Loading User Commands:
[X] Accompany Chen in the dining room.

---

"Chen," she mutters weakly.

"Master Ran! Are you alright?"

"He is too strong... You have to get out of here..."

"I can't leave you behind! Just hold on to me and -"

"..."

"Master Ran! Speak to me! Master Ran!"

Chen holds back her tears. She has to be strong. With Ran defeated and Yukari missing, she has to defend Mayohiga. No matter what happens, he can't let that man through. Her family. Her home. Her world. All of it will end if he makes it through. This person is not a man, he is a destroyer! He will consume everything in Gensokyo, and even that will not be enough. He will devour the Outside and the countless other worlds across the boundaries.

Chen carefully lays Master Ran on the ground. It is too late for escape. She has no choice - even a shikigami's shikigami must fight. She knows that she is not strong. She knows that she is not smart. She knows that she is not wise. But she will not stand and watch idly as everything she loves burns down to the ground.

"Is that all the great Calculator is capable of? You disappoint me Ran," the dark wizard says. "I expected much more from the fabled disciple of Yukari. Perhaps I was mistaken to think that the Yakumo family was a threat."

Chen stands up and turns around. She carefully lands on the last portion of the destroyed mansion. She looks up to see the dark wizard approaching through the fog of war. Master Ran said that he was magician from another world. He fooled Lady Yukari into teaching him the secrets between the borders, then swallowed her up to strengthen his own powers. This person has lost his humanity long ago, no doubt. He crushed the magician of the forest and the shrine maiden like flies when he unleashed his true wrath. His power threatens to break the boundaries of Gensokyo itself. But she won't run away. This time, as a shikigami...

"I won't let you pass!" she shouts. She spreads her arms and bravely hovers before the dark wizard.

"Oho? The servant's servant dares stand in my way? Don't you realize the futility of your efforts?"

"I will fight and I will defeat you!"

The dark wizard chuckles, then breaks out into laughter. His voice echoes eerily into the devasted landscape.

"Very well then. I will make your death worthy of a thousand songs in Valhalla!"

He raises a single hand lazily at the young nekomata.

"Open... the gate..." he mutters.

Without warning, thousands of black spears start falling from the heavens. Chen barely dodges the swift projectiles that easily impaled her master. If there is anything that she is confident in, it is her speed. She manages to weave in and out of the barrage completely unscathed.

"Not bad, for a servant," the dark wizard says. "You will need to do much more than that if you are to defeat me, however."

Chen grits her teeth. She has no choice. She must use her ultimate technique. She closes her eyes and begins to focus.

"Giving up already? Well all the better then."

It took her over two hundred years to master this technique. She trained in the mountains in secret, hiding it even from Lady Yukari and her beloved Master Ran. In all honesty, the technique is still incomplete, but she has no choice. She won't have enough stamina to use this if she delays any longer.

"I will make your death swift, in respect to your bravery."

Chen opens her eyes and looks at the dark wizard in defiance.

"No..."

The focusing seal is almost complete, but this will use all of her strength. She has only one chance.

"It is your death that will be swift."

She draws out her last spell card.

"Ultimate Servant, 「Legion of Promised Victory」"

...

"And with the power of the ultimate shikigami, she defeats the dark wizard and saves Gensokyo from destruction!"

Grimnír clears his throat loudly.

"I-I see. That's great and all, but you should really get down from the table, Chen."

Chen gets down from the table, blushing slightly. The cat girl seems to have a great imagination, at the very least. What was all that about a dark wizard? And for some reason, why does he feel that he should be greatly annoyed at this, as if it was a rip-off from something he has seen before? Too bad he can't remember anything from his own past.

"And that is why I need to become strong!" Chen says with confidence. "Someday, I will protect both Master Ran and Lady Yukari all by myself!"

"That sounds great! Good to hear that you have found your own drive to succeed," he manages. A little encouragement won't hurt.

Grimnír takes a moment to examine his sack. After making sure that he hasn't lost anything, he raises his head.

"E-eh?" he says, startled. Chen is standing right beside him now, sniffing at him.

"Something smells good," she says.

He pauses. There isn't anything on his person that has any particular smell except for...

"..."

This doesn't look good. He has no doubt that Chen can take the mushrooms by force if she really wants to.

[ ] Let her have a mushroom. She says that it smells good.
[ ] Challenge her to a magician's duel. You need to distract her.
[ ] Try to talk about something else. Tell her that she must be smelling lunch.
[ ] Make up an excuse and head for the kitchen. You need to get away.
[ ] Tell her that you need to use the toilet. Escape before she can argue.
[ ] Custom