Re: Touhou CYOA - Second edition
Thinking it might not be a good idea to interefere since she was kind of a sitting duck there on the ground level, Byakuren lets the battle play out. She holds Parsee's shoulder to keep the bridge princess from attacking, which she surprisingly enough does.
"I-if that you feel that is the correct path here.."
After a few more minutes of heated danmaku battle, Sanae takes a direct hit from the pinkish cloud-man, freefalling downwards as the hit knocks her unconcious. Before she hits the rocky peak, the ligtning controller dives down to grab her from the sky. Quickly heading towards the pair, she deposits the fainted shrine maiden into Byakuren's arms.
"It's not her place to die here, this is between me and them." the lady tells her before she spins upwards to face the girl and old man once more.
"Now that she's not getting in the way, I can go all out with you. PREPARE YOURSELVES!" the purple-haired woman calls out to the other fighters, electricity starting to build up on her open palms as she elegantly keeps on evading all the projectiles aimed at her. The cloud-man and it's controller furiously try to get this skilled pursuer off themselves as they start to back off, but soon the lady has completed her spell
"THIS IS IT! PEARL OF THE FIVE-CLAWED DRAGON!" the woman introduces her attack's name as huge, five-pointed stars of lighting start to fly from her outstretched hands. The attack seems to cover the entire sky as the stars start to spread out in all directions, hitting the cloud as it's not able to evade in time. It starts to shrink as it goes downwards, turning into a small, dog-sized thing as it lands, depositing it's mistress safely to the ground.
With all of them now on the ground, the purple-haired lady comes over to Byakuren, her walking as graceful as her flying.
"I'm Iku Nagae, an envoy for the Celestials over at Dragon Palace in the heavens." she tells Byakuren, giving a courteous bow before continuing.
"I've been looking for a certain item stolen from that idiot of a princess. After some time spent on looking, I found this girl here being in possession of it." Iku tells her, dragging the third girl into the conversation. This girl is dressed in a ragged, once-white robe and bears a golden ring. With an insistent look, Iku turns to her
"Just what did you intend to do with the Sword of Hisou? I'd like to know that, before I take it back."
As in reply to Iku's word's, the girl's stomach growls. A slightly embarassed look coming over the oarfish youkai, she places her hand over her face.
"Don't tell me, you were going to sell it? Why not just sell that ring, it looks mighty valuable to me" Iku says. Her words are quickly turned down by the girl
"It's Unzan's ring! I can't sell him..."
"Unzan? You mean that pinkish old man with you?" The conversation is then interrupted by the waking Sanae
"If you need food, I can cook... for all of us.." the shrine maiden says in Byakuren's arms, a friendly smile forming across her features, even as she was just battling the other two talking. The girl is eager to have a meal, but a puzzled look overcomes Iku
"I'd just like to have that sword back so I could go on my way..."
A. Ask her to eat dinner with the rest of you before any further dealings
B. Ask the girl to hand over the Sword Of Hisou to Iku