Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

The mantis wolf monster, having lost its sickle, became very weak. It looked at Mu Huai with fear, turned around and jumped away.

Mu Huai was also about to run out of energy at this time. His eyes were dark as if he was about to faint from hunger in the next second, and his back was burning with pain as if it was burned by flames.

He did not forget that Takarada Rikka was still locked up in the temporary fence. After lifting her exhausted body and releasing her, he canceled his transformation at zero frame and adjusted the angle so that his face was buried in her beautiful legs before he fell unconscious.

Takarada Rikka naturally didn't know about his little thoughts. Although she anticipated that the other party might faint and reached out to support her in advance, her strength was only at the level of an ordinary female high school student, and she was eventually knocked down by Mu Huai.

However, before she fell, she subconsciously closed her legs, making them a soft cushion to prevent Mu Huai from hitting his face on the hard ground.

After seeing Mu Huai's student ID card, Rika Baoduo knew that his family lived nearby, so she took great pains to drag him back home.

She had just put Mu Huai, who was as heavy as a cow, into the soft sofa. Before she had time to drink some water and rest, she caught a glimpse of a glaring scarlet color printed on Mu Huai's white shirt. She was so scared that she jumped up from the floor and rushed over to lift the clothes off his back.

Mu Huai's back was covered with dark purple bruises of varying sizes, two of which were even bleeding. It was obvious that they were injuries sustained while protecting her.

"H-What should I do... How do I treat this kind of wound?" Takarada Rikka was panicking like an ant on a hot pan. "Stop the bleeding... Yes, stop the bleeding first. Where are the bandages and alcohol?"

She rummaged through Mu Huai's house, then called her mother and told her that she was out having dinner with friends and would be back soon. Then she treated his wound according to the tutorial on the Internet.

Only when the cold moonlight filtered through the balcony glass did Takarada Rikka finally finish bandaging the wound. She looked at her blood-soaked, trembling hands and said with a wry smile, "Why do I feel like I've become a murderer?"

"Gurgle~~" Both of their stomachs made sounds at the same time.

Rika Takarada cheered herself up and stood up to go to the bathroom to wash her hands. When she was looking for medical supplies, she found a whole box of instant noodles in Mu Huai's room, which was just right for emergency use.

Because she didn't know when Mu Huai would wake up, she could only make three buckets of instant noodles and put them on the coffee table so that he could eat when he woke up, and then she also made a bucket for herself to satisfy her hunger.

After finishing this simple dinner, Takarada Rika noticed that her clothes were accidentally stained with blood when she was treating the wound. She got up and walked to the sofa and glanced at Mu Huai who was still sleeping. After confirming that the other's breathing was still steady, she tiptoed towards the bathroom.

From the moment she dragged him home until now, she has been so busy that she hasn't had a second to rest. As a girl, she loves cleanliness by nature and can't stand being covered in sweat. She decides to use Mu Huai's bathroom to take a quick shower while he's still asleep.

As for the bloodstained clothes, I can only deal with them when I get home.

Mu Huai was once again awakened from his coma by hunger. The aroma of instant noodles so close to him turned him into an instant noodle hunter. He finished all the remaining instant noodles on the coffee table and in the cardboard box until he was only 60% full.

"Squeak~"

"Mu Huai, are you awake?"

Rika Takarada, wiping her long hair with a towel, walked out of the bathroom like a lotus emerging from water, leaving Mu Huai stunned.

What happened? This is...afterwards!?

PS: I’m looking for recommendation tickets everyday QAQ

Chapter 15: Good for the Gym, That's Right

A high school girl walked out of the bathroom in her home wearing a bathrobe. Such a dreamlike scene appeared before his eyes. Mu Huai even wondered if he had missed some important plot because of his coma.

For example, CGs that require a lot of energy, such as reverse push, Mi O, and Sleep O.

Seeing him staring at her, Takarada Rikka pursed her lips shyly, tapping the soles of her slippers with her toes unnaturally, and slowing down the movement of wiping her hair: "Don't stare at me like that, okay?"

"Sorry... I was stunned because it was so beautiful."

"Thanks?"

"You're welcome."

Rika Takarada also knew that it was dangerous for her to take a bath in a boy's house while wearing a bathrobe, but Mu Huai's straightforward personality and wooden emotional intelligence always gave her a "safe and harmless" feeling, so she did this.

Mu Huai did not continue to stare at her, but instead looked away at the coffee table, where alcohol and blood-stained bandages were scattered on it.

"Rikka, you're not hurt, are you?"

"No, but you... your back was badly injured and still bleeding. You almost scared me to death."

"I can't help it. That monster's attacks are all directed at you. I can't just stand by and watch you get hurt."

When Baoduo Rikka heard this, she bit her lips lightly with her teeth and tightly grasped the towel in her hand. After a long time, a trace of determination flashed in her eyes and she looked up at him: "Mu Huai, when your injury is healed, let me be the bait!"

"what?"

"That monster must be destroyed as soon as possible, but I don't want to be a burden to you, so... I'll be the bait to lure it out!"

"That's too dangerous!" Mu Huai frowned, obviously disagreeing with Rika Takarada's risky approach.

"Mu Huai, I believe you can protect me, just like you did today."

"..."

Mu Huai lowered his head and fell into deep thought. Rika Takara did not urge him to give an immediate answer, but went back to the bathroom and picked up the hair dryer to dry her hair.

It would be nice if Rikka was the heroine...

After this thought flashed through his mind, Mu Huai was stunned. He found that he was a little too obsessed with the element of the heroine.

He has watched quite a few anime, some of which have heroines who are disgusting like the sanctimonious bitch or Tokyo Subway. Just because they are the heroines, does that mean he should ignore his own conscience and pursue them without thinking?

"No... Of course I wouldn't do that! I wouldn't go to the gym while lying to my younger brother, and I certainly wouldn't ignore the beautiful girl who entrusted her life to me.

Forget about the heroine thing, I, the pure love warrior Mu Huai, will definitely blast that mantis wolf monster into pieces next time! "

After figuring out what he really should do, Mu Huai jumped up and rushed to the bathroom. Then he grabbed Baoduo Liuhua's delicate hand and pressed it against his left chest. He said to her in an extremely serious tone: "Liuhua!"

"Eh!? Wha...what?"

"I won't let any monster hurt you!"

"Ah...well, I believe you!"

"Okay." Mu Huai nodded with satisfaction and turned to leave.

Takarada Rikka stared blankly at the closed bathroom glass door, amused by his rather childish behavior: "It's like a boy in elementary school running up to the girl he likes and swearing that he won't let her get hurt."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her eyes to glance at her right hand. The burning heartbeat she had just felt seemed to still linger in her palm. "But...it's indeed very handsome, and...very exciting."

Although Takarada Rikka is called a "hard to seduce" girl by her best friend, she is not an emotionless stone woman, not to mention that Mu Huai saved her from monsters twice.

With the combined influence of the hero saving the beauty and the suspension bridge effect, she also developed a love for Mu Huai.

"I don't know when Mu Huai, this blockhead, will realize my feelings."

Takarada Rika is not very proactive in relationships, and she had just emphasized to her two best friends that there was nothing between her and Mu Huai some time ago. If they suddenly became a couple now, they would probably tease her for the rest of their lives.

The girl's inexplicable sense of shame made her decide to hide this feeling deep in her heart for the time being, and it would be more appropriate to find a more appropriate time and place to confess.

......

"Hey? Are your injuries healed yet?"

"Well, so after school today, I'll ask you to be the bait!"

Baoduo Liuhua looked at Mu Huai with doubt, then directly lifted up his clothes to check. Seeing that his back was without any scars, she was slightly surprised: "Unbelievable... Mu Huai, you are not an alien?"

"I was actually surprised too. Perhaps the belt has strengthened my physique."

Baoduo Liuhua clenched her right fist and gently hit Mu Huai's chest, winking playfully: "Now that your injury has healed, you must protect me well this afternoon~"

"Well, you can rest assured!"

The phone in her pocket kept vibrating. Takarada Rikka looked helpless: "Namiko and the others are looking for me. I have to leave first."

"go Go."

After Rika Takarada left, Mu Huai was the only one left on the rooftop. He leaned back on the bench and stared at the cloudless blue sky in a daze.

Although he has decided not to search for the heroine like a headless fly, it seems that finding the heroine is still a prerequisite for him to leave this world and return to Gensokyo.

"That peeping maniac, Yakumo Yukari, is definitely watching me. I made it so obvious yesterday but she didn't react at all. Maybe she's testing my ability to find the heroine.

Thinking about it this way, is it possible that she tampered with my obviously wrong memories and deliberately made it more difficult for me?

Tsk, what a bad old woman. "

Mu Huai deliberately slandered Yakumo Yukari twice, but failed to attract the punishment of rolling his face on the keyboard, so he had to give up. Seeing that the lunch break was almost over, he got up and left the rooftop.

At the same time, Xin Tiao Qian, who had been using a drone to spy on Mu Huai, put away her phone and looked thoughtful.

"The heroine... Why is Mu Huai looking for the so-called heroine? Unfortunately, I was too far away and couldn't hear it clearly, but I feel like it could become the main plot of the script."

In the past two days, Akane Shinjo noticed that there was no clear main plot in the special effects script she wrote. It was just about having monsters attack Rikka Takarada to make her and Mu Huai connected. The constant performance of the hero saving the beauty would only make people feel aesthetically fatigued.

"We could use the heroine as a clue to do something... Then the monster might..."

"Good afternoon, Shinjo-san."

Shinjo Akane's thoughts were interrupted, but she wasn't annoyed at all. Instead, she smiled brightly and charmingly: "Good afternoon, Mu Huai. I heard that you and Rikka have been getting close recently. How's it going?"

"I've already said that there's nothing between us, well...at least that's the case now."

"I think your relationship will progress quickly!"

"Then I'll lend you some good advice."

PS: Thanks to @潜勿刺's blade

Chapter 16 Misunderstanding

Takarada Rikka deliberately chose a small path that almost no one walked on after school on weekdays. In addition to avoiding involving other unsuspecting passers-by, this path also had quite a few shelters for her to avoid attacks.

Although she knew that Mu Huai was already in a transformed state and was hiding nearby, she still couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

"Huh~ Calm down. Since you've chosen to trust Mu Huai, then play the role of bait well and don't let that monster see your flaws."

Takarada Rikka whispered encouragement to herself while pretending nothing had happened and continued walking forward, her eyes constantly scanning the surroundings to see if there were any suspicious shadows.

Her nerves were like a taut bowstring. She would immediately hide behind the cover if she heard any sound similar to that of an object flying in the wind. She didn't want to hold Mu Huai back again.

Mu Huai didn't know the mantis wolf's recovery ability, nor whether the pair of sickles that he had broken could grow back, so this time as soon as the opponent showed his head, he would immediately release the "Crimson Electric Drill" and kick it into sand.

He bought a bunch of bread and put it in his four-dimensional backpack. As long as the same kind of things can be stacked in the same grid up to the upper limit of 999, he deliberately ate until he was very full before the ambush so that his combat effectiveness would not be reduced due to insufficient energy supply.

Suddenly, the sound of heavy objects jumping came from the roofs of the houses on both sides of the street. Takarada Rikka was frightened by the dull sound and shivered. Without thinking, she ran behind the vending machine.

A black shadow swooped down from the sky, aiming directly at Rikka Takarada. Just like a movie suddenly being paused, a red cursor pinned the mantis monster in the air.

"Crimson Drill!"

Mu Huai's figure flashed across the sky like a red lightning, and half of the mantis wolf monster's body was pierced. This time, it did not have the pair of hard sickles to defend against the knight's kicks, and most of its body turned into sand and gradually dissipated.

In order to prevent this monster from having a passive ability to resurrect, Mu Huai gave it another "Crimson Electric Drill". After watching the gravel after its death being blown away by the wind, he untransformed and returned to Takarada Rikka and gave her a thumbs up.

"Rikka, you are so brave, let's go back."

"No, no, I can't defeat such a terrifying monster without Mr. Knight."

The two smiled at each other, then walked side by side towards Rika Takarada's house.

"Oh oh oh oh, Alexis, did you see that? This is exactly what I wanted to see!" Xin Tiao Qian excitedly slapped the monitor.

"That's great." Alexis agreed casually, showing no interest at all. Then she changed the subject: "By the way... Shinjo-san, what are those rows of monster clays over there?"

Akane Shinjo took off her glasses and walked over to the display case. Even the heavy bags and dark circles under her eyes couldn't dispel the pride in her heart. "What do you think of the Oifino monster race I created? They're all very special, right?"

"It's actually an entire race of monsters?" Alexis was overjoyed, and the excited red light in his sunglasses almost drowned out the entire house.

"With them, I can save a lot of trouble. I don't have to give instructions and arrange tasks one by one."

"Wow, they actually possess a certain level of intelligence... Shinjo-kun, I'm afraid I can't instantiate so many of them all at once."

It would be bad if we released too many monsters with negative emotions at once and caused the world to end prematurely.

Xin Tiaoqian had no idea what Alexis was thinking. She waved her hand nonchalantly, "No need to rush. Just instantiate them in order from right to left. Oh, and by the way, have these kids tell Mu Huai a message."

"Oh? What are you talking about?"

"If you want to find the heroine, then you must pass the trials and reach the presence of the King of Oephinos."

"Heroine?" Alexis thought it was some key phrase from Akane Shinjo's special effects script, so she didn't pay much attention to it and nodded in agreement, "I understand."

"Bye." Xin Tiao Qian turned off the computer and walked towards the bedroom where she hadn't slept for a long time. She spent a whole night to make so many weird clay figures. Now she had to have a good sleep to prepare for a close observation of Mu Huai tomorrow.

......

The next day, Mu Huai and Baoduo Rikka met a strange creature with thorns all over its body and pale body on the way home. It did not attack the two of them, but stood by the road and quietly admired the red roses planted in other people's yards.

Just when Mu Huai was about to lose control of his reckless spirit and was about to pull his arm out of Rika Takarada's arms, put on the transformation device and start fighting the monster, it moved.

The thorn monster turned its petal-shaped head and saluted the two of them gracefully: "Good afternoon, Mr. Mu Huai, Ms. Bao Duo."

"The weirdo is talking!?" Takarada Rikka's eyes widened.

"Who are you, you guy?" Mu Huai stretched out his hand to protect her behind him, already holding the transformation device in his hand.