Stardew Valley of Gensokyo

Just then, Akina Sawa also noticed that a red figure had appeared.

Ah, someone's here! We're saved...

Akina Ze was relieved and collapsed with a "thud".

"Mr. Akina! Mr. Akina!"

Akina Sawa's dazed mind vaguely heard someone calling him...

Chapter Ten: The Solitary Shrine Maiden

"Hmm~"

Akina Sawa also regained consciousness from his coma.

The first thing that catches the eye is an unfamiliar ceiling.

"are you awake?"

Looking in the direction of the sound, a girl dressed in a red and white shrine maiden outfit, with a huge red bow at the back of her head, was kneeling to the side, drinking tea.

After regaining his senses, Akina Sawa realized that perhaps she had saved him.

"Did you save me?" Akina Ze also sat up. "Are the people with me alright?"

"Yes, as for the other person, I've already sent her home because it's getting late," the girl said, putting down her cup.

"I see," Akina Ze said, feeling a little relieved, and looked around at his surroundings.

The room was sparsely furnished, with nothing but a table and the tatami mat where he was lying.

"Um," Akina Ze also stood up and bowed to the girl, "Thank you for saving me."

"You're welcome. I'm a shrine maiden at this shrine; helping you is what I should do."

The Hakurei Shrine Maiden picked up her teacup and took another sip of tea.

"Pay the treatment fee, and you can leave."

Paying is the right thing to do, but Akina Ze also looked troubled. "I only have 50 copper coins left. I heard from the village that the Hakurei Shrine Maiden seems to be a bit greedy. I'm afraid my 50 copper coins won't be enough."

Seemingly sensing that Akina Sawa was also in a difficult situation, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden spoke up, "I learned from Aya's newspaper that you are a farmer, right?"

"Ok?"

Akina Sawa was also a little surprised. Even the shrine maiden was reading this Wenwen newspaper?

"I am indeed a farmer, but the plants in this field haven't grown yet..."

"Since you're a farmer, that's fine then." The Hakurei Shrine Maiden fiddled with the teacup in her hand. "This time I only need 5 yen. Just give me some of the vegetables you grow in the future."

That would be wonderful! Akina Ze took out five copper coins from his pocket and was about to hand them over, but the Hakurei Shrine Maiden refused.

"?" Akina Ze's face was also full of question marks.

"Just put it in the offering box outside the door," the Hakurei Shrine Maiden said, withdrawing her hand.

The Hakurei Shrine Maiden would never say it was because she wanted to hear the crisp sound of copper coins colliding with the offering box.

"Uh, I understand now." Akina Zeya's question mark was replaced by a black line.

"S~"

A sudden pain shot through his lower back, causing Akina Ze to sit back down.

"I see you're not going to be able to leave today. Why don't you rest here and leave tomorrow?"

The Hakurei Shrine Maiden looked at Akina Sawa's pained expression and said.

"Thank you so much! I'm extremely grateful!"

Akina Sawa, who had originally thought he would descend the mountain under the cover of night, was also pleasantly surprised.

I never imagined I could spend the night at a shrine, especially one with only a beautiful young woman there.

"It's late, I'm going to rest now."

The Hakurei Shrine Maiden finished her tea and left...

This is the reception room of the Hakurei Shrine, while the shrine maidens have another room to rest in.

However, Akina Sawa had just woken up from his coma and was quite energetic, not wanting to sleep. But the Hakurei Shrine Maiden had already gone to rest, so it wasn't good to make too much noise; after all, they were in someone else's house, and it was best to behave themselves.

Thinking of this, Akina Ze could only close his eyes and force himself to fall asleep again, lying peacefully on the tatami.

After some time, it was late at night and the surroundings had quieted down, but Akina Ze still couldn't fall asleep, not only because of his own reasons, but also because of other reasons.

Outside the shrine, the wind whistled, and through the poorly soundproofed walls, it reached Akina Sawaya's ears, keeping him awake. However, there was an even more important reason: the blanket that the Hakurei Shrine Maiden had prepared for him was far too thin, and it did almost no good.

Akina Sawa lay shivering on the tatami mat, curling up in an attempt to find some warmth.

Fortunately, although the walls of the Hakurei Shrine are not very soundproof, they are still able to keep the wind out.

In the empty room, Akina Sawa lay on the tatami mat, where he could hear not only the wind blowing outside the shrine, but also the peaceful breathing of Hakurei Shrine, who was sleeping in the inner room.

This is double torture, in every sense of the word.

"But this Hakurei Shrine Maiden is really carefree. She just lets a complete stranger like me move in like this, isn't she afraid something might happen?" Akina Sawa thought to himself, bored.

Although listening to the breathing of the shrine maiden or young girl next door was a pleasure, listening to Akina Sawa for so long made me feel like I had to find something else to do, otherwise... this wouldn't be good, since I wasn't at home.

At that moment, Akina Ze suddenly remembered the system that had been with him in this world for some time.

When it first arrived, Akina Sawa had already observed it. Because its interface was very similar to that of a certain game, he labeled it as useless and put it in the cold palace.

But since I'm bored today, I'll take a look at it. It's possible that some parts have been missed.

With the manipulation of his mind, the system interface was flipped through page by page. In the ability section, Akina Ze also found that the planting section was full and he had obtained a small effect. However, since the plant was not yet mature, Akina Ze did not know what its effect was.

But this fairy is so innocent and cute. Of all the people she knows, only Cirno has the highest heart, two hearts.

Akina Ze also felt that perhaps he should prepare some small desserts for Cirno. Just thinking about that silly and cute blue-haired little fairy made him smile involuntarily.

Let's skip this little incident.

The observation of the system is still ongoing, ignoring the few pages that say "under construction".

Akina Ze also noticed some minor changes between the creation page and the in-game page. This page had several smaller pages, and apart from the original game page which was lit up, the others were grayed out and unselectable.

However, since these subpages cannot be opened at the moment, Akina Ze can only choose to skip them for the time being.

The system's pixelated map, which only records places you've been, also left him speechless.

"Yeah, this system is trash!" This was Akina Sawa's conclusion once again after observing all the selectable pages.

Hey! Can't you make your system any more powerful? Even the map is pixelated like this. Akina Sawa is speechless.

"I'd better just stick to being a farmer," Akina Ze thought, having been defeated by Da Mao Yu. His desire for revenge, which stemmed from wanting to gain power from the system, was temporarily abandoned. However, this system truly is irretrievable…

Thinking about how other people who transmigrate either slaughter everyone or dominate a region, look at our system, it even uses the vague term "heart" to represent favorability. Isn't this just being completely outclassed by others?

Akina Ze also said that he would rather spend his time listening to the shrine maiden's breathing than wasting time looking at the system.

"Alright, let's go to sleep." The devastated Akina Ze finally felt a little sleepy.

Then I drifted off to sleep.

After realizing that Akina Sawa had also fallen completely asleep, a black crack suddenly appeared in the room.

A woman with blonde hair wearing a zun hat walked out from inside.

At the same time, the breathing of the shrine maiden sleeping in the next room also stopped.

"Purple, is there something wrong with him?" The shrine maiden next door asked first.

"Have"

Upon hearing Yakumo Yukari's reply, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden gripped the purification staff in her hand even tighter.

Occasionally, humans will sneak into Gensokyo, but this is due to Yukari Yakumo sometimes shaking the boundary.

But the man in front of me appeared out of nowhere in Gensokyo.

Yukari Yakumo observed him for a few days and even ate the cakes he baked.

Although the conclusion was that this person was harmless, he possessed a mysterious power.

For the sake of the stability of Gensokyo, Yukari Yakumo must nip any potential threat in the bud.

"No!" said the Hakurei Shrine Maiden.

"Hey"

Yukari Yakumo sighed.

"Because he is human?"

"..." No more sounds came from next door.

"I understand."

Just as she had come, Yakumo Yukari walked gracefully into the gap without looking back.

"Hmph, lucky kid..."

The gap closed, and Yukari Yakumo left the empty room completely...

Perhaps because a barrier had been placed around him, Akina Sawa didn't hear any of the conversation and instead slept soundly.

The moon looks the same from anywhere outside. Through the treetops, Reimu Hakurei quietly gazes at the moon...

Let's leave it at that for today...

[Planting: +100]

[Copper Coins: 50]

[Honju Xiaoling: A Heart]

[System update in progress...]

Chapter Eleven: The First Harvest

"I'm leaving"

Akina Sawa also bid farewell to Hakurei Reimu.

He got up very early this morning because he was worried about the plants at home that needed watering, and the bag of hairy jade that needed to be submitted for the task. He had to go home early.

Reimu Hakurei nodded slightly in response to him, then lazily knelt down beside the table and began to drink tea.

"Boom!"

Five copper coins were tossed into the offering box with a crisp sound, and Reimu's ears perked up inside the room.

After tossing in the copper coins, Akina Ze hurriedly went down the mountain with Mao Yu, whom he had captured the day before. Although he was a little curious as to why the shrine maiden ate tea instead of food, he thought that this must be the shrine maiden's way of maintaining health. Little did he know that the shrine maiden shed tears of poverty while drinking the clear tea.

Because it was still early, the market was not crowded as people were still preparing. This allowed Akina Sawa to quickly cross the market.

However, the people in the market looked at the person carrying the black bag and walking hurriedly with curiosity.

After traversing the animal trails and the market, Akina Sawa arrived home, panting heavily. The surroundings were unchanged from when he left the day before.

Seeing that nothing had changed, it seemed I was overthinking it. How could there be a thief in a village of men? Akina Sawa opened the door with peace of mind.

"Pong!"

The sight before him stunned Akina Sawa: layers of lush green plants stretching their branches and leaves under the sunlight.

The parsnip is ripe! One of these plants has been dug up, but it doesn't matter much.

Akina Sawa was so excited he was almost going crazy. He wished he could run around the Human Village a few times right now, shouting and yelling, but that was impossible.

Impatiently, Akina Ze quickly put the bag containing the hairy peas aside, grabbed a windbreak grass and stuffed it into the system's backpack. Although this backpack had some functions removed and could no longer hold animals, it could still hold plants.

These parsnip plants were very plump, and it was clear that they were full of juice. Akina Ze had thought that it would take a lot of effort to pull out each parsnip plant, but he didn't expect that the system would come in handy in this situation.

Akina Ze placed his hands on both sides of the parsnip and gently lifted it up, pulling the entire parsnip up by the roots and putting it into his backpack.

With the system's help, Akina Ze quickly pulled up all the parsnip growing all over the ground, and even had time to make two hearty breakfasts. In these breakfasts, Akina Ze specially added the freshly pulled parsnip.

When Akina placed one of the dishes on the table, she also noticed a note on the table.

Sorry, we found a magical plant in your house and have borrowed it for research. We'll return it! DA☆ZE!