Turn 48. Remilia heads out to retake Shining Needle Castle again, but is stalled by one of Eirin’s armies. Remilia rolls over them, killing VIVIT (44) and capturing Komachi, who Remilia eats (45) before continuing on to the castle. Patchy retakes the Scarlet Devil Manor, while Lincoln and Flandre fight in the Human Village.
Kanako is fighting for Miko now, and kills Hina. (46)
Lincoln speaks to Flandre as they look over their captured corner of the Human Village. “Now that we are in the Human Village, do you want to go back to my original plan of capturing girls and taking them back to my house? We could say that we are rescuing them from the war.”
Flandre grins...
Remilia soon receives a letter from her sister. It tells her that Flandre and Lincoln will be taking over command of the Human Village and will manage the eastern front of the war, and anything else that they conquer. Remilia accepts that her sister has run off with the boy she is crushing on and may not return for a very long time.
Lincoln has revolted and claimed that one corner of the Human Village for his new empire! He recruits the strategist from the Moon, Yorihime, since he does not trust himself or Flandre to plan out a war strategy. He is also joined by bucket girl Kisume, Benben, Doremy Sweet, and Eternity Larva. It is impossible to pick a faction color that does not conflict with the neighbors on the map, so Lincoln is white for now.
Lincoln uses his savings to raise an army of 200,000 soldiers, giving him nearly four times as many as Miko or Remliawho have the next largest armies at 55,000 in total. They begin to fan out into the Human Village. Shinymoumaru’s forces have taken the Human Fields west of the village from Remilia, so Lincoln claims them as well. For one thing, they are the Human Fields, not the Vampire Fields. Even if they are Flandre’s now.
Remilia reclaims the Library from Shimmy. Yuugi kills one of the Immortals (47) but he will be back.
In a case of overkill, Yukari, Hecatia, and Sanae kill Sunny Milk (48) before Ibaraki’s Arm revolts against Miko and throws Yukari and Hecatia in jail.
Tewi is back with Eirin and is seen fighting after a long absence. Or rather, she is seen running away. Tewi will do that.
Remilia retakes Shining Needle to re-secure her hold on the territories that are west of the Village and Bamboo Forest. With her own sister holding the eastern border, she is free to expand in other directions.
If Lincoln wants to capture some girls, he needs to actually capture them. So far his armies have not encountered any, but as a matter of planning ahead for the future, he trains in a couple of Capture skills.
By the end of turn 51 Lincoln has taken over the whole Human Village without any opposition. Nice. Now the question is, where to attack next? Okina is north in the Forest of Magic, there is the Myouren shrine, there is Reimu’s territory that might not be Reimu’s territory anymore, (and it is not. Miko owns it) and Eirin seems to control the Bamboo Forest and the plains east of it with a whole gang of Immortals that Lincoln does not feel comfortable fighting yet.
This is a good point to stop for now.