The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Today may seem like an ordinary day, but it is a very important day for this girl. This day of the month is the one she looks forward to the most.

However, today, it seems, it appears... that something terrible has happened...

As the girl looked expectantly into the river, her expression gradually changed over time, and then froze in place.

"...Wait, where are the baby dolls? Where are those baby dolls that should have drifted here with the river? There used to be several at this time, but today there aren't any... Did I remember the date wrong?"

Just like the two goddess sisters in the grove, the girl also fell into deep self-doubt...

P.S. Good morning!

Chapter Seven: Shi Bai's Crimes Take Another Step Forward

After a long period of evolution, the Monster Mountain is no longer the place where only monsters lived.

—The gods also reside on the mountain of monsters.

However, most of the gods living on the mountain of monsters are weak, but precisely because of this, the relationship between these gods and monsters is quite good.

Over the many years since the establishment of Gensokyo, these deities have also become an important part of Gensokyo.

For example, the goddess of autumn leaves, Shizuha Aki, and the goddess of harvest, Aki Yuko, are two divine sisters who together govern autumn in Gensokyo.

Of course, the so-called rulers of Gensokyo's autumn are just a nominal title. These two weak deities do not possess such vast authority, and the faith they receive on a daily basis is merely enough to keep them from perishing.

Take the "God of Momiji - Shizuha Aki" for example. The so-called God of Momiji is merely responsible for controlling the changes in the leaves of the trees in Gensokyo. Shizuha Aki will turn the leaves red one by one when autumn arrives.

...That's right, that's her mission as a deity.

In a sense, Qiu Jingye shares similarities with other great professions such as dragon fruit seed setter, atomic bomb igniter, and instant noodle weaver.

At the same time, Qiu Jingye, the goddess of red leaves, is also responsible for making the best-colored red leaves fall one by one, turning them into fallen leaves.

Although this job sounds better than coloring leaves one by one, in reality, when Aki Shizuha was working... she basically kicked the trees to make the leaves fall.

Therefore, there is often a huge difference between imagination and reality. Just like the printed pictures on instant noodles are only for reference, you can never taste a wife in a wife cake.

Compared to her older sister, Aki Shizuha, the younger sister, Aki Minoru, wielded far more power as the goddess of harvest.

As the goddess of harvest, Akiyuki is in charge of the ripening of crops in Gensokyo, and she will make the crops ripe when autumn arrives.

Because her abilities only work on things that ripen in autumn, and she works tirelessly to make each crop mature one by one, the scope of her abilities is limited, and the effective quantity is the total amount cultivated by those who believe in her.

Autumn leaves and autumn berries, one represents the desolation of all things, the yellow leaves covering the ground in autumn, the other represents the clear, carefree sky after the autumn harvest. In terms of personality, the former is somewhat lonely and sad, while the latter is joyful, sunny, and full of vitality.

Overall, they are a pair of sisters with quite different personalities; the older sister seems more timid, while the younger sister is surprisingly strong-willed.

With autumn approaching in Gensokyo, the two sisters, who are usually carefree, have become quite busy. One is busy coloring the leaves of the trees to make them red, while the other is busy going to the fields to help the crops ripen and increase yields.

So overall, their workload is quite large, especially that of Aki Shizuha, the goddess of red leaves and tree-kicking... oh no, the goddess of red leaves. Although her workload is not as much as that of the instant noodle weaver or the dragon fruit seed insulator, she has to travel to almost every corner of Gensokyo.

Akiko's workload was slightly less, but she still had to continuously release her divine power before the crops in the fields could be harvested, so overall it was quite tiring.

In a sense, it wouldn't be wrong to say that the two of them jointly control autumn in Gensokyo, since the first impression that comes to mind when talking about autumn is the reddening and falling of leaves and the ripening of crops.

Therefore, due to their busy work schedules, the two of them basically only eat one meal a day. The sweet potatoes that were ripened by Qiu Rangzi's divine power are absolutely top-notch in terms of ingredients. They have always done this in the past and have also developed excellent cooking skills along the way.

But today, their food was stolen...

Coincidentally, there is another deity who has also suffered an undeserved calamity today.

However, unlike Aki Shizuha and Aki Minoru, who had very good relationships with the other youkai on Youkai Mountain, this deity was basically avoided by everyone on Youkai Mountain... or rather, throughout the entire Gensokyo.

Although this deity is not very powerful, all the monsters are afraid to be around her, so she has always been a loner and has rarely made friends.

The God of Misfortune—Kenyama Hina, commonly known as Spinner.

She is not an ordinary god, but a type of youkai, a calamity god in Gensokyo.

—As the goddess of misfortune, she can collect the misfortunes of others to prevent them from suffering.

Although her ability can be understood literally, it is because she has collected a large amount of misfortune around her that she is surrounded by bad luck. Anyone who gets close to her, whether human or monster, will be affected by the bad luck and become unfortunate.

The severity of such misfortune varies. A minor misfortune might be as simple as slipping on a banana peel and tripping, while a major misfortune could involve stepping into a hole and falling off a cliff, or having one's eyes pierced by a sharp branch—terrifying things like that.

However, although she absorbed a large amount of misfortune, she herself would never become unfortunate, because the misfortune was merely stored around her, and she guarded it to prevent it from returning to humanity.

So it is precisely because of this that the Goddess of Misfortune, who was originally meant to absorb the misfortune of others, ended up becoming a Goddess of Misfortune that everyone fears. Whether human or monster, basically no one wants to get close to her.

As the goddess of misfortune, she greatly admires humans and longs to interact with them. However, since she is bound by misfortune, which is a fate she cannot escape, she only has two choices in front of her.

Either become the god of destruction who loses everything, or become the god of healing who endures suffering alone and blesses humanity.

—She chose the latter.

Within Gensokyo, she found the meaning of her existence.

Because people believe that flowing water can carry away their bad luck, they usually have a custom of attaching bad luck to Hina dolls and letting them drift away on rivers. Even in the secluded Gensokyo, the humans in the Human Village also retain this custom.

The monthly day for exorcising misfortune is a custom preserved by the people in the human village. On this day, people collectively throw baby dolls into the river, hoping that the river water can take away their bad luck and make them lucky.

Kenjiro took on this task.

At this time of month, she would specifically go to the lower reaches of the river to collect all the baby dolls that humans had thrown into the river, in order to gather bad luck.

That's why her personal single residence is almost entirely filled with Hina dolls.

However, her main purpose in collecting so many Hina dolls was to remove the bad luck attached to them. Later, because her house could no longer hold the ever-increasing number of Hina dolls, Kenjiro set up an unmanned store in the Human Village to sell the Hina dolls back to humans in order to recycle them.

The unified currency for exchange among youkai had long been standardized, and after the establishment of Gensokyo, the unified currency used by humans naturally followed suit.

It's fair to say that the income from selling baby dolls is Zhuanzhuan's only source of income. At the same time, misfortune itself is also her driving force. She makes a living from this, since no one will come to compete with her for it.

—Not before today.

Standing blankly by the riverbank, staring at the crystal-clear water, Kenjiro seemed rather lost for a moment.

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While the three gods on Monster Mountain were completely dumbfounded, someone else, the instigator and culprit, was utterly oblivious to his own actions.

While muttering to himself that he had done another good deed that would benefit the present and future generations, Shi Bai was now wandering aimlessly along the mountain path of Monster Mountain.

Due to the unique geographical environment of the Monster Mountain, the mountain is mostly covered with waterfalls of all sizes, rivers, streams, basins, and other diverse terrains. After a few turns, Shi Bai entered a low-lying basin. A waterfall flowed down from a distance, forming pools of varying sizes and depths... or perhaps it should be called ponds.

Because a large number of chubby dolls carrying ominous negative power had been found at the bottom of the river before, Shi Bai also carefully searched this low-lying pool.

Because the terrain here is low-lying, the pool is much deeper than the river before. And for some reason, the water surface is rippling even without wind, so he can't see the bottom at all.

Recalling the scene he had previously witnessed where a large number of child dolls gathered together, creating a negative force that formed a whirlpool on the water's surface, Shi Bai quickly realized, without much hesitation, that a large number of those dolls must also be piled up beneath the pool.

"It seems the problem on Monster Mountain is really serious..."

With a slight frown, Shi Bai walked straight to the largest pool. As he approached, the water on the surface of the pool became more and more intense, and he indeed sensed a certain power gathering at the bottom of the pool.

With a slight frown, Shi Bai lightly stomped his foot on the ground. Accompanied by a wave of invisible force spreading from beneath his feet, all the water in the pool in front of him instantly flew into the air.

"I wonder how much water is in this pool..."

While muttering to himself, Shi Bai looked at the bottom of the completely dried-up pool in front of him.

...Then he was completely dumbfounded.

At the bottom of the completely dried-up pool, a naked, blue-haired little girl with a face flushed red was glaring at him, clutching her chest in shame and indignation.

Judging from the appearance, the other party seemed to have been taking a bath in this pool before. After noticing the arrival of other people, the other party deliberately manipulated the water surface to hide their figure.

The energy fluctuations that Shi Bai sensed from underwater earlier were emitted by the other party. It seemed that the other party was trying desperately to hide themselves, but who would have thought that someone so unreasonable would simply drain the entire pool dry...

"Uh... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

After a moment of hesitation, Shi Bai quickly turned around and manipulated the water jets that had flown into the sky to fall back into the pool.

"I thought there would be those baby dolls in this pool, I never expected anyone to bathe here, so it was just a misunderstanding... Hmm? Are you listening?"

Suddenly feeling a little strange, Shi Bai turned his head with some confusion, and then he saw the little girl, who had been knocked unconscious by the torrent of water, slowly floating to the surface...

Shi Bai: "..."

...Question: Is it too late for me to run now?

He reached out and scratched his head, but in the end, he couldn't bear to see Shi Bai lying there like a corpse in the pool, so he scooped him out and wrapped his body in a towel.

After all, although it was an unintentional mistake on his part, it could also be considered a deliberate error on his part...

Soon, Shi Bai, who was holding the other person, found the other person's clothes under some rubble.

Looking at the blue-haired little girl in his arms who had been knocked unconscious and showed no signs of waking up, wrapped only in a towel, Shi Bai thought for a moment and, feeling somewhat guilty that leaving her there like this might cause something even worse, helped her get dressed.

During this process, he tried his best to keep his hands from touching strange places and his eyes from wandering to strange places. After finally completing this feat, he actually broke out in a sweat.

"Tsk... Looks like I'll have to ask Saint White Lotus for a few Buddhist scriptures another day..."

After carrying the dressed girl to a secluded spot, Shi Bai stood up and looked at the little girl in front of him, tapping his head with a headache.

“Shariputra, form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form. Actions disrupt one’s actions, thus increasing what one cannot do. People always make mistakes… It seems like you’ve confused them?”

With a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, Shi Bai glanced at the other person who still showed no signs of waking up, and was about to sneak away when he suddenly froze.

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai squatted down again and put a hat on the other person's head. When he stood up again, Shi Bai realized that he had finally recognized the other person.

“…Kawashiro Nitori? Uh…”

After a complex internal struggle, Shi Bai finally couldn't resist taking out his phone and snapping a dozen photos of the other person from various angles.

"Well, in that case, the kappa encyclopedia is complete."

Looking at the dozen or so new photos on his phone with great satisfaction, Shi Bai nodded contentedly.

As for whether the other party will come after him to fight him after he releases these cards he made... well, that's a matter for the future, isn't it?

"Anyway, it's all just a misunderstanding..."

After putting the phone back and glancing once more at the kappa lying on the ground, the person turned around and quickly left, feeling rather guilty, leaving the kappa, who had suffered an undeserved misfortune, still lying there disheveled and unconscious...

P.S. Good morning!

Chapter Eight: The Shura Field

As evening fell, the setting sun reluctantly dipped low in the west, and night once again enveloped the mountain of monsters.

The mountain of monsters, under a sky full of twinkling stars, is filled with a strange atmosphere of excitement today. Everywhere is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and the tengu are dressed in festive attire, lingering in the various open markets.

The Tengu invited the three Pokémon sisters from a ruined mansion near the Lake of Mist. Their performance, as part of the Prismriba Orchestra, elevated the festive atmosphere to another level.

Consequently, influenced by the band's performance, other yokai who did not belong to the Tengu clan were also caught up in the enthusiastic atmosphere, and some yokai even joined in the band's singing and dancing from time to time...

This is a carnival for monsters.

"Lord Heavenly Demon, this is absolutely forbidden!!!"

In a quiet courtyard, looking at Hirain Hana sitting in front of the mirror humming a song, Ootengu, who finally learned what his Tenma-sama was up to, was immediately terrified.

At this moment, Hirain was wearing a traditional outfit called "Shiromuku," with her jacket, undergarment, belt, socks, sword, lace, and cotton hat all in pure white. She held a folding fan in her right hand and gently rested it on her outstretched left hand.

Her posture was dignified and elegant, serene and sacred.

Generally speaking, the white kimono is a formal dress that women wear solemnly before their wedding.

"why not?"

Turning to look at the anxious woman in front of him, Hirain Hana's words were tinged with obvious dissatisfaction.

"What merit does he possess to deserve your favor, Lord Heavenly Demon? Furthermore, in history, there has never been a case of a clan leader marrying into another clan!!"

The Great Tengu had a resolute expression, as if he were risking his life to offer advice.

"Furthermore, Lord Heavenly Demon, you are still young and not yet of marriageable age. This matter needs to be considered carefully, and the Elders' Council will definitely not approve of such a thing..."

"Tch, that's why you're all so troublesome. What I want to do is my personal freedom, and it's none of your business!"

Before Ōtengu could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Hirāin, who was quite displeased.

"I'm already a step behind. If I don't seize the opportunity, I won't be able to achieve final victory. Do you, Yi, also want to stop me from pursuing happiness?"

"But Lord Heavenly Demon, based on my observation of him from a distance this afternoon, I've discovered that guy is nothing but a heinous scoundrel!!"

Before meeting, Luo Yuan acted as if his mind was made up and that there was no need for him to say anything more. Da Tengu immediately became anxious and rattled off all his observations from the afternoon, embellishing them as he went.

It is no exaggeration to say that Hiragin Hana grew up under her care since childhood. Their relationship was more like that of family than a simple superior-subordinate one.

Seeing that the other person was about to embark on a path of no return, for the sake of the other person's future happiness, Da Tengu could no longer care about anything else.

What made her feel desperate was that after hearing her report, the other party not only showed no interest, but their attitude became even more resolute.