>Create a ring of fire around us to buy some time.
>You attempt to create a ring of fire around the two of you, but before you manage to create a single ember you feel all the muscles in your body go limp and you collapse onto your side.
>Analyse the dart, then ponder who would be able to throw darts at us with such skill.
>Despite your current position, you still have a clear view of the dart.
>The dart is rather simple in design, it's body is a piece of wood small enough to fit in a piece of bamboo, there are a few feathers attached to the tail.
>You don't know anyone in Gensokyo who uses darts as a weapon in combat, so it could have been anyone who threw, or possibly blew, the dart.
>"Be on your guard. We're being watched, and it doesn't seem like our enemies like to play fair." Whisper to Kaguya, and hope that whoever it is that's hiding doesn't hear.
>You barely utter a few words before you find yourself unable to speak!
>"What did you-" Kaguya whispers back before her voice cuts off in a similar fashion.
>Prepare [Hourai] "Fujiyama Volcano".
>You attempt to prepare a spellcard, but you are unable to move!
>You begin to feel faint and your breathing slows, as you hear something come out of the forest.
>"It's a pity that you two didn't kill each other as quickly as I hoped," you hear an unfamiliar voice say, "it would've made things a lot easier for me."
>You feel a presence come closer, now it feels like it's standing over you.
>"Don't bother trying to fight it," you hear the voice continue, "those darts I shot you two with are laced with a concoction derived from concentrated mamushi venom. It causes a rapid, complete, and lethal paralysis, but of course, it's not going to be lethal for you... Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to test the effectiveness of a little experiment of mine!"
>As your vision fades, your breathing stops, and you begin to lapse into unconsciousness, you feel something that feels like a needle work its way into your left arm...
>When you regain consciousness, you are lying in a bed that you are all too familiar with. It's one of the beds that Eirin Yagokoro, Kaguya's pharmacist and doctor, treats her patients on, which you have commonly awakened on following a particularly brutal encounter with Kaguya.
>"Oh, you're awake!" says a voice that you recognize as belonging to Reisen Udongein Inaba, one of Kaguya's associates and Eirin's "assistant," "Shall I go fetch Eirin?"
>DEATH COUNTER: 2
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