I was reincarnated in Gensokyo and aspired to become a great magician!!

"By the way, the nightmare you had last time had nothing to do with me. It was just that your consciousness automatically brought my image into it."

“…Don’t make me recall that memory! I forgot it with great difficulty!”

"You were the one who brought it up first." The woman retorted calmly.

"You are so willful. Aren't you the one who made me recall all this?" Zuo Lin used his hands and feet to paddle to the woman's side like swimming. "Hey, what's your name?"

"There's nothing to ask about my name." The woman said calmly, pausing for a moment, "If you want to call me by a code name, just call me Lala."

"Oh." Zuo Linqin nodded and wanted to ask, "Um, Lala."

"It's a bit disgusting." Lala looked at Zuo Linqin with a bit of disgust.

"Hey, hey, aren't you the one I'm calling out to?" Zuo Linqin grabbed a piece of Lala's body in frustration and threw it away.

"...Koko." Zuo Linquan only sneered in response.

"Okay... but there's someone suddenly living in my head, this kind of thing..." Zuo Linqin's head twitched and asked, "By the way, will you pay the rent every month?"

"……hehe."

For some reason, Zuo Lin was almost filled with hatred towards this woman named Lala.

Chapter 63 Rainbow

"Do you know how to speak human language? All you do is laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh!" Zuo Linqin stretched out his claws towards Lala, and was about to grab her face, but it passed through her like passing through water.

"Woooooo..." Zuo Linqin moved his claws in and out of Lala's face with great interest.

“…Stop it.” Lala, who had been expressionless, was finally annoyed by Zuo Linqin’s disturbing actions and pushed him away with a slap. “Here’s this, go play somewhere else.”

Lala produced a transparent stone engraved with runes in her hand. It looked very old and seemed to contain mysterious power.

"What is this?" Zuo Linqin took the small stone which was only half the size of his palm, and after a while it became a toy that he tossed between his palms.

After letting Zolin play with her for a while, Lala, who was floating in the air, spoke slowly.

"This is a soul crystal, used to pass on the memories carried by the previous generation."

"Memory?" Zuo Linqin tilted his head, as if he could understand the function of this stone.

These stones are like a book that can pass on the knowledge of people in the previous era.

"Just as you thought." Lala nodded and continued, "This stone records the magic used by the ancients... although it is not something rare."

“…Oh.” Zuo Linqin said absentmindedly. She was quite curious about the mysteries of the magic in this soul crystal.

But she was even more confused about the mysterious girl Lala in front of her whose face she couldn't see clearly.

"You give me treasures right away... And in this mysterious consciousness space... Could it be..." Zuo Linqin hooked his fingers and placed them on his chin, as if he had come up with the answer, "Could it be that you are the junior sister of the old grandfather's school of gold fingers, or the old grandmother's school of gold fingers!"

"She looks like she's only seventeen years old, but she's actually thousands of years old!"

"Stop making noises, little guy. Is it so interesting to tease others about their age?" Lala's lips curled up, looking like she was laughing, but her hands touched Sarinko's face without her noticing, stretching her cheeks. "I consider myself a young person."

"I, I get it, let me go, yes, yes, just so gently... It hurts!!"

Sarinko's cheek snapped back like a rubber band.

"What did you do to me? A normal person's cheeks wouldn't become so strangely elastic... I'm not Luffy..." Sarinko touched her red cheeks in pain, with a few tears welling up in her eyes.

"This is a dream world. Anything can happen, right?" Lala answered nonchalantly, and returned to her previous indifferent attitude.

"Oh...how do I use this thing?" Zoringo tossed the soul crystal in his hand again and asked Lala.

"Well, maybe it's the level... the time is not right yet." Lala suddenly changed her mind halfway through her sentence.

“So it’s because my level is not high enough, huh?” Zoringo blinked and felt a suction force acting on his whole body. “Wait, what’s happening to my body?! Uooohhhh, it’s going to be sucked away!”

"Looks like the time has come. See you next time." Lala closed the book and waved to Sarinko.

"Can't you not come so suddenly? No, no, no, no, no, turn around... I feel like vomiting... Ugh..."

Sarinko's body twisted into a ball, like an old-fashioned TV that was turned off. In a flash of white light, he disappeared in front of Lala.

By the way, a rainbow flew out from where it disappeared (XD)…

"……Wow."

……

"Wow!" Sarinko suddenly sat up from the chair, attracting the attention of the people around him.

"...Did you have a nightmare?" Patchouli took a sip of black tea and asked lightly.

“…Ah? No, no…” Sarinko looked at her body in a daze. It didn’t turn into a spiral explosion and ascend to the sky…

"Hey, when did it get switched back..." Only then did Sarinko notice that his body seemed to have been switched back while he was unconscious.

"..." Patchouli did not say anything. She just took another sip of tea, although she paused for a moment.

"..." Sarinko wisely didn't continue the question, otherwise it would be very embarrassing...

After a while, Patchouli suddenly wrote something on a piece of paper and handed it to Sarinko.

"What is this?" Sarinko took the piece of paper with a string of numbers on it.

10000000

"..." Seeing this number, Sarinko frowned, feeling something was wrong. "This, could it be..."

"Well, the damage you and your friend caused in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, if converted into Gensokyo currency, is roughly this amount." Patchouli nodded. "I've already cut off the change for you... If you refuse to pay, we'll invite the Hakurei miko to be the referee and use the Gensokyo method to conduct the duel."

"Stop, stop, stop, stop talking!" Sarinko squatted down with his head in his hands, counting on his fingers. Tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of millions... No matter how he counted, the number was tens of millions, which made Sarinko want to jump into the river and commit suicide.

Could it be that I have to bear such a huge debt just after arriving in the other world for a short time?

As an educated and good citizen, Sarinko naturally thought about running away...but Gensokyo is such a small place, where can a short-legged wizard like her run to?

Even with the foggy lake between us, they could have caught me back in a few minutes, not to mention that I was escaping right under their noses... This was an impossible abyss-level mission!

…As for Mei Hong who came to save me, well…I was a little touched at first. She actually broke into the Scarlet Devil Mansion alone for me…and it seemed that she even blew up the Scarlet Devil Mansion again…

But now seeing the bill of another five million, Zoringo's feeling of being touched was thrown back to Java.

"Well, actually I have nothing to do with that woman who was bombarding down there, really, it's true, don't turn your head away..."

Meihong is an immortal person from Penglai, and she is very brave and skilled, she can go wherever she wants... She probably won't be afraid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but she, Saringo... well, is a weakling.

Although he claims to be the strongest wizard, the one with the dark and evil magic ring, he still cannot change one fact.

she was

A weak chicken

A weakling who was almost killed by Marisa's magic cannon which had never killed anyone.

……

Sarinko finally lowered his noble (self-proclaimed) head and said in a muffled voice.

"I will pay back the debt...but I don't have any money, so can I pay in installments..." This is not because I'm afraid of death, it's just a strategic detour, Sarinko comforted himself.

"Yes, that's fine." Patchouli nodded. "But in this case, interest will be charged, and the monthly payment will increase. Is that okay?"

“…Okay.” Sarinko could only nod helplessly, and suddenly became in the mode of running a business in another world and paying off debts…

It seems that this mode is more used in Xiaohuangyou...

"Well, if I don't pay this month...what will you do to me?" Sarinko tried to ask.

"…Well, this is a problem." Patchouli looked up and down at Sarinko, and suddenly her eyes lit up. "It seems that it is not a problem anymore."

Sarinko shrank back at the aggressive look.

"Oh, I'm just kidding. I wouldn't do anything like that." Patchouli chuckled and shook her head. "I haven't asked this lady yet, what's your name?"

"Sa-Saringo, just call me Saringo."

"Yes, Zoringo, right? Then Zoringo, you can just take some valuables as collateral." Patchouli took a sip of tea. "I wonder if Zoringo is interested in alchemy?"

"Eh, alchemy?" The topic jumped so quickly that Sarinko was a little slow to react.

Chapter 64: This is considered a novice mission

"Yes, it is alchemy."

Patchouli closed the book with a snap, put it aside, and picked up the empty exquisite teacup.

Seeing this, the red-haired girl with bat wings, who was originally serving as a background behind Patchouli, immediately stepped forward and filled the cup with red tea using a teapot.

Patchouli took a sip of the still steaming black tea and continued.

"Does Miss Zuo Linqin have any ability to earn money?"

"Uh... doing missions in the Human World and earning bounties... should that count, right?" Zuo Linqin nodded uncertainly.

"Then Miss Zorin Qin, how long do you think it will take to pay off the debt to the Scarlet Devil Mansion with the money earned in a month from a small place like the Human World?" Patchouli stared at Zorin Qin seriously, making Zorin Qin involuntarily lower his head.

“…I can earn about 5,000 a month… 600,000 a year, 10 million…” Zuo Linqin’s face turned pale, the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became.

"The Human World is just a small place. If Miss Zolinqin wants to pay off the debt, I'm afraid she will have to work without food or drink for the rest of her life." Patchouli added. It seems that the intimidation has a good effect.

Just when Zolin was getting uneasy, Patchouli threw out the bait.

"Although I can definitely wait this long, unfortunately, the owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion is Remi, and Remi is impatient. If you can't give her satisfactory benefits in a short period of time, then you are basically..."

"Dead."

Patchouli paused and secretly glanced at Zuo Linqin's expression. For some reason, he seemed unusually calm.

Zuo Linqin's hands trembled slightly. He picked up the teacup on the table and was about to bring it to his mouth.

"Um, Miss Lin Qin, this is my cup." Patchouli interrupted Zuo Linqin's actions.

"Ah? Oh, sorry..."

Isn't this super super super super stressful?

Patchouli couldn't help but complain in her heart, was he just pretending to be calm?

“Um, um…is there that kind…the kind…that is not too hard…and can make some money…” Zuo Linqin pointed his finger and stammered.

"Yes, I have."

"Really? There really isn't. How could there be something in the world that can be gained without any effort? Wait, you said there is?" Zorinko was stunned for a moment before realizing, "Is that the alchemy you mentioned before?"

"Yes, it's alchemy." Patchouli nodded and waved to the red-haired girl behind her.

The red-haired girl went to the bookshelf, took an ancient book, and handed it to Patchouli respectfully.

"Well, that's what's in this book." Patchouli took the book, flipped through a few pages, and handed it back to Sarinko. "This is a rare alchemy method. It's different from the traditional alchemy that uses alchemy arrays to calculate and change the form of matter... The alchemy introduced in this book is, how should I put it... quite magical, right?"

“…Oh?” After taking the book, Sarinko began to flip through it. There was only a few paragraphs introducing the techniques, and then a few alchemical formulas… When he turned to the back, it was blank.

Zoringo quickly flipped through it several times and found that the back was indeed filled with blank paper. Is this kind of thing...really reliable?

"Well, stop flipping through the pages. This kind of alchemy only requires you to know one thing. You can figure out the alchemy formula on your own." Patchouli interrupted Sarinko from flipping through the pages.

"Just need to know one thing?" Zoringo tilted his head in confusion. "Could it be that you just stir the things in the pot?"

"It seems that you are watching carefully. Yes, no one knows who invented this alchemy. The most important thing about this alchemy method is to listen to the wishes of the alchemical materials, obey their wishes, and transform them into other forms!" Patchouli patted the table. "So, the alchemy method is not important! What is important is the heart that loves alchemy!"

"..."

"..."

Zorinko stared at Patchouli blankly, his mouth slightly open, and fell into shocked silence. After a while, he spoke.

"That's really casual! No, it's too casual!" Sarinko twitched his lips and complained, "Listen to the wishes of the material? Can this method really be regarded as alchemy? This book is probably a fake."

"…Yes, it really works." Patchouli paused and tilted her head. "…I have successfully tested it."

"Huh...?" Sarinko raised his eyebrows. "Then you are very fat."

"...Anyway, you also want to get some money quickly, right? Alchemy is indeed a fast and stable way to make money." Patchouli selectively ignored Sarinko's praise and continued, "Ordinary alchemy techniques cannot be learned in a day or two, but this kind of alchemy can be quickly mastered even by a novice. You can try it."

Patchouli waved to the red-haired girl behind her, and the red-haired girl understood and brought some green herbs and a bucket filled with clear liquid.

“This is… do you want me to try making it once?”

"That's right. Let's start with the simplest Shanshi medicine. It only requires a few easily available materials to make it." Patchouli took out a feather of an unknown bird and said, "This is also a necessary material. Here, try it."

"Now, start your show!"