He let Hei Tong Xian Hu rest his head on his chest.

The tomboyish girl looked at the real boy in front of her and acted like she was giving orders.

The other party said cheerfully, as if trying to show off, "Of course I'm looking forward to the moment when all the flowers bloom."

Kurogane Kanko: "Given Gensokyo's current popularity in the gaming world, using its characters, whether it's making games, comics, or animations, there will definitely be no shortage of people buying in a short period of time."

This is an absolute conspiracy.

If you are a new cartoonist, a newly established animation studio, or a newly established game studio, without any resume.

For your first work, will you choose the safe and stable Gensokyo IP which has its own traffic and a high probability of making money, or will you choose to go all out and build popularity from scratch to create a new work?

Anyone who is not stubborn will not choose the latter.

After all, using Gensokyo's IP doesn't necessarily mean you can't tell your own story.

This in itself will also bring about another cluster effect.

People always look for things they are used to, and people always like to stay in their comfort zone.

A comic, a game, an animation, which contains characters and worldviews that you are familiar with, you will always subconsciously choose them.

Countless creators create the same IP together.

This will inject unparalleled appeal into the IP itself.

There will be some shitty stuff among them, but there will definitely be some great stuff too.

Shitty and mediocre works will quickly be buried as time goes by.

The remaining masterpieces will become the fulcrum of the Gensokyo IP, allowing later generations to easily feel the charm of this world.

When its charm can be easily felt, it will naturally be more popular, and newcomers to the creative field will have less reason to refuse to try using the Gensokyo IP.

"We're abandoning short-term gains and pursuing further development of the IP. As long as the IP is popular, even if nothing is produced, the licensing fees for peripheral products alone will be enough to make us cramp."

For Heitong Xianhu, which has vision for the future, the effect that a valuable IP can bring is beyond imagination.

"Yes, yes, Kurogiri, you are very powerful."

The boyish girl smiled as she looked at Kurogiri Kanhu, who was showing off like a big toy in front of her.

After hearing what Liang Yizhi said, Hei Tong Xian Hu turned his head to look at Liang Yizhi who was constantly supporting him.

Suddenly, a strange idea of ​​playing a prank came to my mind.

Zhi was too well behaved today and he was a little uncomfortable.

Hei Tong Xian Hu: "No, Zhi, you are not sincere just talking like this."

Ryougi Ori: "What do you want from me, Kurogiri? I've already done my best to support the main character."

The boyish girl started to complain to Kurogane Kanko.

Kurogiri Kanko: "But it's not sincere enough, is it? I feel the need to let you experience the masterpiece I saw. I've dealt with your affairs, so let's play some games. Among the excellent works I came across at the comic convention, there is one that you will definitely like."

Ryougi Ori: "The look on your face right now, Kurogiri, is telling me that you have a conspiracy."

Looking at the raised corner of Hei Tong Xian Hu's mouth, Zhi poked the other's soft flesh in annoyance.

But Hei Tong Xian Hu remained unmoved.

Kurogiri Kanko: "That's not a conspiracy. I've actually been wanting to share this with you for a while now. It's a low-budget visual novel, and the drawings and psychological descriptions are very interesting. It gives you a strange feeling of constantly touching taboos."

He turned around and searched the cabinet at the back for something. Before long, a cassette was handed to Zhi.

——"Taboo Notebook"

The name of the cassette is written on the top.

Apparently, because the artwork has not yet been completed, this cassette does not have a cover, and the name is affixed to the cassette in the form of a white strip.

Liang Yizhi: "Have you started production?"

The boyish girl's tone was a little surprised.

Games from the cartridge era are not an afterthought to the modern internet.

In order to release a game in this era, the cartridges had to be produced in a factory. However, because the production of cartridges required adjustments to the machinery, there was a minimum production quantity.

In other words, when a game is released, a large amount of cartridge development costs are invested in it.

If these cartridges don't sell, the game publisher will lose a lot of money.

Hei Tong Xian Hu: "Of course, such an excellent work should be put into production even if sales are low. Although this game is likely to be a niche, but precisely because of this niche, I believe it will attract a good group of core fans."

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Volume 1: Chapter 104: Forbidden Notes

Although "Taboo Notebook" sounds like a strange name, it is actually a game based on Gensokyo.

The film depicts the battles between monsters, the shared living atmosphere of humans, gods and demons, the possible dangers, the warm and wonderful unconventional daily life, and even a scene where the protagonist walks into a banquet hosted by the ghost clan and is forced to drink heavily.

The stories that take place in it are possible only in Gensokyo, where common sense and uncommon sense blend together.

But as for the story itself, just like the game tells players at the beginning of the interface - this is just an ordinary story that is only worth recording in the notebook.

An ordinary love story, but because it is set in Gensokyo, it is shrouded in fantasy.

The main thread of everything revolves around this love.

At the beginning of the story, in the small town of Renjian no Sato, a human fell in love with his teacher, Kamishizawa Keiin.

When Liang Yizhi opened the game and entered the process, she found that, just as Hei Tong Xianhu said, the psychological description in it was quite exciting.

From the first-person perspective, the strong taboo emotions that students have towards their teachers come to the fore.

That emotion ferments little by little as the protagonist grows up, gradually understands the world, and experiences various strange events over time.

From the beginning, I thought Kamishizawa Huiyin was just a good-looking teacher.

Later I learned that Kamishizawa Huiyin was an elder respected by everyone in the village.

Later, he realized that Kamishizawa Keiin was a monster.

Later on, he learned the reason why the other party was called the elder - the people in the village, including his parents, had once been his students, and there was an infinite gap between their lifespans.

Finally, that is the end.

The moment the twisted emotions reached their peak, he should have realized that the teacher named Kamishizawa Huiyin had only treated him as a favorite junior from the beginning to the end.

Liang Yizhi: "..."

Hei Tong Xian Hu: "How is it?"

Ryougi Ori: "I kind of want to kill that author. He must have done it on purpose."

Kurogiri Kanko: "Of course, everything was intentional. They used narrative quirks to make the players believe they were actually a couple in love. But then they started to mess things up, and in the end, it was even revealed that Kamishizawa Keiin had been treating the protagonist like a child from the beginning."

Kurogiri Kanko made a sarcastic face: "Because the protagonist is actually a girl, all the seemingly intimate behaviors before were taken for granted."

Because both of them are women, there is no problem whether they hold hands, exchange food, live together, eat together, sleep together or anything else.

Of course, because she is a woman, the overall atmosphere of the game gradually moves towards taboos and successfully reaches its peak in the end.

The opposition of genders, the opposition between humans and monsters, the opposition of life span, the opposition of seniority, and the opposition of strength.

Everything pushed this love to the other side of taboo.

Of course, if it were only this far enough, it wouldn't make Liang Yizhi feel uncomfortable.

What really bothered her was the protagonist's unrequited love at the end.

Liang Yizhi: "The feeling of wanting something but not getting it is clearly a tragedy, yet I still want to play it again."

Knowing that the protagonist is a female, you will find that this is hinted at in many places in the previous text.

However, if you play the game again from a female perspective, you will have a completely different feeling from the first time, and various small details will further expose the protagonist's inner thoughts.

But in the final analysis, this is just asking for trouble.

After all, anyone who has played the storyline will know that there is no chance of a scene of mutual affection between two people at the end of the game, and this love is doomed to end in vain.

With a soft sigh, Liang Yizhi pressed the handle.

The story on the screen comes to an end.

The screen shows the only CG that shows the full appearance of the forbidden girl.

Next to the huge banyan tree, a grown-up girl stood in a sea of ​​flowers, quietly gazing at the back of her beloved in the distance.

At the end of the game, players have two options: one is to confess, and the other is to not confess.

But whether you confess or not, the ending is not much different.

Because the girl's failure is inevitable.

That was something that had been expected, even by herself.

The former will start a new life of their own, quietly get married, have children, and live an ordinary life.

The latter will stubbornly guard her own taboos. She will still accompany her teacher named Kamishizawa Keiin, grow old little by little under his unchanging face, and finally pass away quietly in his arms, embracing her own emotions.

Judging from the scale of the two endings, it is obvious that the author prefers the latter, which is also the true ending with a greater probability.

Ryougi Ori: "Who is the author of this game?"

Kurogiri Xianhu: "Why? Ori, do you feel like you have a lot in common with him?"

Ryougi Ori: "I don't know. Maybe if I hadn't met you, Kurogiri, I would have made the same choice as the protagonist. Or even a little more extreme."

The boyish girl smiled.

She should actually like this game quite a bit, but after picking up the controller and thinking for a while, she gave up the idea of ​​playing it again.

All I can say is that real harm is the most real harm in this world.

The strange sense of taboo in the game resonated with her and caused her to inflict real damage.

As for why Hei Tong Xian Hu recommended her to play this game.

The tomboyish girl looked at the other person helplessly. She thought that even if there was no such opportunity just now, the other person would definitely find a loophole for her to play with.

An alternative confession?

Is this telling her that the other person will always be with her?

Ryougi Ori: "Kurogi, you can be a bit romantic sometimes."

Hei Tong Xian Hu: "Thank you for the compliment~"

He waved the hand that was about to sign on the table towards Liang Yizhi, with a smile on his face.

Ryougi Ori: "So, who do you think you are in this story, Kurogiri?"

Standing up and walking to the opposite side of Hei Tong Xian Hu's table, Liang Yi Zhi was facing Hei Tong Xian Hu, supporting her head with her hands, looking at the other party and asking questions.

Is Hei Tong Xian Hu referring to that girl, or is he referring to Kamishizawa Keiin?

Gensokyo is the final home of demons and gods, and the minority group here is never demons but humans.

Compared to Kamishizawa Huiyin, that girl is the real abnormality.

In essence, the relationship between Ryougi Shiki, Ryougi Ori and Kurogane Kanhu should be that the two of them are chasing Kurogane Kanhu.

They are the ones who tried their best to stay.

The one who would really feel uncomfortable and annoyed when Kurogane Xianhu had an ambiguous relationship with other girls was Shiki and Zhi, not Kurogane Xianhu.

But they still chose to stay.

Therefore, it makes sense that Hei Tong Xian Hu is Shang Bai Ze Hui Yin.

After all, compared to Shiki and Ori who can only choose his style, the other party has more choices.

But in the setting of Gensokyo, Kamishizawa Keiin has a dual personality.

He is a teacher in the human world. He usually appears as a human, but on the night of the full moon, he transforms into a half-beast named Bai Ze.

Doesn't this sound very similar to the relationship between Ryougi Ori and Ryougi Shiki?

Kurogiri Xianhu: "Who should I ask if you ask me that? I didn't make the game, it's a fan work. The other person might actually be a girl with that kind of inclination, and the character references in it are just your imagination."

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