even with your potential, you still have yet to completely reach it. Shinki lives in a castle that is right in the middle of Makai named Pandemonium, the castle is surrounded by the Makai Capital, where countless Makai demons live; and a lot of them are strong, very strong. Not only that, but Shinki is just as strong, if not stronger, than Sariel."
"What are you saying?" Reimu asked, wondering where the oni was going with her speech.
"I will help you." Konngara said, keeping her solemn expression. "I cannot live with myself if I just let a human - especially one that is still a child - die in Makai when I could have helped. Besides, like I said, this is the biggest threat to Gensokyo, and I still love this country. I will come to Makai with you, I won't let you fight alone. I will fight to save Gensokyo; I will fight to save my former home!"
"Do you really think you will help us?" Genji asked, the holy entity as surprised and amazed as the maiden on his back.
"For the past years, I have been nothing but a weak coward." Konngara said, looking away as her eyes were flooded with shame. "I let that seraphim make me do whatever he wants, and I let myself grow weak. But I have trained to regain my strength, I can now fight against Sariel and the main population of Makai. It's time I've reclaimed my pride as one of the Four Deva of the Mountain, and as an oni in general; that is my redemption for letting myself fall so low."
Reimu couldn't contain the happiness growing her heart, a large smile growing on her face.
"Well... I cannot express my gratitude." Genji said, tears of joy falling down his eyes. "Thank you, Konngara."
"Yay, I'm so happy to have your help~." Reimu said, the purple-haired shrine maiden smiling brightly at the oni woman, whom was still in her regular size form. "We really have became friends ever since when I met you."
Genji, with Reimu on his shell, and Konngara began to float towards the cave where the portal to Makai is located, the two supernatural beings already knowing where it is located, thankfully near the Hakurei shrine.
However, before they could even come near the borders of the Hakurei shrine, an impassable barrier of star-shaped danmaku was suddenly in front of them, blocking their way. Genji and Konngara had obviously stopped, both looking back to see that Marisa was still floating on her broomstick, pointing out her wand towards them with the little star glowing.
"Where do you think you're goin'?" Marisa asked Reimu, the blonde magician floating towards the shrine maiden on top of the turtle-like entity, her hands were akimbo, a grumpy expression on her. "You're literally going into a dimension created by a godlike demon, where you'll fight against hoards of demons, and then the demon god herself, and you thought to not invite me?!"
"...Eh?" Reimu, Genji and Konngara (and even everyone else that was behind Marisa, including even Mima herself) said, confused and surprised.
"I mean seriously, you know that I love a good fight 'n all that, and the demon even has Ultimate Magic, and I'm meant to be your best friend!" Marisa said angrily, the magical maiden floating towards Reimu, grabbing hold of the purple-eyed maiden's hand. "Well, it doesn't matter what you think, I'm comin', and I'm gonna kick that Shinki's ass with ya."
"I'm afraid that won't be so easy." Konngara said, a faint sense of regret in her solemn eyes. "You may be able to resist the faint amount of poisonous toxins that are around the regular Makai demon, but unlike Reimu you don't have any holy or special force protecting you from the tremendous amounts of poison in Makai's air."
"What?! Are you serious?!" Marisa exclaimed indignantly. "Is there, like, anything I can do to become immune to the poisons of Makai."
"I have heard of a few spells that are strong enough to allow even a normal human to shrug off the toxins in Makai..." Konngara mumbled, pondering for a few seconds before continuing. "Sadly though, I don't know any of the spells. And even if I did, I may not be able to cast them; I am powerful, but I have my limits on what magics and spells I can learn and use."
"Well then, it's good for you that I know that spell, and that I'm willing to cast it." Mima said, the green-haired ghost appearing next to the oni, holy entity and two humans. Mima spun around her crescent sceptre above her hand before stopping it, a proud smirk on her face. "I learned the spell a long time ago, when I was still alive and mortal, when I wanted to go to Makai to gain the power I have now. Thankfully, Konngara mentioning the existence of such a spell was enough to make me remember, as I have forgotten it since I have no need for it. I will also help you; I have grown rather attached to this land, a little ironic when you consider that I once saw it as a mere stepping stone in the past. Besides, I cannot let my star pupil go fight Shinki alone, especially when I have some scores to settle with her. And Makai sounds like the perfect place to try out my new spells on. Heeheeheehee~!"
Konngara and Genji exchanged looks; even though she is now 'redeemed' and on okay terms with them, they still weren't sure if they could really trust Mima. But, then again, they know they would need as much help as possible, as this is Shinki that they will most likely be fighting.
Reimu and Marisa didn't care, the two maidens just happy that Mima would be helping them.
"Would anyone else like to join?" Reimu asked as she looked towards the rest of the humans and non-humans that were at her party (before it was interrupted by the Makaians).
Yuuka was the first to step forward, the parasol-wielding youkai looking vastly interested in the incident that was awakening. "I'll be more than happy to join~ Being immortal and get quite boring at times, but fighting against someone as powerful and Shinki and her many creations sounds like a wonderful way to be kept entertained~." The youkai said, letting out an excited, if not slightly evil, giggle. Yuuka then turned around towards Elly and Kurumi, the death god and bat youkai keeping their full attention on her. "Elly, Kurumi, if you wish to join me, then feel free. I will not force you to come along; if you wish to simply return to Mugenkan, then that is okay."
"I've already told a thousand times, I am loyal to you." Elly said, the shorter non-human grabbing her master's hand. "I will gladly come with you to Makai. You won't have to worry about me, even though I'm no longer working for the Ministry of Right and Wrong, I am still a god of death; those Makai demons will be cut clean in half by my blade."
Yuuka was silent, the youkai turning her head towards her other friend. "And you, Kurumi?"
"The only thing in Mugenkan that is worth protecting is you, Lady Yuuka." Kurumi responded, the bat flying over towards her friends and putting her hands over theirs. "Let's have some fun against those Makai demons."
"If Gensokyo gets destroyed because these Makai demons won't leave it alone, then the shrine will abandoned and empty, and I don't want to suffer through the kind of boredom again." Kana said, the poltergeist floating in front of Reimu. "I'll also come, it would be nice to scare a few demons, and show them how dangerous a poltergeist can be."
"Trying to poison and destroy Gensokyo is a serious crime!" Kotohime said, the princess suddenly in her police uniform outfit again, holding out a pair of handcuffs. "As an official police officer of Gensokyo, I'll have to arrest Shinki for her crimes. You can count me in~!"
"What do you think we should do, Sokrates?" Ellen asked as she picked the cat off her shoulder, holding him out in front of her. Sokrates merely blinked at his witch master boredly, the cat letting out a meow. Ellen seemed to have heard something from the simple meow, as her face was unusually serious. "You're right, Sokrates. If Gensokyo is made poisonous by all those demons, then no one will be able to come to Fuwafuwa Ellen's Magic Shop, and we'll go out of business!"
Reimu and Marisa sweat-dropped at Ellen's priorities, though they knew what the witch was going to say... hopefully...
"I'm so lucky to have such a smart kitty as a business partner~!" Ellen giggled as she hugged Sokrates, the feline not doing anything to resist her embrace. Ellen balanced Sokrates back on her shoulder, the scatter-brained blonde skipping towards the growing group that was going to fight against Makai. "Fuwafuwa Ellen and Sokrates the Magic Kitty are on your side, fuwa~!"
"If what the oni said about Makai being a dimension created by a godlike demon with Ultimate Magic is true, along with there being a spell that can be used on us to survive in Makai, then I got to see it for myself...!" Yumemi mused, the Outsider turning towards Chiyuri. "Chiyuri, it's an absolute priority that we go to Makai, not only will our knew home be destroyed, but this Shinki can help us improve our artificial magic even further!"
"That is a very good reason." Chiyuri responded, the blonde looking at Reimu. "Okay, The Great Chiyuri and The Great Yumemi will help you out."
"Rikako, as you are already here and are working for us, you will also help~!" Yumemi said to the magician-turned-scientist, the Outsider not caring for the look of surprise on her face. Before Rikako could really protest, Yumemi was in front of her in an instant, the teenager putting a finger over the woman's mouth. "You want to show off how much your technology has improved, don't you?"
Rikako blinked, but ultimately nodded in response.
"Well then, doesn't this sound like an awesome opportunity to show off how far your technology has improved?" Yumemi said, a smile appearing on her face as she knew that she was getting the reaction she wanted.
"I-I guess you're right, Yumemi." Rikako responded, the purple-haired person adjusting her glasses before looking at Reimu. "Okay, I will also help you, but only to show off how much my work in science has improved."
Reimu shrugged, it was at least as good enough of a response, the newly made shrine maiden looking at the two dream demon sisters as they were talking about something.
Mugetsu and Gengetsu quickly noticed Reimu's eyes on them, the two demons looking at her. "We'll have to check with The Ruler of Dreams, to see if she's okay with us doing this." Mugetsu answered, her sister already vanishing back into the dream dimension. "It sounds like a lot of fun to fight against the demons of Makai, and we are fond of the dreams of those in this dimension, but we'll have to see if The Ruler of Dreams is willing to let us do it, especially since we've nearly run out of time that we're allowed outside of the Dream World."
Mugetsu vanished; Reimu only hoped that Mugetsu and Gengetsu would be allowed by this Ruler of Dreams that they keep on talking about.
Reimu saw Yumemi talking into some small black rectangle in her hand, the shrine maiden looking at the last two people of the party that haven't yet decided to join in on the Makai crusade: Meira and Noroiko.
"And you two..?" Reimu asked the human and non-human. Honestly, with all these people saying they would fight with her, after all these incidents and the like of fighting on her own (with the exception of Genji, and later on Marisa), she really hoped that Meira would be willing to fight with her as well.
"My tempura has yet to be properly avenged." Meira said, the samurai looking back at the pile of fish, vegetables and a broken plate on the grass. "I will make sure that Makai itself will pay in its blood."
"Okay..." Reimu responded, the maiden a little sad that Meira's reason for attacking Makai was more about a simple dish than her, but she was still happy to have the samurai help her. Reimu then looked at Noroiko. "And you?"
"Eh, everyone else is doin' it, and it's not like I have anything better to do." Noroiko shrugged. "Besides, these Makai demons will be some good test subjects for some new curses of mine. Heeheehee~!"
Reimu smiled. Gengetsu and Mugetsu reappeared, the dream demon sisters looking happy. "Well you're in luck, we managed to get The Ruler of Dreams to give us and extra hour or so to spend in the waking world, at least as long as we're fighting against Makai." Gengetsu said happily, the angel-like demon floating in the air. "You're in luck now, because the two most terrible, most fearful demons of the Dream World are going to help you stop Makai."
"Though we must warn you, we're quite used to giving people nightmares." Mugetsu warned, the maid-cosplaying demon keeping close to her older sister. "So don't be surprised if we end up traumatising some of those demons."
"Alright then, we're all set~!" Marisa said, the magician protégé undoing the barrier of star-shaped danmaku that she made. "Just make sure that you stay out of the way of Eggplant, Madam Mima or myself, 'cause we can't help that we're much stronger than the rest of you, so we can't stop ourselves if we blast you away for gettin' in the way."
Marisa's last comment was mostly ignored, the humans and non-humans making their way to the cave where the portal between Makai and Gensokyo is located.
"Wait!" Reimu yelled, the shrine maiden jumping off Genji and running to the small warehouse, opening the door and turning on Ruukoto. "Ruukoto, we're going to have to stop some demons and they've left a mess at the shrine, do you think you can clean it up."
"I will do as you wish, Lady Reimu." Ruukoto responded in a monotone voice, the nuclear-powered android maid already beginning work.
Reimu walked back to Genji and climbed bac on top of the turtle-like entity. "Okay, now we can go."
With everyone now certain that they would go to Makai, they went off to where the portal to the aforementioned dimension was located.
...
It was a few minutes after the group that were enjoying the party had left to stop the demons from Makai, the shrine desolate from all life with the exception of the android that was cleaning up the mess there. And a baton-wielding youkai and an angel-like youkai were appearing there.
"Geez, I'm late." Orange complained, the redhead youkai looking back and glaring at Matenshi. "Could you please remind me why you made me wait for so long for you to get ready, or why I even came with you."
"Because being with others is true justice~!" Matenshi responded with bravado, the purple-haired youkai then floated towards the empty shrine, oblivious to the party's abrupt ending. "Fear not, I am certain that there is plenty of food left for us."
Matenshi flew to the back of the shrine with Orange after her, the two youkai widening their eyes as they saw that there was nothing behind the shrine, except for an empty patch of dead grass and a green-haired maid.
"Hey, maid!" Orange yelled, gaining Ruukoto's attention as the android looked at her with emotionless eyes. "I thought there was meant to be a party here!"
"There was." Ruukoto responded impassively as she continued to clean up the mess that was left from the battle against the demons. "But Miss Reimu and co. had to leave as Makai demons attacked the shrine. They are currently heading towards Makai to fight Shinki herself."
Orange and Matenshi were silent - nonplussed - as they processed what the android said, only coming out with one response,
"WHAT?!"
"Well, we're here." Konngara said as she stopped in front of the cave. "Within there is the gate to Makai. Mima, I think now is as good of a moment as ever to cast that spell."
"I know, I know." Mima responded with slight annoyance.
"So who again is this spells needed for~?" Ellen asked, the witch petting Sokrates as the cat rested on her shoulder.
"Let's see here, Reimu is guarded by holy power, Genji and SinGyoku are practically made of and guarded by holy power, Kana and I are already dead so we don't need to worry for the cursed air of Makai, Konngara, Noroiko, Yuuka, Elly, Kurumi, Kikuri, Mugetsu and Gengetsu are already supernatural creatures, so Makai's poison is like air to them... That just leaves you, your cat, Yumemi, Chiyuri, Marisa, Rikako, Kotohime and Meira to be protected by the spell. Luckily, it only has to be casted once." Mima answered, the ghost waving her crescent sceptre around as she started casting the spell. "Defendant per corpus mortale, custodiet crusta fragili. Sit haec forma humana solennes augurium custodire ab hoc luctuosa dæmoni: venenum!"
Marisa and all the other humans that the enchantment were casted on felt a weird sensation, albeit on that died down quickly.
"What was that?" Yumemi asked.
"The spell." Mima answered simply. "Now you're safe from the poison in Makai's air. Hallelujah and all that other nonsense."
Before anyone could say or do anything else, the cave suddenly floated up out of the ground. Or, that is to say, the top of it did as the ground connected to the stone remained there, alone with the stone that the door to Makai was on. Everyone began to notice that Kana was floating up high; the poltergeist was the one behind the sudden event with the cave, just being a simple matter of telekinesis.
Kana effortlessly used her telekinesis to throw the cave over to the side, looking back at the others like it was natural. "What? I got the cave out of the way, and we can still make it to Makai." The blonde said, pointing towards the open door as more Makai demons flew out of there, ranging from the regular demon that looked like a little girl in a dress to demons that were basically eyes with wings and other such demons. "What are you all waiting for, the dustman? C'mon, lets go."
No one complained or said anything, merely flying towards the slab of stone that stood up in the ground. The was an open gate to Makai where the rock slab was located, a blinding light coming from it. As soon as the humans and non-humans got near it, the doors closed. YuugenMagan flew out of the rock, the fire eyes flying into their usual pattern, connecting each other with chains of lightning.
"Hakurei Maiden, it is you again." YuugenMagan said, the female that he was referring to being unsurprised by the demon's appearance. YuugenMagan's many eyes looked at the group with Reimu, the demon quickly noticing a certain green-haired ghost. The red eyes immediately glared at the magician ghost. "Mima!"
"Yes, that it me." Mima responded unashamedly.
"You know who you are. You know you are not welcome for your sin!" YuugenMagan hissed at Mima with venom, the five eyes looking at Reimu. "Are you working with Mima, Hakurei Maiden?!"
"Yes." Reimu answered. "We're going to Makai to stop Shinki, because she is causing an incident in Gensokyo."
YuugenMagan was silent, the yellow demon looking like it couldn't believe what it was hearing. "YuugenMagan can't believe this. Mima made an unforgivable sin in Makai. To believe you have fallen, Hakurei Maiden and Konngara." The gatekeeper demon said, sparking with electricity. "I am YuugenMagan, gatekeeper of Makai. I won't let any of you enter!"
YuugenMagan began to fire danmaku from its eyes towards the group, all of them dodging with ease. Reimu was the first to attack, shooting a yin-yang of light out of her palm, towards the electric demon.
In just one hit, YuugenMagan was defeated.
"YuugenMagan... cannot believe it...!" The demon groaned as all five of its eyes lied on the ground. "Defeated so easily... when Lady Shinki needs YuugenMagan most... Forgive YuugenMagan... Shinki...!"
The eyes closed, the collective demon was defeated and unconscious, the door to Makai opening again.
"Wow, that was easy~!" Ellen said.
"That was because nothing was done." Rikako said, the self-proclaimed scientist lowering to the ground and turning her jetpack off. "Reimu was the only one that did anything."
"Enough talking, we must enter." Genji said, the turtle still keeping Reimu in the air, floating towards the glowing light that was the portal to Makai. "We must enter Makai and stop Shinki. If she really is planning to take over Gensokyo, then she must be stopped as soon as possible."
Genji flew through the portal with Reimu on top of him, followed by Konngara, then Marisa and Mima, and then the rest.
Marisa blinked after flying in through the portal, getting rid of spots that were in her eyes, clearing her vision to a vast, purple landscape. There wasn't much that was interesting about this place, which is without a doubt Makai, as it was mostly barren, though she could notice a bunch of buildings somewhere in the distance, most likely the Makai Capital she has heard of.
"Amazing~!" Yumemi said, looking around in awe. Marisa was confused, was the Outsider seeing what she was seeing? "Just look at this place, Chiyuri, it's a real dimension of demons."
"Yeah, and the spell stopped us from being killed by the poison in the air." Chiyuri commented. The blonde teenager looked back, seeing that there was a large door behind them; the way back to Gensokyo.
"Eh, pretty damn unimpressive if you ask me." Marisa said, the magician protégé sitting on her broomstick, her arms crossed over her chest as she looked bored. "Hopefully the Makai Capital over there is more interesting?"
"Hey, Reimu, what is it like in the capital?" Kurumi asked the shrine maiden.
"I don't know, I didn't go there." Reimu responded, blushing in embarrassment. "I only went to some ruins and another dimension from Makai, so I don't know what it's like there."
"It's full of demons." Mima said, the ghost looking towards the Makai Capital with an unusually serious expression. Suddenly, what looked like giant, black tentacles shot out from the capital, though the truth of them was that they were just a bunch of demons, packed so close to each other that from the distance they looked like a black tentacle. "Correction, the demons are leaving."
"Prepare yourselves." Konngara said, the oni growing to her giant size, pulling out her katana and surrounding the blade with lightning. "Makai is already fighting us back, and believe me when I say that they are strong."
Reimu gulped, a quick feeling of trepidation and doubt forming within her, though she swallowed it down and held onto her gohei tight with her ofuda in her hands. This is meant to be one of the most dangerous incidents that Gensokyo has faced, and now as the Hakurei shrine maiden, she must stop all threats that attack Gensokyo, no matter how dangerous they are.
She is ready.
And I'm going to end the chapter here because, like the last chapter, it is a lot longer than I expected.
So yeah, like I said in the Author's Note of the last chapter, nearly all of the characters that Reimu has fought and defeated in the past will be appearing in this chapter, and they'll be helping her. That was the main the reason why I decided to have Reimu become an (unofficial) full shrine maiden, so I could have a reason for all of these characters to be at the shrine; to celebrate Reimu becoming a full shrine maiden. That was also the reason why Reimu had gotten a ton of donations in the beginning of the Lotus Land Story arc, so she could have some food for a real celebration, outside of sweets.
Yeah, I kind of researched some feudal Japanese food, since it just being sweets served at the party... it just felt kind of weird to me.
The idea of Meira having a huge weakness to tempura was just something funny that I thought up, and it was coincidently a good reason that I could come up with for Meira to help Reimu and friends. I guess you could also call it the Hidden Depths trope, but whatever...
Yeah, Matenshi and Orange are kind of like the Butt Monkeys of this story, but who knows, maybe they'll be able to have a Big Damn Heroes moment later, though it may not be in relation to the main quartet (Reimu, Marisa, Mima and Yuuka).
And don't worry, Rika will also appear later and aid on the attack on Makai, it's just that she'll be using the Evil Eye Sigma, so she'll appear later since she's still working on it in the Kappa Village.
Like I said, there's probably going to be a lot of OCs, since just relying on the characters that appear in Mystic Square, with the high number of Gensokyo fighters in this fic (and the sheer level of power that Reimu and Marisa have in this arc), would just make the fights end quickly. They'll still appear and fight, so you can expect Sara and Louise to appear, but they'll fight the other characters, instead of the aforementioned main quartet.
As for Makai having toxic air that can be dangerous to Gensokyo, that was also something that I thought up a long time ago; I felt lime it would make sense as to why everyone would want to stop Shinki. I also already thought up Reimu being immune to the poison in Makai because of her holy power, as well as the supernatural entities being immune (or at least very resistant) to the poison, and Mima using the spell to make them immune so they can enter Makai and fight against the Makaians. As for the spell that Mima used, it is meant to be a rough Latin translation of 'Protect the mortal shell, guard the fragile shell. May this Solemn enchantment protect human form from a demon's poison' (of course it was made using Google Translate, so it could be off). The reason why it is complicated and in spoken form is because it will appear later.
Anyways, long chapter is long, and all reviews, even ones of constructive criticism, are accepted and appreciated, good night!