My personal opinion on Gensokyo

Seeing the message on the letter left by Ai, Shang Yang ruffled his hair, pushed the door open and went downstairs, walked through the corridor, entered the living room, stepped through the glass door separating the courtyard, and came to the courtyard.

As he stepped into the courtyard, the beach, which was sparkling in the sunlight and seemed a little dazzling, made Shang Yang look away. As he turned his head and looked away, he saw a girl with long dark hair in a light white dress, sitting quietly on the wooden steps that were slightly higher than the beach.

Sitting in the cool place under the eaves, Ai Zheng picked up a comic book and flipped through it slowly and quietly.

Some of the hair on her long, dark-colored hair, which was as soft as brocade, looked a little messy.

Sensing someone approaching, the girl with long black hair shifted her gaze from the comic book titled "Five Star Stories" and raised her little head, looking at the person with her beautiful dark red eyes.

A young man with gray and messy hair came into the girl's sight.

There was a hint of joy in the girl's voice.

"Good morning."

"Morning, love."

After casually responding to Ai's greeting, Shang Yang took three or two steps towards Ai, sat down next to Ai naturally, and asked with concern.

"...What's wrong? It's so early in the morning."

Hearing Shang Yang's concerned question, Ai did not answer, but raised his right hand and spread it out.

In her soft, white jade hands, she held an antique peach wood comb.

Seeing Ai's actions, Shang Yang casually took the wooden comb that Ai handed to him, and naturally and familiarly combed the girl's long, dark hair, which was as soft and beautiful as brocade.

The girl with long black hair also quietly turned her head, and her extremely beautiful dark red eyes began to read the comic in her hand again.

The young man who was carefully combing the girl's long black hair and the girl who was reading the comic book calmly were both silent. There seemed to be no sound on the beach in the courtyard, only the subtle sound of flipping papers that could be heard from time to time.

……

Deep in Mount Yoshino, at the hot spring resort, two hours later.

"Have you brought everything you need?"

"Strange, where did you put the NS machine yesterday?"

"Where are the clothes I need to bring?!"

"The power seems to be still on..."

"Sister Wen Ji will handle it!"

"I'm still missing a set of comics!"

Chaos... Chaos...

Standing in the middle of the corridor, Shang Yang looked at the chaotic scene in front of him with a twitching mouth. He turned back with difficulty and quietly asked Ai, who was standing beside him with a calm expression.

"It's never been like this before when I went out... Ai, didn't you and Sister Jue pack your things yesterday? Why are they acting like they didn't pack at all..."

Just as Shang Yang was combing Ai's long hair, they heard the sound of footsteps and occasional talking in the originally quiet house. When Shang Yang and Ai returned to the living room, they saw the girl hurriedly going up and down the stairs, and Shang Yang was a little confused.

"It's already been packed."

Hearing Shang Yang's question, Ai answered softly.

"However, since this is a real 'trip', everyone always has the thought of 'I want to add some more things to my luggage that I think I might find useful.'"

"...This is what's called a 'normal reaction before traveling.'"

Shang Yang raised his hand to ruffle his hair and spread his hands.

"Then, let's give them some time and let them play freely..."

After a period of chaos and hustle and bustle, the chaotic hot spring villa finally calmed down. The girls gathered in the living room, each holding a suitcase of different styles. They stood in a row and looked at the young man standing in front of them.

Raising his hand, Shang Yang pressed his temple with his slender index finger. He looked at the sisters Kaguya, Shana and Gu Mingdi in front of him with an expressionless face. Ai also stood quietly beside Shang Yang.

The undead girl and the tsukumogami girl, the sisters Wen Ji and Wen Ju, who will be responsible for looking after the hot spring villa and the sisters' house in Gu Mingdi underground on the other side for hundreds of years after the young men and girls leave this world, are sitting in the living room in an orderly manner.

"Well, it looks like you're all done packing."

With a cough, Shang Yang took out a notebook and a pen as if by magic, and said seriously.

"As your guide and leader, I'll confirm that everyone is present. So..."

While speaking, Shang Yang flipped through his notebook and called out names seriously.

"Hōraizan Kaguya?"

"I'm here."

Hearing Shang Yang calling her name, Her Royal Highness, who had tied her long hair into a single ponytail today, looked very chic and capable. She deliberately drew out the word, holding a light white suitcase in one hand and raised her other hand to answer.

"Xiaowu... ahem, Gu Ming Di Jue?"

"...So you really want to call me that? I'll hit you, okay?"

When Miss Jue, who was carrying a cute light pink backpack, heard Shang Yang pronounce Xiaowu first, she gave the young man a dissatisfied look.

"I'm here."

"Shana?"

"arrive."

When Shang Yang called her name, the petite black-haired girl carrying a light red shoulder bag raised her hand and answered simply.

"Lianlian?"

"Hi! Brother Shangyang, Lianlian is here too!"

When Shang Yang called her, Lianlian, the cute sister who was standing next to Jue and carrying a light yellow schoolbag, immediately raised her little hand and waved it, happily indicating that she was there too.

"Okay, no problem."

After pretending to pick up a pen and make a tick on the notebook, Shang Yang turned his head and looked at Miss Ai standing next to him with a serious expression.

"Miss Yan Mo Ai, deputy team leader, please return to the team. Let's go... eh?!"

Before Shang Yang could finish his words, a scene that caught the young man's eye abruptly interrupted his speech.

I saw Miss Ai, who originally had nothing with her, suddenly put on a small orange travel bag and gently put a beige sun hat on her little head with long black hair, dressed like a standard traveler.

The large amount of luggage that Ai and Jue had packed together yesterday had already been piled up in the storage space of the "Mystery of Cause and Effect". The travel backpacks that the girls were carrying or back now contained some unnecessary things.

However, in order to create the atmosphere of a trip, the girls all carried or carried travel backpacks.

After looking at her stunned lover, Ai raised her fair white hands, slightly adjusted the angle of the sun hat, and in a soft tone, gave the order to set off.

"Everyone, let's go."

"Yes! Leader!" ×4

Hearing Ai's softly whispered instructions, the four girls answered in unison, ignoring Shang Yang's self-appointed position as tour guide and leader, and walked out of the living room, crossed the corridor, and changed their shoes in front of the entrance.

Rubbing his gray hair, the young man looked helplessly at Miss Ai leading the sisters Jue and Lianlian, Kaguya and Shana to leave the living room, and then rolled his eyes at the undead girl and the tsukumogami girl who were sitting on the tatami in the living room, covering their mouths to hide their smiles.

"Wenji, Wenju, I leave the Hot Spring Villa and the underground house on the other side of the river in your care. We'll be setting off now."

Hearing Shang Yang's words, sisters Wen Ji and Wen Ju also restrained their smiles, stood up at the same time, and spoke in unison.

"Please leave it to us two sisters. We will take everyone out." ×2

Deep in Mount Yoshino, outside the hot spring resort.

The girls, who had changed their shoes, had already gone out and gathered on the flat mountain road outside the hot spring resort.

Shana, carrying a light red shoulder bag, gently closed her eyes. The obscure power of cause and effect continuously dissipated from Shana's palms and dissipated into the air. Meanwhile, more of this power, in accordance with Shana's will, penetrated the depths of this world, then broke through the boundaries of this world and wandered and searched in the sea of ​​emptiness.

In the end, the mysterious and obscure power of cause and effect connected to the location of another world in the Sea of ​​Void.

Seeing that Shana was confirming her cross-world causal lock, Shang Yang also closed his eyes. Under the control of Shang Yang's consciousness, the power of Liangyi also left the edge of this world along the causal chain established by Shana, and also locked onto the essential characteristics of the other "world" locked by Shana.

Then, Shang Yang and Shana opened their eyes at the same time, looked at each other, nodded slightly, and called out in unison.

"Awakening, the Azure Lotus of the Primordial Spirit." ×2

"clear."

Hearing what Shang Yang and Shana said, Jue nodded slightly as a matter of course, and shook his sleeves slightly. An egg-sized pale green jade lotus flew out from Jue's sleeves, quickly growing larger, covering Shang Yang and the girl completely.

After seeing the pale green jade lotus enveloping the young men and girls, the two sisters Wen Ji and Wen Ju, who were standing not far away, looked at each other, nodded at the same time, and spoke in unison to the Yuanshen Qinglian.

"Lord Shangjun, Lord Jue, everyone, please take care of yourselves. We two sisters will definitely take good care of Lord Shangjun and Lord Jue's house." ×2

Upon hearing this, Shang Yang casually waved to the sisters Wen Ji and Wen Ju outside the Yuanshen Qinglian, indicating that he understood. Before the other girls could say anything, the pale green jade lotus instantly disappeared from this world without leaving a trace.

Traveling through the world does not require a long time. The sea of ​​void between the worlds does not have the passage of "time".

In just a moment, the soul Qinglian carried Shangyang, Ai, Kaguya, Shana and the Gumingdi sisters away from their hometown "Gensokyo World" and arrived in the "Other World".

After touching the ground, Jue casually put away the Soul Green Lotus. When Shang Yang saw the so-called "other world" he had arrived in, the young man with gray and white hair was stunned on the spot.

"...What the hell?"

Volume 4: Edo Chronicles: Chapter 166: Arriving in the Gintama World

When Jue casually put away the Soul Green Lotus, Shang Yang was extremely surprised by the scene that appeared before his eyes.

The place where Shang Yang and the girls appeared was the top of a towering mountain. This was not surprising, but what really surprised Shang Yang was the strange scenery presented when looking from the top of the mountain.

Looking out from the top of the mountain, one can see the vast plains bordering the sea, and on the vast plains, an ultra-modern and magnificent city stands proudly on the plains.

In the center of the vast metropolis stood a massive, cylindrical metal structure. The closer the buildings were to this cylindrical structure, the more advanced and luxurious they appeared. Surrounding this vast metropolis were the town structures of centuries past. Furthermore, within the vast metropolis, many blocks were dotted with ancient wooden houses.

Of course, what's even stranger is that above this surreal, magnificent metropolis, spaceships of all shapes and sizes come and go...

Seeing this, Shang Yang came back to his senses and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

It's not that he is unfamiliar with this place, but that he is too familiar with it. The huge and magnificent city with obvious Japanese architectural style, especially the city center, and the space teleportation device made Shang Yang immediately determine where this place is.

“… This is Edo Castle (えど) in the Gintama world!”

It’s actually the “Gintama World”…

In this "Gintama world", at the end of the Edo period, that is, before the mid-nineteenth century AD, the history of this world was still consistent with the history of Shangyang's hometown world, with no difference.

However, the "Black Ship Incident" that should have occurred in 1853 AD, or the sixth year of Kaei in Japan, in which the US Navy fleet sailed to the Edo port under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and used force to force the Tokugawa shogunate to open the country to trade and end the Tokugawa shogunate's closed-door policy, did not happen in this "Gintama world".

However, a horrific twist occurred here. In the history of this world, Japan did not welcome the invasion of the US Navy fleet, but instead welcomed the invasion of more brutal aliens - the "Heavenly Beings".

The Celestial Beings' space fleet descended from the sky and brazenly declared the powerful force of the Celestial Beings' space fleet to the Tokugawa Shogunate that ruled Japan. The war between the samurai of this country and the Celestial Beings was about to break out.

However, fearing the powerful space fleet of the Celestial Beings, the Tokugawa shogunate immediately abandoned the samurai who were fighting against the Celestial Beings' space fleet, bowed to the alien invaders - the Celestial Beings, and allowed the Celestial Beings to freely enter and leave this samurai country.

Then, under the coercion of the Celestial Beings, the "Sword Ban Order" was forcibly promulgated, which aimed to completely eliminate the samurai class, which posed a huge threat to the Celestial Beings.

The warriors who fought on the front lines of the battlefield to protect this country have completely lost the qualifications to wear swords and fight the enemy.

The samurai who lost their swords gradually forgot how to uphold the samurai's code of conduct.

From then on, the Tokugawa shogunate was gradually controlled by the Heavenly People and became a puppet regime through which the Heavenly People indirectly ruled Japan.

After the end of the shogunate system and the opening of trade, the Celestials built a space transmission device as a space route node in the center of Edo, the headquarters of the Tokugawa shogunate's supreme ruler, the Shogun Shogi.

Edo thus became an extremely important trading port on the space route and was the first to be impacted by advanced science and concepts from the universe.

At the same time, many financial and commercial forces in the universe also took deep roots in Edo. In just twenty years, Edo has leapfrogged through its transformation from a feudal town to a hypermodern city, becoming a stylish ultramodern space port city.

Putting aside the fact that the alien invasion itself was a big deal, the drastic changes that took place in Edo during these twenty years were actually a typical process of industrial and financial capital pouring into a traditional feudal town with trade advantages and completely transforming it.

In Shang Yang's opinion, whether the invasion of the Celestial Beings was a good thing or a bad thing for Edo and the whole of Japan is now difficult to say clearly after 20 years of Edo's ultra-modernization.

The former feudal town has become the world's only ultra-modern space port city on Earth. The people who came to Edo for trade and development also brought with them countless advanced technologies.

The newly-developed industry not only created many lucky people, but also provided countless jobs for bankrupt farmers living in Edo and even the whole of Japan.

The social contradictions in Japan, which had already been very serious at the end of the Edo period, were miraculously alleviated because of the arrival of the Amanto.

At the same time, because of the space transmission device, Edo, as an emerging commercial port city in the space route, has become increasingly important in the space route as more and more Celestial forces have settled in.

Looking at this ultra-modern space port city in front of him with all kinds of strange-shaped spacecraft coming and going, which seemed very prosperous, Shang Yang really didn't know what expression to show.

Smiling is definitely inappropriate anyway.

Not only did Shangyang feel a sense of "Wow!", but the girls' expressions were also very interesting after seeing the magnificent and prosperous space port city of Edo on the distant plains...

Seeing the vast plains bordering the sea in the distance, this space port city of Edo, which was no different from the one he and Kaguya had seen in the anime "Gintama", Jue frowned slightly and glanced at Shang Yang beside him, feeling a little worried.

Not only Jue, but Shana and Ai also glanced at Shang Yang who was deep in thought without leaving any trace.

For Ai, Jue and Shana, the setting of the "Gintama World" itself doesn't matter, it's not a big deal.