Progress! RAGE, but progress!
Game Over on Scarlet Meister.
I need another two lives, in other words. I did pull off some awesome stuff that I usually screw up, like getting to the books before dying on Stage 4 with no bombs, and capping the post-midboss S5 spam (which despite being fairly easy, since two of the bullet types are aimed around you, I still screw up an appalling percentage of the time), and capping Illusional Misdirection, which I'm very good at screwing up. I only died with one bomb in stock, and only twice.
Yyyyyyeah, 1cc is a ways off yet. Also, I think I may have beaten Cirno at her own game, because if I can get her opener that simply, I may just break something.
EDIT: It seems the first wave of the first part of her opener is much denser, but I usually misdirect that one anyway, so...yes, it seems that Cirno's opener just went from one of the most threatening noncards on Lunatic to...nothing.