Tried to get to 10k but stopped at 7k. Oh well.

Koishi blinked before continuing her long stare out the clear glass window of the room. Midday rays shone onto her all the time; but that was okay. She had her hat tilted down so it wouldn't get in her eyes.

A soft groan sounded off behind her for the... billionth time as Akitsu restlessly slept in her bed. Her new sister was taking a really long time to wake up...

It seems that two whole bottles of sake was too much for her icy sister. Perhaps she should have seen the hints; especially since she stopped her already meagre talk and focused solely on her second bottle and nothing else. But did she? Nope, she was busy with her fourth bottle.

Maybe drinking out of bottles wasn't such a good idea. I mean; she felt perfectly fine this morning but Akitsu looked half dead in the bed.

She continued to stare out the window. The disappointment she felt when she realized that all the pretty night lights were replaced with high rise dull grey buildings long passed.

...

She was bored...

...

With nothing else to do; she waddled over to Akitsu and bent down to stare at her sleeping face. As expected of her sister, she looked really cute if a bit rustled from yesterday night.

So she started poking her face.

...

"Good morning~" Yukari jovially called out as she appeared from a gap that wasn't there before. This time, the Gap Youkai was brimming with energy, already pumped from watching Reimu's despairing face when the ink of her 'fortune' faded away while showing it to everyone she could find.

And now she was here. Because as entertaining as it would be to tease the Hakurei Shrine Maiden for this; she didn't really want to be caught in her explosive warpath right now. Especially since she saw what happened to Marisa.

Koishi gave Yukari's sudden appearance a cursory glance, her hands giving the Gap Youkai a four before resuming her poking of a waking Akitsu. The rate at which the new Komeji's eyes were starting to open was the same at which Koishi's face was starting to brighten.

Undaunted by her disappointing reception, Yukari ducked back into her gap and reappeared in a new one right atop the two Komejis'. "I have information of some bad guys."

Koishi looked up in interest but then frowned as she considered something. Refocusing on Akitsu, she continued her relentless poking of Akitsu's warm cheek. "After I wake up Akitsu."

Yukari sighed and leaned back onto the soft sofa she kept hidden in her gap. She was in no hurry to go back to Gensokyo just yet. It was better to wait out Reimu's steam since she was probably going to be number one on her hit list.

Koishi continued her poking, Akitsu's dreary eyes were already half opened. Once the ice woman's blurry vision managed to focus on Koishi's recognizable color scheme, her mind snapped awake much to the protest of pretty much the rest of her body.

"Yah!" Koishi loudly cheered when Akitsu unsteadily sat up on the bed, her eyes drooping as they tried to close against Akitsu's will.

"Now that she's awake, let's get going." Yukari said as Akitsu suddenly dropped into a gap much to her surprise. By virtue of being able to fly, Koishi was not caught in the same trap but she didn't expect the gap to actually move up vertically to consume her.

The air at the highest levels of the city of Shin-Tokyo was chilling as cold winds blew over the grey tops of high rising buildings. And where were they? On top of some high human building!

No! The fake seventeen years old hag had dropped them all off in midair within the shadow of some other high building. And while, she and Koishi could fly; Akitsu couldn't.

"Wah!" Koishi cried as she dived down to catch a falling Akitsu who was still trying to come to terms with her sudden new change of scenery. It was really lucky that she could fly faster than Akitsu could fall, otherwise that might have actually been really dangerous. She didn't want a dead sister!

"Reimu was right! You are a mean old hag!" Koishi angrily growled from below Yukari as she held onto Akitsu to make sure that her new sister didn't fall all the way down to the street. What a meanie! Akitsu couldn't fly yet!

Yukari's oblivious face twitched for a moment at the mention of 'old hag' but otherwise didn't change as she looked around the tops of the buildings. Now... according to Minaka's laptop, they should be... There they are!

Without a word she lifted her umbrella to point at the scene approximately three hundred metres ahead of them. There was a single Sekirei running from three others, one of which was carrying a human.

How she knew they were Sekirei? No respectable human female would jump around the top of buildings wearing fetish cosplay outfit which either exposed too much or really made them look overly sexualized. Oh... and she supposed there was the super speed and hopping along buildings that no normal human could manage as well.

"See over there? Those guys are trying to force her to fall in love with someone." Yukari said as she indicated the group of pursuers. Was she sure that was the case? No. But she was quite certain. Besides she would prefer some diversity.

Koishi turned her anger to those Sekirei. They were trying to force someone to fall in love with someone they don't want to. How dare they!?

"C'mon Akitsu! We'll show them steamy hot and explosive power of true love!" Koishi shouted in a determined voice as she flew at them, determined to stop this. Akitsu could do nothing by hang from Koishi's hands as she stared warily back at Yukari. She couldn't even see these other Sekirei with her facing the wrong way anyway.

Yukari's smile faltered slightly. She couldn't see the Komeji again, with her going into that unbeatable stealth mode of hers. But that wasn't what bothered her. Sometimes she wasn't certain if she actually knew the implications of her words or if they were spoken in innocence.

No matter. Now she just had to find someone to watch the incoming storm from afar. As the humans subspecies that inhabited and roamed the wide expanses of the internet would say: this going to be good.

The wind bristled against Koishi's green hair, her hat was inexplicably still atop her head despite the extreme speed she was moving at and all the aforementioned wind. Yet as worried, as she maybe about her hat, she was far more concerned with where she was heading or more of that the chasers were going to catch the lone lost woman searching for a lover before she would. And that would mean the dreaded 'pichun' for her.

That meant there was only one thing to do!

"Akitsu!" Koishi shouted down for the woman she was carrying. In turn, Akitsu made a few noises that Koishi couldn't hear properly through all the wind brushing into her but it was probably some acknowledgement. That was good. "I'm going to throw you first! You protect the lady still searching for her love while I catch up!"

Now there was a louder noise from underneath her. Yet it still sounded incomprehensible to her. Oh well, Akitsu probably understood what she meant.

Without further ado she performed an acrobatic front flip in the air. Her body going down while Akitsu sailed over upside down now. Her hands tightly clasping Akitsu's wrist right until she was sure that her sister would go forward. And with that ready... she let go.

Despite all rules of physics and logic; the maneuver somehow worked despite the impossibility of it. This was Koishi's looking down on the laws of physics and all that other sciency stuff that says that she can't do that and that. Akitsu flew onwards across the empty air, the kimono she bought yesterday waving everywhere. She caught a distinct sight of Akitsu's shocked face when she finally righted herself and she heard the horrified cry as she started dropping from the sky. That was the loudest noise that she had heard from Akit-

"Wah!" Koishi cried out in horror when she realized that she hadn't put enough strength behind her throw. Akitsu was now tumbling towards the ground really fast.

"Aaaaakkiiiitttsssuuuuu!" She cried as dived downwards to catch her.

Yukari choked on her popcorn as she watched the two fail miserably pulling off that ridiculous stunt. Now the two of them were descending towards the ground, albeit with Koishi still a bit faster.

But still... The Komeji was already out of the fight. Knowing her, she was probably going to have a heartfelt apology session and then go find something to eat. But then; she was extremely unpredictable and might just somehow blame those chasers and fly back up to beat them hell.

But by the time she got back up here, they would be long gone...

Meaning...

Clearly sighing in exasperation this time, she got off her metal folding chair and gapped it away along with her popcorn. She had been looking to watch a good fight and evaluate the combat ability of Komeji's new 'sister' and the other standard cannon fodder Sekirei. But now she'd have to-

...

Oh right...

She could just gap them couldn't she? Her chair plopped back down and the popcorn reappeared in her arms. Let the show continue!

Akitsu landed on both feet upright on the cold hard concrete of the roof. Her head was disoriented from all the alcohol and the extremely sudden events so far. But rig-

"...ttssuuuuu!" Koishi dropped out of the hole with all the eyes right next to Akitsu. Unlike her new sister, she landed flatly on her stomach with a huffy 'oof' for effect.

Recovering quickly, Koishi was immediately at Akitsu's close proximity; inspecting her body for any form of injury. It was when she was done and satisfied that Akitsu was not hurt that she exclaimed "Akitsu! I'm so sorry! Are you hurt!?"

Akitsu shook her head, her eyes being drawn to the three Sekirei plus the one human one of the Sekirei was carrying him.

Koishi grabbed hold of Akitsu shoulders, her green eyes had moist tears brimming as she asked "Can we still be sisters?"

Akitsu nodded absentmindedly as she also grabbed hold of Akitsu. One of those Sekirei looked like she was going to-

"Yay!" Koishi happily cried out as the two of them were then shot back up into the air, courtesy of Koishi, as the Sekirei on the left struck where they just were, with nothing more than an oversized metal chakram that apparently didn't break from striking solid concrete and a lot of supernatural strength.

"Party!" Koishi jovially declared to which Akitsu felt only dread and fear build up inside her. She really wanted to stay with her new sister but having another excessive drinking contest with her just made her shiver up coldly inside.

"Number 7 Akitsu and the other… isn't in the database?" Koishi heard the sole human down below her say. Glancing down she saw that he was holding a phone up at her and Akitsu, his eyes analytically scanning them from below.

A phone… She wanted a phone…

Already a dastardly excellent plan of action was being processed by Koishi as she smiled in assurance of the genius of her plan.

Koishi and Akitsu vs Human man with phone plus his extras.

They were enemies so Akitsu and she had to beat them up to stop them from forcing false love on people.

After she beat them into the ground with the power of true love, she could take the man's phone as spoils of war!

Reinvigorated with this goal in mind, she eyed Akitsu seriously. "Akitsu, we're striking now!" The Ice woman nodded seriously in turn as she looked down at the three hostile Sekirei.

"Round Start!" Koishi yelled out as she started the fight.

This time Akitsu was prepared when Koishi suddenly dropped her, her arms outstretched as she prepared to attack her sister's enemies. Cool long icicles were forming in the air around her, their pointed tips directed at the other Sekirei.

Taking directions from the human, two of the Sekirei broke off to engage Akitsu. Their weapons ready to face the single digit scrapped number. The last one, the same one who was wielding the chakram was to fight Koishi, the unknown Sekirei. Planting one foot firmly behind her, she prepared to leap at Koishi's position in the air. "Number… huh?"

Thus she was befuddled when she failed to detect Koishi at all. She couldn't see the green haired Sekirei in the air but neither could sh-

No there she was! And she was... Wait! You couldn't do that!

Koishi had reappeared from behind the human first instead of going for the bad evil busty alien woman. She wanted the phone first and then she could go beat them up. Otherwise if she did it the other way around, the human might run away and then she couldn't get a phone as a spoil of battle… war? Oh well, it was spoil of something!

Therefore, Koishi whapped the human in the back of the head hard with her hand, just like how China did it, sending the human falling forward. His phone was peculiarly missing from his hand from his body as he slammed onto the concrete rock, unconscious.

The Satori was already in the midst of fumbling with the fancy phone that the human used to have. Her eyes in spectacular wonder as she pressed buttons to change the pictures in the small clear screen.

She casually ducked underneath a thrown Chakram as the enraged Sekirei she was meant to fight attacked her. The MBI trademarked metal weapon not even trimming her hat as it whizzed over her, and boy was she lucky that she didn't damage the hat. Bad things happen when someone's hat in Gensokyou is damaged.

Seeing that her throw had missed, the Sekirei had leaped into her vicinity to follow it up with a barrage of precise jabs and kicks at Koishi while her chakram was circling back around towards her.

Koishi didn't really put much effort into dodging the attacks. All she had to do, really, was just keep flying just out of reach of her arms. This of course infuriated the Sekirei to no ends as she screamed obscenities at her but Koishi didn't mind. She had been called worse before.

Still… it was getting kind of annoying. So with no further ado, she whipped off her hat and using it as her weapon, she slashed a crisscross onto the Sekirei woman, red and blue lines making the slash lines clearly visible to all. There was even the sweeping fast sword swing sfx that appeared above all the blood comically spraying from the Sekirei woman.

The Sekirei woman stumbled back in perceived pain as she fumbled across her body for what should be deep cut. The blood effect still spraying blood from thin air now as she moved back a few paces. Her mind unable to comprehend what just happened.

She got cut. But there was no wound. But there was the blood. But there was no wound. But there was the sound of slashing. But there was no wound. But there was the 'shhhiiinnngg!' in white and bold lettering in the air. But… What?

Koishi paid no attention to all the reactions that her little mind trick did. She was much more interested with her looted phone. Right now it was ringing and vibrating and there was a green phone and red phone on the screen. There was even some picture of some decent looking human on the screen. Was she supposed to know him?

She tested the green phone by pushing down onto it with her thumb and jerked her head back in surprise when a male voice came out of the phone. "Kakizaki. This is Higa."

"No, this is Koishi, Mr. Higa." Koishi replied into the Mr. Higa, the talking phone. She wasn't Kakizaki! Who was that?

"Kakizaki?" the male voice that was the phone said with a tone of confusion upon hearing her voice instead of this Kakizaki's.

"Koishi." Koishi sternly replied. She wasn't Kakizaki! Did the phone not hear her the first time?

"…Koishi then… is Kakizaki there?" the voice from the phone asked her.

"Who's Kakizaki?" Koishi asked the voice of the phone.

"Black hair, glasses, wears a suit." The phone voice described this Kakizaki for her. Oh! That was that human guy! Where did her go? Looking around, she couldn't see him anywhere.

It was just that Chakram Sekirei who was fiddling around with the still gushing blood effect and white 'sshhiiinh!' sfx that was still floating in the air. Behind her confused form, Akitsu was kicking those two Sekirei's butts, they looked like they were at the ends of the ropes. But still no human… where did he go?

...why was she sitting down?

Koishi looked down at the warm back of the human that she was sitting on. Hmm? When did she decide to sit on the guy? Oh well, she found Kakizaki. "Found him!"

"Put him on the phone." The voice commanded. Koishi frowned at those instructions, that seemed like a really bad idea but still the phone probably knew what was best.

Not knowing what else to do, she shrugged and obeyed the wise voice of the phone. Gently putting the phone back onto the concrete roof, she backed away and got off of Kakizaki. Wrapping her arms around the stirring man, she lifted him up into the air, flying slightly off the ground.

Hovering over to where the phone was, she glanced down at the phone with the voice which was waiting for her to put Kakizaki on it. She didn't really understand why it wanted her to put the human on it but the voice probably knew best. With that, she unceremoniously dumped Kakizaki onto it.

There was a quite short chilling scream that stopped the fighting and broke the Chakram Sekirei out of her confusion as Kakizaki's spine landed directly onto the phone. Koishi gasped in horror when she heard the snapping noise of the metal phone as Kakizaki's weight crushed it underneath him.

The phone tricked her out of her spoil! She could never trust voices from phones again!

Dropping down to the man, who was now groaning in pain while curling up into a ball, she flipped him off the broken phone. He grunted in pain as he rolled along the concrete back towards the Chakram Sekirei who was approaching Koishi again.

Awww…. Koishi picked at the remains of the phone. She wondered if the Kappa could fix it for her back in Gensokyou.

"Uh… retreat…. Retreat!" the human said as he was being helped up by the Chakram Sekirei. His hands was clasped over his stomach as he shielded it from the air, maybe?

The two fighting Akitsu didn't need any further encouragement. Already one of them was limping with one leg and the other had to help her to get away from a rather unscathed and indifferent Akitsu who did not attempt to pursue. The ice woman ignored the Chakram Sekirei and Kakizaki as she hopped over to where Koishi was still poking at the wreck of the phone.

Her eyes curiously saw the strange gushing of blood and white sfx words still in the air despite the Chakram Sekirei being long gone. She stopped completely to examine it and attempted to rationalize it somehow with respect to what she knew of Koishi's abilities.

Koishi had already demonstrated the ability to manipulate people's subconscious on an extremely large scale, considering that no one in that moving crowd yesterday night seemed to pay any notice to them at all. The only conclusion was that this was somehow Koishi's doing, or maybe that 'old hag seventeen year old' was responsible; she was still not aware of what she could do yet aside from 'teleporting'.

But she did not offer a comment as she stood next to the crouching Koishi, waiting for her to make the first move. It took a few more minutes but Koishi finally got bored to pestering the remains of the phone, standing back up to face Akitsu with a very important question in her head.

"Hey Akitsu…" she lingered on as the ice woman indicated that she was paying attention. "...how are able to fight two aliens and seem completely fine even though you were still overhung just a moment ago?"

Akitsu blinked as she processed the question in her head. That was very good question that she had no idea what the answer was. She honestly never noticed when she stopped feeling sick.

"Oh don't worry about that. It's probably the idiot forgetting what continuity is." Yukari nonchalantly said as she popped out of her surprise gap again. She smiled in amusement when she noticed that Akitsu immediately tensed upon her arrival and maintained her guard despite knowing who she was.

So the Komeji's new dog didn't like her and didn't trust her. How quaint; she could get on the list.

"Besides I have a present for you." Yukari said as she shuffled through her gap. With great dramatic flair, she pulled out a new IPhone generation 5S, one of the best products that that fruit company had constructed.

"A phone!" Koishi excitedly squealed as she picked up the phone and held up above her head. "Where did you get one?"

"I have my ways…" Yukari replied with her usual mysterious voice which she used to cover up how she did things. And for once it wasn't MBI that she 'acquired' it from.

"Anyhow, Minaka seems to be setting up some sort of contest." Yukari told Koishi and her new lapdog that was her sister. With that she showed them the good old text message that Minaka sent out to all known and current Ashiakabi. Of course she was neither of those, but since she had taken her phone from a certain Ashiakabi that kind of irked her the wrong way, she got the message as well.

Koishi leaned in to read what the message said, her eyes showing confusion as she failed to comprehend the message with all those small faces and these weird words. "I don't get it."

Yukari blinked before checking the message again for herself. No, it was the right one and there didn't seem to be anything that hard to understand. Maybe it was all those slang in there or something. Shrugging it off, she decided to vocally tell the Komeji the contents, it didn't matter that way. She just wanted to show off her phone anyway.

"There's a Sekirei in the botanical gardens and the big bad is inviting everyone to force their love on her." Yukari explained before widening her eyes when she realized how she had phrased that. Considering the age of the plant girl and how she phrased it; that was terrible. Even she felt bad at that.

"What?!" Koishi cried out in outrage as she snatched the phone off of Yukari. Her eyes diligently reading through the entirety of the message once again to no avail as the deeper meaning of the jumbled mess of words eluded her.

"I can't read this. Can you Akitsu?" Koishi asked her sister as she passed it over to the Ice woman who took her turn reading the message.

"Ah, yes. He's inviting Ashiakabi to compete and forcibly wing her." Yukari said in a far more sensible way. "So let's go and stop him."

It did not escape her notice how similar this was to those silly human media games. Where they go from level to level beating up the bad guys. Of course Minaka was the bad guy and she was the game master.

Koishi seriously nodded as she jumped through the new gap that Yukari made for her, determined to put a stop to this. Akitsu was much more wary as she stepped up towards the gap, alternating between glancing suspiciously at Yukari and looking worriedly into the gap for Koishi. It was with great reluctance that she followed Koishi into the gap.

She was not surprised in the least when she found herself atop yet another building, though this time it was at a far lower altitude compared to before. Spotting Koishi at the edge of the building, she briskly walked over to accompany her before she disappeared.

"Hey, Akitsu… do trees normally grow like that?" Koishi asked as she pointed at the labyrinth like jungle that was confined within a metal fence. It was even more of a mess than the Forest of Magic, though she supposed that they weren't all those man eating bugs and prankster fairies in there.

Akitsu shook her head in a negative. She didn't think trees naturally grew like that at all. It looked more like someone just used the garden as a canvas and drew all over it with trees and plants of all shapes and sizes.

"Oho, so she's in there." Yukari said from beside them as she lazily lounged in her gap. Her eyes leisurely scanning the mess that was the botanical garden before narrowing when she spotted the patrol of armored troops stationed in front of the entrance.

She hadn't thought that there would be MBI military personnel guarding the entrance. It seemed counterproductive to send cannon fodder human troops to defend a objective against super powered aliens; especially since he more or less broadcasted this place's location.

Hmmm… Koishi and Akitsu could probably do a far better job than they could. But gaping them all at once would be quite tiresome to do. Maybe she could steal some radio and order them away.

But that would involve finding a radio, finding the right channel, finding the designation of those cannon fodder down there and actually giving out orders that sounded legitimate.

…

With a trivial wave of her hand, she gapped the first of the armored trucks straight to the port of Shin-Tokyo. As expected the remaining soldiers immediately responded by trying to find cover and radio back to base or something. It was of no consequence to her as she dumped them all somewhere else in Shin-Tokyo that wasn't here.

"Well, all you need to do is make sure that no one gets in." Yukari told Koishi who looked at her for confirmation.

"No one?" Koishi asked her. If no one could get in then how the lonely girl trapped in the deep, dark forest could found her true love? Maybe there would a prince charming style person that could somehow use a fireball to burn his way through?

"Yup." Yukari confirmed. She wasn't in… "Oh wait, if there's some really persistent person without a Sekirei that wants to get in, then let him in after a bit." If there was someone persistent enough to let themselves be consistently get beaten but still wanted to get in, then they were probably that plant girl's Ashiakabi.

"Why?" Koishi asked confused about her change of rules.

"It's so that love can bloom." Yukari told Koishi. Love can get someone to do some really stupid things sometimes.

"Between a human and an alien?" Koishi asked her for some inexplicable reason that Yukari could not fathom. Because, really, shouldn't Koishi have already moved past the fact that humans and Sekirei could find love?

"Yes." Yukari said. Her sight homing in on two Sekirei heading towards the Botanical Garden. How she could tell they were Sekirei? No human could casually jump several buildings without any shown effort at all. And any self-respecting Youkai would be flying instead of using the mundane act of jumping.

"Now go get them!" Yukari cheerfully encouraged them as she gave them a little nudge in the direction of the botanical garden. By 'nudge' she followed her usual modus operandi and simply opened a gap beneath them to speed up their journey. They should be thankful for her help really.

Koishi landed lightly on the concrete pathway, right outside the metal gateway into the Botanical garden which had a really big weed problem. Hearing soft footsteps beside her, she turned around in relief to see that it was just Akitsu.

It was quite peaceful right now. Ignoring those mutant trees behind her, there was nothing abnormal about the street she was on right now. Not a human in sight and the only evidence that those armoured humans had even been here was some blocky black thing.

But everything changed when the Sekirei attacked. Leading the way was a female Sekirei with long brown hair. Her chest was, unsurprisingly, far larger than most human females and she was wielding a scythe that looked ornamental only.

Trailing behind at a leisurely speed was another Sekirei. Surprising this one was a flat chest and had a tom boyish look about her. A sheathed katana attached to her hip as she followed the leader.

They landed far louder as she jumped from the building tops to land in front of the gate alongside them. Their eyes focused on the gate and what lay within.

Akitsu stiffened as she made ready for her second fight of the day but their eyes passed by her without any indication that they had detected her. The same case happened to Koishi despite her standing right next to the scythe wielding one.

Oh yeah! She was invisible to them again! Smacking both her cheeks rosy for her silly mistake, she swiveled to get in front of them before letting them see her.

Everyone in this city must be really edgy since as soon as she and Akitsu appeared from thin air, they both leaped back to put quite a lot of distance between them. The scythe now being leveled in their direction while the other Sekirei had placed a hand onto the hilt of the katana.

"Who the hell are you?!" the scythe wielding Sekirei demanded as she looked to size them up.

"Koishi!" said person replied to them. Her head automatically turning to Akitsu so that she could have her turn.

Akitsu caught her look and hesitated slightly. Nodding her head just a wee bit, she introduced herself. "Number 7, Akitsu."

"What's your number?" the scythe wielding Sekirei directed her demanding question at Koishi. And how rude she was! She hadn't even introduced herself yet.

And what was her number? Did she mean what she placed? Well… "I'm number 3!" which was the highest out of anyone in the underground! She was so happy when she heard the news.

"I know number 3. You're not her." The surprisingly male voice of the sword tottering Sekirei briskly said as he moved in front of his companion.

But Koishi wasn't paying attention to what he said but rather how he looked. Oh my gods! It was a trap! A very bad one now that she paid more attention to that male's details, he really did look more like a guy than a woman. How did she not see this before…?

There was a brief silence as the two unknown Sekirei waited for Koishi to respond. The stereotypical dust ball rolled in between them despite them being located in a city. If one listened closely, they could even distinctly hear the slow ticking of a clock tower.

A few seconds became a minute as the two parties stared each other down.

The two Sekirei's eyes opened up in shock when they saw the words neatly printed out in white words above Koishi's head. Akitsu only twitched at the sight, before relaxing when recognizing the italic font from earlier.

A minute became a two minutes as they waited for the other to make the first move.

Two mine-

"What the hell is that?!" the scythe wielding Sekirei shouted out, wildly pointing at the lettering that was appearing and disappearing from view with each sentence. Koishi could only frown slightly at her question.

Perhaps if the scythe wielding woman was more brain than simple brawn. She could identify this as-

"Number 43, Yomi and don't call me stupid!" the scythe wielding Sekirei roared as she took off, her scythe drawn back as she rushed at Koishi. The words faded blurred and faded as Koishi's form faded into nothing from Yomi's perspective, her scythe doing nothing more than smashing apart the concrete floor and costing the Japanese tax payers thousands of dollars in repairs.

Or maybe it was MBI paying for it all now? Or a better question would be: who's the one monolouging right now? Koishi didn't kn-

Oh hey! It was her! She sounded really smart too! Yay!

She let herself be seen again, to the side of Yomi. Using her ultra-super powers, Koishi curled her hands into a falcon shaped fist and a fiery red glow in the shape of said bird formed around her fist. Leaping at Yomi, she unleashed devastating punch.

Only to use her flying powers to reverse herself away from her target when she remembered on very important detail that she had forgotten up till now. Her punch hit nothing but thin air and the fiery aura amounted to nothing at all.

"Wait! Wait, wait." Koishi repeated several times as she backed up to where Koishi was. "Round Sta-"

She didn't get to finish as Yomi was taking a wide swing at Koishi and Akitsu at the same time. A wild gleam in her eyes as she angrily glared at the one that was making her out to be a fool in front of senp-?

What? In her moment of distraction over the thought that was not necessarily her own, her attack faltered for a tiny moment. One hand was pressed to her head as she tried to retrace the thought and thus her grip on the scythe was diminished making her attack rather impotent.

Not that it would have really mattered anyway, since Akitsu had already created a wall of ice between them, the deep blue wall far stronger than it should be as the scythe harmlessly got caught in it.

"That wasn't nice." A grumpy Koishi pointed out to the one who called herself 'Yommy'. She hadn't let her start the fight properly yet. Taking a deep breath, she prepared to start the round right this time.

"Yomi! We're giving up." The male who had yet to do anything aside from talk and jump around shouted over from where he was before.

"What!? Why!?" Yomi demanded in outrage as she yanked her scythe out of the ice with some slight effort. She was sure that they could take them.

Mutsu frowned when Yomi asked, yelled more like, at his command. And he was fairly certain that she would agree with his reasoning but saying it aloud would alert the two standing in their way and would make what he was planning irrelevant.

The situation here wasn't really all that in their favor. It wasn't overwhelmingly against them either but he really didn't want to fight his kin all that much anyway. But then; he also didn't want to help his Ashiakabi forcibly wing people but hey, you can't have everything.

And besides; they didn't really have to come in from the front. They could try their luck at the back of the botanical garden and while he was fairly certain there wasn't an entrance there, a low metal fence was hardly going to stop them. And if there were other defenders there…

Well, he'll just give up. It's really hard to fight properly when you don't even have the will and motivation to fight. Kidnapping other Sekirei was quite a downer.

He would have to put up with his Ashiakabi's own rant but he was sure that he could make him forget this whole incident. Maybe something about him not fully maxing out the hearts of his own Sekirei yet to distract him.

But still there was the problem of persuading Yomi without giving away his intent to Akitsu and… who? Mutsu scratched at his head when he tried to recollect who else there was besides Akitsu. He distinctly recalled green hair but everything else was just a blank.

"So no fighting then?" Koishi asked in curiosity as she hovered behind him, just over his shoulder.

Mutsu jumped slightly in shock at her sudden appearance. When did she…?

"'kay, then. We win by default!" Koishi cheered as she whipped her hands into the air cheering for their 'win'.

Mutsu slowly nodded and motioned for Yomi to come back. With visible reluctance, the Sekirei slowly paced back towards Mutsu, her eyes angrily glaring at just about everyone present.

"Sorry for bothering you." Mustu politely said as he and Yomi left the Botanical Garden. Easily leaping back atop the tall buildings, he avoided the angry looks that Yomi was continuously sending towards him and the uncouth comments on how this was all his fault and that they could take them.

She would probably be a lot happier when he explained his flanking idea to her. And maybe she wouldn't try to murder him in his sleep too.

Yukari frowned when she saw the two Sekirei doubling back around the botanical garden. They had hardly even put up something that resembled a fight. The scythe maniac had just swung hers around like an idiot for a bit and the 'too cool for this' guy didn't even bother.

And now they were trying to sneak in through the back. There was a time and place where she could appreciate some competent tactics and the idea of travelling down the easiest route. This was not one of them right now.

Since they were probably going to get to the plant girl, she had no choice but to kick them out of this little game. If the plant girl was winged then no one else would come and then it would probably go back to dull stopping stupid fights and opportunist couples.

With a cursory wave, she opened up a gap so that she could get a better view of them approaching the rear of the botanical garden. They were marginally stealthy with the scythe maniac still glaring daggers at the now sighing male.

She made a show of opening a gap with her hand as she gapped them elsewhere, only marginally surprised when the 'too cool for this' guy managed to stop himself and backtrack away from the gap that was meant for him. She heard him call out 'Yommi!' who she assumed was the scythe maniac that had all too easily walked into the gap.

Of course, getting away from her wasn't that easy. Amidst his back pedaling away from the gap in reality and his concern over his ally, he did not notice the second one that she had opened up right behind him.

Mutsu landed on something soft. The type of soft that consisted of cloth, silk and generally skin. That was normally not a very good thing for him considering all the other Sekirei that Hayato winged.

And he was not wrong. Down underneath him was a face downed Yomi, who body seemed frozen as he laid sprawled over her back. This was just like one of those stupid shenanigans he saw from those anime that Hayato occasionally watched. Mostly associated with the harem genre. Considering Hayato did in fact have a harem, his interest in it wasn't unexpected.

Shifting slightly, he noticed that he was a bit higher off the ground than he should be if he was just on top of Yomi. That was od…

His spine stiffened in fear when he felt dark aura. The aura of eternal despair and dark suffering, he could swear that even the air seemed to radiate off a sickly purple miasma.

Slowly and reluctantly, he turned his eyes down to see what was underneath Yomi. His eyes widened in shock when he saw the familiar long lavender hair and the all too familiar serene face that was itching to lose control. He needed to only see Yomi's poor placement of her hands on the woman's chest to know that he needed to leave. Right now. Perhaps if he was fast enough, she wouldn't even be able to notice.

"My, my. You're here too Mutsu?" he heard the lovely and calm voice of the number one below him. The voice that she usually used when she was going to do something drastic and painful to someone. Someone that was probably going to be him soon.

He knew that she was here in the city but of all places that that strange portal could take him, it had to be here. There must be some powerful otherworldly creature out for him.

"Mind to explain this?" Mutsu could only shake his head at Miya's question as he slowly picked himself off a Yomi, who was too terrified to move. Maybe if he was fast enough, he would escape while Miya was busy with Yomi.

The sudden unbreakable grip on his ankle said otherwise.

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