The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Looking up at the gray-brown dome, Shi Bai let out a soft sigh.

"...You'll get beaten up if you keep doing that."

Faced with the incredibly irritating words of the person beside her, Ibuki Suika picked up the purple gourd in her hand, poured a mouthful of wine into her mouth, swung her legs, and rolled her eyes speechlessly.

"Also, are you really not going to see them? Komeiji and the others have been asking me for ages. Are your secrets really so unspeakable? Can't you be a little more open like us demons?"

Did you deliver the gifts I asked you to take to them?

With a light laugh, Shi Bai did not choose to answer Ibuki Suika's question.

"We did bring them, but they're even more curious about you, their brother whom they've never met."

With a slight pout, Ibuki Suika was clearly very dissatisfied with someone's evasive answer.

"I just don't understand, is it so difficult for you to appear in front of them? If you hadn't been secretly taking care of them all these years, do you think they could have survived well in hell?"

"Even without me, you ghosts still exist, don't you? Before I came, they were living just fine, weren't they?"

Yawning, the person lazily lay down on the roof of the attic.

"Curiosity killed the cat. It's best not to be too curious about certain things... Who told you to reveal my existence to them?"

"There are no secrets between them, okay?"

Turning her head to look at the person beside her, Ibuki Suika's face was full of disdain.

“We ghosts are all open and honest. Can’t you learn a little from us? You don’t even dare to meet them. Are you afraid that they will see through your dirty thoughts and feel embarrassed?”

"Don't slander me out of thin air. It's just that I have too many secrets that you can't possibly know."

Shi Bai rested his head on his hands and closed his eyes.

"You are far too weak to be qualified to know those secrets. I even kept it from Xiaoxi. Do you think everyone is like Xiaoye...?"

His voice gradually faded, and he actually fell asleep within those few short seconds.

"Hmph, hiding and sneaking around, you're obviously hiding something..."

After muttering something under her breath, Suika Ibuki turned around and picked up her purple gourd to drink some sake.

A gentle breeze swept by, bringing a touch of coolness.

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Chapter Thirteen: I'm So Cute, Please Give Me Money

As mahjong, this Pandora's box, spread rapidly in the underworld and hell, all sorts of mahjong parlors sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

In an era when spiritual entertainment was extremely scarce and drinking and chatting were the only forms of entertainment, mahjong, a simple and easy-to-understand game, captured the hearts of these long-lived and terrifying monsters in the shortest amount of time.

"...I don't think you should come here."

Looking at the girl in front of him, who was lying weakly on the mahjong table after he had forcibly pulled her off, Shi Bai was speechless.

Although the other party had changed their appearance, in his eyes, the identity of the girl in front of him was already obvious.

"A goddess from the underworld actually coming to a mahjong parlor to play mahjong... It must be incredibly embarrassing if word got out, right?"

"What's it to you? I'm on vacation now, I can go wherever I want, you have no right to restrict my freedom."

Heka rolled her eyes and lay sprawled on the table, looking resentful.

"I was about to win that round, why did you have to drag me out? Besides, I'm like this now, and you still recognize me? You must like me so much that you can recognize me in a crowd right away, right?"

"No, I just overheard Xigua mentioning that there's a big fat sheep hanging around in various mahjong parlors lately, so I came over out of curiosity to take a look."

Shi Bai placed a bottle of orange juice in front of the other person and sat down at the table with his eyes half-closed.

"Boss, two bowls of soothing noodles, please."

"Alright! Please wait a moment, sir."

The shopkeeper from Meng Po's shop clearly recognized him as the legendary Grim Reaper. After glancing with a hint of curiosity at Heca, who was still half-dead and slumped on the table in front of him, she wisely went to the kitchen to get busy.

Although Meng Po has opened a branch in Hell, the chaos here is nothing like the Underworld. Learning to suppress one's curiosity is an important rule for surviving in Hell.

"What easy prey?! My card skills are excellent, okay? You saw it yourself just now, I was about to win!!"

Heca looked up from the table, clearly unwilling to accept the situation.

"If you hadn't forcibly dragged me into this noodle shop..."

"hehe."

Shi Bai wore a cold smile.

"I see now, all you know how to do is break up the 1s and 9s, right? You can even break up a Nine Gates set, and you call that playing cards?!"

"But memorizing those rules for different species is too much trouble..."

Heka unconsciously shrank back, looking aggrieved.

"What fat sheep... I didn't lose that much money..."

"...I think you and Tsunade must have a lot in common."

Shi Bai's lips twitched involuntarily, and he began to speak, utterly speechless.

"Tsunade? Who's that?"

Heca suddenly became interested.

"She's just a little girl whose gambling skills are terrible, but she keeps pestering me to teach her. What can I do when my gambling skills are unparalleled?"

With a slight pout, Shi Bai turned his attention to the two bowls of soothing noodles that the waiter had brought to the table.

"Let's eat noodles first, and we can talk about other things later."

"Tch...you're just bragging. Maybe your card skills are even worse than mine, otherwise why haven't I ever seen you play cards?"

After muttering something under his breath, Heca shoveled the remaining bowl of soothing noodles on the table in front of him.

The fact that Meng Po Soup Noodle Shop can open branches in Hell and still manage to find a place in the chaotic Hell speaks volumes about its delicious taste.

Even if someone proclaims themselves the God of Cookery, they can't find any fault with the signature Soothing Noodles at Meng Po Soup Noodle Shop.

"Alright, tell me, why did you suddenly decide to come find me? Logically speaking, I should still be on vacation right now."

Heca put down her chopsticks, pushed the empty bowl in front of her aside, looked up at the man in front of her, and spoke seriously.

"So, you don't actually like me, do you?"

"If you're not a loli, please leave."

Shi Bai put down the bowl in his hand, a cold smile on his face.

"Also, I'm a fan of white hair and red eyes. Count these yourself, do you have any of these traits?"

"Tch, hopeless perverted lolicon... Okay, what is it?"

Heca pursed her lips and began to speak.

"But let me make this clear beforehand: if something is too troublesome, it won't help even if you come to me. Don't expect me to clean up your mess; you created all of this yourself."

"Hmm... what kind of mess are you referring to?"

"Financial crisis, inflation, these are all concepts you came up with, right?"

Heca spoke with a hint of resentment.

"Do you know how terrifying it is that a bowl of soothing noodles has risen to 1000 yuan? I can't even afford to eat noodles there!!"

"Ahem... That's because I didn't understand economics back then. But I've already given those gods a whole bunch of economics books to tutor them, so this kind of thing will never happen again."

Feeling somewhat guilty, Shi Bai turned his head and coughed a few times in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, I didn't come to see you for that kind of thing."

"Hmph, that's fine then. So, what is it?"

"Yes, this is how it happened..."

Although it's unknown whether the other party will accept the proposal to carve out a part of hell, we always have to try first. How can we possibly succeed if we don't even try?

"Are you crazy?! Don't even think about it, I will absolutely not agree to something like that!!"

After listening to the person in front of her, Heca almost jumped up from his chair.

"To think that a part of hell could be carved out like that. If you ask me, why not just wipe them all out? Why should we cater to them?!"

"Don't worry, you don't need to lift a finger. I can handle this myself. It's not like I haven't done it before..."

"That was a deal between her and me!! Do you even know what a deal is?! Although the Dream World was merged into the Underworld, I still paid an equal price!!"

Heka abruptly interrupted Shi Bai, speaking fiercely.

"This is against the rules!! Do you know what the consequences are for breaking the rules!? If..."

"Well, the rules have been broken more than once or twice, so could you be a little lenient?"

Someone with a serious expression tried to present the facts and reason with the audience.

"And strictly speaking, it's not really a separation. The old hell is also working for hell, just like the relationship between the underworld and hell before."

"But this kind of thing is a serious violation of the rules. If the Dragon God discovers and notices it..."

"Don't worry, the Dragon God belongs to my family."

Shi Bai remained calm.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm telling the truth. The Dragon God really is from my family."

"……whatever."

It's unclear which sentence touched the other person, but Heka leaned back in his chair, seemingly having a headache, and pressed his forehead with his hand.

"But let me make it clear beforehand that I will not get involved in this matter under any circumstances, and if any problems arise, you will be solely responsible for all the consequences."

"It's nothing, so it's settled then."

Having received a satisfactory answer, Shi Bai casually waved his hand and stood up from the table.

"Well, I still have work to do, so I'll go first... What are you doing?"

Shi Bai was slightly taken aback when he saw the girl in front of him extending her hand so confidently.

"I'm cute, so please give me money."

Heca looked very serious.

"I've spent all my money, so I don't have any left to gamble."

"Didn't you say you didn't lose much money?"

"Yes, I didn't lose much, but I didn't have much money on me to begin with."

Heca looked completely self-righteous.

"You must be very rich, so please give me the money quickly. I don't need much, just give me 100,000 yuan casually."

"...Do you know how much my monthly salary is?"

"Uh, what?"

"The salary for extraditing Death is one hundred yuan a month, with no bonuses. I can save one thousand yuan a year by not eating or drinking and gritting my teeth. I need to save ten thousand yuan by living frugally for ten years, and one hundred thousand yuan by living frugally for one hundred years... The currency system has only been in place for less than 100 years, and you want me to give you one hundred thousand yuan?!"

By the end, there was a hint of gritted teeth in his words.

"A hundred years! A whole hundred years!! It takes a hundred years of hard work to save up 100,000 yen by extraditing the Grim Reaper. Do you think money just falls from the sky?! And you have the nerve to ask me for 100,000 yen... Do you think you're some kind of 100,000 priestesses?! Even though the Dragon God is my family's, the bank isn't owned by my family. It's supervised by all the Yama. Do you think I can just take money from the bank like that?!"

"Tch... You're the one who launched this currency system, yet you can't even come up with 100,000 yuan. How shameful."

A goddess from hell wore a look of utter disdain.

"........."

Suppressing the urge to curse, Shi Bai put his hands inside his clothes and began to speak calmly.

"If you really need money, I have about 1,200 yuan on me right now. I'll give it all to you if you want it."

"Oh, never mind then. 1200 yuan isn't enough for me to lose all day."

Heca withdrew his hand, looking utterly disinterested.