The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

After coughing a few times with a slightly embarrassed expression, Modara Okina turned her head away nonchalantly.

"But speaking of which, is it that fast on your end? It seems like not even twenty years have passed yet, right?"

"...From now on, you are forbidden to put me in a coffin again."

"This isn't about turning waste into something useful... well, I apologize because I really can't find a suitable adjective."

"...A dancer? I think she's more like a maid. Did you go looking for trouble with Shinki again?"

Shi Bai glanced at the other person silently and then gently pressed his forehead with his hand.

"Speaking of which, aren't those two human?"

"Maybe it was true before, but now they've transcended the realm of humanity. It took me a long time to find them. I originally wanted to find more, but there aren't many people who can fully accept my power. Finding two is already considered very lucky."

Modara Okina shook her head slightly.

"So, you've finished your work on that side?"

"I think it's done."

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai nodded.

"Anyway, you yourself probably don't care much about these empty titles. The reason you did this was just to vent your anger in front of Shinki... Anyway, I've already achieved the feat of being remembered in history."

"What about the others? Are there things related to my belief in the god Modor?"

Modara Okina looked on with anticipation.

"...When did you ever make this request to me?"

"Just now."

Modara Okina looked completely undeterred.

"No, don't even think about it, it's impossible. Besides, why would you want to believe in such a thing? Human faith should be as commonplace to you as ants on the roadside."

Shi Bai rolled his eyes.

"And there are some things I haven't settled accounts with you for yet. Did you really have to set your hair to such a flashy pink? Pink hair and pink eyes... So the so-called Mary Sue concept existed so early on?"

"But dare you say it's not good-looking?!"

Modara Okina looked completely self-righteous.

"Furthermore, in my original concept, Qin Hesheng was originally a woman. I only made a slight change because of you, so you should thank me for that!!"

"So I almost..."

Upon hearing the words of a certain mysterious god, someone's face immediately turned green.

"Nonsense, I have no desire to experience male life."

Modara Okina pouted.

"No, I feel it's still too much of a loss. You've only spent less than twenty years, while I've spent at least a hundred years preparing just to save her. You must spread my faith, at least so that I can no longer be treated as a monster and exorcised."

"Hey, hey, hey, we already agreed on this beforehand: clear and fair pricing, no cheating the young or old. Are you going back on your word?"

"But you've lived here for almost twenty years, you still have to pay rent, right?!"

"I haven't even brought up the fact that you put me in a coffin to practice the coffin dance!!"

"But it's very comfortable to lie in a coffin and be carried around like that. Do you want to lie on my bed?!"

"I……"

Shi Bai's lips twitched violently as he realized that he had absolutely no way of reasoning with the other party.

"...How about this, I'll build you a shrine, okay? The gods worshipped by the shrine maidens won't be considered monsters anymore, right?"

"shrine??"

Modara Okina blinked.

"Motara Shrine?"

"Do not."

Turning his head, Shi Bai's face was expressionless.

"It's the Hakurei Shrine."

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Based on the Gregorian calendar, the current era is approximately around 600 AD. Gensokyo officially separated the inner and outer worlds, and Yakumo Yukari opened the boundary between illusion and reality around 1500 AD, marking the beginning of the so-called Youkai Expansion Plan and the mechanism for entering Gensokyo.

The period from when Gensokyo was officially established to when the Hakurei Barrier was fully opened was in 1885. The period when spell card rules officially became popular in Gensokyo, during the time of Reimu Hakurei, was in 2003.

Strictly speaking, he is still about 1400 years away from that period.

While pondering these matters in his mind, Shi Bai tapped his head with a slight headache.

Before Yukari Yakumo separated Gensokyo from the outside world with a barrier, this area of ​​Gensokyo was called "the borderland of the Eastern Country, far from human settlements" by humans.

Because this area is inhabited by monsters and is the gathering place of most of them, people who accidentally wander into this place will be captured and eaten by the monsters. Therefore, people are afraid of this place and ordinary people will not go near it.

However, some people live in Gensokyo to fight against these youkai, and as time goes by, the human population increases dramatically due to the development of civilization.

It wasn't until the rapid growth of human power that Yukari Yakumo was forced to establish the boundary between illusion and reality in Gensokyo, around 1500 AD.

The first son of the original Mikage, Hieda no Aichi, began compiling the origin story of Gensokyo around 800 AD. He started compiling the origin story of Gensokyo when he was 18 years old. After that, every 120 to 180 years, a new son of Mikage would be born to compile a new origin story of Gensokyo.

Nearly 700 years passed in between.

The rapid growth of human power can, in some ways, be seen as the rapid decline of yokai power; before that, it was the golden age of yokai.

The time when Liu Bowen severed the dragon vein, cut off the connection between heaven and earth, and severed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was approximately between 1300 and 1400 AD. The severing of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth caused the yokai to decline rapidly. After 100 years of development, the yokai's power plummeted to its lowest point, which is why Yakumo Yukari had no choice but to set up a barrier.

It is currently the year 600 AD, so it will take approximately 700 to 800 years to resolve Hong Meiling's problems...

"Holy crap, did I get tricked by Matara Okina?"

After spending a lot of time sorting things out in his mind and accurately deducing the correct time, Shi Bai was suddenly shocked.

Based on his current deductions, there is still plenty of time left.

He already had a general idea of ​​where this place, which people called "the borderland of the Eastern Kingdom far from human settlements," was located.

If nothing unexpected happens, the area around the Monster Mountain will definitely be used as the dividing line. It's something that can be easily deduced without much thought.

So, in other words, Gensokyo was initially built around Youkai Mountain, and then when Yukari opened the boundary between illusion and reality, it became a massive land-grabbing operation...

Shi Bai nodded, looking thoughtful.

He has now left the country of Matara Okina's back door. After all, strictly speaking, that was her home, and he had already spent nearly 20 years there, which was more than enough. He had no intention of staying there any longer...

As for the Divine Child Fudu, he doesn't plan to go there for the time being. Besides, what could he do there now?

Although Qin Hesheng is his incarnation, he is now Shi Bai, and among all the illustrations in the Divine Temple, only Miyako Fangxiang is missing. Going too far is not a good thing.

What he's more concerned about now is the Pure Fox that Huo Qing'e mentioned before. If possible, he'd like to try and find her to resolve his doubts. And if he has the time, he plans to take a trip to the Moon Capital.

But now...

After looking up at the azure sky and pondering for a moment, Shi Bai ultimately chose to go to the Underworld.

After all, compared to lolis, even Chunhu Yue is nothing... Lolis are the best!!!

In the decades since he left the underworld and hell, not much has changed here. After staring at him with a scrutinizing gaze for a while, Yama, the King of Hell, sitting behind his desk, finally revealed a bright smile.

"Brother, welcome back~"

Phew... thankfully I've been doing good deeds all these years...

Relieved, Shi Bai walked to the table and sat down as usual, then asked the other person a question.

"So? In all these years I've been gone, have you found a suitable Grim Reaper to take over my job?"

"Hmm... Since my brother left, quite a few Grim Reapers have been assigned to work under me over the years, but very few of them have been able to last more than ten days."

Putting down her pen, Shiki Eiki nodded.

"So, brother, are you going to come back again?"

"No, I have some personal matters to attend to for the time being."

Shi Bai shook his head.

"By the way, among all those Grim Reapers in the Underworld, isn't there a single one who could withstand your attacks?"

"It's not that there aren't any, but that Grim Reaper..."

As if reminded of something by Shibai, Shiki Eiki seemed to be quite conflicted.

"Well... basically, she humbly accepts criticism but never learns from it. I've told her this many times. Currently, besides you, brother, she's the one who has served as a Grim Reaper under my command the longest."

After talking for a while, as if she felt that her verbal explanation was not clear enough, Shiki Eiki simply closed the official document in front of her and put it aside, walked out from behind the desk, and quite naturally offered him her hand.

"These official duties have been mostly completed, so I'll take my brother over to take a look."

"Let's go then."

After a moment of stunned silence, Shi Bai smiled and reached out to grasp the other person's outstretched hand.

On the banks of the Sanzu River, there is a magnificent sea of ​​red spider lilies.

The job of the Grim Reaper in the underworld is to guide the souls of the dead from the other side to this side. Shi Bai had served as the Grim Reaper for hundreds of years, so he was naturally quite familiar with this place.

However, when Shiki Eiki skillfully dragged a red-haired Shinigami who was lying there soundly asleep from the lush sea of ​​spider lilies, Shi Bai's lips still twitched involuntarily.

...Speaking of which, even I didn't see it. How did you find this Rumachi so precisely in this field of red spider lilies?

Or is this what they call... nothing more than practice makes perfect?

P.S.: Good morning! ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

Chapter Two: A Holistic Mind is Inadequate to Rule the World

As the saying goes, "A flat chest is not enough to rule the world, and large breasts are not enough to win people's hearts." The red-haired Shinigami dragged out by Shiki Eiki this time clearly possesses the top-tier ability to win people's hearts.

Shi Bai's first reaction upon seeing the other person was that the other person was huge...

It wasn't a matter of being a gentleman, whether intentional or not. He did try to control his gaze, but the problem was... there was nothing he could do; the other person was just too big.

—Onozuka Komachi, a young Grim Reaper who has been in office for less than ten years.

Aside from her bad habit of being lazy, Komachi has a very good personality. Although she is a bit frivolous, she is also quite poised and generous.

She is also very cheerful and optimistic. Even though she is often caught slacking off at work and gets a lecture from Siji, she doesn't seem to feel ashamed about it.

Humbly accept the criticism, but never change it no matter what.

"My salary only allows me to do this much work!!"

Komachi clenched her fists, a hint of determination in her eyes.

"No one can stop me from stealing..."

Before she could finish speaking, the King of Hell swiftly struck her on the head with his repentance staff.

"See, that's how it is. No matter how many times I've told her, she just won't change."

Turning her head, Shiki Eiki sighed.

"Uh……"

Seeing the red-haired Grim Reaper being struck by a Yama King's repentance staff amidst the flowers, unleashing the secret technique passed down from the noble young lady's family, Shi Bai couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

To be able to make a preacher abandon his lecturing habits and resort to violence... I, Shiro, willingly acknowledge Komachi as the strongest!!

"Ahem, how about this, I'll speak to her alone for a bit."

Seeing that the King of Hell was about to strike again, Shi Bai, fearing that Xiao Siji would turn into a violent loli, quickly spoke up.

"Hmm... Let's go get hot pot together after I get off work!"

After hesitating for a moment, Shiki Eiki nodded to him with her hands behind her back, her tone slightly excited, and some suppressed emotions in her heart finally revealed themselves.

"Let's go eat together then."

Shi Bai smiled.

"...What is your relationship with Lord Shiki?"