(a)

"Dear Miss Reimu, don't come to blahblahblah...... unharmed"

"Greetings, nonsense, blahblahblahblah......"

"20,000 words are omitted below...... blahblah"

"Therefore, can you come to the Humble House Baiyulou tonight to gather and enjoy the cherry blossoms...... That's what I'm waiting for!"

After Reimu finished reading this, as soon as he raised his arm, he threw the fragrant invitation with cherry blossom petals in the wind.

She is now wearing the designer coat she bought last autumn and standing on the edge of the steps of the hill at the outermost side of the front yard of Hakurei Shrine, under the torii gate with the plaque. The scent of grassy spring breeze swept across her cheeks, and as far as the eye could see, she could see most of Gensokyo's scenery. In her eyes, the white that represents "winter" is rapidly fading, giving way to the emerald green of early spring. Although it is an excessively late "early" spring, this half-cool and warm May season is also a good time to go out.

However, Reimu didn't have that leisure.

She'd been standing here for a while, the view had gone from pleasant to boring, and she had fallen into a state where she had nothing to do.

Idle, it's too idle, there are no mutations to solve, no unbeaten goblins can ravage, no snow and fallen leaves to sweep, even the few novels borrowed from Suzunaan, she has already finished reading, and she is too lazy to go all the way to the people to return the books. Reimu can only slowly mold in the wet and greasy fatigue of this spring rain, and finally evolve into a hairy jade.

This is the legendary "May Disease".

Oh, by the way, the shrine's rice jar has also bottomed out, so she should be a rare earth-type Mao Yu.

After all, what do you eat......

All in all, just when she was poor, idle, and depressed, and could only think about the profound philosophical question of "the chicken came first, or the chicken came first", which involves the origin of the world, a crow wearing a small pointed hat and a sign of "Tengu Express" on her foot and neck threw the invitation sent by the underworld, or the combination of a meal ticket and a garden ticket, to her.

There is nothing more than this.

"Gone!"

Reimu stretched her hands into the sleeves of her coat, lifted her feet off the ground, and flew into the air.

(b)

"Knock knock knock!"

Marisa, as usual, knocked on the door of Alice's house in the most brutal way.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Alice pushed the door open from the room, and shouted impatiently:

"You're in the wrong place, I don't need a demolition service here! If you're really idle, you can go and demolish the 'Fog and Rain Magic Shop' on the other side of the Enchanted Forest, that house has been abandoned for a long time...... Oh, if I'm not mistaken, isn't this Marisa?"

She stood on the steps, condescendingly, glancing at Marisa coldly, and said:

"I thought it was the bastard who came to me every morning and smashed the door of my house! If you saw her, could you help me beat her up? She's about as short as you, almost round, and wears an apron like you, anyway......"

"She's you. ”

After that, Alice smiled fiercely, laughed fiercely, her eyes were half-squinted and half-open, and she squinted, giving Marisa a ruthless look of "Kill you".

"Haha, the words are still nice to you!"

However, Marisa was completely unmoved, and started laughing on the spot - this is a matter of course, if she will be ashamed of all the immoral things she has done, then she is not Marisa Kiriyu.

"That's right, Alice......"

Marisa skipped the story of how she knocked on the door of Alice's house and made Alice nervous, took out a crumpled piece of paper from the pocket of her apron, rubbed it open and swung it in front of Alice, and said with a big grin:

"This!"

Alice glanced at the letter, which was as rotten as toilet paper—it was an invitation to the White Jade House cherry blossom viewing party. Then, she heard Marisa say:

"I'm going to this, you go with me!"

"Huh?" Alice raised an eyebrow, "what did you say?"

"You come with me!"

Marisa pointed to the words on the invitation, her expression extremely serious - it made her look particularly funny.

"Listen, Marisa......" Alice said helplessly, holding her forehead, "I don't have time to go out with you every day, I'm not your mother......!"

"I'm going to this, you go with me!"

Marisa interrupted Alice and repeated what she had just said.

"I said I wouldn't go, don't ...... again"

"You come with me!"

Marisa grimaced and clutched the tattered piece of paper with both hands, looking like a stubborn kid who "got 100 points on my exam and you have to accompany me to the amusement park...... In fact, she is a stubborn child. Alice looked at her, and couldn't cry or laugh for a while, so she teased:

"Has your language organization finally degraded to the level of a baby?"

"You come with me!"

"Just to be on the safe side, Marisa, let me ask you again, what is the nature of humanity?"

"You come with me!"

"Perfect answer. ”

Alice rolled her eyes, looked away, shook her head, and smiled rather disdainfully, and clapped her hands a few more times in encouragement.

"I'll have to change into a banquet-appropriate outfit first. ”

As she spoke, she opened the door and turned and walked back to the house.

"Then we have to discuss the matter of replacing parts for you, for this it is necessary to go to Xianglin Hall, where there are still a lot of scrapped repeaters, maybe they can be disassembled...... Marisa?"

When she walked into her bedroom, she realized that Marisa had followed, and she turned to Marisa, who was still clutching the scrap of paper, and said:

"Didn't I say it, I'm going to change my clothes first!"

"You come with me!"

Oh, awesome!

"Have you seen my stupid daughter, Marisa Kiriyu? She's an old-fashioned repeater about fourteen years old, with a moderate intellectual disability. If you see her...... Please strangle her to death, thank you!" - Alice Margot Royd

(c)

"Rustling ......"

The bamboo leaves moved, which was something that had not been seen in a long time, the southeast wind. The change of seasons, I am afraid that no one knows earlier than this evergreen bamboo.

Bayi Yonglin stood on the corridor of the Eternal Pavilion, leaning on the railing, with her back to the bamboo forest, the courtyard, the flowing water and the spring breeze, and read the invitation in her hand word by word.

Then, she threw it in the wind.

The moment he took it off, the piece of letter paper shattered into pieces in the faint white light, scattered into dust, and disappeared in small circles with the wind.

"Banquet ......"

Yonglin turned around, put his arm on the railing, looked up at the blue clear sky without sorrow, and said quietly:

"What a group of people who don't have a sense of crisis......"

"Master—"

At this time, her apprentice, Moon Rabbit Lingxian, ran over from the other side of the corner, shouting, breaking the silence here.

"The arrangement of the knot ...... 'enchantment'...... It's almost done......"

Lingxian ran in front of Yonglin, holding his knees with both hands, his face was red and panting, and he said intermittently:

"Next...... As long as the energy is connected, it can open normally...... But, but ......"

"Slow down, don't rush. Yonglin stroked Ling Xian's back and said softly:

"What's going on?"

"Gong ...... Princess-sama!" Reisen raised her head, her eyes filled with panic, "Princess-sama is out!"

"What did you say?"

"Your Excellency Princess, she suddenly said something 'idle and boring, go out for a walk', and ran out without permission, and she couldn't persuade her!"

"Where did she go, you know?"

"In the human world, I asked the emperor to follow her, and if something happens, she will contact this side. ”

"What about the 'umbrella'?" Yonglin then asked, "Did the emperor bring the 'umbrella'?"

"Bring it," said Reisen, "and I specially asked her to bring 'two'." ”

"Two pieces are not necessary," Yonglin nodded lightly and said, "It is enough for the emperor to keep himself, and the princess is not afraid of 'that'." ”

"But...... But ......"

Reizen obviously had something to say, but was stopped by Yonglin. As if nothing had happened, she looked calm and said to the Moon Rabbit:

"If the princess wants to go out, let her go! Next, you and Rexanne, the two of you go your separate ways, each with a few teams of rabbits, and guard the various nodes of the barrier to make sure nothing goes wrong. When the night falls, as soon as the 'moon' rises, it directly opens the barrier and completely seals off this bamboo forest into a 'birdcage', so that no one outside can enter or go out. If someone wants to force a break through the barrier, you're the first line of defense, understand?"

"Yes!"

Reisen straightened up, folded her legs, roared with a straight face, and performed a standard military salute.