Early the next morning, Hakurei Reimu left Hakurei Shrine with his computer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Melly They didn't go to Youkai Mountain together.,First, the two of them just arrived in Gensokyo.,If you leave the Hakurei Shrine rashly, you may encounter some ignorant little monsters attacking them.,Although they will act together with Reimu.,But when they get to Youkai Mountain, they can't always follow Reimu.,Always go around and watch the scenery by yourself.。 The second is that the girl thinks that the strength of the two is too weak.,So there's a certain fear of leaving the shrine.,And she doesn't trust the Hirori witch, a shrine girl who has monsters every day at her own shrine.,So after some entanglement,Merry listened to the girl's words and stayed at the shrine and didn't follow Reimu.。

"Then are you going to go with me to the earth?" After Reimu left, Yunmeng asked the girls, "I'm going to go to the world to buy food, it's still very safe, if you want to go out and see the scenery of Gensokyo, you can go to the world with me first." ”

"The existence of the human world feels like the monsters are deliberately raising humans in captivity as rations." The girl had already learned a lot about Gensokyo from all sides, and after hearing Yunmeng mention the world, she blurted out her opinion of it, "As long as I think about this, I feel uncomfortable, so forget it." ”

Because the girl didn't agree, Mei Li could only shake her head and say that she wanted to grow old with the girl: "If Lianzi doesn't go, I won't go either." But that's not what you said before......"

"Actually, the existence of the human world is not what you think...... Well, forget it, I think that's what I sometimes do. Yunmeng, who wanted to say something, saw that Meili and the girl were stuck in some kind of communication that outsiders couldn't intervene in, so she shrugged her shoulders and said goodbye and left the Hakurei Shrine.

“…… I always feel that you are getting more and more different from before. Eh, when did Miss Yunmeng leave? A few minutes later, after talking to Renzi, Mei Li realized that Yunmeng had left the shrine.

"She's been gone for a while." The girl had noticed Yunmeng's departure, but the most important thing to her was Melly, so she didn't bother to say hello to Yunmeng when she left.

"That's right...... "Melly blinked, looking at Lotus Seed, who had been silent lately, "After they left, it felt a lot more deserted." Isn't there anyone visiting Hakurei Shrine either? Ah, forget that the world is some distance from here, and I guess most people will be attacked by youkai before they can even get to the shrine. ”

"I don't know who stipulated that the shrine must be built on a mountain." The girl complained.

"There shouldn't be a rule on that, right? No, I think it's just that those who built the shrine thought that building it on the mountain would have a sense of mystery and would make it easier to cheat the incense money out of it......"

"You're just talking about liars who deceive people in the name of gods, but there are clearly gods here...... Well, it doesn't seem like there are any gods enshrined at Hakurei Shrine. ”

"Speaking of which, most shrines are named after the deities they enshrine, but what exactly is the deity of Hakurei Shrine? You can't have no gods at the shrine in the first place, right? ”

"It can't be that the Witches of Hakurei are all descendants of the gods, right? After all, their surnames are the same as the name of the shrine. ”

"But no matter how much we guess, we can't get the right answer, after all, even the shrine maiden herself doesn't know anything, and she can't guess what the truth is."

Melly, who ended the topic like this, suddenly said, "Speaking of which, there are only two of us at the shrine now." ”

“？” The girl looked at Melly for some reason, was she still going to do something unseemly? But Melly doesn't seem to be that kind of person, does she?

"Didn't I say it yesterday, we'll talk about it when the time is right." Melly smiled and pulled the girl's hand over and placed it on her lap.

"I ......" The girl who wanted to escape opened her mouth but didn't know what to say, and finally gave the initiative to Melly, "What do you want to ask?" ”

"Well, let me think about it......" Melly thought as she dragged her chin and tilted her head.

After a few seconds, Melly said as if she had thought of something interesting, "Let's talk about what happened that night, right?" How did you get pink eye overnight? ”

The girl's expression stiffened suddenly, and it took a while for her to reply, "If you're asking about lotus seeds, I don't know; If it's me......"

"Aren't you really a lotus seed?" Only halfway through listening, Melly couldn't contain the surprise in her heart.

"Didn't I say I'm not a lotus seed?" The girl asked rhetorically, looking away.

"But Renzi shouldn't have any cousins......" Merry pondered the girl's behavior after the two of them met, and then asserted, "But even if you are not Lianzi, you can never be her sister!" But I think I've said that...... Anyway, there must be some kind of connection between you, right? ”

The girl was silent for a while before she slowly asked Melly, "If not only am I not a lotus seed, but the disappearance of the lotus seed happened because of me, then what would you think of me?" ”

Melly, who wanted to say a few jokes to relax the atmosphere, saw that the girl's face was extremely serious, so she also corrected her expression: "Although you have been emphasizing that you are not a lotus seed, do you know? Lotus seeds, or rather violets. I've always thought you were a lotus seed! Because there will never be people in this world who not only look so similar, but also have the same habits and movements. ”

The girl immediately showed a relieved but somewhat uncontrollable expression of loss, she thought carefully for a moment and then tried to calm her voice: "Melly, do you believe the theory of parallel universes? ”

"What?" The abrupt change in the subject made Melly a little confused.

"I came here from another world. I'm not your lotus seed ......," the girl tried to explain.

"Even if it's not the lotus seed of this world, it's still a lotus seed." Melly, who thought the girl was talking about the middle two setting, laughed.

"But I'm not a lotus seed from another world." The girl, who didn't know what Mei Li was thinking, continued to explain, "In my world, you and Renzi have both died in an accident......

"So what Reimu said is true, you are actually my daughter and Renzi?!" Melly had a horrified look on her face.

"How can girls have children among themselves!" The girl, who was always interrupted, finally couldn't help but complain loudly.

"Okay, okay." In the face of the angry girl, Melly raised her hand to indicate that she would not talk nonsense anymore.

"......" The girl pondered for a moment before remembering what she should say, "In that world, after you and Renko died, Professor Yumemi Okazaki used the body of the newly dead Renko to put together your body and saved Renzi - Professor Yumemi Okazaki originally thought so, but the operation seemed to have gone wrong, and Renko was not really revived, and it was me, a person who had the appearance of Renko but no memory of her, and only the memory of when you were together......

"That's so......" Melly began to believe the girl's words a little, after all, the girl's behavior all along and the sad and inexplicable expression on her face now could not be faked.

"That's right, originally I was working on a time machine with my professor to go back in time and save you who weren't killed yet, but now it seems that the machine didn't really succeed as we thought, and instead brought me to this place that is supposed to be a parallel world." Although there are still many things that have not been clarified, the general situation is finally explained.

"But how can you be sure that you're not coming to the past or the future?" Melly asked curiously.

"Because the timing is wrong. If it's the future, you shouldn't be alive; And if it's in the past, time doesn't match. In fact, after coming to this world, I determined the time, and the date of the world I was in was a little earlier than the date of this world. ”

"In other words, if the time of this world is compared to the world you are in, it should belong to the future, and I am still alive in the 'future', which is obviously wrong, right? That's what you're judging, aren't you? Mei Li thought for a moment and asked, "Let's not talk about whether you are a lotus seed or not, how are you sure that the disappearance of lotus seeds has something to do with you?" ”

"This ...... Actually, this is just my inference, I used to read a science fiction novel in a science magazine to which the professor subscribed, which is similar to my current situation, in which the protagonist arrives in a parallel world and then takes the place of the world he arrived in......"

"No, there's a problem here!" Mei Li had a blind student's expression of discovering Hua Dian, "Since you said that you are not a lotus seed, how can you replace my lotus seed and make the lotus seed disappear?" If you're right, then you shouldn't deny that you're a lotus seed! ”

"This ......" The girl was speechless for a while, but she immediately found a new excuse, "Maybe I have a problem with my understanding of parallel worlds, after all, it's just a novel, and the actual world rules may be more complicated and maybe ......"

"Actually, I originally thought that Lotus Seed was captured by some monster, what do you think of this speculation?" Melly looked at the girl who was a little anxious and couldn't explain it, so she smiled and threw out a new guess.

"......" The girl suddenly froze for a while, and then nodded slowly, "It's not impossible, in the world I'm in, you and Lianzi died from the attack of youkai." When you were on your way to Gensokyo's exposed barrier node in the outside world, you were attacked and killed by a youkai, and Hasuko's last memory was only a trace of golden light. Maybe you're right, maybe it's a monster attack......"

"Golden youkai...... It's no wonder that every time you saw someone with golden features at yesterday's banquet, you unconsciously got nervous. Melly suddenly realized.

"Hmm." The girl nodded, "If it's really a youkai, Yakumo Murasaki is the most suspicious of the youkai we've seen so far, and her ability to do this kind of thing is the easiest to do, but she shouldn't have the motivation for this right now." ”

Yakumo, who was shot again, silently turned off the surveillance of them in the gap, and began to think about who would do such a thing in the world where the girl was; And if Melly's guess is correct, who captured the lotus seeds in this world? But if the girl's reasoning is correct, then what will happen to Gensokyo without Hashiko?