>Convenient! Let's rock and roll.
> As much as you'd like to ROCK OUT, your current equipment setup renders that rather
inconvenient. You'll have to figure out way to change your Radiant Staff into a
Radiant Instrument.>Rush for the maid. That's not Sakuya, is it?
> You recall that
Sakuya bonked her head earlier today, so that can't be her. Besides, this maid has blonde hair, not silver, leading you believe it's none other than...
source (a/n: not enough creepy pictures of her, grrr)>
...Mugetsu. You haven't seen her in ages, and you wished you could have kept it that way. She and her sister Gengetsu tried to trap and rob you of your valuables after subduing Yuuka, by posing as distressed
Incidentees. Yes, that's a term you and Reimu use to describe people having an Incident they need solved. It's kind of your in-joke with her.
>Encourage Maple to retreat or distract. She's got to be paintsplattering already, right?
> Oh, she is! It may be dark, but you can see streaks of paint in the night sky. You also see the two trade bullets as they try and shoot or avoid one another, though Mugetsu clearly has the upper hand. Demons have higher base stats than fairies, after all.
> You suggest that Maple try using her fancy plant attacks on Mugey, and she agrees by summoning a storm of leaves to attack Mugey. As one might expect, the leaves are quite sharp and cut Mugetsu several times, but she doesn't seem phazed by the attack at all.
> "What, you thought using a leaf blower on me was gonna help? Dream on, pipsqueak!" Mugey then charges at Maple and tries to grab her, but the fairy quickly evades. "Hold still, dammit!"
> Countermaid maneuvers activate!
> You consider using some fancy-shmancy manuvers against Mugetsu, but considering you haven't fought her in a while, you just vouch for flying up and keeping Maple out of the demon's reach...Or you would if Maple didn't panic and fly away at high speed at the last moment, making it that much harder to actually save her.
> Who cares if it's not Sakuya, we must abuse the OCD perfectionism that any proper maid named Sakuya enjoys.
> Any good thief worth their salt has at least a few backup plans in place. Should you have to fight with Sakuya during any of your library raids, you know for a fact that she can't stand lasers. Light travels at 671 miles per hour after all, Sakuya would have to have absurdly good timing to dodge them, even with her time-stopping ability. However, you don't have the time or the resources to set up a proper laser ambush...
> Uh... screw it, just hit her with lasers and other shiny things.
> ...So you decide to set up an improper one instead. First step: you ask Mokou to sit at the front of your staff. She obliges.
> Second step: you ask Mokou to flare up. "Wait, what? You sure about this, I might incinerate you too." You assure Mokou that everything will be fine (for the most part, but you don't tell her that last bit), and power up as well.
> Meanwhile, Mugetsu is punching through some rock fists Maple has summoned to attack her. The irony!
> "Your lousy earth power can't match my demon strength!" Mugetsu dashes over and grabs the poor fairy by the arm.
> "Let go of me!" Maple smacks the maid lookalike with her brush, but Mugey just smacks it away and seizes her other arm. Maple yelps in pain as her wrists are squeezed. "Wh...What do you want with me?!"
> "A hostage, mainly. Mari has something my sister and I want...But chances are Gengy-chan already botched it up. I swear, if I weren't around she'd be helpless..." Gengy says in a sadistic tone. "You'd better pray that Mari comes for you, or--"
> "S-SHUT UP!" Maple bursts out. "Mari would never abandon me...Not...Not after I helped her..."
> Mugetsu's expression softens into one of disapproval "Stupid fairy...You don't know her like I do, she's selfish and self-centered."
> "You're the stupid one, you don't know what she and Mokou-sama are capable of!"
> The demon's eyebrows raise. "That ugly bird is with her?" Mugey's face then scrunches as she sniffs the air. "That explains the...Burning...!"
>
[Flying Phoenix "Blazing Star"]> Mugey looks for the source of the smell, only to suddenly get uppercutted by a flaming Mokou and Marisa from below. Thankfully, she drops her grip on Maple, whom is left spinning in the air, until the duo fly back around (whilst not on fire) and pluck Maple from midair.
> "S-S-See...That's what I mean!" Maple says in exasperated relief as you pull her onto the staff. "I didn't doubt you for a second."
> You can hear Mugetsu swearing as she suddenly flies back under the forest's canopy. You're not entirely sure where she's going, but it looks like her plan is foiled for now.
> _
