Chapter 2

It has been a week since we started going over to prank that man. He was began to show a smile on our 3rd visit and afterwards. I assumed that he started to enjoy playing our little game or that he also treated it as some sort of training due to how our little trio always opted for suprise attacks. Perhaps he was simply humouring children to break away from his constant training.

We did inform Reimu of the outsider residing close to the border but she just gave us a shrug and continued to drink her tea. Either she was too lazy to do something, confident that the barrier will keep him out, or is somehow convinced one way or another that he isn't a threat. Although she did raise a brow when I told her it was a man with supernatural strength.

Anyways, we already did our part as children to inform adults of any anomaly we couldn't handle ourselves and seeing the nonchalant attitude a council member had towards him, Cirno for some reason took that as an OK to mess with him some more.

She apparently took it as a challenge to bury him in enough snowballs to turn him into a snowman, much to the dismay of a certain daiyousei. Considering that the three of us combined couldn't get a solid hit on him even once, I doubt that she'll be able to achieve that any time soon.

Waiting at the usual spot by the lakeside, I see that Daiyousei is the only one that has arrived. I went up to her.

"G'morning Daiyousei" I greet her, "Ah, good morning Kizuki-kun." Proceeding to the pass the time by making some casual small talk, which was a bit awkward considering I wasn't the best conversation partner, I caught sight of a small silhouette.

Stopping myself from calling out to the one that dispelled the awkward air, I spot a familiar shadowy figure moving just behind Cirno.

I don't know how she did it, but she did manage to pull other people in during our last visit when Rumia came along with us.

Rumia is a small girl that has red eyes and short blonde hair. Wears a black vest and skirt, and white blouse. A small red amulet is tied to the left side of her hair, making it look like a ribbon. She is quite photosensitive so she constantly uses her ability to manipulate darkness to surround herself with a blob of darkness, save for the nights of a full moon.

She is rarely seen in one place as she like to wander around, even in school as she hardly attends class so I was surprised when Cirno managed to contact her to join our little escapade.

During our last trip, Rumia came up close and personal, fighting with her fists. She always liked to show off her physical strength and hardly used her powers outside of her darkness cloak. However, the man kept dodging her attacks and even delivered a few of his own, all the while avoiding the snowballs, ice and the occasional linear light bullets from me and Daiyousei. I'm sure she was holding back and limited herself to my level however I wanted to create a powerful and complicated danmaku but this is the limit of my current power for now.

Considering our goal, we decided to brainstorm a plan to get a least one solid hit. It took a while to formulate a feasible plan but it was worth the effort. It was summed up like this;

Rumia would cast a shroud after shroud of darkness to either temporarily take away our target's sight or hide certain attacks as I make us of my ability to throw flying headbutts or act out as a distraction. With Daiyousei's ability to create dazzling sparkles, focusing on making them bright, made pseudo flash bombs, and with Rumia's darkness made for an effective tactic to temporarily blind our foe.

Cirno would then freeze his feet on the ground to stop him from moving as Rumia would then move behind him and physically restrain him from the back before being simultaneously pelted with snowball in three different directions.

It was a pretty good plan and we were proud of it. Not waiting any longer, we started moving onwards to the usual place where the man was located and I was confident that our plan will work.

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Our plan did not work. It was a good plan, yes, but we failed due to another factor. The man had a friend visiting him today and we were taken out by suprise.

If your wondering about our current state, all four of us are now tied up by the new person's ability, a black shadowy rope he calls a black whip.

Now normally, Rumia would've used her power to set up free but I was curious about this man because he looked familiar so I asked her to refrain from doing so for the time being. That and Daiyousei finally had enough and wanted to apologize to the other guy. Cirno on the other hand is trying to... free herself by biting the black whip? Cute but not very effective.

The black whip guy was a large muscular man of a wide build. He had a square jaw, small dull blue eyes and lacked eyebrows. He was also bald and had a very short beard.

His attire consisted of dark leather clothes, golden stylish goggles, and a bandolier. The leather jacket had yellow shoulder pads, he had it open and didn't wear a shirt, so it showed his muscular torso.

"Who're you kids? What're you all doin' 'ere?!"

The man's gruff voice reverberated in my ears. He probably did this on purpose to intimidate us. But seriously, power play on children? How low...

"Now now, Don't be too harsh on them Daigoro-kun, they are simply children and they mean no harm, that I assure you."

Surprisingly soft spoken. That was the first time I heard him speak and I almost thought he was mute. Not to mention that he has some noble mannerisms too.

"Hmph. These kids have portrayed a combat efficiency beyond their age. Futhermore, quirks with that much power would legally require them to be supervised by a guardian and they look too neat and tidy to be runaways. And why would kids be in such a place like this anyway?!"

The two of them continued to argue but my mind is currently processing a different kind of information right now.

'Quirks?... so this is the world of [Boku no Hero Academia]? But why... an AU? That's the only logical explanation. But now the question of what other franchise is mixed in this world or is it simply just these two?'

Taking another look at the two bickering adults, now only realising why they looked familiar. 'The 4th and 5th user of AFO. If I recall correctly, the 4th user led a hermit lifestyle to further hone AFO for future users. Although it is quite a coincidence he appeared so close to gensokyo.'

'Ugh, not to mention that I barely remember the plot for this series. I grew up in gensokyo so I only made an effort to remember Touhou-related memories.'

As I was creasing my brows in frustration, a small voice was was heard amongst the disarray of sounds.

"A-Ano..." Everyone turned their head to a blushing Daiyousei. "S-sorry for disturbing what looked like your training for the past few days."

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"It's alright. Besides, not only did you children helped in adding variety to my training but I also had fun doing so." Daiyousei brightened up on his words. "But do pray tell, what are you all doing in such abandoned woods? Where are your parents?"

The four of us know that the gensokyo is supposed to be a secret so we shared a glance with each other before making a decision.

"RUMIA! NOW!"

Immediately, Rumia used her ability to cancel out the black whip binding us which surprised Daigoro. The 4th user, whose name I still can't recall, tried to physically catch us instead only to be met with multiple flying heads that went in after him.

We started running as fast as we can. Cirno froze a large area behind us while I left a least 6 more heads to buy us some time.

Shortly afterwards, we hear a rumble behind us, I turn back to look to see the distance between us but with a gust of wind, the 4th user appears behind me and tried to knock me out by striking my neck.

Unfortunately for him, I can detach my entire neck along with my head. I know he tried to end it less painfully but I can't just fall down here.

With my current strength, I can only create 30 heads at once. No eye lasers, no exploding heads, just regular heads that can Physically bash into someone.

The 4th and the future 5th are looking at me cautiously, or more specifically, me and the others behind me that stayed behind to back me up.

"Sorry." I started, in hopes of diffusing the situation. "I can't tell you about where we're from. Secret hidden village and all that."

"I see..." The 4th seems to understand it now, so my signaled the others to start going back, with my extra heads keeping watch. I know that they are good people but it wouldn't hurt to stay cautious and I'll know when they try to follow us because I share the memories of the heads once they disappear after a while.

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Back at gensokyo, walking along one of it's many paths, we calmly discuss what have just transpired, comforted by safety of the great hakurei barrier. Yukari did not appear so I assume that it really wasn't a danger and that she probably left us continue doing it as a lesson of sorts.

"... What now?" Too engrossed in my thoughts, I didn't know who asked that question but I'm guessing it was Daiyousei.

"Duh! We go back tomorrow and show 'em who's boss!" Cirno is was never one to take a defeat quietly so no suprise there.

"Revenge!" Rumia was releasing a bit of bloodlust but I know she just wants to have another exchange of fists.

They look at me, waiting for my answer. "Can't be helped... let's go get 'em." The two battle junkies grin in delight while Daiyousei sighs in acceptance before a soft smile adorns her face.

Just walking and chatting about random topics, time past us by quickly before we decide to go our separate ways for the remainder of the day. Being together is nice and all but having some lone time is just as good.

Walking by the river, I caught sight of three familiar figures. Members of the group [Grass Roots Youkai Network], where they share information with each other but acts more like a club.

The first figure I noticed was Kegerou. Kagerou Imaizumi is a calm woman with dark brown hair and red eyes. She has two wolf ears and wears a long, blue-white and red dress, ending in a black trim with a cobweb pattern. At the neck of her dress is a red amulet. And lastly, she has long, red nails.

On the other hand, Wakasagihime is a quiet and composed woman with dark blue hair and eyes, as well as small fins in the place of ears. She wears a frilly green leaf-patterned kimono which fades to teal at the bottom. In the place of legs, she has a blue-grey fish tail ending in two large fins.

And lastly, Sekibanki, my sister is a slightly prideful woman with a cynical view of things. Sekibanki has red hair and eyes. She wears a blue bow with red trimmings. Also, a red and blue capelet that covers part of her face. She also wears a black and red long sleeved shirt, as well as a dark red skirt and red and black boots.

Seeing them playing by the water, I went over to them to play like any regular 10-year old would.