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The forest of magic could be pretty hard to navigate, but for a fairy who had spent her 80+ years of life, its reaches were of no trouble to navigate. Finding Narumi would be a trivially easy as the Jizo never strayed far from her statue brethren.

The Jizo trail was long, though, with countless shrines and statues with varying states of wear and tear, dressed in mismatched clothing and pleasant smiles on their sleeping stone faces. Cirno swore she saw a particularly nasty-looking Jizo wearing a Welcome to Hell brand shirt.

Looking back towards the path in front of her and away from the disturbing Jizo, Cirno could see two small gray figures seated on a large rock beside the path. As she closed in, she could see a sickly expression on Nazrin's face as she sat next to Narumi.

"Hey, Naz-chan!" her eyes wide with fear and surprise." I need to talk to you about what you said to Rumia about Anon," Nazrin didn't respond to Cirno's question, only ducking behind Narumi instead. "Hey, get back here!" Cirno cried, reaching out towards Nazrin, But she had already vanished behind the Jizo before Cirno could grab her.

"I'm sorry." Narumi said flatley as she dodged Cirno's touch." But I can't allow a fairy like you to interfere with things." A polite and apologetic smile crept up the Jizo's face. "Please return to your constituent components and cease." With a wave of her hand, Narumi sent out a wave of life energy at Cirno. This close and with so little time to react, the ice fairy had no room to dodge.

As the wave of energy hit Cirno, he was pushed back, and her wings stopped their fluttering as cracks spread across her body, which had entered free fall. Rapidly approaching the forest floor, Cirno could feel her consciousness wane as another death approached. Ah, I really hoped this wouldn't be so soon, she thought as she approached another end.

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In a split second, her consciousness returned. A burst of ice magic exploded from Cirno's wings as her body came within an inch of the forest floor, propelling her upwards as her wings began to flutter and spin. "Ha!"

Deflating a bit as memories and bruises of years past came flooding back, Narumi's apologetic smile did not falter, managing a humorless chuckle. "Oh dear, this is going to be like last time, isn't it?"

"Round two!" Cirno yells as she strikes a pose, legs out as if standing on something as she floats mid-air and a handout, forming a peace sign. "I beat you once. I can do it again! Now show me your back. I need to talk to Naz-chan!" With that proclamation, Cirno cast her hands wide as she and Narumi fired their first patterns.