The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

This is the age of monsters and gods.

In fact, no matter where or in what world, the struggle between good and evil is an enduring topic.

But in this era where gods and monsters coexist, what is justice, and what is evil?

While gods may represent the bright side of the world, they are not necessarily righteous; while monsters may represent the dark side of the world, they are not necessarily evil.

In a world where black and white clash, there has never been a true definition of justice and evil, or rather, the world has never been divided into justice and evil.

Yes, it's just about fighting for the right to live in this world.

Apart from Eirin Yagokoro, who already knew the true reason for the destruction of the ancient mythological era from him, it was obvious that other gods or youkai would not know this information... unless one of them was able to go to the heavens.

However, it is clear that, given that the Heavenly Realm has not yet been created, no one can enter the Heavenly Realm or find its location.

There can be no peace between gods and monsters.

Although Eirin Yagokoro has secluded herself here and no longer participates in that pointless war, it is only in a relative sense that she has secluded herself.

So it's possible that the gods sent someone to invite Yagokoro Eirin back, or that the youkai discovered the place and wanted to launch a siege to eliminate it completely.

—That's what Shi Bai thought at the very beginning.

It wasn't until he saw the unexpected visitor who had barged into the bamboo forest that Yagokoro Eirin had set up a barrier that he abandoned his initial idea.

They were two sisters with green hair, covered in scars, and shrouded in dust.

Judging from their appearance, it was obvious that they were being chased outside, which is why they fled into this bamboo forest in a panic.

And for some unknown reason, the barrier that Yagokoro Eirin had set up earlier did not work, which allowed the two of them to successfully escape into the bamboo forest.

After successfully escaping danger, the older sister was clearly exhausted and unconscious due to her injuries. However, seemingly thanks to her sister's protection, the younger sister's injuries were much less severe, and she still retained some strength.

After failing to wake her older sister, the younger sister looked up at the eerily quiet bamboo forest in front of her and gritted her teeth.

After struggling to drag her unconscious sister to a safe and secluded place, she mustered her courage and walked alone into the uncertain and elusive world before her.

"...A monster? Is it trying to find someone in the bamboo forest to rescue its sister?"

Shi Bai appeared beside the girl who had fainted from blood loss. Turning his head to look at the little girl's figure that had disappeared into the bamboo forest, Shi Bai couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

The power of monsters and gods is equal; otherwise, they wouldn't have been fighting a war for so many years without a clear victor.

However, unlike the gods, who have no racial distinctions but only differences in power and abilities, the yokai are divided into many additional races. For example, there is the Oni race, which is the most powerful and holds the leadership position among the yokai, and the Kakuzu race, which has the amazing ability to read minds, and so on.

While some yokai are born powerful, others are extremely weak from the start. However, the brutal war between yokai and gods doesn't show mercy just because the other side is weak; otherwise, so much hatred between them wouldn't have accumulated.

Clearly, the two demon sisters who escaped from the outside world and stumbled into the bamboo forest by chance are among the weaker members of the demon community.

"It seems like this one is about to die... Is it because he's desperately trying to protect his younger sister?"

After crouching down to check on the unconscious girl, Shi Bai frowned slightly.

After thinking for a moment, he rummaged through the storage ring on his hand and pulled out a large stack of cards, which he then held in his hand.

"Hmm... I've got something that can restore health."

Shi Bai drew a Yu-Gi-Oh! card, "Goblin's Elixir," from the dozens of cards in his hand and placed it on the girl. As the card shattered, a bright green light spontaneously entered the girl's body.

"This level of treatment is enough to save his life. The next step is some follow-up treatment... Okay, go back now."

Shi Bai put away the remaining cards in his hand, bent down, picked up the girl on the ground, and walked into the bamboo forest.

P.S.: Tickets

Chapter Thirty-One: Things the World Lacks

As the New Year approaches, two unexpected guests arrive in the bamboo forest, which has been largely untouched for a long time.

"How are you? Is my sister alright?"

When Shiro and Yagokoro Eirin finally came out of the room together, the little girl who had been waiting at the door for a long time couldn't help but rush forward and nervously asked them questions.

"Don't worry, there won't be any problems if the teacher takes care of it."

Before Shi Bai could reply, Yagokoro Eirin, who was standing next to him, took the initiative to answer.

She frowned slightly and looked at the little girl with short green hair in front of her.

"But before that, I have a question for you: how did you, being so weak, manage to get into the bamboo forest?"

"...I, I don't know either, I just stumbled in without really knowing what was going on."

As if just realizing something, the little girl nervously took a few steps back.

"If we have disturbed you, we can..."

"Alright, alright, the New Year is all about being lively and fun. We've finally got two guests, and if you keep talking like that, you'll scare them away."

Reaching out to pat the little girl's head, Shi Bai chuckled and began to speak.

"Don't worry, your sister is fine. She should wake up by tonight. Before that, let me take care of your wounds... uh..."

Feeling the little girl stiffen instantly under his hand, Shi Bai suddenly realized that he had used the same attitude he usually had towards Xiao Xi and Xiao Ye, and quickly let go of her hand, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Sorry, sorry, it was just a subconscious reaction... By the way, what's your name?"

"Monsters of their caliber don't have names. Do you think everyone can have their own name?"

With a somewhat helpless sigh, Yagokoro Eirin stepped forward and took the little girl's hand, who was frozen in place.

"Teacher, I'll take care of her injuries."

"Uh... ok."

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai nodded and casually took out a box from his storage ring and handed it over.

"Here are some children's clothes that fit her. Find her a suitable and nice outfit to change into. Also, starting today, you will begin learning medicine from me. You are now qualified."

"Huh? But I haven't managed to make the Eternal Spirit Blade..."

After a slight pause, Yagokoro Eirin's face clearly showed a mixture of joy and a hint of confusion.

"You can do it now."

Shi Bai glanced at the little girl's hand being held by the girl in front of him, then slowly turned around and walked towards the door.

"Remember, the first step to becoming a qualified doctor is to learn... to treat everyone equally."

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Shi Bai never doubted whether Yagokoro Eirin was capable of becoming a qualified doctor.

However, he already had some guesses about certain things...

After returning to his house, Shi Bai sat at his desk, leaning back in his chair, looking out the window, and fell into deep thought.

In his view, this so-called era of gods and monsters is still incomplete, lacking something that is most important to a world. Only after that thing is evolved can the world be considered truly complete.

—And this most important thing for a world is reincarnation.

Whether in the ancient mythological era or in the present era of gods and monsters clashing, the so-called underworld or hell simply does not exist, and naturally there is no such thing as reincarnation.

Whether it's those immortal beings or the gods and monsters of today, after they perish and die, everything they own will be returned to this world.

Only when the underworld is evolved or constructed can the development of this world truly get on the right track.

These thoughts he's having now are the result of his observations of the green-haired girl who was on the verge of death.

After such a long period of time, the only skill he ever obtained from the system, [Appraisal], has long been upgraded to its current highest level.

The system itself has been fully upgraded twice. The way the summoning interface used to drop boxes is now very different. Instead, it has a dedicated system storage space.

He even unlocked several of the talents inherited from the Eastern God Clan. But the only strange thing was that there were still only two lonely achievements lying there in the achievement interface.

Although the [Appraisal] skill is extremely useless at the beginning, as the level is gradually increased, the information it can detect also increases.

If it weren't for this skill that he upgraded to the highest level, he would never have known the specific uses of the bunch of miscellaneous items he had summoned before.

For example, those cards from Yu-Gi-Oh!. Although he did summon some cards that seemed to have great practicality, such as "God's Judgment" and "Monster Resurrection," the hidden rules of some cards actually caused him a lot of trouble.

This is like when he was living alone in the world one day, he summoned a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the system's summoning interface.

But after he enthusiastically chose to use this card and summoned the real Blue-Eyes White Dragon... the Blue-Eyes White Dragon he summoned turned around and unleashed a devastating jet of white light at him.

That's right, the hidden rule for using this [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] is that only the president himself can use it. If anyone other than Kaiba uses this card...

It was from that time that Shi Bai vaguely realized that some of the items obtained through the system's summoning function could not actually be taken out of this world, otherwise something might unintentionally destroy this world.

...For example, he once unintentionally summoned a vial of T-virus stock solution and a certain extremely dangerous SCP containment object.

Perhaps it was because they had long anticipated the emergence of these dangerous items that could threaten the world that the summoning interface underwent a complete upgrade?

...We've strayed a bit from the topic.

"But speaking of which, these sisters..."

Shi Bai rubbed his forehead and frowned slightly.

"...Are they really the two people I imagined?"

P.S.: Tickets

Chapter Thirty-Two: The Immortal Bearing the World's Original Sin

It was the dead of winter.

Although this bamboo forest is protected by Eirin Yagokoro's barrier, and no one usually comes in to disturb it, the change of weather to cold is still unavoidable.

Of course, changes in weather temperature have virtually no impact on a god of Yagokoro Eirin's level of power.

However, for weak monsters like the little girl, the harsh winter is an obstacle they must overcome.

After taking a hot bath, changing into new clothes, and obediently letting Yagokoro Eirin treat her injuries, the little girl looked noticeably more energetic.

"……Thanks."

Pulling her arm back, the little girl looked at the clean white gauze wrapped around it and touched it with a touch of curiosity before softly thanking Yagokoro Eirin in front of her.

"Don't thank me yet, I still have some questions to ask you."

After tidying up the medical kit in her hands and placing it aside, Eirin Yagokoro spoke calmly.

"Answer me, why did you show that look of fear at that time?"

"What……"

"Don't try to hide it from me. Although the teacher didn't notice, I did."

Looking directly into the eyes of the little girl in front of her, Yagokoro Eirin interrupted her without any politeness.

“You clearly have a great deal of fear of my teacher, but not of me. But don’t forget, it was my teacher who saved you, not me. Tell me why.”

"I……"

Biting her lip, after a long and complex internal struggle, the little girl lowered her head and spoke softly.

"Because I can see that he is a bad person and you are a good person."

"reason?"

Eirin Yagokoro frowned slightly.

"I was born with the ability to see the good and evil, black and white, within others... White represents good, black represents sin..."

Clutching the hem of her clothes tightly with both hands, the little girl struggled to reveal her biggest secret, which her sister had warned her never to expose.

"On you, white makes up the vast majority, while black is only a tiny bit. But on him..."

As if recalling what she had witnessed, the little girl's body even began to tremble slightly with fear.

"...behind him was pitch black, a darkness that seemed capable of swallowing the entire world...the deepest darkness..."

"Hmm, it seems I was right. My deduction was indeed correct."

No sooner had the little girl finished speaking than a voice suddenly came from the window. Someone had somehow gotten up and was leaning on the windowsill, and when the two people in the room looked over, they nodded to themselves.

"what--!!!"

Clearly startled by the head that suddenly popped out of the window, the little girl cried out and hurriedly hid behind Yagokoro Eirin.