Neo Gensokyo Quest - Part 7

[Neovereign]

Ami:

> "I'll have to see if I can visit some time. I still have a lot to learn from Miss Aya, but field work is a great way to do that."

Aya:

> "I'm fine, Boss!"
> Keep going!

> "You don't need to. The fairies will make it hard to."

> You persist. It feels li-
> "Shameimaru!" Megumu calls.
> It feels like each piece of you is doing something more than just vibrating. This might be the cusp of it.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

Ami:

> "Well, I wouldn't be able to visit you otherwise."

Aya:

> "It's happening!"
> Finish it off!

[Neovereign]

Ami:

> "Well, I wouldn't be able to visit you otherwise."

Aya:

> "It's happening!"
> Finish it off!

> "I can go elsewhere sometimes now, I think."

> You keep it up, feeling yourself scatter... with the wind? The wind's all gone, though...
> There's no wind around at all, actually...
>_

[Kilgamayan]

Ami:

> "Oh, that's good. The mountain has a river you could swim up to at least get to the kappa, if not us. But I thought it would be rude to expect you to visit me."

Aya:

> Open our eyes, if we still have them, and look around.

[Neovereign]

Ami:

> "Oh, that's good. The mountain has a river you could swim up to at least get to the kappa, if not us. But I thought it would be rude to expect you to visit me."

Aya:

> Open our eyes, if we still have them, and look around.

> You try to see, finding... nothing. There's nothing around, not just a lack of wind...
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Oh shoot.
> Can we hear anything?
> "Hello?"

[Neovereign]

> Oh shoot.
> Can we hear anything?
> "Hello?"

> You don't hear anyone around.
> You call out...
> Did you? You don't hear yourself yet.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Try flying around in this void space.

[Neovereign]

> Try flying around in this void space.

> You can't tell if you're moving. Nor if anything else is moving.
> The silence is deafening. You can't hear yourself think. It feels like your mind is trying to make up noise, but you can't even hear what you think it'd sound like either...
> ...
> "The hell are you doing here?" You finally hear something. It's like finally coming up for water from underair. ...no, air from underwater.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> Open our eyes and look for the source of the voice.

[Neovereign]

> Open our eyes and look for the source of the voice.

> You notice it's... Seija? The details seem a bit fuzzy, but it looks enough like her...
> "Wait, actually, how did you get here?"
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...Sei...ja...? Where...?"
> Look at ourselves.

[Neovereign]

> "...Sei...ja...? Where...?"
> Look at ourselves.

> You can't find where yourself is. The only thing here is Seija. Maybe this is what it's like in a chest?
> "Oh good, you're still here. Let me ask you again, what the hell are you doing?"
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...Transcending?"

[Neovereign]

> "...Transcending?"

> "Tran... ..." Seija thinks for a moment. "Maybe. Who are you? Do you still remember?"
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> We do still know those things, right?

[Neovereign]

> We do still know those things, right?

> You do. It does feel like you can hear yourself think again.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Aya Shameimaru, the fastest in Gensokyo. ...Unless something has changed since I was last self-aware. Which seems eminently possible."

[Neovereign]

> "Aya Shameimaru, the fastest in Gensokyo. ...Unless something has changed since I was last self-aware. Which seems eminently possible."

> "And you're... "transcending" into...?"
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Aya Shameimaru, the very wind herelf."

[Neovereign]

> "Aya Shameimaru, the very wind herelf."

> "Is that really much of an upgrade?" Seija questions, tilting her head slightly. "Then again, maybe you're trying for a simple life?"
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "We all have our ambitions we need to pursue. I imagine you, of all people, understand this. ...It just doesn't work out sometimes."

[Neovereign]

> "Aya Shameimaru, the very wind herelf."

> Seija pauses for a bit, but then shakes her head.
> "Whatever. Just keep thinking that and remembering who you are. Maybe mediate or something. I dont know. Never really did this before..."
> That doesn't sound reassuring...
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "I've been meaning to ask that, actually. How did you end up in this position dealing with...whatever I did to myself? I still don't really understand where I am, or how I'm communicating, or why there's literally nothing except you."

[Neovereign]

> "I've been meaning to ask that, actually. How did you end up in this position dealing with...whatever I did to myself? I still don't really understand where I am, or how I'm communicating, or why there's literally nothing except you."

> "You can call me Zanmu. I'm used to this.... well, this being nothing." She waves her arms around in emphasis. "It's not that good a place, according to trying to bring anything here... what i dont get is how you ended up here. Given you said youre the fastest or something, did you end up going so fast you shot out of reality?"
> If this is nothing, then that would make a bit of sense...you don't think you became wind in a good way...
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Oh, so you're the Lady Zanmu I heard about! That purple lady with bangs for days is looking for you. Damn, wish I had my camera and notepad and stuff if I have you as an audience."
> "...Anyway...so, sounds I unmade myself, huh. Assuming you're not familiar with me, I am indeed the fastest in Gensokyo, Non-Time-Manipulation Division. I'm also its best journalist, its hottest body, its best bird...the list goes on. And there's no one better at controlling the wind than me; some call me the Wind God Girl despite my general lack of divinity. It's a nice title, not gonna lie."
> "But sometimes, your ambitions are larger than you, and you want to be something even more than you already are. Controlling the wind is one thing. Becoming the wind is another. So I tried to speed myself up so fast and mix myself with the winds to become them. ...And now, apparently, I'm nowhere, which would suggest I failed catastrophically."

[Neovereign]

> "Oh, so you're the Lady Zanmu I heard about! That purple lady with bangs for days is looking for you. Damn, wish I had my camera and notepad and stuff if I have you as an audience."
> "...Anyway...so, sounds I unmade myself, huh. Assuming you're not familiar with me, I am indeed the fastest in Gensokyo, Non-Time-Manipulation Division. I'm also its best journalist, its hottest body, its best bird...the list goes on. And there's no one better at controlling the wind than me; some call me the Wind God Girl despite my general lack of divinity. It's a nice title, not gonna lie."
> "But sometimes, your ambitions are larger than you, and you want to be something even more than you already are. Controlling the wind is one thing. Becoming the wind is another. So I tried to speed myself up so fast and mix myself with the winds to become them. ...And now, apparently, I'm nowhere, which would suggest I failed catastrophically."

> "Hm... it looks like you're in the middle of succeeding spectacularly, given you're still... here, and not a part of the nothingness here." Zanmu says. "Maybe it's like being born again. Or reincarnated. Those were my thoughts, at least. Youkai are supposedly more made up by meaning than physical things like genetics and incubation. What im saying is, i think this might be the jackpot. Assuming it actually works, youve got yourself a canvas to make do with."
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "Huh, I see. Well, it'd certainly be nice to know I didn't disintegrate myself in vain. Assuming I'm at least able to go back and forth between a wind form and a physical form, I rather like having the best bod in the land. ...And assuming I can leave here. Uh, no offense to present company, of course."

[Neovereign]

> "Huh, I see. Well, it'd certainly be nice to know I didn't disintegrate myself in vain. Assuming I'm at least able to go back and forth between a wind form and a physical form, I rather like having the best bod in the land. ...And assuming I can leave here. Uh, no offense to present company, of course."

> "I hear God's can have physical forms and spiritual ones. Though they need faith to exist..."
>_

[Kilgamayan]

> "...Well...if I did just divinify myself, at least faith wouldn't be an issue. Everyone in Gensokyo knows who I am, and a fair number of them know me pretty intimately, if you catch my drift. ...No pun intended. But, uh, I got a hot government-mandated karasu girlfriend, a hot not-government-mandated white wolf hopefully-girlfriend, two cutie subordinates, a hot boss that can honestly be a stick in the mud sometimes but she's been getting be-"
> Go silent for a few moments.
> "...Ohhhhhhh. Oh no. Oh nooooo. Boss. Boss was right there when I did that just now. Oh gods, that must have been horribly traumatic for her. I gotta get back to her, at the very least."