57 Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days Part Final

AN: its 4k word, I'm dying.​

-Afternoon, My House-

-My POV-​

"No matter what, I can't really help Master?" Bara asked.

"Yes."

"…Is it because I'm too weak?" Bara sadly asked.

"…Yes." I said truthfully.

And then she starts sulking.

"W-well, after this is over, how about we start training together again, just like last time." I said trying to cheer her up.

Bara looks back at me. "…Promise?"

"Y-yeah, of course." I said to assure her while also start patting her head.

"…It's a promise then." said Bara, usually she immediately trying to get away from me after I start patting her, but now she's just enjoying it.

"…" something is missing.

I hug her.

*pat**pat**pat**pat**pat**pat**pat**pat**pat*

"FUNYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

…That's better.

It all started this morning, I feel that something is gonna happen today, and since today is the Feast Day, I figured that today is gonna be the final one.

So with that as a basis, I prepare myself for war. I'm not even gonna be stingy with my point, and since taking a hit is practically a suicide move, I choose to go with speed.

For simpler explanation, I basically enchant everything with [Agility Up], [Greater Agility Up], [Dexterity Up], [Greater Dexterity Up], [Strength Up], [Greater Strength Up], [Energy Up], [Greater Energy Up], and [Energy Regeneration]. I even put enchantment on my underwear, that's how much worried I'm with the upcoming fight.

As for my weapon:

Doujigiri Yasutsuna: [Durability Up], [Greater Durability Up], [Super Durability Up], [Maximum Durability Up].

If she knew about the sword, then that mean she probably gonna try to destroy it first, and if that's really happening, then I need to make the sword harder to be destroyed.

*spark*the sword let out a little spark.

"Shut up, this is for your own good."

As for Eternal Illumination Jewel, I add [Light Storage Generation Up], [Output Amplification], [Hit Effect: Stamina Sap]. I also attached a proper handle for it. A pipe shaped handle. It was so that I could still make a double-sided Light Saber. After I test it, the blade became much slimmer than the usual, probably because the light came out more concentrated.

All of the equipments are at the corner of the room, ready to be equipped when the time comes.

As for the total spending from all of upgrades, they were around 250.000 IP.

"…" I look at the lifeless Loli in my arm.

I peck her cheek.

"FUNYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" and she became lively once again.

'…This is fun.' I thought.

While there's still time until evening come, let's review my fight with Remilia and Sakuya.

Honestly, I knew that I already won that fight after I lifted my ban to use my other abilities, I said that because from that point onward, none of them can't touch me.

…In the distant I could hear "but what about the time when you fled from Remilia red bullet form and then you got fried from her red lighting?"

…I can confirmed that at that point in time, I got cocky after I downed Sakuya, and then I became arrogant, and then I became an arrogant prick, and since I talked shit, I finally got hit, I actually deserved to lose that fight but I actually didn't. Remilia also lose her cool and then she fell for my taunt, this cost her Sakuya, which make the fight 10x more easier, so I guess she deserve to lose as well which did, and I still feel bad after what happened.

Anyway, back to topic, let's do a proper analysis!

Their abilities, none of them could touch me if I tried, one of them might be able to do it, but her ability is too vague so I'm not gonna add it into the equation.

First ability, Sakuya's Time Stop.

Decent ability, but it still can't get past my Counter Armor.

Her main usage of her ability is to throws projectiles at the enemy when the time stopped. Based on the source material, she can't melee her opponent when the time stopped because she can't do any damage to anything when the time stopped, it's like she's in different plane of existence once she stopped time. This is why everything is black and white when she used her ability. This is why in the game, you can only throws projectile when you used her time stopped ability and can't melee the opponent, or maybe this is just for balance sake from the developer side, in any case, she can't do anything except throwing projectile which don't have any effect on me because I have Counter Armor.

Second ability, Remilia's Fate Manipulation.

Too fucking vague, even in source material said that "It's questionable if she could use her ability on her own", this could pass off as her talking shit after winning, being haughty, being arrogant, tl:dr too much vagueness to be count as fighting power.

Next analysis, their fighting style.

They need proper contact to do any damage to me, which rendered useless by my Counter Armor. None of them also possess Divinity to bypass my ability. The fight just a series of cluster fuck in my opinion once I think about it. Me being arrogant, Remilia fell for my taunt which costing Sakuya, Me being arrogant again, Remilia got a score on me, and somehow I still won. It was cluster fuck indeed.

If the fight played out normally, I still won by the way.

Sakuya throws her knives, I teleport some pebble in the knives trajectory, even if the knives hit me, it still won't do any damage because of Counter Armor.

Remilia started using her claws and energy spear; she still won't do any damage because of Counter Armor.

They take some distance; I could instantly Teleport behind them to catch up.

So conclusion of the analysis, I could do better in that fight if I didn't start getting arrogant, and both of them are in the middle of Gensokyo's power level, which mean I need to get a grip of myself and stop goofing around when fighting.

I look outside.

"…It's time." I said.

I put the out of breath Loli with disheveled clothes on the floor.

I go to the pile of equipment on the corner of the room.

I put on my Kimono on my T-shirt, I wear the Combat Gloves, I strapped down Doujigiri Yasutsuna on my waist, but when I'm about to tie the knot on my Combat Shoes, I can feel someone tugging on my clothes.

It's Bara.

Bara pressed both of my cheek with her hand and then pecked my forehead.

"Please come back safely." said Bara worriedly.

I replied to her while smiling. "Of course, I already promised, right?" I pecked her back on the forehead.

And I'm ready to go.

"Watch over the house for me, okay, I'll be back soon."

Bara nodded.

And finally, I Teleported myself out from the house.

-Evening, the Staircase of Hakurei Shrine-​

I pop out in mid air, and then landed slowly on the ground.

I look at my surrounding. It's the Staircase to the Hakurei Shrine, my target location.

I breathed in and breathed out.

"Okay, let's do this." I said before climbing up the Staircase.

Soon after almost reaching the top, I see someone welcoming me at the Shrine's Toori gate, it's Yukari.

"Ah, you finally arrived." she said.

She wears a purple Chinese-style tabard with various Trigrams over a pale pink Western-style dress wears her hair coiled up into her mob cap. It's her "official business" dress.

"Here you go." she waved her hand and a big gap opened up beside her.

The inside of the gap is different from her usual "a gap with lots of eyes inside", right now there's a white hue on the "ground" and pitch black for everything else inside the gap.

"Have fun~." said Yukari while smiling.

I nodded at her word and wordlessly went inside her Gap.

Once I'm inside, the Gap closed, and somehow I could still see myself and the white hue road despite everything is pitch black.

I follow the road until fog started appearing. I brave myself and continue to walk inside the fog.

Everything in my vision is white, it continues for a while and then I finally got out from the fog.

What welcomes me after that is the most amazing sight I ever saw in my life.

It's the Moon. It shines very brightly and hugely in front of me.

'Am I above the cloud? Yes, but it's higher from my usual height, I can see the top of some mountain from here.' I thought.

I continue walking down the road until I saw a child like figure.

It's her, Ibuki Suika, the culprit behind the incident, and she's sitting on the "ground", watching the moon while drinking from her gourd.

[Lv.?? Tiny Night Parade of Hundred Demons, Ibuki Suika]

She has a long straight orange hair and two long straight oni horns on each side of her head, one of them is decorated with blue ribbon, and red big ribbon tied at the back of her head. She wears a tattered pale pink blouse, a long purple and pink skirt, and three chain accessories tied to her belt. Those accessories are yellow circle, red triangle, and blue square.

I steel my heart and walk closer to her.

"Another one already? People should enjoy the party more rather than trying to stop it after it started." I stop walking after I heard her murmur. She turned toward me. Her face is red from being drunk. "Well, what do you think?"

"I think partying once in a while is good, but when it keeps happening over and over again, people will feel tired from it." I replied.

"Tired?! Once the party started, that tiredness will be gone! All of them will forget it as they all will be too busy having fun in the party!"

"But not everybody have that kind of mentality, some of them needs to rest properly before partying again, including me."

"'Including you', is it?" Suika turned her head lazily to look at me. "I saw you. I observed you in that feast."

'Ah, this is her "being critical at someone" part, guess it's my turned now after that certain "another one" person.' I thought.

"Despite not affected by my mist, you still come to the feast. Despite being scared from the people in it, you still join the feast. You're the type of person that goes with the flow, that way you didn't offend anyone and slowly but surely gain favor from anyone."

"…"

"To be honest, I don't really hate people like you, you're the perfect type of subordinate for any leader out there, but, I've like for you to answer a simple question."

Her pupil changed into a slit.

"Why do you have that accursed sword?"

My whole body shivering, goose bump appeared all over my body. I fight my instinct to take a step back, and present my reply that I think ahead of time.

"W-well, I found it inside an abandoned house, and-"

"Lies."

My hearth skipped a beat.

"Here's a hint, we, Oni, aren't fond of dishonest and cowardly folks." her gaze intensified.

...Inhale….exhale…

'YOLO!!' I yelled in my mind.

"It's a reward from my boss, a reward that has been given for undertaking certain task." I said truthfully.

"Hou, what do you mean by 'certain task'?" she raised one of her eyebrow.

"Live interestingly inside Gensokyo."

…

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" She suddenly laughs.

I stunted at seeing her reaction.

"INTERESTING! 'LIVE INTERESTINGLY INSIDE GENSOKYO'?! WHAT AN INTERESTING TASK TO GIVE!"

'..Well, that's what I come out with if I give the summary of every tasked that were given the system.' I thought.

"YOUR BOSS MUST BE REALLY BORED AND LAZY IF HE GAVE YOU THAT KIND OF TASK!"

'…You know what. I just realized something just now. I fell into Yukari's plan aren't I? She just used one stone to get two birds, right? Me spilling my secret while also solving this incident at the same time while she just done minimal effort to do so. …Let's just don't think too much about it, I also can't do anything to her so I shouldn't think too much about it.' I thought.

She brings her gourd to her mouth and start gulping at its content.

Several more second passed and she still drinking.

"Puhah~" Her mouth finally parted away from the gourd. "…And that also mean he also watching you right now, right?"

She swung her hand to the side.

*KABBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM*

The huge moon cracked and then separated into several pieces.

"Then I'll show him what happened if he's looking for trouble with the Oni." said Suika while smiling.

Even thought she said that, instead she starts doing warmed up.

"You are lucky, hup, to be shown of this sight, hup." she's bending her waist left and right

"What sight?" I asked.

"Me fighting, hap, sober of course, hap, it has been hundreds of year, hap, I'm drunk." now she's doing a jumping jack.

"…Ho boy." I said. 'She's right, in every Touhou series she's in, she's always drunk, even in fighting series, she's fighting while drunk. …Am I fucked now?' I thought.

*spark*the sword let out a spark.

"Oh, that thing is alive now? That's a shame, because I'll make it not alive once again after this." now she's rotating her neck.

*ZAAAAAAAAPP*the sword let out electricity on its surrounding.

"Calm down, calm down." I pat the sword to calm it down.

A moment after that, she's finish with her warm up.

A Fist and A Palm, a shockwave happened when she met those two together with both of her hands.

"All right, different wielder but the same sword, it's still count as a rematch! Ibuki Suika is the name!" she's pumped.

I draw Doujigiri Yasutsuna and electricity dance in the air.

"Arah. I much prefer to still be in one piece after this is over." I said.

And our fight started.

"Black Hole"

A black hole appeared on Suika's hand, it started sucking everything.

I stood my ground using Vector Change, but the suction power keeps getting stronger by the moment.

"I need to stop it somehow."

*spark*

"…I see." The sword told me what to do, and I somehow could understand it.

I feed the sword my mana, and the purple lightning start pouring out from the sword. Instead of letting the lightning go to waste, I gather them all at the tip of the sword.

Suika noticed what I did, she stop her black hole and start gathering something else.

I swung my sword to shot the lightning toward Suika, answering my attack; she created a huge boulder from all the dirt she gathered.

Lightning and Boulder collided, and the Boulder won

Gather Sign "Mt. Togakushi Toss"

She picked up The Boulder, and it became bigger in her hand.

"…That's not even a boulder anymore."

The boulder keeps getting bigger until it became a mountain sized.

"Rather than called it mountain sized, I would rather called it The World."

She wears her ferocious smile and tosses the world at me.

Of course, dodging it normally is impossible, so I choose to do what I normally did.

I Teleport myself behind Suika's back.

I swing my sword to her but she turned into a mist before my sword made any contact with her.

"…Is everyone has eyes at the back of their head now? It's twice in a row that my back attack didn't work." I complained.

Several meter away from me, the Mist immediately reformed back into Suika.

"You and Yukari are the same! Both of you use tricks against me! Fight me head on!! "Suika also complained.

"I refuse. Direct confrontation with you is basically a suicide, and I'm not an idiot to do so." I replied.

"Grrr, coward." she grumbled.

'Aside from dishonesty and cowardice, Oni also hated trickery. Based on what I read, this hatred are comes from their straight forwardness of their personality.' I thought.

Spectre –Sparse–

She took out strands of hairs from her own and then throws it into the air. The hairs immediately transformed into a mini Suika.

"Catch him!" ordered Suika to her minis.

"Catch!" "Catch!" "Catch!" "Catch!" "Catch!" All of the Mini Suika drones in to my position.

"Useless." I slash them all effortlessly.

But unexpectedly, a chain comes in out of nowhere wrapped around my arm.

"Got you!" said Suika as she grip the other end of the chain.

"Tch." I clicked my tongue.

She tried to pull me in, but I held on once again with Vector Change.

"Resistant is useless!"

Drunk God "Art of Oni Binding"

The chain glows blue and I feel my power disappeared for moment, with this window of opportunity, Suika is successfully pulls me in. Now I'm in the air and Suika already ready to greet me with her fist.

I change my body trajectory using Vector Change. This caused her punch only hit the air.

*POW*

The air exploded.

'…Okay, I don't need to repeat myself but just in case, dodge her melee.' I warned myself.

I landed away from her and undid the chain. I plan to strike Suika when there's a chance but Suika already running toward me.

"Disappeared!" she throws her punch.

I easily dodge her telegraphic punch.

*POW* the air exploded once again.

She throws another punch, but I dodge that one too.

*POW*

"Stop-"

*POW*

"-moving-"

*POW*

"-around! "

She raised both of her hands, 'A slam.' I predict what she's about to do and jump away from her.

*BAM* she slams the ground and the "ground" shook.

Because I perfectly timed my jumped with her ground slam, her attack doesn't affect me and when I landed, I immediately did a thrust attack.

I hit her shoulder, but my thrust didn't cut through her shoulder like I expected.

'Hard.' I thought.

I immediately pull away from her as she tried to grab me.

Will-o'-Wisp "Super dense Phosphorus Disaster Art"

Bleeding from her shoulder, she gathered heats with both of her hands and form them into a super big fire ball.

"Burn to ash!" said Suika, but when she's about to throw the fire ball I teleported behind her.

I slash at her back before taking distance once again.

"Argh!!" scream Suika and the fire ball disperse everywhere.

I shield myself from the fire and opt to observe the situation.

With bleeding from her back and shoulder, she looks at me with fury.

"Enough! This is the end of your trickery!"

Kishin "Missing Purple Power"

Suika's body slowly getting bigger and bigger until her height towering over mine, and she also giving out some kind of pressure to her surrounding.

"No more running!" the air vibrated when she talks.

She brings her hands forward and created another black hole.

I hold my ground, but it seems like the suction power is higher than before, and also, its power are increasing faster.

I fired another lightning at her face, but she block her face with her other arm.

'…This is bad. I gotta do something or I'm dead.' I thought.

But as if she's reading my mind, she starts moving while still activating her black hole toward me.

'It'll be the same situation even if I teleport to another place, I need another plan.' I thought.

It's a fight against time. I need to think of a new plan before she arrived to my position.

When Suika already near me, I could feel the pressure she's expelling, it's suffocating and heavy.

And then she finally arrived in front of me. I feel like an ant staring at an elephant.

"This is the end." her other hand start reaching toward me.

'NOW!' with all of my strength and Vector Change, I jump pass her hand and straight to her face.

I stab my sword in between her eyes, and I immediately pour all of my mana into the sword.

Lightning pouring out from the sword, they shocked both of us.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Suika screamed as she trashed to get me off of her.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!" I also screamed as I keep holding the sword to stay in its place with all of my might.

I don't know how much time passed but by the time I'm fully awake, I already staring at the starry sky.

My whole body hurt so I slowly pull out the health pill from my pouch.

A moment after I ate it, I slowly get up and observe my surrounding.

The first thing I noticed is the huge moon. It's still shining brightly. It's as if its destruction just now was a lie.

'Ah, I heard this, she only destroy the 'image' of the moon, not the actual moon.' I thought.

I search some more, and I found Suika lying down on the ground, she become normal sized again and she's still alive based on the up-and-down of her chest, as for my sword, Doujigiri Yasutsuna, it continuously sparkling on the ground near her.

I slowly walk to my sword to pick it up, after I did so, I go to where Suika is.

I see her face as I'm approaching her, her eyes are closed while blood trickling down from the injury between her eyes.

After I arrived next to her, I just stand there, not saying any word while staring at her face.

There's just silent (I flick the sword to stop sparking). Me, her, and the shining moon.

After a while, the first one who broke the silent is me.

I put the sword back to its sheet and then proceed to sit down next to her.

Suika opened one of her eye to look at me.

I grab her sake gourd, the Ibuki Gourd, a gourd that could produce infinite amount of water, with dousing it with the extract of Sake Bug, now the gourd only produce infinite amount of Sake.

I uncorked it, and drink directly from it.

One gulp.

Two gulp.

I parted away.

"AAAARRRGGHHH, that totally burned my throat." I grunted before I offer the gourd to Suika. "I'm here not to kill anybody. I'm here to end the incident, so no hard feeling right?" I asked her.

Her expression is in a look of surprise, and then changed into amused one.

She got up and took the gourd to drink from it.

One gulp.

Two gulp.

Three gulp.

Four gulp.

…

"Puahah~," she looks satisfied after many gulps. She's smiling at me. "You're an interesting one, you opted to keep me alive even though I want to kill you in that fight. Tell me, what will you do if I still decided to fight you again in the future?"

"It's simple. I'll just have to win again like today."

"Hoooh~, what a declaration. What happened if my other friends come to challenge you too?"

"F-friends?" I stutter.

"Yeah, in the past, we were challenged by someone who wielded your sword, at that time we were young and reckless, we accept it without caution whatsoever, and in the end, we barely got out with our live, some of us even lucky to be alive." said Suika reminiscing her past.

"Lucky to be alive? Did she get her arm chopped off?" I guessed.

"…Are you sure you're not the wielder at that time?" her eyes turn into slit once again.

"No, no, no, no, I'm just guessing because I read about it in a book." I hurriedly denied by shaking my head rapidly.

"Hmph," her eyes back to normal. "Yeah, her name is Ibaraki Kasen, based on her personality, she probably got scared when she saw your sword once again, but not for Yuugi, she's the

opposite, she's the most eager one to have a rematch."

"…Yuugi? Is her full name perhaps 'Hoshiguma Yuugi'?" I asked.

"Yup." she confirmed my suspicion before drinking from her gourd once again.

"…"

I start worrying for my future. 'Hoshiguma Yuugi? She's already in the Underground. All she needs to do is just walk up from there to Gensokyo. Don't tell me tomorrow she'll climb up to meet me?' I start really worried about my future.

While we both doing our thing, we heard another voice in the area.

I search for the source, and I easily found it.

It's Reimu and Marisa.

"Woah, what is this place-ze?"

"Forget about the place, we need to end this incident fast, my private sake bottle will be empty if we keep doing the feast."

'Ah, same old Reimu.' I thought.

"Hm, isn't that?" said Reimu.

Looks like they found us.

"Arah and unknown individual-ze. You two must be culprit behind this incident right?!" accused Marisa.

"No, it's her." I point at Suika.

"Yup, it's me!" Suika raised her hand cheerily.

I look at Suika's face. She's back being drunk again.

"Doesn't matter, I'll teach each one of you a lesson." said Reimu.

"Hou, hou, a fight is it? I'll gladly take you weakling on." said Suika energetically, even thought she just lose against me. Oni is scary, indeed.

"Don't forget about me-ze!" said Marisa.

And the firework started.

"Well, at least I didn't get dragged into their fight." I said.

…

…Welp, I spoke too soon. I'm currently falling inside a gap, a Yukari's gap mind you, there are lots of eyes inside here, but since I already fought with Suika and Yukari, I'm not scared at anything

anymore.

…

I wonder where will she send me? She's not sending me directly to the Underground right?

And I finally out from the gap and landed hard on the ground.

"..My butt, my poor butt." I endure the pain, for the note, I'm falling while in sitting position.

I look around, and I feel glad because she sent me back to in front of my house.

The door opened and Bara figured can be seen from there. She probably came to check out the loud noise that happened in front of the house.

"Master? Master!!" She's surprised.

"I'm home, Bara." I greeted her.

"MASTER!!" and we both hugged each other happily.

And with this, the Strange Mist incident finally comes to a close.

Author note:

Finally! This arc is oveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!

Yup, like I promised, because this arc is over, I'll put this story in hiatus and start writing my other Si story, which is ECO (Emil Chronicle Online) SI, after a couple of chapter, or when I'm bored with that other SI story, I might continuing the Side Story.

Well, whatever, I'm tired, see you guys next time?