"I suppose it is, it doesn't look like much, but what's on a piece of paper doesn't always have anything to do what the paper looks like, right?" Nanoha lands, picking up the piece of paper.

But of course they don't have time to stand still and read it, because there's a deep rumbling that through the labyrinth that can only mean one thing: It's time for a boss battle.

It burst through the ground right under where Masamune was supposed to be standing. True to the theme of this stage, it was of course some beast with too many wriggling parts. The eight-tailed, eight-headed serpent that was known to any Japanese person with any passing interest in mythology. The Yamata no Orochi had arrived.

"Masamune-dono, are you alright?!"