![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"This is the top of the mountain. Everyone, be careful of your footing!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Wh-what is with this Mist!? I can't see a single thing!" |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"It's almost like a different world here. I got a bad feeling about this..." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Something bad must have leaked through the ward. It'll be near where the Mist is the thickest." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"The thickest? You mean right in the middle of this Mist?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Yes. It's dangerous, but we have to do it. If we don't search for the ward and fix it, this Phantom Mist will cover the whole mountain and become very scary. We have to restore it before that happens." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"But what if there isn't one?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"If there's no ward, we'll search for other causes. Yoshino doesn't know what's going to happen, but it must be done. If we wait for the Nishiki Army, we won't make it in time." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"As long as we can find the wards, it's daijyoubu. Confident this can be fixed. So please allow so. You girls can do a quick patrol of this area in the meantime..." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"What're you talking about? No way we're letting you go alone. We'll all go together and finish this as soon as possible."" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Yakutsk..." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"There's no point in splitting up the team in such a small place. We'll all rush into the Phantom Mist and search for the ward together. And once we find the ward, we'll leave it to Yoshino. The rest of us will to protect Yoshino to the death while she works." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Anyone can come up with a strategy like that... at least?" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"For sure! It's a bit scary, but that's what the SSS does!" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"I was thinking the exact same thing as you, Miss Yakutsk. The Mist is only covering a small area and we can't afford to split up." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Oui oui. Yoshino can be in the lead. We'll follow you wherever. Sounds good?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Are you alright with that, Shashou?" |
Conductor |
I feel the same way as everyone else. To be honest, a strategy of splitting up the team is possible, but it will be safer if we all go together inside this Phantom Mist. |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Alright then. Let's all go together!" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Sorry... But yer just gonna make it harder for me if ya do that." |
Yakutsk |
"Yuuzen!" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Y'all are really reckless. Trying to mess with the ward under all this circumstances, that's all crazy." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"And what does that mean? Why are you here?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"I mean, isn't that obvious? I don't want the ward fixed." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"What the!? So you don't care what happens to the people in the town!?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Not to worry, the monsters overflowing from this ward can't get out of the torii. If we leave them alone for a while, they will lose their power and everything will be completely restored." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"But we can't. If we do that, this mountain will lose its ward." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Then why don't ya just ask the Nishiki Army to make a new ward? It will be safe, harmless and make everyone in the world happy." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"...Though I don't think such a ward's possible." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Shashou, what she's saying is doubtful. The torii of a shrine doesn't have the power to ward off monsters. Mist Monsters would go out of the mountain." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"The reason why no monsters appeared outside the torii, is because I cast a type of sorcery..." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"No ordinary person can do that. Even the great beast priests of Nishiki can't do it." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Well, you're right. Assuming ordinary..." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"What is common sense for everyone is not my common sense; What is justice for everyone is not my justice, it seems. In this foggy world, finding common ground with everyone is not going to be easy." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"...But I won't let ya get in my way. If ya insist on fixing the ward, I have my own ideas." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Then I'd like to hear those ideas of yours. I'll have you know though, that I might have to hurt you depending on your answer." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Ara, that wasn't even a bluff. A soldier like ya should be a bit more threatening." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"What was that! Ya sure have guts! Are you trying to pick a fight with me, the Great Yakutsk!?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Wanna try me?" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Ya asked for it, didn't you? Come on, everyone! Time to restrain her!" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Miss Yakutsk, it's a trap!" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"W-what the Hell... I can't move..." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Ya stepped on a technique that locks down movement of everyone within range. It's very hard to remove on yer own." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"What is this... such terrible technique, how did you..." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"This is a Nishikese secret art from ages ago. Since it targets humans instead of Mist Monsters, this is now a forbidden art and only a few people actually learnt this." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Correct. Yer pretty knowledgable. It's an art that anyone who has proper knowledge of Nishiki sorcery would be wary of. Granted, this is not the kind of art that a doll seller would use." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"I can sense a tremendous amount of magical energy. Who the Hell is she!? I can't even move a finger..." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"I can't move at all either. Yoshino, can you do anything?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Dame... Yoshino too, can't do anything." |
Conductor |
The technique Yuuzen used is incredibly advanced. No one even inside the SSS could cast this level of sorcery. |
Conductor |
Just who on earth is this Yuuzen woman? It's clear that she's no mere doll seller... |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"I have no intention of hurting anyone of ya. But I'm not going to let ya interfere with my 'treasure hunt' either." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Now you can just watch as the ward on this mountain disappear. Just how much Poison has this sad excuse of a ward spewed into other places until now..." |
??? |
"That's quite enough! Lift the art you cast upon the SSS at once!" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"?" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Ohana!?" |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"Sorry! I'm too late to stop her! But is everyone okay? Are any of you hurt!?" |
Queensway |
"We're okay! But we can't move because of this sorcery..." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"Don't worry. That sorcery doesn't work over long distances. We either defeat or get the sorceress out of here and it'll wear off." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"Conductor-san, she's no doll seller! She's a sorceress who has recently been going around destroying wards within Nishiki. Her motives are unknown, but likely it has something to do with the 'treasure hunt'." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"In the Nishiki Army, she has the code name 'Kekkai Yaburi'." |
Conductor |
I see, So your plan is to destroy wards and generate a strong Mist to search for the treasure? If you can use that much sorcery, you should be able to enter the Phantom Mist by yourself. |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Well, things are happening faster than I expected. The Nishiki Army is genuinely competent when they finally wake up and do their jobs..." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"Yuuzen, come along with us quietly. You won't be harmed if you don't resist." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Wow... I know she's just doing her job, but she says some pretty cool things for a dorm matron." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"And those people beside her... Uh, who and who? The ones with big ears, so they must be Nishikese, right? They seem really strong." |
Strong Nishikese Soldiers |
"......" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"So I'm to take on both the Tsukiyo Banshuu and daughter of Shibazakura, the God of War? I can't fight while holding back my power..." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"But there's no way I'm going to back down. I'm going to have to resort to some heavy-handed tactics here!" |
Putra |
"That crazy noise... What in the world did you do?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"I wonder? I have no idea what I did." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"She forcefully leaked out more bad stuff out of the ward! Be careful! I can feel the presence of a vicious enemy!" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"Sorry, but I can't be caught yet. There's so many, poor dolls scattered all over the world, and they're waiting for me." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"...Hey, the little sorceress there." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"?" |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"My dolls are not cursed by the way. It's the opposite... They curse people instead." |
![Story Yuuzen.png](/images/9/9c/Story_Yuuzen.png) Yuuzen |
"That's all then. I'll see ya again somewhere." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"After her!" |
Strong Nishikese Soldiers |
"......" |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"The sorcery she casted on you all should be lifted. How about now? Can you move?" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"I can move!" |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Me too! My magic is fine! Ready to fight!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Everyone seems to be okay. We need to fix the ward and stop this Mist as soon as possible." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"To do that, we have to destroy the Mist Monsters that Yuuzen has called in." |
![Story Ohana.png](/images/e/e7/Story_Ohana.png) Ohana |
"Conductor-san, let me help you. I might not be as good as I used to be, But I will never get in the way!" |
Conductor |
It's outrageous that you would be in our way. You're worth a hundred of us, Ohana. Show us your true strength as the Kakutou-shihan, fighting master. |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Kakutou-shihan?" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"And you just said a hundred..." |
Conductor |
There's no time to explain. Leave Yuuzen to the Nishiki Army while we concentrate on eliminating this strange Phantom Mist that's developed on the summit. |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Urghh~, just look at the thing that just came out..." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"Everyone, be careful. This is no doll. This is a Mist Monster that has collected a lot of curses!" |