A few hours afterwards, in Gensokyo, Nue had successfully warned Keine of the oncoming invasion, prompting her to use her abilities to conceal the human village in advance. Kogasa had spotted Alice leaving Eientei and towards the forest of magic, telling her to warn Marisa as she wished to avoid the toxic fumes in the forest. Reimu seemed slightly bothered by Kogasa's appearance, halting her training in the art of summoning gods, which wasn't helped out by the fact that Kogasa opted to sneak up on Reimu and surprise her. Remilia, along with the other members of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, appeared open to the idea, despite Remilia's annoyance at the interruptance brought on by the umbrella Youkai. The tengu of the mountain, as well as the gods of the Moriya shrine along with Sanae, appeared to accept Nue's plan immediately, with Kanako in particular being quite frank about how 'it needs no warning if everyone will see it all perfectly fine in the end'.
Nue went into Eientei, in what she assumed was her unidentifiable state. Eirin, however, who was still behind the counter, had already taken her drug for testing that it worked.
"Aha, the drug must be in working condition," Eirin smiled, nodding to herself. "You wouldn't come running in here without concealing yourself with your power."
Nue narrowed her eyes slightly, sighing as she expected the result that had happened. Of course she would keep the drug for herself, choosing to test it on herself for the next time Nue came through the door. "Looks like everyone's getting to see my true form now…" Nue sighed, walking over to the counter as she looked around.
Eirin nodded, bringing up a container from beneath the counter and placing it on top of the counter. "Here it is. I made them small enough to fit in a container this size. I made an extra one hundred of them, just in case you manage to lose a few."
Nue nodded, picking up the container and looking inside it. "There… doesn't seem to be all that much in here."
"I made three batches of one hundred," Eirin said. "I sent two of the batches off with the two girls i'm training currently, to give them something to do. They're already out giving the drug out to people. My plan was for your friend to take this third batch so you could focus solely on making everything unidentifiable. It appears she hasn't finished her original job, though…"
Nue shook her head, turning around to walk out of Eientei. "She's probably spending more time coming up with plans to surprise everyone in Gensokyo. I'll manage giving out the drugs first, until I run into Kogasa again. It might take a while, though."
"Well, that is an extra one hundred," Eirin said, nodding as Nue began walking away. "So long as the girls are managing to give everyone one of them, there should already be more than enough to go around."
"Right," Nue said, opening the door of Eientei. "It's still better to have three people going around, just in case." she said, flying out of Eientei.
Yorihime interrupted Reimu's training, flying down with the container in hand. Reimu staggered a little bit in surprise, before catching her breath quickly. "Well, if it isn't the shrine maiden from all the way back then. Trying to summon gods, I see."
Reimu seemed a little annoyed at the interruption, closing her eyes and breathing deeply to maintain composure. "I'm doing perfectly fine at it, thanks. Why are you here anyway? This is the second time this hour i've been interrupted by someone."
"Toyohime and I are delivering some of Eirin's new drug," Yorihime smiled, reaching into the container and tossing one over to Reimu, which she caught and looked at. "Makes sure... uh…"
"Nue Houjuu," Reimu continued the sentence, before continuing on her own. "A drug that always lets you see things for exactly what they are. Sounds kind of shady, if you ask me."
"Eirin took it for herself, and I took it a while ago. I promise there's no side effects. For us Lunarians, at least," Yorihime said, smiling as she added the final part in an almost insulting tone. "Perhaps it has side effects against impurity. Who knows until you try it?"
"I doubt Eirin would do that given the circumstances," Reimu said, tossing the pill into her mouth. Luckily Eirin managed to make it small enough to where water wouldn't be needed to swallow it down whole, allowing it to be easily taken in by anyone.
"The main part of the drug should sink into your bloodstream and reach your eyes within minutes. When it does, well, the drugs effect should kick in and your eyes will be enhanced to where nothing is hidden from you," Yorihime explained, smiling. "Anyway, I should go now. If you ever want to learn how to summon god spirits properly, i'll be at Eientei."
"I don't need your help," Reimu shouted as Yorihime flew away, seemingly ignoring the shrine maiden. Watching the lunarian fly off, a fast blur zipped across the sky as a newspaper floated down. Reimu picked it, reading the headline. 'Possible invasion of Gensokyo? Yukari readies all forces! Could this be the time where all Gensokyo residents work in harmony?'
"You're behind on the news…" Reimu shook her head, throwing he newspaper away as it drifted off in the breeze that began to whip up.
Yorimi looked up from the center of a field she was stood in as Yorihime flew away from the forest of magic. "A lot of people seem to be flying around everywhere now…" she said into the ear chip. "How long do you think will be safe here?"
"Not long," Hiroko replied through the chip. "I thought they'd catch on to us quickly, but mobilizing a strategy like what Kogasa told us about before within a day was quicker than expected. Besides, I don't know how long we can stay under Yukari's radar."
"That's true…" Yorimi replied back, rustling her hand through her hair as she felt the flower head between her fingertips. "It was short lived, but Gensokyo was a nice place to explore."
"Excuse me," An unfamiliar voice said, grabbing Yorimi's attention. She appeared formal in her speech, unlike many of the other Youkai Yorimi was used to hearing from and speaking to. "You are miss Yorimi Kawakami, yes?"
Yorimi turned around, seeing a Youkai, fairly taller than her, looking down at her. She had golden hair with a similar colour in her eyes, and that colour was shared by her nine tails sprouting out from her lower back. "That's me… yes. Who are you?"
"I am the shikigami of Master Yukari, Ran Yakumo," Ran said, as her hands were tucked neatly into her sleeves in a fashion that made her appear cross-armed. "I must ask you to leave Gensokyo now. Master Yukari's orders."
"..." Yorimi appeared speechless, as no voice came through in her earchip. "...How did you find me out?"
"Master Yukari sent a crow familiar to Mars with our cat, Chen, who was gathering intel on you," Ran explained, still appearing in her composed and formal manner. "With that intel came a book. Your history book, I believe. Your name is noted down in there, as well as your powers. News travels fast in Gensokyo, even to us. If anything strange is seen, it goes straight to Master Yukari. Marisa Kirisame, the magician you met at Myouren Temple, told Reimu Hakurei about you. Reimu Hakurei is the one currently in hand with your history book, and therefore she knew your name and reported it to Master Yukari. She spoke to Nue Houjuu, and upon returning, sent me to monitor what her plan was as well as looking for you."
Yorimi seemed surprised, impressed by the co-ordination they used in order to find her. "Well… appears there's no use staying around here now. I guess I should have used a different name rather than my real one."
"I don't think there would be much difference," Ran said, confident in her masters ability to receive notice about events in Gensokyo.
"No point in staying around now," Yorimi smiled, holding the flower in her hair. "Nice meeting you, Ran Yakumo. Give Yukari my regards for making such an impressive place with all these different people." she said, as she disappeared, presumably thanks to Kaiya's powers.
Ran nodded as she left, hovering off the ground and looking up north, where Yorihime had recently left Hakurei Shrine and Aya Shameimaru flew over it, dropping the news paper down. Nue flew out of Eientei, flying straight across the rode and over the human village, towards the Scarlet Devil Mansion and Moriya Shrine. "Everything seems to be going well…" Ran muttered to herself. "Now… where's the other sister?"
"Well if it isn't that fox from all that time ago," Toyohime said, behind Ran, causing her to look around. "I just headed to that flower field and the temple down there, handing out these helpful drugs to those people. You're here without Yukari?"
"I'm here on a mission from her," Ran said, looking at the container as it appeared to be about one tenth empty. "There was a Martian spy here, so I took care of her and sent her back to where she came from. I'm also monitoring progress on Nue's plan."
"I see," Toyohime said, narrowing her eyes and frowning slightly. "The way you speak is awfully boring. I assume you'll need one of these as well, yes?"
"Three," Ran said, ignoring Toyohime's insult and flying towards her with her palm open. "One for me, one for Master Yukari and one for my own Shikigami."
"A Shikigami with a Shikigami?" Toyohime said, tilting her head in surprise. "That's not something you see every day. Anyway, here you go, fox lady. Tell Yukari that this Nue person comes up with better plans than her's to take over the moon." Toyohime smiled, as she dropped three of the pills into Ran's hand. Ran didn't seem to be amused by Toyohime's last comment.
"It was originally Master Yukari's plan to use Nue Houjuu's powers to conceal Gensokyo, however she had a different method of it," Ran informed, to which Toyohime seemingly ignored.
"Right…" Toyohime nodded, before flying above Ran. "Well, make sure to relay my message. Bye, fox lady." she said, flying towards Moriya Shrine. Ran shrugged off the entire encounter, hovering higher to keep watch on what everyone was doing.
Meanwhile, within the Lunar Capital, Yorimi sat down in a room with Kaiya and Hiroko, the latter of which seemingly going over what the Martians had learnt from Yorimi's visit. Yorimi appeared relaxed, as Kaiya seemed to immediately note the flower in her hair, mentioning how it 'suits her'.
"Ahem," Kaiya broke the awkward silence of the room, raising her hand over he mouth as she did so. "So, it appears our spying failed. Oh, and, Hiroko," Kaiya said, remembering something as she paused between each word she spoke. "I went to check on Saiko and Kasumi before. Kasumi left with that weird god thing of hers in some ship we had on the surface."
"You brought her back down, right?" Hiroko said, looking over notes she had written whilst listening in on the information from Gensokyo. Kaiya nodded proudly.
"Mhm. I used my ability to teleport her back down to our planet. Just thought i'd let you know about her trying to rush things, is all." She said, sitting back in her chair with her feet up as the room dived back down into silence again. "You know, Hiroko, i've been meaning to ask. How exactly did you beat that Tsukuyomi guy? I mean, it had to be you, right?"
Hiroko nodded, still refusing to face her as they spoke. "Yes, I did. I just used my powerful magic. Who did you think caused the magical aura on some of our objects on Mars? I needed to make sure nobody got them."
"Ah, that makes sense," Kaiya said, kicking her feet up on the table as she crossed them. "You could've let me fight him, you know? I wasn't doing much with Toyohime."
"If you fought him, you would likely have destroyed the moon in the process," Hiroko said, lifting up a piece of paper as she focused on something. "Besides, i've told you not to fight at full power before, remember? It's far too dangerous for yourself as well."
Kaiya hummed in boredom, looking up at the roof. "I didn't say I would've fought him like that. Just a simple fight is all. Toyohime wasn't much of a fight since my ability stopped anything she could do."
Hiroko nodded, placing the paper back down and stretching as she yawned. "Thanks, Yorimi. This helped a lot. Now we know about what their plan is thanks to Kogasa, as well as some stuff about some of the residents. Not sure how we'll combat a plan like that, though…"
"You're welcome," Yorimi said, standing up as she walked towards the door. "Glad to be helpful." she added, walking out of the room. Kaiya also stood up, walking around the room as well.
"So, Yorimi's exhausted her usefulness, not like there was too much of it," Kaiya said, smiling. "What's the next plan, Hiroko?"
*Spell Card!* World Insight!
Certain things within the Invisible Martian City are surrounded by a magical aura, including the deck of cards Hiroko primarily uses in battle, as well as the door to Nuwa's chamber. This magical aura is to make sure that nobody messes with the important artifacts, or enters the chamber of Nuwa. The most notable of these magical objects does not reside within the city, however, but instead on the moons of Mars. On both of these moons is a tower emanating magical energy from the top, towards the invisible city. These towers are concealed by her magical energy, and the specifics of this makes it so the energy appears invisible along with the city. They work with one card in each, placed on the top floor of the tower, constantly receiving and releasing energy as the core of the process. This magic keeps the city invisible, as the card will never run out of magic due to the infinite loop created.
Tower's card - The outside of the city, making it invisible - Nuwa's chamber - The deck of cards within the chamber.
Afterwards, the deck of cards releases the magic back the same way to reach the card in the towers. Whenever the deck of cards is removed, however, the energy is taken from Nuwa herself, going up the shackles and out the same way towards the towers once again. This keeps the city invisible no matter what, unless one of either of the two cards is removed from the tower.
