Blue Blood

Authors note: I looked at pictures of all of the characters in Touhou that I will write about... EVERYONE in touhou is a loli! The only exceptions I've found so far are Sakuya, Yukari, Meiling, and the 9 million year old Eirin. Even though I knew Remilia is a loli she looks way smaller and more illegal than I remembered. Vote on what I should do about it by liking my comments on the chapter. (Your own comment won't count as a vote)

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Getting out of the bath, Remilia and Sakuya return through the gate and I fly out of the Forest of the Lost looking around. I only need to show up when Remilia eats her breakfast lunch and dinner since I'm still a little uncomfortable being around normal vampires. I don't want to just jump into staying near her all the time.

There's also the fact that for the first time in my lives I l.u.s.ted after a loli, I'm glad the FBI will only be founded in around 54 more years. Thinking back on it, she doesn't seem as attractive as I felt she was in my memory. If anything I'm having a hard time rembering what her body actually looks like, remembering mostly Sakuya's.

What was it that attracted me to her then? Thinking about all of her aspects I look over at the ice fairy flying towards me from the Magic Forest below.

Cirno:"Arata Shinohara! Stop right there, I can tell it's you due to Ravens not having blue eyes! Just because your new here doesn't mean you don't need to pay your respects to the strongest person in Gensokyo, the great Cirno-sama before you pass the Forest of Magic!"

Arata:"By strongest person, you mean yourself?"

Cirno:"You have great eyes! I am Cirno the ice fairy! the strongest person in Gensokyo! Even Reimu and Marisa run away in fear after I challenge them! Immediately after issuing my challenge I open my eyes and they have already ran away! Ha ha ha."

I can only look at her in pity, it seems when she bothers Reimu and Marisa they just kill her in one shot since fairies will respawn where they died after a while. Looking at her though I get a strange and slightly comforting cold feeling. It feels like when I just know about others personalities. Like when I thought about how although Aya might write bad things about my Inn, I knew she wouldn't harm my race by making others believe lies about us. I didn't know it from the touhou series, so how did I know it?

Looking closer at her trying to investigate the feeling, I don't notice my eyes start glowing with the force of a dark blue arcane light. I stop seeing the fairy in front of me, or should I say her body? I see ice, though unlike the cold chill it should bring this ice is clear and feels like the comfort of a cold drink during summer. Though even if ice in summer is comforting, if someone just drops some down your shirt out of nowhere someone might just get smacked. It fits her personality of playfull yet sometimes annoying, Is this why Reimu and Marisa one shot her? She would seem more annoying if she didn't help me learn one of my abilities.

It reminds me of how I saw the forest I was in before I was born, though that 'sight' got blurrier after I gained actual eyes. It seems even though Tormund left me with info about my race, I didn't get info about this ability since it fits into the description of mana sense/sight he left me with. Though since mana is mental/spiritual energy, is the ice I'm seeing representing Cirno's personality/mentality and abilities? It fits her well enough. It seems my mistake of thinking I know all of my racial abilities made me not explore them well enough, I will have to remedy that later. Though after turning my eyes off I see Cirno looks a little stiff for some reason.

Arata:"What's wrong? How shall I pay my respects to the strongest?"

The stiffness she had after looking into my eyes disappears when she hears the word 'strongest.'

Cirno:"Of course it's by fighting! Don't worry though, the great Cirno will go easy on you!"

She's really simple like ice.

Arata:"Then I will make a move first, though since your a magician and I currently rely mostly on physical abilities, let's stop the fight after I grab you."

Cirno:"Not so fast!"

She instantly starts a shower of ice shards at me before I even start moving, a true bullet hell. The only solace being they appear in a pattern since they're made with spell cards. I bob and weave through them, sometimes quickly changing into a Raven when it's easier to do that than go around 5 ice spears. Passing half the distance, her attacks speed up along with her freezing the ground under us into ice. I stop turning into a Raven and start jumping on the bullets as they pass me from all directions while pouring mana into my skin, increasing my mana resistance. I redirect some attacks towards her with kicks, while with others I grab them and use them to swing towards her like a monkey since some come from behind.

Getting close she gets fl.u.s.tered, activating an area of affect around herself that would slow down and create a layer of ice around anyone that wasn't me with my mana resistance. Even Remilia would have to take a small fraction of a second to break the ice that formed on her. I reach her and grab her arm, it seems I was right about her personality because after our little 'game' was over she stopped her attacks with a pout.

Arata:"Since you knew my name, you should have read Aya's report right? I have an unfair advantage over you Cirno, the only reason it was so easy for me is I specialize in fighting magicians. You shouldn't be too upset."

Her being upset seems like a mirage now with her bright and confident smile. After talking to her for a little longer we seperate and I start thinking about Remilia since the interuption is gone. I think back to what she looks like while activating my eyes like I did with Cirno and I see the personification of her and Sakuya's mana through my memory. I ignore Sakuya's though since I want to see what attracted me to a loli.

Looking at the image of her mana from my memory, I feel a wise and calm a.d.u.l.t with a childish streak. Though the childish streak isn't just being like a child, it's more like a bored child playfully trying to create fun. She act's in the way I did in my previous life when everyone got too stiff with their roles. You can't do this anymore your a grown a.d.u.l.t. Why would you read such fantasy stories when you already have a job? Everyone hiding the fun seeking child they have inside because society says they need to act like a.d.u.l.ts. She's WAAAY too much like me for comfort, and though her personality is very attractive (narcissistic much?) it isn't to the point that I could barely control my eyes like in the bath. Though her personality IS really attractive, even the fairy maids in her mansion work there because they just like being around her. She doesn't even pay them.

Is it some racial instinct added onto her having a personality I find enjoyable? It sucks that awakened vampires can only have children with other awakened vampires. I have a choice between being childless for an eternity, a girl that looks 12 with a charming personality, and a girl that looks 7 with a 7 year olds personality, since the Vampires outisde are too young to resist me even if they get stronger by coming to Gensokyo.

I spent way too much time contemplating my moral dilemma of being attracted to a loli and after my fight the night is almost half over, it being almost time for a Vampire to have lunch. I head to Scarlet Devil Mansion as a Raven and fly over towards the window Sakuya left open to let the heat out of the kitchen. Entering, I watch Sakuya infuse intents into her food and find the differences in her reinforcment and mine interesting. I create a few desserts along with strawberry milk and we head to the dinning room for lunch.

Entering I get the feeling of d.e.s.i.r.e I had in the bath again, though this time it's much weaker because I'm not contemplating if I'm a sinner and a lolicon, while I know now it's just my instinct telling me what to do. For me to actually fall in love would take at least 4 months.

Arata:"I didn't think my instinct would influence me so much around you. I never knew I even had such an instinct since I was usually too busy trying to not get eaten. I honestly debated what defines sin when we got into the bath together."

Remilia:"I as well underestimated the 'sweetness' of your smell. I never though in all of my years of life I would bathe with a man on our first meeting. Even if the steam covered us, your smell is too sweet for it to make me do such a thing. It's good that I know it's affects now and what feelings to resist, it would be bad if something strange where to happen the next time we share the hot springs."

Arata:"You say you will resist it, but why are you talking like we will bathe together again!? I honestly had a moral dilemma when we bathed together!"

Remilia:"Normally a woman would take offence to your moral dilemma, but I am very forgiving. You can also only practice abstinence temporarily. If an alcoholic resists his d.e.s.i.r.e by abstaining and not being around it, he will still take a drink when pushed enough by outside forces. We need to learn to resist our d.e.s.i.r.e, not run away from it. It won't go away no matter how long we wait, as soon as we see each other we will feel it again. I for one don't like the idea that something like 'instinct' can push me around. You seemed the same when we first met, is your moral dilemma so troubling? Fu Fu Fu"

Arata:"Then don't blame me if you fall completely, at that time I will announce my victory."

She seemed interested in how attracted to her I was, though I'll never give her a victory and tell her. We talk slowly for the rest of lunch, somtimes with 5 minutes of silence in between conversations. Though it wasn't awkward at all, instead it felt like the peace of two loners enjoying being alone in each others company. It was very enjoyable.

Finished with lunch I leave the mansion to look around Gensokyo at night. Even though I'm meant for the night I never had time to enjoy it outside the barrier. I was always too worried about Vampires smelling me while this is my first night awake in Gensokyo. I completely avoid the sunflower field below since I want to be able to gift Yuuka Kazami some flowers to garuntee my life on our meeting. There really is a large variety of Yokai in Gensokyo, huh? I didn't notice since my first two nights here where spent asleep. I spend the rest of the time until Remilia's dinner just flying and looking around. Most of my time spent just gliding through the air enjoying the view.

After my dinner with Remilia I feel the slightest bit closer to her. If this keeps up we may actually change from acquaintances into friends before the month is over. Though we are close as we are now due to simmilar personalities, friendship is something that needs time. I fly to my Inn's in order to study Gensokyo's magic some more until noon tommorow since some branches of it where entirely forgotten outside (stated in the books), while other books I just didn't come across. At noon though I will need to stop since my gut is telling me Aya-chan will visit around then.

I start working on the magic that will help me the most immedietly, creating a copy of Kanshou and Bakuya with spell cards. I take out the deck of cards I got during my stay at the human village and use magic to make them all half white and half black, like a Yin yang symbol. With Yang being on the top right and Yin being on the bottom left, meeting diagonally in the middle.

I start writing on the first one and name it as "Attraction of Yin and Yang, Triple Linked Raven Wings."

To give a hint as to it's abilities so no one can say it's a dirty hit when I attack them from the back. I finish describing Kanshou and Bakuyas abilities on the card and activate it after I finish their picture. Even though Kanshou and Bakuya are inside my arms, a slightly weaker copy appears in my hands, though I can tell one copy is the limit of duplicating such strong weapons. I walk outside and practice EMIYA's signature attack for an hour before thinking of moving on to my next one. I've already mastered throwing one blade like a boomerang during battle, adding another wasn't much.

I start thinking about what other magic to work on. I don't need anything close range since within 5 meters of me is a zone of death due to Kanshou, Bakuya and their spell card. The biggest help I could have would be ranged magic, though I could never find any magic outside as strong as my swordsmanship. Was it due to swordsmanship still being unforgotten? The best ranged magic I can think of would be either a railgun or a laser, and since railguns need metal ammo and would throw my swords too far to return with their attraction, I go for the laser.

Burning through my opponents and killing them is a no go so I will need the laser to avoid burning the physical body since everyone in Gensokyo will accept their loss after running out of mana. Unless they're some dumb oni. Thinking of how I can get the laser to burn mana, I'm stumped so I instead focus on making a fire that burns mana, I will condense it into a laser later. Thinking of my ability of purifying mana and the way ghosts look when their ripped out of someones body or dissipate, it takes me 3 hours to burn mana. The flame is the same blue as my eyes with specks of black flowing upwards through it and I wouldn't be able to do it without Gensokyo's knowledge of magic and my racial abilities.

I then focus on condensing the fire until it's so small I can't anymore and focus on everything I learned about lasers in my last life. I use my mana to infuse as much density, concentration and spiritual heat as I can into it while releasing it in the direction of a bamboo stalk outside. The bamboo almost instantly loses all of it's mana, looking like a normal piece of bamboo, if it where a person I can tell that they would pass out after being mentally drained so much.

Though I can feel the bamboo regenerating it and pulling mana from the enviroment slowly. It's a success and used less mana to cast than the bamboo itself lost, though I wonder if something sentient would have more resistance. I will have to test it on Youkai extermination targets to be safe. After finishing the laser I create a spell card for it that creates 8 tiny wisps of blue flames with black specks inside over my head with the direction the laser will come out decided by me when I fire it. It's much better than the patterned bullet hell everyone else uses. Why do you think Reimu and Marisa are so good at not getting hit? Unpredictability is important afterall.

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Poll: How should I deal with Remilia being a loli? Vote by liking my comments on the chapter (your own comments don't count as votes)

Option 1:Don't make them attracted to each other s.e.x.u.a.lly, make them like eachothers personalities and be attracted to eachother through vampiric thirst.

Option 2:Have her age slowly into a petite a.d.u.l.t due to frequently consuming Arata's potent blood (which is physical in nature, even when filled with Arata's mana)

Option 3:It doesn't even matter that she's a loli.