[h2]Konpaku Youmu[/h2]

Forming a team with Nanoha had seemed like the best choice at the moment. Youmu could still feel that hot sensation in her chest, the anger at the one who had owned this mansion in the past. She had never once before encountered such awful acts. Utilizing danmaku was, at the moment, farm from her mind. She couldn't pull any punches. She wouldn't dull the lethality of Roukanken. Her swordplay had been conveyed to her both for use in danmaku and for use in battles with every danger unsurpressed. 

The cavern was horrible. It smelled like rotting flesh, spoiled fish and salt. The air was thick and heavy. It was a terrible, terrible place, with strange carvings all over the walls.

"... Takamachi-san, I can hear things moving ahead," she asserted. Her phantom half drifted forwards as she spoke. The sounds were quite clearly that of some sort of creature, but exactly what was difficult to discern. Before it could drift terribly far, however, it encountered a terrible sight.

Not one, but multiple animated corpses. Their bodies were bloated, flesh rotted and decayed, some sloughing off of their bodies. It was completely vile. There was some sort of magic down here being used to animate dead bodies... ? It wasn't as if the idea of death was unfamiliar to the short half-phantom, but there was a difference between living in the Netherworld and seeing corpses walking around. And with those bodies...

Strange, squat creatures with contorted, fish-like bodies, carrying short spears and swords. One was already leveling its weapon towards them...!

Youmu's blue eyes narrowed. One hand laid on Roukanken's hilt.

Metal sang as she drew her katana, the length of the sword longer than her height, and erupted forwards without the slightest delay. She cleared the distance between herself and then enemy in an instant, the first of the fish creatures in front of her in seconds...!

Roukanken flashed.

For a moment, it appeared as if nothing happened. Then, it became clear there was a thin line of red across the fish creature's body, from the top of its head downwards.

It then slid apart, both halves toppling apart with an ugly spray of blood.

Spears jabbed towards her immediately after her initial attack, but Youmu deftly sprang back out of range, her other hand swiftly drawing Hakurouken!

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