Chapter 20: The Banquet After the Festival
The entire Hakurei Shrine festival lasts for a total of seven days, allowing all recognized creatures in Gensokyo to experience the grand occasion of the festival. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
After the end of the regular festival, it is a customary banquet. It seems that a tradition was formed before the cataclysm, and every time something big happened in Gensokyo, someone would definitely come forward to organize a banquet, and only when the banquet was over would the event really end.
It's like a saying among oriental enthusiasts, if you don't watch the comic talent competition, it's not a New Year.
It's just that the banquet held at Hakurei Shrine this time is slightly different from the previous banquets, and it has other meanings in it.
Yakumo redefined the territory of all the forces in Gensokyo, and semi-forcibly let some characters with unclear positions choose sides, so that the number of forces in Gensokyo was reduced by half. At this first general festival banquet, the main members and representatives of all the forces were invited.
Because of this, the number of members at this banquet was much larger than the number of people from Cataclysm, and the people who would come to the banquet before were limited to the social circle of Hakurei Reimu, Marisa, and the Yakumo family.
Ouyang, as one of the representatives of the human race, was also qualified to participate in the banquet. In fact, even if Ouyang didn't have the identity of a human representative, he could still come to the banquet, and Ouyang was already one of Marisa's friends.
Among the many forces participating in the banquet, humanity is a relatively weak and powerful force.
Although human beings are not as good as forces such as the Red Devil Pavilion, the Eternal Pavilion, and the Shouya Shrine, and there is no top powerhouse in Gensokyo, the realm owned by humans themselves is not small in Gensokyo, and there are guardians like Ouyang Meihong, coupled with Yakumo Zi's special care for humans, human beings have enough say compared to some weak forces.
However, the reason why a banquet is a banquet is that it exists for pleasure. Those things about Gensokyo are not discussed at the banquet.
The two gods of Shouya sat in their places, drinking wine for a while, and Sanae Kazezhu, who was following them, looked at her twin gods with some concern, mainly Yasaka Kaminako.
Next to Kanako sat the big tengu, who still maintained the posture of a young girl, drinking quietly, and did not join the ranks of the ghost kings who persuaded them to drink everywhere, and naturally she was not approached by the ghost king to pour wine.
Kanako's eyes were unhappy and angry when she looked at the big tengu, even if it was a dark cherry sake with underworld cherry blossoms added to it, Kanako didn't feel much taste when she drank it.
"Now that it's over, don't think about it. Suwako's eyes were half-open and she persuaded Kanako.
"If you hadn't lent me strength, would I have lost!" Kanako asked Suwako in a vicious whisper, she also had a great deal of dissatisfaction with Suwako now.
After drinking the rest of the sake in the cup, Suwako glanced at Nako, and then looked at the big tengu who was sitting quietly through Kanako.
"I said, you've brought the tengu under the jurisdiction of Shouya, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? ”
"You also said that according to my method, you can stabilize the problem on the other side of the desert as soon as possible, so that you can quickly increase the population of the human world. ”
Listening to Kanako's obsession with her own methods, Suwako couldn't help but cover her face and ignore her.
"You're embarrassed to say that if you really want to establish a theocracy in the desert, they will definitely make the world like that when they return to the earth. Suwako gently shook the bowl in her hand and asked leisurely, "Didn't you think about the consequences of this?"
Kanako glanced at Suwako with questions, and there was an inexplicable meaning in her deep voice: "What can be the consequences? In this way, the power of faith will increase dramatically. If there is something that is not eye-opening to find fault, just lie down. ”
“…… Sure enough, it's a violent stupid. It's no wonder that I couldn't have managed the leak back then, and it was because of this that you were kicked out of Yamato. Suwako whispered.
"What do you say!?You dwarf frog! Say it again if you have the ability!"
"Just say it! You're a violent fool! Everything is solved by violence, and your title of military god is also snatched by violence!"
"You bastard!"
Kanako and Suwako started their daily quarrel again, and Sanae, who was on the side, was extremely anxious.
The big tengu who was sitting on the side also heard what he didn't understand from the conversation between Kanako and Suwako, and it was not only the big tengu who opposed Kanako, but also Suwako, who was also the god of Shouya.
Kanako defeated the Great Tengu as the god of Moriya and brought the Tengu under the jurisdiction of Moriya. So the current Great Tengu can be regarded as a subordinate of Kanako to some extent, but this relationship between superiors and subordinates is not very clear, after all, it is the Great Myojin of Shouya who is really at the top of the Shouya force, not Kanako.
Kanako's plan will fill the world with humans who believe in the gods of the gods, and will lead those who do not believe in them to the path of faith. This is tantamount to breaking the previous agreement between the three religions of God, Buddhism and Taoism, and not forcing mortals to believe in a certain religion.
In this way, religious wars are inevitable.
Suwako and Otengu, who originally thought that Kanako would not see this, now understood that Kanako knew that this would lead to a religious war, but she insisted on doing so, because the faith she could get was enough to support Kanako to win the religious war. As long as you win, all the rules will be set by the defender.
It's just that Kanako didn't explain to Suwako and the Great Tengu, and she just insisted on her own ideas.
As a result, there was a civil war among the Tengu, a war between the Tengu faction and the Great Tengu faction under Kanako's control.
The Tengu faction controlled by Kanako, including those who took refuge after Kanako seized the jurisdiction of Tengu, and those that Kanako single-handedly supported, were directly cleaned up by the Great Tengu faction. The de facto dominance of the Tengu is back in the hands of the Great Tengu.
This is a good thing for the Great Tengu.
While Sanae tries to dissuade the two gods from arguing, Ouyang also finds Mei Hong and asks her about the origin of the Penglai meat sold by Mystia.
"You can't have been instructed by that bastard Kaguya, are you?" Mei Hong didn't answer directly, but asked Ouyang with vigilance.
"No, no, no, I'm not...... Could it be that those are Kaguya's?"
Drinking all the wine in the cup, Mei Hong said chicly: "Of course, otherwise do you think it's mine! Anyway, these stumps and broken arms have to be disposed of, and you can get a little money by selling them to the proprietress for a little money." What's more important is that you can disgust and disgust Kaguya's otaku, why not?"
“……”
"That, Ouyang, did you eat that meat?" Huiyin on the side saw Ouyang's abnormal face and immediately guessed the reason, "That...... There's nothing wrong with your body, right?"
Ouyang nodded: "No problem." ”
"Huiyin, don't worry about this guy, his body is fine even if he eats the flesh of a lower realm monster. How do you feel? Kaguya, that guy stays at home every day and doesn't move, and the flesh on his body is slack, so it must not be delicious. Mei Hong didn't have any worries about Ouyang eating the meat, but was curious about Ouyang's feelings about the meat.
"Well, it's not unpleasant. ”
"How is that possible! It's obviously not delicious. When used to make chop soup, it feels musty. Mei Hong shook her head, disagreeing with Ouyang's statement, "It must be that the boss's craftsmanship is too good." I'll send her some later, and let her make it for me to taste. ”
Boom!
Huiyin couldn't help but knock Mei Hong hard, and directly knocked out Mei Hong, who didn't faint after drinking ghost wine, and then dragged it away.
Seeing that Mei Hong was taken away by Huiyin, Ouyang didn't move, just looked at the ghost wine in the cup.
This kind of wine brewed by Yongyi himself is the highest quality wine of the old hell ghost clan, and just one drink is enough to make a weak monster like Qiluno drunk, and then go crazy.
Ouyang's glass of wine has not been drunk until now, because Ouyang dare not drink it.
"Come, come, drink, drink. ”
A red cup was handed to Ouyang, and at the same time, there was a unique voice of Cui Xiang. Hearing the sound of Cuixiang, coupled with the wine cup in front of him, Ouyang Ghost Shishen drank the ghost wine in the cup, then took the cup, and then drank the dark cherry wine that Cuixiang begged for in the cup.
The ghost god wine and the dark cherry wine directly made Ouyang drunk and fell to the spot.
"What, you can't drink it. Complaining quietly, Cuixiang left directly and persuaded the others to drink.
No one can refuse Cuixiang's persuasion.