/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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“I found someone for you to spar with, it’ll be great training for you” Marisa had a surprise for me when I went to see her later that day for training. “No offense, but I’m a little too good for you. Even when I hold back then you can’t make any process, yeah?” I couldn’t help but agree. I no longer floundered immediately, but I never scored a single victory against her. She was certainly tough. “So I found someone that you can beat. Trust me, you’ve gotten good enough that you shouldn’t have any trouble with her. You’ve gotten the fundamentals done pretty well, but you need to whet your teeth and get some experience by pummeling someone for real. She’s just in the clearing over here” I followed her, not sure what to expect, feeling a bit nervous at being thrust into the deep end. Walking through the trees to the clearing, I heard someone singing.


“Humans, Humans your end is near! For the time for the bird is here! Cower in your fields and cry, ‘cuz we’re coming at you from on high! Humans, who I detest, I’m gonna use your bones to build my nest! Say it with me!” We step into the clearing to met whoever is making such an awful racket. There was a girl dancing to herself. She had short pink hair and a brown cap in her head. Her odd ears and scraggly wings made me assume she was some sort of bird.
The bird was too busy shaking her head up and down to notice us. What was she doing? Marisa turned to me looking a bit apologetic “She’s Mystia. She likes to sing about stuff like this. Had a band, not sure if she still plays. It’s all just a bluff. She’s weak, never been much trouble at all” Marisa moved further into the clearing in front of Mystia and waited for her to stop. “I got the human who wanted to fight you. I’ll be right here so no tricks, got it?”

Mystia walked up to me. “It’s been too long since I’ve been able to attack a human, I’m gonna enjoy this” She said as she smiled. I couldn’t help but notice her teeth were sharper then a human’s “You’re going to regret facing a monster of the dark!” she said with upmost confidence. Her threat would have worked better if the sun wasn’t shining over head. She giggled to herself and swooped into the sky. Marisa motioned for me to follow her. I set off in the sky. Mystia seemed no different from the many common youkai that ran around causing trouble, but I still felt nervous to be thrust into a fight like this. I waited for the action to start. Did I need to give a signal or something? Without much warning, Mystia set out a cry and launched her first volley.

It was like the heavens parted at the moment. After the bullet hell Marisa put me through, this was nothing. Her attacks were full of holes, poorly thought out. I was able to dodge it no problem. I went on the offensive and fired as many ofuda as I could. She staggered in the air a bit then she fired off another attack. Rings of magic appeared and swarmed towards me, crisscrossing over each other. A spell card, but I could easily see through it. If I waited here for an opening then moved in this way she couldn’t hit me at all. But my shots were landing on her. She soon fired off another spell card, and another one. They were only a bit more difficult then the first. It seemed she could take no more. She stopped firing and help up her hands “Ugh, fuck. I give! The witch said you’d be easy prey, I never thought I’d be defeated for the first time in my life. Ahhhh! I’m too sore to run my stall tonight, I hope you’re happy” She unsteadily flew off into the distance, leaving me to process things. I won. She was weak and seemed like an idiot, but I won.