Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

"If it were just a simple deletion, I could still find a way to recover it, but no matter how I download it, the resources are always integrated into this video file with a garbled name."

Kaguya clicked on the garbled video, and the computer began flashing through jumbled animated clips at an unbelievable speed. After playing for about half a minute, it automatically shut down.

"Look, this is the situation now, and this garbled video even has world coordinates, which is very strange."

"So, the world I'm going to next is completely unpredictable?"

"Ah."

This unexpected situation was completely beyond their expectations. Just when they were at a loss, Yakumo Yukari emerged from the gap with a parasol.

“I have a general idea of ​​what happened. I just checked the world coordinates and found that the world barrier of this world is broken and there is no barrier to restrict it. I can go with you to check the situation.”

Kaguya pursed her lips speechlessly and complained, "It's great that you came out to help and offer a solution, but don't pretend that your spying was nothing."

"Speaking of which, I remember someone holding something in the bathroom before..."

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" Kaguya, her face flushed red, lunged at Yakumo Yukari, only to be swallowed up by the suddenly opened gap and thrown onto the bed. She turned back angrily and roared, "Peeping is peeping, I have no objection!"

"Very good, let's set off quickly. The sooner we explore this strange world, the better we can make a plan."

Mu Huai nodded and walked into the gap with Yakumo Yukari. To her surprise, his figure disappeared in a blur.

When she anxiously stepped out of the gap, she found herself in a modern living room. Mu Huai was standing not far away, holding a cup of hot tea, his brows full of helplessness: "Zi Mei, you've finally come. I've been waiting for so long."

"???"

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 3, Childhood Friend Called Lao Ba

In the living room, Yakumo Yukari crossed her long, beautiful legs, sipping hot tea while analyzing the current situation.

"So, you came to this world more than ten years before me, and you even have a childhood friend who's currently studying at Gensokyo High School?"

"Although there are still many things I don't understand, that's the general situation. I know you'll be here because the school's chairman of the board suddenly changed his name to yours."

"Is there anything special about this world?"

"It's a very ordinary modern world, nothing strange about it. The main problem is that if you don't come, I don't seem to be able to return to Gensokyo through the power of the gap."

As Yukari Yakumo listened, her brows gradually furrowed. She didn't believe that the world was without any anomalies, and subconsciously opened her gaps to search for places in the world where anomalies might exist.

However, before she could even perceive it clearly, the person vanished instantly, and the teacup she was holding shattered into pieces with a crash.

[Yukari Yakumo violated the world's restrictions by using extraordinary power and is now forbidden from entering this world.]

"????"

Mu Huai was completely bewildered. How could his big Zi Mei have been banned? He was so scared that he quickly checked if he could return to Gensokyo through the gap. After confirming that he could travel back and forth between this world and Gensokyo normally, he immediately went back to check the situation.

In Kaguya's eyes, Yakumo Yukari had just stepped into the gap when she appeared in mid-air with a look of astonishment on her face, and then fell to the ground with a thud.

"puff!"

She quickly turned her back and covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud. If she laughed out loud at a time like this, the angry old woman would probably lock her in a dark room.

Not long after, Mu Huai also appeared in the room. Seeing Yakumo Yukari sitting comically on the ground without moving, he mocked her mercilessly: "Your retribution for voyeurism has come. The message I received is that you are forbidden from entering that world because you used supernatural power."

"You mean, Yukari Yakumo's account has been banned?"

"Your description is quite apt."

"It's just an ordinary world. If I can't go in, I won't. I'm busy!" After stubbornly saving face, Yukari Yakumo stood up, lightly patted her skirt twice, and took advantage of the gap to leave.

"Hahahaha!!!!"

No need to suppress her laughter, Kaguya's silvery laughter immediately echoed in the room, and even tears streamed down her face. After about ten minutes, her stomach ached from laughing, and she got up from the floor, wiping away her tears as she asked, "Hey, tell me about the world over there?"

"Ah."

Mu Huai recounted his experiences in that world, and upon hearing that he had an extra childhood sweetheart, Kaguya's expression gradually became serious.

What's your childhood sweetheart's name?

"Hanami Anna".

"Loser Lao Ba? Or your childhood sweetheart..." Her delicate eyebrows first rose high, then her eyes sharpened as she looked at Mu Huai: "She wouldn't like you, would she?"

"She's been faking her feelings for me since she was little, as a form of desensitization therapy. It's hard to say whether she really likes me or not."

"Tsk, come on, take me there to have a look!"

"Oh."

Mu Huai brought Kaguya back to the still unknown modern world, and casually reminded her, "Don't use your power carelessly here. I won't be responsible if you get banned like Zi Mei."

Kaguya, who had originally planned to give Anna a hard time, immediately frowned: "Do you expect me to act like a normal person? That would be too uncomfortable!"

"The rules for exploration are as they are now, and I have no way to change them."

Kaguya has almost completely integrated her abilities into her daily life. She simply cannot imagine herself having to slowly scroll through daily mobile games. After much deliberation, she decided to return to Gensokyo to continue living her comfortable life.

Since Lao Ba's defeat is already a foregone conclusion, why should she bother to come here and play the role of an ordinary human? Wouldn't it be better to stay at home and use her power to dominate the PVP leaderboard every day?

After she had made up her mind, she gracefully ran back to Gensokyo to continue her NEET life.

At worst, after finishing his mobile game, he can come back and sow discord between Hanami Anzu, who wants to take over the childhood friend position, and let her know that there is a smart girl like her by Mu Huai's side who can play games and adult visual novels with him.

After seeing Kaguya off, Mu Huai had just cleaned up the broken teacup pieces and water stains on the ground when the door clicked open, and a lively voice immediately jumped into his ears, followed by a blue-haired gluttonous sea otter running in.

Good morning, Mr. Wood!

With her uniquely cheerful tone and bright smile, Hanami Anja ran to Mu Huai's side, her mouth still stained with bread crumbs from breakfast, and her watery blue eyes began to look around as soon as she entered the room.

"morning."

What are you doing?

"I accidentally broke the teacup and we're cleaning it up now."

"I didn't expect you to be so careless." With a teasing remark, Banami Anzu wandered around the living room while he moved the trash to the kitchen.

As the childhood friend of a popular tokusatsu male lead actor, she faces immense pressure in her daily life. Not only does she have to watch out for the girls in her class giving Mu Huai flirtatious glances, but she also has to be wary of her friends trying to trick her into revealing confidential information that only she knows.

For example, what Mu Huai likes to eat, what his interests are, and where he goes on weekends, etc.

Anna Hanami knew very well that there were only two kinds of girls in the world: childhood friends and adulterers.

If it weren't for the fact that saying this would easily provoke hatred, she really wanted to say to all the girls who tried to get close to Mu Huai: You think your casual flirting can compare to my more than ten years of desensitization and companionship?

Ever since she realized she liked Mu Huai when she was a child, but felt that he was too dazzling and might not be good enough for her, Banami Anzu read many novels and comics and realized that her childhood friend had been labeled as a "loser".

So she started confessing her feelings to Mu Huai every now and then, in order to make him used to being confessed to by girls and become immune to it, so that whenever he encountered this situation in the future, he would think of her.

Therefore, she thought it was just like a childhood sweetheart's prank, rather than genuine affection for him.

To be honest, Anzu felt that she was despicable, but love is a girl's battlefield, and she would make it up to him properly after they became a couple. At that time, she would accept any request he made.

"I'm all packed, let's go to school."

"Mmm!" After running a few steps to Mu Huai's side, Banai saw Anzai naturally reach out and hook her left arm around his, saying sweetly, "Mutou~ I like you the most!"

He pursed his lips, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes, before saying, "You're joking again, aren't you? Okay, okay."

"Yue-Yi/First Release Hehe~"

I'll stake all my childhood friend's honor on this! I, Anna Hanami, will never be a loser!

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 4 Otter Lao Ba: Please Let Me Go

As soon as they stepped outside, Banai saw Anja immediately release Muhuai's left hand, holding her schoolbag and maintaining a distance that was neither too intimate nor too distant from him, while using her right hand to brush away the blue hair that had accidentally stuck to the corner of her mouth.

Her extremely practiced movements made it clear that this wasn't the first time she had done something like this.

"There's no need to change your tune so quickly, is there?"

"Who told my childhood sweetheart to be the hottest tokusatsu male lead actor right now? If those paparazzi deliberately take scandalous photos of us, not to mention the girls at school, your die-hard female fans would probably tear me apart first, right?"

She said helplessly, her eyes darting around, a sly smile appearing on her lips as she winked at him with her right eye, pointing at him with her thumb and forefinger forming an "eight": "Or are you saying this because you don't have any pretty girls holding your arms?"

"Wooden-kun is surprisingly lecherous☆~"

Mu Huai took out his phone expressionlessly and said in a completely emotionless voice, "As expected, he tweeted on the X platform that he got a girlfriend named Yanami Anna."

"No, no, please, please have mercy on me and let me go!" She sincerely clasped her hands together and bowed in apology.

If this tweet gets posted, she probably won't even need to go to school anymore.

According to rumors, half of the girls at Gensokyo High School consider Mu Huai their Prince Charming. If it weren't for the fact that Yanagi Anna is his childhood friend, and that the two of them haven't had any scandals for so long, and that she even took the initiative to shield him from many advances from the school's seniors, it would be a huge problem.

She has probably long been a thorn in the side of these girls.

She herself was well aware that even within her close circle of popular girls at school, there were a few girls who were trying to get close to Mu Huai and cultivate a good relationship with her.

Therefore, Mu Huai's seemingly casual actions could actually make her disappear from the school and even society. She doesn't have the courage to be an enemy of more than half of the girls in the school.

Rather, it is precisely because she has lacked this courage since childhood that Anzu Hachimi chose the seemingly unbelievable strategy of "desensitizing Muku's confession."

......

Gensokyo High School is a private high school with one of the largest and most luxurious campuses in the city. However, its school spirit is not strict, and it even advocates the unique rule that "clothes you like are your school uniform." However, there is a basic set of uniforms.

On a marble monument about three meters long at the school gate, the three large characters "Fantasy Land" are engraved in a flamboyant style. Students in various costumes cross the majestic red torii gate to enter the campus.

If Mu Huai hadn't known that this was a high school, he would have thought he had stumbled upon a large cosplay party.

Looking around, people are wearing all sorts of cosplay outfits, such as shrine maids, maids, catgirls, witches, Zaku, and Space Marines, strolling leisurely on the marble brick road where pink cherry blossoms are falling.

"Even though it's been two months since school started, I still find this scene very impressive." After Anna finished complaining, she looked down at her own plain sailor uniform and gray skirt and suddenly felt that she had no unique features at all.

"You'll get used to it; it's not real anyway."

"Wooden Guy, do you think I should also make some changes to my school uniform?"

Mu Huai glanced at her sideways, then quickly looked away and said calmly, "As long as it's not so exaggerated that I don't want to go to school with you, it doesn't matter."

"Okay! I'll go ask my friends for their opinions today!"

As the two entered the classroom, the girls who had been chattering about cosmetics and desserts suddenly fell silent. Anna waved cheerfully and greeted them, "Hey~ How was everyone's holiday?"

"Apricot, come here quickly, we were just talking about the latest cosmetics!"

"I'm coming!"

She quickly put her backpack on her seat and plunged into the group of girls.

Even when faced with the intense gazes of some girls, Mu Huai remained calm. After walking to his seat, he took out a stack of manuscript paper with the word "script" printed on it and began to read it. This action successfully silenced the girls who were itching to make a move.

Last month, a boy who disliked Mu Huai went up to him and tried to fight him while he was looking at the script. In the end, he simply laid the script flat on the table and let the boy take a look.

Half an hour later, the boy was taken away by people sent by the film crew, on the grounds that he was a "commercial spy sent by a competing company." After that, the boy who had provoked the incident never came to the school again, and it is said that he voluntarily went through the transfer procedures.

Even if they know that Mu Huai has a good temper and doesn't usually cause trouble, and that girls who have feelings for him won't approach him while he's reading a script, it would be a huge loss if other rivals in the class used the same reason to get rid of him.

I heard that because Mu Huai attends Gensokyo High School, the number of girls who apply to the school next year will increase by 50% compared to the previous year.

When Anzu Hachimi saw that he had successfully calmed down the scoundrel in the class, she breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew her attention from him, and continued chatting with her friends.

"I stayed up late last night watching TV, and when I woke up this morning I found my skin was even worse. It's so annoying."

"Me too. I finally get to relax on the weekend, but then I stay up all night and end up with really dark circles under my eyes, and my hair isn't as smooth as it used to be."

The two girls chatted back and forth, finally casting envious glances at Anna Hanami.

"I really envy you. Your skin looks as smooth and rosy as if you've used a high-end skincare cream."

"Yes, your hair looks great. What conditioner do you use?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you guys are making it out to be, is it?"

"There's only one reason I can think of: Anzu has such a handsome and capable childhood friend by her side. Just looking at him makes her feel happy, and her skin and hair naturally become much better!"

I wholeheartedly agree!

Hearing this, Banai saw Anzu raise an eyebrow and pounce on one of them with a grin: "You dare to attribute all my efforts to him? You guys are so mean! Watch out for my tickling attack!"

"Hahahaha, stop, stop! I was wrong!!"

As the school bell rang, this vibrant and lively group of girls dispersed and returned to their seats.

It was only at times like this that Anzu would envy the empty seat next to Kyou, which had remained empty ever since the boy who had provoked her transferred schools.

Many girls in the class applied to switch to an empty seat, but the homeroom teacher ruthlessly refused, to the point that the seat was gradually publicized as only being qualified to sit in the empty seat if one could become Mu Huai's girlfriend.

After school, Mu Huai was spared the rare opportunity to be off filming. Seeing Anja wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth, Banai raised her hand and suggested, "Let's go to the newly opened fast food restaurant. I heard they're having a promotion—order a burger and get a free one!"

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 5, Large Pet, Anana Hachimi