(a)

"Lose—"

"Drop—"

"Ahh

The three Prizmliba sisters turned into three meteors in the sky, fell into the clouds below, and vanished. Reimu put away the coins, clapped her hands, looked in the direction they were going, and shouted:

"Good walk!"

The cold wind in the air blew her shrine maiden costume, and the wide and light cuffs fluttered in the wind, fluttering like butterfly wings. She was now facing away from the sun, and a huge shadow was cast on the white clouds, like a giant.

"Hmmm......"

Reimu straightened up, picked up his hands, crossed his legs, and sat in the air, frowning and thinking as he muttered to himself:

"I'm in trouble now......"

"Spring is here, spring is here, spring is here!"

"I accidentally used too much force and knocked the only clue away......"

"Spring has arrived!"

"Who's going to show me the way?"

"Spring has arrived—"

"Spring arrives ...... Woooooooo

"Shut up, repeater!"

Lingmeng burst out angrily, turned around and grabbed the face of the Chun Xuan Jing who was screaming at the root of her ear, and another spirit talisman was pasted on the guy's face, and then roared at her face:

"I've been arguing there and arguing and arguing and arguing

"Since you like spring so much......"

Reimu roared, tugging at the elf's collar and lifting her above her head.

"Then I'll give you a free ride, so you can go down and see if it's spring or winter!"

With that, she twisted her waist with her arms, swirled and exerted force, and came with a standard violent straight ball. The poor little goblin plunged like a rocket into the cloud below, and smashed a big hole in it. There was a thin line of crystal in the sky, all of which were tears of spring.

"Whew...... Ha...... Whew-the world is clear...... Reimu straightened up, took a long breath, clapped his palms, and said, "When did this guy come over, right...... Ah, damn it!"

"I should grab her and ask where the entrance to the barrier is!"

She said, patting her head in frustration.

(b)

So, this is where the "realm" is. ”

Reimu followed the petals and found this place all the way. At her feet were blue planets and curved horizons, but above her was no longer the blue sky, but the vast universe, the sea of stars—at this moment, the 'sky' was beneath her.

She has come to heights that are impossible to reach with a human body. But she still did it, and she deserved to be the shrine maiden of Hakurei.

"Bang Bang Bang"

She stabbed the air in front of her with the imperial coin, and immediately there was a knock on the glass. A transparent barrier stood in front of her, formless, colorless, yet real.

That is the "realm" that separates the worlds that never intersect.

Here, she clearly felt a warm current, accompanied by the fragrance of spring and flowers. On the surface, the other side of the barrier was just an empty sky, but the petals of the cherry blossoms came out of there for no reason and floated down the warm wind.

"So, where is the entrance to this barrier? No...... I shouldn't have thought so......"

Reimu muttered to herself, but raised her clenched fists.

"Since there is no road......

"Then step out with both feet!"

After shouting such a sentence with great momentum, she threw a punch that gathered the spiritual power of her whole body at the transparent barrier. She heard a "bang", like glass shattering, and the space in front of her collapsed towards another world, and a dark tunnel opened out. The faint warm current just now, when it turned into a torrent of hot wind, blew Reimu's mouth slanted and her pants fluttered.

(c)

"Huh?"

Youyouzi, who was sitting on the corridor of the white jade building and drinking tea, suddenly shook for a moment, raised his head, and looked into the distance. Seeing this, the soul demon who was waiting beside her dreamed of this, and hurriedly asked:

"What happened, Yuyuko-sama?"

"No, it's not ......."

Yuyuko stretched out her hand, caught a falling cherry blossom petal, and said with a light smile:

"I was about to give up, but I didn't expect that such a pie-in-the-sky good thing could really be delivered to the door by myself. ”

"Youmeng," she then instructed, "there's a guest coming, go and greet you!"

"Yes!"

Youmeng got up and saluted, picked up his double swords, and walked away quickly. After she left, Yuyuko put the petal in her hand back into the wind, and then raised her head again, looking at the westward demon that had already bloomed, but had not yet bloomed, and whispered to herself:

"Wait a little longer, be a little more patient, just collect one or two more copies of 'Spring', it will be enough......"

(iv)

Countless white jade steps, from the front of Reimu, stretched to the invisible side. On both sides of the stairs are cherry trees with no leaves, and not a single cherry blossom blooms on the countless dry branches. Still, there would always be a few cherry blossom petals, floating from afar, gently brushing her cheeks, and disappearing behind her—there were undoubtedly flowering cherry trees here, but so far, Reimu hadn't seen them.

She had been flying for a long time, and if the earth under her feet was a mountain, she would have climbed thousands of meters and still could not see the end of the steps. There was no living thing except dead trees, and there was not a single sound, and it was a little creepy. Fortunately, there were some ghosts who were on the same road with her, dragging their long tails, and slowly flying away, dispelling some of the loneliness of the journey for her......

"That's weird!" Reimu exclaimed unhappily, "Anyway, this is the way to the Netherworld, right?"

This is the underworld, and Reimu has every reason to be sure of that. If you look up, you will see that there is no sun, moon, stars or floating clouds in the sky, but it is always lit with a lilac glow. The infinite stretch of stairs and the forest of cherry trees all give people a sense of illusion, as if the owner of the barrier had randomly paved it up to fill the empty space. As for this utter dead silence - the dead do not make a sound, and if you think about it in this way, everything is clear.

Just now, she must have broken the realm of life and death and came to a place where the living should not come.

However, now, there is no way for her to turn back, and the road she opened is about to be finished crying. What's more, if the main culprit of this mutation is really hiding in the underworld, then she will have to break through this ghost gate.

On the other hand, the temperature in this ghost place is still much higher than that of Gensokyo, and there is no snow, which is really unreasonable.

"No way!"

If you don't see them, you hear them first. A silvery shadow suddenly appeared in the oblique stab, and it stabbed Reimeng's neck, fast and ruthless, and she was caught off guard, so she had to retreat again and again, and saved her life in embarrassment.

"Huh!"

The long sword swung into the air, stirring the air nearby, and the cold sword wind hit Reimu's face, making her shiver.

At that moment just now, it was really dangerous and dangerous, Reimu was so frightened that he couldn't sweat a drop, and in retrospect, he was only afraid. She subconsciously touched her neck to confirm that it was still intact, in fact, her reaction was even half a beat slower, this delicate neck, I am afraid that it has been broken in two.

Quickly calming his mind, Reimu raised his head, looked up the steps, and saw a somewhat familiar guy: Twin Blades, Half-Spirit, and Sister's Head—it was the half-human, half-spirit swordsman, the soul demon dream.

"Just in time!"

Youmeng raised the Louguan Sword, pointed at Reimeng's face, and shouted:

"Hand over all the 'spring' in your hand!"

"What are you doing, forcing you to buy 'Spring'?" Reimu grumbled, raising an eyebrow on one side.

When the demon dream heard this, Xiao Yuan's face turned red, and he hurriedly defended:

"No, that's not what I meant!"

"Ah? What else does that mean? How can you call a girl 'spring' when you meet, you stupid, do you really understand what you're talking about?"

"This ...... I didn't have ......"

After eating Reimeng's string of cannon-like refutations, Demon Dream was red-faced, unable to say a word, and there seemed to be tears rolling in his big watery eyes. Seeing that this guy was so easy to bully, Lingmeng immediately gained confidence, took a step forward, and shouted:

"If you know it's wrong, give way to me, I'm in a hurry now, and I don't have time to teach you Chinese!"

"Well, that's not okay!"

Not majestic, not imposing, but very determined. Youmu opened her arms and blocked Reimu's way.

"I won't let you pass!" she said, adding:

"It's Yuyuko-sama's order!"

"Yuyuko?" Reimu scratched the back of her head, "I should have known that this had something to do with that hippie-smiling foodie aunt...... Well, it's not too late to know now......"

When Youmeng heard her say this, she immediately became anxious, and opened her mouth to shout:

"Don't speak ill of Yuyuko-sama!"

"I just said, what do you want me to do?"

Youmeng did not respond to her provocation immediately, but put on a straight face, set up a double knife, and then spit out three concise and bright words:

"Kill you!"

"Hah!" Reimu smiled, "This should have been the case a long time ago." ”

She took out the imperial coins pinned to her waist, picked up three pieces of rune paper, and said:

"At the beginning of the fight, I didn't think about anything other than violence, unless, of course, you surrender voluntarily......"

"I will not surrender!"

In the eyes of Youmeng, the fighting spirit flashed like flames, and Reimu looked at her and smiled disapprehantly:

"Ah, I know, I can see it. ”

"Anyway, whether you surrender or not, the ending remains the same. Reimu raised the one, pinched the left hand of the three spirit runes, and said lightly, "I will win, you will be defeated, the mutation will end, and spring will come." ”

Then, the cherry blossoms will bloom. ”

"Rune ......"

"Sword ...... of the Human World"

"Earthly · Bites The Dust！”

Suddenly, another silver light flashed, directly between the two, forcing the two of them to swallow back the move that came to their mouths. Then, Reimu was surprised to find that the imperial coins and spirit runes that should have been held in his hands had somehow returned to their original positions, and the double knives in Youmeng's hands were also back in the scabbard in an instant.

It was as if time had gone back a little bit......

"Click", "Click"

The wings made of magic dissipated into dust, and the tall woman stepped on her high-heeled leather boots and landed lightly down the steps.

"You ......"

"You are ......"

"It's just a passing maid. ”

Sixteen Night Saki grabbed her skirt and bowed gracefully.