Stardew Valley of Gensokyo

As he watched Sanae Kochiya's figure disappear around the corner, Akina Sawa shrugged.

I never expected that the rightful owner would show up at my door right after I sold the item. My luck has been really bad today.

I almost got hit by a heavy object this morning, and this afternoon I just finished shopping and hadn't even spent the money when someone bumped into me. What a coincidence!

Am I being punished for doing a lot of bad things lately?

That's impossible! Although I sell things at high prices, it's because my products are of good quality. Besides, I gave money to beggars on the street a few days ago, which is considered doing good deeds!

Thinking of this, Akina Ze also recalled seeing a somewhat familiar-looking woman with patched clothes sitting by the roadside a few days ago. Although people were coming and going, the small bowl in front of her was empty.

At that time, I lamented that the world was going to the dogs and people's hearts were no longer what they used to be. With the idea of ​​doing a good deed every day, I even went over and put a few copper coins in there.

However, the situation was a bit strange. I was doing good deeds, so why was someone looking at me with strange eyes? I originally wanted to chat with that guy who looked somewhat familiar, but in the end, I had to give up.

"Oh well, I still have 150 copper coins," Akina Sawa sighed, coming back to his senses.

As the saying goes, "What goes around comes around." He hadn't known what to do with 500 copper coins, but now that he only had 150, he didn't have to worry about it anymore. Akina Ze tossed his heavy wallet, trying to console himself.

The unique sound of the copper coins colliding with each other comforted Akina Sawa's somewhat dejected heart.

"How should I spend 150 copper coins? First, I should buy some dumplings for Nikua, then some seasonings for the kitchen, then some flowers to decorate the house... This money doesn't seem to be enough..."

"Oh, you've finished?"

A voice from the side interrupted Akina Zeya's thoughts.

"Captain Mokou, you weren't just watching from the sidelines the whole time, were you?" Akina Sawa said with a wry smile.

"No, I just happened to come here to buy dango," Fujiwara no Mokou said, shaking the dango in her hand.

"However, I'm a little surprised that you would spit out something that was already in your mouth. That's really unexpected," Mokou said indistinctly after biting into a dumpling.

"You said the shrine maiden of Moriya Shrine is also human, so why does she live alone on the top of the Youkai Mountain?" Akina Sawa didn't answer Fujiwara no Mokou's question, but instead threw another question at her.

"Who told you that Sanae lives alone at Moriya Shrine?" Fujiwara no Mokou looked at Akina Sawaya with a strange expression.

"Huh? Does she live with those monsters from Demon Mountain?"

"How could that be? Don't you know that there are two gods living in the Moriya Shrine?" Mokou swallowed the dumpling in one gulp.

"??? Gods really exist in this world!?" Akina Sawa seemed to have heard something he couldn't believe.

"Pfft!" Fujiwara no Mokou burst out laughing.

"Hahaha! You've seen so many monsters, and you still doubt whether gods exist? I suspect there's something wrong with your head!" Mokou laughed so hard she almost fell over. After calming down a bit, she said, "Well, although in my opinion gods are just more powerful monsters, they do exist."

"Good lad, those two will be coming to the summer festival in a while, then you can have a good look around," Fujiwara no Mokou said, patting Akina Sawaya on the shoulder after she had finished laughing.

I never imagined that the mysterious gods in Gensokyo actually exist and even participate in festivals. But are there any gods in the outside world?

Wait, let's not talk about that now, this guy is way too close...

Akina Sawa also turned his head to look at Fujiwara no Mokou, who was draped over his shoulder...

Chapter 49 Marisa's New Dark History

"Cirno-chan? Where are you?"

Beneath the layers of leaves, the Great Fairy was searching for Cirno, who was hiding, in a clearing in the forest.

They found no trace of her in the trees, among the flowers, or under the rocks. Unable to find Cirno, the great fairy was so anxious that tears were almost welling up in her eyes.

I was happily strolling hand-in-hand with Cirno through the woods today, but then Cirno casually suggested we play hide-and-seek and disappeared without a trace.

Only the great fairy remained in place.

In the sweltering forest, everything was quiet. Suddenly, the great demon felt a strange panic, took a step forward, and stepped right on a dead branch.

Click!

"Ah! Cirno-chan! Come out quickly! Waaaaaah~"

The loud crack startled the great demon so much that she fell to her knees with a thud, and large golden beads of tears streamed down her face.

"Hahaha! Soybean paste is such an idiot! He can't find us at all, hehehe."

Behind a large tree not far away, Cirno peeked out and couldn't stop laughing as she watched the Great Fairy kneeling on the ground.

Just then, Cirno suddenly felt something fall on her forehead.

Cirno reached out and touched her forehead, only to find it covered in a strange liquid. She brought it to her nose and sniffed it curiously.

Upon smelling the unidentified liquid, Cirno removed her hand from it, pinched her nose with her other hand, and said with a look of disgust, "Isn't this human sweat? It stinks!"

......

The summer sun is so intense that it makes people dizzy and makes the air unbearably hot.

"It's so hot!"

A layer of sweat condensed on the ends of her hair and stuck to her skin, a feeling that made Marisa very uncomfortable.

But she didn't have a free hand to brush away this annoying thing from her forehead.

At this moment, Marisa was flying at full speed on her broom, a few meters above the treetops. Being closer to the ground like this reduced the sun's intensity compared to higher up, making it feel cooler.

Marisa wasn't afraid of the heat and flying in the sky on her broomstick because the wind blowing in her face when she flew at high speed was just like being hit by a Category 8 typhoon. As long as you were fast enough, the hot wind would turn into a cold wind.

But that won't work now. There's a screw tied to the back of the broom, and it's too heavy. It's already hard to control the balance, and if it flies too fast, it'll be impossible to control the balance at all. Marisa doesn't dare to be careless, so she has to hold the stick with both hands to control the flight, so as not to sway back and forth.

This slow flight is a bit safer, but the longer you stay under the sun, the hotter and more uncomfortable it gets.

Marisa felt like a fish that had just been pulled out of the water, lying on a rock and being exposed to the scorching sun.

The little moisture remaining in the body either evaporates into the air as steam or seeps out from the skin, flowing down the arm under the influence of gravity, gathering into a drop of sweat at the tail, and finally falling into the woods below.

"Marisa, you did this, didn't you?! You put that stinky stuff on my head!"

A Cirno flew up from the forest below and blocked Marisa's path.

Huh? Why are there such large blocks of ice in front of me? Am I hallucinating?

Marisa was already dizzy from the sun and began to hallucinate. In her eyes, Cirno was no longer a clumsy little girl in blue clothes, but a block of ice radiating coldness.

Cirno felt a chill run down her spine as Marisa stared intently at her. In the past, she would always be ambushed and sent flying by this despicable woman before she could even finish her opening remarks.

This time, Cirno plans to strike first.

"【Ice Symbol "Icicle Fall"】"

Transparent blocks of ice, gleaming with an icy blue luster, floated into the air with a gust of cold air.

But perhaps because of the weather, these ice cubes all looked very small.

Then Cirno waved her hand, and a shower of ice shards shot towards Marisa.

Faced with such an attack, Marisa remained unmoved, riding her broomstick and directly confronting the assault.

The ice shards rained down on Marisa completely.

"Hahaha! I'm the strongest!" Cirno stood with her hands on her hips, head held high, her smug little chin almost pointing to the sky.

Hey! Do you have any more of that stuff? Get me some more~DA☆ZE!

Marisa emerged from the vapors of the evaporating ice shards, completely unharmed.

"That's impossible! You must have cheated again!"

Cirno didn't believe Marisa would be completely unharmed and planned to pull a big one, not believing she could fake it.

"Snow Talisman "Diamond Blizzard"! "

In an instant, snow fell in August, and crystal-clear snowflakes appeared in the air.

A cold wind swept towards Marisa.

"Ah~"

It was truly refreshing and invigorating. Marisa felt cool and refreshed, and the summer heat was completely dispelled. She couldn't help but groan.

"Hehe, this is our strongest attack!"

Cirno, who was not far away, looked somewhat exhausted. The attack that caused the weather to change within a range of several hundred meters had taken a lot of her strength.

"Cirno-chan!"

Daijō, still under the trees, sensed the change in the weather and finally looked up, seeing Cirno and Marisa facing off overhead.

It flapped its decorative transparent wings and flew faster to Cirno's side.

Looking at the snowflakes dancing in the sky, Marisa's expression turned serious; she had almost exhausted her magical power.

Marisa has at least 100 ways to break this snow charm, which is full of flaws, but it's difficult to do without magic.

Now, all her remaining magic is used to keep the broom running.

"It seems this is the only way..."

Marisa glanced at the screws tied to the broom with a troubled expression, and made a decision.

Marisa took the mini Eight Trigrams Furnace out of her pocket. Cirno, who was in the distance, looked at the furnace and her expression changed drastically. She remembered the furnace very well.

However, Marisa did not point the miniature octagonal furnace at Cirno, but instead placed it next to the rope.

puff~

A small beam of light emerged from the center of the Bagua furnace, gently grazing the rope binding the screw. Instantly, the screw was recaptured by gravity and fell off the broom.

Because the screw was so heavy, when it severed its connection with the broom, Marisa and the broom lurched in opposite directions and it took several seconds to stabilize again.

Time flew by, and the snowflakes, gathering momentum, hurtled towards Marisa.

But during an avalanche, every snowflake bravely ventures into the world, just like the snowflakes controlled by Cirno.

However, Marisa remained calm, putting the miniature Bagua furnace into her pocket and muttering something under her breath.

【Stardust Reverie】

The screws were freed, and the last bit of magic gathered at the end of the broom, where a yellow star appeared.

Then Marisa held up two fingers in Cirno's direction.

The stars suddenly became brighter.

puff~

Like a comet, the stars propelled the broom, breaking through Cirno's snow spell barrier, and a long comet tail, dim in the sunlight, appeared in the sky...

"Soybean paste? Did I win?"

Standing there, Cirno said blankly.

"We won!"

"The great fairy said gently."

"Oh, I won..."

Upon hearing the affirmation from the Great Fairy, Cirno immediately closed her eyes and fainted.

In the sweltering heat, such an attack had taken a tremendous toll on Cirno, and her body, which had been holding on, collapsed as soon as it relaxed.

After an unknown amount of time, Cirno slowly woke up and found herself resting her head on Daisou's lap.

However, Cirno didn't care about any of that; instead, she was extremely excited.

"Cirno! I really am the strongest!" Cirno clenched her fist.

"Yoshi yoshi~"

The great fairy gently stroked Cirno's forehead, her eyes filled with tenderness.

In the distance, the screw lay quietly in the crater that had just been created...

Chapter 50 What's crouching isn't necessarily a mushroom.

Dusk, the boundary between day and night, is also given special meaning by many people, who call it the hour of encountering demons.

Akina Ze strolled leisurely along the cobblestone path home, having already spent most of the windfall he had received that day.

The gentle breeze blowing along the road made Akina Sawa squint his eyes and want to take a deep breath.

A pleasant life is so wonderful and refreshing.