The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

"Besides Riluoyuan, are there any other people? How come I don't know them?"

"........."

"No way, there shouldn't be anyone else, right? Could it be Xiaosan? Hmm... that's certainly possible. Considering her own situation, someone her age should also have a father complex..."

With his arms crossed, Shi Bai looked thoughtful.

"Well, since I've already noticed it, I have to address the root cause... As for Kogasa..."

"...Your emotional intelligence is really high."

With a forced smile, Kazami Yuuka, unable to bear listening any longer, interrupted the other person's words with utter speechlessness.

"Of course! I've always had high emotional intelligence. In college, a girl asked me to go to the movies, but when we got back, her dorm room was locked. I managed to wake up the dorm supervisor, who was fast asleep, and she was really grateful to me!"

"........."

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"Phantom Moon and Dream Moon..."

Lying on the grass with his head resting on his hands, listening to the story told by Kazami Yuuka sitting beside him, Shibai's lips twitched slightly.

"Ah... Come to think of it, their backgrounds are really quite pitiful. It's one thing that they barely managed to escape here, but to avoid being hunted down, they even hid in that extremely terrible world and didn't dare to go out. They were even inexplicably beaten up by me..."

"Beat him up?"

Kazami Yuuka turned her head, seemingly quite interested.

"Uh...it's because I was worried about you..."

After a moment of embarrassment, Shi Bai honestly explained the whole story.

"But it's alright, I apologized to them after I realized my mistake, and I even gave them a big box of Senzu Beans as compensation... Hmm, how about this!!"

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai nodded.

"At worst, when I go to the West later, I can take them both with me to get revenge. Sariel has been wanting to get her wages back from her master all along..."

"Sariel...Lord...the Sariel you're talking about, could she be an archangel from the Western world?"

After pondering for a moment, Kazami Yuuka asked Tokihaku in a rather strange tone.

"When did you take down that archangel? Shouldn't an archangel of that rank have an extremely firm faith?"

"She brought this upon herself, and then her master abandoned her..."

After briefly recounting the events surrounding Sariel, Shi Bai spread his hands, looking completely innocent.

"How can you blame me for this?"

"Just by glancing at your heart, Jehovah was forced to abandon the archangel he had entrusted with such a great responsibility..."

After a moment of silence, Kazama Yuuka looked directly into his eyes.

"What is hidden in your heart? Of course, if it is something that you really cannot say, you don't have to say it."

"Ah...it's just a small matter, nothing serious, and there's no need to hide it from you."

Shi Bai waved his hand dismissively and spoke indifferently.

"In my heart, there are 13 prisoners guarding my secrets. Some of them are so dangerous that I cannot look at them directly, because even the slightest glimpse of them would have unbearable consequences for anyone in the world... In short, they are very dangerous."

At this point, Shi Bai mysteriously held up a finger in front of him.

"And such powerful guardian spirits... I mean, prisoners, I've locked up a full 13 of them!!"

Yuuka Kazami: "..."

"Well, these are all trivial matters and there's no need to worry about them too much. Just pretend they don't exist."

Shi Bai placed the back of his left hand on his forehead to block the sunlight, and squinted as he looked up at the sky.

“Those thirteen guys were each responsible for guarding a secret. The higher the number, the more terrifying the secret they were guarding. The secret guarded by the number one guy was even related to the life and death of countless worlds. But what does that have to do with me now? Anyway, I've done the best I could. Don't expect too much from me…”

"It's okay, there's no need to feel too much pressure."

Kazami Yuuka calmly placed her hand over Shiro's right hand, which was hanging by her side.

"I'll accompany you."

P.S.: Good morning!

Chapter Two: Shi Bai: Danger

An unnamed dream world.

"What should we do now? Keep running?"

After watching the other person's figure disappear into the bottom of the Blood Lake, Mengyue turned her head and, with her face returning to its usual poker expression, asked her older sister.

"There's no need for that. In front of a strong person of that level, any tricks you use are useless."

After swaying slightly, she fell to the ground. After catching her breath, Huan Yue reached out and opened the box that the other party had just thrown to her.

"Mengyue, have you ever seen anyone take the initiative to apologize in something like this?"

"He barged in and injured us without even asking what happened, so it's only right that he apologizes."

With a slight frown, Mengyue replied in a cold voice.

Does having power mean you can do whatever you want?

"Although Mengyue, your idea is naive, I still have to tell you something."

Looking up at her younger sister, Huan Yue shook her head helplessly.

"Sorry, having power means you can do whatever you want."

"...It's best not to eat things of dubious origin."

After a moment of silence, Mengyue couldn't help but speak up as she watched her older sister reach for the bean-like object in the box and prepare to put it in her mouth.

"If someone beats someone up for no reason and then gives her a box of items of unknown origin, no normal person would choose to eat it, right?"

"But I'm hungry."

Huan Yue blinked, looking completely innocent.

"........."

"Alright, alright, I'm better at judging people than you, Mengyue. I'm a hybrid of angel and demon, a special being who has inherited the power of both angels and demons. Do you think I wouldn't be able to tell the difference?"

With a wave of her hand, Huan Yue casually tossed the bean in her hand into her mouth.

"Although I don't know what this Senzu Bean is or what its function is, it seems unnecessary for the other party to hurt me after apologizing...!"

Before she could finish her sentence, Huan Yue's expression suddenly changed. She trembled as she raised her head, about to say something, when her head slumped to the side as if she had lost all her strength, and she collapsed to the ground, looking completely like she had died with her eyes wide open.

"elder sister!?"

Her heart sank to the bottom. Mengyue's usually expressionless face showed an extra complex emotion, a mixture of worry, anger, fear and other feelings. But when she rushed to her sister's side, she was suddenly grabbed by the other's hand. What came into her eyes was a face that looked very healthy and was smiling.

"How about that? Surprised? Unexpected?"

Mengyue: "..."

For some reason, she suddenly felt an unusually strong urge to kill the guy in front of her.

From childhood, she had almost entirely grown up under the teasing and bullying of her older sister. Take the maid outfit she was wearing, for example—it was something her sister forced her to wear. Normally, she wouldn't have been deceived and teased like that, but today…

"Hahaha... Mengyue, you have no idea what a miraculous drug this is!!"

Noticing the intense killing intent emanating from her younger sister with exceptional sensitivity, she chuckled awkwardly, took the box full of Senzu Beans, and decisively changed the subject.

"After eating a Senzu Bean, all my injuries were healed, and I was no longer hungry. It's an absolute miracle cure."

"Oh, so what?"

Mengyue's face remained expressionless.

"You're so generous in giving us so many valuable things, Mengyue, do you know what that means?"

There was a hint of suppressed excitement in Huan Yue's words.

"Oh, I do not know."

Mengyue remained expressionless.

"These healing treasures of this caliber are being thrown away like trash. Do you know what that means? If we can latch onto this powerful figure, we'll finally have a chance for revenge!!"

Clenching her fists, Huan Yue's face was resolute.

"If we could be allowed to stay by the side of a powerful figure of that caliber, we would no longer need to spend all our time in this dark and gloomy place, nor would we need to hide and fear that our pursuers would come knocking on our door one day. Even revenge would no longer be an unattainable dream!"

"and then?"

Mengyue's eyes twitched almost imperceptibly, but her face remained expressionless.

"What can we do to get that guy to let us stay with him?"

"Hmm... let's just marry him together!!"

After a moment's thought, she waved her hand, and a glint of wisdom flashed in Huan Yue's eyes.

"Like twin sisters or something..."

She didn't have time to continue speaking because Mengyue, unable to bear it any longer, stopped him with physical action.

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"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Looking at the seemingly meaningful gaze that Kazami Yuuka was giving him, Shi Bai was completely baffled.

"Didn't you hear what they said? They said they wanted to marry you together, and you didn't say anything about it?"

Kazami Yuuka pointed to the area above, which was separated from the view by the lake.

"It's just a typical older sister teasing her younger sister. There's no need to take these jokes seriously. After all, you need to know just how much pressure Huan Yue is under."

Shi Bai shrugged, his face expressionless.

"Her birth was a mistake, which led to the destruction of her family and the death of her only remaining sister. The entire Western world was her enemy, and revenge was something she could only dream of. But even under these circumstances, her sister still retained her innocence and was well protected by her older sister... One can imagine how much extreme pressure she endured, and that pressure always needs to be released through some channel, right? For example, forcing her sister to wear a maid outfit or pretending to be dead to tease her."

"You can sense these things?"

Looking up, Yuuka Kazami glanced at the profile of the person beside her.

"Of course, I've always said I have high emotional intelligence, okay?"

Shi Bai smiled.

"Only those who have experienced being at the very bottom of society and living at the very bottom can truly understand the sorrow of those living at the lowest level. There is no such thing as true empathy in the world, because people's joys and sorrows are not actually shared."

"...Now I do believe your statement that you have high emotional intelligence."

After a moment of silence, Kazami Yuuka took the initiative to reach out and hold his hand.

"let's go."

In most matters, Shi Bai did not choose to hide anything from Kazami Yuuka, including the plans he had devised.

For example, he didn't hide anything about Gensokyo, about the Dragon Vein, or about the future development of this world.

Once the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is exhausted, the situation for demons will become increasingly difficult, and at that time, their places to go will be quite limited.

The establishment of Gensokyo was not something that could be accomplished overnight. Having been planning for many years, he naturally could not afford to relax at this time. There were many preparations to be made before the establishment of Gensokyo.

"...Gensokyo?"

Looking at the two people in front of her, Huan Yue, who seemed a little reserved and nervous, was momentarily taken aback after hearing Shi Bai's suggestion.

"That's right. At that time, the world will face a cataclysmic event. The spiritual energy will be gone, the mystery will be lost, and monsters will have nowhere to hide in the world. Humans will surely dominate the world."

The person who usually acts like a charlatan had a serious expression on his face.

"To prepare for the future, a group of sages, led by the Sage of Youkai, will join forces to create a paradise where youkai and humans can coexist harmoniously. So, would you like to join Gensokyo?"

"What is..."

Just as Mengyue, who had just frowned slightly, was about to say something, Huanyue, who was standing next to her, tugged at her arm forcefully. Huanyue then answered for her sister.

"Yes, of course I'm willing. What should we do now?"