Once upon a time, in this world, youkai stood at the pinnacle of this world and were the overlords of everything.

And among these overlords, there are also various strongest and low-level races??????

Well, after all, for youkai, strength is the root of everything: maybe the race that is called the strongest today will soon be the ration of the new superior race.

Therefore, at that time, in the kind of world that seemed to be chaotic and seemed to be described as [Beast Chaos], not to mention the monsters themselves, even other races seemed to be living in hell, as if the world had turned into a furnace of purgatory.

Of course, the story to be made now is not to complain about the above worldview in detail, but to tell the story of a certain monster when he was young

It was when a monster with the same appearance as Wang Ba was young:

At that time, he was still a young man?????? Ahem, when he was a young demon, he could be said to be the strongest in his race, and even the existence of the strongest in the monster race.

He had never failed, and he had made it a daily routine for his people to slaughter other races, and even his people were terrified of his strength.

However, in the face of this chilling fact, he revealed that he chose to bear and leave silently.

Until she meets a human, a female human: a weak being who has been killed by him for who doesn't know how much, who doesn't know how much he's eaten.

At that time, reality gave him a heavy slap in the face, yes, a very heavy slap in the face!

Originally, the young demon who wanted to kill her because she was hungry and ate her by the way was defeated by the human woman in front of her???????

Being defeated by a creature that youkai regard as food is a fantasy that he can't comprehend as a mountaineer.

However, this unrealistic fantasy has become a reality.

He thought. You should be killed soon, right? He thought so, as if he had accepted his next outcome, and he didn't bother to continue to resist.

He has already committed an unknown number of killings, maybe this is the end he has long been doomed.

However, what happened next was not as straightforward as he had imagined: the woman who had badly wounded him did not kill him, but healed his wounds and put him back.

Incomprehensible. As if he had simply thought that he had met this woman as if he were in a dream, he looked at the woman sitting in the dilapidated house where she lived, a place called a shrine by humans, and looked at the woman sitting inside, showing a puzzled stupor.

Although I know that she is probably called a shrine maiden by humans, but ?????? Why would she be so powerful and still live in such a dilapidated shrine?

Already ingrained in his instinct to eat the jungle, he couldn't understand what was going on with the idea that he was going to kill her and cure her enemies.

Then, somehow, he stayed near this shrine, as if waiting for an opportunity to kill the shrine maiden once she had cleared all her guards, or perhaps wondering how this shrine maiden really existed?

Anyway, for him who has nowhere to go. This kind of behavior can also be a way to kill time.

So, he stayed like a statue in the grove in the aisle of the shrine, and accompanied the lonely shrine maiden for many days with thoughts that he didn't even understand.

After what might be called an observational act, he found ?????? This woman is stupid??????

It's really stupid??????

Even if she has such terrible power, she is unwilling, or would rather almost starve to death than go here to do such a thing as stealing and abducting, as if doing these simple things like eating and drinking is more difficult than killing her.

Even. Even though food and water would also be distributed to those who came to beg, he would say to himself, "This is practice!" Practice! ] and other inexplicable words. It's not like going to the forest to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms that are not poisonous or not?????? And then every time I was not poisoned, I fainted and came back hungry??????

What a completely stupid thing to do.

This time, the feeling of the youkai who carried her back from the forest from the forest who was hungry and faint.

As the days passed, the youkai, who had no sense of time, went about their daily routine: watching this stupid woman and carrying her out of the forest at regular intervals every day.

He even forgot his purpose, and in this way, he went from wanting to hunt troublesome prey to being an animal protector who protected animals.

However, he didn't feel the slightest difference between himself and before.

On the contrary, it still feels. This kind of life is much stronger than the kind of life of doing nothing.

Perhaps, as a turtle, even if it's a youkai, you like this kind of ordinary life, right?

Everything changed until one day in the winter, when he was being woken up from his sleep while he was resting soundly asleep.

The one who woke him up was the shrine maiden. That stupid part-time job is the ultimate woman of kindness woke him up, and then hoped that he could go to the shrine to rest or something??????

Although the temperature is no longer relevant to him?????? But the shrine maiden didn't seem to know that this was the problem.

However, I have to admit that the shrine is in dilapidation, and it is indeed a little warmer than the outside.

But ?????? What kind of mentality did she have to bring a youkai who could eat her into her house and live under the same roof as him?

For the stupid and kind youkai who can probably accept her, it is no longer incomprehensible to this sudden behavior.

But for this opportunity to know what kind of person this witch and this witch who didn't know what words to describe was right in front of him, he finally decided to agree to her words.

So, a youkai who has long forgotten his purpose and a shrine maiden who doesn't know how terrible it is but stupid become a combination??????

However, when he actually joined the group, the youkai realized why this shrine maiden was so stupid.

Helping others never takes money. Whether it was healing or praying, she helped, and the matter was resolved. But she didn't charge any fees from the person being helped, and even the other party took the initiative to give her a gift, but she resolutely refused.

Even if she is regarded as a monster by humans, even if she is regarded as an enemy by youkai, and even disgusted by everyone, she still treats anyone with that beautiful smile. Use your most sincere heart to help anyone??????

For her, what she values is not only human beings, but what she loves is life, whether it is human beings, monsters, or other animals, they are all equal in her heart, she loves them, so when they are in trouble, she will help them......

This time. The youkai finally decided.,I don't know if it's a sudden madness or if I really feel the meaning of survival that I need now.。

He decided that he wanted to protect this smile and that this woman's sincerity must be passed on.

So, he decided to be with this shrine maiden?????? Fell in love with a race that was regarded as food by youkai.

That's right, they fell in love, bonded, and even gave birth to a child.

Until the shrine maiden died. The youkai still accompanied her, and vowed to let her [truth] be passed on.

He educates his daughter in a way that he doesn't understand at all but has the intention to learn to educate humans.

But. Even if it's a youkai and a human offspring, that's what lifespan actually looks like.

So, after her daughter died, he began to look for a new shrine maiden to return?????? Of course, he also followed his lover's words, and all he found was the kind of abandoned babies or orphans and the like. Didn't continue to do things like killing.

Until that day, someone stood in his way.

This time, the one who stood in his way was the gap youkai who had seen one or two sides before, but according to the current name. That little girl seems to have become a so-called monster sage.

She has become a monster sage, and she has come to him to help realize an ideal that is absolutely a fantasy in the eyes of any race, and an ideal place where all races can live happily and happily.

This made him subconsciously stunned for a while, after all, he seemed to have forgotten what the world had become now, as he was focused on his duties.

I don't know, but now humans can already compete with youkai??????

But none of this seems to be his business at all, right? His current mission is just to fulfill his lover's wishes, and it has nothing to do with him as for the ideals of monsters or human beings.

The sage of the youkai was angry at his indifferent attitude, but he could only use something like a mouth cannon for something that might not necessarily be able to beat him.

However, she used the mouth cannon of countless races to refute the mouth cannon of countless races in front of her, which was an old monster in terms of age and strength, as if she had just learned to be a child who had just learned to debate.

I don't understand your great love and your ideals! All I know is that I can no longer take them as a gamble with all my and her hard work to make your dreams come true!

He doesn't need to care about what he is scolded for, and he doesn't need to care about what other people think, he just needs to watch his offspring and children live without complaint.

As for the rest, he didn't care at all.

But he didn't care that it was useless, and the completely unwilling monster sage found that it was useless to persuade him, so he just had to find a [child] status who had the same ideals as her.

Compared to the old man's kind of thinking that he couldn't communicate at all and could guess what she was thinking and what she was going to say next, the kind witch who was doted on by the old man was unexpectedly very good [persuasion].

Even [persuad] that she can take the initiative to talk to Xuanye about something.

However, in the face of a little girl with almost the same personality as her lover, the youkai can't stop anything more??????

You can only use [Ah, maybe she can do it, right?] Naive thinking like that, thinking about things in the best possible way.

However, for the reality that has slapped him in the face I don't know how many times, after seeing the enchantment appear, after seeing the so-called [Dragon God], I fell into the despair of self-spurning??????

For the reality that can no longer be changed, he is like a machine doing what he should do??????

Choose a new shrine maiden to come out. Then I watched them go away in pain?????? Until he couldn't bear the pain anymore, and couldn't bear to continue watching this vain fantasy place become more and more [dark], and finally he chose to sleep??????

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"This is the past of the shrine maidens, the past of Gensokyo...... And my past. ”

In the silence, Xuan Ye finished the last sentence, as if he had lost all his strength. It reveals a tiredness and pain that has never been shown in front of people.

Ling Yan turned to the side again and looked at Xuan Ye in silence, without saying a word, and the dim space returned to calm, until the silence was broken by sneering again.

"Snort......" Ling Yan sat up from the roof, took the cigarette gun out of his watch and took a few puffs, as if he had heard a terrible joke, and laughed almost breathlessly: "Where all races can live together...... Does Yakumo think she is Teijun? (Note 1) Hahahahahahaha ”

It wasn't until a long time later that he finally stopped laughing, but the residual smile on his expression was accompanied by two points of annoyance: "I said." Is she really Reimu and Reimu what is her successor? What did you think of everyone? ”

"It's just a guy who is full of fox smell and likes to peep at people from time to time, what kind of savior-like thinking is there over there." He sneered and played with the cigarette gun in his hand: "The pain is just the self-inflicted work of all living beings, and it is better to give me a quiet ...... if you have time over there to post all kinds of inexplicable feelings that you should save the world Survive like an aunt! ”

"At night, you're here to tell me this information after a long time?"

He looked at the silent Xuanye, raised his voice, and told her in a voice that could not be questioned: "Although it is not very valuable information. But I'm going to accept it, and thank you for taking care of Reimu. Let me meet her.

He lay on the roof again in the same sleeping posture as a mountaintop savage called Yuntianhe, and said in a low voice: "Although it is rude to say such things in my relationship with you, I am not like you!". ”

Xuan Ye finally opened his eyes again and smiled with a sigh: "Is this your choice?" ”

"In front of you is no longer the husband of the shrine maiden Hakurei Reimu as you think, but the god served by the reincarnation of Shiborei Reimu." Ling Yan narrowed his eyes. His eyes were cold: "Since I'm here, I will never let Yakumo Zi do anything to her, and I won't clean up any mess for her, not a finger!" ”

"Since I dare to come, I am not afraid to fight her!"

Xuan Ye was silent for a long time, and the head of the ground whispered to himself: "Sure enough." When you're young and vigorous, it's a good time. ”

However, Ling Yan raised his head, looked at the unpolluted night sky above his head, stretched out his palm, and then clenched his fist.

It seems that he wants to shatter the sky completely!

Xuan Ye watched his movements and smiled, remembering that he seemed to have done something similar to him in the past??????

The gap between himself and this young man who once saw the shadow of the past may be here, right?

He closed his eyes, as if feeling how long it would take him to destroy the foundation of this world, and suddenly spoke: "I said, Xuanye...... You're in line with the witches of the time, aren't you? ”

"The shrine maiden of that time?????? Is it called Hakurei Kikyo? Or is your name Kameyasha? ”

"-Don't give me something unrealistic." Faced with Ling Yan, who suddenly ruined the atmosphere, Xuan Ye suddenly had an urge to give this son-in-law a good education.

"Well, just change the atmosphere." He smiled helplessly and spat out a puff of smoke, and then asked Xuan Ye again, "How did you fall in love with that generation of witches in the first place?" ”

Xuan Ye was still silent, but Bai Shuo was patiently waiting for his answer.

Finally, he whispered, "I don't know. ”

Although the love between humans and demons was not absent in that era, the kind of relationship between Xuan Ye should be considered complete??????

But he didn't feel as if he didn't love her enough??????

Because, he always remembered that he wanted her to transform into a youkai and live with her.

If I had been a little persistent, or even a little more decisive, I had been a little more determined?????? Then, the current monster sage is still just a little girl with a crying nose in her eyes.

But what can we do if we continue to regret and reminisce about what has already happened?

"It's really, useless." Suddenly, he showed a bitter smile and sighed, not knowing whether he was talking about himself or someone else.

Ling Yan smiled at his sudden emotion, he yawned and lay on the roof again to get ready to sleep, but suddenly remembered another question: "By the way, why did you tell me?" ”

"You didn't have to talk about this, and you didn't need to tell me anything about how many people were in Yakumo's purple pit at the beginning."

He looked at Xuanye with a bitter expression, and suddenly felt that he seemed to be able to go that far at any time, and then become a regretful guy like him.

In Ling Yan's gaze, Xuan Ye exhaled, suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and then a set of ??????? appeared in his hand White wedding dress!?

"What is this?" Ling Yan asked suspiciously

"A long time ago, when Reimu was very young, I told her that I would always watch her grow up until she could wear this wedding dress and marry the man she liked...... And then looking forward to giving her baby a maternity bath or something??????"

"Although you kid is very scumbag and useless, but to be honest, I envy it." He rubbed the dress lightly and whispered, "Bo Li and I were also so happy and happy at that time." ”

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Note 1: The person complaining here is the founder of the ideal township in the infinite future~ It is also my favorite character of the infinite stream. (To be continued.) )