The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

"She seems to have been provoked by my booming demon realm. She stormed back to her backyard kingdom and I don't know what she's up to."

"The owed wages..."

Shi Bai's lips twitched involuntarily as he looked at Shen Qi, whose face was filled with innocence, and he couldn't help but feel a slight headache.

"Motara Okina's actions shouldn't have been the cause of the controversy. I think it was you who first mocked her for having nothing in her back village, right?"

He had also been to the back door country, the residence of the ultimate absolute secret god, Modara Okina, but it was almost completely empty. Not to mention the furnishings, the area was many times smaller than that of the Demon Realm, and there was only Modara Okina there.

"Who told her to hang around in front of me all the time when I'm busiest..."

After muttering something under her breath, Shen Qi leaned forward and rested her head on the table, her face full of anticipation.

"Alright, I've finished talking about my business. Now it's time to talk about yours. What have you been doing all these years?"

"Hmm... Save the world."

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai nodded very seriously.

"You have no idea how much effort I've put into saving the world all these years, working myself to the bone, even to the point of exhaustion, acting as a lackey of the powerful and abusing my authority... What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

"No, but I can draw one on for you if you want."

Shen Qi turned her head away nonchalantly.

"Your flower paintings are pleasing to the eye? You can't even build a nice house."

With his arms crossed, Shi Bai gave a cold smile.

"Draw a circle, and then draw four more circles around it. See, like this."

While extending her finger to draw in the air as a demonstration, Shenqi answered with ill intent.

"How about it, do you want me to draw it for you? I'll draw it very beautifully."

"Is that a flower you drew? That's the Olympic rings!!"

"The Olympic rings are flowers too!! You need to apologize to all the Olympic ring flowers around the world!!"

"Hmm... I suddenly thought of a very interesting theory."

"Hmm...what theory?"

"As anyone who has studied physics knows, energy cannot be created or destroyed out of thin air; it can only be transferred from one medium to another, or from one state to another. This is the famous law of conservation of energy. Similarly, if you spend a lot of time with idiots, and one day you feel that the other person is not as idiotic as before, then you should be careful. This law that I discovered, I call the law of conservation of idiocy."

"……you win."

"That's natural, because no one can beat me in this kind of thing. Not even you."

"........."

Outside the reception room, listening to the conversations coming from inside, Yumeko, who was dutifully guarding the door, remained expressionless.

As the maid who serves the Demon God, Shinki, and the highest-ranking being among Shinki's creations in the Demon World, Yumeko can be considered a veteran of the Demon World, always staying by Shinki's side and serving her.

You must understand, as the creator god of the demon realm, Shenqi created her and is the master of the entire demon realm. Her majesty is above everyone else. However, since she has been by Shenqi's side as Shenqi's maid for so many years, she has never seen Shenqi in such a state, nor has she ever seen Shenqi so relaxed.

An existence that allows one's own creator god to completely lower his guard and chat with him casually...

Hmm...it seems the creator god of the demon realm has finally appeared. (Nods)

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Shi Bai naturally had no idea what kind of epic storyline Yumeko, who could be called the strongest maid in history, had imagined in her mind, and in reality, he hadn't stayed in the Demon Realm for very long.

Shi Bai had originally intended to ask Shen Qi for help with Xiao Hong Mei Ling's matter, but considering how exhausted Shen Qi was, he ultimately decided to remain silent.

Given her personality, if I were to tell Shenqi about this, she might have to work tirelessly for a long time to figure it out. So it's better to trouble someone with nothing better to do...

"Lord Shibai, this is the key to Lady Shenqi's room. Please keep it safe."

As Mengzi escorted him all the way to the gates of the Demon Realm, Shi Bai was about to thank the loyal and dutiful maid in front of him when she suddenly took out a key with a strange expression and stuffed it into his hand.

"???"

Shi Bai was stunned when he saw the key in his hand. However, before he could ask any more questions, a blonde maid bowed respectfully to him and quietly made her way out.

Shi Bai: "..."

Yumeko, the fifth boss in Touhou Kaikidan, is a maid who serves the demon god Shinki. She is the highest-level being among Shinki's creations in the demon world, and there are even rumors that she is stronger than Shinki... Of course, this refers to the comments.

Just like a certain perfectly dashing PAD, Yumeko's attack method is also throwing knives. When Yumeko escorted him from the Demon Palace to the gate of the Demon Realm, all the monsters along the way were cleared away by Yumeko throwing knives.

It's understandable that the maid usually throws knives... but the question is, why would she suddenly give Shinki the key to her room? Is there some hidden meaning behind this?

After thinking about it for a long time without figuring it out, Shi Bai finally just threw the key into his storage ring and left it there. Anyway, he always ended up receiving strange things for no reason...

"Ah... but I really want to have my own maid, and it would be even better if it were Saber, who could do my laundry, cook for me, and make my bed for me every day..."

With a sigh of deep emotion, Shi Bai suddenly felt a pang of nostalgia for Huo Qing'e.

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Matara Okina's back-door country does not exist in the present world and cannot be reached by conventional means, or rather, it was originally her home alone.

Shibai originally intended to find a certain youkai, the eccentric Yakumo Yukari, but Yukari was always elusive and had no fixed abode. Unless he could run into the gap and perhaps be lucky enough to bump into her, finding her was almost impossible.

Therefore, compared to the other option, seeking out Matara Okina is a better choice.

Then, when he arrived at the Land of the Back Door, he saw a certain ultimate absolute god rummaging through a mountain of junk, searching for something.

"Shinki, you rascal, didn't I tell you not to bother me during this period..."

Sensing the arrival of outsiders, Matara Okina turned her head angrily, but the sentence she was about to say suddenly stopped when she saw someone's figure.

five minutes later.

"I'm definitely going to settle accounts with Shen Qi another day... She just gave away the things I gave her so casually. It's not like just anyone can come in here..."

Still seemingly resentful, she muttered to herself as she sat down at a newly found round table and addressed the person in front of her with a serious expression.

"Speak, what brings you here specifically to see me?"

"Um... there is indeed something I need to trouble you with."

Shi Bai glanced around at the piles of junk that resembled small mountains, his eyes twitching slightly. After a moment's consideration, he revealed his purpose for coming.

"The dragon vein takes form? Using the dragon vein to sever the spiritual energy of heaven and earth..."

After listening to him finish speaking, Matara Okina clearly became interested, leaning forward slightly and her eyes lit up.

"You're looking for a way to save her life even if the dragon vein is severed, right?"

"That's right, do you have a way?"

Shi Bai nodded.

"There are still ways, after all, there have been such cases before. However, even if her life can be saved, her strength will be greatly reduced, and there may even be some aftereffects."

Shaking her head, Modara Okina's words carried a hint of excitement that she couldn't quite explain.

"I can help you with this. I can assure you I will save her life and do my best to minimize her aftereffects. But in return, I've helped you so much, shouldn't you at least do me a favor?"

What are the mildest possible side effects?

After pondering for a moment, Shi Bai asked the question to Matara Okina in front of him.

"The fact that my strength will be greatly reduced is not the problem; after all, it's good enough to survive in that situation. But the aftereffects and such..."

"Don't worry, don't worry, with me in charge, there's absolutely no chance of failure."

Modara Okina appeared quite confident.

"In my estimation, at most she will be more sleepy on weekdays, and it won't have too much of an impact on her."

"Uh... alright. Tell me, who do you want me to kill for you?"

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai nodded.

"But let me state upfront that I am a civilized person, and fighting and killing are not suitable for me."

"It's a very simple thing, just a little troublesome."

Extending a finger in front of her, Modara Okina spoke seriously.

"I would like to trouble you to help me play the role of an ordinary person."

P.S.: Good morning! ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

Chapter Thirty-Four: I really want to kill Futo!

The Land of the Rear Door.

"Help you play the role of an ordinary person?"

After hearing what Matara Okina said, Shi Bai couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

“Look, I am a god from the same era as Shinki, right? In every aspect, I am no worse than her.”

Sitting up straight, Matara Okina spoke seriously.

"Everyone in this country knows that Amaterasu Omikami is the leader of all the gods, but the problem is, almost no one in the world knows that I exist. Don't you think that's very unfair?"

"Uh...so?"

Shi Bai easily understood the meaning behind Matara Okina's words, and his expression became slightly strange.

"Logically speaking, as the ultimate absolute god of mystery, you shouldn't care about such trivial matters."

"No, this is not a small matter."

As if recalling some unpleasant past events, Matara Okina's face visibly darkened.

"I'm a god, right? Even if I don't care about these trivial matters, gods should still be respected by humans. But I'm treated like a monster by humans. This is obviously not right!!!"

"puff……"

"……what are you laughing at?"

"Ahem... I just remembered something happy."

"What happy thing?"

"I dreamt last night that I got Saber Alter in the game."

"Ahoge...you're still laughing!!"

“This idler, I have been specially trained that no matter how funny something is, I will not… unless I can’t help it.”

"........."

Finally, it took Shi Bai about thirty minutes to sort out the whole story.

Actually, it's quite simple. Motara Okina originally stayed in Shinki's Demon World. Because the Demon World was newly established, Shinki was so busy that she hardly had any time to rest.

Meanwhile, Matara Okina, who believed she could get revenge in this situation, deliberately hung around in front of Shinki all day long, while also making sarcastic remarks from time to time.

Shenqi was extremely annoyed and helpless by this. In the end, Shenqi came up with a very good way to provoke Motara Oki away.

As for the content, it's roughly about how, although you are a god, you are completely incomparable to me in certain aspects. For example, although I'm a bit tired now, I am revered by all people, while you, although you are idle, are completely unknown to anyone...

Matara Okina was quite unconvinced by these words and naturally wanted to prove them to Shinki with facts.

Well... in the end, it turned out that what Shinki said was right.

Because she was not respected by humans as a deity, but instead was invariably treated as a monster and exorcised...

In the eyes of the gods of Takamagahara, she was not regarded as a monster like in the human world, but she was regarded as an unknown mountain deity by the gods of Takamagahara... which can be described as extremely miserable.

"It's not a monster, it's a god! Don't those humans have any sense at all?! They actually dared to try and defeat me..."

When this matter is mentioned, Matara Okina is furious and calls it the biggest black mark on her life.

After all, he's clearly a god, yet he's being treated like a monster and exorcised...

"Ahem... So, what exactly is it?"

Shi Bai coughed a few times to express his sympathy.

"With your power, spreading your faith among humans should be a very simple matter, right?"

Why would I need to believe in something so useless?