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

“…This stuff will only start to take effect after you drink it all.” Sarinko quickly explained to Marisa.

"Is that so?" Marisa sighed, leaned over the table, and drew circles on the paper with a pen. "This thing should be very expensive, right? Just now I felt like I had entered a divine realm, and I felt like I could do anything."

"It's quite expensive..." It takes a week of continuous quests to save up the money. "But it's not impossible to get it. I'll bring it to you next time I have the chance, Marisa."

“…No, it’s not embarrassing at all.” Marisa touched her head, but couldn’t help but agree to Sarinko. This kind of medicine was very expensive no matter how you looked at it, and it was hard to come by. “Thank you for letting me experience it… Well, I can’t find any adjectives… But why?”

Marisa looked at Sarinko in confusion and asked, "Why would you give us something so expensive to drink...would there be any side effects!?"

"Of course there are no side effects, you stupid woman!" Sarinko scolded Marisa.

...You can't say it, right? I gave it to you because I didn't want to drink it...

At times like this,...

"For my Dark Evil Ring!" Sarinko said with a red face, "It's just a potion of this level! It's just a prototype! It's not as precious as you think. I think you like it, so I gave it to you! It's that simple! There's no other reason!"

"stare…"

"What, what are you doing? We are telling the truth, okay?" Sarinko shrank back towards the door.

"...Well, I still have a lot of questions, but since you don't want to talk about it, I won't force you." Marisa looked at Sarinko helplessly and said, "But if you need any help, Marisa-sama is always here for you, okay?"

“…You actually call me sir or something like that, you’re so shameless!” Sarinko was relieved to see Marisa give in.

"You actually care about such a small matter. Do you know how rare it is to get the help of our Marisa?" Marisa wiped her nose and said proudly.

If the system had a team-building program, it would probably prompt Marisa to join the team or something...

"By the way, Marisa... do you want to experience the feeling again?" Sarinko felt that resources should be used reasonably.

"Of course I do, yeah!" Marisa nodded without hesitation.

For magicians, this thing is just like a drug, it is addictive.

"Then come make money with me!" Sarinko said righteously, "As long as you collect enough money, you can drink that potion as a drink!"

"Oh, no problem?" Marisa nodded.

...

"Hmm~ I'm in an unexpectedly good mood." Sarinko whistled as he walked along the path leading to the human village.

I avoided the pain of a bloated stomach, gained 2 points of intelligence, and for the first time I made friends with teammates who could do missions together.

And these three joys have brought me even more joy... It should be like a dream...

"But... who has been sneaking behind me?" Sarinko stopped walking. "If it's a friend, then hurry up and say something. If it's an enemy... then don't blame me for being ruthless."

"…You're not going to talk…"

Zorinko pointed backwards and released the magic he had prepared long ago.

"Originated from warmth, devouring the darkness, blazing fire——burn my enemies!"

A ball of flexible flame instantly flew out from Sarinko's palm, and in an instant it seemed to transcend the constraints of space... and burned fiercely behind a tree!

"Hmph, this is a lesson for you." Zoringo snapped his fingers, and the flames disappeared completely in an instant.

"Then let me see your true face." Sarinko quickly approached the tree and was 120% alert.

“…A puppet?”

Chapter 18: The Kind Puppet Master

"Puppet? Come to think of it, Marisa mentioned before that she has a friend who is a puppeteer..." Sarinko raised an eyebrow. The puppet didn't seem to have any burns on its surface. "The wire must have been burned accidentally."

Sarinko discovered that the magic threads were gradually disappearing. It was these threads that controlled the actions of the puppets.

"!" At this moment, several threads were wrapped around the puppet's body before Sarinko could react. Under the control of the magic threads, the puppet's movements became extremely flexible. It actually took out a long sword that matched the size of the puppet from its back and slashed it straight towards Sarinko's shoulder.

"Ouch..." Feeling the pain, Zorinko quickly threw the puppet in his hand far away, and then pressed his shoulder which was beginning to bleed. "I was so careless! I don't know why you attacked me, but I won't hold back from now on!"

Seeing the health bar on his personal panel decreasing continuously, Sarinko's heart tightened and a dazzling white light began to flash in his hand.

"Are you ready to fall into an endless and twisted abyss?"

“……” The puppet naturally couldn’t speak, it just stood there. For some reason, it covered its mouth with its hands and its whole body began to tremble.

“…Are you mocking me?” Sarinko released the white light in his hand “Sparkle!”

A little different from the magic cannon that Sarinko had imagined, this skill was a continuous beam of energy with a maximum distance. Every second of release consumed MP... and it seemed to have a second use.

Bang - a transparent protective shield appeared on the surface of the doll, directly diverting Sarinko's magic power. It is estimated that the damage to the doll is minimal...

"Uh, isn't this power a bit too low?" Zoringo twitched his lips and increased the output of magic power as much as possible, but it still couldn't penetrate the enemy's armor. "This time... bad!"

The puppet actually rushed straight towards Sarinko despite Sarinko's beam cannon, and began to stab Sarinko with its sword.

Although the puppet's sword-swinging speed and angle were not superb, it still forced Sarinko into a helpless state, and he was occasionally cut by the sword and suffered several wounds.

“…Tsk, how annoying! If only I had any means of protection.” Sarinko pulled out a bottle of red healing potion from his backpack and quickly drank it in one gulp. The wounds on his body gradually healed, and then he sent out a fire storm forward to force the puppet back.

After all, the damage is not enough and it is completely unable to cause any effective damage to the enemy.

"Since the puppet is here, the person controlling it must not be far away, he must be nearby..." While fighting with the puppet, Sarinko was carefully observing the direction of those transparent magic threads.

"Very good, right there!" Zoringo slapped the puppet, sending it flying and somersaulting. It couldn't stabilize for a long time, and a flashing white light came out of his hand again, "Sparkle!"

This time, the beam cannon split into four prisms and flew out from Sarinko's palm, but they were all blocked by a similar magic shield.

"..." Seeing that he had been discovered, the puppeteer came out and said, "Well done."

"What on earth do you have...uh..." Sarinko's words suddenly got stuck in his throat.

The visitor had golden curly hair and fair skin. Even her face was so delicate that she didn't look like a human. Instead, she looked somewhat like a doll. She was a one-in-a-million beauty.

"Tsk." Feeling that he was actually bewitched by the beauty opposite him, Sarinko immediately shook his head and threw away the distracting thoughts in his mind. "What is your purpose in suddenly attacking me!"

"I'm very sorry, but... weren't you the one who made the first move?" the puppeteer said calmly.

"Anyone who has been followed by someone for so long would have some suspicions!" Sarinko said confidently, "Besides, I have issued a warning."

"Oh, is that so." The doll lady said nonchalantly, "I was just passing by and was suddenly attacked. It's difficult for me to deal with such a provocation."

"Although your magic is not very useful, it is something I have never seen before." The puppeteer took the puppet back to her side. "I am a little curious... but you haven't grown up yet, so I will let you go this time."

"No, it's useless?!" Sarinko was devastated. Well, he couldn't even break the other person's defense. He was so weak. "And you look like you have me in your hands. What does that mean? I'm weak now, but I won't stay weak forever!"

"Good luck to you, but this has nothing to do with me." The puppeteer waved her hand, her expression always calm. "Don't be so reckless next time. Not everyone in this place is as easy to talk to as I am."

"..."

"It's getting dark, you should go back to the human world as soon as possible. The magic forest is still very threatening at night." The puppeteer stepped forward, touched Sarinko's hair, and then gradually walked away, disappearing from Sarinko's sight.

"I was patted on the head..." Sarinko touched his head in disbelief. "What on earth does this person mean? Hmm... maybe I'm just being overly sensitive. He turned out to be a nice person unexpectedly?"

"I don't know if she is the person Marisa mentioned, but she should be the one, right?" They all live in the Magic Forest, there can't be anyone else.

"But I should really go home... Hey, I leveled up?" After just a few rounds of fighting with the puppeteer, he actually provided almost twenty pieces of experience, successfully allowing Sarinko to level up twice.

...

Strength: 31+8=39

Agility: 5+2=7

Intelligence: 3+0=3

...

"Sure enough, that puppeteer lady is a good person..." Sarinko looked at the growing attributes and said with affirmation.

Such a good person would definitely not do something like tracking. I guess I really misperceived it... After all, perception is related to the attribute of agility. With such a low agility attribute, I shouldn't trust my sixth sense too much...

"Next time I'll ask Marisa, and I'll go and apologize in person." Sarinko counted on his fingers. He had saved up quite a bit of copper coins, so he wondered what gift he should buy for the visit.

"And the next task...working as a temporary worker in a flower shop? Why is there no one taking this kind of task, and the pay is so generous?!" Sarinko took out the task list and was shocked by the next task. "Who on earth is so rich?"

Abyss "Sunflower Blooms": ...When beautiful flowers bloom, countless corpses are buried in the soil...Can the young dark will really survive under this power?

Mission objective: Successfully survive in the flower shop for half a month.

Difficulty: A

Mission Reward: Pose "Praise the Sun", Miracle "Sun Lance", 200000G

"..."

Sarinko, who had been carrying out E-rank missions in the past...suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter.

Chapter 19: Why not just cut it off and start over?

"Why? It's just a task to work in a flower shop! Why is the description so terrible!" Sarinko threw his personal panel to the ground fiercely. "Let's just leave this task hanging there... Although the reward is rich, I'm not stupid!"

Although Saringo has no self-awareness (Saringo: Huh?), he still understands that if people do stupid things, they will die.

At least until I am sure I can complete this task, I can only let it stay in the taskbar...

...

"Good morning... Huiyin-san, yawn." Sarinko rubbed his eyes and yawned at Huiyin.

"Good morning, Ringo-san, we're having saury for breakfast today." Kamishira Keiin touched Saringo's soft black hair.

"Eh - I hate eating fish..." Sarinko dragged out the words, looking at the half fish on the table with a depressed expression.

"I think you hate the bones in fish, haha, just like a little kid." Meihong, who came to Terakoya early to eat, showed a sarcastic smile and pointed at Saringo with her chopsticks.

"You..." Sarinko stared at Meihong, and felt his palms were burning, as if they were about to burn out uncontrollably!

"If you're afraid of spines, then don't worry. Saury has very few bones and tastes great, so eat it with confidence." Ueshirazawa Huiyin smiled as she pushed Saringo to the seat and corrected Saringo's cross-legged sitting posture. "Ringo-san, your sitting posture is too ungentlemanly. Meihong, too! Change it quickly!"

“Eh…” Sarinko reluctantly changed to the duck sitting position, which was not a common sitting position for girls.

"Hey, it's okay, I'm wearing pants." Meihong waved her hand and continued to sit cross-legged. "Anyway, you won't be exposed, don't worry about such a small thing."

“You don’t act like a girl at all.” Ueshirazawa Huiyin shook her head helplessly. “Ringo-san, please don’t let Meihong lead you astray and act recklessly all day long.”

"I didn't." Meihong retorted, taking a mouthful of rice. "I just didn't pretend to be a little girl. There's no need for that."

“…That’s true.” Kamishizawa Huiyin tilted her head and agreed with a smile.

"Why do you suddenly agree? I also have a girlish heart!" Meihong almost spit out her food.

"www" Shangbai Ze Huiyin smiled but said nothing.

"..." Sarinko finished his food in silence, not being able to get involved in the conversation between the two. It would be better to save enough money and move out as soon as possible. "I'm done. I'm going out."

"Be careful on the road." Kamishizawa Huiyin's farewell voice could be heard from behind.

...

"Uh... Manager..." Sarinko had just arrived at the task panel when he spotted a familiar figure. He felt something was not right and was about to run away, but was grabbed by the sharp-eyed Rinnosuke. "Ha... Marisa, you're here too?"

“…Uh, I was caught by Xianglin by accident, and then…hahahahahaha…” Marisa scratched her head “Sorry, I told the truth, I didn’t mean it, okay? It’s just that Xianglin doesn’t believe what’s on the paper at all…”

Although Saringo is very dissatisfied with Marisa, in terms of strength, ten Saringos are not as good as half of Marisa... Maybe this store manager is unexpectedly strong? !

"Meteorite? How is this any different from lying to a child?" Lin Zhizhuo raised his eyes and emitted a reflection. "Although I almost believed it."

"I almost believed it!" Sarinko complained speechlessly.

"If I hadn't found the love mushroom powder at the scene, I might have believed it." Under the glasses of Rinnosuke, a sharp look appeared, as if he wanted to pierce through Sarinko's whole body. "So I found Marisa and learned a little about the truth..."

"Wuwuwu...Marisa, you traitor!" Sarinko bit her lip and stared at Marisa. If they weren't in front of Rinnosuke now, Sarinko would probably go up and bite Marisa.

"Ahem." Marisa coughed twice, then smiled brightly, "Sorry DA☆ZE~"

"Woo..."

"…Ms. Sarin."

“In…” Sarinko lowered his head obediently, like a primary school student being scolded.

"Although the destruction of Korin-do is not an irreparable loss to me, I still doubt Miss Sarin's sincerity." Rinnosuke adjusted his glasses again. "Marisa, don't laugh. I will hold you responsible this time, after all, you were the one who caused this."

“…Ahahaha, Xianglin, we have known each other for so long…” Marisa laughed awkwardly, trying to get away with it by playing the emotional card.

"Not this time. If necessary, I will tell the master everything that happened. I believe he will be happy to help me rebuild the Korin Hall... and take you home to teach you a lesson." Rinnosuke was not moved at all. Although he did not show any emotion on his face, he must be very resentful about the destruction of Korin Hall...

What a horrible man...

"Tsk..." Marisa smacked her lips and stood with Sarinko "There's really nothing I can do..."