Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism - Extra Stage (No Commentary)

The Lovely Visitor from Hell
~Moriya Shrine~

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A snowy Hakurei Shrine.
The geyser itself didn't stop, but the phantoms and vengeful spirits from the underground had stopped appearing.
The denizens of the underworld seemed surprisingly satisfied with their situation.

Any ambitions or plots that the above ground youkai had feared had long since vanished, and in general, the only people who tried to come above ground from below were foolish animals.
There was no longer anything to fear from the underground city. Reimu and company were able to go to and fro relatively freely. In return, though, some of the underground youkai also began to appear above ground from time to time.

Reimu "Well, I'm not really satisfied that I know what happened."

Marisa "The crow was too hot, so the geyser couldn't stop.
So the cat sent the onryou up here as a sign something was wrong, right?"

Reimu "The crow was too hot because she swallowed up some god, right?
I know some of the details...
but, didn't someone give her that power to try to fulfill some sort of purpose?
I just can't understand what that is."

Marisa "Hey, you over there, what do you think?"

Utsuho "Unyu?"

Utsuho and Orin sat in the shrine's tea room, a pair of innocent looks on their faces. The two were quite familiar with the shrine, and were stuffing their faces with eggs boiled in water from the geyser.

Marisa "Eat as many of the eggs as you want, there are always more, but why not tell us what happened?"

Utsuho "Well. I know I've said this before, but I was playing in the Remains of Blazing Hell, when suddenly a god came down from above ground.
It said it was looking for the strongest hell raven in the area, and I said right away that was me.
Then it said it would give me power, and I got it."

Reimu "But, that's so strange.
I just can't understand why a god from above ground would bother doing that.
Who would stand to gain anything from making some crow in what used to be hell powerful?"

Utsuho "Well, I did! I got power."

Orin "Nom nom.
The Remains of Blazing Hell didn't even used to be that hot back in the day.
It's slowly been getting colder even since the underground was cut off from Hell.
It's gotten really dark and lonely ever since Miss Satori sealed it off with the Palace of the Earth Spirits.
But, when Okuu turned weird, the fires suddenly roared into life again.
So hot, that geyser was uncontrollable.
Nom nom."

Reimu "... I wonder who would benefit from the Remains of Blazing Hell being rekindled?
Could you try remembering the god that gave you power again? What did they look like?
Did they talk about what they were trying to do?"

Utsuho "Uh-uh.
I can't remember much more."

Orin "You birdbrain.
It's no use, even Miss Satori couldn't see anything with her third eye.
It's probably fallen out of your heart already."

Marisa "Well, she does have a bird's brain."

Utsuho "I'm pretty sure they said they came down from a mountain... both of them."

Reimu "Both of them?
Hey, that's the first time you've said that, and that's pretty important."

Orin "Anyway, let's get in the bath already.
Just sitting around the geyser, not jumping in to take a bath... I can't stand it."

Marisa "You're a cat, but you like taking baths?"

Reimu and Marisa had their suspicions.
It was probably those two gods from on top of the mountain.

They tried asking the crow more, but she had nothing left to say, so they thought they'd just have to go see for themselves. The top of a mountain is no place to be in winter, but compared to the fires of the underground it wasn't so bad.

Why did they give the crow that power, and what would happen now?

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This stage is a goddamn nightmare. Though in the stage itself isn't too bad between the lack of [P] and lives you cannot afford to mess up at all.

And then Sanae's apparently been making up for lost time with how piss easy she was last game. Her 1st spell isn't too bad but if you're like me and try not to bomb her 2nd and 3rd will be the bane of your existence.

And then there's Koishi. Honestly she doesn't have many spells comparable to Sanae's hardest but she makes up for it in tenacity. Koishi is a master of making you feel extremely stressed and nervous throughout the entire battle.

Difficulty-Extra
Character-Marisa-A
Extra-Moriya Shrine
BGM-Last Remote
Mid-boss-Deified Human of the Wind: Sanae Kochiya
Boss-The Closed Eyes of Love: Koishi Komeiji
BGM-Hartmann's Youkai Girl

2:23-Esoterica "Nine Syllable Stabs"
2:54-Miracle "Miracle Fruit"
3:23-Divine Virtue "Bumper Crop Rice Shower"

8:32-CD
8:52-Symbol "All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed"
9:18-CD
9:34-Symbol "Danmaku Paranoia"
10:05-CD
10:22-Instinct "Release of the Id"
10:52-CD
11:08-Suppression "Super-Ego"
11:54-CD
12:11-Response "Youkai Polygraph"
13:01-CD
13:17-Subconscious "Rorschach in Danmaku"
13:54-CD
14:09-Rekindled "The Embers of Love"
14:43-CD
14:56-Depths "Genetics of the Subconscious"
16:41-"Philosophy of a Hated Person"
17:44-"Subterranean Rose"