One-way traffic

The girl blinked gently, exuding an aura of utter innocence.

"Big brother? Or big sister? I can't tell, but whichever it is, you're here to play with Fran, right?"

It wasn't until this moment that Accelerator finally remembered something.

When he first entered the Scarlet Devil Mansion, he monitored the signals of all life forms inside the house.

The result was that there were a total of six individuals in this house.

Among them, there is another person who shares the same vector perception as Remilia.

That was the girl who appeared in front of him.

"Huh? Why hasn't the older brother said anything since he came in?"

The girl walked slowly toward him with a questioning voice.

pat.

As she walked, the sound of something being trampled echoed from the ground.

A very strong, pungent smell immediately entered his nasal cavity.

"Could this be...?"

"Oh dear...? Big brother, what are you looking for?"

Although the girl in front of him was still very puzzled, Accelerator did not look at her first.

He then shifted his gaze to the area behind the girl—the deepest part of the room.

There, something seemed to have piled up.

A tremendous stench of decay followed.

The firelight seemed to illuminate everything around them clearly.

Just now, the thing that the girl trampled on was a dark red blood.

The source of the blood was the remains located deep within the room.

However, Accelerator immediately realized that these remains were definitely not human.

Rather, it was something he was very familiar with.

"Those monsters... they're actually here?"

Lying deep inside the room were the black and red monsters that Accelerator had been searching for so long.

However, it is unknown what caused this, but the monsters' bodies were completely scattered, their limbs separated, and their bodies and heads could not be reattached. Countless of them piled up into a small mountain.

If most people saw such a scene of mountains and seas of corpses, they probably wouldn't even have the strength to stand up straight.

Although Accelerator couldn't possibly feel fear because of this, he was still slightly startled by the bizarre scene.

"Oh, does big brother care about these dolls?"

"You mean a doll...?"

"Yeah, that's right! At first I thought they were guests visiting the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but then I realized that they can't speak or have any consciousness, and they don't even have a trace of life on them. They're just pure dolls!"

The girl, who looked to be no more than nine years old, walked into the depths of the room as if nothing had happened.

She smiled, staring directly at the corpses of the monsters, yet remained unmoved.

"Since they are dolls, I played with them properly! However, it seems that Fran made a mistake and accidentally broke them all."

At this point, Accelerator then noticed something else.

He knew the characteristics of those monsters very well; there was no way to kill them completely unless they were destroyed to the point of being reduced to ashes.

But all of this before our eyes is undoubtedly the work of this girl.

He then realized something.

This young girl exuded an aura that was more threatening than anyone else in the mansion.

Are you... a vampire too?

"Yes, that's right! Ah! My sister said that you must greet guests when you see them; that's how the Scarlett family is raised!"

The girl in front of me smiled happily, striking a lively pose while clasping her hands behind her back.

"My name is Flandre! Flandre Scarlet, big brother, you can just call me Flandre~!"

It should have been such a pleasing sight.

But emanating from the cute girl standing in front of them was an even more suffocating atmosphere.

"Fran is very curious. It's been a long time since we've seen any new guests come to the basement!"

"How can other people even come to this godforsaken place... When was the last time you saw anyone else here?"

"Huh? Last time... it seems like it was just a few months ago, right? Ah, Fran remembers, there was a person wearing the same red and white clothes as Fran, and another black and white mouse riding a broomstick who came to find Fran!"

It's not hard to imagine who the person they're talking about is.

"Were those two guys here a long time ago?"

Just as Accelerator was muttering to himself, a girl named Flandre slowly walked up to him.

"Compared to this, big brother!"

She innocently tugged at the hem of Yifang Tongxing's clothes.

The first one is enveloped in a reflective ability that can deflect even the power to destroy the world.

Naturally, reflexes will not work on anyone who did not initially exhibit aggressive behavior.

This also proves that the girl in front of him truly had no intention of attacking him at this moment.

"Let's play together with Fran!"

"...I'm definitely the worst at dealing with kids."

"What do you mean? Ah, besides that, Fran has also given a good consideration to the way the game is played."

"Tsk, what's going on?"

Accelerator grimaced awkwardly. He had dealt with countless brats by now, but he still couldn't adapt to this situation.

But the girl in front of him calmly said something.

"Hmm, let's play the game those two played last time with Fran!"

"Unfortunately, I have no interest in playing games with you. I have something more important to ask you."

He needs to figure out what exactly those monsters are all about.

The only way to get in here is through that door, which in turn connects to the library space. In other words, you can't get in here by conventional means.

Accelerator needs to figure out why those monsters are here and what their purpose is, so he needs to confirm the relevant information with the girl in front of him.

"Sure, but if you want Fran to answer your big brother's question, you have to play a game with Fran first!"

"So you're the kind of guy who's good at bargaining... Whatever you like, what exactly do you want me to do?"

Well, since we're already here, let's just get straight to the point.

Accelerator gave up struggling and simply asked Flandre what she was planning to do.

Of course, he could guess the answer to some extent. Although she was a vampire and probably quite old, she must still be as innocent as a child at heart.

The only games we can play are those kinds of games that only kids play, which are really boring.

"I've already told you, this is the game Fran wants to play."

then.

Flandre said happily with a very gentle smile.

"Flandre, let's play this danmaku game in Gensokyo with big brother!"

The next moment.

The siren in Accelerator's heart hummed instinctively.

Bang——! ! !

The entire floor of the room collapsed at that moment.

"—?!"

"Hahaha!! Let's start the game!!"

There wasn't even the slightest warning.

The girl's hand, which had been gripping his clothes, transformed into the claws of a demon.

The claw was like a blade, stabbing directly towards the first person's heart.

Just in that instant.

An invisible barrier instantly intercepted Flandre's attack.

Malice transformed into murderous intent, and then into a real attack.

Reflection has been activated.

After being subjected to that force that reflected back along the same path, the girl's wrist instantly twisted as if contorted, and bent back and forth.

The excess force sent her flying in one breath.

"Ha...hahaha! This is so funny, it's really so funny!"

As the smoke dissipated, colorful crystals slowly shimmered in the darkness.

Along with it, the girl's eyes, like his, were crystal clear and blood-red.

"Fran's body flew out! That's amazing! How did you do that, big brother? Tell Fran!"

"you…"

"Seriously, didn't Fran say that she was going to play a bullet hell game with her big brother?!"

*Thud!* Beneath the rubble-strewn walls, the vampire girl's body soared into the air.

After being hit by that reflex shot, his right arm returned to normal almost instantly.

She was unscathed.

"Come on, big brother, Fran loves playing bullet hell games the most!"

The girl, suspended in mid-air, smiled happily with an innocent and carefree expression.

That smile was eerily unsettling.

"I hope you won't end up like those people before you, completely ruined by Fran."

The next moment.

From the girl's hand, a card formed from pure power emerged.

"Spell Cards".

She said quietly.

"The 'Cranberry Trap' is forbidden."

Dark red bullets rained down from all directions.

No, that scale wasn't just a simple barrage.

It looked like vines, coiling around Accelerator's body from all corners.

Is the battle really starting like this?!

Accelerator never expected that the girl in front of him, who could easily ignore his benevolent reflections just a second ago, would become a malicious one that could be detected by his reflections the next.

That extremely strange personality was as unstable as a sudden change in the weather.

But he didn't have time to think about it anymore.

Thump! The first person also stomped on the ground, shattering the already damaged floor into countless fragments.

The powerful strike tore through all the bullets on the ground in one go.

However, there were still many bullets coming from the air.