The arrow was easily dodged by Hiroko, who drew a card from one of her dresses pockets and threw it up into the air. Eirin fired a simple danmaku bullet at the card, expecting it to disappear and be destroyed easily. Unexpectedly, however, the danmaku bullet disappeared before even reaching the card, as Eirin quickly got into a defensive position instead.
"Lightning card," Hiroko said, as the card now erupted into lightning strikes, shooting around and down at Eirin, who dodged past the many bolts that aimed to strike her down. Before the bolts hit the ground, which would have caused a lot of noise to be made and potentially wake up the whole of Gensokyo, more cards were thrown around, connecting with the bolts of lightning as they approached the edges of Gensokyo. "Reverse card," she said, as the lightning bolts were sent in reverse directions, coming this time at all angles to attempt to strike down the lunarian sage for an easy victory. Eirin continued to dodge the lightning bolts, until eventually, more cards were thrown around as they reflected the lightning back around. There came a point, however, where Hiroko simply let fly many cards, more than what appeared to be in the deck, surrounding the lunarian sage in a cage of reflection and lightning.
"You did well to continue dodging," Hiroko said, narrowing her eyes. "But i'm afraid I can't allow anyone to get in the way of my ideals…" she whispered out the last part, briefly reflecting upon her sister locked away on Mars. Now that she thought about it, the current situation was probably the furthest she had been away from her for a long time, millions of years to be more exact. "Relative of Tsukuyomi, you must lose this fight. Give up now, or, well, you can't keep dodging all this forever."
"Your ideals?" Eirin said, seemingly ignoring the last remark. "What could you possibly hope to gain from taking over the moon, and now Gensokyo? Now that you mention that, it appears you Martian's aren't just in this for interplanetary conquest as we all once thought."
"You've heard enough, lunarian sage," Hiroko said, surprised at Eirin's ability to hear her words. As she did, she threw three more cards into the cage, fitting through small slots and erupting into more lightning. After many clashes and about half a minute, the lightning stopped as all the cards returned to her hand. Hiroko took a deep breath, regaining the composure she lost upon reflecting on her family matters.
"Earlier you said I can't keep dodging forever," Eirin said, waving her hand as the remains of the attack disappeared. Hiroko gasped upon hearing her voice. "I'm afraid I have that amount of time on my hands. Three people have drank the Hourai Elixir I made. Princess Kaguya, a human from Gensokyo, and myself. In other words, you can't simply kill me."
Hiroko bit her lip slightly, breathing heavier as she did so. "So… you're immortal are you? That is quite an issue…" she said, hovering place. "Tell me, Eirin, have you heard of the surname 'Amagai'?"
Eirin narrowed her eyes quickly, arming her bow with yet another arrow. "I feared it could be this. You're the younger sister, correct?"
"Yes," Hiroko said, nodding and holding a card between her fingers. "And I think as someone regarded as 'the Brain of the Moon', you may understand what I want from Gensokyo."
Eirin hovered up to Hiroko's level, holding her bow up towards her with the arrow tip pointing at Hiroko's chest. "I can't allow the will of the gods to be disturbed like that, as a Goddess of the moon myself," she said, as spirits appeared around her, encircling Hiroko as they locked in place around her. "Astronomical Entombing," she said, releasing the arrow as she fired a large, red bubble-like bullet into the cage along with it, causing the spirits to vibrate and release bullets as they did against Yorihime. It sounded like one of the larger bullets hit directly, as well as a few of the smaller ones dissipating upon contact with her.
"Flame card," Hiroko said, as a bust of flame destroyed all the spirits and set her free from the cage she was trapped in. "Enough with these games as if we're trying to contain each other, shall we? If I can't kill you, then it appears that shouldn't be my goal in this fight."
Eirin nodded, as she summoned many bullets around her, collapsing in on herself before being released in a spray towards around her, with a large focus of the bullets being on Hiroko. Hiroko was forced to dodge through the bullets, before finding herself surrounded by lasers while the bullet spray continued. "Genealogy of the Sky Born," Eirin said, as, along with the continued spray of bullets, came large red bubbles as well as oval shaped, darker bullets. By combining two different attacks together, she put a massive amount of pressure on Hiroko, as she was constantly hit directly by bullets due to the combination of confined space and density of bullets.
"As I said," Eirin said, holding her bow up and aiming through the bullets at Hiroko as she drew it back. "As a goddess of the moon, not only do I have to defeat you so they can inhabit the moon once again, but as a resident of Gensokyo I must protect it with all my strength. It doesn't matter if you are the second being to exist in the universe, or if you're supposed to be the most powerful being in the universe outside of your sister, I must stop your efforts here." she said, releasing the arrow once again, as Hiroko looked up this time, narrowing her eyes with nowhere to escape from it.
Meanwhile, Remilia flew relaxingly along with Sakuya towards one of the sites where the Martian's went to. Remilia had a smile on her face, as Sakuya appeared a little more serious as they approached someone in the distance. "Aha!" Remilia exclaimed, speeding ahead of Sakuya as she stopped in front of the person at the head of the group. "I am Remilia Scarlet, the strongest and fastest Youkai of Gensokyo. You're no match for someone like me, martian, so you may as well give up now."
"Mhm…" Kaiya nodded, looking closely at Remilia as she boasted about herself. "And we could've sworn Yukari was supposed to be the strongest of you all…"
"Y-you know Yukari?" Remilia said, as a drop of sweat emerged on her face. Sakuya stopped next to her mistress, as she also looked up towards Kaiya. "Well, whatever! Yukari might be the best in a fight, but i'm the physically strongest and fastest! Besides, Yukari's ability isn't fair to begin with, so she's excluded."
"I see," Kaiya said, as she raised her hand to her group, causing them to all fall down onto the ground instead of staying in the air. They landed around the Myouren temple, watching up at the three of them. "And what's your ability?"
"T-that doesn't matter! I don't need it to beat the likes of you anyway!" Remilia said, summoning a red spear in her hand as she pointed it towards Kaiya. "Sakuya! Let's get this over with quickly and move on to someone stronger than she is!"
"Sorry, Hiroko's a bit busy right now," Kaiya said, holding onto the tip of her hat as she smiled confidently. "I'm Kaiya Amari. Although, to someone like you, it seems I might as well put that in simpler words. There's only one other martian who is better than me in a fight when we both get serious. I guess that makes me the second most powerful martian, doesn't it?"
Remilia smiled, as she grasped her spear and pointed it towards Kaiya. "That's all I needed to hear. After I beat you, i'm moving on to the strongest of you all!" she said, bursting forward with incredible speed. Just before the spear connected with her, however, she found herself up in the air, despite being close to the ground. She continued flying a few feet behind Kaiya, before stopping and looking down at her.
"Let's not be so hasty, our conversation wasn't finished yet," Kaiya said, smiling. "I have the ability to teleport anything to anywhere in space I desire. I could send you up into outer space, where you would simply suffocate without air, if that's how I wanted to win the fight. Of course, that's not fair to anyone, so i'd rather give you a chance."
"You're talking down to me!?" Remilia exclaimed, holding the spear down towards her. "Sakuya!"
"Yes, Mistress," Sakuya said, as, before she knew it, Kaiya was surrounded on all sides by knives that were closing in on her. Despite being taken by surprise, she teleported them all above Remilia and Sakuya, allowing gravity to do the rest of the work. Sakuya, however, disappeared along with Remilia, and as they did, Kaiya felt a knife cut her on the shoulder, grasping it as she did so.
"Well, what an interesting power," Kaiya said, smiling the slight pain she felt away. "What could it be, I wonder?"
"I want to know something as well," Sakuya said, bringing three knives into the crevices between her fingers. "What is your purpose for coming here and doing all this?"
Kaiya sighed, shaking her head as she heard the question. "No idea." She said, shrugging. "We have this person above us that only Hiroko's seen. She randomly told us to take over the moon and Gensokyo for some reason. If you really want to know, Hiroko's up there, fighting that girl with a bow." She said, pointing to the highest point of the great Hakurei barrier. "She's known me for so long and hasn't even told me why we're doing this. Must be something quite personal."
"I see," Sakuya said, holding her knives up. "So, once either of them wins their fight, i'll have to ask them."
"Hmm, I wouldn't expect much of an answer," Kaiya said, before turning to look at Remilia. "Youkai have different classifications, right? Like how that Yukari person is a Youkai of Boundaries. What kind of Youkai would you happen to be?"
"Eh?" Remilia asked, still appearing unphased by the remark about healing. "I'm a vampire youkai."
Kaiya smiled at the answer. "A vampire youkai, hm? I couldn't think of a better match up myself," she said, summoning a white, light ball that resembled the sun within the palm of her hands. Remilia felt her body burning up, as Sakuya acted quickly to pause time and take Remilia away, into the bushes outside the Myouren Temple. As she returned and unpaused time, she looked up to her.
"That ball of light is the same as the sun…" she said, looking at it as it disappeared in her hand.
"Yes, it is. I'm the minister of discovery, and my free time is spent observing everything about celestial objects. Since I observe them so much, I learn all about what they're made of, light frequencies and all that stuff. After I learn about them, I can scale the size and mass down, as to not cause a black hole, and create an exact replica of that object to use as an attack. I could create a larger sun and destroy the world with it, if I wanted to. But where's the fun in that?"
"I see," Sakuya said, raising a knife up. "So in that case, the mistress is doomed to lose against you."
As she said that, Sakuya paused time again, throwing more knives around her, as well as some extremely close to her, so close it was hard to react quick enough to them. The knives quickly rushed towards her when time was unpaused.
"Planetary Shield," she said, as a rocky planet exterior surrounded her and deflected all the knives, before disappearing when all the knives were stopped by the shield. "Summoning just the exterior of a rocky planet scaled down provides a shield for me. I don't think your knives would ever be able to penetrate that, even with all the time in the world."
Sakuya bit her lip, throwing out around one thousand knives in a straight line towards Kaiya, wide enough to be considered a beam of knives. A small meteor was created, flying at speed towards Sakuya, knocking away all the knives in the process. Sakuya paused time again, flying away from the meteor while attacking her with more knives from far away. The fight became a fight of knives against small meteors, causing small craters as they buried themselves within the earth. Remilia smiled, as Kaiya was distracted, flying up behind her and swinging her spear in an arc, which was dodged by Kaiya backflipping over her, creating a meteor around Remilia as she did.
"Nice try, but the noise of your energy spear gave you away," she said, firing the meteor down into the ground, as it exploded into smaller rocks, leaving Remilia unconscious in the center of the crater. She wasn't dead, nor was her life in danger so long as she stayed there, Kaiya had made sure of that.
"Mistress!" Sakuya shouted, as Kaiya teleported behind her and kicked her down towards the crater, hitting a rock on the way down as her guard was let down by the defeat of her mistress. A normal laser was fired right after Sakuya's descent, penetrating through the side of her torso, avoiding any vital organs as she shock factor from the attack was enough to stop her from moving, but not quite knocking her unconscious. Sakuya was teleported higher into the air afterwards, as gravity did the rest of the work, knocking her unconscious as she landed back inside the crater with her mistress, the shock still not allowing movement.
"That was fun," Kaiya smiled, before looking behind her at the group as they were all knocked onto the ground, seemingly not moving with injuries covering them. "Oh… I swear I avoided any attacks going to them."
"You did," another voice said behind her, as Kaiya turned around to see three people standing on the ground. "You made quite the show, I must say. Too bad we got here too late to stop you from beating the vampire and her maid. I'm Okina Matara, one of the sages of Gensokyo."
"Oh, a sage of Gensokyo choosing to fight me?" Kaiya asked, smiling as she touched the top of her head to make sure her hat hadn't fallen off during the battle. "I'm flattered, really. So you're like Yukari, then?"
"You know Yukari?" Okina asked, before shaking her head. "Of course you do. She was the one who went to Mars. Your leader up there is busy fighting one of the sages of the moon, so I had to settle for second best."
Kaiya yawned, looking up at the moon as she did so. "All this fighting at night is making me a bit tired. I hope you'll be the last person I have to fight tonight, or else I might just fall asleep…" she said.
As Okina arrived to fight Kaiya, Byakuren had woken up due to all the noise outside the temple. Rather than choosing to join in with the fight, she snuck away, flying over Gensokyo to where the second version of the Palanquin ship was being created in order to wake up everyone on the ship.
Once Byakuren arrived, she immediately found Murasa asleep on the deck. She hovered down to wake her up, as the captain opened her eyes and looked at the monk. "I thought i'd find you here," she said, looking up at the Youkai Mountain where the ship was being built behind of. "The Martian's came in the night, so I thought to wake you all up."
"Huh… Miss Hijiri?" Murasa asked, as she began opening her eyes as she yawned. "Martians? ...Oh!" she said, as her eyes snapped open and she quickly got to her feet. "Right! I'll get to the wheel, you can wake everyone below deck up. Let's show them what the Myouren Temple is made of!"
Byakuren appeared surprised by Murasa's quick switch of attitude, before nodding as she went below deck to find Shou, Nazrin, Ichirin, Kogasa, Nue and Mamizou, waking them up as the Palanquin Ship readied itself to fly into the air once again.
Meanwhile, in the towards the north of Gensokyo, Mokou was flying in front of Kaguya, who was smiling behind her. "Kaguya! I told you, whoever went up here is mine for the taking! You can take the one that went over near the Youkai Mountain."
"Oh, but Youkai Mountain is much further away. It's much simpler to come up here and then go over there afterwards," Kaguya argued, to which Mokou seemed even more displeased by.
"You can also go up there and help Eirin, you know!" Mokou exclaimed. "If it weren't for the situation, i'd force you to go somewhere else!"
"There's still another one of Eirin's pupils who hasn't moved yet…" Kaguya said, looking back towards Eientei and ignoring the remark. "I wonder what Toyohime is up to."
"Are you ignoring me?" Mokou asked, turning back towards Kaguya. "You'd be no help to me anyway! It's easier if you just turn back no-"
"Oops," Kaguya said, as she fired a laser through Mokou, going past the body as Mokou was resurrected with a Phoenix-esque symbol accompanying it. "You see, now you're following me north. You'd be better somewhere else, like near Youkai Mountain, for example."
"But… I was the one who-" Mokou started again, before being cut off.
"Well, would you look at that?" Kaguya said, pointing down towards a group of people and flying down to it. Mokou let out an growl of annoyance, before landing on the ground behind Kaguya. "So, you separated into four groups, right? Then which one of you is the leader of this one?"
"I'm quite surprised by the lack of people up north," Saiko said, pushing through the rest of the Martians. "Say, could you explain to me why everything looks so messed up?"
"It does?" Kaguya said, tilting her head, before remembering what Eirin told her about the plan. "Oh, right it does to you. Someone here made everything unidentifiable so we could confuse you. Eirin made a drug to make it so we all see it all normally."
"A drug?" Saiko asked. "So Gensokyo is more than just a mess of randomness. Who are you two, anyway?"
"We asked first," Mokou said, to which Kaguya held her hand up.
"I asked first."
"The specifics don't matter!"
"Ahem," Saiko said, interrupting the argument between the two before it escalated. "Saiko Kurosawa, Minister of Chemicals who uses their ability to control chemicals to keep stability over the illnesses of on Mars. You could call me the pharmacist."
"So you are like Eirin," Kaguya said, sighing. "I'm Kaguya Houraisan, former lunarian princess. That over there is just a normal human who copied my immortality so she could kill me on a daily basis."
"At least tell the full story!" Mokou exclaimed in annoyance.
"That's your issue?"
"And don't just call me 'that'! My name is Fujiwara no Mokou, former human who drank an elixir to become immortal myself."
"I see, so you two really don't have the strongest of relationships," Saiko sighed, shaking her head. "This Gensokyo is full of all kinds of people."
"What was your strategy, separating out into different areas like this?" Mokou asked, walking past Kaguya, with a slight push away.
"To separate you guys, of course," Saiko replied, her always serious nature not faltaring upon any questioning. "Gensokyo has so many more people than us, some like Yukari surpassing three of us at most, and two of us at an underestimate of her power. By separating you out like this, and attacking at night, we're thinning out your numbers before the big event begins in the day."
"Honestly, Mokou, that was quite simple," Kaguya joked, as Mokou seemed like her fuse was blown about a long time ago. She turned around to Kaguya and snapped angrily.
"If you're going to follow me here, at least help out instead of annoy me!"
"It seemed as though you followed her," Saiko said, a slight bit of impatience evident in her voice as the conversations dragged on.
"See," Kaguya laughed. "Even she's a witness to it."
Mokou growled, before turning away from Kaguya and raising her hand. "Let's just get this over with!" she shouted, turning her back as she enveloped herself in a fiery tornado that rushed towards the Martian, catching her by surprise as she was whipped up within it, being thrown out as it ended into a tree, although she didn't realise what it was until she was falling through it. She landed against the mess of coloured static, looking up at Mokou as she threw many knives covered in a corrosive substance, piercing her body as it eroded away.
After death, however, Mokou appeared next the the tree in a burst of flame, swiping up as a fiery, claw-like apparition followed her hand movement through the tree and burnt through it, knocking Saiko from her seated position into the air, as two more swiped followed back to back, locking her into a combo which finished with a downwards hit that smacked her against the ground. Afterwards, Mokou flipped towards her as she flew downwards with a kick coated in flame, which was avoided by Saiko rolling out of the way as she grabbed Mokou's leg, transmitting her germs onto it as it was soon completely destroyed, staggering Mokou off balance. Saiko used the chance to kick Mokou up in the air as she got up, following her upwards as she blasted her with a combo of attacks, punches to the head, both her arms, her body and her remaining leg, before knocking her downwards as they were all destroyed by her touch.
Mokou was revived even from nothing being left of her, however, flipping away from her as she did so with her hands in her pockets.
"Impressive regeneration capabilities, coming back from that," Saiko complemented, wincing in pain as she did so from the burns that were inflicted onto her by Mokou's attacks. Mokou went to speak, but was immediately interrupted.
"Complete destruction means complete regeneration," Kaguya said, smiling as she did so. "That's the rule of our Hourai Elixir, or so Eirin says. Even if you completely eradicate us until not a single subatomic particle remains, we'll always come back."
"Those were pretty complex words for you," Mokou teased, as fatigue was evident in her voice. Despite always bringing someone back after death, the side-effects Mokou experience is the regenerative properties bring her a great deal of pain and fatigue, even if it may only be mentally inflicted. Naturally, the more she would experience death and the more brutal the death would be, the more tired out she would get upon revival. Complete destruction being the highest level of fatigue one could feel when being revived.
"There were no complex words there," Kaguya said, also with a joking manner to her voice.
"Also…" Mokou said, seeming to get angry with Kaguya once again. "When are you going to stop watching and help!?"
"When you tire yourself out," Kaguya smiled. "You asking me for help, hm? This is new~" she added, teasing her more.
Mokou growled slightly, before moving her head out of the way of a corrosive knife flying straight for her. Saiko seemed to be getting even more impatient than before, snapping Mokou back into her battle mode.
"Oh my, how rude," Kaguya said. "We were having a delightful conversation."
The two battlers ignored her comment, with Mokou attempting the same trick as before, attacking her at range with fiery claws. The same trick wouldn't work twice, however, as Saiko dived down towards the ground and underneath the attacks, kicking off the ground for an extra boost to get close to Mokou. The representative of Gensokyo, however, avoided the touch as she ducked lower, sweep kicking Saiko's legs to knock her off balance before flinging her into the air with another overhead kick, finishing with quick burst of speed into the air, before kicking down into Saiko's abdomen, flying down towards the ground with her as a burst of fire erupted from the ground when they landed, similar to a volcanic eruption which Mokou backflipped away from.
As the attack cleared, Saiko was left standing in pain from the burns and a damage abdomen, but didn't allow those injuries to prevent her from keeping up the assault, hitting Mokou's chest with a knife she had previously touched, causing her entire upper body to be destroyed as she was once again reborn from the flames. Realising she would miss her chance with her fatigue becoming unbearable if the fight continued like this, upon revival she grabbed the Martian with a small, blue flame ball in her hand. She crushed it in her hand, destroying herself in a massive burst of blue fire shining as powerfully and as bright as a star, as Mokou revived feet away from Kaguya and collapsed onto her knees from the fatigue, still watching to see what damage her final attack had caused.
The attack cleared as Saiko herself was left not standing. The burns inflicted were enough to cause her to fall down on both knees in an attempt to regain composure, however only her right arm made it to the ground. Her left was seemingly destroyed in the final attack, as it was the closest part of her to the origin of it.
Mokou looked up towards Kaguya. "Your turn…" she managed to mutter out, before falling onto the ground as her pain and fatigue from the fight eventually became too much to handle as she fell unconscious.
"You could've at least left me some kind of fight," Kaguya sighed, as she stepped past the unconscious body of her rival and towards Saiko. "Although I don't find fighting so reckless like that as a good strategy, even with our immortality, it seemed to get the job done well enough here."
"So… you're going to finish… the job now, huh?" Saiko asked, as Kaguya kneeled down close to her.
"Oh, no, not quite yet," Kaguya smiled, as she let out a sigh that appeared to come across as more like a yawn, as her smile snapped into seriousness. "Only the Watatsuki sisters and the moon rabbits came back from the moon. There should be more, like Tsukuyomi and Sagume. What happened to them?"
"They're both locked up on Mars…" Saiko answered, looking up towards the lunarian princess in distaste. "The god of the moon... as well as a goddess from the moon. Quite valuable to… keep around, of course."
"Alright," Kaguya nodded, before standing back up tall. "Even if I was exiled from the moon, as a former princess I should probably help them out. How would I get there?"
"We only have… one person who can take us there…" Saiko said, breathing deeply for air in order to keep herself from passing out. "But she's to the south…. Alternatively, that Youkai of Boundaries you have can take you there… wherever she is."
"Probably sleeping…" Kaguya sighed. "Now, last question. Why did you attack the moon,and now Gensokyo?"
"The only reason disclosed to me is that we want to get ourselves known across the universe… by a sort of intergalactic conquest," She said, to which Kaguya nodded once again.
"Right… well, you're not threat to anyone like that. If nobody else can, then as a princess, I will. Think of your suffering here from these burns and your missing arm as punishment for thinking you could attack the Lunar Capital like that and get away with it," She said, walking away from Saiko as she picked up Mokou.
"You're… leaving?" Saiko asked, as she watched the princess throw her rival over her shoulder.
"Like I said, this is punishment for your acts against the moon," Kaguya said, smiling as she looked back. "It's unofficial, though, so I wouldn't expect this to be the only thing you may have to go through." she finished, as she left the ground with Mokou with her, going towards Eientei and where Yorihime was battling.
Above the Bamboo Forest, whilst everything was happening, Yorihime smiled as she floated across from the two of them. "Who's your new friend?"
"Oh, her?" Kasumi smiled as as she directed her eyes towards to godly being next to her. "She's the one who'll beat you. A familiar of mine, with power even you would fear to see!"
"Is that so?" Yorihime said, not taking a single word that she was told seriously as she span her sword around in her hand. "Then let her have the first move."
"You heard her," Kasumi smiled, being as over-confident as she usually was. "Jitia, show her what you're made of!"
The familiar reluctantly nodded, which Yorihime took note of as she smiled at the fact. The two clashed in swords, as the fight played out like a usual mid-air sword battle would, with hardly anything in the deviation. After the two consistently clashed swords for about a minute, Yorihime taking glances up at the fight between Hiroko and Eirin as they did, she eventually kicked the god away as she summoned Honoikazuchi out of mostly boredom, striking the familiar with lightning attacks in quick succession, before covering her own blade in lightning, striking the stunned familiar towards the ground with a sword swing.
"Call off your familiar," Yorihime said, parting the spirit of Honoikazuchi from her body as she raised her blade. "There's no point in having it continue fighting, believe me on that."
"Grrh!" Kasumi said. "I created it to defeat you, so defeat you it shall! Hurry up and fight her!"
As she was bound to do as Kasumi's order, Jitia did her best to rush upwards towards Yorihime, to which Yorihime dodged easily and continued to clash blades. Yorihime never appeared fazed by any attack, as her sword blocked any attempt to hit her with ease and without much effort. Yorihime grew increasingly more bored, before once again Yorihime knocked the familiar towards the ground, bringing swords from the ground to surround her with the power of Lord Gion.
"A familiar is bound by its masters power," Yorihime sighed, looking towards the Martian. "Even if you try to summon a familiar with godly power, unless you also have godly power, their power will be latent and unused. Now, call off your familiar. It's pointless keeping it around."
Kasumi growled at this remark, raising her hand as her familiar disappeared. "Well then, looks like i'll have to put my training to use, then."
"Your training? After three days?" Yorihime asked, picking her sword out of the ground and raising it with a tilt of her head. "Not much should change. Even if you did increase in power, my training with master Yagokoro would be enough to negate that."
"Well, you'll be surprised at just how strong I am," Kasumi smiled, raising her sword up as well. "It was a long time since I last battled when we first met. Now, i'm back in gear!"
"I already was quite surprised," Yorihime smiled. "I went through four of my abilities last time we fought. The people native to Gensokyo made me use two each." She said, before looking past Kasumi to the Palanquin Ship lifting off from behind the Youkai Mountain. Kasumi turned around, her eyes following Yorihime's, however she saw nothing but a blend of colour.
"What are you looking at?" She asked, tilting her head.
"If you had Master Yagokoro's drug, you would know," Yorihime said, as she raised her sword. Kaguya arrived before any more words were spoken, with Mokou over her shoulder, still unconscious.
"Ah, Yorihime," Kaguya said, hovering down to her level. "Do you know where Toyohime is?"
"She's entertaining herself with the group of small fry outside of the Bamboo Forest. A night sparrow was awake, naturally, so the two of them are messing around with the group," Yorihime sighed. "I would say we had a problem with nobody going towards the Youkai mountain, but now that ship took off, that's not a problem at all."
"I see," Kaguya nodded, hovering towards Eientei. "Mokou exhausted herself out to beat the person up north. She's conscious, but covered in burns and with an arm completely blown off. She won't pose any threat. I left her there like that as punishment for attacking the Lunar Capital."
Yorihime nodded, as Kasumi gasped at the word of Saiko's defeat. "Right. Where do you plan to go next?"
"Eirin should be fine where she is, and that ship is over at the Youkai mountain. I guess i'll check what's happening near the Myouren Temple," Kaguya said, going towards Eientei. As it would be dangerous to leave anyone out in the open whilst they're unconscious, she had the idea to use Eientei as a base of sorts, where anyone defeated in battle would stay for the time being. She went inside Eientei, leaving her rival on the floor instead of showing any sort of hospitality.
