Based on my extensive experience, I guessed that the story of Miss Aosaki's grandfather's long youth must have something to do with feelings, which is why he insisted to his granddaughter that he kept it a secret from his son. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"When Grandpa was young...... In short, he is very young, and he is probably not in the youth of graduating from college, and his grandfather said that he came to the forest next to the dormitory to relax on a crisp morning, and by the way, he brewed a few beautiful words and sentences for his younger sister. ”

Grandpa seems to be a high-level intellectual.

"But! Suddenly, he found himself in a fairyland-like place! Hey? How do I feel a little similar to what happened to me? Could it be that what Grandpa said is true? Ahem, sorry for digressing again. The grove next to the dormitory turned into a lake and mountains in the blink of an eye, with sparkling water, lush trees, and a wagon-wide dirt road stretching from far away to the foot, and leading to the distance, where there seemed to be a temple and a clock tower with European style, but it was hidden in the fog that could not be recognized, and the fog also came from afar, emanating from the middle of the lake, far away from the lake...... The more you talk about it, the more you have a sense of immediacy, is it grandpa's genetic memory? ”

Repeating someone else's story to such an extent is not the same as a story you've heard, is it? Could it be that Miss Aoizaki is working part-time as a magazine writer while working as a manga editor? Just like her grandfather. In addition, her description also gave me a sense of immediacy, and I thought about it and realized that she seemed to be describing the scenery by the Lake of Mist.

"Eh, it may be a little confusing with my experience in the morning, after all, it's a story I heard many years ago, and even if I remember it well, it will inevitably make mistakes."

It turned out to be a skewer.

"In short, grandpa told me in a nostalgic and sentimental tone that he was breathing fresh air in the forest, but in the blink of an eye he came to a strange lake in the wild, and there were birdsong, insects and even faint little girl frolicking in the woods, grandpa didn't care about panicking, but began to enjoy the scenery, aha, I think my calm character may be inherited from grandpa."

Well, at this point I've lost the mood and atmosphere of listening to weird stories.

"That's it! A person flew in the sky in the distance, slowly landing in front of him, grandpa came back to his senses, and found that this was a girl with an indescribable beauty in the world, oh, this is probably grandpa's original words, just mean it, the girl who fell from the sky tied a big red bow, long black hair hung down to her waist, and was dressed in a strange red witch costume, the reason why it was strange was because ...... Hey, speaking of which, Miss Alice's shrine maiden costume is also a style that leaks out of the shoulders, and my initial weirdness came from this! Maybe Grandpa met a shrine maiden from a long, long time ago? ”

Combined with the original description of the Lake of Fog and the suspected Red Devil Pavilion, I guess Uncle Aozaki was once a member of the Lost Travelers.

It's a pity that the beautiful witch didn't say much to his grandfather, the witch asked him if he wanted to leave here and go back to the place where he belonged, and the grandfather said that he fell in love with the scenery here and didn't want to leave in a hurry, so the witch took him to a large village where the fields were not very dense, and the fields were surrounded by rows of houses, and the smoke of the morning stove was rising, the rooster was still crowing, and the dogs were barking as if they were competing with the rooster, and the villagers greeting each other and going to the fields gradually appeared between the houses. The village seemed to come alive from stillness to movement. Grandpa was stunned, and the witch had already taken him to the village chief, and left in a hurry. ”

I reminisced about forty or fifty years ago, but I found that I had not been impressed by her, except for the admiration of her beauty comparable to that of Princess Kaguya, and I could not even remember when the shrine maiden had left office, and perhaps I had not even seen her more than three times.

"I still remember very vividly how my grandfather said about his face when he came to the village, and I think he really fell in love with that ordinary village, and he said that he chose to settle in this village shortly after talking to the village chief, and he felt that he longed to let go of the burden of the family and longed for such a quiet and wonderful life."

The village chief told Grandpa that if he chose to settle down, he couldn't disturb the shrine maiden anymore, otherwise it would be better to let the shrine maiden send him away early, and Grandpa said that he would forget everything and never leave the village again. Soon after settling in the village, my grandfather fell in love with a beautiful girl from a tofu shop, and the daughter of the tofu shop not only made delicious tofu flowers, but also knew how to appreciate my grandfather's poems, and soon they got married. ”

"Not long after the marriage, a strange disease took the life of the owner of the tofu shop and his wife, and the grandfather's wife lost her parents, which made them very sad, and the grandfather did not want the strange disease to take the lives of himself and his wife, he wanted to take his wife out of the village and return to his home, so the grandfather mustered up the courage to leave the village, and came to the shrine far away from the village to find the shrine, hoping that the witch would help him and his wife leave the village and return to his own home, but the witch only promised to send him away alone."

The more I listened, the more I felt immediate, and I couldn't help but be distracted.

"Later...... Grandpa didn't tell me exactly what happened, only that he later returned home alone to reunite with his loved ones, and he felt as if he had a heart-wrenching dream. ”

Compared with the foreshadowing of the shining details in the front, the progress and ending came in a hurry, and at this time the story came to an end, and I said to Miss Aosaki: "The ending must be that grandpa abandoned his wife in the village and returned to the outside world alone. ”

"Uh...... Anyway, I knew from a young age that my grandmother, who I had never met, might not be my grandfather's first love. ”

"That's why I want you to keep it a secret from your father."

This story is even more lacking in the atmosphere of weirdness than the previous one, but I didn't listen to it as a weird story, so naturally I can't talk about disappointment, but the situation described in this story is very likely to represent the psychological condition of the undetermined outsiders in Gensokyos, and it is a representative psychological condition that existed a long, long time ago, even before the large-scale appearance of outsiders.

In addition, the beautiful girl who makes tofu flowers, which makes me inexplicably reminded of the poor tofu mother-in-law mentioned by Aunt Yuzu, if Miss Aosaki's grandfather once settled in Gensokyo, is his object the tofu mother-in-law? I really don't have the interest or position to get involved in speculation without any evidence, and I don't want to mention it to Miss Aozaki.

"By the way, did my grandfather come to this Gensokyo back then? But is there a village here? ”

"I've used a special word like 'the outside world', and it's not uncommon for Miss Aosaki's grandfather to come to a place that is Gensokyo, but well, it doesn't rule out dreams or conjectures, so Miss Aozaki might as well treat it as a story." I gave her a pertinent suggestion, "Of course Gensokyo has a village where humans gather, maybe you forgot to introduce it just now?" We call it the Paradise, and that's where all the ordinary humans of Gensokyo live. ”

"Is it a quiet little village, as Grandpa said?"

"Decades ago, it is still now, because more and more outsiders choose to settle in the people, and the combination of various factors makes the world today perhaps more lively than the London countryside a hundred years ago."

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