A Fool's Game Time

Just as we were about to get moving, I remembered that the little thing who had come down here with me was still nowhere to be seen.

That idiot Ding Dang was really the sort who could drop the ball anytime, anywhere, for any reason. After her historic meeting with Cirno, the two fools had hit it off and run off to play together, impossible to call back. I really didn't dare imagine what those two were busy doing right now.

But what a coincidence. The moment I suggested going to look for Ding Dang, a distant rolling roar drifted into everyone's ears.

"Sounds like thunder?"

After the chain of rumbling sounds ended, Sandora said uncertainly.

"If I'm not mistaken, I also sensed Ding Dang's divine power erupting." I stood up and pointed west. "Uh, who's coming with me to take a look?"

In the end, a whole crowd of people, including Marisa, came along. Everyone was curious about what those two fools were doing. It had to be quite a cheerful sight.

Naturally, Reimu had no desire to join in on this kind of trouble. But with an action-oriented person like Marisa around, the Red White Shrine Maiden's dream of drinking tea until she died was doomed to remain unfulfilled. Well, perhaps it made no difference. You simply couldn't handle a Red White Shrine Maiden who could calmly brew tea while being dragged down a mountain at supersonic speed, her body floating horizontally in midair!

"Rumble... crack... waaaah!!"

When our group of overpowered people rushed down Youkai Mountain at nearly the speed of sound and followed the noise and Ding Dang's divine power toward a dense forest, that rolling roar rang out again beside us. This time, we heard it clearly. Mixed into it was the earth-shaking scream of