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FINAL EPISODE: Rain of Blood over Elysium
THE HALLWAY OF THE SCARLET DEVIL MANSION
Chikara and Thalassa have finally arrived at the end of the halls, standing in front of a large grand, fancy double door with a design that provokes the sense of royalty…
[Thalassa]: This is it…lying beyond this door is our culprit.
[Chikara]: And the big boss is definitely waiting for us inside~.
[Thalassa]: The mistress of this mansion,
[Chikara]: I think one of the maids that I have a fight against called her “Lady Kurumi”? Which I assumed is her name.
Chikara said as she stepped forward to the large double doors, she stretched herself before she kicked the door hard, forcibly opening it wide.
When the doors open, illuminating some bit of light in what seems to be a dark room.
[Chikara]: Oooookaayy…that is pretty dark inside.
[Thalassa]: I have a really bad feeling about this, Chika-chan…
[Chikara]: Heh! Don’t worry Thal-chan, we are in this together!
[Thalassa]: Well…we made this very far, let's end this parole once in for all!
Chikara let out a big grin, as she grabbed Thalassa by the hand and both of them entered the dark room…
As expected, it is quite dark—very dark to be exact; they can’t see the whole room; not even Thalassa’s magic is bright enough to illuminate a good portion of the room. Chikara just reminded her of the darkness around the forest that both her and Thalassa travel through, and how much she hated being unable to see things.
[Chikara]: Ugh…I can’t see a thing in this room! The next time I enter a dark place, I will make sure to bring a lantern…
Thalassa let out a giggle.
[Thalassa]: Oh Chika-chan-
Thalassa gets quickly cut off by the doors suddenly shutting close by themselves, which makes both heroines yell in surprise. This makes the two turn their backs to see that the light that shines from the doors is now gone; they are trapped.
Realizing the situation, they both say an appropriate response to this.
[Chikara & Thalassa]: Crap.
A clap can be heard reverberating in the darkness, and will-o'-wisps materialized in front of the heroines, surprising them both. They then fanned out to light a fire on what appeared to be a torch, and as each torch was ignited, the dark room progressively became more visible.
They can make out the intricacies of the area they are now in; this was no regular dark room; it was a vast throne room with an elegant design. The entire space is completely illuminated, and a long bright red carpet stretches across the floor.
At the other end of the room was the throne itself. A very formally-dressed woman stands up from the throne, holding a wine glass in her left hand. She laughs a bit, stretching her other arm out and taking a sip out of the glass, before beginning to speak to the two protagonists, slowly advancing towards them all the while.
[ BGM: IaMP Pre-Battle - Demonic Place ]
[???]: So... what do you think of my mansion?”
[Chikara]: I say it was nice until one of your maids, especially that green-haired one, tried to blow me up!
[Thalassa]: It felt very grand and such, especially the library. But I am concerned for Tom-san’s health…
The lady laughs for a moment, before regathering and introducing herself.
The Eternal Scarlet Moon
Kurumi Scarlet
[Kurumi]: Ahahaha... she is often a bit too focused on her duties, isn’t she? And that witch is such a shut-in. But where are my manners... Yes, I am Kurumi Scarlet...
Kurumi continues to speak, giving Chikara and Thalassa a better glimpse of the glass. It clearly had something red in it, but the liquid was too thick to be wine.
[Kurumi]: ...and as you could guess, I am a vampire... and the Mistress of this Mansion.
The wings on Kurumi’s back extended out gradually as she spoke.
[Chikara]: Eugh.
Chikara was more grossed out from the blood than from Kurumi herself.
[Kurumi]: Is that any way to talk to a vampire, or the head of a Mansion?
The shrine maiden just rolled her eyes in response, mumbling something along the lines of “C’mon, vampy”.
[Thalassa]: *sweatdrop* Chika-chan, please...
[Thalassa]: Tom-san told me after our battle that while they were the one keeping the mist up, you were ultimately responsible for it.
Kurumi closes her eyes briefly, nodding in confirmation.
[Kurumi]: Of course. I take it you two have come to put a stop to this wonderful fog?
[Chikara]: What else would we be here for!?”
[Kurumi]: Very well. Let me show you what you will be up against.
Kurumi walks back, and presses a button on the side of her throne. Soon, the entire room began to rise, into the skies of Gensokyo.
The room continues to lift up, heading into the clouds, showing no signs of stopping.
Thalassa looked off the edge of the rising platform, but it had risen to the point where the forest and lake they had passed by earlier today were no longer visible, through the thick fog.
The platform suddenly came to a screeching halt. A startled Chikara made a quick hop to stay upright. The skies were a brilliant orange, mixing with the scarlet mist that had plagued the lands all day.
Remarkably, the sun seemed to be undergoing an eclipse at this very moment - only the outer ring of the sun was visible.
[Kurumi]: Now... if you end up defeating me, I will direct Tom to halt the mist immediately. If I beat you two... Well, I don’t think I’ll be elaborating any further. Do we have an agreement?
The two look at each other, before nodding.
[Chikara]: Well I say that a good deal!
[Thalassa]: Yes, we do and we won’t lose this fight, Kurumi-san!
Kurumi seemed to be satisfied by the answer from the two as she raised her cup of blood upright, crushing the glass into pieces with her bare hand, which caused her palm to bleed profusely from the sharp glass shard jabbing on her palm.
But this doesn't seem to faze her at all, because the blood would begin to move around elegantly around her palm. It forms a shape that resembles that of a sword, before blood splashes out everywhere, revealing the sword's deep red, exquisite form. This is her weapon, Excalibur.
The vampire mistress unfurled her bat-like wings, executed a swift curtsy, and ascended into the air with the deep red moon as her backdrop.
She pointed the Excalibur at the heroines.
[Kurumi]: Looks like it's going to be a fun night~
[ BGM: Septette for the Dead Princess (IaMP Ver) ]
[BATTLE START]
Kurumi begins her first attack with a simple, flashy danmaku pattern as she fires two single bullets which explode into a wall explosion of bullets, along with an additional omnidirectional of white bullet. The attack is a little tricky to avoid due to the omnidirectional bullet, but they easily avoid it by moving from the bottom.
This attack repeated at least 2 times before Kurumi pulled out her first spell card.
“Heaven’s Punishment ~ Star of David”
Kurumi’s first spell card would consist of a sequence of red lasers. Blue bullets would spawn out where the red lasers made turns, arcing into a few unique circular patterns - surrounded by the lasers, forming a star pattern. Larger red sphere bullets would spawn around the lasers as well. These bullets would move rather randomly.
This was a fairly basic pattern for anyone that had experience with more dense danmaku waves - which Chikara and Thalassa had in spades - and was clearly one of Kurumi’s weaker attacks. The randomly-moving bullets would sometimes give the two heroines a scare, but both were able to avoid being hit once.
A well-timed scattering of ofuda and water spheres sent the vampire back, as she threw out her second attack.
[Kurumi]: GRK! Not bad, humans!
Kurumi's next attack is the same from the initial attack, but once the bullet explodes on the right, the wall explosion bullet starts bouncing around the room. Which causes the two having a bit of difficulty to dodge and one of the bullets would end up hitting the back of Chikara's head.
[Chikara]: OW! Okay, this is just getting annoying!
The shrine maiden was quickly annoyed by this, so she destroyed the bullet with a powerful punch, and Thalassa followed suit with her own attack by a barrage of water missiles, completely destroying them all before laying the attack on Kurumi, who she quickly shields with Excalibur.
Kurumi clicked her tongue in annoyance as she took out her second spell card and declared it aloud!
“Scarlet-Red Shooter”
This spell card featured walls of danmaku phasing through the sides of the throne room, converging on the heroines - Chikara seemed to be getting targeted more than Thalassa with this one - before each bullet dissipated in an explosion. Kurumi also tossed out some large purple and red bullets, both of which would be flying outward in five different directions. When the purple bullets struck the walls of the throne room, they would bounce off, spawning smaller red bullets which homed in on the two.
[Chikara]: Crap!
[Thalassa]: Eep!
This pattern was much more difficult, and some of the smaller bullets would catch Thalassa off guard, resulting in the magician being flung backwards... but fortunately not fast enough to destroy the wall, which would have sent Thalassa falling for quite a long time…
[Chikara]: Thal-chan! Damnit!
Chikara narrowly avoided being hit several times, the shrine maiden having to hurriedly swing her gohei in the air at times in order to graze past some of the patterns. The homing bullets forced Chikara to sidestep back and forth repeatedly, not allowing her to send many clean shots back at Kurumi.
It took a moment for Thalassa to recover, but she would soon start running back into the thick of the pattern, grasping onto her gem bracelet, drawing out power for her own attack...
...which was not a spell card. The water magician had summoned a water replica of Poseidon’s trident, as she had done earlier, but she either did not or could not make the danmaku portion of that card work (possibly due to the height, or perhaps the indoors nature of this particular area), instead solely relying upon the trident.
[Thalassa]: Zeeyah!
Thalassa charged towards Kurumi, making quick jabs in the vampire’s direction as she approached, cutting through homing attacks and ducking under one of the bouncing purple bullets.
Kurumi likewise made a wide swing with Excalibur, which Thalassa barely parried, the sword inches away from the magician’s head. Another trident jab from Thalassa resulted in Kurumi having to jump, using her wings to float above the incoming weapon until Thalassa receded.
[Kurumi]: Fufufu~, too slow for an insolent girl.
This seemed to tick Chikara off, the shrine maiden tossing an extra gohei at the vampire at high speed. The flying, spinning stick nearly hit Thalassa, but she moved out of its path in the nick of time, and Kurumi was hit right in the head. The hit caused the vampire to lose her balance, nearly falling to the floor, and halting her spell card in the process.
[Kurumi]: Grrk! That hurts…! Don’t think I will easily lose to a bunch of humans!
Resteadying herself, Kurumi - eventually - declared her third spell card.
“Scarlet Sign ~ Scarlet Meister”
This card began with rows of bullets, offset from each other, being fired straight ahead at rapid-fire speed. To Kurumi’s left and right, she formed spinning spirals of danmaku, which coalesced into cylindrical forms, then began moving, circling around the heroines before closing in on them from behind.
Thalassa was able to handle this pattern much more gracefully, choosing to stick back and shift around as needed. However, the attack now threw Chikara off instead - misjudging an empty zone, she tried to squeeze through one of the gaps between the straight shots and the spinning spirals. At first, she was successful, but soon the shrine maiden found herself running out of space, taking a nasty hit. The resulting impact threw the shrine maiden towards one of the side walls. However, Chikara had enough of a mind to kick off the wall instead of just allowing herself to be slammed straight into it, and was able to call down her own card in mid-air.
[Chikara]: Taaakeee thiiisss!!!
“Dreamy Sign ~ Evil-Sealing Circle”
A ring of light bullets descended on Kurumi, followed by arc shots of ofuda from several different directions. The vampire was able to slip past a few, merely grazing past another ring, but she soon found herself trapped on the wall, and with nowhere to go, Kurumi was soon hit by ofuda from both sides as well as from head on.
[Kurumi]: Kyaaaaaarrggghhhh!!!
This sent the vampire screaming into the back corner of her own throne room, her spell card again coming to a screeching halt. Her wings found themselves jammed into the wall, as was her head. While it took little time for Kurumi to dislodge herself from the wall, she didn’t appear to make it out unscathed. One of her legs seemed a little wobbly, and crumbs of the wall were falling out of her hair. She lifted herself up with her wings, only to find that she could barely hover.
[Kurumi]: You... arrgh!
Kurumi spoke with a surprisingly shrill emotion. So much for being a mansion owner.
[Chikara]: *sweatdrop* Oi, is she throwing a temper tantrum?
[Thalassa]: *sweatdrop* I believe so…
[Kurumi]: Blasted humans! This isn’t over yet!! Auuuugh!!! Ruukie, get them!
[Chikara]: Aaaand she forgot that her trigger happy maid got knocked out.
She went on and on, acting more like a child than an ancient vampire, and started to descend the long, long route down back to the surface. Having little other choice, Chikara and Thalassa gave chase.
[ BGM: Arch Heaven ~ Spirit of Nagara ]
[Kurumi]: You’ll... you’ll... dang it!!!
Barely able to talk in complete sentences, she turned around to face the two heroines while still descending the stairwell, her heightened awareness as a vampire allowing her to do so with her back turned, without fear of running into the walls.
“Spell of Arthur ~ Excalibur”
Swinging her giant blood sword around at inhuman speeds, trails of danmaku spawned behind the sword, which first appeared motionless but soon accelerated to match the sword’s velocity. The sword itself easily breaks through the walls of the stairwell, rubble falling all the way down.
The pattern would have been hard enough had this battle taken place while standing in one place, but having to chase after the vampire made it almost impossible... for those not named Chikara or Thalassa. The two squeezed through tiny gaps, inches away from being struck, grazing again and again. The spell card continued for a while, but eventually came to an end.
“Forbidden Barrage ~ Ticking Telescope of Hourglass”
[Thalassa]: Forbid-
Thalassa was quickly cut off, Kurumi’s next pattern beginning in earnest. At first, the spell card seemed to be another variation of Scarlet-Red Shooter, with large purple danmaku bubbles bouncing off walls and generating more danmaku, but Kurumi complimented this by spawning additional obstacles, an arc of red bullets firing outward, homing towards Chikara and Thalassa.
Lastly, this spell card made use of what was known as the spinning laser strategy, spawning two magic circles following behind her. These circles generated four lasers each, one in each cardinal direction, and they spun in opposite directions - one clockwise, the other counter-clockwise. The enclosed space that the fight was now taking place in made this a much tougher spell card than Scarlet-Red Shooter, too.
Chikara avoids being hit by the pattern by slipstreaming between the red bullet arcs, and with heavy use of grazing, once even tumbling down the stairs to avoid the bulk of the danmaku, nearly running into the back of Kurumi in the process. However, Thalassa again gets caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, getting trapped by shots from all sides.
The subsequent knockback from all those danmaku bullets hitting the water magician at nearly the same time sends her flying off the edge, the side wall having been destroyed by Excalibur beforehand. The magician starts to freefall, in peril... and Chikara looks very irate.
[Chikara]: KURUMI SCAAAAAARLET!!
Gulping, Kurumi did her best to prepare for whatever the shrine maiden was about to throw at her.
“Spirit Sign ~ Hakurei Spiralling Burst Special”
Yin-yang orbs began to spin around Chikara’s wrists, and she soon made an uppercut motion with both of her fists. This spawned two more yin-yang orbs - which were far larger than the first two. These orbs themselves spawned three rings of danmaku ofuda, which begun to spiral and home in on the vampire. But she slipped through one, then another... then another... Even as the second wave of rings approached, she seemed like she would be able to avoid five more.
Now, it was seemingly Chikara’s turn to be knocked into freefall, when one of the small bullets grazed a little too close to the shrine maiden’s cheek.... and she did get knocked back... But Thalassa had recovered herself, flying back towards the pillar holding the stairwell up. She grasped onto her gem bracelet, declaring her spell card as she busted through the wall.
“Water Sign ~ Vortex Beam”
A giant beam of water flew in front of the magician, hitting Kurumi twice over as she tried to move out of the way. While the water wasn’t divine in any way, and thus didn’t serve as mortal danger to the vampire, she did get drenched from it. Kurumi was sent tumbling into the outside wall from the impact.
Thalassa’s rather dynamic re-entry had also prevented Chikara from flying off the pillar. Striking the shrine maiden from behind, Chikara’s momentum was now sent the other way - also straight into Kurumi (and the wall).
Kurumi slowly dragged herself away from Chikara, picking herself back up off the ground. The latter had been trying desperately to stick one of her persuasion needles into a leg of the former while they were down, yet the vampire’s leg was just too shaky and the shrine maiden missed every time.
“Scarlet Sign ~ Four of a Kind”
Kurumi spawned three clones of herself. Each clone began to shoot their own danmaku patterns, each in a somewhat different rhythm and style - but all of the clones’ danmaku simply flew outward, not even attempting to target Chikara and Thalassa. The real Kurumi fired three quick rings of bright blue danmaku, targeting each ring at where the two had been, pausing between each cycle.
The cloned danmaku was something of a distraction, but both the shrine maiden and magician were able to avoid being hit rather easily. One of the clones had managed to fall apart before Kurumi’s spell card ended, and it dropped a strange-looking object which resembled a wing. Thalassa quickly dove down to snatch it, sticking it in her back pocket before continuing.
Four of a Kind was a lengthy spellcard, and by the time it ended, the fight had already moved through the clouds. Chikara hadn’t really seen it, but Thalassa had, thanks to being knocked into freefall earlier.
[Kurumi]: “...This is it! This fight ends... right here!! KYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
“Spell of the Countess ~ Scarlet Nihility”
With a maniacal laugh, Kurumi once again begun to swing her blood sword around wildly, danmaku spawning in lines where the blade had been, while also spawning in a new set of clones, and setting up those bouncing bullets that gave Thalassa so much trouble.
But this time, she was ready, as was Chikara. Diving through the blade’s danmaku, grazing past the small bullets that the bouncers had generated. The magician thought she had this fight finished, with one final push...
“Rainy Season”
...Thalassa raised up her hand, calling out the name of a card that even Chikara had not heard of before. This was an instinctual card, one that came about in the midst of a fight. In this case, the magician had thought up this card based on one of Meiling’s own spell cards. A spinning wheel of shard danmaku rose above the magician at high speed and gradually expanded outward. When it reached Kurumi, the danmaku began to pour down, as if it was one of the heavy rainstorms that rolled through Thalassa’s usual whereabouts from time to time.
All this, only for Kurumi to be... completely unaffected.
[Thalassa]: ...I should have seen that coming. Chika-chan, don’t worry about hitting her, we gotta stall!
[Chikara]: Ah? Well, okay then if you say so, Thal-chan!
Scarlet Nihility was among the highest level spell cards that had been designed under the Spell Card Rules, and thusly was defined as a timeout card. Kurumi was effectively invincible for the duration, but if she didn’t knock out the heroines before the card ended, the vampire was as good as toast. Timeout cards always lasted for 99 seconds... that’s how long they had to hold out.
But this vampire seemed to be losing it, as her motions continued to get more exaggerated as the spell card ticked down. The danmaku accelerated even faster, the more random aspects of the bouncing became even less predictable.
75 seconds.
Ducking under the swinging blade, Chikara narrowly dodged two cylindrical beams - like from Scarlet Meister - before getting back to solid ground. Thalassa barely avoided being squished by the danmaku pouring out of the walls, but had to back up to do so.
60 seconds.
While Kurumi herself was invincible, her summoned clones were not so. One by one they began to crumple, dropping more wing-like objects. The magician was too busy dodging danmaku to pick them up this time, though. As the clones dissipated, Kurumi summoned a new set to replace them, and the danmaku they shot resumed with haste.
45 seconds.
[Kurumi]: KYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!... won’t you two just go down already... for good!?
[Chikara]: Oh, she has gone coo-coo now!
The spell card intensified further, while Kurumi’s sanity seemed to be slipping. More bouncing spawners, faster swinging, faster everything. Much like what Meiling had done with the shrubs at the front gate, Kurumi formed some laser danmaku along the walls of the stairwell, limiting the heroines’ range of motion.
The vampire held her hand up, and soon a second sword - colored blood-red, just like the first - appeared in that hand.
She started swinging both swords at once, showing no visible difficulty in doing so. The outer walls began to collapse thanks to the two swords ripping through them, revealing the rapid descent this fight had undertaken.
30 seconds.
Kurumi’s eyes were always red... but now they looked blood-shot. She fired two bright red beams, one targeting Chikara and the other targeting Thalassa. The shrine maiden avoided her beam with relative ease, but Thalassa got a little too close, taking another hit.
This one didn’t send her flying, but it seemed to leave a mark, a red gash now running along the magician’s right cheek, where the beam grazed her. She briefly stopped moving, looking dazed from the hit, but recovered quickly, resuming the chase.
20 seconds.
A three-dimensional grid-like pattern of danmaku appeared around the two heroines, individual shots moving along the lines of the grid. The two did their best to avoid the grid pattern, but amidst everything else, the length of the fight was starting to get to them. Holding back a yawn, Thalassa grazed past the lasers, still delineating where the wall used to be.
Chikara was nearly bowled over by one of the bouncing danmaku generators, but avoided being hit by perhaps only a few hair strands’ worth of distance.
15 seconds.
Kurumi, rather abruptly, stopped swinging the two swords around, while the other parts of the attack went on without her. Putting her hands together, the vampire instead stacked them on top of each other, holding it with both hands as if it was one giant sword. One of them began to glow in a bright red light, and seemed to fade away...
...the other sword suddenly became twice as long, nearly enough to reach the necks of Chikara and Thalassa. Amidst her maniacal laughter, she began to swing it with such fury that she would be sent flying from the sword’s apparent weight. The vampire’s first swing sent her in the air, heading for the shrine maiden and the magician.
[Kurumi]: HIYAHAAHAHAKAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAA!!! Just... DIEEEEEEEEE!!!
10 seconds.
Chikara dove down to avoid the swing, while Thalassa hugged the wall. This only seemed to enrage the vampire further, and Kurumi, looking more pale than ever, charged again, aiming for the shrine maiden in particular, who began to back up, climbing the stairs to escape the sword’s wide swing... but she couldn’t climb fast enough. The sword made contact with the shrine maiden’s lower right arm, making a slice up that arm before finally receding, nearly reaching Chikara’s right shoulder.
[Thalassa]: Chika-chan!
[Chikara]: I’ve withstood worse!
The shrine maiden let out a smirk, as she slides down the stairwell, to Thalassa... who now stared down Kurumi. The magician summons her trident once more, hoping it could withstand whatever that sword had turned into.
5 seconds.
Kurumi made one last-ditch charge, at the last opponent standing: Thalassa. Jabbing forward, the sword and the trident clashed, a metallic noise ringing up and down the stairwell. The sword seemed to overpower the trident, and the magician changed stances in response. Holding her trident up on top of her head, the blood-red sword came mere inches from striking Thalassa’s head, sharp point first…
But the spell card’s timer had expired. The danmaku surrounding this battle of weapons disappeared in a flash, Kurumi seemed to lose a lot of color, her sword shrunk down until it completely vanished, and the vampire seemed to expire alongside the spell card, nearly collapsing. Kurumi stood motionless, appearing to have had the life sapped out of her.
Chikara, bloodied, stood back up, having an array of needles and ofuda in the gaps between her fingers. She then threw the hand holding the needles into Kurumi’s shoulder. The resulting impact caused the vampire to collapse entirely, falling down and tumbling down the stairs.
[Kurumi Scarlet DEFEATED]
[ BGM: An Eternity that is More Transient than Scarlet ]
The sunlight shone down through the sky, and the scarlet mist began to clear away, revealing the blue sky.
Chikara and Thalassa softly landed on the ground, they looked very torn up and bloodied, covered head to toe with injury, right after dealing with a very intense battle…
[Thalassa]: Ah? It seems like the sky becomes clearer after we defeat her.
[Chikara]: I guess she did keep her deal after all.
As the heroines talk, they would look over Kurumi’s unconscious body laying on the ground. She looks just as torn up as the shrine maiden and magician had been over the course of the day. Thalassa would check on Kurumi to see if the vampire is okay. She has a pulse, but is unconscious.
[Thalassa]: Okay good, Kurumi-san is just unconscious…
[Chikara]: I’ll say, she is a pretty good fighter! Even though she went a little coo-coo at the end…
[Thalassa]: Chika-chaaaaan……
[Chikara]: Alright, alright! Sorry…should we help her?
[Tom]: I’ll take it from here.
Tom appeared rather suddenly, descending to the ground in the space between the heroines. Thalassa is actually happy to see the magician again, and Chikara is moreso shocked at just how short they are.
[Thalassa]: Tom-san!
[Chikara]: (Woah, they’re really short…)
Tom looks over the two heroines, seeing their scrapes and injuries, then back at Kurumi’s limp body again.
[Tom]: Ah, greetings, Thalassa, and you as well, who I assume to be the shrine maiden friend of Thalassa’s... I came here to pick up Kurumi, as I do have the duty of taking care of her when she is unable to. I suppose that battle must have taken a lot out of you two... and her, from what I can see. Looks like she fainted from draining her blood too quickly... thankfully, she is merely unconscious.
[Thalassa]: Yeah, I was worried about her…
[Chikara]: Hehehe, seems like she’s a lot tougher than she looks~.
Tom uses their telekinesis to carefully lift Kurumi’s limp body in the air. Given Kurumi’s relative size, Tom couldn’t really carry her, at all.
[Tom]: I believe this is where we bid farewell to each other. You two take care of yourselves.
Tom says goodbye to the two heroines, as they head back to the mansion with Kurumi's floating body following behind them. The two would let out a sigh of relief that the incident was finally over.
Chikara stretched her body up as she needed that after everything she had been through during the whole journey.
[Chikara]: Puuwah~... finally... it's finally over for good~.
[Thalassa]: Yeah… I won’t lie… we've been through quite a lot, huh…?
[Chikara]: Yep. Despite all the crazy stuff that happened to us, it was a lot more fun than I thought I would’ve had.
[Thalassa]: *sweatdrop* I wouldn’t exactly call our near-death experience “fun”, Chika-chan……
[Chikara]: Hehehehe… I guessed so~.
After they finished their little banter, Chikara would carry Thalassa on her back as the shrine maiden wanted to go back together. The two would make their way out of the mansion, heading back outside, and taking to the skies, following the path back to the Hakurei Shrine from above.
The sun would rise up over the horizon and lighten up all of Gensokyo…