Ken's POV

"Lost Soul's Village! -Suicide-!" declared Yuyukno.

(Alright, This is a really big boss. I can do this....or at least hold out until Sakuya and Reimu get here.)

Yuyuko was up in the air in front of the Saigyou Ayakashi at the canopy level while I flew up in the air to meet her on the same elevation.

Yuyuko had the same whimsical smile she always had while she tilted her head and smiled even more.

(The fact she's smiling like that is creeping me out....)

A light breeze went through us as Yuyuko fires light blue, yellow, and green lines of waving arrow bullets with 2 lines each of blue and yellow on one side, two lines of green with a line of blue in between on the other, at first aimed upward, but then they slowly redirected themselves downward.

(This looks easy, I could graze this, since it's colorful, I can tell it apart easier.)

I merely moved my body parts little by little as they approached me, while I anticipated her next attack.

(This can't be it. There has to be more than this.)

Nonetheless, I began to be less alert as Yuyuko lacked a challenge to her danmaku.

As the lines of danmaku begin to reach the bottom, Yuyuko fires a purple beam straight to the side that had 4 lines of bullets to begin with, and then arcs it above her, with the beam spreading into five as it arcs around, and stopping once the first beam is straight below her.

(Holy shit.)

I lowered in elevation and moved to the right when it came to me, barely dodging the beams.

Immediately I retaliated with my Seeking sand attack as the small white particles reach Yuyuko and impacted her, giving off a low hum I could mysteriously hear.

The beams disappeared as another purple beam appeared on Yuyuko's other side as she arcs it, while turning around with it now.

(What the hell? Now she's having fun?)

A bullet suddenly hit me on my arm as it helped me to become more alert, shrugging off the bullet as nothing.

(God. It still kinda hurts, but that shouldn't matter right now. I gotta stay focused!)

Yuyuko brought around the beams as they ended up the opposite side now, and twirling around at the same time.

(She really needs to........FOCUS!)

Luckily I dodged it, but then I hit another bullet on my other arm.

(This is really getting irritating, she keeps distracting me by not taking this seriously!)

I looked at Yuyuko for a split second before focusing on the bullets.

(How is she still smiling at a time like this?)

Again and again, Yuyuko repeated her attack while I still heard a low hum.

(Yuyuko is actually still on her first spell card, already aggravating me.)

While I had been grazing her beams, my shirt had gotten singed a little bit on my left arm. Luckily it didn't reach skin while my shirt looked very burnt on the left arm part.

Suddenly the low hum changed to a high hum as I smiled.

(Oh thank goodness.)

I kept using Seeking Sand as I lifted up my left leg up to dodge two waves of bullets.

But then I was in a position vulnerable to the beams as they came around about to hit me.

(No!)

Then the bullets stopped and turned into cherry petals as they floated to the ground.

(Eh? Did I stop them?)

I noticed I wasn't hearing a hum anymore as I still fired my Seeking Sand.

(Oh, her spell is canceled.)

Yuyuko still had a smile on her face, but she looked more irritated than usual.

"Uuu~, I was having fun too. You're aren't as easy as you look to cook" complained Yuyuko.

(Of course I'm not, I recently went through a sadistic Currahee. I'm not going to be cooked that easily!)

I smiled and shrugged my shoulders, mocking her.

Yuyuko smiled back but she looked even more irritated as a vein became noticeable on her forehead.

"Of course. I'm not always right. Let's test and see. Fufufu~" said Yuyuko, grinning as she cackled.

She took out a spell card from her outfit as she simply let it drop to the ground along with the cherry petals.

The big unfolded fan behind Yuyuko glowed yellow for a second before reverting back to a violet magenta color.

(Oh here comes another one.)

When it hit the ground, the card grew yellow as long but thin purple streaks of light came out of it before disappearing altogether.

(Where's my special effects on my cards?)

After watching the card disappear, I looked at Yuyuko who shrugged.

(.If she has special effects, hmm~, imagine Remilia and her spell cards.)

"Deadly Dance! Mortality -Demon World-!" declared Yuyuko.

(Wouldn't "Ghost World" be more fitting?)

I heard the low hum again as Yuyuko fires off four lines of spiraling 'butterfly' bullets which rotate around her.

(Hmm~, they don't even look like butterflies at all, just that faint outline with the actual round bullet in the middle.)

She then also fires a spiral of globe bullets while currently firing butterflies.

(And they are all cool colors, why am I not surprised?)

I merely shuffled to the left and to the right as it was an easy pattern, then I shimmy to squeeze in between some butterfly bullets and a globe bullet.

I even began to snap in rhythm with both of my hands as it was just too easy.

Yuyuko swiped the air with her hand.

"Um~, what's that supposed to mean? You hatin' on my dance?" I said, noticing Yuyuko swiping the air.

While she made another spiral of globe bullets, they began to home in towards me once the spiral was finished while Yuyuko giggled.

I looked at the homing bullets surprised while I was still snapping.

(So you hate it, That don't mean you gotta crush it!)

Quickly I turned about 45 degrees to the left and did a reverse pelvic thrust to dodge the incoming spiral, while Yuyuko was making another one.

(You have got to be kidding me.)

Suddenly I felt a large burn on my ass as I lowered in elevation and stood properly.

"Stop hitting my ass with your butterflies!" I yelled, feeling an uncomfortable burn on my ass.

(I totally regret not making my tushie insensible either.)

"Fufufu~, shouldn't you be concentrating right now?" teased Yuyuko.

(She got me there. Damn you Dance Dance Revolution!)

Then Yuyuko finished the spiral as it headed right towards me. I did the sensible thing this time and dodged to my left once they homed in to my position.

After that, I got right into dodging the butterflies again.

Yuyuko looked sullen for a second then changed back to her whimsical smile while I dodged the homing bullets.

The rest of the globe spirals Yuyuko did were homing as I followed the same procedure, Move to a different 'devoid of any butterflies' location and dodge the incoming butterflies. I didn't get hit ever since a butterfly hit my ass during the card as the low hum changed to a high hum.

(I was getting tired of this spell anyway, ever since my ass got burned with a bullet, I never slacked off in this spell again.)

Quickly, I maneuvered through the butterflies as my Seeking Sand attack was hitting the fan as well.

(Hmm~. Why is it that she is affected by the huge fan, why did she have it in the first place if it was a disadvantage like that?)

While I was pivoting right to dodge the incoming globe bullets, they all imploded into cherry petals again as they fell to the ground lightly like a feather.

I took this moment to grab a breather as I became tired of quickly going left and right, even if it didn't leave me winded.

Yuyuko's eyes became really big with her mouth curving upwards toward her nose with her eyebrows resembling a half circle, along with tears in her eyes.

(What the hell?)

"Why are you crying?" I asked, confused.

Yuyuko's tears reached to the bottom of her cheek as it fell.

"Uuu~, you're making it really hard for me to let me eat you! I knew I shouldn't have skipped dinner for this" complained Yuyuko, holding her stomach.

(Yuyuko, you bipolar bitch. You would go skip a meal? That's madness, either that or she sensed us coming.)

Yuyuko took out another spell card from her outfit as it fell to the floor again, but this time it just went through like a ghost.

(Eh? Where's the special effects?)

I looked confused as I looked at Yuyuko, who looked a bit irritated.

"This will cook you! Flowery Soul! Butterfly Illusion!"

(Note to self: Never bring Yuyuko to a Mcdonalds if I ever go back, no matter how dirt cheap Mcdonalds is.)

(Heh, She would even eat the clown. I never did like that clown again ever since the McRoll.)

Yuyuko proceeded to fire a slow moving spread of small clusters of tiny white bullets along with 3 layered circular bursts of large blue round bullets.

I also saw something else in the pattern as I strained my eyes and looked at it.

(Damn, I can't see through this easy pattern, what is it? It seems to be going towards me.)

When it came out into the open before being shadowed by the bullets again, It looked like a spiraling group of spirits leaving ghost-like trails.

(What the? it looks very suspicious.)

As soon as it got close to me, the spirits converged into the middle, releasing 3 circles of butterfly bullets.

(Holy, I knew there was something going on with that THING!)

The circles extended outwards when I instinctively leaped to my left, making me hit about five white bullets on my arm on the way.

"OW!" I yelled.

The pain felt really sharp as I covered my arm and looked at it, where my sleeve had been burned, now it was nipped with cuts on my arm.

(Crap....This....)

Suddenly, another surge of pain reached my head as I felt my back being cut.

I lurched forward and looked behind me, it was the butterfly bullets that converged into itself, transforming into spirits.

(Crap, I need to get out of the way. I'm insensitive against danmaku burns not slices!)

"Tsk Tsk Tsk, can't you focus properly?" teased Yuyuko.

(Grr, Shut up!)

"Fool me once. Shame on me. Fool me twice. Shame on ghost" I stated, getting cocky.

(I had enough with this. She's really starting to tick me off with her taking it easy.)

I pulled out a spell card with my hand in my jeans as I saw cuts on the back of my right arm but I didn't know it..and..

(My...My clothes...WHY?!)

I fell sullen as a sudden surge of rage swept through my body, my shirt and jeans had so many cuts on them from the butterflies as a teardrop reached the end of my cheek. Goosebumps swept my arms as I grew a very dangerous aura.

"No! I just got them yesterday!" I despondently yelled.

Yuyuko kept on attacking relentlessly as she became surprised at how I merely ignore her butterflies and bullets.

I took on her hits like it was nothing, as I wanted to tear her apart for ruining my new clothes.

(God I am so An...)

I had fire in my eyes as I declared my spell card, and then pointed at her with my other hand.

"My name is Ken. You have killed my clothes. Prepare to die. Split Sign! Splitting Beam!" I declared, feeling warm energy rush to my hands.

"Clothes? You can't kill..."

I held out both of my hands and put them together in some kamehameha pose, interrupting Yuyuko.

Then out came a tiny beam from in between the palms of my hands.

I was steadily gaining cuts on my body as Yuyuko looked on with a disgusted glare.

"My name is Ken. You have killed my clothes. Prepare to die" I repeated.

"So be it."

Yuyuko kept on firing with her spell card when the beam grew in my hands to the tips of my fingers, making a similar spark compared to Marisa's but no 'whir' sound from it.

Yuyuko looked more and more disheartened as her spirits and the bullets were nullified in front of the spark.

The spark hit Yuyuko dead on in the head as she tried to open her mouth.

"Bleh! Spicy!" commented Yuyuko loudly, breathing in air like a jet intake.

I slowly moved the palms apart as i made two sparks the size of my hand, splitting it, as they now hit the fan.

"My name is Ken. You have killed my dog. Prepare to die."

"What? Stop saying that! I haven't even killed your dog. He sounds delicious though....Urk!"

"I don't give a whatever if you sexually assaulted my dead dog, My name is Ken, You killed my dog and clothes. Prepare to die."

The sparks split again into fiery balls as they move off to the side, but before that, they unleashed a blue single shot for each ball at Yuyuko.

The final attack finished her spell card as the fan folded up behind Yuyuko, with her getting really mad as I regained my common sense.

(....How did my dog get into this?)

"Uuu~, stop saying that! You're making me not want to eat you anymore!"

"Good then! You ghost glutton!"

Yuyuko opened her eyes wide with her hand over her wide open mouth before reaching into her clothes for another spell card while making a very uncomfortable whimsical smile.

"Yah~!"

(Eh? That sounds like Marisa...)

I looked up into the air and so did Yuyuko as we saw a person out of control in the air as she descended.

She had blond hair along with a black blouse with a large witch's hat.

(Yep that's her. Where the hell was she anyway?)

Then we heard a crash as Yuyuko twitched, hearing Marisa falling through wood and glass.

"Not my mansion...this is not a good day" whined Yuyuko.

(Who should I feel sorry for? Marisa or Yuyuko...a hard conundrum if you actually think about it. Marisa is going to be hurt after crashing through her mansion. But then she could steal things from Yuyuko along with her mansion being destroyed. This is a hard conundrum after all.)

Yuyuko fell sullen for a few seconds, before she looked at me again with an angry glare.

"Hmph! Still! You are no longer good enough to be even my snack! Repository of Hirokawa! Divine Soul!" declared Yuyuko.

(I think I got her really mad when I was raging.)

Yuyuko creates 5 circular bursts of butterfly bullets, the colors being green-yellow-blue-yellow-green. The butterflys spiral outward for a bit, and then quickly launch outward, creating lines of bullets across the distance. Yuyuko then fires four arcs of butterfly bullets to her sides, alternating between blue and purple, and left and right.

My reflexes became dulled since when I moved to my left to graze a bullet, I hit one on my left on my thigh, cutting my jeans.

I noticed the severe lack of energy I had as I felt really lethargic like a huge weight is burdening me.

Then suddenly, I hit twice in my stomach, knocking the breath out of me as I saw an X-shaped cut on my shirt.

Soon my reflexes brought me down to the point where I had cuts everywhere on my body as I breathed in deeply and quickly as I became exhausted, my clothes ripped apart, luckily my extremities have been ignored. I moved sluggishly through the air as I couldn't react fast enough.

My vision blurred in and out while looking at Yuyuko, who seemed to be back at being happy, but she also looked a bit despondent.

"Fufufu, what's wrong Ken? What happened to your high focus, what happened to killing me?" cackled Yuyuko.

I floated down to the ground and dropped to the ground on my knee for a second.

"Hah...Hah" I breathed.

I was breathing in deeply, almost now disheartened at how the tables were suddenly turned.

(I shouldn't have gotten so angry.)

"A meal like you would certainly be nice tasting the irony, if you were even nice enough to let me do so in the first place!" complained Yuyuko.

Yuyuko licked her lips as I had trouble seeing, being more sadistic than I ever thought she was.

(Crap, I need to...)

I withstood cuts on my head as it cut my cheeks and one close to the eye.

"Don't worry. I'll forgive you for interrupting my flower-viewing, if you serve as an accompaniment meal for the person I will revive" offered Yuyuko, obviously joking.

"Hah...Hah...No...."

My voice became a little bit hoarse as I stood up and slowly pulled out a card from my pocket.

"I will..hah..get...spring...back...hah" I breathed, gaining back my confidence.

Yuyuko closed her eyes, cocked her head to the side, and whimsically smiled, whilst keeping up the relentless barrage.

(Why...do you have to look....so damn innocent...when you are killing me?)

"So be it. Prepare to be cooked!"

I weakly held up my spell card, then I dropped it, while barely declaring it"

"Seeker Sign! Ambush!" I declared while my voice was hoarse.

I finally started my Seeking Sand attack, as I heard a low hum, then 15 globe bullets came to my flanks on each flank.

"Go...hah..hah"

They all rushed towards Yuyuko where she had to cancel her spell card to move out of the way quickly when she didn't notice them earlier.

Yuyuko shook her head to the side.

"Surely Ken, even in your state, couldn't you have done better? Fufufu, I wonder what a human filet tastes like" teased Yuyuko, now becoming the one who isn't taking the battle so easily.

(You...glutton...fool)

I weakly smiled as Yuyuko caught me and became confused.

"Why are you smiling? You just missed..."

Just when she asked that, all the fifteen globe bullets imploded into disks as they again charged to Yuyuko at high-velocity.

However, Yuyuko closed her eyes again and dropped down in altitude and moved to the left slightly, with her creepy smile, dodging my disks, flying off to nowhere.

"Fufufu, the name of your card makes it so obvious. Pity" said Yuyuko.

"What..hah..How.."

I turned off my Seeking Sand attack as I became more and more unsuccessful in my attacks, now losing hope as well.

(....Damn....)

"Now, do you wish to resign your life to m-.....Hmm~, I was wrong. I may not eat you after all" said Yuyuko.

(What?)

I took many weak steps to brace myself again when I slowly looked to my right.

I smiled, relieved that help has arrived.

(They made it, of course they would. It looks I'm not going to die from a suicidal glutton after all.)

My energy slowly returned along with hope, I saw Sakuya smiling back, with Reimu just arriving, still panting from possibly being barred by Youmu.

(Was she really trouble to the two of them?)

"Need some help?"

"Hah..Please?" I said, recovering at the sign of hope.

My vision became crisp and clear again as I braced myself, along with Sakuya and Reimu doing the same thing.

"Hmm~, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you are far too late. It is already 80% before it can start" said Yuyuko, shaking her head.

(How do you know that?)

She pulled out a spell card with a deadly smile on her face.

"This may be my last spell card. Sumizome Perfect Blossom! -Bloom-!" declared Yuyuko.

"Then let's make it quick!" yelled Sakuya, reaching in her outfit.

Yuyuko began unleashing a nearly solid 5 layered circular spread of globe bullets, as she reopens her big ass fan behind her. She then fires butterfly bullets in lines diagonally downward in both directions towards us, which then split into 3, and fly in a small circular pattern, before turning into short lines of butterflies. The butterflies created alternate between purple and blue.

the Saigyou Ayakashi behind Yuyuko begins releasing slow moving purple shard bullets, flying straight up and down moving like snow.

(Is it really that close to being unsealed?)

"Reimu! With me! Speed Sign! Luminous Ricochet!" declared Sakuya.

(I never did like that spell card in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody...cheap...and she sounds like that one kid from Lucha Libre.)

Reimu, who was already firing homing blue ofuda, nodded.

"Divine Spirit! Fantasy Seal!"

Sakuya unleashed a very fast knife that glowed blue with a blue trail as it made its way towards Yuyuko.

It immediately went through her and hit her fan, then her, then the fan, then so on, as it continues to ricochet back forth between Yuyuko and the fan.

I heard a cry of pain from Yuyuko as her spell card was canceled, her bullets turning into cherry petals, floating to the ground like snow.

She couldn't reach the knife as she tried to grab it, but it went so quick as it ricocheted her entire body back and forth.

Reimu conjured up several giant multicolored orbs as they made their way towards Yuyuko with increasing acceleration.

When they hit, a colored explosion corresponding to which orb hit occurred for each orb.

The last I heard from Yuyuko was a scream as the impacts were heard.

I simply stood and watched the fireworks, feeling my energy being sapped again.

(....Overkill...)

When the explosions finally stopped with the knife landing in front of Sakuya's feet, she was gone, along with the fan, as the orbs hit everywhere.

All I saw were cherry petals, as they floated through the air.

(Is it...finally over?)

Reimu was panting heavily as she dropped her gohei, while Sakuya picked up her knife and put it back in her maid outfit.

"Is...hah...she...hah..dead?" asked Reimu, exhausted.

(That last attack obviously took a lot of Reimu's energy.)

Immediately, with my vision blurring in and out now. I saw a blue translucent silhouette of a person standing in the air as she unfolded her fan and pointed them towards us threateningly.

"Hah...Hah...Who's...that?" I asked, while my legs buckled.

(My energy....I'm losing...it.)

"Resurrection Butterfly! 80% Reflowering!"

She launches a circular burst of red butterfly bullets, while launching red and blue lasers in 6 directions.

That was the last I saw before I dropped onto the ground and laid there on my stomach, my energy and the cuts taking its toll, with the sharp pain coming to my senses now, along with a pool of blood that I felt.

(Crap....no.)

The last thing I remembered before blacking out was a clatter of metallic things on the floor. And a voice.

"KEN~!"