My personal opinion on Gensokyo

Under the delicious temptation and nourishment of the daily menu prepared by Shang Yang and Miss Lord God, Miss Ai's body seemed to have become healthier in the month after she recovered from the fever, and her unhealthy pale skin color without blood had also disappeared a little. This was also confirmed by Miss Lord God's medical examination of Ai.

At the same time, the young man and the girl who are still in the early stages of getting to know each other have endless topics to talk about every day, and both the young man and the girl also enjoy this kind of interaction very much.

So, when the black-haired girl woke up this morning and couldn't find the young man, she felt very lost...

The black-haired girl, who had always lacked a sense of security in her life, had unconsciously developed a sense of dependence on the young man after this month's wonderful experience of getting along with him.

The girl, who didn't notice the young man beside her, straightened up listlessly, tidied her messy black hair, put on her coat, stood up, walked barefoot to a corner of the tatami, bent down, and took out a pair of pure cotton slippers from the corner. There were two cute little rabbits embroidered on the light pink uppers, making the cotton shoes look extremely cute.

There is no doubt that this is prepared by the young man for the young girl.

Placing her feet in these adorable shoes, filled with soft cotton, the girl's heart seemed to warm at the gentle touch of the cotton. These adorable shoes, which the young woman called "cotton slippers," were undoubtedly far superior to the clogs and tabi she had worn before. They were also incredibly warm, and the two embroidered bunnies were particularly adorable.

Looking at the cute rabbit cotton slippers, the girl thought of the "cashmere home pajamas" that the young man had prepared for her and folded them neatly in the closet. The girl couldn't help feeling a little shy. That "daily clothes" was so cute. When she put it on for the first time, she didn't want to take it off at all. It was not until she covered herself with the quilt to sleep at night that she felt too hot and stuffy, so she quietly took off the "daily clothes" in the quilt.

However, the girl rarely wore this set of "daily clothes" called "home pajamas" in the next month. She usually wore it for a while in the evening before going to bed. She still wore her own clothes on weekdays. This was also for safety reasons. Although the girl's small palace was generally deserted, maids would deliver two meals a day, and occasionally patrolling warriors would come to inspect the area.

This small palace is not completely unmanaged. Instead, it is more like a cold palace, in a state of "neglected supervision". For some reason, the girl has been under house arrest in this small palace.

Therefore, the items that the young man prepared for the girl, which should not appear in the small palace, like the rabbit cotton slippers that the girl had just found out of the corner, were all well hidden by the girl. Even if the maids came in, they would not be able to find any trace of a second person having been there.

After putting on cotton slippers, Ai stood up. The early spring chill made her shiver subconsciously. She slowly walked to the wardrobe and opened it. Subconsciously, she didn't look at the cute dress that always tempted her. Her fair hands groped in the depths of the wardrobe and took out a dressing mirror. Holding this mirror that Ai thought was particularly magical, she opened the stand and stood it on the cypress table, and used a wooden comb to comb her long black hair like a waterfall.

After returning from Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, the girl began to like dressing herself up.

The girl carefully combed her long hair with a wooden comb. The fourteen-year-old girl began to spend more time than before taking care of her appearance.

The long, silky black hair became even smoother when combed by a wooden comb, and fell on the girl's shoulders like a waterfall falling from a cliff.

The girl doesn't like to tie her hair up or do other hairstyles, which is too troublesome. Her naturally grown long black hair naturally forms a perfect Ji hairstyle, which matches the girl's beautiful face very well. The girl's persistence has a new reason recently, that is, the girl once heard the young man say unconsciously that the young man himself likes girls with Ji hairstyles.

As she combed her hair, the girl thought about the young man. In the mirror, a warm smile appeared on her beautiful face. Noticing her own unconscious laughter in the mirror, and realizing that she had acted strangely because of the young man, the girl let out another shy laugh...

The disappointment of not being able to find the young man in the morning seemed to be washed away by the joy brought by memories.

Miss Ai has been in a good mood over the past month. Shang Yang often takes her to various places in Japan for sightseeing. Although she is always shy because she has to be carried by Shang Yang before going out, being able to have fun in the mountains and fields of the outside world also makes her look forward to the next time Shang Yang takes her out.

However, Ai also likes the days when we can stay together in the small palace and talk about endless topics all day long, and look forward to what kind of food Shang Yang will use magic to conjure up.

After returning from Luoyang, the girl never asked the young man about his future plans. The girl felt that if the young man told her that he wanted to take her away from here and leave Fujiwara Palace, the girl believed that he would definitely agree at the first moment.

Thinking about it, this thought, which resembled the stories in Tang Dynasty books about young men and women eloping, always made the girl blush, but she couldn't help but think about her future life along these lines...

If the young man took her away from Fujiwara Palace and the imperial court, the girl hoped to go to Tang with him to live. In Tang, she wouldn't have to worry about the imperial court looking for her if she disappeared...

However, it is not necessary to go to Tang State. In fact, anywhere is fine... as long as you are with the young man.

During this period, the girl's ears always turned red with embarrassment at such unrestrained thoughts, and when she was alone she would do cute things like rolling around on the tatami.

People are like this, they can never control their thoughts, and the same goes for love. The shyer you are, the more you can't help but think about it. Miss Ai, who has read many Tang Dynasty books, certainly knows how things will develop after young men and women "elope".

They "elope" to a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters that no one can find, and then take the sky as their father and the earth as their mother, kneel down to worship the heaven and earth, have a wedding night with candles, and become husband and wife...

And then……

Just like the result of several random thoughts in the past month.

A huge sense of fear suddenly gripped the girl's mind...

And then... and then what will happen...

The black-haired girl covered her ears tightly, the horrible buzzing sound seemed to be piercing her ears...

The girl strained painfully to block out the buzzing sound.

Of course, this is impossible.

The buzzing sound did not exist; it was just an illusion of the huge fear in the girl's heart.

This is a fear that has been brought to the girl by a long-standing reason and has been hidden in the deepest part of her heart.

It had been hidden deep in the girl's heart. Originally, it didn't matter to her, but after she met the young man, it suddenly broke out of its shell.

Over the past month, the girl was enveloped in the young man's sweet tenderness and care, and the fear in her heart grew stronger day by day...

His slender arms hung limply.

The girl, gripped by fear, had a delicate face filled with loneliness...

what do I do……

PS1: The internet was down around 11am when I was trying to upload... I don't know what happened. The internet has been terrible these past two nights.

PS2: The author’s background is also the same.

PS3: It is common sense to give out sweets and then give out knives. (Distant Eyes)

PS4: I recommend the book "Accidentally Got Screwed in Academy City", a book by a friend. I haven't read it for a long time, so please read it if you like it.

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 17: Determination

He sat dejectedly in front of the cypress desk for a long time, and it took him a long time to muster up the courage to suppress the uneasiness and fear in his heart.

Under the brilliant Milky Way, thousands of fireworks bloomed, Kongming lanterns twinkled like stars, and the sacred city of Luoyang was covered with a sea of ​​flowers. At the top of heaven, the dreamlike memory of the young man making a vow for the girl forced the girl to suppress her uneasiness again.

it does not matter……

The girl told herself over and over again.

It's just a fact that has always existed. Shang Yangjun is not an ordinary person. If he uses magic, there should be a way, just like how he took me to Tang State...

Reluctantly burying her fear and anxiety deep in her heart, the girl recalled every bit of memories she had with the young man over the past month. Her heart gradually dispelled the loneliness and became warm as these beautiful memories were shared.

but……

The black-haired girl bit her cherry lips lightly.

When should I tell Shang Yangjun...?

This question made the black-haired girl feel anxious and worried.

…whenever the “time” is right.

In the end, the girl frowned, with worries and anxiety, and she made such a "determination" that it was hard to say whether it should be regarded as brave or weak.

After making up her "decision", Ai leaned down, and the ends of her long hair like a waterfall fell to the ground. Ai carefully fumbled under the cypress table for a while, and pulled out a light red pine box from under the table.

Seeing the light red pine box, Ai breathed a sigh of relief.

Since this is here...

Putting the pine box on the cypress table, Miss Ai groped the bottom of the pine box. After feeling a pull ring, she gently pulled it, and the secret compartment at the bottom of the pine box was opened. A letter fell out of the secret compartment.

When she saw the envelope, Ai was obviously delighted. She immediately picked up the envelope, took out the letter and opened it.

This is naturally Shang Yang's message of love.

Young men who usually don't have the heart to wake up a sleeping girl will always put their messages in the secret compartment, and the wooden box itself has other functions.

In the letter left for Miss Ai today, Shang Yang told Ai that he had something to do in the next two days and might not be able to accompany her on time, so he asked Ai to take good care of herself.

After reading the young man's beautiful message in Chinese characters, the girl folded the letter with satisfaction and gently pressed it against her heart.

An overflowing sense of security enveloped her, dispelling all remaining uneasiness in the girl.

After maintaining this posture for a while, Ai carefully put the envelope close to her body, stretched out her white hands again, and opened the lid of the pine box.

A stream of hot air rose from the gap where the pine box lid was removed, mixed with the aroma of food.

When fully opened, the first layer is divided into four small boxes.

Milk, bacon, fried eggs, bread, sushi, steamed dumplings, shrimp fried rice, barley and lotus seed porridge...

The pinewood lunch box contains carefully matched meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, making love feel warm in the heart...

I will tell Shang Yangjun at the right "time", now...

Please let me indulge in Shang Yangjun's care for a while...

…Just a little longer.

Love is a little "weak", praying like this...

Ancient Nara, Fujiwara Kyonan, Mount Yoshino.

“The geographical conditions here are okay.”

At the flat valley bottom of Mount Yoshino, a young man with messy black hair was holding a notebook in one hand and a pen in the other, writing and drawing in the notebook with the pen.

"It's nearly twenty miles from here to Fujiwara no Miyabi. If we rush out to pursue them, except for the mounted samurai and some ashigaru with good physical strength, most of the ashigaru will fall behind halfway, which can effectively control the scale of the pursuit."

After writing down this thought in his notebook, Shang Yang sighed and asked Miss Lord God.

"Miss Lord God, are you really going to do this? I'm really a little uneasy."

[It's normal to feel uneasy when facing death, Admiral.]

The Lady Lord comforted Shang Yang without much sincerity.

[Don't worry. I'm still unsure of Miss Ai's historical causality, but this plan has a 75% chance of success. More importantly, it's risk-free.]

"...I want to be hacked to pieces, and then you say there's no danger."

Shang Yang was quite suspicious about the Lord Goddess's plan.

"Miss Lord God, I always feel that your statement that I won't die is a bit bluffing. How can you be so sure?"

"Please rest assured on this point. It's more real than gold. Doctor, the Causal Mystery can't be wrong when it comes to analyzing life characteristics. Even if you don't believe me, trust the higher being who created the Causal Mystery and can take you through time."

"I repeat, based on the Causal Mysteries and my own judgment, Captain, as a demon, your life force is extremely stubborn, demonstrating a high resistance to death. Your current body is a 'shell' of some kind. Simply destroying the 'shell' is far from truly annihilating you.]

[Theoretically, after the Master is reincarnated as the Primordial Heavenly Demon through the Heavenly Demon Book, he should be able to quickly discover his demonic talents. However, we have been in this world for over a month, and the Master's demonic talents have yet to manifest. The Causal Mystery Rite judges that this is 90% likely because the Master's talents are buried deep within his essence, and are likely extremely irrational and bizarre, making it difficult for them to manifest in the objective world.]

[This also fits with the Yuanshi Tianyao's status as a high-ranking demon race that has never existed in the multiverse since ancient times.]

[There's a clever way to deal with this deeply hidden talent. That's to have the Doctor's body, the 'shell', destroyed during a battle, causing his soul to enter the realm between the living and the underworld. Without the objective constraints of the 'shell', combined with the absence of human rules in the realm of life and death, and the Doctor's subconscious resistance to human death and survival instinct as a pre-human, these three factors combined create a 75% chance of the Doctor's innate abilities unleashing.]

"...That sounds like it's okay."

Shang Yang raised his hand and rubbed his hair in embarrassment.

"Although it sounds okay, as Miss Lord God said, before being a monster for over a month, I was a human for twenty years. It's a psychological barrier for me to accept the fact that I won't die even if I'm hacked to death."

[This is also a favorable condition. Faced with a situation that would be fatal for a human, the Captain's remaining survival instinct as a former human will greatly stimulate your life as a youkai. This is also the reason why the Causal Mystery predicts that the manifestation of your innate ability may reach 75%.]

[And there's another reason.]

"It's about love, isn't it?"

Although he used a question mark, Shang Yang's tone was very affirmative.

[Indeed, based on a month of causal analysis of Miss Ai, a portion of the larger causal structure wrapped around her has also begun to loosen.]

Miss Lord God spoke calmly.

[This is the intended situation. However, as the causal structure destabilizes, the possibility of some historical causalities being triggered is rapidly increasing. Various accidents may occur around Miss Ai, which requires the Admiral to have sufficient strength to deal with them. The current situation is extremely unsafe.]

[Furthermore, since the Causal Mysteries determine that the Master's innate abilities are highly likely to be bizarre and illogical, then this ability is also highly likely to have an impact on my work, on undoing the historical karma that has befallen Miss Ai.]

"……Understood."

The uneasiness disappeared, and Shang Yang knew what he should do. Then, after a moment's thought, Shang Yang raised another question.

"According to the plan, we will also make this action a historical event that should not have existed, once again causing just the right impact on the historical structure. This way, our action will be quite large. So, how much truth do we need to tell Love?"

After hearing Shang Yang's question, Miss Lord God also fell into hesitation.

Then, the main goddess, who also felt a similar compassion for the black-haired girl, spoke to the young man with certainty.

[…I think I should tell Miss Ai all the facts that can be told so that she can feel as relieved as possible.]

"……it is good."

After a brief silence, the young man nodded again, lowered his head and began to correct the details of the action recorded in the notebook, his tone calm.

"Just listen to Miss Lord God."

The long river of time, the current historical node.

If there were an eternal and immortal being who turned his gaze to the river of time in this world, he would be able to see that an invisible force had flowed upstream of the river of time for seven hundred years, and landed at the current historical node without attracting the attention of any life at the current historical node seven hundred years ago.

Because the structure of another causal law connected to this invisible historical causality loosened, this historical causality that existed seven hundred years later was pulled to seven hundred years ago and fell into the current historical node seven hundred years ago.

This invisible historical cause and effect fell into the current historical node seven hundred years ago and split into two. One part of the historical cause and effect fell precisely in ancient Nara, Fujiwara Kyo. The other part mysteriously disappeared...

In the deep darkness of an unknown place, a strange being woke up from a long-lost dream...