Originally, a girl who never felt that she was afraid of loneliness, and she didn't even think much about the concept of loneliness. Suddenly, one day I found myself staying at home as usual, but my mood became a little subtly different. And at this time, Levi appeared, and a person who could speak and communicate appeared.

Alice may not have realized until now that she had done a lot of things that she would not normally do under that special circumstances.

For example, taking the initiative to talk to others, this kind of thing rarely happened in the past, even in the face of those who were more familiar with them in Gensokyo and could be regarded as friends.

Even when she was with the 'thief' who made Levi feel that Alice had unusual feelings for her, Alice never took the initiative to speak, and only waited for someone to say something before she started to talk 'like a stream'.

But in fact, if you have to calculate the time that Alice has spent with those friends in Gensokyo, maybe those 'old friends' who have known each other for dozens or hundreds of years with the same long life as her, and the time they have spent with Alice is not as long as Levi, who has only known each other for a year?

A housegirl like Alice, who is comparable to the Kabaya level of Penglai Mountain, and her non-human friends who also have a long lifespan, may see each other once or twice a year quite often. After all, the concept of time is different, and other concepts will change accordingly. Humans who can only have less than a hundred years of life can understand the word 'frequent' and obviously can't compare it to a youkai who can live for thousands of years casually. What's more, it's still an otaku monster like those dead houses in humans?

"But there are some people who, like you say, believe in the existence of ghosts and spirits. I think that if this kind of person is a collector of antiques, he will probably study the events in a very detailed and careful way, for example, the items held by people who have had a better ending in history, they will collect them. And those who are unlucky will not take the things, lest the bad luck of the owner of the item be passed on to themselves. ”

Levi actually knows a lot of people who have a hobby of collecting antiques. However, he himself was not interested in these things, and naturally he had never discussed them with his friends in the past. I can only recall some of the things that those friends showed now, and guess and estimate their mentality.

"If an item that has experienced good things with its owner gives birth to a soul, it is likely to be a well-intentioned spirit, but an item that has been subjected to bad things will definitely produce a resentful spirit or even an evil spirit. If you choose collectible items in this way, it should not have a bad effect on the collector itself. ”

Alice nodded, agreeing with Levy's statement.

It is precisely because of her exposure to all kinds of ghosts and ghosts that Alice does not naturally imagine all ghosts and ghosts as vicious and harmful monsters, as some humans do.

In fact, not to mention ghosts and spirits that have no ill will towards people, the "unknown creatures" that appear in the legends and stories that 'meet good things when you see them' are often actually spirits with good intentions and luck.

Even the distinction between gods and ghosts is sometimes quite vague and undefined. Those gods that have been worshipped by some human beliefs since ancient times may be just ordinary youkai in their own right, or they may be wandering spirits who occasionally help humans when they have nothing to do.

Alice has seen too many so-called gods in Gensokyo, who look no different from ordinary youkai, and it is not uncommon for youkai to bestow luck and happiness on others. For example, the Penglai Mountain Huiye house where she lives with her now has a famous 'lucky white rabbit'?

"There are two rooms left, and if we don't find them, let's go to the next place. ”

Lévy walked with Alice talking, and the more he looked, the more he looked like a visitor visiting a museum while chatting. Even if the museum's many surveillance cameras didn't act in advance, the two of them were filmed and displayed in the monitor at this time, and if the security guards staring at the monitoring room saw it, they might not be able to react to what happened immediately. I thought this was a couple of petty bourgeoisie with more elegant hobbies, and they specially picked a couple who went to the museum for a date with a small amount of time.

"The next place is a ...... Playground?"

Alice blinked, thinking about the places Lévi had told her to go before she left today.

Gensokyo has a lot of things that are similar or identical to the outside world. But there is no such thing as a playground in Gensokyo.

Although Gensokyo already has some fairly modern technological applications. For example, Kaguya can use a computer and connect to the Internet. However, the situation there is different from the real world, and the people who have developed these technological products are some youkai who like to study them, including kappa. And the new products they invented can be used, of course, first of all, those monsters like them, and then the few big families and wealthy merchants in the human villages who have a certain amount of power.

In Kaguya's words, it's that the kappa's tech trees in Gensokyo are too biased. Some of the things that should have been popularized first and that could benefit human life are far from being popularized, or even developed. This is naturally due to the fact that kappa are youkai, and the things they study are also useful and meaningful things that they themselves feel can be used. Products that can only be used by humans who have no special powers and must use tools are at most by-products of the monsters' scientific research. This is like the technology of human research in modern society is also useful for the development of their own lives, how many people will be idle and bored to put aside the food problem of human society and not solve it, but first study how to improve the way insects take in nutrients?

The human village in Gensokyo, according to Suzusen's description, is basically stuck at the level of development of modern society on Earth about one or two hundred years ago. And it was the era of the Asian East, which had not yet come into contact with much of the fruits of the Industrial Revolution.

At that time, there was no way to have a modern thrilling amusement park full of Ferris wheels and roller coasters in the rural villages of East Asian countries at that time. Even the merry-go-round, something that primitive slightly older boys hated, certainly didn't exist in Gensokyo's human villages.

Alice naturally followed Levi out of the enchantment and came to the modern society on this earth, and only then did she know the existence of the playground for human leisure and entertainment.