A Historic Meeting

We had clearly overlooked one thing: after a gigantic floating island had come crashing down from the sky with a Mount Tai Pressing Down attack just days ago, the residents of Gensokyo had become extremely nervous about anything falling from above.

The Shilin Apostles' small transport craft possessed instant acceleration-cancellation devices, so their acceleration and deceleration were always incredibly brutal. Their so-called pre-landing deceleration merely meant dropping from Mach 20 to Mach 10. One could imagine the spectacle they made before landing.

As a native Gensokyo resident already on edge because of the floating island overhead, what would you think if you saw a giant fireball falling from the sky and rapidly growing larger?

Needless to say, you would unload a burst from a CIWS at it—if the girls had been equipped with one.

"Whoaah—"

Hakurei Reimu's cry rang through the sky alongside the howl of vector engines. Anti-air fire from the ground wove itself into a dense net of fireworks, and multicolored danmaku nearly covered the entire sky in sight. Squares, circles, triangles—everything was there. Yet amid that savage barrage, the Fighter Transport Aircraft remained completely unharmed. This short, fat little transport, mockingly nicknamed the "comma," possessed superlative maneuverability utterly at odds with its appearance. Facing a barrage that filled the heavens, its onboard combat modules alone could guarantee that it found even the tiniest gap. Bullet grazers were nothing! Touhou maniacs with tentacle-level skills were nothing! APM 200+ was nothing! This world belonged to the "comma"! This was the victory of the onboard computer!

No matter what, the Youkai Girls of Touhou Lily Land were also known as collectively overpowered beings. I had no idea whether they or Imperial Soldiers were stronger, but seeing those enormous laser beams streaking across the sky, I still felt it was best