Inside of a sealed room that now was holding guest more often that it was designed for there was a man inside of a tank held upside down, a blonde lady with purple eyes sitting outside of a dimensional rift held together with ribbons and a gray haired man with half of his face covered in metal. –So you say the analysis of the orb gives you results you have seen before? –the always curious Yukari was asking out of pure politeness, she probably knew the answer already –It oscillates between two patterns of two different ESPers there are here… I thought those abilities were unique –Why do you think many spirits want to take over the orb. Imagine Breaker and World Rejecter together in a single item, indeed one could rule the world holding those items –So she knew what results he held, she was just saying this out loud to let that information be shared with Erich.
She though kept some information to themselves, for example the fact that when the two abilities mixed you were able to save up a certain amount of energy, one turns illusions into nothingness, something that was seeing as Exorcizing by Reimu, the other makes them go to another world, which is known as sealing to the Hakurei shrine maiden. To make an illusion disappear and then send that nothingness somewhere else required a certain energy exchange, by building them up it also boosted Reimu's own skills. The Hakurei Orb, remained being a little known weapon with scary capabilities, because it is not embed into the body of the user it allowed them to use any special abilities at will.
Explaining its inner workings in more formal worlds; the displacement of objects into another quantum state while those objects are annihilated, by energy balance (law of conservation of matter) the forced move of energy to another quantum states actually creates energy particles there is the need to produce the respective anti-pairs of those particles, however the high instability of anti particles makes the anti matter react with matter in this world and get pure energy in the form of photons, which are then stored into the user of the orb. That energy is also moved to another quantum states by the use of World Rejecter which can be later moved back from those highly unlikely quantum states by Imagine Breaker and allows the orb's carrier to use that energy at will. The effect of Imagine Breaker and World Rejecter meeting is already known leading to the temporary negation of Imagine Breaker, the effects of both equals meeting together are something not yet tested, and something anyone would like to test.
–Then the Hakurei deity must be a strong one indeed –Yukari giggled, Erich had said something many had said before –Of course dear of course –there was something hidden in those words, not even Aleister knew who the god of Hakurei was, only a few close allies of the Hakurei shrine.
That meeting was called up in order to set an emergency state, the alliance of Gensokyo and the science world (Academy City and Cactus corporation, both the strongest representatives of such world) had called the attention of many enemies to both, which most of the times were the same people. They had made sure to send certain incentives of peace, in the form of hidden treaties. If one of them was attacked in the least it would unleash the other two allies' rage upon the aggressor. In other words if any aggression was done directly to any of them it would mean the beginning of WWIV, however the mixed power of all factions involved together, every church, every majin allied to them, Gensokyo (including sub-worlds), Academy City and Cactus corp would mean the beginning of the end to this world.
However they didn't think something into account, factions not allied to them could be manipulated into taking aggression against them. It was too reckless to start a war over that, the enemy was not directly related so the problem they were in required actions that would not be taken as military advancement. They needed to use people who could get rid of those problems with the highest discretion possible, so they needed the ones with the best record on such missions. They were discussing the Hakurei orb since one of those selected for the mission was the exclusive user of that same exclusive item. The other they chose was Kamijou Touma the boy with Imagine Breaker in his right hand. While Aleister and Erich thought of ways to force those two into working together Yukari had the less troublesome idea of actually asking Reimu to go and look for Kamijou in order to defeat a common enemy, those two never worked under orders but liked to do favors if the life of their friends was at risk.
Kamijou Touma was coming back from the convenience store near his school before he got pulled over in an alley. Perfect, to top his bad luck he was not going to get mugged, just the day he forgot his cellphone home. He imagined these scenarios getting beaten up to get his goods, then waiting for help defenseless and wounded. He snapped out of his nightmarish fantasies. Clearly whoever pulled him out of the street didn't want his money, she didn't look like the kind who used money anyway. She wore an attire oddly close to Yuuka's red dress, just with the difference that this wasn't a posh dress but a shrine maiden outfit. The Amakusa had a new member among them? Brown hair and brown eyes, she was a bit shorter than him and held a cold expression.
–Kamijou Touma? –Y-yes? –Oh nice! I was afraid I had to erase another memory. Try changing your hairstyle you look way too plain. –B-but I like my hair… Why are you looking for me? –I was informed an enemy of yours is after a friend of mine. I'm Hakurei Reimu… Do you have any normal clothing for me? I'm tired of people asking if I'm a cosplayer –Wait what? Enemy? Who?! Clothing… Please explain… –Wait hasn't anyone told you about it? –Touma shook his head –Wow Marisa is right, the secrecy here is way stronger here –Reimu was still holding the boy close to the wall, she stood aside and allowed him to rest a bit. –Sorry some of the boys I asked tried to attack me using weird abilities… –You mean ESPers? –she nodded and turned her head around –Where do you live at? I really need to get off from these.
– Back at his home he found a note Index left about her going to search for him. It was fully written in kanji but he only understood half it, he had never seen some of those characters. He never saw Index writing in Japanese though –That is Yuuka's hand writing… Do you know her? –Do you know what it says? –Index and I are going to go look for you. There is tea in the kettle (took the freedom to fetch you one) if you might like… –Reimu stopped right after she read the last sentence and went to look for a pair of cups, she served herself some tea after handing one to Kamijou. He was thinking about the fact that those characters were probably traditional hanzi, how old was Yuuka anyway?–Thank you… But aren't we in a hurry? –Indeed… But her tea is something special –Kamijou smelled the cup, the odor gave many subtleties, with no strong flavor to hide them, he drank it but only tasted water with a faint taste of tea.
Reimu wouldn't mind dressing as a boy, though Touma had a female friend living in the same apartment complex. He hoped she had another set of clothes that weren't maid clothing, that girl seemed cheerful, but so did Yuuka too before she sent two lvl5 ESPers to intensive care. He didn't know Reimu was not at all aggressive but experiences taint humans, even those who try not to judge others. Reimu tried to untie her ribbon to be able to undress, but it was stuck, she hadn't taken it off for about two days, a busy week indeed. She decided to go for Kamijou's clothes, even if he was trying to get something that matched her gender.
Touma was walking back to his apartment with a red school uniform for the shrine maiden, though he didn't get it from Maika. The fact that Tsuchimikado was the one who had such clothing in his power troubled him with many questions. He gave Touma a wide variety of dresses and attires for girls to chose from, Touma wasn't very sure if those clothes were there for his friend or for Maika… He hoped it was the first.
He walked inside of his apartment and didn't notice there was no sign of the shrine maiden in the room. If he did, he would have not walked inside of the bathroom without knocking. Reimu was there stuck with her hands on her head, she tried to take off her clothes still wearing the ribbon on her head. –H-help! Please I can't get off from these –for the first time he was lucky the girl was in trouble when he walked in when she was mid-changing. Rather than biting, throwing or casting a spell on him she asked for help. He helped her to put her clothes back on, she was a cute girl but he didn't wish to take advantage of such situations, the same reason Yuuka accepted him as a friend, an average boy with the manners of a gentleman.
Reimu was still blushing and huffing –T-thank you… Why did you walk into the bathroom though? –His luck had ended as fast as it begun –I-I brought these –he presented her the red school uniform –Always red… It's not your fault, but now my friends are starting to call me Red Wine! –I-I can change them if you want –Don't worry… leave them here. –he chose red because of her outfit, she seemed to like it –Can you help me with the ribbon? It's stuck
–Kamijou Touma walked behind the shrine maiden and started untying the ribbon, it was easy untying it from the back but the knot was very well done. He took some support from her scalp and started untying, however her hair turned purple –W-wait what?! Such misfortune! –Did you break it?! –Reimu was nearly hysterical –N-no the ribbon is fine… But your hair… –she got up and faced the mirror, the ribbon was indeed fine (she protected it with great care, a last memento from her mother).
–What have you done?! –I-I don't know I just touched it and it turned purple! –You just don't break a spell like this! It was supposed last forever! –Your hair is naturally purple? –Not that I feel proud of… Turn it back! I look like a youkai now! Who would like a shrine maiden who looks like a youkai?! –I can't turn it back… My right hand breaks any spell, no matter which one… –You should have told me! What if I was a pure youkai or a fairy? You could have killed me! Wear a warning sign on your chest plase! –Reimu started to hit him with her gohei, his trademark "such misfortune" could be heard by his neighbors.