Episode 1: The legendary city girl
For a pre-emptive statement, a few weeks have passed since Sunday's farewell ceremony, and I am naturally still in the outside world, for reasons that are simple and simple - I don't want to go back, but it can be said that it is very complicated - including to figure out a series of old problems that have been bothering me for a long time and new problems that have just been discovered, and there is another one, in order to avoid Sister Zi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoSo I can only say sorry to Huiyin-sensei in my heart.,I had to break the agreement to perform a puppet show for the holiday dolls in the temple house.。
Specifically, on the day of Obon, the whole of Tokyo is excited or busy with the festival at night.
As almost the only traditional festival in modern Japan that basically follows the lunar calendar, the importance of Obon – the Chuen Festival – in Japan is evident, and even the seemingly popular Tanabata Festival is casually set on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Western calendar, giving young people a pleasant practice of celebrating Valentine's Day more than once a year.
But to me as an outsider, the role of Obon seems to be similar to that of Valentine's Day or even Christmas - for young people, and then, I am also a young person.
After digression, let's talk about today's itinerary. First of all, today's temple fairs in various shrines and streets have nothing to do with me, because today I have to solve the important work that I have just undertaken, and then, although the work is an important guarantee to obtain funds to maintain the survival of the outside city, it has to be lower in the importance of today's planning, and more important than the work is to solve the work, and Patsy and I are preparing for a multi-day trip to the moon, and the passengers include Maelu Baili in addition to the two witches? Miss Hahn and Miss Usami Renko.
Ahem, work and God are not directly related, but it happens to be arranged on the same day, and I am fully prepared not to cause work to delay God's plan.
Before the most important preparations, I would like to briefly describe the content of my work - obviously not a traditional puppet performance artist, and there seems to be no living space for an outdated wild artist like me in modern Tokyo, and I am indeed not afraid to perform freely in a group of innocent and cute Lori Shota in a familiar person, but I may not be able to play with peace of mind if the stage is replaced by a strange outside city, not to mention that letting a witch who has been living on the street for most of her life is really a challenge to the fragile shame endurance - It must be easy for everyone to guess the content of the work, yes, it is Miss Alice of the Everythinghouse that has sprouted for a long time! As the only unemployed legend in the entire Tokyo area, Miss Alice has the advantage of being lacking in other masters, and guarantees that she will professionally undertake and solve all kinds of difficult problems that plague the little demons in the World Forum around the clock, and even some problems of the masters can also be handed over to me to solve, although the business is only improving at the moment, not to the point where there are many famous customers.
Accepting the first business was an accident.,Before that, I was worried about how to support myself in the outside world.,I can't always hide in the Daigo Dojo or borrow Miss Maruko's apartment to cause trouble.,I'm not a little Lori like Flan-chan who doesn't have any civil capacity.。 Just when I was almost about to be cheeky and work as a pastry shop waitress with Ami-san, I received an email asking for help from Ito's little Lori, who I hadn't seen for many days.
After the incident, I increased the frequency of visits to the World Forum, and I also had many in-depth exchanges with the inviter, Ito Yuki, so she knew my job very well, and her email request for help was simple, just asking me to order a delicate doll for her as a birthday gift for her classmates, and Miss Alice, who was bored, immediately agreed to the request.
The next development is logical.,I didn't think about receiving remuneration at first.,But Ito's little Lori insisted on thanking me for my labor.,Because there's no proper way to thank you.,In the end, it became such a cheesy result as paying yen.,This made me realize that accepting the commission to receive labor remuneration like a professional detective Uncle Edogawa is a very simple and effective way to support myself.,And the platform,The outside world has long been prepared for me-Inside World Forum- I started a small business with the demons by pulling posts and sending messages, and then borrowed a portion of the money from Miss Maruko and Mr. Ii to pay the rent for the next few months in Miss Maruko's apartment building, so I settled in the outside world.
The nature of this kind of work-like nature determines that my daily arrangement is not particularly regular and compact, usually it is one order after another, fortunately there is no record of failure so far - most of the strange commissions of the little demons are quite simple, some are to solve the difficulties of cultivation, and some are to create supernatural phenomena so that the lives of the little demons are not disturbed, for the masters who have mastered many wonderful means, this is almost a trivial matter, even if there is occasional troublesome work, such as finding people, finding things, and even solving cases, I can also completely subcontract to the Edogawa Detective Agency or choose to work with it, and Miss Masako, a miscellaneous employee of the detective agency, is very interested in this kind of work.
Speaking of the main business of the Edogawa Detective Agency is oriented to human society, only occasionally accept some special commissions from the forum, and there is no charge, my professional insertion as a master who can't find a suitable job has led to the prominence of this small market within the World Forum and turned to commercialization, which was originally a spontaneous and non-business mutual aid behavior degenerated into a general transaction behavior, fortunately, most of the little demons and big demons don't care about paying service fees, even if they are not successful people like Kobayashi, the petty bourgeoisie is still barely mixed, At least I haven't met a client who is so miserable that he can't even pay for his services, but I've already considered that if there is such a tragic demon who is in desperate need of help but is impoverished, in order not to make the high-ranking people behind the forum unhappy that I have changed the order of the past, I must pay for free services appropriately, so that the good operation of the World Forum can be maintained for a long time, and by the way, advertise myself.
I'll talk about the work for the time being, but then again, the outside job I found for myself was actually nothing new, and I didn't feel as interesting as the puppet performance artists in the people.
Then there was the moon landing, and before that, I experienced a reacquaintance with Mae Lubery, who had been fated for a long time. Miss Hahn, by the way, met her friend Miss Usami Renko, who is often on her lips, and the process is not complicated, and it can be summed up in only two stages - going to the University of Tokyo and finding someone.
Finding a particular genius girl was an easy job, because I remember Miss Melly's self-introduction, majoring in theoretical physics and minoring in classical philosophy, and I always found someone if I went to these two colleges, and I also knew that Miss Melly even created a relative psychiatry with a very peculiar research direction and method, and she was probably a well-known genius in the school, which made me more confident that I would find out where she was.
As a result, within an hour, I was led by the enthusiastic students of the University of Tokyo to a laboratory with a very awkward name, and met Miss Melly, who was collaborating with her good friend Miss Usami Renko to design an experiment, and Miss Melly remembered the "dream man" who gave her the magic enlightenment book, and received me warmly, and Miss Usami warmly exchanged names and greetings with me when she looked me up and down to the point that it almost caused bad associations.
With only a small regret, the first time I visited Miss Melly's lab, she told me that Marisa had been away from Tokyo for two weeks and her whereabouts were unknown.
So, let's ignore Marisa's magic apprentice who is as adaptable as a monster for the time being, and don't care where Reimu is for the time being, and focus on our own research and problem solving.
When it comes to the moon landing, the first thing that comes to mind is the Apollo Program 11 spacecraft in 1969, which is said to have carried the world's attention for the first time on the moon that can only be looked up to by creatures on the ground for billions of years - that is the understanding of ordinary people, at least people like me know that the moon may have the remnants of pre-civilization tens of millions of years ago, so the moon landing in 1969 was at most the second moon landing of the earth's indigenous creatures, provided that Apollo 11 was not a fake action directed by man.
Apollo 11 is a complete hoax, and this view is also widely circulated in society, because I am interested in collecting the so-called evidence extensively, although I still can't determine whether it is true or false, but these are no longer important in my opinion, if there is nothing wrong with Patchy's plan this time—I think it is basically impossible for Miss Patchy, who has experience in presiding over a moon landing program—then, excluding the monster gods, the four of us - two genius girls and two centennial witches - will be the third group, Even the second and even the first new civilized humans to land on the moon.
Marisa and Reimu, including the Demon Lady and her maid, are the second or first batch - if the place where they arrived is indeed the real moon, then leaving aside the controversial Mr. Armstrong, Hakurei Reimu, Marisa Kiri, and Sixteen Rooms Sakiya may indeed be the first humans to land on the moon in the new civilization - maybe the legendary Chang'e - but I expanded my understanding and returned to think about it, and found that the place they went may not really be the moon high in the sky, It's a world of nothingness that ordinary people can't reach.、Even a spiritual world that meets on a moonlit night.,But at that time, Reimu hadn't yet achieved immortality.、Not to mention the stupid Marisa.,As for the eldest lady and Sakiya.,I guess most of them are not immortals in the true sense of the true meaning of the state of existence.,It's impossible for them to touch the spiritual world of the God of Creation legally.,Maybe everything is Yakumo Murasaki's conspiracy?
It doesn't matter whose plot it is, after Patchy found me, she went straight to the point without greeting or expressing the joy of reunion, and the moon landing plan proposed was only responsible for ourselves, and we couldn't think about the strange things that happened to others, and Miss Melly and Miss Renko, who joined later, were the product of an accident.
Looking at the time, at ten o'clock in the morning, I stopped sorting out my memories and prepared to solve today's entrusted task, first of all, I left the apartment and went straight to Ito Yuki's house.
That's right, the commission I took last night and I'm going to handle today is from Lori Itoyuki, an elementary school that inspired me to start a service industry, and this is the first time she has officially commissioned me since she was a doll.