My personal opinion on Gensokyo

The girl's dance, in which she twirled and danced like a butterfly in the flames, did not last long.

thump.

With a stumble, the girl's legs, as if carved from ivory, gave way...

Ai knelt on the ground, barely supporting her upper body with her arms, her jet-black bangs covering her beautiful face.

The girl sobbed softly, and her uncontrollable tears fell drop by drop to the ground.

...I understand, you can't see me anymore.

What's the point of me doing this...

Shang Yang, I miss you so much...

PS1: The third update is completed, please hurry up and give me the monthly ticket reward.

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 36: Spiders of Hell

Nara, south of Fujiwara capital, and the Yoshinoyama area.

In the valley that had become a battlefield with rivers of blood and then burned by a raging fire, the shadow of a green lotus slowly emerged in the air in the valley, gradually solidifying from a shadow into a solid entity.

The green lotus slowly fell onto the valley floor, which was left with gray-black traces after the fire, and transformed into a young man with black hair.

The young man experienced life and death, and then returned to the world again.

"It's really great to be able to come back safely. Miss Lord God, how are you?"

The young man was in a very good mood as he stretched his arms and felt his new body without any discomfort at all.

While asking the Lady Goddess, the young man picked up a stone that had been burned into gray and black by the fire and gently grasped it.

The gray-black stone was like soft mud, changing shape in the young man's hands.

[First of all, congratulations to the doctor for finding his gifted ability.]

Miss Lord God's tone was calm, but if you listened carefully, you could hear a hint of joy hidden in her tone.

[Both I and the Causal Arcana are doing well. Because the Admiral has gained a natural ability, the Causal Arcana has unlocked some of its previously sealed functions and also gained bonus Causal Power.]

"That's good."

The young man nodded, but suddenly noticed the direction of Fujiwara-kyo to the north. In the dead of night, the night sky was reflected in a fiery red.

"...Miss Lord God, why is there a fire in the direction of Fujiwara-kyo? The fire is quite large."

The young man frowned, looking puzzled, and felt intuitively uneasy.

For some unknown reason, the young man suddenly thought of a scene he had seen in another world in the distant future.

[…What's going on? The Great Fire of Fujiwara-kyō, which burned down most of Fujiwara-kyō, supposedly occurred in 711 AD. At this point in history, a major fire in Fujiwara-kyō shouldn't have occurred.]

Miss Lord God was surprised to notice that the night sky in the north was illuminated by the fire and turned into a fiery red.

Almost at the same time, Shang Yang noticed that an invisible and obscure fluctuation emanated from the deep red ruby ​​pendant on his chest.

The Lady of the Lord God used the secret ritual of cause and effect to escape from the present world and enter the long river of time to inquire about the current historical node.

[…Wha, what?! Why is this happening!!!]

Almost instantly, the Lady Lord God was shocked and furious.

[I was so careless! It turned out to be a destiny node!]

The shocked and angry Miss God passed on to Shang Yang all the information caused by the changes in historical cause and effect before and after Shang Yang fell into the state of death at the current historical node.

Letters erased by darkness, Emperor Jitong and the nobles whose emotions were guided by darkness, the girl's strange slumber that night, her heart removed from her body, the girl in utter despair, the girl cruelly tortured, secretly executed and buried, the girl who had become dead, rising again out of regret and resentment, filling her own heart...

Finally, the scene freezes, and the girl kneels before the blazing remains of the Great Hall, weeping in agony...

boom! ! !

A strong demonic aura enveloped the entire valley. The violent outburst of magic power caused raging winds, flying sand and rocks in the valley, and the valley was instantly like being swept by a hurricane.

The young man instantly flew into the night sky and flew towards the burning Fujiwara-kyo.

"What's in the darkness?"

The young man's tone was frighteningly cold.

[Destiny Nodes, also called Destiny Creatures, are non-human beings that occasionally appear and actively maintain abnormal historical cause and effect.]

Miss Lord God spoke briefly and to the point, and one could tell that she was in an extremely bad mood as well.

“…It’s looking for death!”

The same concise and cold answer.

Since Shang Yang was reincarnated as a demon, a demon-like brutality appeared in Shang Yang's pure black pupils for the first time.

[Shang Yang, listen carefully. It's all my fault for not anticipating the appearance of the creature of destiny. You can blame me however you want later, but you must understand the current situation.]

The Lady Lord God addressed Shang Yang by name for the first time, her tone extremely solemn.

[The Fate Creature and historical karma are mutually beneficial. When it discovers that part of its originally predetermined fate has been altered and cannot be restored, it will immediately activate historical karma to protect the greatest predetermined outcome! Maintaining Miss Ai's difficult life and untimely death was its original purpose. But now that Miss Ai has returned to the human world, there is only one outcome it should protect.]

"… dragging love into hell and becoming its agent—Hell Girl."

Shang Yang also thought of what the Lady Goddess wanted to say.

"...The creature destined to exist in the darkness is undoubtedly the embodiment of Hell's will—the Hell Spider!"

A cold cruelty emerged in the young man's pure black eyes, which were filled with violence.

“…Even if it means the destruction of hell, we must destroy it!”

"I will never allow love to fall into hell!"

Nara, Fujiwara Kyo.

Falling from the night sky onto the walls of Fujiwara no Kyoto, Shang Yang looked at this Kyoto filled with darkness and resentment with a cold expression.

Most of Fujiwara Palace in central Kyoto was engulfed in flames, the night sky stained a fiery crimson. The raging fire, fueled by the north wind, spread rapidly around the palace. Most of the residents of Fujiwara Palace were awakened, fleeing in panic from their homes, which were instantly engulfed by the flames.

However, in Shang Yang's eyes, under the fire-filled Fujiwara-kyo, the darkness of hell was approaching the surface from the deepest part of the earth, and the dark shadow underground encompassed the entire Fujiwara-kyo.

[Shang Yang, look! The darkness of Hell is approaching the earth. Darkness and resentment have seeped through the surface... The Hell Spider is about to crawl out of Hell.]

Miss Lord God spoke in a hurried tone.

"Even the real body has crawled out of hell."

Shang Yang frowned, the current situation was extremely troublesome.

"…If you can delay it, delay it a little longer."

The young man raised his right hand and waved it slowly.

The "power" that overflows the soul is revealed.

The wells in countless mansions in Kyoto suddenly spewed out raging flames, and the canals beside the roads also caught fire.

Under the mysterious "power", most of the water in Fujiwara-kyo was transferred to the other end of the scale of all things, and transformed into fire that was opposite to water.

"The ability to manipulate the two yin and yang."

This is a dangerous ability that can manipulate the essence of everything, transform the essence and properties of everything into the opposite, and reverse everything.

Water is fire, day is night, sky is earth, and the world is the other shore.

This is an extremely dangerous ability. If Shang Yang is determined, the 70% of body fluids composed of water in the bodies of everyone in Fujiwara-kyo will instantly turn into burning flames, burning everyone in Kyoto to ashes.

Almost all the palaces and mansions in Kyoto were instantly engulfed in flames.

Since ancient times, fire has been the "yang" force opposed to the "yin" of darkness. As the entire Fujiwara Kyoto was engulfed in flames, the darkness of Hell approaching the surface was briefly delayed. The Hell Spiders, dark creatures born from the depths of Hell, also slowed their approach to the surface.

Nara, Fujiwara Kyo.

The palaces were burning, the roads were burning, the houses were burning, and even the luxurious mansions of the nobles were burning.

The entire Kyoto was engulfed in flames.

Regardless of status or position, facing a disaster that will burn everything to ashes and destroy everything, the order of the human world will also be burned to ashes.

The servants pushed their masters aside and stepped on the nobles to escape the flames. The nobles grabbed swords and hacked at the servants who took advantage of the chaos to loot the property in the mansion.

The sea of ​​fire that spread throughout Kyoto was a spectacular sight. Shang Yang flew across the sky above Kyoto in the sea of ​​fire and rushed towards Fujiwara Palace.

Time is tight.

The darkness of hell slowly seeped out of the surface. When Shang Yang flew over the south gate of Fujiwara-kyo from mid-air, he even discovered that the south gate of Fujiwara-kyo was already entangled with the gloomy and corrupt aura from the depths of hell.

The south gate of Fujiwara-kyo is gradually evolving into a Rashomon, a gate connecting the human world and hell.

The darkness of Hell has already encroached upon the earth. In a dozen years, this mortal capital will no longer be suitable for mortal habitation.

Miss Lord God silently observed how Fujiwara-kyo was being eroded by the darkness of hell, her tone calm.

History has changed. The original plan to relocate the capital after a decade or so due to political considerations has now become a situation where mortals are forced to relocate the capital due to the encroachment of Hell's darkness, leaving this place completely deserted.

[This Kyoto, eroded by the darkness of hell, will become a lair for evil spirits.]

"It seems that even if the entire Kyoto is set on fire, it won't delay the situation for long..."

Shang Yang, who was also observing the darkness of hell spreading to the surface, was extremely calm at this moment.

"Miss Lord God, with my current strength, I'm afraid I can't deal with the incarnation of Hell's will. Do you have any solution?"

After a long silence, the Lord Goddess, with an equally calm tone, gave the answer.

[……have.]

PS1: I’m finally almost done writing it, and the last part will definitely not be written according to the first version.

PS2: I have considered whether to make some new knives that old readers have never seen before, after all, the Hell Spider has been strengthened.

PS3: In Hell Girl, Hell Spider is essentially a father figure. He's quite protective of Xiao Ai, but in both the original and updated versions, I couldn't think of a more suitable character for the final boss. So, the author decided to make you, Hell Spider, the villain. After all, Xiao Ai already has a lover, so why would she need a father? (True)

PS4: I'm going to share a long-standing misunderstanding. There's an insert song in the Jigoku Shoujo music album called "Spider to Wife to Girl." I always misunderstood it as "Spider's Wife" and "Girl," and I kept wanting to kill the spider. (It's actually "Spider, Old Woman, and Girl.")

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 37: All or Nothing

[One thing is certain.]

Miss Lord God spoke in a calm tone.

Hell Spiders are beings born from the darkness of primordial Hell. Destined Creatures and historical causality have a mutually beneficial relationship. When the historical direction anchored by them favors the Destined Creature, only a select few with special opportunities can perceive the direction of historical causality. The Hell Spiders of this era are by no means Destined Creatures of the current historical juncture. Instead, after the current historical structure loosened, for unknown reasons, the historical causality that existed seven hundred years in the future, when Miss Ai became Hell Girl, was "dragged" from seven hundred years in the future to the present, allowing the Hell Spiders to perceive their "mission."

Therefore, the Hell Spider, without the help of fate to become powerful, is merely a half-destined creature that has just sensed its "mission." Furthermore, in this Asuka-Nara period, the nation's history has only just begun, and Hell is still in its primitive state. Born from the darkness of the primordial Hell, the Hell Spider has a fatal flaw.

Fujiwara Palace, in front of the burning ruins of Daigokuden.

The black-haired girl knelt in front of the wreckage of the Daji Palace in the sea of ​​fire, sobbing softly.

Each crystal teardrop fell on the scorching hot bricks and turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated.

"I finally found you, love."

The girl's very familiar voice sounded behind her.

The girl was stunned.

The girl turned around immediately.

A few steps away from the girl, a young man from the Tang Dynasty with black hair who looked like a normal person stood behind the girl, looking worriedly at the dazed black-haired girl who turned around.

"Shang, Shang Yang (しょうよう)!"

The girl cried with joy, tears streaming down her face.

The girl threw herself into the young man's arms.

The girl hugged the young man, who seemed a little bewildered, tightly, and cried bitterly...

"That's great...that's great..."

The tears instantly soaked the young man's chest and clothes.

"Shang Yang is still here, Shang Yang is still alive..."

The girl buried her little head tightly in the young man's chest and cried incoherently, repeating these words over and over again.

"It's alright, love..."