Gensokyo, Hakurei Shrine.

On the roof, an undisciplined shrine maiden and a black cat lie on it at the same time, but the two have very different reasons for staying here. The latter is lazy basking in the sun because of her nature as a cat, and the former is because the shrine's finances are in great crisis again, forcing her to try photosynthesis......

"Reimu, let's go beg!" The Four Heavenly Kings of the Ghost Clan, dressed in red and white witch costumes, shouted at the roof without any sense of shame.

“……”

No response.

"Reimu, Reimu?" Ibuki called out a few more times in confusion, but unfortunately no one answered.

An ominous thought suddenly broke into Cuixiang's heart.

"No, it won't...... Could it be that Reimu her? ”

Starving?

Tsuika shuddered, and flew onto the roof in a panic, shaking vigorously the undisciplined shrine maiden who painted her whole body green.

"Hey, Reimu, wake up! Feed! ”

Just when Watermelon (watermelon and Cuixiang have the same pronunciation in Japanese) was about to cry in a hurry, Reimu suddenly opened her eyes and said helplessly, "Now, Cuixiang, can I ask you a question?" As she spoke, the red and white shrine maiden changed her posture so that her whole body could better receive the sun's rays.

By the way...... She's whole-fruited.

"Reimu, you're alright! Great, great! ”

"Of course I'm fine. Unless there's Nabong in the cash box, I'm never going to die! ”

"Uh-huh, so Reimu can live forever with me."

“…… I always feel like something is wrong with this. ”

"Speaking of questions, Reimu what did you just want to ask me?"

"Oh, that's it. It's simple, I just wanted to ask you...... Do plants speak? ”

"Huh? Of course plants can talk. ”

“…… yes, then I'll have no problem talking. ”

"Na Reimu, let's go out and beg, shall we? It's definitely not going to fill your stomach. ”

"No, I feel like my ** is getting lighter and lighter, and the hunger or something has long since disappeared. Ahh......hhhhhhh Meantime. A white ball slowly floated out of her mouth.

"Ah, the souls are out! Give me back! Shocked, Cuixiang grabbed the mochi-like soul and shoved it back into the shrine maiden's mouth.

"Ugh. I've already seen the feast......" Reimu showed a very regretful expression.

"Reimu, I'll take you to the house for a long meal ticket for a big meal!"

"Huh? No way. Because of the two of us, Marisa even lost her family......"

"Then eat her!"

"Hey, this kind of speech is too dangerous!"

"I don't care!"

The wayward Ghost Clan Heavenly King picked up the green Reimu and rushed into the distance.

"Ahh Slow down, slow down, it's very physically demanding......"

By the way, the undisciplined at this time...... Still whole fruit.

The black cat lying on the roof snorted, and glanced at the witch who was drifting away with some nostalgia.

"The girl with the fruit body, it's really hard to see meow...... In the three-dimensional. ”

"If you want to see it, wouldn't it be easy? Watch AV go. ”

"My half-body, it's vulgar to talk like that, isn't it? Hawkers,Anyway, it's not like we don't have a real sister.,Wouldn't it be more ...... to see my sister's fruit."

“Stop！ Half-body, you're talking too much! ”

"Mmmmmm

"Let her say meow, there's nothing strange about it anyway. It's not like we've never seen my sister's fruit. I used to take a bath and sleep together. But when I went back this time, I found that my sister had changed so much, and the longer she looked, the more she looked like Ben Meow when she was young......" The black cat pillowed its head on the overlapping paws and sighed.

"Half of my body, I can't get married to a girl like you."

"Hey, hey, this meow is not talking about looks but personality, soul is light! Well, it's a fact that the longer she gets, the more beautiful she becomes. Alas, I have a lot of regrets about going back this time, but the biggest one is not being able to sleep with my sister......" The black cat sighed and muttered with great regret.

“…… Half-body, you're talking about sleeping in the conventional sense, right? ”

“…… Meow Meow~"

"Sell your sister's cuteness. You speak the human language to the concubine! ”

"Meow Meow~"

"What? You say cats can't speak human language? So what did you just say? Cat language? ”

The Holy Dragon Maiden shrugged her shoulders helplessly, and suddenly turned her head to everyone in front of the screen and said, "Don't worry about my half-body, they are a pair of stupid people." Next...... Well, I'll look at the script. Not. Well, I see. She pulled out a sketchbook from behind her and nodded as she flipped through it.

"Next, the third chapter of the new year - the Lantern Festival of Nightmare Meow, opens!"

"Ahem, you said it was early...... It's still daytime. ”

"Well. My half-body, does time still mean anything to you and me? ”

“…… No. ”

"Isn't that the end of ......?"

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In the blink of an eye, it was dark.

"Time is really meaningless...... the profiteer sighed as he sat on the roof, looking at the round moon.

"My half-body, I feel that those things might as well go down and greet the guests."

"Don't you want it, isn't it okay to have Reimu and Cuixiang? Besides, this is Reimu's shrine, so why did the concubine go down to greet guests. ”

"No, a couple of dangerous people have come in......"

"Dangerous?"

"Don't forget, today is the Lantern Festival."

"Lantern Festival...... The full moon of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month! ”

Behind the shrine, a young blue goblin pokes out half of its head. This goblin is only about one meter three or four, and at first glance it is reminiscent of things like "ice". Not that her expression was cold, but because of the three pairs of diamond-shaped ice crystals floating behind her...... Truth be told, the goblin's appearance has nothing to do with ice.

"Miso, the teacher didn't come, did he?"

Known as "Miso", he is a fairy with short green hair and a yellow bow that ties his left hair into a ponytail. Identical to the previous Ice Elf, she was only about the same height as a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl from an ordinary human. All goblins have good looks, and she is no exception.

"Don't worry, it's not ......"

“CAVED！！！！”

The girl who suddenly appeared grabbed the poor goblin and "smashed" the other party's head with a hammer. The girl has waist-length white hair and wears a green dress. The scarlet eyes are clearly the changed color. The long horns that grow on the head are no exception.

By the way, at the moment when the head hammer hits the big goblin, "CAVED!!! The words automatically appeared behind the girl, still in bold and bold......

"Miso!" The Ice Elf cried out indignantly.

The girl with long white hair threw garbage and stuffed the elf's unconscious body into the sack behind her. Then he looked at a certain goblin with a serious face, who had not escaped yet. If you take a closer look, you will find that there is a layer of black gas around the girl, and it is completely blackened.

"Where's your homework?"

The goblin shrunk his head and muttered, "Who would write such an old-fashioned homework......"

"Huh?"

"I forgot my homework at home!"

The corners of the girl's mouth hooked up a cruel arc: "Children who lie will be punished...... This is the same principle of the past and the present. ”

“CAVED！！！！”

Another headbutt. Poor Gensokyo "the strongest" fell under the teacher's horns like this.

"Below...... Who hasn't done their homework yet? The girl muttered to herself and disappeared into the moonlight.

On the roof, two dragon girls and a certain black cat swallowed in unison.

"Half-body, when we were still in school, we didn't meet Huiyin as a teacher, and I was so happy." The black cat has palpitations in his heart.

"Huh? The half of the concubine's body, yesterday you said 'it would be nice if Huiyin were my teacher', right? ”

"My half-body, isn't that something that can be easily understood? He had just finished shooting a plane in front of Huiyin's notebook, so he would naturally say that. ”

"That's right."

"Speaking of the Lantern Festival, I don't know if you know the allusions here......"

The profiteer reluctantly picked up the black cat and stuffed it into his chest.

"Nightmare, don't copy Baidu Encyclopedia anymore......"

"Mmmm......mm Not...... Meow ......"

"Huh? What are you talking about? ”

The Holy Dragon Maiden broke the hand of the dragon profiteer. snatched the black cat into his arms.

"You're going to suffocate him like that."

"What? What you're doing now is no different from what you just did as a concubine! ”

"Of course it's different, it's just that you don't notice it."

"Don't talk nonsense, return the Nightmare!"

"Don't."

“…… I want to fight again, right, half-body. ”

"Come on, who's afraid of whom?"

The flames of war were ignited in this way...... A certain black cat also jumped off the roof.

The complaining officer said, let's leave this pair of girls alone. Lens, lens-kun? Trouble turning around.

As soon as the camera turns, the scene changes to Hakurei Shrine.

The small shrine is crowded with young girls, and all kinds of lanterns are neatly arranged on both sides of the crowd. Of course. Naturally, these lanterns could not have been provided by the poor Hakurei shrine maiden. In fact, they have nothing to offer but venues...... Drinks, food, and lanterns were all brought by other girls. What's even more tragic is that each place has to come up with the lantern that best represents itself. The proposal that "the best thing we can represent at the shrine is poverty, so let's all come to us" was rejected, so they had to tighten their belts and make a lantern......

By the way, the lantern of Hakurei Shrine is that the Hakurei shrine maiden herself is standing there with a lantern for people to see, with a pair of very strange blood-stained cat ears on her head, and behind her is a strange cat tail that is also bloodstained.

Of course...... Or the fruit body.

"Hey, don't look at me like that! I don't want to be a fruit anymore. But it can't be helped! I bought this lantern when the clothes were gone, and now we don't have a penny for the shrine! Suddenly, the shrine maiden's eyes lit up as if she remembered something, and she said loudly, "Sell cute, sell cute!" 100,000, only 100,000! ”

The most representative of the Boli Shrine.,Sure enough, it's still undisciplined......

"Woo, I really want to buy a cute ......" Miss Remilia's drooling at the sight, without the majesty of the owner of the Red Devil Pavilion.

"Miss, please don't do this...... Our lanterns are losing their shape. ”

"Naw. Sakiya. ”

"Huh?"

"I'd like to ask ......"

"Please, Miss, the maid will answer all your questions for you."

“…… Why, the lanterns in our Red Devil Pavilion are like this! Remilia was completely called out later.

Why is this happening...... Quite simply, the lantern in the Red Devil Pavilion is the fruit body of Remilia with her hands crossed and laughing in the sky. Two small lanterns with bats tattooed on their wings hang from them. As for why the Red Devil Pavilion, which has a big business, why did it also learn from Hakurei Shrine...... Well, who let their family's only source of wealth be sent to a certain world.

The Tucao has to complain.,Your sister's Red Devil Pavilion doesn't rely on Patchouli to draw your brother Gui Doujinzhi to make a living!

"Compared to our Eternal Pavilion, the lanterns in the Red Devil Pavilion are really weak." The Moon Sage, Eight Meanings, sat on the side and chuckled softly.

"Cut. Are you embarrassed to say? Aren't you the same? ”

That's right, Bayi Yonglin was indeed sitting on the ground, but she was placed there as a lantern...... In order to embody the nobility of the people of the moon, she wore no clothes.

You must say a word about the Tucao service! What is that? Can the fruit body reflect the nobility of the people of the moon? What kind of nobility is this, the soul is faint!

"Hmph, ignorant humans, the eternity of the Moon People is beyond your comprehension."

I can't understand it, my soul is faint, but if I can understand it, it's really a problem!

"Sage, is your family's manpower really lacking to this point......" Yakumo Zi sighed, sympathetic.

“…… I'm the only one in the entire Forever Pavilion. ”

"What about the rabbits?"

"Summoned away."

"Poor Sage ......"

Speaking of which. Purple, why are your people still so neat? ”

“…… Don't talk about Yonglin, our Jialan will soon pass. ”

“HOHO~”

"Hey, did you just make a weird noise?"

"No, you heard me wrong. By the way, what about your lanterns? ”

"Cut, it's not because the blue guy won't let the orange come, and he said something like 'I can only see the orange fruit, only I can see it!' Something like that. ”

“…… Hey, why are your lanterns also fruity! ”

"Guess? As a sage, you must be able to guess. ”

"It's a guess. Didn't the representatives of your family just throw away the festival like the Witch of Hakurei? ”

“……”

"Purple, I'm coming." Suddenly, a voice stepped in. The speaker was a girl with pink shoulder-length hair and a ghostly hat on her head. A face without a hint of human fireworks. The towering breasts that are not inferior to Yonglin, the pale skin without a trace of blood, all have an inviolable temperament that is not like what a human should have.

In fact, she's a ghost.

"Yuyuko, where is your family's court master?"

"Oh, youmu. I'm using it as a lantern over there. The ghost girl with a plate of balls in her hand pointed to the other side, and then stuffed a ball into her mouth.

“…… Your family too! ”

Yes, the lantern in Bai Yulou is no different from the others, and it is also a girl with a fruit body standing there, with a lantern hanging on the long knife in her right hand.

"Well, because I'm a ghost."

The complaining officer said...... Ghosts don't need to wear clothes, don't they have a dull soul! Forget it, spitting one by one will exhaust the spit service to death......

In addition to these strange "lanterns", the lanterns of the remaining girls are also extremely wonderful.

Yongjiang Yijiu, who crossed his waist with one hand and pointed to the sky with the other, was surrounded by thunder and light all the time, and the words "I have a posture and I am proud" were composed with thunder and lightning on the top of his head...... The lantern is hung on the word "I" and the word "Hao".

Kappa Heavy Industries appeared in Kawashiro Natori himself, wearing a pair of armor covered by all but the body, "Kappa must be a high-quality personal machine suitable for all combat domains, and the Knight Branch Armed Divine Machine" ...... Lanterns are hung on a pair of rear wings.

As for the rest...... Except that the lanterns are uniform, the rest are no different from the others. There are differences, but they are very small, and they are all in the form of expression...... In other words, the fruit body and the girl have become "ordinary" here, but the "lanterns" wearing clothes are really strange......

There is also a pure man mixed in the group of girls, but it's a pity that it's a......

The lively lantern festival continues, reaching its peak in the middle of the moon.

"Everyone, take out the Lantern Festival and share it!" The profiteer stood on the roof and shouted. Of course. It is also a fruit body.

Clothes are too fragile or something......

"The feast begins!" The Holy Dragon Maiden announced in a loud voice, also with her body in shape.

"Hey, half-body, why are you robbing the concubine's lines?"

"My half-body. You and I are one and the same, so naturally there is no need for the language to be so detailed, right? ”

"This can't be done, this is a line written by Darknight, for the concubine!"

"So, we should talk about it together."

“…… You're just looking for fault, aren't you? ”

"Oh? Half of my body. I didn't say that. ”

"Hmph, come, have a good fight!"

"I've never been afraid of you in a fight."

The war, which had finally stopped, began again......

"I'm just waiting for your words! Cuixiang, let's go! Reimu threw the lantern in his hand, his eyes glowing green, and he rushed to the other girls like hungry wolves.

"Good, Reimu! You have to eat your stomach today! ”

"Of course, let's eat it with a stomach!"

Things won't be as rosy as they think.

"Poof! What kind of stuffing is this? "The shrine maiden just swallowed a Lantern Festival and immediately vomited it, and even her incomparably powerful stomach couldn't withstand the Lantern Festival of the Red Devil Pavilion.

"Huh? Filled with blood. Don't like to eat? ”

“…… Change one! ”

The shrine maiden came to the stall of the Eternal Pavilion.

"Please use it, the Lantern Festival from the Moon Capital is a treasure I brought down?"

The witch who had just brought the Lantern Festival to her mouth suddenly hesitated.

"This ...... What's stuffing? ”

"Eternally stuffed."

“…… Your sister, it's Penglai's medicine, it's a faint soul! ”

Although the medicine of Penglai made by the sage of the moon can give people eternal life, it is ...... It depends on her mood. There's nothing strange in it when she's in a good mood, but when she's in a bad mood...... Tsk, no one knows what's inside.

"Cut."

"Hey, did you just make any strange noises?"

"No, it must be your delusion."

“…… Forget it, let's change it. ”

The witch directly crossed Yakumo Zi's stall and came to the stall of the White Jade Building.

"Huh? Why don't you come and eat my Lantern Festival? I've got a lot of things to prepare! Yakumo Zi said dissatisfiedly.

Reimu was expressionless. As a matter of course, he said: "Anyway, it's all stuffed with kitsch, so it's okay not to eat it." ”

“…… How do you know. ”

"If you give me food, there is no ...... that does not put flattering medicine"

"Ahra, little Reimu. Then eat a little of ours, right? This is the confident work of Youmeng. ”

Reimu's eyes lit up. She knew that, unlike her master, the half-human, half-spirit court master was quite normal and disciplined. The food she makes, it's sure to be edible!

“…… By the way, there are also two easter eggs in it, which I made with my own hands. ”

“…… What? ”

"Well. The Lantern Festival should also represent ourselves like the lanterns. Just like the Lantern Festival at Hakurei Shrine, it represents poverty ......"

That's right, that's why there is no one in front of the stall at Hakurei Shrine.

Their Lantern Festival is made of soil!

“…… That is, this is ghost-stuffed? ”

"Correct."

The chopsticks in Reimu's hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and he looked behind him in despair.

None of them are normal.

“…… Cuixiang, implement a backup plan! ”

"Huh? Reimu, do you really want to use it? ”

"It must be used!"

"Okay...... " Cuixiang sighed, suddenly grabbed the cat demon beside her, and walked to the kitchen with Reimu......

In the sky, the two dragon maidens gasped.

"Hmph, it's a tie again."

"Inevitably, because we are one."

"Then shake hands and make peace, right?"

"No problem, that's exactly what I mean."

"Speaking of which, why haven't you seen the Nightmare all this time?"

"He? I must have gone below to 'see the lanterns'. ”

“…… Pervert. ”

"Well, what about the pervert."

"Ah, it's been this time, huh? Hawkers, half-body, let's talk about today's closing words. ”

"Okay."

The two girls cleared their throats and ignored the steps of getting dressed...... Because there are no clothes.

"After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this year is coming to an end."

"yes, I don't know how everyone is doing in the past fifteen days?"

"I don't know about this, anyway, we haven't been calm since the seventh day of the first month. Forget it, let him go with the wind. However, although I don't know how everyone is doing, the concubine knows a very important point. ”

"Tell me?"

"No matter what the year is, we are there for you. Come here when you're laughing, and come here when you're sad. This is not a novel, this is the home of Nightmare, our home, and it can be everyone's home. We share our feelings with you, and we want you to share your feelings with us. ”

"That's right. Whether it's happy or sad, it's all our truest feelings. ”

"Fate has brought us together."

"Fate gives us the opportunity to get acquainted."

"We'll try."

"We ...... We need everyone's support. ”

"You don't need to subscribe, you just need everyone to talk in the book group or in the comment area."

"That's enough."

"So ......"

"So?"

"I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival!" (To be continued.) )

PS: (Maybe I'll break off tomorrow...... I can't find an Internet café, bastard, this is a bastard with a tree sent by Shou Ji! ）