"Now, Esther, why do I feel like I've missed an episode?"

Su Mo's whole person was a little like he was in a dream.

"Huh? Mo's words, a little incomprehensible. ”

Esther raised her little head, her face dazed.

"Anyway, we were supposed to be going to fight the snow ape before, right?"

Su Mo pressed his forehead, and he even began to have the illusion of a headache after drinking and hangover-although he had never experienced a drinking hangover, it should be said that there was almost no chance of getting drunk.

"It seems so."

Esther nodded cutely, and then buried himself like a little squirrel, taking small bites but nibbling on the beef jerky in his hand, which was simple to handle but very chewy.

“”

Never mind.

His head tilted back, and then he slammed forward and slammed his palm into the palm of his hand to make a "Smack!" With a crisp sound, Su Mo gave up thinking and picked up the liquor that seemed to be brewed with the purest ice crystals melted from the top of the snow-capped mountain.

-- If someone who is a good drinker sees it, he will cry out for waste.

The place where he and Esther were now was a huge snow cave - a cave, but it was beautifully decorated with utensils made of ice crystals that had not been transformed for many years, candles made of unknown materials shone quite brightly, shining everything around them, and the wine glasses were like diamonds cut to perfection, and the long crystal-like table was filled with all kinds of delicacies.

――From the point of view of Su Mo's feelings, the decoration here is at least far more luxurious than the palaces that the so-called princes and nobles in the human world are proud of.

And if you want to wonder why he and Esther, who were obviously preparing to fight the snow ape, appeared in such a place where a banquet was clearly being held

Let's turn the clock back by half an hour.

"The Welcome Ceremony of the Daisetsuzan Mountains"

Su Mo stroked the long sword with his left hand, feeling the uneven but smooth lines on it, and the snow and wind seemed to have come to a standstill around him.

Then, in his eyes as calm as water, the three hundred and fifty-six snow apes that rushed towards him with fat bodies and strong chests and big stones on their arms that could walk horses stopped in front of Su Mo with hideous faces and majestic momentum as if they were about to crush this endless snowy mountain, and they lined up in two teams to leave a path in the middle.

Then a long bright red blanket rolled down from top to bottom, creating a long passage for Su Mo and Esther.

“”

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Su Mo maintained his previous expression and appearance of stroking the sword and concentrating, and glanced at the snow apes with fierce faces slightly.

Well, the faces are indeed very vicious, but people don't, and the ugly beasts can't blame themselves.

So Su Mo put down the sword in his hand with that unfathomable expression - let Esther transform into a human form again. Then, with that inscrutable expression, he took Esther's little hand and walked onto the carpet with ethereal steps like an immortal.

Then arrive at this palace-like cave.

Then Su Mo began to drink.

Then what he thought was the battle had gone off the beaten track from the beginning.

That's why he was so confused and obedient to the other party's invitation to walk in here.

To be honest, the food was delicious and the wine was quite refreshing.

But there was a problem that still had to be clarified, so Su Mo raised his head:

"At least tell me what you mean."

He can be sure that the other party has absolutely no malicious intent.

"It's—"

And after Su Mo asked, in the deepest part of the cave, at the top of the staircase where countless steps were polished and glittered, the person sitting on the throne in the shadows spoke up.

Very deep male voice, although the tone seems a little slow:

"This is the welcome ceremony of the snow-capped mountains - a supreme powerhouse with the breath of the snowy mountains."

"Oh?"

"Allah, have you gone to those snowy mountains?"

And in distant Edo, in the depths of the main house of the Nura Gumi, in that separate courtyard. The elegant and glamorous lord of the flowers of the four seasons twists the stamens with his bare hands, and the delicate parasol slowly rotates in the other hand.

"I hope it won't be too surprising."

Thinking of the little snow girl who regarded herself as a great enemy at the beginning, but gradually became intimate with herself in the subsequent relationship, a rare smile hung on the corner of Yuxiang's mouth.

For herself, the Snow Maiden's strength is really weak and pitiful, and even in terms of the control of ice and snow, this youkai born from ice and snow is far inferior to the female general in Gensokyo's family who is being domesticated in the direction of the maid.

But strength is actually meaningless to Yuka - no matter what, it doesn't make sense to be strong without her.

But to her so strong?

Thinking about it, Yuka smiled again.

At present, she has only met two people who have the ability to reach or even surpass herself, except for those old friends—one is her favorite brother, and the other is the other

Her brow furrowed invisibly at the thought of the black calamity of complete chaos, and although it quickly calmed down again, her mood was ruined.

But all in all, in Yuka's eyes, Xueli, who is not very powerful, is a lovely girl - a girl who is not afraid of her own strength, and who is only purely emotional from confrontation to being close to herself, is quite a cute child in her eyes.

Because it's scarce, it's cute.

Then Yuka remembered the time when Shirley had blushed and asked for something before she left—and she was a little worried about whether the ice monster would pass out because she was too shy.

"When the time comes, will the child call me aunt or mother?"

Her blood-red eyes narrowed—the light in her eyes was soft.

Kazami Yuka is actually a monster who likes cute little girls, but because her fierce reputation is too strong and her temperament is too fierce, she can completely reach the point of stopping children's night crying, so she rarely can really get close to that kind of pure child.

What's more, she really wanted to see her brother, who rarely showed huge mood swings, when he showed a look of surprise and bewilderment.

In that case it should, no, definitely be very interesting.

Sometimes, in the eyes of outsiders, it is just pure ferocity and cruelty, and the lord of the four seasons of flowers who pulls people away to make slag and bury them in the field without saying a word, is actually quite disgusting.

Well, the kind of cute bad taste that only shows up in front of people close to you.

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, the kind of character that often buries people who are unhappy with them in the fields is actually a kind of bad taste -- a very bad temper of terror to bad taste.

"Xiaomo, sister, I'll wait."

-- Thousands of kilometers away, a certain Xiaomo classmate who was about to talk to the owner of the cave felt a chill behind him. (To be continued.) )