A/N: Wow, people liked this alot more then I thought they would...

Mynameiszake: I'm glad you enjoy it. And I'm glad you enjoy my other works as well.

Arhimondex: I'm basing Akira's knowledge of Touhou under my own knowledge, so he doesn't know everything about it, so he isn't going to know every immortal out there in Gensokyo.

I am moving abit too fast, since this was meant to be a one shot I wanted to get some of the main points with comedy dealt with in a rediculous way. and just because Mokou and Kaguya's bars are at 50%, doesn't meant much.

For example, is Yukari was at 50%, she'd see him as a very personal servant, or a very dense but friendly Shinigami, while people are Flandre and Cirno could see him as an older brother figure (Even though he is possibly one of the youngest people in Gensokyo), after all, even if relationships are laballed with a percentage in this story, it doesn't mean every relationship is going to come out the same.

jwright1320: Thanks, and I am. (I'm saying this alot in this Author Note.)

Nguyn Duy Lc: Thanks, and I am.

Creepyboss: Thanks.

Yousef wick: I am, because there is alot of possitive responses to it.

Guest: Glad you like it, and honestly I'm always kind of disappointed when I look for Touhou Fanfiction, and not find any that I like, like I tried finding any good crossovers with Koishi the other day, and theres only like, to my counting, about 4 good ones, one not having her labelled but she was a main part since she was the Public Safety Commission president in Rosario + Vampire (That was actually a pretty good read).

Grey Sanders: To be fair, what characters in Touhou FLY directly at the opponent and and bat away their attacks, only one I think would do that is Youmu and maybe a few others, but their aren't enough that people would expect it. It's only happened once for most characters, and since they now of his trick, they'll expect it and not fall for it again.

And I said this before, but Akira's knowledge on Touhou is based off my own, so as I learn more stuff, he'll learn it in the story as well. That's why I didn't mention Eirin being a Hourai Immortal, and also to cover up missed information I forget to add earlier.

Last time on A Friendly Project
"Marisa... Who is he exactly?" Sakuya decided to ask, making Marisa think.

"Actually, I have no idea. He's only told me his name, the fact he's a Half-Shinigami, the fact he's immortal and apparently he's acquainted with a goddess of sorts." Marisa lamets before the Fairy's carry Akira to a quest room to recover, even if he was fine physically, his mind was still damaged abit due to that, so she was definitely going to chew him out later for that.

Chapter 2: Subterranean Animism Substitute

Akira woke up with possibly the biggest headache of his life, he raises a hand, or at least tried to, when he realised something was on it, he looked down to see Marisa sleeping, he must of been out for awhile then.

'I am so going to get chewed out for this.' he sighs before sitting up and gently flicking Marisa's forehead, causing the girl to wake up, "Akira...?" he waves at her, a moment later her eyes fill with hate and she fires a Danmaku bullet into his face, knocking him back into the bed.

"I... Probably deserve that..." he groans as he sits back up as Marisa hugs him while crying, but why was she so upset? It's not like he was going to die from what he did.

He decides to hug her back anyways, "Hey Marisa, how long have I been out?" said witch looked up at him, "it's been around 18 hours now." he looks in shock, how the hell was he out for so long, and he lost so much time to prepare for Subterranean Animism.

After awhile, Sakuya came in and saw him awake, bowed to him and disappeared, seems like she was getting someone.

A few minutes later, Remilia and Patchouli both came into the room, he understood Remilia, but why was Patchouli there?

"Hello, it's nice to meet you, Akira-san. I am the owner of this manor, Remilia Scarlet. And this here is our Librarian, Patchouli Knowledge." Akira bows his head towards them, "It is nice to meet you as well, even if you know my name already, it's only proper I introduce myself. I am Akira Seiryo, Half-Shinigami."

Remilia nods to him, before she said anything, Patchouli walked over to him, "Do you know how much damage you caused your body? If you hadn't of been immortal of would of died for certain there. And do you know what that did to your mind?! If you weren't so lucky it could of caused permanent brain damage as well as make you visually impaired."

Patchouli kept going on and on about how he messed up, after abit he raised his hand to stop her, "Alright, I get it... I messed up. It's just that I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time."

If Marisa was telling the truth, it would be around... 5 in the morning at the moment, after Marisa finally let go of him, he stands up.

Remilia spoke up in a curious tone, "Although, you are quite interesting yourself, Akira-san. Especially because I can't see any of your fate." he looks at her in confusion, how did he not have a fate? Could it be the Hourai Elixir? His gaming ability? Or something else entirely?

"Well, that's not completely true, I can see some of your fate, but only those involving other people you've befriended." he looks rather interested at that, but also saw the smug expression on her face, confusing him even more, but he decides to ignore it.

He closes his eyes and takes in a breath, suddenly the three in the room felt a pressure on them, but it fades as soon as it came, "Akira...?" he looks towards Marisa, "Yeah, what's up?" she looked at him for a moment before speaking.

"Did you just do something?" he scratches the back of his head, "Well, I just tested out my magic to see if anything felt different. why, did I do something?" he raised a brow, but now it seemed the three girls in the room were avoiding his question, odd.

He stays around and manages to befriend all important people in the Scarlet Mansion, some only barely, while others, like Hong Meiling, was at 30%.

When he leaves at around 10 AM, Marisa comes with him, but partway back to her place, he tells her he want's to go catch up on training he missed yesterday, which she agrees with.

so how here he was, in the Youkai forest all alone, so he decided to open his status, and got alot of pop ups.

Due to stressing your body physically and recovering, you've gained 10 STR, 5 VIT and 10 DEX.
Due to stressing your magic and recovering, you've gained 20 INT and 10 WIS.
Due to surviving bodily break down, you've gained 5 LUK.

Gamer Update v1.01
Added Trait: [Hourai Immortal]
Updated Trait: [Shinigami]
Added skills: [Dominating Will]

You've gained the title: [Reckless Shinigami]

...

'Oh hey, she actually did update it.' he decides to look at his new trait and title, 'Alright, fully recover HP and MP on death, makes sense. Also, no negative status effects? Would that include being drunk? Or maybe it's a mental thing that I can get rid of effects when I want to, making it so I can instantly sober up? And that title... While the fact the name is abit degrading, it gives me a higher chance of success with plans if it's reckless in nature.' he groans while looking at his stats.

Name: Akira Seiryo
Race: Half-Human/Half-Shinigami
Title: [Reckless Shinigami]

HP: 2,500/2,500 (HPR: 62 HP/m)
MP: 4,500/4,500 (MPR: 225 MP/m)

STR: 25
DEX: 30
VIT: 25
INT: 90
WIS: 50
LUK: 10

he looks at them, his physical stats were falling behind, since there was alot of people incredibly stronger then him, like Suika or Yuugi, although he doubts he can ever best an Oni in raw strength...

'What's this Dominating Will skill?' he wonders to himself while opening it.

[Dominating Will - Active - LV1 21.50%]
Allows you to push your will onto others, depending on how high your stats are, it will have less or more of an effect.
Causes [Slow] on all beings by -10%
If twice as strong, will induce [Fear] into a target.
If thrice as strong, can cause targets to be knocked out.

So... Like Naruto Killing Intent, but without wanting to kill the target... That's pretty good to be honest in this world.

Plus, if he could use it in Danmaku, then slowing down his opponent could be incredibly useful.

Also, he seemed to have got his Shinigami Trait to level up, he checks it and it seems to award triples points instead of double, and it now happens twice as normal instead of x1.5 as normal.

That would make training alot easier, he decides to look around for abit, and finds a chopped down log all alone, he test to see if he could lift it with his 25 strength, and could barely do it, so he decides to lay down and start bench pressing the giant log to help increase his strength.

He continued to do it until his muscles ached, in which case he rolls the log off to the side and looks at his STR and VIT, as both went up.

STR was now 35 and VIT was now 30, it wasn't much, but now all his stats - minus Luck - were 30 or above.

He decides it'll probably be a good idea to practice Danmaku to increase his magic skill, so he does that for a while before he hears something in the tree line, he turns to see a... small child with a green bow...

'Oh, hey it's Cirno.' this could actually be interesting, since he believed in a Danmaku match, Cirno was around his level.

"Hey! I challenge you to a Danmaku Battle!" he sweat drops before smiling and floating into the air, "Alright, let's see what you got." he summons his scythe and was at the ready, Cirno wastes no time firing a barrage of Danmaku at him, it was projectiles of ice, he uses his scythe to spin around and bat the Ice away while also using it to fire Danmaku.

The higher levels in magic made it easier to do more complex base Danmaku patterns, and made it easier to concentrate on dodging or blocking in his case while firing Danmaku.

Which made him think, if he maxed it out, would he fire Danmaku subconsciously? he doubt it, but it would be interesting.

He flies upwards to avoid a sword of ice Cirno had made to try and hit him, he pulled a spell card out of no where and crushes it in his hand, making it shatter, "Reaper's Deal 'Indiscriminate Blade'!" he swings at Cirno, who noticed the line and was actually smarter then Marisa for a second and flew out of the way to avoid it as it grew is size and flashed bright before fading.

'First time seeing it and she dodged it, nice...' he would complement her, but they were in a match right now, so he'll save it for later.

They kept going at it for a few minutes before Cirno eventually get's hit and sighs, since she probably went for one hit matches.

Akira smiles at her while landing, "Hey, those were some pretty nice moves out there. Name's Akira Seiryo, what's yours?" he had his scythe away by now, making him slightly less terrifying to look at.

Cirno floats in the air and smiles, "Thanks, it's because I'm Cirno, The Strongest!" he laughs slightly, and pats her on the head, "Sure thing. While you may be strong (Abnormally so for fairies), you still lack the tactics to put that strength to good use, how about I try and help you so you can become stronger?" he offered.

About five minutes later, he was helping Cirno improve her Spell Cards, and her movement while in battle, which she was rather happy about, and thanked him and said that she'll challenge him another day before flying off to who knows where.

Now that that's over with, time to accept all those skills from 'Mimicry of Skills'.

Due to advancing your friendship with [Remilia Scarlet], [Patchouli Knowledge], [Sakuya Izayoi], [Hong Meiling], [Koakuma] and [Cirno], you've gained the skills [Unarmed Combat], [Knife Combat], [Magic: fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun, and moon], [Manipulation: Time, Space], and [Devil Shout]

Due to your nature as a Shinigami, [Knife Combat] has changed to [Scythe Combat]

Alright, those first four skills made sense, Hong Meiling and Sakuya did fight with their fist and weapons respectfully, the magic was obviously from Patchouli, Manipulation of Time and Space was Sakuya and, but what was Devil shout?

[Devil Shout - Active - LV1 0.00%]
Allows the user to shout to summon Devil's to their aid.
Last: 10 minutes
Cost: 1,000 MP per summon

Oh... Wait, if he was right, couldn't Remilia do this?

He sighs, it lasted 10 minutes, so maybe he should try it out to see what he could summon and maybe have a sparing partner for a few minutes?

He was still in the Youkai Forest, so it would probably be a bad idea to do it near Devils like the Scarlet Sisters, since Vampire was a sub-species of devils.

Akira sighs, maybe he just won't use it, not like he needs to summon anything anyways.

Although, if he did train the skill, having an army on command would also be nice...

He shakes his head, there wasn't any need for an army, Danmaku battles are done one on one, plus he wasn't Naruto, no need to defeat enemies with overwhelming force.

The Shinigami sighs before looking at the sky, it was around midday, maybe he should go visit Eientei before heading back to Marisa?

He nods to himself, becoming better friends with the residents of Eientei would be a good idea, so he flies over to the Bamboo forest and sees a a torrent of flames shoot into the sky, Kaguya and Mokou were probably fighting again.

He flies down and lands in Eientei's main outdoor area, where Eirin and Reisen were watching the fight, he waves a hand towards them, which they wave back before focusing on the fight.

After about ten minutes, Mokou saw Akira out of the corner of her eye, so she yelled out, "Hey Kaguya! let's stop for a moment, Akira is here." KAguya looks down and spots him as well, the two nod in some sort of neutral truce of some kind.

The two flies down towards him, and he greets them happily, and apologises for not being able to visit yesterday.

the three sit down and talk, while the two female immortals seemed to be butting heads every so often, he didn't pay it much mind, as he knew they were enemies and are only getting along for the moment since he was here.

He manages to become better friends with Reisen and Eirin, and even met Tewi, after abit he leaves, but apparently Mokou and Kaguya gave him gifts, he got some cake and some Yakitori from them. which he thanked them for before flying off to Marisa.

He lands at the front door and noticed it slightly open, probably expecting him, he suddenly had the primal urge to meme while kicking open the door singing All Star by Smash Mouth, but he does do so...

Instead, he kicks down the door and yells, "I got us Cake and Chicken!"

So, after eating, he had a few hours of reading to do, which would take up the rest of his day since he missed yesterdays.

He only stopped reading to have dinner, and he read far into the night, since he did physical training today, he didn't see a need to sneak out to train some more, so after reading until 2 in the morning, he goes to sleep.

It has been two weeks now since he visited the Scarlet Devil mansion, and he made sure to visit both Eientei, The Hakurei Shrine, and the Mansion many times during the two weeks.

He made sure by the end of the first week he returned the books and rented them would for the remaining time, which Marisa was happy enough to give him money for.

Akira met a few new people, namely Alice, Flandre, and Suika.

He had trained his stats and skills as well to be better, now other then luck all of his stats were 50 or above, but it did get much harder to train afterwards.

Just then he saw something in the distance, it was a giant Geyser shooting up.

'Seems like SA is starting now, I'll need to go to Hakurei Shrine to meet up with Reimu and Marisa, but wait... Didn't those two build a hot spring on it?' he sighs before landing at the Hakurei Shrine and waving at the two, "Yo! So I'm guessing you saw it too?"

They nod, "We were going to go over and investigate it just now, since this is the first possible incident to happen while you are here, do you wish to come with?"

He smiles and nods, and with that, the three sets off towards the Geyser.

Once they get close by they begin investigating the area around it, they noticed how spirits were floating out of where the Geyser is.

For some reason, he was able to tell what kind of spirits they were, maybe it was because of him being half Shinigami, "Earth Spirits, odd... Those shouldn't be coming up in such large numbers..." he muses to himself while the girls talked.

After abit they flew down to see what was going on, and Akira was going to try talking to the spirits, "Excuse me, could you perhaps tell me what's going on?" he asked one that floated towards them.

"..." he floated off a moment later, making him sigh, "Well, guess they're not willing to answer." he was about to try again, but Marisa spoke up, "Hey, look! The Geyser is forming a hot spring!" he looked to where she was pointing and saw that there was indeed a hot spring forming in a small hole in the ground.

"Well, that's interesting..." he rubs his chin in thought, he didn't know how this was going to go compared to the canon route, but he was interested in what will happen if he express his interest in going down when the Youkai try conscripting Reimu or Marisa into solving it.

'Ah... But then I'd have to face off against people like Yuugi, Utsuho, Satori and... I think Reimu will still get Koishi since she goes to Moriya shrine to try talking with the goddesses there.' he sighs while looking at Reimu and Marisa comically talk about whether or not to build a Spa there, which was quite funny to say the least.

After awhile, they manage to do so, and the Residents of the human village and a few Youkai enjoyed it before he visited The Hakurei Shrine to see Yukari talking to Reimu and Marisa about going down to investigate.

He waves slightly while walking towards them, "Yo, did I miss something? And sorry for asking, but who are you Miss?" he directed that last part to Yukari, who laughed slightly.

"Oh~? You must be this Akira I've heard abit about, it's nice to meet you, I'm Yukari Yakumo." he bows his head to her lightly before scratching his chin.

"Yukari... Yukari... Ah! That's right!" he clears his throat for a moment, "Ami told me to tell you 'Hi'." Yukari looked mildly shocked.

"Oh, you know Ami-chan? You must be rather important to have gotten her attention." he laughs slightly, "Well, she is the reason I'm in Gensokyo to begin with, so I'm at least acquainted with her. But she is rather nice, guiding me here to find a new home and all that." Yukari nods, "Yes, she often had a soft spots for half Youkai, often saying 'their the balance between humans and Youkai', which while true, is a bit repetitive when she's the goddess of balance."

He laughs, and the two continued talking for abit while Reimu and Marisa looked on in mild shock.

"I-Is Yukari getting along with Akira...? Better yet, they seem to be good friends already." Marisa said, making Reimu speak up, "No, I know the Gap Hag, she's up to something..."

After abit Akira got the notification for Yukari being added... and it was at 1%.

'Granted, I didn't expect it to be easy to get the ability to manipulate Reality, but that's abit... Low...' he doesn't give any outwardly reaction to his disappointment.

"Well, since you're new here, you've had awhile to train, so why not try resolving this incident?" he stares at Yukari in mild shock, while everyone elses jaw was slightly open.

'I mean, if I go then I'll have the ability to meet more people... Namely Utsuho, but I don't think I can win against any of them... Unless I manage to convince them peacefully? That could work for a few people, but some others will be a hassle...' he nods to himself before speaking up, "I'm willing to give it a try, if anything, if I gather information for Reimu or Marisa, then if I fail they can have an easier time in there."

He was Immortal, so it was logical he went first as the scout, that must he what Yukari is thinking, but told him to try resolve it himself to get his spirits up, "And, on the off chance I don't need to fall back, what am I meant to be doing? You say resolve the Incident, but we have no knowledge on what's down there. At least I don't."

Yukari laughs slightly, "Well, think of it as a game, go and investigate what's happening, whose causing it, and put a stop to it if you can, if not, come back and tell us what you find."

Akira nods before looking at the spot where the Geyser shoots up, "Well, I guess I'll be going then." he was about to fly off, but Yukari stopped him, "Do you not want assistance?" he stops for a moment and thinks.

"Is it possible for you to see what I'm doing? And if so, can you set it up so everyone can? This may get rid of the need of having to retell my information." Yukari nods, "Ah, that's simple to do, anything else?"

He shakes his head, "I appreciate it, but for my first Incident, while it may sound arrogant, I want to at least try it solo." Yukari nods before managing to set up a TV that gives a Cinimatic view of him, and translates what he hears to the TV for audio.

With that, he sets off towards the Geyser and flies down to what lies below.

The moment he got a distance down, he saw a bunch of fairies and a few Sunflower Fairies attacked him, he managed to dodge the attacks easily and, since they were fairies, he decide to pump more magic then usual to one shot them to save himself the trouble.

After abit Rocks seem to start falling from the ceiling, so he dodge does and shoot at a few more fairies before suddenly from above, a green haired girl in a bucket appears, and with no words exchanged, they begin battle.

He was able to handle all of the normal patterns she used with ease as he fired barrage after barrage at the bucket girl, after awhile, she uses a spell card, which he manages to easily avoid before managing to knock her out from the Danmaku bullets.

"Alright, on to the next..." he hadn't even pulled his scythe out yet, he continues on wards, shooting fairies as he sees them, but he gets stopped by a voice, "Oh? A human? How unsual." he looks forward to see Yamame, an Earth Spider.

"Did you come to play underground? They're having a big feast down there now. So they won't turn away anyone, so go have fun." the Earth Spider said to the half Shinigami.

He speaks up with a smile, "Ah, sorry to bother you miss, so I'll be on my way to the feast." he bows his head politely to the Earth Spider before flying ahead, he sighs, he managed to avoid one of the stage bosses.

The cave seems to have a faint green lighting instead of the light from the surface, he didn't know how far he was in, but he didn't question it.

He continues blasting fairies and now the Yin-Yang Orbs trying to blast him, which weren't alive, as such he doesn't care if he blast them apart in one shot.

After awhile, he sees a girl with wavy blonde hair and green eyes, already knowing who this is, he knew he wasn't getting past her without a fight.

He manages to above the first barrage, but she uses a spell card afterwards to create floating green magic that stayed in place but created more towards him, forcing him to fly forward.

After manage to dodge it, the girl left, but he had a feeling that was the fake one.

Akira continues onwards, blasting fairies and Yin-Yang Orbs without a care, this was actually kind of dull, and they were using Danmaku like it was Lunatic mode... Is this what Reimu felt like? Is this why she was so apathetic to some things?

He sees Parsee up ahead, "Oh, are you a human? What does a human want in the former Capital?" he uses the information from before to answer, "I heard about a feast going on, so I was coming to take part in it." he answered casually.

"I see... I'm Parsee, I over see this bridge, however, I cannot let you pass." he sighs, there goes the idea of not fighting, "Very well, let's do this the old fashion way."

He starts firing a barrage of Danmaku while Parsee makes large blast of Danmaku that were difficult to avoid, he'd probably have to use a Spell Card here, but he'll hold out until needed.

Once he hit her enough, she used a spell card, which created green orbs that left behind flowers which he had to avoid, after the spell card she uses more large blast of Danmaku and then uses another spell card.

This one created a second version of her that couldn't be injured, and both the original and the copy shot Danmaku, after managing to cancel that one, she instantly goes into another spell card, which launched kunais that seemed to explode on contact and shot Danmaku out of the explosions.

After hitting her enough, she finally went down, he huffs, that was slightly tiring, but oh well, time to continue on.

Back at the Hakurei Shrine, a large assortment of people were gathered, some with snacks watching Akira battle through wave after wave of Fairies, Yin-Yang Orbs, and getting into three Danmaku duels with other people without getting a single hit or using a spell card.

"Jeez, he really has improved, hasn't he?" Marisa said, she hadn't had a duel with him in awhile, so she didn't know how much he has improved.

"Yes, he has... And he isn't even trying, look." Yukari zoomed in the camera to show his face, which was bored.

"Holy cow, how good did he get with only about two and a half weeks of training?" Suika asked, Reimu had explained to her about how he was pathetic, but the speed of which he was getting stronger excited the Oni.

"I'm not too sure, but I believe it ties in with his ability." Remilia states while sipping some tea before looking at Yukari, "He doesn't know we're all watching, does he?" literally everyone he has made friends with were in the main room of the Hakurei Shrine watching the TV.

Mokou and Kaguya were at the front holding a custom made body pillow of Akira that Eirin made, and no one was willing to comment on it, as they didn't want to piss the two immortals off.

Back with Akira, he had just encounter Yuugi and the two were fighting, but after abit they stop and start talking.

"I like you! We'll have lots more fun, so keep following until you can't take anymore!" He smiles at Yuugi, "I apologise, but I didn't come here for drinking." he tries to fly around, but Yuugi gets in his way, "umm... Ma'am, I have important business to take care of, how about after I take care of it, I'll come back and we can have a drinking game?" Yuugi seems to consider it before nodding, "Sure, just to make sure, what's your name? I'm Yuugi Hoshiguma."

"I'm Akira Seiryo, Half-Shinigami, You must be an Oni, right? Perhaps if you help me by answering a few questions, I'll even be the one buying." Yuugi smiles, "I knew I liked you!" he pats him on the back rather heavily.

"Alright, so you have any questions?" he nods, "yeah, I'm down here because of Geyser that shot up and is releasing Earth Spirits onto the surface, do you know a possible cause for this?"

"Huh? They're pouring out? let's see... A Geyser probably means it's the Palace of the Earth Spirits." he nods, "Palace of the Earth Spirits? Sounds pretty important." he looks around and see- basically a palace, "I'm gonna assume it's that." he points at it, getting a nod from Yuugi.

"Before you go, how about a short match?" the Oni grins at him before she jumps back and fires a barrage of Danmaku, he sighs before raising his hand, "I am the blade of my Scythe, [Rho Aias]!" When he asked Marisa, she said it was just a really advanced Barrier that could take a hell of a beating, so it classified as a Spell Card.

He glares lightly before speaking again, "Immortality is my body, and magic my blood, [Reinforcement]!" he used a lesser form of what he did with Sakuya about two weeks ago while summoning his scythe.

His scythe looked plenty different now, instead of an metal blade, it was an ethereal red blade off of a techno looking scythe head, honestly, he didn't like to look of it, it's why he hasn't been using it until now, but hey, he needs to be serious against Yuugi.

He uses the scythe to cut through the magic coming his way and made his way up to Yuugi and prepared to punch her, she raised a hand to block the punch, but she was actually surprised when it pushed her hand back only a cm.

'This guy's actually pretty strong for a non-Oni.' she thought to herself while grinning, she was about to punch him back, but he grabbed onto her hand and flipped over her, and aimed a heavy blow of magic at her back.

"Playing dirty, huh?" she grins at him before he dodged as she punched right above his head, the shock-waves that came off it honestly scared him, that would kill him in one shot most likely.

He flew away while firing a barrage of bullets and defending himself with his scythe, this was getting stupidly hard, maybe he'd have to pull out that recreation he managed to make, but he'll be tired afterwards.

'No, I can't make another spell card of it for a week after using it, I need to use it sparingly...' because of the power of the spell, it took time before he could make one again, Marisa told him that was technically the first spell to behave as such.

He pulls a card out and calls out, "Death Sign [Reaper's Sentence]!" he crushes it in his hand and swings his scythe.

Suddenly, over a hundred different beams of light surrounds Yuugi, Akira holds his free hand out and snaps his fingers, causing each of them to flash brightly and slice at anything near them.

He looks at Yuugi, who only had a small cut on her cheek, "Man, you really are going all out... But, you drew blood, so I guess it's your win. So congrats! Since you're this powerful, I'm sure you'll have no problem at the Palace of the Earth Spirits!" she grins up at him happily while he got the notification that he got her as a friend, and at 15% no less.

"That was a great match, you even made me summon my scythe." he unsummons it and stretches, "I'll make my way to the Palace now, I'll catch ya later, okay?" he waves goodbye to the Oni before flying off to the Palace, he sighs, he was gonna have to fight Satori, which concerned him slightly.

He flies through the entrance to the castle and sees a two tailed cat, 'Ah, it's Rin.' he dodges and manages to defeat the cat and starts destroying a few Orbs before Rin shows up again, after defeating her a second time and defeating more fairies, he stops as he sees someone fly over to him, a moment later, she looked at him in mild shock, but decides to say nothing about why.

"A Visitor? May I ask why you're here?" he knew she could read his mind, but the fact she was asking him was nice.

"Ah, a Geyser suddenly formed up on the surface and with it a bunch of Earth Spirits started to pile out, I came down to investigate the cause of it and possibly prevent it if possible... Ah, my bad, I forgot it's rude to not introduce yourself, I'm Akira Seiryo, Half-Shinigami. And you are?"

"I'm Satori Komeiji, the master of the Palace of the Earth Spirits. You said something about a Geyser? Hm, a geyser... I wonder if one of my pets did something they shouldn't have again?"

"Pet? Do you mean like that cat that could fire Danmaku, because you got some crazy pets if that's normal here." Satori laughs abit, "Yes, they can be rather odd at times... Give me a second... Oh, what is she thinking?" Satori muttered to herself.

"Perhaps we can talk for abit before I send you on your way? It seems one of my pets are the cause, and I'd like to inform you as to what she's capable of." Akira shrugs, hey, he didn't need to fight Satori, so that's a bonus.

They go and sit at a table and Satori asked if he'd like some tea, which he denies before spawning two tea cups for the two.

Back at Hakurei shrine, people were trying to convince Mokou and Kaguya from destroying the place, and some saying that they're dealing with it too, confusing some of the people Akira didn't know so well.

After a pleasant chat, she gives directions to the next area he had to go to, and also called her cat out of hiding, "Now Rin, don't stop the man from doing his job, okay?"

Huh, guess he had another free pass on a boss... Seriously, why doesn't Reimu/Marisa/anyone never talk things out? He conserved so much energy for the final fight.

He bows to Satori, "Thank you for the hospitality, I'll take my leave now." she nods to him before he flies off, towards the Remains of the Blazing Hell.

"Damn it's hot... And..." he looks down at the endless fire, "Glad I can fly, being immortal in there does not sound like a good time." he groans before firing at more Orbs and after abit, evil spirits trying to harm him.

After a couple of minutes, he reaches the deepest part of the underground city, and damn it was hot, he actually took his jacket off and tied it around his waist, giving a pretty good view for those watching at the shrine.

'That's weird, why is my friend ship with everyone not maxed going up abit... Minus those I've just met... Odd.' he muses to himself before continuing for awhile, defeating Crows/Ravens, he doesn't remember which it was... Probably Ravens.

He was honestly surprised he managed to get this far on his own, and he felt pretty confident about himself, now, all that's left is to enter the Nuclear Furnace and face Utsuho...

'Side note: Am I immune to Radioactivity?' he thinks to himself before entering, "Well, the Hourai Elixir makes it so I'm immune to most disease, so Radiation poisoning should be fine... I'm probably gonna have a headache later though, aren't I...?"

He slumps over before entering, "I finally found you!" he looks over to see the culprit of this whole mess, Utsuho Reiuji, better known as Okuu...

'I am so going to spoil her once I become her friend...' he decides to let her speak, "You're the weird person from above everyone's talking about, right? I heard you were coming to find me but I couldn't find you anywhere."

He raises a hand, "If I had stayed at the palace, would you have come to me? Just checking." she nods before continuing, "You're trying to stop the geyser, right?"

He nods, "yes and no, namely because Reimu would have my ass if I took away the Geyser since the spa would stop working, I'm mostly here to try find a way to stop the Spirits from leaking out to the surface."

"Oh... Is that it?" Utsuho suddenly looked alot less threatening, as she was smiling, "For a second, I thought we'd have to fight or something, but if you wanna do that, I'm sure Mistress could figure something out." Akira looks slightly bewildered, so he decides to speak up to see if this could work.

"Although, the Geyser is pretty big, and does cause quite abit of damage to it's surroundings, is it possible to lessen the amount at least, or is that not possible?" he asked her, making her think for a moment.

"Well... one of the ways would either slow down production or make multiple exhaust holes... But anyways, we need to fight." whelp, there goes the idea of not fighting.

"Um... Why?" Utsuho freezes for a moment before grinning, "I don't know, we just do!" he sighs, this may of been Ami pulling strings here. she's probably just doing this so he can prove to the few watching at the shrine how much he's progressed, or maybe it was a a test from Ami to see how he was going.

"Alright then, let's get started." he summons his scythe and prepared himself, to dodge an all surrounding blast of Danmaku three times in a row before she uses a Spell Card which fired large balls of magic with small ones flying in between, he kept firing to disable the spell card.

After beating it, she starts to fly around while shooting beams of magic at him which he dodged rather expertly, and after awhile she uses another spell card.

This one created giant balls of magic, which he was starting to think were suns given the heat coming off them, and them them towards him, but they burnt out and shrank quickly, giving him ample chance to dodge them while firing at her.

He manages to break the spell as well, before having to dodge a crisscross pattern of Danmaku three times before the next spell card.

Akira was surprised he hasn't been hit yet, considering everything.

Suddenly he had to dodge a total of ten giant red balls of magic circling Utsuho, while also avoiding the smaller projectiles trying to throw him off, he couldn't dodge it all while shooting, so it was abit difficult to cancel the card, so he he had to wait until it was done.

She starts flying around while shooting beams again, then surrounding shots of yellow translucent orbs, which she repeated twice while he shot at her.

Suddenly, she flies off and a ring appears around him, he thinks for a moment before thinking, 'Oh crap.' the ring suddenly increases in size and shoots off projectiles, he actually got hit a few times and dear lord they hurt!

He manages to get out of it, but most of his shirt was now destroyed and he spit some blood out, but a second after it left his mouth, the blood evaporated.

"Well, it seems like this fights about to end, don't you think so?" Utsuho was grinning at him, "Yeah, I'll show you the Ultimate Power!" he laughs slightly, he hoped this worked.

"How about a game? I have something which I would consider the Ultimate Spell, so how about it, the Ultimate Power against the Ultimate Spell, which will win?" he pulls a Spell Card out of his pocket, Utsuho seemed to consider it for a moment before readily agreeing, as she wanted to prove her power to him.

"Alright, this'll take a moment, so could you be kind enough to not attack?" another agreement, whelp, looks like he was ready to go...

The card began floating in his hand as magic began to surround him, he only had one shot after casting this, and it was defined by a random chance, so he hoped it worked.

"I am the Blade of my scythe... Immortality is my body, and magic my blood... I have reaped over a thousand Souls..." he begins the chant.

Back at The Hakurei Shrine, they were actually panicking, because they could feel the magic Akira was producing, which should be impossible for how far he was from them.

"Unaware of beginning, nor aware of the end... Went through Madness to perform my duty... Yet, my life holds no meaning if it can't end..." he activates his Shinigami eye's while brandishing his scythe with his free hand.

"I'll remain alone on a hill of corpses... [Soul Reaper Works]!" everything turns black for a moment.

Back at the Hakurei shrine, all of the magic they felt disappeared, and the TV seemed to loose connection, which Yukari messed with for a moment and it manages to reconnect, what they saw next shocked them slightly.

Akira was on a literal hill of corpse, looking down at Utsuho, whose face seemed to perfectly represent fear.

They listen to him speak, "This is the Soul Reaper Works, a representation of my past... Every being I've killed has had their soul copied and placed in this reality. This is what I meant by the Ultimate Spell, one that over writes reality itself."

Yukari actually looked impressed, but a few of the others seemed to have the same expression on their face as Utsuho, maybe it was an effect of the spell Akira cast.

"Now then..." Akira grins slightly, "Shall we begin?" he begins making his way towards Utsuho, but out of pure fear, she start to try flying away, but her body was shaking so much she couldn't do so.

She fell to her knees while clenching her chest, she was finding it hard to breath, unknown to her, Akira breathed out a sigh of relief.

'Good, looks like the effect of Soul Reaper Works activated, And it looks like it was the 10% chance one as well... I kinda feel bad for her, but she won't be able to listen well enough to know I don't mean harm with the [Dread] status effect on... Whelp, I might as well finish this.'

He starts making his way down the hill with his scythe rested on his shoulder and his eyes glowed red as the sky slowly turned pitch black as light faded.

"St-Stay b-back!" she was trying to crawl away, but her body wasn't listening to her, and she was crying that it was actually tearing him apart having to do this.

He right in front of her now, and raised his scythe, Utsuho cried out for help while closing her eyes, at that moment nothing but his scythes blade and eyes could be seen, he spoke up, "Don't worry... You won't die." before swinging down and impaling her with his scythe.

Reality distorts for a moment before Akira was back at the Nuclear Furnace carrying an unconscious Utsuho while looking unsure of himself.

"She's going to be terrified of me for this, I can tell." he says that before flying back to the Palace of Earth Spirits.

Those watching were disturbed greatly at what just happened, the kind and friendly Akira had just seemed like death itself for a few moments, but they listen to his next sentence carefully, "Damn, it took alot of magic to not kill her with the Soul Reaper Works, I'm glad I manage to get a non-lethal version of it, but having to refill their entire magic reserve is not ideal."

Yukari switches the TV off before speaking, "I think we've seen enough... Reimu, when he gets back, tell him I'm interested in that Last Spell Card of his." Yukari finishes before stepping into a gap that closed behind her.

"Great, he's got the hag's attention..." Reimu sighs before yelling out to everyone, "Alright, all of you it's time for you to get out of my shrine!" after a few moments, everyone leaves to go back to their homes.

Back with Akira, he was currently being scolded by Satori for scaring her pet so much.

After awhile, and managing to talk it out with Satori after she understands why he did so, which confused him, shouldn't she be able to read his mind to get that information?

He doesn't think anymore on it, but he decides to watch over Utsuho with Rin in company until she woke up.

"AHH!" Speaking of which, she's up.

"Ah, you're awake, I would say good morning, but I think it's already past lunch." he smiles at her, she stares at him for a few moment before tearing up, "I-I'm Bewwy sowwy~!" he looked on in mild interest, This oddly enough reminded him of Shamiko form that one anime.

He pets her lightly on the head, "Hey, hey. If anyone should be apologising, it's me. I probably scared you half to death with that final spell." she freezes up, seemed the effects of [Dread] on sentient beings was much worse then on common animals, since it can cause mental trauma.

'I need a way to help her out...' he thinks for a moment before nodding to himself and looking to Rin, "Hey, you mind watching her? I'm gonna go ask Satori-san about something." getting a nod from the Kasha as he leaves the room, if he had bothered to listen to what they were starting to speak about, he would hear Utsuho ask very childishly why he was there, which Rin would of explained that their Mistress took an interest in him.

He finds Satori a few rooms over, "Ah, Satori-san, would you mind if-" he looks to see Koishi talking with with her, "Oh, I see you're busy, should I leave?" he points to the door, making the Satori wave him off, "No, no. It's fine, I was just talking with my sister." he nods before coming over to them, "Satori-san's sister? Nice too meet you, I'm Akira Seiryo."

Koishi looked at him for a moment before tilting her head, "You look funny." he recoils, as if physically hurt from three simple words, he decides to play it off comically by leaning against the nearest wall and holding his chest, "I had no idea words could hurt so badly..." that got a laugh out of Koishi, who flew over to him, "Ne, Ne, Mister! You could see me, even if I didn't allow it, how'd you do it!" she looked rather excited, but he was confused greatly.

"Huh? I'm not doing anything. Why wouldn't I be allowed to see you?" Koishi laughs and flies around him while hugging his neck from behind, "Sis, Sis! This guy is cool!" the other Satori simple speaks in a bland tone, "Koishi-chan, I think you're annoying Akira-san-" "Actually, I'm rather fine with this. I had to deal with similar stuff with my little sister when we were young. So I can handle a hyperactive kid." he interrupts with a kind smile.

"So, Koishi-san, you seem very happy. May I ask why?" he turns his head and glances at the girl hanging off his neck while smiling, "You're the first person who doesn't have trouble seeing me! Can I be your friend?" he hums before nodding, "Sure, I don't mind."

You've gained Koishi Komeiji as a friend
Progress: [18%]

He turns to Satori and speaks up, "It seems Utsuho is rather scared of me, I was wondering if you had any idea as to what I could do to try and make her not terrified of my presences?" Satori thinks for a moment before shaking her head, "No, this is something you should manage yourself."

He sighs, it was worth a shot at least, "Alright, now I need to brain storm... What would a Hell Raven with god like powers like...?" he mutters to himself while pacing, paying no heed to the laughing girl getting swung around by his neck.

He stops and looks at Koishi, who was smiling at him, "Any ideas?" Koishi sticks her tongue out at him, making him sigh, seemed like she sided with Satori on this.

'Let's see... Utsuho has the mentality of a child or a house hold pet in human form. So if I play with her and not use any powers for awhile, that may work... Let's check something with Satori first.' he turns to the girl drinking tea, "Hey, Satori-san?" getting a hum he continues, "Do you know how long that Nuclear Furnace or whatever can operate without Utsuho being there? I think touring her around Gensokyo might at least help in some fashion."

Satori hums, "Then how about you tour my sister around with her? The two of you may have fun." Akira shrugs, he didn't have anything better to do, so Satori calls in her pets, The little Hell Raven was glancing at Akira in fear every now and then.

"Okuu, I need to ask, how long can the furnace function without you?" She was confused by her Mistresses question, but answered her, "About 4 days..." Satori nods before turning to Akira, "Akira-san, I leave Okuu and my sister in your care for the next three days, I expect them back by atleast lunch on the fourth." he nods to her while Okuu was now shaking in fear.

"No problem, I'll make so to take care of them." he turns to them before looking around, "Hold on a second, Yukari, you there?" a moment later, a gap opens up by him, and Yukari's head pops out of it, "Oh my, I can't believe you found me so easily. Fufufu~"

"That laugh isn't foreboding at all... As to how I found out you were listening, took an educated guess from our interaction before I came down here. Thought you'd be watching what I'm going after all that." Yukari laughs slightly, "Well, you're smarter then I gave you credit for, Akira-san~"

Ignore her... she's just freaking you out, It is Yukari after all.

"Anyways, would you mind opening a gap to the surface for the three of us?" she thinks for a moment before nodding, a gap opens behind her and she steps through, Okuu was hesitant, but her Mistress told her too, so she shouldn't disobey, and Koishi was now sitting on Akira's shoulders while playing with his hair while they went through.

On a lone hill in-between the human village and the forest of Eientei, it was relatively large, and looked like a house built for a family.

"Alright, in we go." he gets a set of key's out of his pocket and uses one to unlock the door and open it for the two to walk inside.

This was his house, one where everyone basically knew about, since he made no effort in hiding it.

He closes the door and locks it so no one tries sneaking in, he learnt his mistake by doing so when a certain witch was nearby.

"Alright, Welcome to my place, it's relatively new, so please don't break anything. Just two things, no magic indoors and don't raid the kitchen. I have both of those rules because of a certain Witch." he grumbles out that last part.

He was about to say something else, but they here a growl of sorts, Akira turns to see Utsuho holding her stomach in mild embarrassment, "well, I was gonna ask what everyone wanted to do, but I guess food it is then."

He goes into the kitchen and opens the fridge, now you may ask, how does he have a working fridge even if theres no electricity around? Simple answer, magic, long answer...

Due to the nature of magical energy like Light and Heat, he was able to expedite the process alittle and used it to make an infinite magical source that limited it self at certain levels to just run what was installed on the network, sad part is that he had to configure all technology to actually work on magic, which was alot harder then one would think. Seriously, he had to pull out that side course he did at school in mechanics to get it working.

The first attempt, the compressor that constricts the refrigerant vapour as too over powered on the first attempt, blowing it up. once he fixed that problem, he had to figure out how to cool the vapour down to make it a liquid, which was actually easy, he just became better friends with Cirno and used ice magic, it would have infinite magical energy, so that wasn't a problem.

And then the now liquid refrigerant was too high pressure, making it get stuck and him having to take it apart to clean for six attempts before he got it right, thankfully the refrigerant absorbed the heat in the fridge just fine, but he had slight problems with it evaporating into gas again to restart the cycle, but he got that in only two attempts.

...

This was all for a working god damn fridge...

Honestly, he felt it would of been easier to just do things the Gensokyo way, but when Rinnosuke said he got a broken one in stock, he had to get it.

'Now if only I had access to clean water for a proper bath and a sink... I guess I can make a rudimentary one at a later date, I understand how those work, and I can make it with Metal, Water and Heat magic...' making the physical sink would be easy if he didn't have a turning faucet, he was never good with turning stuff, the water pressure would be hard, but having it linked to a spell to create water quickly to forcefully pressure it out would work.

The Heat magic would only be for when he needed hot water, but he hat no idea how he would set that up yet.

'Well, A project for later, I'll take a crack at it tomorrow.' after he finished, he got everything he needed to made some sandwiches for the two, he didn't know Koishi's favourite, but Okuu was a Raven, so she'll probably like the ham slice he got.

He comes out and gives the two their sandwiches before sitting down with a sigh, this would be a long three days...

After Lunch, he had them tour around the house to get them used to it, and he had told them under no situation are they allowed to go into his room without expressed permission from him alone.

Koishi listened, but tried to look into the room from outside, only to realise it was the only room in the house without a window, meaning there may of been something devious in there.

So most of the first day was Koishi trying to talk Akira into letting her into his room, which he denied multiple times while explaining she wouldn't like what she saw.

This only made Utsuho's mind run wild, 'What is he keeping so tightly hidden... He's a shinigami, maybe he collects souls and keeps them locked away, unable to move on?! Is he gonna do the same to me?!'

Yeah... This wasn't going well.

They went outside, but Okuu didn't want to speak up about what she wanted to do, so Koishi said she 'wanted to meet fun people', which made him think for a second...

'Does Koishi know Flandre in canon...?' he didn't know everything about Touhou, and he was actually quite shocked when he learnt Eirin was also a Hourai Immortal like him, Mokou and Kaguya, and he definitely didn't know every character, the girl who runs the book renting store was only one example.

Back to the terrifying thought of Koishi and Flandre meeting, he decides against it until he knew they wouldn't cause chaos everywhere, he decides to instead go to Eientei

He lands there and shouts, "Hey Princess!" he grins as Kaguya comes out of the main building with slightly messy hair, he must of scared her slightly.

He actually had fun scaring his fellow immortals, so it became a hobby that Mokou and Akira took part in, namely because he found it fun, and she could mess with Kaguya.

"Hello Akira, I see you're back from the Incident." he tilts his head, "How'd you know about that? I only thought Reimu, Marisa, Suika, Yukari, and a few others did?" Kaguya looks away for a moment, "I heard it from Marisa-san about an hour ago." he nods, that made sense, he gestures to Utsuho and Koishi.

"Anyways, these two are here above ground to experience the world of Gensokyo, and also so I can pay back for my blunder while down there." Kaguya nods to them, "I hope you two are enjoying it so far." Koishi laughed slightly while doing a hand stand on Akira, and Utsuho was still scared of Akira, not that Kaguya blamed her, she got abit scared from that spell he used, but he couldn't tell him.

"Anyways, I actually need to go check on something abit personal for awhile, and I kind of forgot about it while agreeing to take care of these two, could you maybe have someone watch over then till I get back? I won't be more then two hours." Kaguya readily agrees to his request, so he tilts his head, causing Koishi to tilt off of him, she did a spin to land on her feet, making Akira clap slightly.

"Alright, you two behave for Kaguya-san and those who live in Eientei, I'll only be a few hours. So I'll reward you two if you're good, okay?" Koishi nods and nudged Okuu to nod as well, albeit hesitantly.

He waves before flying off towards Youkai Mountain, he had a meeting with the Kappa's after all.

Stats

Name: Akira Seiryo
Race: Half-Human/Half-Shinigami
Title: [Reckless Shinigami]

HP: 6,000/6,000 (HPR: 360 HP/m)
MP: 7,500/7,500 (MPR: 600 MP/m)

STR: 50
DEX: 50
VIT: 60
INT: 150
WIS: 80
LUK: 20

Trait: Shinigami [2], Hourai Immortal [3]

[Trait: Shinigami LV2]
As a Shinigami, you're stats are naturally higher then a human, even if you're only half Shinigami.
Triples stats gained from training, and increases rate stats are gained by +100%
(Trait can be advanced if conditions are met.)

[Trait: Hourai Immortal LV3(MAX)]
As a Hourai Immortal, upon death, you fully regenerate your HP and MP, and any negative status effects will not work against you at all.

[Title: Reckless Shinigami]
As Reckless as you are, you are still a Shinigami, all plans have a higher chance to succeed at the cost of bodily damage to you.

Skills

[Seeing the World as a Game - Passive - LVMAX]
Allows the user to perceive the world as if it was a video game, this ability is a lesser version of Jee-han's [The Gamer].

[Unarmed Combat - Passive - LV50 0.00%]
Increases the proficency of using their fist in combat
+60% fist Damage
+30% Danmaku effectiveness with hands

[Scythe Combat - Passive - LV70 0.00%]
Increases the proficency of using scythe's in combat
+80% Scythe Damage
+50% Danmaku effectiveness with scythes

[Devil Shout - Active - LV1 0.00%]
Allows the user to shout to summon Devil's to their aid.
Last: 10 minutes
Cost: 1,000 MP per summon

[Reaper's Scythe - Racial - LV50 82.94%]
Allows the user to summon a Scythe as a weapon, the damage, usage and appearance of the scythe is based off of the skill's level
Damage: 1,500 DMG
Effects: Fear Induce - when summoned, a 35% chance to inflict fear on an enemy (Will only effect the first time summoned per person.)

[Shinigami Eye's - Racial - LVMAX]
Allows the user to focus their eyes, turning them red, to see the remaining lifespan of an individual.
Chance to inflict fear: 10%

[Mimicry of Skills - Innate Ability]
Allows the user to mimic the skills of those they befriend, the friendship must be both ways.
Current friends
Reimu Hakurei: 22% | Marisa Kirisame: 38% | Alica Margatroid: 16%
Suika Ibuki: 10%

Fujiwara no Mokou: 50% | Kaguya Houraisan: 50% | Eirin Yagokoro: 23%
Reisen Udongein Inaba: 19% | Tewi Inaba: 20%

Remilia Scarlet: 12% | Flandre Scarlet: 16% | Patchouli Knowledge: 15%
Sakuya Izayoi: 30% | Hong Meiling: 35% | Koakuma: 40%

Yuugi Hoshiguma: 15% | Satori Komeiji: 30% | Koishi Komeiji: 18%
Utsuho Reiuji: 0% | Rin Kaenbyou: 6%

Yukari Yakumo: 1%

Cirno: 50%

Nitori Kawashiro: 23%

[Magic - Active - LV55 18.24%]
Allows the user to use magic to attack or defend from other magical attacks
Affinity: Light, Heat, Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Earth, Sun, Moon, Ice
Cost: Varies

[Manipulation Host - Sub-Innate Ability]
Allows the user to manipulate certain things they've mimicked.
Types: Eternity, Instantaneous, Fire, Time, Space

[Flight - Active - LV50 78.22%]
Allows the user to fly around by using magic.
Due to Phoenix ability, flight speed can be doubled for x1.5 the normal cost.
Speed: 40 km/h
Cost: 60 MP/m

[Dominating Will - Active - LV20 21.50%]
Allows you to push your will onto others, depending on how high your stats are, it will have less or more of an effect.
Causes [Slow] on all beings by -20%
If twice as strong, will induce [Fear] into a target.
If thrice as strong, can cause targets to be knocked out.

[Mechanic Work - Passive - LV15 25.61%]
Allows the user to work with mechanical items much more easier.
+15% Work Speed
+30% Work Effectiveness

[Soul Reaper Works - Reality Displacement - LVMAX]
A fake Reality Marble where the user can control to a certain degree.
Effects: 50% chance to cause [Fear]. 10% chance to cause [Dread].
- Any damage dealt will instantly kill a target, but doing so will cancel the Reality Marble, if the user gives enough MP to fully heal someone, it will instead knock them unconscious.
Cost: 50,000 MP (Without Spell Card), 5,000 MP (With Spell Card)