So I'm having my best run of PCB hard ever. Everything has gone right apart from losing a border on Douman-Seiman. Even Stage 4 went fantastically well, and I'm mathematically certain to get the 1200pt item life with a cherrymax higher than I've ever had. My goal of 1 billion points looked all but sown up.
Get to Youmu. Bomb Flashing Slash after I get into a bad position by accident. No biggy, I'm 8/1, it's all good.
Then I clipdeath Approaching Disillusion. It was either literally the edge of my hitbox or input lag, I can't remember. But it's cool, I've got tons of lives left, plenty of resource points. I'm good, I can do this. (1 death)
Then I die on Seven Sins as well because my post-border immunity decides to just not exist for once. Bit shaken. (2 deaths)
I need to spend two bombs to get through the rapewall, one of which was a focus bomb, so combined with the two deaths mean the 100+ point items aren't worth nearly as much as they should be. So I have one bomb left for Ageless Obsess...Oh, I died there too. (3 deaths)
I then border break Yuyuko's first non spell.
FAIL LOST SOUL'S VILLAGE.
Somehow capture deadly dance.
Die to the knives. (4 deaths)
Fuck up the cherry on the knives so I don't get a border at the start of Flowery Soul.
MESS UP COLLECTING POWER ITEMS AND HAVE 127 POWER WITH THE REMAINDER FALLING OFF SCREEN. It gets better.
I THEN DIE ON YUYUKO'S FOURTH NON-SPELL. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU (5 deaths)
Fight absolute, unrelenting urge to ragequit.
Capture repository with 1 second left.
Bomb Sumizome a couple of times
Cap Res Butterfly.
Finish 4/2, score adds up, I don't even break 900 million. Joypad gets thrown.
Unbelievably disgusted. At least it's not as bad as Imperishable Night where the last 90 seconds of the game are worth 400 million points by themselves, but failing the simplest of crap and missing my goal because of it just makes me feel horrible.