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Byakuren gasped as Reimu offered her as a reward if one of the other students won. "WHAT?!" Hijiri screamed. "I just wanted to know about this card game and see what I could do to stop it, because..." Byakuren sighed before she continued. "I need to stop this man from hurting others and himself." She sighed. What had she gotten herself into? She just wanted to help everyone and anyone and she was rewarded with this? She sighed once more. She then raised her head, showing a face of readiness with a hint of anger. "No. Here's a deal." Byakuren told them. "If you beat Reimu, then you can have me as your maid for the next... hour, but," Byakuren then turned to face Hazumi specifically. "If you beat me, then I'll be your maid for the entire day, or even a week." Byakuren said. "What do you say?" She asked with a small tilt of her head and a smile. She reached into her bag and pulled out her cards. Byakuren had heard what Hazumi had said about her own power, saying she could defeat Reimu easily, so Byakuren felt worried. She was also worried because she had never done this card game before.



Rose gave a small, awkward laugh as Maria pointed out how absent minded she was. "Heh... you're right, my parents also tell me that." Rose laughed. She she closed up her bag, she noticed her card pouch. She pulled it out and looked at it. Rose then opened her lunch and took a small bite of a riceball she had in her lunch box and, after swallowing her mouthful, asked, "Hey, do you know how to play this card game? I've never really heard of it, so I don't know how to play."



Yumi opened her door, mostly recomposed. "I... I guess we can try jogging." Yumi said. When Maruno said to get her cute little butt in gear, Yumi's face turned red once more and she bolted into the washroom. I-I'm just going t-to wash up quickly!" Yumi told Maruno through the door as she splashed water on her face. 'This is like a cheesy book or movie, like, "Yumi and Maruno's Secret Times" or something.' Yumi thought to herself. She then pondered the idea of such a book, her face turning re once more, forcing her to splash more water on herself once more.

Sorina felt a bit bashful for telling someone else but a smile was on her face. She really did appreciate it.
"Thank you." as she turned to head off somewhere, her eye caught Yuuka sitting under a tree. She approached her carefully since the last time they met she was called weak and pathetic.
"Umm...Yuuka was it?" she opened up with the conversation but had nothing else to ask. In fact, she was a bit frightened by Yuuka in general.

Just as the battle was trying to begin, Hana ran from the direction of the dorms and straight to Hijiri.
"H-have you seen Nahumar recently?!" she looked as if she was panicking and scared out of her mind.
"I was going back to our room from the office and...The place is destroyed! It looked like someone came in and decided to smash everything!" Vandalism? Some of the onlooking students caught wind of the words and wondered if Nahumar did it himself.
"Please, someone tell me Nahumar is somewhere."

As that little panic attack happened with the young sibling...Nahumar, or the now 'evil' Nahumar, watched from the shadows, mainly at Hijiri and waiting for his chance to duel her. If the time for school would be over before she made it, he would enjoy putting on a show for everyone to make it look as if he was an entity from some realm. Like an anime or a series of television shows.

Byakuren nodded. "Ooh, a tag team battle sounds fun, don't you think, Reimu~?" She asked the student of red and white. She pulled out her deck and held it up in front of her. "Alrighty then,lets-" before Byakuren could finish, she noticed that Hana had come up, asking about Nahumar. Byakuren was shocked by what she was told. "What? Who could have done such a thing...?" Byakuren asked the girl.

Byakuren heaved a sigh, she felt that she had gotten herself into something and she had no choice but to help. It was in her blood, or at least that's what it felt like. "Listen, Hana, I need to try to learn how to play this game before I have to fight your brother and I... I want to be ready to make sure he stops acting crazy, alright?" Byakuren told Hana. She then looked back to the other three girls and said, "Well, I'm ready when you are and don't worry, I'll keep my promise if you win."



Girls are being awkward. Please wait warmly...

When Yumi heard the door close and Maruno say she had to go, Yumi scolded herself mentally. "Yumi, if you don't act you're going to lose her..." She told herself. She sighed and decided that she should go to school.

Once there, she saw several students; the two sports stars with two delinquents and a small blonde girl, the newspaper girl with a newer girl, and the love-struck girl and the gardener under a tree, watching the first group of five. Yumi didn't know what to do, so she just stood in her place and sighed.



Rose nodded along as Maria spoke about her cards and her thoughts. "Huh, makes sense. I keep mine with me too, I just feel that it's best to do that." She told the kendo captain. She then noticed that there were others nearby to her and Maria, but she didn't say anything yet. "Do you think many other people play this game?" The not robotic student asked her friend.

Hana looked back at the delinquents and the others before running off on her own. She found a secluded area away from the people to where she could ease herself.
"Nahumar...What is going on?" She asked herself. Just then, the strange shrouded figure descended before her. His face completely covered and his voice changed slightly.
"It appears that the one who holds the Autumn Gate is occupied at the moment...so to make sure she knows that these cards are not a game, I will enjoy playing with you." at first, Hana wanted to run but she stood there.
"Nahumar? What happened to you? What did you do to the room?!" she asked. Sadly, Nahumar did not respond.
"What happened? It's simple. I realized that the power of these cards are amazing. Now duel me." Hana shook her head.
"No. I can't. Why should I fight you?" she asked. Nahumar drew the card of the Winter Gate and smiled.
"If you win, you get to take this card back." Hana knew only so little of the card duel but accepted anyways. Her attire changed like that to be more like a monk and radiant like the sun.
"If I must then I have nothing to lose. It will be my first match." The duel was under way.
Nahumar and Hana exchanged bullets between one another. Each of their health points dwindling only by a sliver as they went. Hana only observed but Nahumar had the experience. It was the time to use a card.
"Sun Sign: [Rays of Joy]!" upon the card's command, eight lazers fired from eight directions before bouncing and turning around. they would pick up speed as they fired at Nahumar directly. First, second, third and so on were dodged. The last one tricked him and managed to hit him for a good chunk of health. He smiled.
"Good. For your first time, you seem to be well informed...but try this." He pulled a card out.
"Curse of the Eight Sins!" The first card he loaded and used. A new one. The first pattern was green orbs of various sizes aimed at her, followed by a long blade like bullet to represent a sword slash, the third style was a more iconic black design that weaved in and out. After it changed to water droplets as if crying and followed by lightning styled lazers from the sky. Dodging the first, blocking the second with a barrier card, third was grazed as the others were avoidable...but it was not the end. As she dodge the last lazer, Nahumar was right up in her face. His eyes turned red as his grin was frighting in it's own. A swift punch sent Hana into the ground hard. The health was not much but the follow up attack with a barrage of danmaku managed to degrade her health down to the yellow.
"Had enough? You can forfeit now and cease your foolish attempt to win." Nahumar taunted as he flexed his wrist. With his health still in the green, it seemed obvious who the winner was. Hana pulled herself from the ground, brushing the dust and dirt off her. Scrapes on her body yet she didn't seem so injured.
"I will fight until the end. I will make you snap out of it!" Hana cried as she tossed a small wave pattern to distract Nahumar so she could fly back up in position. The fight had only begun.
"Good. I do not want this to end so soon. We still got four cards each before the winner is determined by health."

"O-oh I don't need anything..," Sorina awkwardly spoke before Yuuka offered to join her. The assuring smile appeared once more.
"I wouldn't mind. Maybe it will give me confidence later on." As she sat, Sorina had to ask a question that's been bugging her for a while.
"By the way, I thought about your cards that match and since learning about a possible objective of this game. There seems to be four cards based on seasons. Maybe you have the Spring or Summer card in your possession? It's a card that looks like some part of a door while the entire thing is colored like the season." as she spoke of summer, it almost felt like a key word for her deck. A sea blue card with the title "Sea Summer Gate" labeled on it appeared in Yuuka's deck. If she pulled it out, it might cause a certain person to appear.

Like Reimu, five panels appeared in front of Byakuren. She watched what Reimu did, placing a card in each one, so Byakuren did the same. She chose ones that she thought were nice and neat, and maybe even powerful. Once that was done, the duel would be underway (right?).

Once the duel had begun, Byakuren's clothing changed and lifted off the ground. The tennis player was in shock as she watched her feet leave the ground. She flailed her arms hopelessly in front of her as she tried to, in some hopeless thought, make sure she was not going to fall and to keep her balance in mid-air, but as a result, Byakuren ended up doing a somersault in the air while screaming.

She really hoped she could get the hang of this game quickly.



Yumi watched as two card games began to take place, one was the delinquent and a blond girl, and the other was two sports players and two more delinquents. She sighed a pained sigh. She had no idea what to do, so she made her way to a tree and sat down, leaning against it. She didn't see anyone where she was going to sit, so she didn't feel awkward. But there could have been people on the other side of her tree... maybe...



Rose smiled as she saw Lucy approaching her and Maria. "Hello, Lucy, how are you?" She asked the girl. When Lucy asked them if they were about to try playing the card game, Rose shook her head. "Oh no, we were just talking about it, really." She told the blonde. "Mostly our thoughts on the game and all. What are your thoughts, Lucy?" She asked Lucy.

Asking for a rematch? Oh she would never think of that.
"No no! It's not that...Just...well I had a special card that Nahumar took to keep it safe. I know i shouldn't tell people but i have this feeling that someone is after these special cards. For a reason I do not know." Sorina looked off to where the duel was happening between the four girls. Though what caught her ears was the following.
"Guys! I am seeing two people floating and throwing weird projectiles over by the track area! I swear to god!"
"Huh? Two people?"
"Yeah, one looks like Hana but the other...I don't know."
Sorina did not know if they were insane for doing it in public or if they were discovered by accident. Part of her wanted to go...but the other side wanted to just wait.
"Hana..." she didn't look at Yuuka as she spaced out for the moment. She finally decided to eat the apple after talking for a while, Enjoying it.
"It's crisp."

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As another clash of bullets ensued, the small crowd formed below them. Nahumar grinned under the hood.
"It seems we gathered a crowd." he pointed to the crowd looking at them.
"You have to stop this." Hana tried to talk once more as she was shoved aside for his second card.
"Fear Sign: Fear the Reaper!" his danmaku changed into curved like blades and tossing them at her. They weaved in and out as they spun around to try and disorient Hana as well as aiming to hit her life again. She used a barrier card to deflect and reduce the damage on her as she countered with her own spell.
"Golden Rays of Bliss!" Her lazers began penetrating the scythe danmaku as it hit Nahumar, sending his health into the yellow zone as well. He responded with more bullets, dodging and clashing as they went. The bystanders at first thought it was a stunt for a movie but when they noticed Hana under her transformed veil they all wanted to call out to her to win.
"Do you hear those people? They want you to win...but it's not going to happen!" Nahumar closed the gap between himself and Hana, grabbing her arm and tossing her towards the ground. He raised another card as his hand started to crackle with purple lightning.
"Frightful Sign!" His hand started to charge a beam as he held it behind him.
"Incubo..." He then sent forth the hand with the orb while shouting loud.
"SPARK!" a large wave of dark purple energy came crashing down on Hana. Her health meter depleting faster than one could count. The beam grew more into a pillar as it engulfed a seven yard radius around her. When the beam finished, Hana laid on the ground in her normal outfit. Her outfit was fine but a bit of scrapes left on her body. Nahumar descended to Hana and picked her up by the back of her neck.
"Wake up. You lost."
"H-huh..."
Nahumar shook Hana as he tossed her in front of the crowd. Though she was not injured the battle did take a toll on her spiritually. The crowd wanted to beat up Nahumar, not knowing it was the delinquent, but hesitated due to seeing him launch a giant spark out of no where. So he slipped in the shadows with a message for Hana to give to Byakuren.
"Tell Byakuren to arrive on the roof of the school at midnight. Otherwise I will find more helpless victims to pray on for those remaining two cards."

As Hana was helped up by the students watching, they escorted her to the nurse's office to rest up. The news would spread only about a masked attacker that could of been linked to the earlier incident. An incident the police could not handle but a few girls with cards.
Since Byakuren and the others were preoccupied with their little skirmish, Hana's whereabouts and activity would be under the covers for the moment.
((Aka: Hana is partly out of the RP. She will be resting up and I will post as her once she is engaged.))

As the mineral bullets flew at Byakuren, she screamed and managed to move herself out of the way of most of them, still getting hit by a few of them on her arm. She watched as an HP bar representing her health dropped a little bit.

Byakuren decided to try her luck at firing some magical bullets. She focused her energy and pushed her hands forward, creating a lotus blossom in front of her about the size of someones head. After a second, the blossom fired a stream of golden bullets that all flew towards Nazumi. The blossom disappeared after the bullets had finished firing.

As the bullets were flying, Byakuren threw her arms out to her sides, creating two more lotus blossoms over her head and far apart. From their centers, they created a thin, red line that targeted and locked on to Hazumi's location, but they did not fire yet.



Rose inched over a little as Lucy moved in between her and Maria. Lucy brought out her own cards and began talking about them. When Lucy pointed out the four people fighting, Rose looked over and watched as well. Maria pointed out that they looked different from how they did a little while ago, to which Rose answered with a nod. "I wonder if... we'll ever play this card game..." Rose pondered aloud, kind of wanting to hear Maria and Lucy's thoughts on the question.



Yumi gave a quiet gasp as she watched the game. She actually wasn't gasping about the game, but there was someone, or some people, rather, on the other side of her tree. Yumi didn't want to appear as awkward, but her curiosity got the better of her. She peeked around the tree, holding on to the side of it, to see who was there; she saw the gardener Yuuka Kazami, and the love-struck (seeming to her, at least,) student Sorina. Yumi gave a mental sigh, relaxed that it was only those two. Unfortunately for her, her hand slipped and she fell down, a little off to the side from Sorina and Yuuka.

Yumi lay very still, although, her head was facing towards them. She did not show a panicked face, but rather a sort of confused face.