>Let's work our way across, then, so we can be ready to meet up with the others. Take an easy route, get any nice pictures that happen to present themselves.
>Hoping to get a better view from the eastern front, you set out towards the west. Wait, that's not right. You wanted.... Seems that the horned woman's flip effect is still affecting you as well. Fortunately, none of her danmaku is heading this way. Having to dodge around that while making mental adjustments for the change in direction would be a real headache.
>Adjustments that some of the battlers below you obviously struggle with, as you record through your camera. Kyouko and Mystia especially seem to be having a hard time, taking hit after hit from the purple flames. Ichirin and the winged woman, however, seem to have found a strategy. While the horned woman may have flipped the horizontal, her spellcard hasn't affected the vertical. So the two of them seem to focusing more on evasive maneuvers up and down, rather than side to side. That wouldn't work against the bulk of spellcards you're familiar with, but this one has plenty of gaps to exploit. They seem to be doing well for themselves. Yamame, however, seems to be doing better than them both. She seems to have adapted to the reversed X-axis rather well, and while her return fire is not very powerful, it is more consistent than any of the others, and she is doing a much better job at evading the purple flames around her.
>Not having the distraction of danmaku to avoid, you reach your chosen vantage point in time to see a dual stream of danmaku from Ichirin and Kyouko converge on the horned woman, and a last burst of blue shots from Yamame take the last of the health of her spellcard. With its end, the battlefield flips once again, and you find yourself on the western edge of the engagement zone once more.
>The horned woman responds to her opponents success with yet another taunt, sticking her tongue out and making the 'antlers' sign like some human children do when they want to mock someone. "Come on, come on, you sure you're even trying? There's five of you!"
>You see Ichirin mutter something, then produce a spellcard of her own. Your reporter's eyes note Yamame, discreetly, doing the same thing. Before either of them can declare or activate just which card they've drawn, the air above the battlefield darkens, and a large purple cloud materializes over the assembled ladies. That would be Unzan, making a rather dramatic appearance, as he often does in these sorts of situations. It makes a good photo op, but he also does a good job of obscuring your view.
