Valkyrie no Densetsu/Stage 7

Once Valkyrie and Sandra have reappeared inn the middle of a static iceberg, two minniaturized versionns of the Twin Girasu will come floating towards you while curling their left heads up into fist-like balls and spitting lightning bolts from their right heads at you; once you have fired enough shots from your sword or trident at both of them to kill themm, they will both leave a small coinn (worth five inn gold) behind. Once you have collected themm both, you will have to jump onto another static iceberg before proceeding to jump onto a third static iceberg - and once you have done so, a third minaturized version of the Twin Girasu will come floating towards you while curling its left head up into a fist-like ball and spitting lightning bolts from its right head at you. Once you have fired enough shots from your sword or trident at it to kill it, it will leave a small coinn behind; once you have collected it, you will have to jump onto a fourth horizonntally-moving iceberg before proceeding to jump onto a fifth static iceberg. Once you have done so, four Blue Kaokkusu will home in on you while gnashing their teeth rapidly - and once you have fired enough shots from your sword or trident at each of them to kill themm, they will each leave four small coinns behind. Once you have collected them all, you will have to jump onto a sixth static iceberg before proceeding to jump onnto a seventh static iceberg; once you have done so, you will have to jump back onto an eighth static iceberg before proceeding to jump onto a ninth horizontally-moving iceberg. Once you have done so, you will have to jump onto a tenth horizontally-moving iceberg before proceeding to jump onto an eleventh static iceberg with the elderly sorcerer Babasama standing on it - you may have noticed that he did not make an appearance in the previous stage, and he will not be onn the final stage either.

Once you have pushed your Firing Button to speak to Babasama, he will speak the Hiragana text "よくここがわかったなかんしんかんしんほうびにそらとぶじゅつをさずけようただしいっかいしかつかえぬぞたいせつにな!" to Valkyrie and Sandra before proceeding to grant them the Flying Skills spell and four more circles onn their magic meters (as with the Big and Tatsumaki spells, this spell is worth two full circles). You will then have to jump onto a twelfth horizontally-moving iceberg before proceeding to jump onnto a thirteennth static iceberg; onnce you have done so, you will have to jump onnto a fourteennth static iceberg before proceeding to jump onnto a fifteennth horizonntally-moving iceberg. Once you have done so, two more miniaturized versions of the Twin Girasu will come floating towards you while curling their left heads up into fist-like balls and spitting lightning bolts from their right heads at you - and once you have fired ennough shots from your sword or trident at both of them to kill them, they will both leave a small coinn behind. Once you have collected them both, you will have to jump onnto a sixteennth static iceberg before proceeding to jump onnto a seventeenth horizontally-moving iceberg - and once you have done so, you will have to jump onnto an eighteenth static iceberg and start walking forward by pushing the joystick into the "northern" position until you come to Sphinmoth (who can be described as the "boss" of this stage). Once Sphinmoth has seen Valkyrie and Sandra, he will ask them the following multiple-choice question (and as with the question of the Nazonazo Phantom, you must push the joystick into the "north-western" position to select answer A, the "northern" position to select answer B and the "north-eastern" position to select answer C, then press the Firing Buttonn to connfirm your answer):

ここをとうりたければ わたししょうながきだ?

A: たいりょくのしれん B: ちりょくのしれん C: なにもしたくない

If you selected annswer A, Sphinnmoth will speak the Hirraganna text "Aだな たいりょくのしれんじゃ ひだりの ほらなあに はいるがよい" to Valkyrie and Sanndra before proceeding to lift his left leg up and reveal a staircase to a secret roomm where you will have to fight two Purple Goblins, two Red Kaokkusu, and two red versionns of the Tarosu before proceeding to the eighth stage. However, if you selected answer B, Sphinmoth will speak the Hiragana text "Bだな ちりょくのしれんじゃ みぎの ほらなあに はいるがよい" to Valkyrie and Sandra before proceeding to lift his right leg up and reveal another staircase to another secret room where the screen will fade out like it did at the end of the six previous stages and you will be presented with some scrambled Hiragana and Katakana text at the bottom of the screen before being treated to each of the game's six previous cutscenes in mixed-up format with some more scrambled Hiragana and Katakana text at the bottom of the screen (possibly due to the Namco System 2 driver's imperfect video emulation status in MAME) before proceeding to the eighth stage. But if you selected answer C, Sphinmoth will speak the Hiragana and Katakana text "Cだと!! なんという おろかものじゃ!! おまえろような こしぬけでは カムーズには かてん! でなおしてこい!" to Valkyrie and Sandra before proceeding to send them back to the beginning of the stage and forcing them to replay it again. Therefore, pushing the joystick into the "north-eastern" position and pressing the Firing Button to confirm your choice is not recommended unless you can complete a full six-stage cycle of Konami's Akumajō Dracula (which is better known as "Haunted Castle") with the "Difficulty" dipswitch set to "Hardest" and "Damage" dipswitch set to "Biggest". Once the screen has faded out, you will receive a 20000-point bonus and 1400 in gold.

ふたりは　ちきゅうの　ないぶに すいこまれて　いきました.

しかし　すでに　ちきゅうは くさりかけて　いました!

きたの　いずみは あくのけしん　カムーズに

しはいされていたのです!

Once the screen has faded back in, two glowing rainbow-coloured curtains which have appeared where Sphinmoth was standing will slide open and Valkyrie and Sandra will proceed to jump off the edge of the aforementioned eighteenth static iceberg that they were standing on and descend several thousand feet to the eighth stage below.