Shiho: I don't care that I lost the bet, I'm not going back into that creepy mansion!
Varvula: Uh…Okay?
Gwen: You only stayed in that house for one hour last night.
Shiho: One. Terrifying. Hour! You would've been running from that hell hole too if you saw that freakishly human sized doll!
Raven: Uh, you do realize that you've been living with a possessed animatronic bear right?
Shiho: Yes, I know, but it was a lot more terrifying than that metal furball~! No offense.
Freddy: None taken.
Sanya: How bad was it?
Shiho: J-Just thinking about that nasty doll and the ghost climbing out of its eye socket…Just makes me…[She falls backward fainting.]
Yang:...Well make you what?! Don't just fall asleep when you're answering!
Peace: That's the first time I've seen Shiho fainted…Or that scared.
Sanya: I'll bring her back to her bed.
Varvula: And I'll help. Not just because I want to doodle on her face or anything.
Peace:...Should we stop Varvula?
Freddy: No, let her have her fun. Let's start the chapter.
Maki was silently meditating while sitting cross legged on the branch. With her eyes closed, she looked vulnerable to any attacker ambushing her. She was unaware of the Kami soldier landing beside her at a safe distance.
"Anyone who defies the all Mighty Eneru will taste my Ax Dial!" He announced his presence.
"..." Maki remained in her position not even bothering to reply.
The goatmen growled, looking very annoyed. "You rude woman! How dare you igno-"
WOOSH~!
A pair of dark green wind blades flew rapidly towards the two. Maki instantly leaned her upper body back avoiding the wind blade by an inch of her nose. The goatmen wasn't so lucky as he was hit in the chest at the same time Maki dodged it. The Kami soldier was flown back, and fell to the abyss below.
"As expected from my mentor! You're always vigilant, even when meditating!"
"...!" Startled, Maki's eyes shot wide open. Which were met by slit yellow eyes staring right in her face. The young emerald hair boy had appeared right in front of her personal space, with his wind coat fist an inch towards her face.
POW~!
The assassin was flown off the branch by the punch and flew across the forest. Maki winced, confused, but quickly settled her and quickly flipped midair, landing on the branches behind, skidding back a bit.
"How…" Maki gritted her teeth. She was more annoyed when she recognizing the voice and the magic. She looked ahead as the boy landed right in front of her, on the opposite end of the branch. "I killed you during the exam…I stabbed you in the heart…I dropped your body into the cliff…So how the hell are you standing right in front of me!? How are you alive Shervan~!?"
"Come on, Master~! After all we've been through, you should know well," They replied with a wide grin on Shervan's face. His left golden eyes were visible. "You can't get rid of us that easily!"
What happened next was too fast for the naked eye to witness.
He fired off a wind blade with one swipe of his arm. Maki tilted her head to the right, letting it fly by her head, before rushing towards him at blinding speed. Once she was closed, Maki swung her leg aiming to end his life by snapping his neck, but the dragon slayer duck underneath her kick, avoiding it by a mere inch. The boy then retaliates by executing an uppercut with his right fist. Maki leaned her upper body back, dodging the uppercut also by a mere inch. The two jumped back on their opposite sides for a split second, before rushing at each other again, in a blur speed to the naked eye.
"Delta Sky Dragon Iron Fist!" The boy landed a sky coated punch into Maki's stomach, sliding her back a bit. Ignoring the pain, Maki's right arm turned blood red with a black aura emitting around it.
"10% Burst!" Maki retaliated by slamming her black and red fist into Shervan's face. The force launched him across the branch, but he quickly flipped while midair, landing on his feet.
Maki appeared in front of him and swung her fist down towards him. But the boy vanished out of sight before her fist could touch him. He appeared behind her with his cheek puffed out.
"Delta Sky Dragon Roar~!" The boy unleashed a much narrow yet fast funnel of dark green wind. Maki swiftly avoided it as the funnel pierce through the tree trunk leaving a medium size hole.
"I've killed you once," While midair, Maki reappeared behind Shervan, and swung her left demonic arm down onto the young boy's back. "I can kill you again."
"Not if I kill you first!" With his leg engulfed with dark green air, the dragon slayer lashes his right leg, clashing with Maki's left arm. Shervan kicked Maki's arm downward and spun his body while coating his fist again with dark green air, ready for another punch.
"...20%" Maki's right arm radiated completely opposite from her left arm. She then swung her right arm towards the dragon slayer's.
Both of their fists flew past each other before connecting into each other's cheeks. Shervan's body was flown back and slammed right down onto the tree trunk, topping the upper tree over from the force. Maki landed hard on her back onto the branch, causing it to break from the impact.
Both the upper trunk and the branch crashed down onto the forest floor. Among the dust both combatants stood up, showing no signs of fatigue, only minor bruises from their sped up duel.
"As expected that you weren't wasting time slacking off," The voice inside Shervan's body declared, glaring at his mentor with a smirk on his face.
"In a world like this, I have to stay vigilant," Maki replied. She recovered from the shock of seeing the boy. "You were the only person to push me so far from our last duel," She cracked her neck, glaring at her target. "This time I'll make sure that your headless body falls from this Sky Island myself."
Chapter 47: Switching the Plates
Outside the Upper ruins lies a clash between red and white flames. Natsu and Eguchi skidded back to catch their breath; both had minor bruises and scrapes, with Natsu having far more than him.
"I've gotta admit, you're dragon flames are tough to avoid " Eguchi smirked.
"You're not bad yourself," Natsu grinned back while wiping some blood from his chin. "I never fought a Phoenix Slayer before."
"Well you're in for a treat," Eguchi pounded his fist together to enlighten them with white flames. He then lunged towards Natsu with one step. "Fire Phoenix Talons~!" Despite crossing his arms and absorbing the impact of his fist, Natsu was thrown back a few paces.
"Natsu are you alright?!" Happy asked in concern.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Natsu declared as he rushed towards Eguchi with both fists enlightened with red flames. "Now have a taste of my Fire Dragon Fist!"
Eguchi let him have a free shot, feeling Natsu's burning fist slammed into his chest. He grunted a bit in pain, stumbling back. Natsu didn't let up as he swung his left fist into his face causing Eguchi to rear his upper body back. Before Natsu could get another hit in, Eguchi's entire head burst into white flames and rammed it forward into Natsu's head causing him to land on his back groaning in pain.
"Don't think I'll let you get more hits, Dragon boy!" Eguchi said while Natsu backflips onto his feet and backs away from him. Eguchi outstretched his arms, which were decorated with little white glowing feathers made of fire.
"Fire Phoenix Feather Dance!" He announced as he fired off the feathers like fast projectiles towards the Dragon Slayer.
Natsu was able to zigzag across the clouds, evading most of the white feathers. Nonetheless, a couple of them managed to hit his left leg, forcing him to stumble slightly.
"Natsu Look out~!" Happy warned. Natsu looked up to see Eguchi release another batch of white fire feathers headed towards him.
"This is a perfect chance to see if I can eat his flames," Natsu smirked. He opened his mouth ready to swallow the feather.
BOOM~!
"GAH~!" The white feathers exploded in contact with Natsu's body, drowning out his cries.
"AHH~!" Happy exclaimed in surprise.
"Uh..." Eguchi tilted his head, a bit confused by Natsu's action. The Dragon Slayer was on his back coughing in pain.
"Damn, I can't eat your flames," The pink-haired man grumbled as he sat up on his feet. "But, it didn't hurt that much."
"Interesting, very interesting," Eguchi pondered. "So, Phoenix Fire is superior to Dragon Flames."
"Let's see about that!" Ticked off by his comment, Natsu puffed out his cheeks, and released his signature Dragon Roar. "Fire Dragon ROAR~!"
Eguchi braced himself as the gigantic funnel of red flames approached him. He was getting ready to try to see if he could swallow his flames while being engulfed by his dragon roar.
"Did I get him?" Natsu wondered eying the smoke cloud. When it cleared up, Eguchi was flat on his back for a split second, before he jumped back onto his feet. His clothes were burnt a bit by the flames, with a few scorched marks on his skin.
"Hmm," Eguchi wondered, looking unphased. "We appear to have reached a deadlock."
"Huh?" Natsu blinked oddly at the man.
"Whatever heat source with which I come into contact gets absorbed by my body." He fished out a Flame Dial from his pocket and activated it on his arm. Natsu and Happy saw the fire from the dial absorbing into his arm, which caused his body to glow a faint white. The burnt marks from Natsu's roar had vanished off his body.
"Is his body healing itself?!" Happy shouted in shock.
"HEY THAT'S NOT FAIR~!" Natsu stomped in a tantrum.
"On the contrary. While Dragon Slayers, like you, refuel your magical energy by eating your element, Phoenix slayer can't replenish their magical energy, only heal unhealable wounds," Eguchi explained as he put the dial back in his pocket. "Mainly, I don't use my magic too often at least so it's better that way."
"So I have to beat you before you get the chance to heal huh?" Natsu grinned, liking the extra challenge. "Good I love a challenge!"
Cure Honey was struggling in Sinolia and her mist field. Sinolia repeatedly slashed at her with her small wave-blade sword, which the Pretty Cure managed to evade and sidestep. Honey found herself with her back to the stone wall, allowing Sinolia to stab her sword into her throat.
"Ah~!" Honey yelped as she narrowly avoided the sword, which landed on the stone wall instead.
'I won't let this girl steal my Dimmy,' Sinolia's motivation for her violent assault was her opponent in front of her, who had drawn her buddy Dimanu's attention. Honey teleported out of the way from Sinolia's horizontal slash. She then reappeared behind the mist girl, aiming a drop kick in the back of her head, only for her foot to phase through her mist-like body.
"It's useless," Sinolia mumbled as she positioned herself for a well-placed kick to her gut. Sinolia had a small smile, but it quickly changed to surprise when Honey caught her foot with her hands.
"Got you," Honey declared as she used her Precure strength to swing her body into the ruins. Sinolia lucky caught herself by flipping in midair landing on top of the stone wall.
"How did you...?" Sinolia questioned.
"I've seen that whenever you assault me, or when you're holding your weapon, your body returns to normal," Honey explained. "Not all of your body has turned to mist."
Sinolia clicks her teeth in annoyance. "So what? That won't stop me from ringing that neck of yours and feeding your head to the sky fishes."
Honey flinched a bit by her gruesome threat, but calmed down. "Listen, I don't want to fight you, and I don't like Dimanu that way."
"I don't trust you Pretty Cures," Sinolia seethed as she pointed her sword at her. "Especially one that just caught Dimanu's eyes!"
"Pretty Cures?" Honey whispered. She quickly blocked her sword strike with her baton. The existence of another Beautiful Pretty Cure group in this world astounded her. 'So we weren't the only ones?'
Touma could hear explosions erupting across the Upper Ruins. He managed to avoid Dimanu's sight since he was used to evading criminals in Academy City. To collect his breath, he leaned back against a stone ruin home.
In the distance, he caught a quick glimpse at Erza clashing swords with Simon. He then looked up to see the Sky Knight circling above the ruins while avoiding the large snake, along with a blue beam from Wyper's Burn Bazooka. "How did I end up in this situation? One minute I was in the forest and the next, I'm high up in the cloud ruins in a free-for-all battle."
"Found you~!"
On instinct, Touma rolled across the ground avoiding Dimanu's Sea Stone Pillar kick that tore down the ruin wall he was just leaning on. "Are you trying to crack my skull?!"
"Nope, just trying to make you fight me seriously!" Dimanu snickered, morphing his left arm into a harpoon and hurled it towards him.
With no room to dodge, Touma raised his right hand out in front of him. The harpoon didn't skewer his hand, but vanished out of sight.
"What...?" Dimanu's eyes widened in shock while gazing at his hand a bit. "How did yo-"
Touma cut him off by hurling a punch into his midsection. Despite his punch connected, he felt his own knuckles wincing. 'Why does it feel like I've just punched a robot?'
Dimanu instantly headbutts Touma, severely damaging the boy as he tumbled backward, landing hard on his butt.
"That was a nice trick you pulled there, Baggage. I felt half of my magic vanishing in an instant the second you struck me." Dimanu chuckled sinisterly. "Maybe if I soften you up a bit, then Honey would fight me seriously!"
Dimanu unleashes a kick aimed at his head, Touma quickly ducked to avoid it. He noticed an opening and swung his fist into an uppercut to his chin. While it was a direct hit, Touma felt the same sensation again, causing him to clutched his hand in pain. "O-Ow, what are you made of?"
"I'm eighty percent made out of Sea Prism Stone!" Dimanu answered honestly. "I'm not like a cyborg or anything, but mainly can still move, talk and poop like any human could!"
Dimanu rushed towards Touma, "Prism Stone Dragon." Touma quickly brought his arm out, awaiting for his spell. "...False Fist!"
Touma did not expect to punch his right hand with his left fist. His Imagine Breaker didn't go off and felt his arm stinging from the force. The Dragon slayer, then delivered an uppercut to his chin with his free fist. Touma felt like he was hit by a hammer from the punch as he landed on his back, conscious but winded.
"So that's your stick," Dimanu grinned, figuring out Touma's ability. "As long as I don't use magic, you can't cancel it out with that weird hand of yours."
Red and white flames scattered across the white island clouds. The two fire Slayers were having a fierce duel, with neither of them not back down.
Natsu delivered a powerful ax kick above Eguchi's head. He winced somewhat at the power of the kick before gripping Natsu's ankles and slamming him hard on the ground.
"GAH~!" Natsu cried out in pain, bouncing hard on the island cloud. He gritted his teeth and used his flames on his feet to boost himself away just as Eguchi's fist slammed hard on the cloud.
"Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Natsu unleashed two strings of pure fire aimed at Eguchi who blocked it by crossing his arms. The flames made contact resulting in an explosion.
"You got him Natsu!" Happy cheered.
"Don't go ruling me out kitty!" Eguchi announced before rushing towards Natsu. With the palm of his hands covered with white flames. "Fire Phoenix: Heat Wave~!" With one clap with his hands, Eguchi unleashed a massive invisible wave of heat that struck Natsu, hurling him back a bit, he caught his footing. It felt weird for Natsu to get injured by fire, as he felt the phoenix flames burning his skin, yet he was still on his feet and rushed at Eguchi, engaging in a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
"AH~!" Happy comically felt a bit of his fur scorching. 'His flames are much more dangerous than Natsu's.'
While the two were exchanging blows with their signature flames, Happy suddenly felt an unexpected chill from his back. "Eh? Why is it so cold all of a sudden?"
"GAH~!" After receiving a haymaker into his head, Natsu tumbled across the island cloud. He landed on his stomach, and pushed himself up.
"You're a tough little lizard, I give yah that," Eguchi declared. He was looking quite bruised up only for his body to heal up thanks to the Flame Dial in his pocket. "But you'll need about ten or thirty years to get to my level."
"I ain't finished yet," Natsu pushed himself onto his feet. "You may be strong, but I'm not about to throw in the towel just yet."
"Well then shall we continue?" Eguchi ran at Natsu with his fist enlightened with white flames. Natsu did the same for his arm engulfed with red flames. The two fists were about to clash once again, but their punches were caught easily by a third party who didn't even flinch from the force.
"Who the hell are you?" Natsu demanded angrily.
"Oi, what gives Moses?!" Eguchi wasn't thrilled by the man's interference.
"..." Moses didn't say a word. His red hair casting over his eyes. Black mist began to develop around each of his palms. "Sub Zero."
What happened next came so fast that Eguchi and Natsu could even react. Both of them were encased with black ice, freezing them solid. The two fire wizards were left with a shocked expression on their faces as Moses walked past them heading towards the Upper Ruins. Happy was seen inside a block of ice frozen before Moses froze Natsu and Eguchi.
"AH~!" Princess cried out as she barely avoided the large barrels of earth-like arrows. Her opponent wasn't giving her any room to perform a counter attack. Since the air was occupied by the snake and Gan Fall, the Pretty Cure had no choice but to fly low.
Terra used the terrain of the ruins to her advantage to increase her earth-make skills. In her molding stance, she summoned a large earth-like shark's jaw underneath Cure Princesse's feet. Panicking, she flew forward, before it could catch her legs.
"Wah~!" Princess was surprised about the sudden shark attack. She recovered from shock and began to form a pair of bright blue spheres from her hands. "Take this~!" Princess dived downward towards the shark, letting it consume her whole. Terra watched suspiciously as her earth shark's jaw closed.
"Princess Explosion Bomber!"
Terra assumed the posture after noticing the blue light beam onto the materialized ground shark just before it detonated, with Princess in the middle. Once she was free, Princess beelined towards Terra, preparing a set of blue orbs for another explosion bomber.
'Earth-Make: Worm Barrage!' Terra summoned medium-sized earthworms in rapid succession towards the blue Precure. Princess had little time to devise a countermeasure and utilized her Princess Explosion Bomber to eliminate a handful of the worms. However she was easily bombarded and was hit multiple times before crashing into the ground. Terra stopped her attack but kept her worms on standby, she wasn't going to let her guard down. Princess, who deformed back into Hime, laid on her back, KO'd, which caused Terra to finally deformed her magic, letting the worms made of earth vanish.
"Terra, are you alright?" The woman turned to find Todd, emerging from behind a stone ruin.
'You've been watching us?' Terra wroted, knowing that he was there all along.
"Well I was going to intervene if it was two on one. You never know when it comes to Pretty Cures," Todd replied, while glancing at the unconscious Hime. "I'm glad you didn't kill her."
'Don't take me for a maniac,' Terra wrote with pout. 'She may be a Pretty Cure, but they're still young girls. Besides, I like the way she dealt with the swordsman.'
"Sis, your sadistic side is showing," Todd recalled as he noticed her calm, yet dark smile. "Anyway, since Simon has some connection with some of the pirates, I'll keep her sa-!"
His broken sword erupted in flames and quickly blocked an black ice shard aimed at Hime's head. He and Terra glanced ahead to find Moses walking over to them.
"Moses, what the hell is your deal?!" Todd snapped angrily. "I know they are our enemies, but you don't have to go that far! Terra already dealt with her!"
"..." Moses didn't reply back, his fist clenched tightly.
"Why are you so quiet?!" Todd demanded.
"...!" Terra's eyes widened when Moses glared right at her. With quick reflexes, Terra quickly shifted the ground below Hime and Todd and shoved them aside right before Moses fired off a cyclone of black wind towards them. Since Terra was more concerned about the two children, she was hit in the stomach, launching her into the ruins behind her.
Todd soon regained his senses after landing on top of Hime and climbed off of her. He noticed his sister crashed into the ruins. "T-TERRA~!" He cried out before glaring at Moses who walked past him. "Have you lost your mind!?"
"Leave now Todd!"
Todd froze when he heard the voice of her sister in his head, "T-Terra?"
"Take the girl and leave here now!" Terra ordered. She peeled herself from the ground, staring down at Moses. "You'll just be in the way."
Todd slowly nodded. Even though he had no idea what was going on, he realized that he was a liability. He carried Hime bridal style and ran away.
Moses extended his palm, ready to launch a black fireball at Todd's dashed towards him and swung her feet at Moses' outstretched arm. Her heel slammed into his wrist causing his fireball to be launched into the sky.
Moses looked down at Terra and swung his free arm, which was wrapped in black flames, downward. Terra twisted her upper body, allowing his fist to fly past her head before thrusting her palm into his chest, throwing him into the air. 'Earth-Make: Worm Barrage.' She then got into the molding stance and summoned a large cluster of worms towards the hurled Moses like missiles.
While midair, Moses's eyes changed color to blue. "Ice God: Subzero!" Cold air flowed around his body and every single earthworm was frozen solid while midair. His eyes changed green, making his arms surrounded by wind. "And Sky God Whirlwind!"
Moses unleashed a barrage of black wind cutters which shattered the frozen worms. Terra summoned a large earth wall to block most of the wind blades. The wall sprouted out multiple erath-like arms and aimed it at Moses. It was a stalemate between the two of them, not backing down as black wind and earth clashing.
Touma's matchup with Dimanu was going south once he knew about his Imagine Breaker. He had no other choice but to dodge and run from him, but it only proved difficult since Dimanu was always able to find him. As Touma was running, he noticed the area of the Upper Ruins was engulfed with mist. He felt apprehensive as he dashed behind one of the stone ruins.
"Well this is great," Touma sighed, mumbling about his luck. "I really don't want to fight the mist girl as wel-"
"AH~!"
Touma had no time to react as a blurred figure slammed into him like a bullet. Touma felt all the wind knock out of his lunge as he collapsed on his back. "O-Ow, did he find me already?"
"Wait, Touma?" A female voice caught his ears. He quickly identified the person that flew into him. "Touma is that you?"
He was surprised to recognize the voice. "Honey?! What happened, are you alright?!"
"Oh, I'm okay," Honey got off him and helped him up. "Sorry for crashing into you like that. I honestly didn't expect Sinolia to throw me so hard."
"It wasn't your fault for being thrown through," Touma said with a sweatdrop.
"I feel like it is," Honey sadly said. Before she could say more, Touma quickly grabbed Honey's hands and dashed out of the way of a large spikey ball that crushed the ground underneath where they were.
"Come on out, baggage~!" Dimanu called out with his harm morphed into a chain. Touma and Honey hide behind a stone ruin house, using the mist as cover.
"I see you're having trouble against Dimanu, right?" Honey whispered to Touma.
"Yeah, after he found out about my right hand, the brat began to change tactics," Touma groaned quietly. "Half of his body is made of sea prism stone, so my right hand is useless against him unless he uses magic."
Honey understood the situation. Both she and Touma were having a bad matchup against their opponents. She began to form an idea in her head. "I think I know a way I can help you Touma." She beamed happily.
'Oh please don't involve me as the bait,' Touma had a bad feeling, due to his luck. But he trusted Honey's decision and nodded. "Okay, I'm all ears."
"Baggage~! Where are you?!" Dimanu called out, searching for Touma, in the thick mist. "Damn, I think Sinolia went a bit overboard with the mist."
Dimanu noticed a silhouette emerging from behind the ruined house and ran away from him. "Oh there you are Baggage~!" Dimanu grinned and chased after them.
Just as Dimanu faded from view, another shadow loomed from behind them. They turned to where Dimanu went, and were about to turn around, only to be confronted with a little wave-blade swung at their head, if they didn't dodge in time.
"Found you," Sinolia announced as she swung her left leg aiming a kick to its side. They tumbled to avoid the kick and retaliated by swinging their fist at her. Sinolia scoffed when she transformed herself into mist. "How long are you going to keep up this reckless attempt to har-GUH~!"
Sinolia hunched over, feeling her opponent's fist dig into her guts. Her eyes widened as she coughed up some saliva from her mouth. 'W-What? How was she able to hit me w-when I turned into my mist form?'
She flew back a bit and landed hard on her slowly raised her head from the ground to get a good look at her attacker. Her eyes widened once she got a good look at her opponent. "It's you…"
"Sorry, Himega- I mean Sinolia," The figure happened to be Touma Kamijou. He stood before the mist girl. "Honey has a meeting with someone else, and she wants me to deal with you."
Dimanu pursued the second figure until he had her cornered in a dead end. "So I finally caught up..You won't escape from me this time!" He turned his right arm into a pillar and shot it towards her
The girl instinctively sidestepped to the side avoiding the pillar and ran towards Dimanu at breakneck speed. Before Dimanu could react, he was kicked in the stomach launching him back but before he could fly far, he was trapped by a gold ribbon around his waist.
"...!" Dimanu's eyes widened. He was pulled back and was met with fist planted into his face, plowing him into the ground with a heap of dust. When it cleared up, Dimanu laid on his back, still conscious with a grin on his face. "...I recognized the punch anywhere…Like the new look."
"Sorry for deceiving you Dimanu," Cure Honey apologized while staring down at Dimanu. Her new look that Dimanu noticed was her Popcorn Cheer costume. Her hair had changed to curled-hair twintails, and wore a cheerleading outfit. "But I can't let you harm Touma anymore. If you want to fight me, then here I am!"
Shiho: Okay, one of you positioned me to lay out like a starfish in Izumi's room! Which one is it?
Raven: It's probably Leone or Ibuki. They're the ones who would do something like that to tease him.
Yang: Now that you're up though, what got you so worked up that you fainted?
Shiho: Sorry, well I came to a child's bedroom inside the mansion. I-In the corner was the creepiest human-sized doll I ever saw.
Gwen: [Smiling] Go on…I'm intrigued.
Shiho: You should've seen it. It had long red drill-like hair and long sharp claws. It had no pupils, and something large and slimy crawled out of its eye socket.
Freddy: And that made you freaked out right?
Yang: Great, that's just great! The perfect opportunity to see Shiho freak out like a chicken and I was hypnotized making tea in a dress.
Peace: Next Chapter: Double Team.
Sanya: You look like a clown.
Shiho: What are you talking ab-[Noticed her face was drawn on to become a clown.] Okay who drew on my face?!
Varvula:...Tucker did it~!
Shiho: [angrily] VARVULA~!