Editing Internet Shrine Maiden Tsugumi-chan:Volume1 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 4===

It really was fast once in the water.

At this speed – in this world – it would be a challenge to hit it with fireworks.

Of course, the Watery Gnawer did more than just run.

It leaped in large arcs from pool to pool. Even when there was a solid poolside in between. The Malign Spirit zigzagged around like that, approaching its targets.

Red and blue filled its vision.

A smokescreen.

But that was no obstacle when it could simply attack from outside the screen. The smoke would spread in all four horizontal directions, but it didn’t travel very far up.

It decided to make the final attack from above.

Its sharp head and tentacles sliced through so much water before bursting from the surface and soaring high.

''Gween!!!

It made an odd noise.

It had hit a ''solid roof'' which shouldn’t have existed over the outdoor pool.

Had a large sign lying on the floor been tied to the speaker supports with wire or something? So it crossed a narrow section of the winding pool? With three of them, that would be physically possible.

“Whoa, we actually got it!?”

“If it didn’t want its view blocked by the smokescreen, it would naturally try to get a look from above. And when we’re the ones guiding its actions, we can easily lay a trap! Including when and where it will jump!!”

The Watery Gnawer had forcibly broken through the thin sign, but it had lost a lot of its momentum. Instead of reaching more water, it fell to the poolside between.

This created a short blank. A pause.

But this Malign Spirit had shown it could move on land.

Tsumugi and Rainy moved forward together.

“This is our one and only chance. I-if this doesn’t do the trick…”

“Don’t worry.”

The shrine maiden spoke with certainty.



“I will settle this before it’s too late.”