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Seiga is a newcomer to Gensokyo, at least by Mima’s standards, but that’s no reason to underestimate the hermit. No, for Seiga to be an associate of Prince Shoutoku she must be more than a thousand years old and therefore must have faced countless attempts on her life from Hell and more mundane foes. The only real surprise stems from how long she allowed Mima to proselytize before springing to action.

Speaking of, Seiga reaches into a bag at her side before withdrawing little clay vessels that Mima can’t get a good glimpse of before Seiga crushes them, releasing sealed spirits. “Well, you’re certainly confident in your abilities, now please be a dear and back it up. You’re already interrupting my night, so the least you can do is be strong enough to make breaking and binding you worth it.”

Mima clutches her sword tightly as she steels herself against the oncoming spirits. They’re barely recognizable as humans, an unknown number of years of servitude having worn away everything but their strength and the last vestiges of their truest nature.

As the first draws close, Mima slashes through its amorphous form, unraveling the immaterial being. With similar ease, she unleashes a wave of curses to tear the other spirits apart. “I share your sentiments if reversed. Though I’ve no intentions of binding your spirit, a swift journey to the Yama will suf-”

Mima is cut off as the spirits are pulled back together by their master and as one attempt to fuse with her soul and wrest control of her being. She of course is able to tear them apart again with a pulse of her magic, but that hardly seems like an achievement given the way Seiga smirks at her.

The wicked hermit feigns an apologetic tone, “My apologies for their interruption,, they're quite the spirited bunch. As you were saying?”

Mima snarls as she has to once again tear the spirits apart. “Oh, It's fine. Or at least it will be after I’m done with their master.”

Seemingly unbothered as she stretches and leans back in the air, Seiga replies, “By all means, if you can.”

This bitch, she’s lived up in a cave in the mountains for a couple of centuries and thinks she can toy with a proper Vengeful Spirit. After unraveling the souls yet again, Mima focuses and unleashes a moderately sized beam of energy. A so-called “Mini-Spark” (a term coined by Hana).

Alas, her cost-effective spell fails against Seiga’s hastily erected barrier. The Taoist nods slightly after both spells fade, “Respectable, it seems you’re at least worth the time it will take to seal you into a vessel.”

To add injury to insult, the damn spirits reformed in the meantime and were able to deliver quite the zap while Mima was distracted. It’s not enough to destabilize her manifestation and shredding them again is trivial, but still…

Tiring of this, Mima says to Genjii, “Evade the spirits if they chase you, I’m putting an end to this” before launching from the great turtle down towards Seiga.

Clutching the peach wood handle, Mima calls out, “I tire of these games, necromancer. Make with whatever Gods you believe will save you for I shall gut you from groin to teeth!”

Seiga tuts before unleashing a torrent of curses at the spirit. “Then you’ll miss the most important part.”

As she descends upon Seiga like a bird of prey, Mima evades most of the Hermit’s spells. She, of course, could have dodged the others, but that would require dramatically changing her trajectory. Being a magical being in tune with dark magic she elects to just take the hits. They’re trifling wounds at best, after all.

Such blows are well worth the opportunity to descend upon Seiga. The startled Hermit’s eyes widen and she backs up as fast as she can, but it does nothing to protect her as Mima hews up and rends the Witch apart.

Taking a moment to appreciate her grizzly handiwork, Mima looks down at the… bamboo rod slashed apart the long way. As she’s staring at the damned thing, the spirits once again attempt to possess her before she unravels them once more.

[Spoiler]Y'know, after rewriting this 3 times you'd think it would be better, alas it is not. >>46420447 This is great and I'll definitely keep it in mind while writing Marisa's meeting with Anon. The second part of this fight tonight maybe if I don't go to bed before then.[/spoiler]

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I realize Shinki and Sariel are going to show up late expecting a party wrapping up and instead are going to see the aftermath of this masterpiece..

Also, good luck to Ayaanon because that's quite the act to follow. Has anyone claimed the post-mess crying session and war planning? If not, I'd like to stake my claim.