The girl followed the instrus on the jade token and arrived at the training grounds within the shrine.

  "Hello, are you here to use the training grounds? Please show your identification."

  "…"

  The girl hahe jade token to the staff at the ter. The moment the staff saw it, a look of terror crossed their face, but years of experience allowed them to quickly pose themselves.

  "Alright, it's been verified. Just ehrough this door and choose an unlocked room."

  "…"

  The girl nodded slightly and then walked through the door.

  Beyond the door was a corridor lined with doors spaced at intervals on both sides, most of which were locked. It wasn't until she reached the very end of the corridor that she finally found an unlocked room.

  Pushing the door open, she found that the room's walls, floor, and ceiling were structed from numerous gray square tiles. Other than that, the room was empty.

  Bang!

  Suddenly, the door closed automatically behind her.

  Almost simultaneously, the six sides of the room began to shift, transf from gray into a se beh a rge tree.

  Across from her stood a young girl with an unseen face.

  She wore a red skirt that barely covered half of her thighs, white socks reag her ankles, wooden sandals, and exposed a lot of skin on her legs. Her upper body was dressed in a red and white shoulder-baring shrine maiden outfit with loose sleeves.

  bined with her distinctive pink hair and fox ears, the girl could tell immediately, even without seeing her face, that this person was definitely reted to Misako.

  Rustle.

  A breeze stirred the leaves of the rge tree above, causing them to rustle. At the same time, the girl resembling Misako raised her hand and snapped her fingers.

  A ball of blue fme appeared and swiftly surged towards the girl.

  ‘…I see, a simution…’

  Although this wasn’t real, it felt all too genuine.

  After cheg her status with the 'Information' spell duri visit, she had discovered a skill called 'Illusionary Dream Domain,' which allowed her to perceive such abilities.

  The se transition and the person in front of her gave away some subtle hints about the simution.

  Despite it not being real, the attacks she faced were genuine, and they could inflict real damage.

  She evaded the blue fme and quickly defended against a subsequent lightning strike.

  Unlike before, this time she chose to block it.

  A pale blue barrier appeared between her and the lightning, which was deflected and split into multiple branches upon tact with the barrier.

  Through her ret trial, she realized that she and her oppo were on the same level, g the overwhelming power of the real Misako.

  The simuted Misako realized that such attacks couldn’t breach the barrier and celed the lightning, only to find that the barrier was y.

  Suddenly, as if sensing something, the fluffy pink fox ears perked up, and she leaped to the side.

  Bang!!

  A crater formed in her previous position, the impact causing the soft grass to be thrown up, with the girl now at the ter of the crater.

  Before she could get up, the simuted Misako summoned a more powerful fme that surged towards her, the heat causing even the light around the fme to distort.

  However, for the girl, who had enhanced her already powerful physical abilities with magical reinfort, such fmes were no threat.

  In a mere moment, she was again above the simuted Misako.

  Adjusting her posture in mid-air, she instinctively created a magical ptform to nd on and, using the momentum, executed a downward kick.

  The simuted Misako turned rapidly to face upward and geed a water shield at the fastest speed possible.

  But this time, it was too te. The water shield was instantly shattered by the girl’s strike, and the simuted Misako was dispersed into mist, then pletely vanished.

  ‘…I’m starting to get the hang of it again.’

  Even though her bat style had almost bee sed nature, she still occasionally fot things. Fag enemies who could exploit her bat style, relying solely on instinct could be a disadvantage.

  The girl looked around, initially not notig the se’s beauty. Despite the craters left by the ret battle, the soft grass and the gentle sunlight filtering through the leaves created a pleasant atmosphere. It even made her think, ‘Maybe I should just take a nap here.’

  ‘But surely this isn’t the end?’

  The enemy here was simuted, and given Misako’s previous demeanor, it wouldn’t be just this level of challenge.

  Sure enough, a mist appeared nearby and gradually took the form of Misako, though…

  “Is she a bit slow…?”

  “...You’re oo talk!”

  In a secret room within the shrine's shrine maiden quarters, a small loli was sitting with her legs hugged to her chest. Around her were numerous magical ss, one of which dispyed the simution of her and the girl.

  “Who knew she wasn’t wearing underwear! …No, I don’t think I actually gave her any…”

  Iraining grounds, the simutions were powered by Misako’s own magic. Especially for the girl’s room, it was directly trolled by Misako, and the simution shared the same visual field as the real Misako.

  Thus, when the girl executed the downward kick, the unshielded view was fully exposed.

  Moreover, as the girl had passed through the water shield, her skirt had bee damp, making the inally white and somewhat thin fabric transparent. Her delicate areas were now faintly visible.

  Even though they had been to a hot spring together, seeing her like this without any preparation still made Misako flustered.

  ‘No, calm down Misako… You’re an adult now… There’s o panic over something like this…’

  “...Fet it, I’ll switch to self-discipline mode!”

  Misako said, cutting off the shared visual feed with the simution.

  She wasn’t embarrassed, having lived so long and bullied so many juniors. She had seen her fair share of such things.

  The evidence was the explicit tent currently pying on a nearby s; she was well capable of watg such things at work without being affected, the so-called 'duo mom'!

  But… the girl’s btant dispy was so shog it stirred her own sense of shame… Yes, that must be it!

  Misako pushed the battle ses of the simuted self and the ‘exhibitionist’ girl aside, deg to refrain from further interference.

  ShoujoDirector