/jp/ - Otaku Culture

"Wow." Kisami commented. "I wonder what's going on there." I asked her if she knew about the kappa and yamawaro war, and she frowned and scratched her head. "Er...Maybe? I think Yams mentioned it, but I don't - Oh, hold on." She ran her fingers through her hair and swept it all back, tilting her head upwards so it all fell straight. "Yeah, I think one of my sisters - The ones my age, I mean - might be supplying them." I stared at her blankly. "I think she said to keep that a secret. Whoops." One of Kisami's sisters was...suppling weapons for their war? "Oh, no, I don't think so. She's no good at that sort of thing, and I don't think any kappa or yamawaro worth their lack-of-salt would want weapons designed by someone else instead of themselves. I think it's just some of the materials." I stared for a few seconds longer, then shook my head and laughed a little. So, it seemed that there was nothing under the sun that wasn't being done by one of the Kurodani family members. "Er, like I said, those girls are a bit more private. I might not even be right about her supplying them. She's a bit of an eccentric." For Kisami to describe her sister as an eccentric could only mean that she was close to being completely mad, I imagined.

We were still watching the crater. The smoke, still curling and twisting into the cold air, was beginning to dissipate, and I could see that something was at the centre of the crater. I couldn't make it out properly, even though I suspected that the peach had enhanced my vision a fair bit, but it seemed to be a person, or at least a person-shaped thing. "Hey, she kind of looks like my sister." She? "Yeah, er...Her." Kisami pointed at the crater again. "Her hair's not quite that long, though. And her hair's red. And it's...Okay, maybe she doesn't look that much like her." I wasn't really sure what to make of that, so I shook my head and squinted back at the crater, where there seemed to be movement.

There was a person in the crater, and I could just about make out their blue hair. Given the context, I could only imagine that this was Tenshi, who had apparently joined the kappa. "What's that on her arm?" Kisami asked out loud. I couldn't tell from this distance, but it did look like there was something there. On her leg, too, and something over the white of her shirt. But for a war...Armour? I couldn't see Tenshi, an ex-celestial, needing armour to survive the attacks of people on the surface. Shrugging to Kisami, I said that perhaps she'd just gotten in the mood and decided to dress up according to the situation. It seemed like the sort of thing she'd do, since all of her complaints about how much worse the surface was compared to Heaven had always seemed to be bluster to me. Hurriedly, I explained how Marisa and Tenshi had ended up on opposite sides of this whole war thing, even if I was pretty sure it was all a game to them, and they'd likely just leave in the end. "You sure do know some strange people." Kisami commented. It did seem to happen to me a lot as time went on. "Hey...What's that?" Kisami pointed upward at the sky above the crater.

It seemed to be glowing. Not in the way that clouds did when the sun was behind them, but like there was a raging fire directly above the cloud itself. I looked down at Tenshi, still stood in the middle of the crater, and saw that she was looking upward. Then, she planted her feet in the centre of the crater and raised her arms upward. I heard a sound like something powering up, so loud that it echoed all the way to where Kisami and I were standing, and probably as far as to Reimu at the Shrine.

And the skies opened. Right above the crater, Something golden and black shot through at incredible speed, causing the clouds surrounding it to be blown back, leaving a spot of blue sky surrounded by thick and heavy clouds of white. The gold and black thing was spiralling downward, trails of energy surrounding it, and it was heading straight for Tenshi. Suddenly, I had a feeling that I knew where that first crash, I'd heard from Yamame's home had come from, and I slapped my hands over my ears just before the spiralling object collided with Tenshi.

That turned out to be a good thing, because the moment the two connected, there was a massive shockwave that ballooned outward, and since Kisami and I weren't all that far away, it was strong enough to knock us both backward into the snow, though happily it had knocked us uphill and hadn't sent us rolling downward. Kisami had demonstrated a very Yamame-like instinct and grasped my arm before trying to scrabble backwards in fright. Actually, I supposed it was more like Yamame had displayed a Kisami-like instinct, since she was older. Fortunately, I could still see what was happening, which meant that I was able to reach up and lightly slap Kisami's arm enough time to get her to come to her senses and release me.

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she is not only an angel
she is the herald of the gods
the bringer of the rainbow

Hinanawi Tenko messenger of the gods!