>"Mmm. Well, if she causes trouble, I am sure Hina wouldn't mind some help. Always best to be on her good side."
>Momiji straightens her shoulders. "Agreed. Plus, I don't know about you, but I'm not in the habit of letting angry youkai throw their weight around if I have anything to say about it."
>Approach.
>This being more interesting than a fairy swarm, you change course to investigate. Not long after you do so, a deep, angry female voice carries to you on the winds, "Stone Sign: Concrete Shot!" The grey bullets change their pattern, and you see a large solid square bullet fly up into the air, only to fragment into dozens of smaller bullets that rain back down upon the clearing where the two appear to be dueling. She may be angry, but at least she's sticking to the spellcard rules for now, that's a good sign.
>Your increasing proximity reveals the two combatants after about a minute. The grey-haired woman is indeed quite tall, clad in a plain white dress shirt and black tie, with expensive looking black trousers and leather shoes. She gives you the impression of a management type, for some reason, though her face is that of a manager who's about to fire someone and enjoy it. Her spellcard pattern currently seems to involve sending out those blocks in all four directions and letting them split up to rain back in on the fighters. The large blocks are easy to dodge, so the real threat is the 'shrapnel' they create. Hina is currently spinning her way through a wave of shrapnel, discharging pink and green petal-shaped bullets as she does.
>Standing apart from the two fighting woman is a trio of kappa carrying large, heavy backpacks. Two of which are munching on cucumbers, the third is brewing tea on a small portable stove. There is another woman a bit farther into the trees, but you can't get a clear view of her from where you are at the moment.
