Ya, sorry this took so long. I was not aware that keeping and maintain a world for my secret project would be such a challenge. I doubt the amount of work required will fall down any time soon. Not only that but the human who transfers this work (by the way, there is a human who transfers my work from what I write to a format that would accept) says he is busy with school and work. So from now on, I will attempt to get out a story every week or two weeks on Sunday. Any ways, enjoy your new chapter, as it's a long one.

-Three days later-

Marisa was sitting in the middle of a newly made magic circle. Her eyes were close she concentrating. Concentrating on getting magic to flow though her body. The entire room was dark, except for the circle, as though to illuminate this young girl learning magic. The magic circle glow began to become red.

"Stop" Mima, who was standing to the side, dispelled the magical circles, causing Marisa's eyes to open and look at her. "I suppose that that is enough for today."

"I'm sorry master" Marisa tears began to dip to the floor "I just do not know how to control magic."

Mima gave a reassuring smile "you have no reason to feel bad about yourself. It takes the best mages several weeks to learn to do that. Plus once you have learned how to control magic, and release that control to make a magical blast, I can start teaching you the really fun parts of magic. Runes, enchantments, spells able to break reality, all that will be at your fingertips, just like it is for me."

"Okay master" she was still uncertain.

"In any case, I'm going to go talk with an acquaintance of mine. So while I'm gone, you should… I know." Mima dragged Marisa out of the magic room and into the library.

Before Marisa could ask anything, Mima got out some books and gave them to Marisa "you can mesmerize some runes while I'm away and save me some trouble." Mima gave a short laugh.

As Mima opened the door to leave the room, Marisa quickly asked "who are you visiting?"

"Two people axially. One is the acquaintance I mentioned, and the other is someone you know." With that Mima shut the door to the library. After quickly going over to her vault and grabbing two bags of money, she left her house. She then cast some a spell to make herself invisible, so her presence was not known, and went on her way.

As she was flying to the first destination, her mind wandered to Marisa. She just needs to figure out how to access magic. Danger will probably trigger her body to control it. Mima began so smirk. In a few days, if she has yet to figure out how to access magic, then I suppose I could give her a little nudge. I sure she would not mine if I speed up the training process by a few months. Mima began to plan out how to do that as her smirk grew into a smile, trying to hold back the evil laughter.

Mima stopped just outside a store in the middle of the forest of magic. She only had one bag with her. A small smirk remain on her face.

"Okay, how should I do this?" As she thought, her smirk grew bigger. "Wait, I'm Mima, there is only one way for me to do this." She let out an evil laugh.

Kourindou, a store that specializes in wares from the outside world. Though some objects were on the floor or on tables, most were on shelves around the store. Even though most of the objects looked like they were placed randomly, it was clear there was some type of order in how they were arranged. The store itself was very dusty, as well as most of the merchandise.

The person behind the counter was the owner and sole worker of the store. He had golden eyes, silver hair, and was wearing glasses. He was wearing an oddly detailed yukata that was blue on the left side of the top third as well as completely on the bottom third, and black on the right side of the top third and completely on the middle third. There was also a brown bag in front strapped around his shoulders and chest. He was enjoying the trance atmosphere of the store, reading a book and sipping tea.

That atmosphere was immediately obliterated as a lightning strike caused the owner to jump, and he subsequent darkening of his store mad him frantic. Before he could regain his bearings, a terrifying crackle filled the air.

"Mhahahaha. Hello there. So you're the owner of the Kourindou, Rinnosuke."

Rinnosuke knew exactly who was theorizing him, and he was already against the wall in horror. "H-h-h-how are you still alive!"

"Ehahahahaha. Even if the last Hakurei miko was as strong as an oni, she did not have the spiritual power to permanently kill me." Dark clouds began to form and gather in the center. They swirled around as a dangerous being appeared from the mist. The sorceress of the cosmos, Mima!

Because of the darkness, Rinnosuke could only see the outline of Mima, but it was enough to be terrified. He could see her famous crescent moon spear, as well as a sadistic grin. Rinnosuke noticed Mima's ghost tail. "You- you became a youkia!" He started too slid to the back door.

"I am a human." She answered in the most monotone voice she could. She immediately return to her Regular voice "Also you will not leave." She cast a spell. All the doors and windows became blocked by danmaku. "After all, we have a lot to talk about. But first, here." Mima threw something at Rinnosuke, who tried to block with his arms.

A thud filled the store as the object landed on the counter, and the clanking of coins followed imminently afterwords, making him look at the object. The lighting turn back to normal as soon as he did that, making it clear that the object was a bag of coins. Confessed, Rinnosuke looked up, just to see Mima had change from a sadistic grin to a mischievous laugh while pointing at him. "Ahaha. Ha. That was priceless. As for the money bag, consider that payment for helping out Marisa." She smiled, knowing exactly what she said.

Rinnosuke recoiled back in surprise. "Marisa! What has happened to her?!"

"Oh nothing much just" Mima turned the store dark again and summoned a blue light to illuminate her arm and part of her face "became my apprentice so I can teach her my worlds shattering magic and my philosophy." The lighting turned back to normal ass Mima pretended to be innocent.

"Your apprentice!"

"Yep, but that's not all I wanted to talk to you about." Mima pointed her spear at Rinnosuke "why did Marisa run away from you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb. I know that Marisa trusts and respects you, and I know she ran away home, so what did you do to get Marisa to run away from you too?"

I should not share this with her. I don't know if she really cares about Marisa. Plus she's Mima. But this might keep Marisa form making another dumb decision. "Marisa ran away from here because she thought I thought that she was useless, and thought I had gone to her fathers to give her back to him."

"Wait… feeling useless, and talking to someone she had run away form. OH NO!" Mima eyes went wide "sorryihavetogobutthisisurgent!" Mima dispelled the danmaku and immediately went outside and casted "BLAZING STAR!"

It took a few seconds for Rinnosuke to process what just happened. "Well at least she cares about Marisa. I pray that you can reach Marisa before the youkia do." He looked over to the money bag and took out coin. "It does not matter if you care about Marisa or that you gave me this bag of money. You are still Mima and the village needs to know about you. Tomorrow."

"Why, Why, WHY! Why could I have I not learn magic! Now Mima is going to return me! I can't let that happen. I can't return back to the village. Where do I even go thought?!" Was running away from Mima's home into the forest, to places unknown. Her Yelling out loud had attracted some attention, which she smacked right into.

"My, my. A human child. You so rarely get to see a human around here, much less a child." The person talking was a human like youkia that look like she was in her mid-20s. She had long blond hair and red eyes, and wore a long black dress with white undershirt.

Marisa started to back away when she heard a voice behind her. "You came at just the right time, we were getting pretty hungry." Marisa looked behind her to see a crow tengu with their large black wings, camera, and wind fan.

Marisa wanted to say "stay back" but she was stricken by an all-consuming fear. She did not move, nor did she yell for help, because her mind was locked on her dying a horrifying death.

"Now don't worry, this is just going to hurt a lot." With a hungry grin, the human like youkia rushed forward with her razor sharp claws.

Marisa body reacted on its own. It caused magic to flow though her body. The magical sensation caused Marisa to notice were to concentrate her focus on. Just as the human like youkia reached her, she let go of the concentration on her magic, causing a magical blast to push back the youkia into the air. Marisa fell onto her hands and knees though from the amount of energy used up.

The human like Youkia span around in the air and land on her feet. "So you can you magic." She created a black sword out of darkness. "I doubt you have enough energy to stop me from-"

"From what?" A mysterious but slightly livid voice boomed. Marisa recognize that voice. In the resulting quietness, the sound of footsteps could be heard. Rushing among the foliage caught everyone's attention, and out from it came Mima lacking a focuser. "What are you going to do to my apprentice?"

Both youkia jumped back in fear "Mima! Y-y-y-you're supposed to be d-d-dead!" The bird youkia yelled in disbelief and in fear.

"Sh-she is not Mima. She does not have her crescent moon sphere. It still marks the place of her death. This is just a youkia trying to scare us away from our meal!" The other Youkia was trying to be threatening, but was visibly shanking.

"How strange is it that both humans and youkia react to fear in the same number of ways." Mima raised her arm, only to get stabbed in the back.

"No you will not, FOX!" A wolf tengu with white fire, a round shield, and a curved sword came from behind. Mima just turn her hand around and reveled a wide grin, before dissolving into purple mist. The wolf tengu was wide eyed.

"It really is the sorceress of the cosmos, ru-" Was all the wolf could say before his head was decapitated, blood spraying everywhere, and falling onto the ground along with his body. Behind him was Mima with her ghostly tail back and a bloody focuser in hand. She looked Pissed. The other two youkia took off in a fit of pure terror.

Mima simply raised her focuser. "Stardust reverie." Several large stars were formed and homed in on the human like youkia. She turned around and shot balls of darkness at the stars. She was doing rather well, in tell a star that had arched around hit her left side, causing that side to be destroyed. Her other half fell to the ground, dying it crimson red.

Mima turned her attention to the crow tengu, which was almost out of sight. She snapped her fingers, and the youkia was cut rapidly into many parts before falling to the ground in a million pieces. Someone then appeared before Mima, dressed in dark blue and with a mask covering her face. "If anyone saw that I'm alive, well you know what to do." Mima told the masked person. With a nod in response, it disappeared without a word.

Mima then turned her attention to young Marisa, who was against a tree trunk, eyes full of fear. Y-y-you are the s-sorceress of the c-cosmos.

"So you have heard of me. Just not my name or my description." Mima gave a short laugh.

"Please don't kill me."

"Ha. Kill you? Now why would I do that? If I wanted to do that, then I would have let those youkia do it for me and then killed them. I want you to learn magic though, and that requires you to be alive."

"But I thought I disappointed you."

"Disappointment? What you just did was something that most mages take weeks or even months to complete. You have no reason to disappoint me. Hell, I went down to Kourindou just to bribe Rinnosuke to not take you away."

"Really!?" Marisa was positively cheerful with a smile going from edge to edge. "Thank you Master Mima." Marisa got up and bow for Mima.

Mima chuckled at this "you don't need to do that." Mima stopped laughing and became more serious. "However, there something I need to ask you. Why?"

"Hu?"

"Why do you want to learn magic? What's your motive? What are you trying to achieve?"

There was a silence as Marisa pondered the question, or at least pondering as much as a nine year old could. "So, so, so, so Ii Coould… be able to fight." Marisa put her hands on her hip and beamed a big smile.

"Why"

"Because I wanted to"

"Why"

"Because I be able to attack youkia?"

"Why"

"To be able to stop them from causing trouble!" Marisa shouted out.

There was a short pause after Marisa shouted. "Why"

"Because" Marisa put her arms around her and looked down "Mom… fire… fleeing… slayed while running." Even though one cannot see her face, it was clear that Marisa was crying.

"Such nobility in your reason, protection. Nowhere near as sinful as what you think your reason is, or mine. Especially mine." She moved over to Marisa and lifted her head. "When we return home, I will teach you how to use Runes. First, I have to get my fist spear.

Marisa stayed quiet, but is no longer on the verge of crying. She followed after Mima, both quiet despair and loud optimism holding her mind.