My personal opinion on Gensokyo

After walking for a while, Ai stopped and saw two old, hunched figures on the rugged mountain road not far away.

With his excellent eyesight, Ai could see clearly that they were two old farmers, an old man and an old woman. It seemed that they were an elderly couple.

The elderly man and the elderly woman had white hair, their coarse clothes were full of patches, and their straw sandals were tattered.

The old man and the old woman were each holding some dry branches, and there were a pile of branches and a piece of broken cloth scattered on the ground. It seemed that the two elderly people went up the mountain to collect firewood, and when they found that heavy snow suddenly fell, they hurried down the mountain. When they reached halfway up the mountain, the cloth used to tie the branches suddenly broke, and the dry branches used as firewood were scattered all over the ground.

Among them, the elderly mother-in-law looked embarrassed and reluctant, and seemed reluctant to give up the firewood she had collected with great effort.

"No, no, let's go down the mountain quickly," the old man said, although he was reluctant to leave, but he still endured it, picked up a small number of dry branches, and called the elderly mother-in-law to go down the mountain quickly, "If we don't go down the mountain now, the two of us will freeze to death in this deep mountain."

"But……"

The elderly mother-in-law still seemed reluctant to leave, her cloudy eyes fixed on the dry branches scattered on the ground.

Upon hearing this, the elderly man came over angrily, grabbed the mother-in-law's sleeve and walked forward, scolding her as he pulled.

"Go, go, go! What's so good about this? It's just a pile of firewood! Old woman, you want to lose your life in this deep forest, but I, an old man, don't want to!"

"But the little firewood we have is not enough to last for one or two nights..."

The elderly mother-in-law was still very hesitant. The firewood was too little and not enough to burn for one or two nights. It was unknown how many nights this heavy snow, which was enough to block the mountain, would last. If there was not enough firewood to burn at night, the two elderly people would be in great danger.

"Go, go, go!"

The old man didn't care that the mother-in-law was still hesitating, and he just wanted to pull her away. The old man, who had lived in Yoshino Mountain since he was a child, had dealt with this mountain all his life. The old man knew very well that if they didn't hurry down the mountain, they would not have to worry about being frozen to death at home when there was not enough firewood at night, but would be frozen to death directly in this deep mountain forest.

This elderly couple were farmers living at the foot of Mount Yoshino, collecting firewood and cultivating the land for a living. Of the four mountains surrounding the old Fujiwara-kyo capital in Nara, only the Yoshino area still housed a scattered population of nearly a hundred farmers. Decades ago, the demons of Hell, who had descended upon the earth, built a den of demons and monsters called Onido on the ruins of old Kyoto, and expelled the farmers and civilians living near the four mountains surrounding the old Fujiwara-kyo capital.

Decades ago, it was Ibuki Suika who went to the vicinity of Yoshino Mountain to expel the farmers and common people. After Ibuki Suika was defeated by Shangyang, the demons in the demon capital stopped expelling the farmers and common people living at the foot of Yoshino Mountain. According to the rules of the demon tribe a thousand years ago, Shangyang who lived in Yoshino Mountain naturally became the "lord" of the Yoshino Mountain area, and the common people and farmers living at the foot of Yoshino Mountain were also managed by Shangyang according to convention.

But in fact, Shang Yang never put himself in the position of a manager. He never interfered with the peaceful life of these farmers and people for thousands of years. In the past hundred years, the farmers and people living at the foot of Mount Yoshino have been living a peaceful life that is no different from their ancestors. In addition to cultivating farmland and growing crops, they go up the mountain to collect firewood and wild vegetables. If they are sick, they can also go into the mountain to collect some herbs.

The farmers and people of Mount Yoshino have always lived such a peaceful life.

No, to say he didn't interfere at all wouldn't be entirely accurate. Occasionally, the gray-haired youth would disguise himself as a passing merchant, visiting the homes of farmers and commoners at the foot of the mountain to chat with them. In years of famine, he would buy grain from nearby villages and bring it to the foot of Mount Yoshino, bartering it for next to nothing to the poor farmers and commoners, ensuring they wouldn't starve. Occasionally, if he felt the need, he would simply drop a bag of grain in front of each household's simple wooden hut. Over time, the legend spread among the farmers and commoners living at the foot of Mount Yoshino that "the mountain god of Mount Yoshino always protected the people of the area."

The elderly man and his grandmother are a family. On weekdays, the old man goes up the mountain to collect firewood, wild vegetables and herbs, while the grandmother stays at home at the foot of the mountain to farm. Early this morning, the elderly man saw that the firewood in the house had been completely burned out, so he called the grandmother who seldom went up the mountain to go up the mountain with him, hoping to bring back more dry branches to use as firewood.

Who would have thought that just when they had collected a lot of dry branches and dug some herbs and were about to go down the mountain, the climate in the mountains suddenly changed and heavy snow fell. The old man had lived in the mountains for decades. Even though he knew very well that the climate changes in the mountains were almost irregular, this sudden heavy snow still surprised the old man. He hurriedly pulled the old woman down the mountain. Who would have thought that just when they hurried down the rugged mountain road halfway up the mountain, the cloth belt used to tie the dry branches and carry the firewood on their backs suddenly broke, and the large amount of firewood collected all fell to the ground.

Just as the elderly man was trying to pull his elderly mother-in-law down the mountain in a hurry, the two elderly people suddenly heard an ancient and light sound not far away.

thump... thump...

This strange sound suddenly rang out in the deserted deep mountains and old forests, which made the two elderly people a little scared. The elderly mother-in-law tightly grasped the elderly man's hand, her voice trembling.

"Old, old man, have we encountered something bad?"

The old man's teeth were chattering, and he looked around with difficulty. Because the large snowflakes that kept falling blocked his vision, the old man could not see clearly in the distance.

However, with the sound of the unknown ancient bell, for some reason, the two elderly people calmed down. The old man's teeth stopped chattering, and the old woman stopped trembling. At this moment, there was no fear in their hearts.

Then, the elderly man and the grandmother saw a thin shadow slowly emerging in the vast snow and wind in front of the two elderly people.

The figure got closer and closer, and the two old men could see the true face of the thin figure.

She was a girl with long jet-black hair like a waterfall, wearing clothes that had never been seen before, and had an extremely beautiful appearance.

The girl's beautiful eyes stared at the two elderly men quietly, but what attracted the attention of the elderly man and the elderly grandmother even more was the beautiful girl's dark red eyes that looked like solidified blood.

However, for some reason, when the old man and the grandmother saw the girl's beautiful dark red pupils, they did not feel a trace of fear in their hearts. They just stared blankly at the beautiful black-haired girl who slowly approached.

Just now, in order to prevent the elderly couple from being too scared, Ai shook the bell tied to her snow-white wrist.

The "magic weapon" made by the main goddess using the "Cause and Effect Mystery" emits a ringing sound that can calm people's hearts.

Walking slowly to the two old men, he found that they were staring at him blankly. Ai Momo connected the "Cause and Effect Mystery" through the bell hanging on his snow-white wrist.

The bell that could connect to the Mysteries of Karma and allow love to use the Mysteries of Karma had no response.

"...Miss Lord God told me that the distance between the human world and the other side is too great, and it's not certain that I can contact her and the "Cause and Effect Mystery."

Ai, who was unable to use the "Cause and Effect Ritual" by ringing the bell, remembered that Miss Lord God had already gone to the other side of the underworld with Shang Yang.

Although he was a little worried about Miss Lord God, he could still feel through his heart that Shang Yang's life was still surging and full of vitality.

Ai once heard Shang Yang and Miss Lord God say that the lives of Shang Yang and Miss Lord God were of the same origin, and as long as Shang Yang's life was normal, Miss Lord God would also be safe.

"However, without the use of the 'Cause and Effect Mystery', there is no way to materialize the appropriate materials."

This thought flashed through the girl's mind. The black-haired girl sighed softly, gave up calling out to Miss Lord God, and bent down.

...Swish!

With the sound of cloth being torn, the girl cut off a long strip of black cloth from the hem of her black knee-length skirt.

The elderly couple just stared blankly at the mysterious black-haired girl in front of them tearing off a piece of cloth from the hem of her skirt, then taking a few steps closer, squatting down and helping the two elderly men tie up the dry branches scattered on the ground with the strip of black cloth.

After bundling the scattered firewood, the black-haired girl easily picked up the pile of dry branches that looked like even an adult man would find it difficult to carry, and turned sideways to ask the two elderly couple who were still in a daze.

"I'm here to take Grandpa and Grandma home... Can you help me lead the way?"

The elderly man and the grandmother, who had no idea what to do, could only nod blankly and walk in front of the girl, slowly moving down the mountain along the rugged mountain road.

Carrying a pile of dry branches for firewood, Ai followed the two old men and walked slowly down the mountain. Although it was not yet afternoon, the cold wind was howling in the depths of the mountains, and heavy snow flakes were falling, just like a cold winter night.

On the rugged mountain road from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, the old man and his wife did not dare to talk to Ai. Ai herself was a quiet person, so all the way down, Ai and the two old people just walked slowly and silently on the rugged and steep mountain road.

An old wooden house at the foot of Mount Yoshino.

This is an old house. In the howling cold wind, the old wooden house seems to be crumbling.

Following the elderly couple, when they arrived at their house, a hint of understanding flashed in the black-haired girl's dark red eyes.

"We're here. This is our couple's home. This God..."

The old man pointed at the old wooden house, came to his senses, and was about to invite the "God" deep in Mount Yoshino to come into the house and rest for a while.

However, when the elderly couple turned around, they were stunned to find that there was no one behind them, only a pile of firewood on the ground.

Deep in Mount Yoshino, near the hot spring resort.

After casually helping an elderly couple she met by chance, the black-haired girl, feeling a little more relaxed, turned back to the rugged mountain road leading to the hot spring resort.

However, after walking slowly to the vicinity of the hot spring villa, Ai suddenly saw several figures gradually appearing in the heavy snow, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

"...Shangyang?"

Volume 3: Above the Moon Sea: Chapter 70: Meeting the Girls

The black-haired girl who was about to rush back to the hot spring village of her neighbor Liu Shi and Lu Qibala happened to meet Shang Yang and others who had just returned to the human world from the other side and were returning to the hot spring village.

The young man with gray and white hair also noticed the black-haired girl standing not far away.

"……Uh?"

The young man rubbed his gray hair, feeling a little guilty.

Although the young man wanted to see the black-haired girl earlier, he just came back to the human world from the other side and saw the black-haired girl who happened to be coming back from going out. The young man didn't know whether he was lucky or too lucky.

The young man with gray hair felt guilty about going to hell without telling his love to achieve the realm of a great monster and complete a level leap.

Her Royal Highness Princess of the Moon City (Part 9) Qi Yu & Jiuyisan It’s okay to say sulfur, at most they complain a little.

...The black-haired girl who happened to meet in front of him was not so easy to deal with.

There is a special road to return to the human world from the other side, but Shang Yang thought it was too troublesome, so he took Jue, Shana and Lianlian, and used the power of yin and yang that had transcended the principles of all things to reverse the state of the human world and the other side, and directly returned to Mount Yoshino in Nara, the human world.

Shang Yang's power of yin and yang has become so powerful that it was unattainable when he was still at the monster level. The power of yin and yang has completed an essential leap. The specific manifestation is that in the past, Shang Yang would find it very troublesome to reverse the yin and yang of more than two things at the same time, but since the power of yin and yang has leaped, it has become easy for Shang Yang to reverse several different yin and yang at the same time.

Therefore, Shang Yang did not cross the Sanzu River again with Jue, Shana and Lianlian to return to the human world as they did when they came. Instead, he located the location of Mount Yoshino in the human world in the house of the Jue sisters and took the three girls directly back to Mount Yoshino in the human world.

According to Shang Yang's current ability, it would be no problem to directly locate everyone in the living room of the hot spring villa, but after thinking about it, Shang Yang felt that he should act as a guide for the Gu Mingdi sisters and introduce the area around the hot spring villa to the two sisters who had left the world for a hundred years.

Besides, Miss Shana has a real body that can move freely, and she should also want to travel around.

While carefully considering the girls, the young man with gray hair held the delicate hands of the somewhat embarrassed Gu Mingdijue and Shana, and then asked Lianlian to hold her sister tightly. Then Shang Yang calmed down, and the power of yin and yang rotated, reversing the state of the human world and the other side.

I have to say, the young man had a good idea, but...

The realm rotates.

At the moment when the world was spinning like a roller coaster, Shang Yang, Shana and Gu Mingdi sisters arrived at Mount Yoshino in Nara on the earthly plane.

Then, Shang Yang, Shana, and the Gu Mingdi sisters were caught off guard by the howling snow and wind...

"Shang, Shang Yang! Pah! Pah! Pah!" The petite black-haired girl spat out the large amount of snow that had accidentally been scraped into her mouth. She raised her hand to shield her face from the wind and snow, glaring at the young man, "Can't you just move to the living room at home?"

"It's already spring on the ground, yet there's still such a heavy snowstorm."

The young man, who found it very incredible, sighed and mobilized the power of yin and yang to drive away the invasion of wind and snow.

However, before the young man could use the power of yin and yang, Miss Shana took action first. She snapped her fingers, and the power of cause and effect belonging to Miss Shana instantly dissipated.

The howling wind and snow continued, but one snowflake after another fell on Shang Yang, Shana and the Gu Mingdi sisters. No matter how much heavy snow was driven by the cold wind and blew towards the four people, it could no longer touch their bodies.

Shana severed the causal chain connecting the wind and snow and the four people, and the causal connection of "wind and snow falling on them" was severed.

This was the first time Shang Yang saw Miss Shana, who had a real body, take action directly. Although it was just a trivial matter like helping the four people drive away the wind and snow, it allowed Shang Yang to witness another way of using the power of cause and effect.

Cause and effect are severed.

Shang Yang thought of more. Since he could cut off the causal chain of "the wind and snow falling on him", then the logical connection between the cause and effect of "the enemy attacking himself" could naturally be cut off as well.

This is an even more counterintuitive way of using the power of cause and effect, in addition to the "cause and effect reversal" method of using the power of cause and effect that Shana used when she was still living in Shang Yang's soul.

After dealing with the snowstorm, Shana patted the snowflakes on her clothes. Then, Jue grabbed Lianlian, who wanted to run forward curiously, and bent down carefully to pat the snow off Lianlian's clothes. He didn't realize that there were still many snowflakes on his lavender short hair.

Seeing that there were still a lot of snowflakes on Xiaojue's lavender short hair, while Xiaojue didn't notice, the young man raised his hand to help Xiaojue gently pat off the snowflakes stuck on the lavender short hair.

Feeling Shang Yang brushing off the snowflakes stuck on her short hair, she was stunned. Then, shyly and angrily, the girl raised her slender feet in white socks wearing pink slippers, and gently kicked the young man's calf to cover up her embarrassment.

"I told you not to touch my hair."

After saying this in a somewhat angrily tone, the embarrassed girl with short lavender hair took her sister's hand and ran towards the quaint hot spring villa with lights dotted in the vast snow and wind.

Seeing Xiaojue pulling Lianlian's hand and running away, Miss Shana glanced at Shang Yang helplessly, and followed the two sisters and walked quickly towards the hot spring resort in the wind and snow.

Then, before Shang Yang, Shana and Gu Mingdi sisters walked far, the four of them saw Ai's figure slowly emerging in the wind and snow.

Similarly, seeing Shang Yang and three girls she had never seen before coming towards her, Ai couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then she also went to meet them.

Shang Yang was stunned when he saw the girl with long black hair and dark red pupils coming towards him and his companions in the wind and snow. Although he told Ai about inviting the Gu Mingdi sisters, he seemed not to have told Ai that he and his companions would be back today.

Although confused, the young man immediately greeted the black-haired girl with joy.

Similarly, when she saw Ai not far away, Shana's eyes lit up, but at this time Miss Shana looked conflicted and uneasy, as if she was not used to how to get along with Ai after having a real body.

Seeing Shana's strange and uneasy look, confusion also appeared in his lavender pupils. The big eyes floating on his chest were fixed on Shana, who was a little entangled and uneasy. Then, a hint of understanding flashed in his lavender pupils.

The girl coming up to her was none other than Miss Enma Ai from Shana's memory...

The black-haired girl looked at the young man with a puzzled expression with joy.

Meeting the black-haired girl's delighted gaze, the young man sighed. Now facing the welcome of love, he felt a little guilty.

After calming himself down, Shang Yang also looked at Ai Xinxi's beautiful face. After more than fifty years of getting along, Shang Yang and Ai had an extraordinary tacit understanding. The young man easily saw the emotion of "welcome back" from the girl's dark red pupils.

Immediately, Ai turned her gaze towards the other three girls, and when she saw the petite, dark-haired girl who looked uneasy, Ai froze.

He stared in confusion at the petite girl in front of him who had the same long black hair as him, a strange yet familiar one.

It occurred to her that the heroine Shana from the movie "Shakugan no Shana" that she and Kaguya dragged her to watch together looked exactly like her.

Thinking of this, Ai cast a confused look at Shang Yang who was already approaching him.

Shang Yang explained, rubbing his gray hair.

"Ai, she is Miss Lord God, the Shana that Ai knows. Shana no longer has to stay in my soul. She has a real body."

Hearing this, Ai looked back in surprise at the cute girl in front of her whose face flushed slightly with excitement, and opened her cherry lips uncertainly.

"...Miss Lord God?"

"...Yes, it's me." Miss Shana turned her pretty face away embarrassedly when she heard Ai's old name. "Please, please call me 'Shana'..."

Before Shana finished speaking, Ai immediately took a step closer, stretched out her soft white hand and held Shana's small hand.

“…Huh?!”

Shana was stunned. When she realized what had happened, she suddenly felt very shy. She wanted to pull her hands away embarrassedly, but after hesitating for a moment, she let Ai hold their hands.

"Congratulations, Shana."

Ai's voice was soft, but anyone could hear the pure emotion of Ai simply being happy for Shana.