Long Live Money in Anime Crossover

132 Momo, hurry up and come here!

The red shrine maiden's clothes were already tattered and worn. Seemingly because of the cold, the girl was shivering, and the narrow roof above her head could not keep out the drizzle at all.

A light rain, accompanied by a gentle breeze, fell on the girl, soaking her completely while she slept. The mud also stained her shrine maiden's clothes. If it weren't for the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest, one might have thought she was dead.

This girl's name is Reimu Hakurei.

A beam of light shot from the horizon and pierced Reimu Hakurei's chest, causing her to jolt awake from her slumber.

Rain splashed into her eyes, causing her to groan softly as she rubbed her eyes and sat up.

The sudden influx of information into her brain gave Reimu Hakurei a headache. She clutched her head, struggling to process the information, while her stomach growled loudly.

The shout was loud, which would be quite rude to most girls, but Reimu Hakurei seemed to be used to it and didn't care at all.

After a long while, Reimu Hakurei finally processed all the information. Her once blank eyes seemed to be filled with flames, slowly shining brightly.

A warm feeling welled up from the bottom of my heart and spread throughout my body, gradually reviving my body, which had been chilled by the rain.

Two lines of water droplets slid down from the corners of her eyes; it was hard to tell whether they were rain or tears.

"Cuckoo-"

Her stomach was still growling. Reimu Hakurei wiped away her tears, touched her stomach with some irritation, pursed her lips, but ultimately did not move and continued to squat in the corner.

However, she was different from before. She used her power to evaporate the rainwater and also created a small barrier to block the continuous raindrops from the sky.

"Oh no... I'm sure people will dislike me like this, right?"

Reimu Hakurei seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly stood up. Looking at the stains on her clothes, her face turned red, and she said, "But... I don't have any clean clothes to change into either, do I?"

"Well... how about we wash it clean with the rain first?"

Thinking of this, Reimu Hakurei removed the barrier again, letting the raindrops fall on her body once more. Then, she used the rainwater to painstakingly scrub the dirt off her body.

There was mud and blood, and the stains flowed down her blood-stained body to the ground, along the crisscrossing trenches, and finally converged into a huge moat that ran through the entire shrine.

That wasn't all. The rainwater collected and flowed more and more, eventually pooling together and flowing outwards along the deep gully, reaching the edge of the cliff and turning into a small waterfall.

Cliff? Where's the cliff?

The stone steps that originally led to Hakurei Shrine have long since disappeared. Or rather, half of the mountain where Hakurei Shrine is located seems to have been sheared off and disappeared, leaving only half a mountain peak, while the other half has become a steep, vertical cliff.

The remaining half of the hill was also ravaged, barren and devoid of any green vegetation. The original cherry trees had long since disappeared, leaving only a few charred branches standing there precariously.

"Well, it's not bad now, is it?"

Reimu Hakurei washed away the grime from her body, re-established the barrier, and then evaporated the rainwater from her body.

"But this place... just doesn't look right at all!"

Reimu Hakurei looked around at the scene, her face full of bitterness, and said, "This doesn't look like a place for people to live at all! Even the wood has been burned, so we can't rebuild the shrine..."

"And," Reimu Hakurei looked at the cliff right in front of her, then at the road that had long since disappeared, and covered her face in anguish, saying, "How am I supposed to fix this thing?! Ugh, I regret it! Why did I fight so fiercely back then?!"

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! This place is completely beyond repair!"

Reimu Hakurei looked up in distress, her mouth full of painful complaints, but a happy smile appeared on her lips as she looked at the annoying rain and dark clouds in the sky.

Suddenly, Reimu Hakurei frowned, a complex look appearing in her eyes, and turned to look.

A dark door opened, revealing a series of eerie eyes. Then, a girl carrying a parasol emerged, her striking golden hair particularly eye-catching.

"Ah, Zi, is there something you need?"

"Would you like some fried tofu?"

"I hate fried tofu. I've been eating it for so long, and the smell makes me nauseous."

"However, all I have here is fried tofu, which I stole from Lan. If you don't want to eat it, then you'll have to go hungry. You are still a human being after all, and you will die if you don't eat."

Looking at Reimu Hakurei's clean and tidy appearance, Yukari Yakumo suddenly revealed a hint of anger and said, "What did you do?"

"what?"

Reimu Hakurei seemed somewhat surprised and said, "Are you more concerned about what I did than my life or death?"

"You are now..."

"It's an unstable factor in Gensokyo. The power is too brutal and rampant, making the entire Gensokyo unstable. This is not something a Hakurei Shrine Maiden should do... Yukari, I've heard you say these things so many times. I get disgusted by them. Please stop talking. It's so annoying and I hate it!"

Reimu Hakurei's impatient tone startled Yukari Yakumo. As if she were seeing Reimu Hakurei in a new light, Yukari's eyes turned icy as she asked, "What exactly did you do!"

"It's nothing!"

Reimu Hakurei crossed her arms and said, "I'm starving to death, and I don't want to die, so I asked God for help. God gave me a task, and the reward is a hundred years of life force."

"With this vitality, even if I continue to starve, I can probably survive for twenty or thirty years, right?"

"I already said that!"

Yukari Yakumo flew into a rage, threw the fried tofu in her hand at her feet, and said, "This is Gensokyo, our own ideal land, what kind of person asks them for help? Gensokyo is not in a life-or-death situation yet!"

Reimu Hakurei scoffed and said, "Yukari, is it really okay to say something like that? Without gods, Gensokyo would be finished, wouldn't it?"

Yukari Yakumo glared at Reimu Hakurei, but as Reimu had expected, she didn't refute her.

Yukari Yakumo may dislike God, but she cannot slander God, because Reimu Hakurei was telling the truth, and she dared not question that fact under any circumstances.

Otherwise, what if we anger God?

The two stared at each other for a long time, neither willing to back down. Yukari Yakumo sighed softly and said, "Reimu, if you continue with this attitude, you will never be able to go back to the way things were before. Gensokyo is gradually becoming more stable now, and you could have gone back to being that carefree shrine maiden."

"And then wait to give it your all again, only to be discarded as a dangerous item? Yukari, I'm willing to sacrifice myself for Gensokyo, but not this way of dying."

"This isn't your own thought; it's that's manipulating you!"

"She and I are one, there is no difference between us."

Yukari Yakumo remained silent, looking at Reimu Hakurei, and said coldly, "Since you insist on doing what you want, so be it. Anyway, once you're dead, I'll find a new Hakurei witch."

“Ah, about that,” Reimu Hakurei said, “Since you’ve got this idea, you’d better act on it quickly, because I really don’t want to be the Hakurei Witch anymore.”

"I'm submitting my resignation to you, but the principled Reimu Hakurei won't just abandon the job and run away. You'd better hurry up, then I can hand over this responsibility to someone else."

“I was already tired of it, and I’ve found something more important.”

Yukari Yakumo frowned and asked, "What exactly happened?"

Reimu Hakurei didn't answer Yukari Yakumo. Instead, she hummed a popular song she'd heard from the SAO world, picked up the fried tofu soaked in mud, and opened the package.

"Ah, what a waste. Anyway, thank you, Zi. It's so uncomfortable to be hungry!"

Yukari Yakumo remained silent, watching Reimu Hakurei eat the mud-contaminated fried tofu without a care in the world, her heart clenching slightly.

No, do demons have hearts? Do demons at the realm of immortality have hearts?

Even if she once had it, she probably threw it away long ago.

"Do as you please, I will find a replacement. As for the reason for your change, let's not talk about it."

"It's nothing, I can tell you! As for me..."

Reimu Hakurei smiled brightly at Yukari Yakumo, whose face was covered in mud and bits of fried tofu.

My heart has been stolen!

After saying that, Reimu Hakurei continued to eat voraciously. She hadn't eaten for months and was really starving. If it weren't for her power as support and the fact that she was overdrawing her life force, she, as a human, would not have been able to hold on.

Yukari Yakumo stared blankly at Reimu Hakurei's unladylike eating habits, her mind filled with Reimu's radiant smile. She clearly remembered that not long ago, Reimu had that same smile on her face.

When exactly was it?

It was probably when Reimu was a child, back when the previous Hakurei Witch was still alive?

Back then, Reimu always had that radiant smile on her face.

Why has there been such a big change in what seemed like yesterday?

Yokai... and humans really do have completely different perceptions of time!

Well, never mind.

Yukari Yakumo stepped into the gap and began to seriously consider the issue of finding a replacement, since Reimu, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, was already a defective product that had failed to meet the standards.

After finishing the fried tofu, Reimu Hakurei looked into the distance with some confusion. Suddenly, a black dot appeared in the sky, and then a blazing light shone from it.

"Ugh, honestly, this is so annoying. Doesn't he know how to repent even a little bit?"

"Well, let's just treat it as a post-meal exercise!"

Reimu Hakurei raised her hand, and a dense cluster of blood-red orbs, carrying a deep, bloody aura, shot towards the beam of light. They instantly repelled the light and then slipped through the closing gaps, striking the enemy on the other side.

"It's done!"

Reimu Hakurei clapped her hands, then looked around at her surroundings with a headache, lost in deep turmoil.

"I still have absolutely no idea what to do!"

What Reimu Hakurei couldn't see was that the instant she made her move, countless beings in Gensokyo turned their gazes toward the Hakurei Shrine, their eyes filled with fear, disgust, and pain.

It's no longer just humans who are looking at it; it's almost every one of the youkai in Gensokyo. Only a few individuals have such complex gazes.

However, Reimu Hakurei was already used to it and no longer cared, because she now had something more important to do and something more beautiful to look forward to.

"Mo Mo, come quickly."

133 The road to mastering the machete is long and arduous.

Reimu Hakurei has disappeared. Originally, Momo had planned to find some reason or an opportunity to use his trading power to forcibly keep Reimu Hakurei, but now it seems that he has to give up on this idea.

Right now, Reimu Hakurei doesn't really belong here. Although the two of them have gotten used to each other over the past few months, there is still a huge gap between them.

This gap can only be bridged by Momo building a bridge through his own progress.

"father!"

Freed from the constraints of Reimu Hakurei's power, Yui finally regained her mobility, and now the entire Aincrad... no, it should be called the Hall of Heroes. Yui is the head steward of the entire Hall of Heroes, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of all its data; she has become something akin to the core of the Hall of Heroes.

Yui rushed towards Momo, hugging his neck, her eyes red and swollen, clearly worried about what had just happened.

"Don't worry, Yui. Reimu won't hurt me. But no matter what happens to her, no matter how terrifying her power and changes are, she will always be that lazy witch at heart."

"If Gensokyo, if the entire world of anime and manga can't provide her with a small shrine where she can leisurely drink tea, then I'll take on this task without hesitation."