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- VOTE RESULTS
- [X] How about we do something that doesn’t involve fighting? (2 Votes)
- - [X] A race from Yamane's Poison house to the Bridge to the Surface World (as a checkpoint), then continue to the Palace of Earth Spirits. The goal is at the Rose Garden. First to arrive, wins. (3 Votes)
- - [X] If you lose Parsee, give me a tour around the Underground City. (2 Votes)
- Let’s rock.
- ---
- You don’t like the fact that you have to settle a dispute with a danmaku battle. Sure, while it’s a way of Gensokyians settle their differences; you don’t feel like wasting your ammo at this moment.
- “Well? Are you a brave one or are you a coward?”
- [i]“Run. It’s the feat of who’s the fastest – if you’re choosing to be a pacifist.”[/i] All in a sudden, you heard a voice echoing in your mind.
- “Huh?”
- “I’m waiting, human…” Parsee said impatiently.
- Well, if there’s no other way, you’d have to follow the
- “I’ll decline your danmaku battle, and how about we do something that doesn’t involve fighting?”
- [i]”Wimp.”[/i] Parsee thought. “So what’s your idea?”
- “I challenge you to a race from Yamane's Poison House to the Bridge to the Surface World as a checkpoint. And then we continue all the way towards the Palace of Earth Spirits. The goal is at the Rose Garden.” You stared at her eyes in confidence. “First to arrive, wins.”
- Parsee smirked. “That would do, I suppose. I just happen to be a good runner around here.” She exclaimed. “And your wager?”
- “If you lose, you’d be my tour guide for me around the Underground City this weekend. And if I lose…”
- “And if you lose, you’d be our dakimakura next weekend.” Yuugi interjected as she entered Yamame’s bar. “How about it?”
- “Y-Yuugi! This is my competition; let me choose what I want to do with him!”
- The one-horned oni laughed heartily. “But, isn’t the thing you actually want to do to him, right?”
- You can see a crimson tint on Parsee’s face as she punched Yuugi’s chest repeatedly. “Stop saying things like that!”
- The oni and Yamame’s customers turned their attention towards you. “So, Seo. What’s your say?”
- “I don’t know… but since I haven’t got the chance to go around this city, so why not?”
- “No. I mean about the thing you had to do if you lose.”
- You sighed. “Sounds okay, I guess.”
- “Good.” Yamame said as she appeared from the bar’s kitchen with plates of noodles. “I guess both of you need to have a bit of briefing when it comes to a competition.”
- The spider woman handed you the plate before you started eating the noodles. “Rule number one. Absolutely no cheating. Flying around is forbidden in this race.”
- Parsee pouted.
- “Rule number two. No rough-housing. Anyone who is guilty of hurting the other player during the race is subject to punishment. Also danmaku are not allowed for this competition.”
- The bridge princess groaned.
- “Finally, rule number three. Do not damage public property. Absolutely no running on the rooftops. Seo, this applies to you too.”
- You choked on the noodles a bit. “Actually that was Orin’s idea, not mine.”
- “I don’t care.”
- Yamame repeated the rules once more before you agreed to the conditions set.
- “Alright. I’ll follow it.”
- “Oh, by the way, Seo, give me your pistol and one bullet please?”
- “What for?”
- “For flagging both of you off.”
- You pulled out your M9, before you ejected the magazine out and racked the slide to eject a round out of the chamber. Then, you took out an empty mag from your pouch and loaded the mag with a danmaku-refit round. You then handed both magazine and the M9 to the spider woman.
- “You know how to use this thing?”
- Yamame chuckled. “I watched Outside World movies when I have free time.” You have finished eating by then. “Why don’t you go and have a good warm up before you start running?”
- “Sure thing.”
- --|| Few Minutes Later ||--
- “On your mark…get set…” Yamame chambered the handgun before raised your M9 to the air. “Go.” She pulled the trigger, and the two of you ran off towards the bridge.
- The handgun’s slide had locked back, and Yamame ejected the empty magazine out. She inserted a fresh one handed by Orin, before she turned the safety on the M9 off and handed it to Orin. The kasha then tucked it in the holster you left behind.
- “Well, I wish you luck, Seo.” She muttered.
- ---
- The moment she reached the bridge’s end for the checkpoint, she swiveled around in one spot to turn. You on the other hand had to skid to before you could turn around and resume running to the Palace of the Earth’s Spirits.
- “She’s getting a kickstart!”
- As you ran past the
- And then you and Parsee came across a steep flight of stairs. Without hesitation the bridge princess jumped all way down to the bottom. You on the hand skidded to a stop.
- “Why did you stop, mister?”
- “I don’t want to end up forfeiting the race with broken legs; I need to get a different route!” you said, between gasps. “Lead the way, Orin!”
- “Turn around, get to the shortcut on your right!” Orin yelled from the rooftops.
- “Faster, mister!” Orin cheered from the balcony overseeing the garden.
- “You’re not gonna make it!” Parsee intimidated you, in hoping you’d be slowed down.
- “Oh no you don’t!” You replied.
- In a last bid to get to the finish, you tried to sprint but something snagged your legs and made you fell on your head – instantly blacking you out. You’re not the only one who fell; you heard Parsee yelp briefly before everything goes numb on you.
- ---
- When you woke up, your vision is all blurred.
- “Are you okay, Seo?” A voice asked. You cannot identify who is the owner of the voice, since it sounds as if it was mixed with someone else’s.
- Ah hell, if you can’t recognize the voice, At least you will know them by their foot. Youraised your face from the stone walkway and…
- What footwear is that?
- [] Slippers
- [] Boots with a heart on each pair
- [] Geta
- [] Mary-Janes without white socks
- [] Mary-Janes with white socks
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