Welp, there are your casualties. Who here is surprised Cirno went down first(ish)? o/ I'm not sure I actually believe it... give it a few comics.

When this became a battle-manga, one has to expect a twist the next page after the cliffhanger page.

Ok, now I'm almost 100% sure, Wriggle changed place with Cirno. From the start the eye color's been bugging me, and also the Lunatic level spell card. Wriggle has appeared in Lunatic level, but not Cirno. I'm not sure how it would work, trading some spell cards, but seeing "Cirno" out just now kind of makes this theory click harder.

pt_kamen said:
Wriggle has appeared in Lunatic level, but not Cirno.

wait, mind running that by me again? as far as i was aware Cirno was the stage two boss for all the difficulty settings in EoSD? (she even had "Hail Sign - Hail Storm", a version of her Icicle fall for Hard/Lunatic without the infamous blind spot.)

oh man, this is not good. Reimu's not helping either, she just want them dead

Cirno already gone?

Funny, Here Comes The Sun had just started playing.

pt_kamen said:
Ok, now I'm almost 100% sure, Wriggle changed place with Cirno. From the start the eye color's been bugging me, and also the Lunatic level spell card.

but... Wriggle eyes are blue, not green, in fact none of them has green eyes... post #1035449 im more inclined to believe changing eye colors is just a spellcard summon thing

pt_kamen said:
Ok, now I'm almost 100% sure, Wriggle changed place with Cirno. From the start the eye color's been bugging me, and also the Lunatic level spell card. Wriggle has appeared in Lunatic level, but not Cirno. I'm not sure how it would work, trading some spell cards, but seeing "Cirno" out just now kind of makes this theory click harder.

Actually, when one is reading a fanwork, gameplay or canonical things can sometimes be respected, but other times they really go to hell and we see what the artist want to show. For example Rumia is described as being simple-minded and dumb, while here is showed as the strategist/leader of the group.

Reimu wants to make that money. And she's probably got Team 9's gameplan figured out by now.

Touhou_learner said:
oh man, this is not good. Reimu's not helping either, she just want them dead

So naive, faeries are basically immortal, and danmaku aren't lethal in any case, given the battle I'd say everything is just going as planned!

HT_Rock said:
Reimu wants to make that money. And she's probably got Team 9's gameplan figured out by now.

Pointing out the obvious...

Neo_X said:
Pointing out the obvious...

You'd be surprised how often the obvious escapes people on danbooru.