Chương 9: The Scarlet Mist EX part 2
Editor: Acerman
[5* The Rainbow Vampire]
[Play with Flandre]
'…I'm sorry, what?'
[Survive until: 29:50 minute remaining]
'…I'm sorry, WHAT?'
[Failure Penalty: Dead. Escape Penalty: Abilities effects becoming half.]
'…I'M SORRY, WHAT?!'
*rumble**rumble*
The sky above rumbled loudly as if it said "shut the fuck up" at me.
Wait, wait, let's think about what just happen.
The system gave me a quest, a quest to play with…Flandre.
…The jinx, this'd be the jinx from this morning.
Whatever, things already happening; I need to focus on the main task, but there's one thing bother me.
'System, how much time is remaining?'
[Survive until: 28:45 minute remaining]
…"Survive"? 'Does it mean the same kind of survive I'm thinking of?'
If I'm using that logic, then that mean the Loli, Flandre, will hunt…"play" with me for, approximately 30 minutes, and it's already started…which means I need to prepare for war.
I grabbed and ate the pills from my pouch and started spreading a breeze around the house and felt its direction, mapping the mansion inside my head, pushing the wind even further until I felt everything the wind pass by: every table, every lamp, every shelf, every frantic fairy maid, even Sakuya, and also, of course, Flandre. When the wind passes around her figure, I felt as if it was passing around something jagged. I know it's not Sakuya because she's in completely different location, and the only one who has jagged things in SDM is Flandre, her crystal wings. She's coming in on my location fast, and I guestimated that she'd arrive in less than a minute.
I couldn't really use garlic juice or water on her, because the objective of the quest is to let Flandre "play" with me, not make her flee. I started planning out the route of our "playground" and preparing myself for meeting Flandre.
'…I think I should check "Getting chased by a Loli" from my wish list. ' I thought while I'm waiting in the direction of Flandre should come from.
After a few second of waiting, I heard a girl voice.
"…I thought I smelled another human beside Sakuya, and I'm actually right."
I saw a little girl in the far side of the hallway dressed in a red dress with a lovely ruff of blond hair atop her head. Most notable though was a bunch of multicolored crystal behind her back. Yup, it's Flandre.
"Onii-san, who are you?" she ask.
Somehow I could hear her clearly even though we are so far apart; probably because of the hallway.
"Ah, yes, I'm actually a guest right now; the mistress invited me to come to her mansion a couple days ago."
"Nee-sama invited you?"
"Yes, just now the head maid was guiding me around the mansion, but she suddenly left. 'There's an emergency,' she said."
"I see, I didn't sense Nee-sama inside the mansion right now, so-", she started smiling, "Do you want to play my favorite game until Nee-sama comes back? It's called Danmaku," her eyes started glowing red, "And it's fun."
Murderous Loli became motivated.
"Of course, but I'm-" "Then let's start playing." She cut me off.
Murderous Loli is really motivated.
"I have no say to this situation, huh."
I created Quadra wings and began floating with them. Flandre also began floating in the air.
"Then let's introduce our self first. Hi, my name's Arah. I like chocolate and my favorite color is black." I said to her.
"Then my name's Flandre Scarlet. I like blood and my favorite color is red." She introduced herself back to me.
I started smiling
'She's not that bad, the fanbase is the bad one, she introduced herself back to me, she's smarter and more grown up than some people depicted her to be.'
"Then Flandre, if someone used up opponent entire spell card then they will win, how about that?" I offered.
"Great! Let's start then!" she said excitedly, summoning her crooked clock arm of a spear, Lævateinn.
I started concentrating on her to see her Level.
[Lv.? The Rainbow Vampire, Flandre Scarlet]
It's a question mark. Is it because the system couldn't decide how much dangerous her ability was except really dangerous? Whatever, let's survive this.
"But Flandre, the hallway is too narrow for us to play, let's go somewhere wider. I know some part of the mansion that's wide. Follow me." I started flying backward. "But of course, we will start the game from here." I gathered Light Energy into my hands.
I shot a laser towards Flandre and she dodged it, and proceeded to pursue me.
I saw her fly toward me at a moderate speed, slower than the first time I sensed her but it's enough to following me around in our flight.
'Good, she's following me.'
I summoned my spell card in my hand and activated it.
"Nature Sign "Storm in Summer""
I created wind mines as I kept flying backward. Now with Parallel Thinking I can calculate every route my enemy will take, and of course I can create more wind mine to adjust to it.
*Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom*
So many explosion, the wind wrecked havoc on the hall, just like storm inside a house, and just like storm, all furniture flying all about in the air… I hope Remilia has a big heart and accepts my apologies.
*Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom*
You guys probably wondering, with this much explosion, it must hit Flandre once right? Well you're wrong because right now she's in her bat form. She just dodges every single explosion with her small size…I need to improve.
"Let's kick it up a notch shall we?" I said.
I created 1 massive Wind Mine in the middle of the hall, she dodged it to a corner of the hall.
I created 4 large Wind Mines in four corners of the hall, she dodged them too, now in middle in each Wind Mines.
I created 2 extra large Wind Mines siding each other in the hall, she dodges those as well, now in the upper middle of the hall.
3 extra large on 3 sides of the hall, she dodged into the empty one.
3 extra large in mirror position from before, she took sharp turn to the other empty corner.
Extra large barrage, she always sharp turning her fly but dodged every single one bullet.
One massive, she dodged into a corner.
Extra large twister, she just stayed in the middle.
'THIS IS FRUSTRATING! IS THIS HOW EVERY BOSS FEELS WHEN REIMU DODGES THEIR ENTIRE SPELL CARD?!'
As I kept the bombardment up with wind mine, I could feel that we are nearing my destination.
'There it is, this is one of place that Sakuya showed me just now.'
We finally arrive at the room, the central room.
This room was as big as the main ballroom but with an exception of its higher platform and the piano, it only has the fancy, enormous chandelier and the fancy colored tile in the middle. Even Sakuya said that there's nothing special about this room except to look fancy and have a wide space.
'System, how much time is left?'
[Survive: 22:02 minute remaining]
"Look isn't this place wide enough for playing?" I asked the bat.
The bat glowed red for a moment and then it turn into a loli.
"Yeah! It's wide enough that we can do whatever we want!" she exclaimed happily.
'...stay positive, I need to stay positive, I'm the one who suggested we changed place, so I better be man up for whatever gonna happen now.'
She pointed her wand toward me and started shooting with her firework pattern Danmaku.
'It's her non-spell card Danmaku.'
I answer her Danmaku with Danmaku, the machine gun Light Energy one, and of course I already fixed the previous issue, the damage and the fire-rate.
We both are shooting at each other for a while until Flandre change it up.
"Taboo "Cranberry Trap""
Flandre used her first spell card.
4 magical circles appeared around my surrounding.
'Surround attack.'
Flandre stopped shooting her Danmaku but 2 of the circles start shooting Danmaku at me instead.
'Left and right circle.'
I slowed down and dodge the incoming bullet.
The 2 circle stopped shooting but the other 2 circle started shooting at me.
'Front and back circle'
I start using Magical Sense to sense the bullet coming from the back one.
After I dodge the bullets, all of the circles began to shoot at me while circling me.
'Predict all bullets pattern'
With the help of Parallel Thinking and Magical Sense, I somehow dodged all of them.
As I'm sure I dodged all the bullets, I resumed shooting at Flandre.
Flandre, being stationary from controlling the circle, ate all of my bullets.
"Fuaaaaah!" cried Flandre.
*crack*
I'm hearing her spell card break.
"Now we are both equal, Flandre." I informed her.
"Is that wind thing count?" She asked me.
"Yeah, you time out it, you keep dodging every Wind Mine I sent you, so you win that time."
"Really?! Yay!" she shouted happily.
…Well, she's quite happy with that information, and I might not be happy with what I'm gonna do next…
I landed on the floor and Flandre landed as well, following after me.
"Then, let's continue our game." I said.
I brought out my new spell card.
"Theater sign"Duet Dancer""
The surroundings slowly turned dark, the darkness slowly creeping towards us, consuming all the light in its way, eventually stopping when it neared us, making the light look like me and Flandre standing in a spotlight.
"Do we play sword fight now?" Flandre asked me happily.
Well, the reason why she asked me that is because the thing in my hand.
A Lightsaber.
*Fuong* I moved my hand.
"Yes, I'm gonna chase you now, so be prepared." I responded.
That spell card function is to enhance my new armament, the lightsaber. Under normal circumstance I could only materialize it for a few second, but with spell card assist, I can keep it up indefinitely and make it more powerful from absorbing all the light from the surroundings. Oh yeah, this room's lighting coming from the chandelier above, the mansion doesn't have electricity so, magic powered lamp?
"Onii-san doesn't have to worry, because I too have a sword."
"Taboo "Lævateinn""
*FWONG* Her staff became a Super Mega Death Lightsaber.
"See." She said, cheerfully smiling.
…This is what I meant by "I'm not gonna like I'm gonna do next." I know I did this to myself but DAAAAAMMNN! Her beam is super huge, and longer than mine too…I know what you guys thinking, shut the fuck up, we are not 12 years old, we're adults.
"Nice sword."
"Yeah, it's bigger than Onii-san."
…You're not helping Flandre, kill me….
But seriously, I know when I have the disadvantage; her sword has some kind of dread aura, the air surrounding the sword bending. Is it made of Destruction energy? If yes, then let's hope Vector Change can redirect it somehow.
Even though I'm the one who started this, I'm not gonna run into her. The front of her has become death zone, everything will die in front of her right now. Racial disadvantage dude, base stats Vampire too OP, please nerf.
In the end, we were just standing around and staring at each other for a minute. Nobody moved, even Flandre starting to realize it. She gave me questioning look, she titled her head.
"Why Onii-san hasn't attack yet?" she asked.
"Well, Flandre right now have that Super Mega Death Lightsaber, so I was thinking how to attack you."
"I see, but the name is not Super Mega Death Lightsaber, it's Lævateinn" she corrected me.
"…S-Sorry?"
"As long as you understand." She nodded acceptingly, "And also if Onii-san doesn't want to go first, then I will."
*FWONG* She readied her Lævateinn.
I took a defensive posture too.
'Should I dodge? Or should I just try to deflect it?'
She immediately dashed toward me.
'…Dodge?'
She started swinging her sword around.
'Dodge!'
*BOOM*
The sword embedded in the floor but she easily pulled it back out.
"Next time, I won't miss." She said it with glowing eyes.
Just saying, she looks badass right now.
"Don't worry; I'll make sure it misses." I replied.
"No you won't!" She dash again to my position.
She swung horizontally, her sword is too long to step backward so I jumped and then I overhead slashed her in the mid-air.
She saw my attack and turned into her bat form to dodge my slash.
'Dammit.'
Flandre, in her bat form, sped towards my back and reformed into a loli mid air, ready to slash me.
"Got you!" she claimed.
She slashes diagonally but I dodge roll to the side. After I got up, I immediately dash-slashed at her, but she blocked it with her sword.
*BZZZT* My lightsaber rebounded from it and send me flying.
'Fuck, I knew it, my sword is too weak withstand hers.'
"Now you can't dodge this!" She slashed horizontally at me.
But unfortunately, I dodged it with Vector Change, forcefully pushing my body to the side, and landing perfectly on my feet.
*BOOM* her sword hit the floor again.
"Sorry, try again next time."
I looked at Flandre face. She's smiling while her eyes emit a red glow. Apparently she's having fun.
"Don't worry Onii-san," she still easily pulled her sword out of the ground, "I won't stop trying." She got ready for another swing.
'…System, times remaining?'
[Survive until: 13:45 minute remaining]
'…This is the longest 30 minutes of my life.'
We spent some time on our sword fight "games", me dodging her attack, my attack get rebounded, etc. I successfully found an opening to slash at her but she once again avoided it with her bat form. Back and forth, we keep attacking and defending and dodging while the spotlight following us throughout the fight, until I had an idea…
*BZZUAAAH* I locked my sword with her sword. I used a lot of concentration to keep myself on the ground when locking our swords together. 70% of Vector Change power.
"Hey, Flandre did you know why I, a human, got invited by Remilia into her mansion?" I asked her.
"Not really, no. Onii-san are you someone special?"
…Dammit, I'm getting pushed back, Vampire too OP, game too imbalance.
"Special? Yes, I'm special; the reason why Remilia let me in is because she's my girlfriend."
"…who?"
"Remilia Scarlet, she is my girlfriend." I said with a smile.
"…"
I heard it, the gears inside Flandre's mind start reving trying to process that piece of information.
"EEEEHHHH?!" her shocked voice of revelation.
'Now!' I use full power Vector Change to direct our swords upward.
*BUZZOOWW* both of our swords shot upward.
"What?!" Flandre surprised by this.
As I'm the one who planned this, I immediately regained control of my sword and redirected it smoothly into a round slash to Flandre, and it connected.
"Uwaaah!" Flandre got slashed but immediately jumped away from me. "That's a really unexpected time to reveal something, Onii-san."
Her Lævateinn hadn't dissipated yet, not enough damage…
"I'm sorry, but it's actually a lie."
"A lie? Lying is bad, Onii-san." She scolded me.
"Yeah, that's why I will tell you the truth." I touched the black line in my neck. "Actually, Sakuya-san is my girlfriend."
"Is that another lie?" she accused me.
I prepare to dash to her while replying her.
"I'm sorry young mistress, but that's the truth." Sakuya's voice came out from behind Flandre.
Flandre whipped her head around, "Sakuya?" she searched for Sakuya behind her.
'But no matter how many times you search, she's not there Flandre because Sakuya wasn't there from the start.'
I dashed at the still confused Flandre; too late did she notice my advance and paid for it.
"Uwaaaah!"
*crack*
Her spell card broke, her sword finally vanishing.
I also ended my spell card, making my lightsaber disappear.
"I'm sorry Young Mistress, but that's also a lie." I smile while using Sakuya's voice.
"Y-you cheater!" she's pointing her wand at me.
"But aren't you also using your bat form, Young Mistress?" I asked Flandre.
"But you tricked me using Sakuya's voice!"
I touched my choker again.
"What are you talking about?" I said back at her in my voice.
"…I'll show you a real trick then." she glared at me.
"Taboo "Four of a kind""
She used her third spell card.
Immediately after that, 3 more Flandres appeared in a flash of a red light.
"You can't escape from me now! Get him!" one Flandre ordered the rest of them.
'So that's the original, I better clean up the rest first.'
All of them started to shower me with their firework-pattern Danmaku.
I started flying and trying to shoot one of the clones down.
We once again are flying around the room, but with much more Danmaku in the air. All of the clones occasionally shot their unique Danmaku at me. Shotgun pattern, bigger firework pattern, six side pattern, they fire at me one after another or just fired at the same time. Magical Sense and Parallel Thinking works at maximum output to dodge all incoming bullet and shooting at the clones.
I can dodge all of bullets but the problem is none of the clones got hit by my bullets. I need to improve…
I used another one of my new spell cards.
"Theater sign "Character Spotlight""
The surroundings turn dark once more, the spotlights reappeared in the air, but the difference now is that the only people inside the spotlights are the Flandres.
"Where is he?!" all of them searching for me.
"He's not on the floor." One of them said.
…Vampire Night Vision…
"That mean," all of them look up at their respective spotlights. "There! Shoot the lights!" All of them resuming their assault at the spotlight.
'She's right; I'm on one of the spotlights, but you have one mistake when you do it.'
All of the clones shot that one spotlight but it dodged the incoming bullets.
'I can just dodge the bullets and make the entire spotlight to dodge it too. And your spread pattern Danmaku shoot doesn't help you at all in this situation.'
"Stop dodging!" one of the clone shout.
*Pishun* a laser shot towards her from the spotlight, hitting the clone. It disappeared.
"That light, shoot it!" Original Flandre command her clones. I have Photographic Memory if you guys ask how I know.
'Time to shuffle the lights.' I moved all spotlight to the middle for shuffling and renewed my position. This move confused the Flandres.
I repeated this process until only the Original was left, putting her in the center of the four spotlights.
'Let's end this with a bang!'
I used another spell card.
"Accelerator "One Way Road""
All the other spotlight disappeared as I charged my finale.
Flandre noticed that only one spotlight left and start shooting at it.
As the spotlight got smaller and smaller, Flandre started looking worried.
"Good job, prepare to be surprised." I said through the light.
"…New Spell Card?" she asked.
"Yeah, and it will be painful if you didn't dodge it." I replied as I fired the light.
*FWOOOOOMM*
BIG LASER SHINING THROUGH YA!
I sensed Flandre still within the laser's path, which meant she's too late to dodge my attack.
I kept releasing the laser until it the charge was empty.
"*gasp**gasp*" I gasped for breath.
I really should keep that card to as my finale; it kept draining me until the end.
I looked at Flandre's location.
She's smoking from her body while she crossed her arm in front of her face; she tried to defend her head from the laser using her arm.
"Fuha-" she's trembling, "Hahahahahahahaha." And now she's full blown laughing in that position.
She put her arm down.
"Arahnii-san is fun! Let's keep playing!" she said smiling with her red glowing eye.
'…Even that's not enough to put her down, as expected from an EX boss.'
"I'm sorry Flandre, but that's the end."
"…The end? The end of what?"
"The end of our game."
"Eeeeeeh?! But I want to keep playing!" she protested.
"Yeah, I already out of power. That's why-" I looked at the door.
The door opened, revealing a girl with blond hair riding a broom. It's Marisa.
"We will gonna change the player." I finished explaining.
*Ding*
[Survive until: 00.00 minute remaining]
[Objective Cleared]
[New Objective]
[Switch with Kirisame Marisa]
I already sensed her when I was in the middle of releasing my laser, so I figured the countdown was actually the time for the incident resolver arrived.
"Owh, Arah, what happened here-ze?" Marisa asks.
I just smiled and flew toward Marisa.
"Hey Marisa! High Five!" I raised my right hand to her.
"H-high five-ze?" She tilted her head but raised her hand anyway.
*Clap*
"Well, here's the short explanation, she and I did a Danmaku Battle but apparently I'm too weak for her to fight so I'm counting on you to fight her in my stead. I promise I'll buy you a sweet when you beat her, bye." I hurriedly explained the situation to her and booked for the door when I finished.
"I believe in you, Ordinary Magician." I saluted her.
I close the door, leaving Marisa to deal with Flandre.
*sigh*
"Finally, it's over."
*Ding*
[5* The Rainbow Vampire - Complete]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & IP, random ability, random item]
[Do you want to roll the reward now? ]
'No, save it for later.'
*sigh*
'I'm really tired from all that fighting. I think that's enough touring for today; let's just fly toward the exit.'
I lethargically flew toward and out of the mansion's exit.
-Unknown, the Gap-
-Yakumo Yukari POV-
That boy finally made it out of the mansion.
I watched the fight between him and Flandre Scarlet.
Using some kind of device, he tricked Flandre to lower her guard and then strike her. His Danmaku are not that lethal compared to Flandre's Danmaku which could end up killing someone when combined with her ability.
He's not that bad at dodging either.
"Seems like he really wants to start a new life in here." I said, satisfied with what I saw.
"Is that why Yukari-sama said to all the human eating Youkai that he's available to be hunted?" asked a voice beside me.
I look the source of the voice, Ran.
"Yes, I had to see if he's really non-hostile like his looks, so I sent many Youkai to see if he's killing them or not." I explained.
"So, he's really not-hostile to the Youkai?"
"Yep, he even handles Reimu really well."
"…Are you sure it's okay for the Hakurei to near that boy? He has the signs of a philanderer and we don't know what will he do in the future."
"We will worry if the time comes, right now he's still a boy, he's harmless."
"…Aren't you just letting him go because he's calling you young in the past?"
I put my hand fan in front of my mouth.
"…Ran, no fried tofu for you for a week."
"Yukari-sama, I'm sorry, please forgive me!" she went into dogeza before me.
Author note:
Heyo, Author here. This chapter counted as the second chapter from the previous week, so you guys still gonna have 2 chapter for this week. Oh wow, this is the first chapter that's dedicated for battle. Flandre doesn't have child personality or crazy murderer personality like other fanfic depicted her to be. She's a nice girl inside, she just can't control her strength, and the reason why she can't control it because she never have to control it. She stayed inside the mansion voluntarily, and live in the basement because she respect Remilia, but because Remilia forgot about her for [insert hundreds of years here], she start getting out from her room on her own. This is also my theory, there's probably a canon reason why she get out in the wiki, but fuck it, its my fanfic.
And also as you guys probably know, this fight is inspired from minusT video "Marisa vs Flandre", he's a god.
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