>You are Byakuren Hijiri, 18 years old, resident of the city of Mayoiga, caretaker (owner) of Rin Kaenbyou, resident of the Moonside apartments, and third year student of Mayoiga High. A few days ago, you were the most popular girl in school, one of the most well-known and liked girls around town. And then you touched a strange doll, and saw a world not your own. That was the day that everything changed, and you became Magical Lotus, the Hero of the Heart.
>After an eventful day at school, and more personally eventful evening in which Rin joined your cadre of heroes, you and your friend set off to investigate the other shrines of the city, to examine the sacred flames there, as well as, hopefully, making contact with the resident Gods, as you had with the Metal Tiger. The Black Tortoise shrine revealed no signs of the God himself, though there were a number of sensations you couldn't identify without transforming, which you felt you could not do at the time. You also made a number of your fans happy, and had a pleasant conversation with Sanae's mother Kanako. You also learned that your new powers can be used to help alleviate the symptoms of drunkenness from your run in with the unfortunate Elis.
>The Blue Dragon shrine, however, had a far more dramatic and otherworldly event. After witnessing a practice duel between your landlord Reimu and the head miko Tenshi, a somewhat bizarre meeting with a green haired shrine maiden involving a piece of jade, and a surprisingly nice conversation with one of Reimu's aides, you and Rin bore witness to the sacred flame turning blue, and a disembodied voice spoke to you in cryptic words, answering your questions in riddles and verse. And yet neither you nor Rin could sense whatever was speaking to you, and a conversation with Kiku came up with no conclusions on the matter.
>After a decent night's rest, you awoke to find your school cordoned off by the faculty and the police. To your dismay, you discovered a dark force within that was similar to that which you sensed from the demons and their youma. Disturbingly, you learned this dark force was your teacher Keine Kamishirasawa, or rather a dark power that had corrupted her and turned her lycanthropic form into something terrible, and dangerously feral. Alongside Rin and Lily, as well as Kaguya Houraisan, your classics teacher with a surprising array of both knowledge and magically empowered items, you entered the school and confronted the corrupted Keine. She put up a tenacious fight, but the light of your Violet Lotus expunged the darkness from her, restoring her mind and body to normal. Weirdly, your light appears to have left some residual energy within Keine's body, the extent and effect of which as yet unknown.
>You had no time to rest, however, nor investigate what caused this dark power to suffuse Keine's body, when a pair of newly arrived demons made their presence known, in force. You were obliged to do battle with the Champion of Ice, while the Fire Champion looked on. Ice was quite different than the other three demons you'd encountered. She seemed regretful for having to fight you, and you sensed within her an incredible sadness. After developing a new spell, you combined your powers with Lily and Rin and drove both demons off, but not before vowing to free Ice from Fire's domination.
>After a conversation with the school reporter Hatate on your way out of the school grounds, you met up with Kiku and learned that someone involved in this mess had access to Lunarian magic, a brand of magic very rare on this planet. As near as you can figure, this individual was Kaguya, though how she came to possess such power, you do not know.
>During this entire affair, you have also felt your ring react to the presence of Komachi Onozuka the police officer, as well as Hatate, in the same way it reacted to Chie days ago. Both of them seem to have the potential to wear one of your rings of Light.
>With the problems at school settled, you, Lily and Rin went to pay a visit to your captive demon, the Champion of Water, to have a little chat with it. You learned that she had a name, Louise, and that her people were residents of a world called Makai. This world, Louise claimed, was possessed of a kind of life, and was actively hostile towards the demons who lived on it, whom Louise referred to as 'Children', created and led by a being she called only 'Mother.' You got the impression that the demons had been fending off the assaults of Makai for ages, but that that this was changing. The reason for the incursion of the Demons into your world was the secure passage for the rest of their kind, so that they could escape Makai and survive in this world. But she maintained that coexistance between your kind and hers was impossible, not the least reason being the inevitable interference from a group she called Celestials, who you gathered were as adversarial towards the Demons as Makai itself is, though you are not entirely certain why.
>In between conversations about her world and her people, you found the time to introduce Louise to a treat unique to your world: ice cream. The demon seemed to enjoy the treat, and more, she enjoyed being able to have a meal without fearing for her life, for the first time in her life. Possibly the whole of her species' life since their arrival on Makai. And while the enormity of this idea may be a bit beyond your scope of understanding, you are more than a little pleased to have been able to bring some peace into Louise's life. Now, if you can have half as much success with the rest of her people...
>A conversation with Kiku led to the two of you linking your minds as you did with Lily once before, and the experience, while rather different with the tiger youkai, led to the discovery that Satori Komeji, the elder of the Metal Tiger shrine, appears to have been manipulating the minds and memories of the mikos at that shrine for years, ever since her arrival. How she came by this power, neither one of you knew, but at least you know that you can counteract it. And based on what you've experienced with Kiku, you may be able to combat that influence if you discover it in others more easily than was needed with Kiku and Lily.
>After that, you took Rin and headed into the park in the middle of the city to meet up with several magic using members of the community of Mayoiga to brainstorm some ideas about how to combat them, as well as exchange information. In fairness, most of the exchanging came from you, but as you seem to be the reigning expert on Makai and its people, this was not to be entirely unexpected. You found that the shrine maidens, especially the tall miko of the Bird shrine Haruka Sawashiro, were rather on your side, though you met a fair share of suspicion and derision from the arcane mage at the meeting, who turned out to be Patchouli's mother. She seemed especially reluctant to accept that the Champions were from Makai, a term which was known to her, but before you could continue the argument, the meeting was interrupted by the Champion of Air, who has a new youma to field. One which seems to be in another league compared to the last two you've fought.
>There's a shield on it. We will have to be a bit more subtle.
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That, or hit it harder. Rin answers boldly as she invokes another one of her flying wheels. As she does that, though, you sense a pair of surges of magic, and two bolts of water rocket forward from just beyond the edge of your vision. Both missiles strike the youkai in his lower torso, but neither has any more effect than Rin's attack did.
>Let's form a new spell. Similar to some of the things we did against the Champion of Water, let us create a a small mote that latches onto the target, and begins to drain power from it, both kinetic force and more mystical kinds of energy. They more they struggle or channel, the more it feeds; as is representative of the blind struggle against suffering leading only to further suffering. It will then use that energy to feed itself, and direct anything leftover toward a purpose we might have in mind at the time. For instance, drilling a hole in this barrier.
>In essence, you wish to create a sort of a mystical capacitor?
