"There's something wrong with Marisa's body?"

Eighty-Nine Temple replied along Pacully's train of thought, but his answer did not satisfy Pacully, who shook his head, bit his lip, and said in a deep voice: "It's not that simple.

"Alice doesn't have a desire for power or money, and her relationships are unusually simple, so she doesn't have much to worry about. Perhaps her dream is the only thing she can't let go of and absolutely persevere, but she has never thought of borrowing external forces to achieve it. What kind of thing does a girl like her need to force her to seek an ethereal miracle? ”

The answer, of course, is something that she can't achieve no matter how hard she tries. Only this powerless despair would make Alice do this kind of sacrificing herself.

Marisa does have a problem, and this problem is far more big than the Eight or Nine Temples imagined. He really didn't think that a girl like Marisa, who was full of vitality and couldn't use up her energy all day, would have a problem that made Alice feel hopeless.

"Have you ever wondered why Alice, who is so delicate, has so many emotions for the big-hearted, overcooked Marisa? Why was Marisa's father so opposed to her learning magic, and so disgusted by the coveting of her? Why is Marisa, who has done nothing in those 15 years of calm and calm, so likable to everyone? ”

Patchouli asked a lot of whys in a row, because she was too excited, her slightly pale face was flushed, and seeing that the Eight and Nine Temples had begun to think deeply, she took a deep breath, calmed down her mood a little, and then said, "I'm sorry I'm a little too excited. ”

"It's okay, please continue."

Eighty-Nine Temple shook his head, he didn't care about Patchouli's tone, on the contrary, it was Patchouli, who had always been calm, who became so abnormal, that made him think.

He had always thought that Marisa had inherited her mother's favor and would be liked by so many Gensokyo girls, and this idea seemed to be right, and it didn't deviate much from reality, but Pache was too excited to overturn his speculation.

If it was just such an ordinary answer, it would be impossible for a calm person like Patchouli to not even maintain a normal heart.

A sigh came from Pachouli's mouth, and she opened the magic book she had with her, and the latter spontaneously rose without wind, and pages of paper containing precious magic flashed in front of the Eighty-Nine Temple, and finally stopped on the corner of the page.

Because of the magic, the page was not yellowed, and it remained the same as it had been more than twenty years ago, and it had never changed.

Pache stroked it gently, not angry that her cherished magic book had been broken, but instead showed a nostalgic expression, as if through this small fold, she could touch a vanished being through the years.

"Everything has to start with the Yakumo Mutation. You should know the general situation, fifteen years ago, for various reasons, the Hakurei Great Barrier gradually became overwhelmed, and the entire Gensokyo was facing collapse.

"For a powerful monster like the Lord of the Four Seasons of Flowers, the destruction of Gensokyo may just be a change of home, but for Remi, Fran, me, and many more non-humans with insufficient strength, this is undoubtedly a desperate situation, and it is difficult for us to survive in the world of high modernization."

Pache wanted to make her tone lighter, but unfortunately the topic was too serious to leave her room for this, she shook her head and continued:

So Yakumo sat on the top of the monster mountain and thought about it for three days, and looked at Gensokyo for three whole days. I don't know what he was thinking, maybe it was the bits and pieces of his life in this land, maybe it was the weak monsters who kept sticking to him and calling him his brother. All I know is that he made the decision in the end - to break through the barriers of the world through the Sky Cluster Cloud, connect with himself in the parallel world, and integrate all Gensokyo. ”

However, there is no free lunch in the world, there is no gain without paying, and if you want to do such an unbelievable thing, the price that Yakumo needs to pay is undoubtedly huge, and from the result, he undoubtedly paid for his own life.

At that time, there was no doubt that Marisa was his best friend, and the previous generations of Hakurei shrine maidens even had a love for him, and they didn't want Gensokyo to disappear, but they also didn't want Gensokyo to be absent either. So they also went to the Tomb of Nothingness and entered the final place. ”

Not all stories are fairy tales that can win happy endings, and judging from the results, none of the three of them returned to this world and disappeared forever.

From Pachuari's brief narrative, Yakyoji doesn't know too much detail, wondering if Yakumo and the two disappeared with a smile, or if they left this world with a reluctance to return to Gensokyo. He could only feel the mourning of the living for the dead from Pache Li's mournful tone.

As the story was completed, a bold conjecture gradually surfaced in his mind.

If that's the case, everything can be explained.

He looked at Pache and said in a deep voice, "Marisa is not Molissa's child, but Alyssa herself, right?" ”

Why is the previous generation of black and white magicians called Marisa, and this generation called Marisa? Why is the previous generation of Hakurei shrine maidens called Hakurei Reimu, and this generation of Hakurei shrine maidens is also called Hakurei Reimu? Why were Reimu and Marisa, who hadn't experienced a major mutation, so popular in those fifteen years of peace?

Now all questions have been answered.

Pachouli nodded, affirming the conjecture of the Eighty-Nine Temple.

In the end, Kazami Yuka, who came a step late, was very angry and couldn't accept this ending, so she entered the Void Tomb alone, and finally retrieved their residues with injuries all over her body. The rest of the matter can only be explained by Bayi Yonglin, she doesn't know what method she used, and she forcibly reborn life from those parts that are not even soul fragments. ”

But this method is always flawed, Marisa's knowledge is still versatile, Marisa has not inherited it at all, and the two have almost nothing in common except for their appearance and kind heart, and the relationship between the two is more complete than reincarnation.

"Marisa is still gone, Marisa is not her reincarnation or a substitute, but an individual with independent thoughts, a completely new life. Marisa is Marisa, no longer Marisa, and Reimu is the same. ”

Everyone understands this truth, but no one wants to think so, they are still immersed in their dreams and are unwilling to wake up, and they continue their love for Marisa and Reimu to Marisa and Reimu.

"Yayi Yonglin said, those fragments are too broken, although she has tried her best, but Marisa and Reimu will never be able to become the original form, and at the same time, the lifespan is only the weight of normal people, and there is no means to prolong their life now."

A hundred years of life sounds like a long time, but when you calculate it carefully, it's only more than 30,000 days, which is too short for the girls in Gensokyo who have lived for a hundred years, and no one will easily accept this kind of ending.

"Alice is braver than me, and she can't accept another parting, so she sets her sights on Kewpie, who can grant all wishes, and does not hesitate to take herself as a bet. So I hope you, don't beg you, to make a Penglai potion and help a bunch of Alice, Marisa, and Reimu. ”

There was no other way to make up for the loss of the origin, and any life-prolonging potions had no effect on Reimu and Marisa. Only the medicine of Penglai, which negates the concept of death, can fundamentally solve the problem.

But Penglai medicine is so rare, even if you add the bottle that you don't know whether it's true or false that you saw in the pharmacy in the Eight Nine Temple, there are only four copies in this world, and the one that has not been used is only the one that the Eight Nine Temple has seen.

Seeking Penglai medicine seems to be an impossible thing than seeking a miracle, no wonder Alice would make such a difficult choice, and no wonder Patchouli would be so excited after hearing that the Eight or Nine Temple made Penglai medicine.

The folded pages were finally opened, and the sketches of several characters appeared on the pages, and it can be seen that the painters were very careful, and each figure was painted vividly, as if it were a reproduction of that day.

"This was painted by Marisa, and that day there was a banquet in the Red Devil Pavilion, so she took my magic book and drew it with her magic, drawing everyone in her vicinity. This one wearing a fox mask is a Hakurei witch, and this royal sister is a self-portrait of Marisa, and as for the man in the middle, it is naturally Yakumo. ”

The picture is so jubilant, the half-drunk Marisa puts her arms around the Hakuri shrine maiden, trying to lift her mask and pour her wine, but the latter is resisting in a panic, and even forgot to use the power of Hakuri.

However, the focus of attention of the Eighty-Nine Temple was on the third person.

"This is Yakumo?"

Naturally, Patchouli would not be mistaken, and the Eighty-Nine Temple was quite suspicious of knowingly asking, but only by asking again could he believe everything in front of him.

The sketch is black and white, and the original color is not clear, and the purple-haired and golden-eyed Yakumo is only black, white and gray on the paper.

But this was not an obstacle to Hachikuji being recognized, on the contrary, the color scheme helped him connect Yakumo with one of his acquaintances.

It turned out that the fragments rescued by Kazami Yuka were for three people.

No wonder Flandoro is so clingy to him, Hakurei Witch and Marisa are so fond of going to his house to eat and drink, and all the clothes of the Yakumo family are handed over to him to sew.

No wonder there were the residues of Penglai medicine on his cabinet, and his connection with Tiancongyun would be closer than that of Mianyue Yiji, and he would have to draw his sword to fight for himself.

I see.

"Mori Kinrin's help."

The Eighty-Nine Temple pronounced the name of the last person born from the fragment.