Touma was carrying Othinus out of the chaos, the city without special powers had became a revolt. Reimu had some idea of sneaking so he was following her, she avoided main streets and kept walking in alleys holding her needles in front of her to defend herself. That way of hiding was driving them away of the crowds, of the chaos and closing them to another group who hid the same way. –Why were you so rough on her? –It's the right thing to do, youkai can handle that kind of treatment –Can you? –Actually I had dealt with it a couple of times myself… –Reimu was pissed because of the new incident, one she could do nothing to fix it.
Closing in there were three girls, Hyouka was holding the bat now since Index denied to defend herself in such ways, her chants were affected too by the Imagine Breaker wave so she was defenseless like everyone else. Yuuka though was still holding the same confidence as always, she was not a defenseless girl when stripped of her power, far from it, she was a soldier. Hyouka though was still wondering why she was still alike, why she got turned into a human when the wave hit –I-Index… Should I be dead? –the nun sighed –Ask Yuuka… It's something you have to settle –Y-yuuka… Why am I still alive?
–Because I didn't want you to depend on ESPers –Index was quiet, she was not filled in with the reasons but she fully knew why Hyouka was alive –Pinocchio don't worry about not being a doll anymore, enjoy your body –What is that supposed to mean? –Yuuka's skill is something I don't fully understand yet –Index realized Yuuka was not going to say a thing –Though she must have given you a human body –When?! –It was a slow process… Like I said I don't understand Yuuka's abilities fully yet. Many books mention skills like that but she hides hers –Hyouka asked again –Why?
–Because I didn't want you to die even if all ESPers do… You are far more important –As a goddess? Is all you care about? –Yuuka didn't answer, she was completely closed about her feelings, she usually behaved sweet and open, but she turned cold when the question was personal. They ran into a gang of three, Yuuka shot instantly but they shot back, she grazed the projectile but it scratched her face, they all took cover –You would have got me if you actually tried you poor shrine maiden –Says the hag who didn't even aim at me –I was aiming at the person following you! –Sukuna? She's harmless, she can't use the Lucky Mallet as a human –But it's rude to follow you around like that! –Do you know each other?! –Hyouka was starting to get more in her nerves.
–Reimu did he touch your hair? –You knew about his infamous right hand?! How?! –Master Spark –You are lucky they got out of their hiding places and hugged each other –Why are you here? Do you know what happened? –He touched a ying yang orb… I guess his hand reacted with it and sealed everyone… And I was exterminating that one eyed slutty version of Marisa –Yuuka looked over –Touma be a gentleman put a blanket on her or something! –I have none… And Reimu was about to kill her –Index was livid with jealousy –You leave for the afternoon and surround yourself with girls?! –Oh right let me introduce you! Hakurei Reimu, shrine maiden of paradise, Index… she is an Index of forbidden books. I mean the girl biting Touma's head… This one here is Hyouka –I feel like I am a secondary character –Index cleaned up the blood on her mouth from biting Touma –My friend, if this was a story we would indeed be secondary characters. For being primary you need initiative –Why don't you take it then? –Because Yuuka is more willing to take that paper, being in the spotlight is tiring.
–Reimu wiped some of the blood off from Touma's head –Is this gray haired a youkai too? –Index hid behind of Hyouka, Reimu looked way more scary than Yuuka –No! She is a plain magician –Oh alright! Nice to meet you –Index her reaction is always the same… even if you are a youkai don't worry –they both bowed to each other –I'm hungry… –Reimu groaned –Me too! Let's find something to eat –I think we could raid a grocery store –Hyouka, Index and Reimu answered at the same time –No stealing!
–Touma was behind them trying to release the tiny girl, she wasn't turn into a big human but rather made into a powerless tiny person –She barely missed me! –I didn't know you were following us –She hopped on his head.
Index, Touma, Othinus and Sukuna decided to leave Yuuka and Hyouka alone, Yuuka was still willing to roam the city and Hyouka wanted to make sure she didn't kill anyone else. Even though she had probably been the one who gave her a human body she despised more than ever, she chose who lived and who died, she thought herself a god, maybe she was but do gods really have that power? If it was true that she herself was a goddess, she wouldn't make such decisions in human life.
In Yuuka's mind Hyouka was starting to be less of a hope and more of a failure, if she should fall in any category she would be a protector. Yuuka had seen the imaginary city, and it was kept the same way the original one, if she was a creator by now it would be bigger, even some life would be in there, in the case of a destroyer her personal world would be an endless void, like the world she lived in, the borders made it look small but in fact the nothing was endless around Mugenkan. Some protectors could be trained in the arts of destruction, Yuuka had known a few, even trained one, but Hyouka was pure, there was no way she could teach a person like that, the teachings would never be taken. She accepted taking her since she knew it was true she needed some supervision, even though she held no power she was still dangerous, because she carried a weapon she knew how to use, and was completely willing to use it.
Now Yuuka had another thing in mind, most likely a god was going to be taking advantage of the situation, she held no power to go against a god but she still knew a few laws gods had to follow. Maybe she could buy some time, hope for the city to recover and wait for an attack. She didn't know where to look, she only had to guide herself from the chaos and follow it, though most of times it was caused by the people in the city itself, they had become too dependent in their power. Yuuka refrained herself from cursing the people in the city, she knew they weren't used to this kind of life, one had to live in war to be so.