"I don't really care, after all, somebody will do it. ¥f Fiction, but is it okay for you to dangle like this? ”

"I don't have to hang around, but I get twenty-four hours of sleep every day."

"Ah, is talking to me an extra amount of time now?"

"Yes, yes. So it's hard. ”

"I really don't want to do hard work, and it's great if you can find a helper."

"yes."

The voice stopped.

"Huh? Was anyone here just now? Yuyuko-sama. ”

A young girl with short silver hair walked into the room, which was a quaintly decorated Japanese-style room. The girl looked at the familiar room, obviously she had heard a faint voice at the door just now, but when she walked in, she found that there was only one person inside.

"Demon dreams."

The only person in the room, Yuyuko of Seighiroji Temple, turned around.

This is the White Jade Tower, a large house located in the underworld. As the name suggests, the underworld is a place where ghosts, spirits, and the like live, or it can also be called a temporary residence. In this world, when a person dies, he will cross the Three Ways River, and then pass through the judgment of Hades and go to hell, the underworld, or the heavenly realm according to his sins. Hell is naturally a place where sinful people go, the heavenly realm is where Buddhahood goes, and the underworld is a world where sinless people stay as ghosts before becoming a Buddha or being reincarnated.

And Yuyuko of Seogyoji, a girl who looks completely indistinguishable from ordinary people in a gorgeous kimono, is actually an undead. However, unlike the average deceased, she is able to control the ghosts, and is authorized by the Enma to manage the ghosts, and can live in the underworld forever. He is the owner of this white jade building.

"Spring is a little late this year."

After receiving the refreshments from the silver-haired girl, the soul demon dream, Yuyuko drank the tea comfortably, making a lazy sound. The result did not answer the question before the demon dream.

"Because it was suddenly cold before."

The demon dream that was already used to Yuyuko Xiàn didn't care. She is the court master and swordsmanship instructor of the White Jade Building in the underworld, and usually does the work of cleaning and guarding the house. Being in the underworld, she is naturally not an ordinary person, she is a unique being called a half-spirit, half ghost and half human.

"Ah, it's cold."

Yuyuko seems to have just remembered.

"I'd love to see the cherry blossoms bloom soon, but when does the cherry blossom viewing at the shrine start?"

"It's not clear, it seems that because there are always events happening in the present world this time, there is no time to prepare."

"That's right."

"That, Yuyuko-sama."

"What's wrong? Demon Nightmare. ”

"That's right, there have been some disturbances in the underworld lately, and there are always ghosts running to the present world."

"Isn't it because the barrier is thinning?"

"Although this is the case, the situation is more severe than ever."

"I see."

Yuyuko looked at the undeveloped cherry blossom trees in the garden.

"Then please ask Youmeng to investigate."

"Yes, Yuyuko-sama."

"Ah, yes!"

"Any other commands?"

"Well, bring some refreshments."

Hearing Yuyuko's words, Yume's gaze moved down, and he found that the original plate full of refreshments was gone.

"Yuyuko-sama~~~"

Youmu made a grumbling sound.

"Alright, let's go."

Yuyuko just smiled and urged.

…………

The peaceful daily life of Gensokyo continues, even if it was harassed by monsters not long ago, it soon returned to normal.

At this time, the only thing that is still lingering is the opportunity of the beginning of the qiē incident, the little bell who lost the demon book. Although most of the Demon Books have been recovered, there are still a few that have not been found. And the few remaining books, Shiki and Reimu, they didn't find them. This makes Reimu, who is rarely diligent, exhausted his spirits and began his life in the shrine again.

But the incident is not over, it is just that it is not noticed, so it will always be discovered.

The cause of the incident originated from a family in a human village, which was the death day of their elders, and after the family came to the cemetery to perform sacrifices, an accident occurred when they were preparing to return at dusk.

Dusk, day and night alternate the most vulnerable time of the world, the moment of demons. It was at that time that the family saw terrible ghosts in an uninhabited cemetery.

They fled and ran back to the village, and word spread through the village.

This kind of ghost story on the night road generally does not arouse people's attention, and most people will think that the family has seen it wrong. But then someone encountered a ghost in the cemetery, which made the ghost story sour. The haunting of the cemetery began to cause panic.

Because he lived in the village, Shiki knew about it for the first time.

So after asking the villagers about the location of the cemetery, he set out to investigate the matter.

When he arrived at the cemetery, he found that someone had already arrived first.

"Good afternoon, Reimu."

"Oh, the four seasons."

The person who appeared in the cemetery was Reimu, and it was understandable for a shrine maiden to take action after hearing about it.

"Have you heard about the haunting, too?"

"Yes."

Shiki comes to Reimu's side.

"Did you find anything?"

"Yes."

Reimu raised an eyebrow, then pointed to the ground in front of her.

Shiki looked in the direction she was pointing, and there was a footprint on the yellow earth between the cemeteries.

"It doesn't seem to be the footprints of the villagers."

"Hmm."

The footprints are about the size of ordinary people's feet, and the shape is similar to that of people, so it is certain that they are not left by wild beasts. However, one distinctive feature distinguishes it from the villagers, the one that left the footprints was not wearing shoes.

Although the civilization of human villages is not as developed as that of outsiders, it is not without shoes, and there is no habit of barefoot sacrifice here.

"There are a lot of footprints like that."

Reimu said as she led Shiki to the depths of the cemetery, and sure enough, as she said, there were many footprints.

"Here."

They stopped in front of a cemetery, where the footprints were concentrated, and what was even more striking was that the place where the dead were buried, that is, the grave was dug up.

Shiki leaned down to take a closer look at the excavated grave.

"Is this one the only grave being dug up?"

"Well, that's the only one."

"This is the most recent tomb to be buried."

The Four Seasons just saw the period on the tombstone.

Generally speaking, there are two situations in which a grave is dug up, one is a grave robber, and the other is a scavenging animal.

There is no custom of burial goods for humans here, so the occurrence of tomb robbers is almost negligible, and it is very simple to judge the second one, just to see if the body is intact.

"Has Reimu checked the grave?"

"Nope."

"Then I'll check it out."

"You're not going to be serious, are you?"

Faced with Reimu's bad-looking face, Shiki nodded.