The flames were extinguished, and green smoke rose from the scorched earth and drifted slowly into the night sky. In the sky, the broken red moon is healing inch by inch, like a wound that is gradually healing.

This bamboo forest is dead, but there will always be a day when it will grow again. As long as you are given sunshine, rain, and enough time, it will always be.

"Is this your new invention?"

Ibuki Suyaka lay on all fours in the middle of the glimmering sealing array, exhausted. What she meant was this, of course, a strange spell she had never seen before.

"First, it's not a new invention. It's been around for a long time, but you've just left here and haven't seen it. Yakumo Zi walked towards Cuixiang in small steps, and said as she walked, "Second, this is not an invention of 'our', but an invention of a friend of mine, I just borrowed it for use." ”

"Really?"

Hearing this, Cui Xiang grinned:

"Your friend, can you introduce me to her, I want to treat her to a drink. ”

"She died 300 years ago. Purple said, standing beside Cuixiang and looking down at her, "And today, it happens to be her death day." ”

"That's a bit of a pity. Suika raised her eyebrows slightly, "But, at least, you have to tell me how it brought me down, right?"

"Ways to get rid of ghosts," Yakumo Zi interrupted and asked rhetorically, "In your opinion, how many are there?"

"Either use deception or set traps, in general, there is only one way, and that is to use more brains. ”

"It's not that I'm boasting," Suika continued, "the oni clan don't have any weaknesses in their bodies alone, so there's nothing particularly effective about it. In short, there is no hope of winning by fighting, and you can only take the edge of the sword and win by surprise, that is, with those intrigues and tricks that we ghosts hate the most. ”

Speaking of this, she laughed again:

"Speaking of which, on the one hand, we are so powerful and invulnerable that no one else can confront us head-on, and on the other hand, we do not allow them to play tricks, isn't it obvious that people will not be played! Even if I was like other ghosts back then, I hated those tricks used by human beings, and felt that they were all cowards who did not dare to come out to fight in a dignified manner, and now I have to admit that this mentality is really quite childish. ”

"It's like the tallest and strongest child king in the group of children, when he loses a game of chess with other children, he is very unconvinced, and thinks, 'Lao Tzu has the biggest fist, why should he lose a game of chess?' so he simply lifted the chessboard, knocked over the glasses boy who won his game of chess, and then announced in front of everyone: 'In the future, the competition is only allowed to compete in strength, not chess, nor sprinting, and whoever disobeys me will beat him to death.'" 'No one can do anything, after all, they can't beat this child king in a fight, and there is no hope for them to go together, so they have to compete with him, and then they are knocked down one by one. The child king looked at the little children who were crying by him, so he straightened his chest, crossed his waist, and showed a satisfied smile. ”

"'Ah, sure enough, I'm the strongest,' he thought. ”

However, is this really the case? He is just more powerful than the others, and not necessarily much better in other aspects. However, he is only allowed to be better than himself, not better than what he is not good at, and as soon as others show what he is not good at, he jumps to his feet in anger and scolds him for being despicable and shameless. In the final analysis, it is just to find a beautiful excuse for our ignorance, and by the way, to tell the other party euphemistically, 'I only have the advantage of having great strength, you have to compete with me, and you can't let me lose'. It's not really 'powerful', it's just that you can't afford to lose. ”

"Back then, I just wanted to know, what is really powerful beyond power, so I left here, a thousand years ago, things are people, think about it, or quite touching......"

With that, Suika let out a long sigh. And Yakumo Zi laughed twice and said:

"In my opinion, you've just been tricked by those clever people into suspecting ghosts, so you ran away in a bad mood. ”

"You bring your face over here," Suika raised her arm and waved her fist at Zi, "Come here, I'll give you two or three punches!"

"Hehehe......"

Again, Purple's signature laugh, and then, only to hear her say:

"Back to the question just now, you said that the only way to cure ghosts is to use your brain, and as far as I know, humans basically think so. In the face of the desperate force, they have given up on fighting it and have turned to find other ways. ”

But there was one person who didn't think so. ”

The way she gave it was to sail with the current, commit to the rapids, and assimilate with it. It's not about fighting against the great power of ghosts, but going with the flow and using strength to fight. ”

"Shun Zhi ......" Suika's eyes widened slightly, "That is to say, ......"

That is, use your strength against yourselves. Yakumo Zidao, "This is the principle of this move, the 'Eight Directions Ghost Binding Array', the source of energy for the entire enchantment, is the physical impact that you, Ibuki Suika, exert on it when you intend to destroy it. It absorbs that energy, transforms it, and then binds you in turn. If you don't do anything and just walk straight out of the barrier, it won't stop you at all. If you try to destroy it, the harder you hit, the more unlikely it will be to get out of it. ”

"This is the most effective way to fight against the ghost clan given by the unborn genius. It is not to be hard-hitting, not to deceive, but to overcome rigidity with softness, so that you, who are complacent with power, will be defeated in your own strength. ”

"Ha, haha!" Cuika laughed twice and sighed, "I'm still a little convinced!"

"You said the guy was dead," she continued, "and do you know where she's buried?"

"It's on the hill behind the Hakurei Shrine," Murasaki said, "but I don't think the shrine maiden of Hakurei will let you go." ”

"Then force your way in!"

"By the way, this trick is a secret technique that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Hakurei shrine maiden, and if the modern shrine maiden can't use it...... Then by the time you go over and break in, she should already be able to use it. ”

"That's just whoa! Look at me breaking it!"

Speaking of this, Zi felt that this conversation really couldn't go on. She wasn't trying to stop Suika from meeting Reimu, in fact, she wished the two of them had met sooner. The test left for the Hakurei shrine maiden can be a little more, just a little, never too little.

She was just trying to slow down Cuixiang's wild horse-like galloping emotions, so that she wouldn't poke so many Louzi like before. Now, of course, she realizes, it's not possible either.

How can I say it?

The ghost king who stood at the apex of all demons no longer exists, and there is no longer such a ghost king in Gensokyo today, and Cuixiang obviously has no intention of sitting in that position again. If she had even a little attachment to status, honor and power in her heart, then she would not have left at all.

But that, the horned tornado, the troublemaker, who drank wine as water and went to make trouble, is back.

Probably, at this time, for Yakumo Murasaki, "just smile".

She raised her head and looked at the sky, the last of the spatial cracks just closed, and a red moon was as good as ever.