Baby Reimu holds a teacup in her hand and quietly looks at the sky of Gensokyo. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoA faint white heat rises from the mouth of the cup, and finally slowly dissipates into a faint mist that is difficult to see with the naked eye above the child's head.

At this time, it is the season of the ninth winter, and everything returns to silence. The floor of the shrine has long been covered by the first heavy snow, but there is no lazy shrine maiden to clean it for half a minute. Heavy snow also accumulated on the branches and roofs of the surrounding houses, and one couldn't help but wonder if the shrine, which had fallen into disrepair, would survive this winter.

At this moment, a pair of sinful black hands quietly reached for the young girl's neck......

Reimu exhaled a thick white breath, and said indifferently without looking back: "Who should I be, is it purple?" She sighed, took a sip of tea, and continued helplessly: "Put the prank or something aside, don't you know that you are a big monster who eats people?" The humans in the human world have been offering high bounties for the heads of the monsters in the gap, aren't you afraid that I will kill you in exchange for money when I get excited? ”

Yakumo Zi withdrew his sinful black hands, half-leaned on the red and black gap and said, "My little Reimu wouldn't do that, right?" ”

"Thanks to you, the finances of Hakurei Shrine are getting tighter and tighter." Reimu glanced at a certain big youkai dissatisfied, "I just had a storm of man-eating monsters some time ago, and now who doesn't know that the shrine maidens and youkai at Hakurei Shrine are the same raccoon dogs?" No one entrusted me to kill the youkai, where will the shrine have money. ”

"Hey Little Reimu, do you really want to exchange my head for money?" Yakumo Zi showed a sad expression, and pretended to wipe away her tears. It's a pity that her acting skills are completely a scumbag in the eyes of her own gods, just like the kind of scream of "ah-" in a scene, and then get a boxed lunch without chicken legs and leave.

Reimu looked at her with a flat gaze, and only after she looked uncomfortable that she didn't come out with three words.

"Not necessarily."

Yakumo Purple was really a little frightened at this time, you must know that under the Hakurei Great Enchantment, one of the founders of her Gensokyo, is no match for the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, and if the other party really moves to kill, he can't even run away.

"I'm the youkai in charge of maintaining the Hakurei Great Enchantment, if you kill my Gensokyo, I'll definitely be gone!" A certain monster sage retracted into the gap, and his head was exposed, as if he had decided that the situation was not good, and immediately fled.

"I'm just kidding." Reimu looked away and said flatly.

"You don't look like you're joking at all, are you?"

"It's thousands of years old. Can you have a little bit of the dignity of a big monster? Reimu waved her hand impatiently, quite dissatisfied with the cute old woman in front of her.

"What a few thousand years old, I'm only seventeen." Yakumo Zi was not even ready for her life for the sake of her age, so she directly drilled out of the gap and grabbed the young girl's shoulder, and continued word by word: "Listen, I. Only. Yes. Ten. Seven. Year! ”

A huge invisible aura rose from Reimu's body, and she gently unloaded the old woman's hand.

"Yes, yes, yes. Forever seventeen years old. The young girl sighed, as if inadvertently: "I heard the old man say that this year's heavy snow is rare once in decades." Purple. Does seeing this snowy scene remind you of your own childhood? That Cambrian winter? ”

"Uh......" Yakumo Murasaki really looked at the snow scene and fell into deep thought, as if she really remembered her childhood, and muttered, "Yes, it also snowed like this that year......"

Then she came back to her senses as if she suddenly remembered something, and said angrily: "What a Cambrian winter, where am I so old!" ”

Reimu nodded thoughtfully and whispered to himself, "It turns out that you are really a monster born in the Cambrian period...... New information getda☆ze~"

"You're killing yourself!" The old woman, who learned her real age, pressed the young girl under her with a tiger pounce, and there was no big monster to ravage each other with dignity. This cruel way of violence is simply outrageous, and if Gensokyo also has a rating, it will definitely rank 1x...... No, it's 18x!

"Soul light purple. Don't tickle me! Reimu laughed and fell, and his bare armpits were completely in the hands of some undignified monster.

"Hmph, how old am I?" Yakumo Zi temporarily let go of the poisonous hand and pretended to be vicious and asked.

"Ten, seventeen." Reimu had just laughed so hard that she had almost lost her breath, and at this time she could only answer weakly while panting.

"And what about next year?" The monster sage, who had already thrown the festival out of the clouds, asked proudly.

"Eighteen ......"

"Huh?" A pair of sinful black hands were raised again, and the threat was self-evident.

"Seventeen!" Reimu is still a child after all. In the end, he had to succumb to the forces of evil.

"Hmph, that's good." Yakumo Zi tidied up her messy clothes slightly, although the strength of the dead imp just now was not great, but it could also make her disheveled. It's a must, especially a crying slug......

A young blonde girl hid behind a tree, looking at this side with tears in her eyes. She wore a black and white sundress. Wearing a large, round-brimmed, peaked wizard's hat on his head, he looked like a magic apprentice - and it was, in fact.

The blonde girl dragged a long snot as if she had two ice edges hanging from her face. There is no doubt that she is the slug that Yakumo Murasaki least wants to see right now.

"Morissa, come here, sister has sweet candy here~" Yakumo Zi took out a bunch of colorful candies from the gap, and tempted little Lori there like a strange one. Fortunately, she didn't say, "Is it okay to go home with my sister to watch the goldfish?" "That's the kind of thing you say. Otherwise, you have to be caught.

Reimu's eyes instantly sharpened, and she shouted loudly, "Hey, there's a pervert here, come and arrest her with an enforcer!" Then she suddenly slapped her forehead as if she remembered something, and without hesitation, she locked the hand of a certain undisciplined monster, and said righteously: "I'm sorry, you're arrested!" What you say now and in the future will be used as evidence in court, but I will certainly not accept it. Heh, who made me the only enforcer of Gensokyo. ”

"Hey, is it funny?" Yakumo Zi was thundered, and said with a wry smile: "Our reputation is going to be ruined again, okay!" ”

"You man-eating youkai have a reputation for ...... face," Reimu muttered quietly, remembering that she still needed that thing to make ends meet. The witch who figured it out didn't hesitate to throw away the festival, grabbed a handful of candy and began to continue the unfinished business of a perverted aunt.

"Come on, Marisa, I've got some delicious candy ...... here"

Before she could finish speaking, the blonde girl flew into the sky on a broomstick and disappeared into the sky like a meteor. Sora still faintly echoed her childish cries, as if frightened by something she shouldn't have seen at her age.

Scold. The future queen of the ///// Palace////// King actually had such a childhood, who would believe it when he said it - anyway, none of the girls who were attacked by her believed it.

"Ah, I made a mistake, I forgot that Rin Nosuke himself was the one who opened a grocery store......" Yakumo Zi tapped his head lightly and sold a moe directly to Reimu.

Reimu's body seemed to turn black, and the face that slowly turned around was full of a terrifying expression of smiling flesh.

"Purple, why don't you use the gap?"

"The Lun family forgot about it, hey~" A seventeen-year-old born in Cambrian sold a cute again.

"Sell your sister's cuteness. The reputation of the old lady! Reimu lifted the table in his heart on the spot and roared angrily and pounced on the old monster opposite. However, Yakumo Purple had already prepared. Before she could make a move, she slipped into the gap. As you can imagine, a young girl hit her head on a pillar and swollen up a large bag with visible visibility.

"It hurts me...... This damn old woman! Reimu rubbed her head and complained.

"Reimu, I think you're still smiling cute." Yakumo Purple popped her head out of the roof and teased her.

The young girl Reimu threw out the yin and yang jade without hesitation, and directly hit the red heart. The seventeen-year-old woman fell out of the gap on the spot, her face covered in her own nosebleeds.

"You guy...... It's not cute at all! Yakumo said with tears in her eyes.

"You old woman is embarrassed to say, I'm going to die of pain!" Reimu covered her head. Headaches tend to get worse. But she hadn't forgotten her duties as a Hakuri witch, and frowned, "Don't interrupt yet, I have something to tell you." ”

"What's the matter?" Yakumo Zi erased the wounds on his face in one realm, and looked at the joke of a certain witch with ease.

Reimu took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the urge to smash the dead old woman, and said solemnly, "Purple, do you feel that something is wrong lately?" ”

"Huh?" Yakumo Zi was stunned. Subconsciously throw out a question modality word.

"Don't say you didn't notice, the Great Boli Barrier is gradually collapsing." Reimu looked worriedly at the sky, where it was still clear, and there was no clue to it. However, she knew that all of this was just an illusion, and that there were already many small rifts in the barrier that protected Gensokyo. And it is increasing slowly at an undetectable degree.

"In the past, no matter how hard the youkai fought they, they couldn't hurt the foundation of the barrier, but since the death of the previous shrine maiden, the scars of the barrier have become more and more. If you continue like this, you will definitely incur the shattering of illusions, is there any good way for you? ”

Yakumo Zi sighed and said with a wry smile: "Reimu, what can I do?" Although I took it upon myself to close the Hakurei Great Barrier and let Gensokyo withdraw from the battlefield where angels and dragons and xenomorphs were fighting, many youkai and gods did not appreciate it. ”

Her expression became more and more lonely. He said softly: "After all, there are only a few youkai who pursue peace, and the youkai who crave killing and blood are the majority. When the angels broke through the Great Barrier, they were partially bloodied, which made them quiet for a while. But ** can be suppressed, but nature can't......"

Reimu clutched her head in pain, her black eyes flashing with a blood-colored sheen.

"Killing them Gensokyo will usher in true peace, right?"

Yakumo Zi woke up from her sorrow, and hurriedly hugged the young girl's petite body into her arms, and whispered while stroking her soft black hair: "Reimu, are you okay?" This isn't what the Hakurei Shrine Maiden should say, you just need to keep the Hakurei Great Barrier running normally. The rest was originally my responsibility, and now it's all up to me, okay? ”

Reimu breathed a sigh of relief, quietly buried her head in Yakumo Zi's arms, and said in a muffled voice with a hint of crying: "Purple, my head has been getting more and more painful recently, and there are a lot of red old age spots on my body. Also, when I washed my hair yesterday, I found a few gray hairs, you say, am I not old and decrepit? ”

"Be good, don't cry, everything is with me......"

"Hmm." Reimu took a deep breath and suppressed the tearful **.

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Two months later, before Hakurei Shrine.

A group of girls of different shapes gathered here, all with unkind expressions on their faces. The girls here include gods, monsters, demons, humans, and all sorts of other strange species, and it's a weird creature fair.

Reimu glanced at them faintly. The body sitting in front of the cash box didn't even mean to move. In just two months, her black hair has turned more than half white. The exposed skin is no longer pure snow white, but mixed with a lot of strangely shaped scarlet sky stripes, which looks quite weird.

"What are you doing at the shrine? If it's not for the sake of stuffing money and praying, then please go back to each place. Otherwise......"

"How else? Do you think that dyeing a few white hairs is not mainstream? A human-like girl licked her lips with a maniacal smile on her face. Her hair is black and white, and she has a peculiar explosive hairstyle. Put it in the Celestial Empire in the outside world, and kill the Matt nobles.

Reimu sighed and said calmly, "You know what? I've been having a headache with my own albinism and dermatology lately. So I'm in a bad mood. ”

"You're in a bad mood...... "Before he could say anything about killing the nobleman Matt, he was smashed into a pulp by a yin-yang jade that fell from the sky, and the fire of the soul dissipated on the spot.

"Gathering so many troublesome guys is already a mutation, right?" Reimu hooked his fingers, and the yin-yang jade stained with flesh and blood instantly became smaller and spun and flew back to his master, and the stains on it were all over the other girls.

"It's a pity, I can't get any bounty for this retreat."

The girls let out a commotion, but they didn't expect it to calm down in a very short time. Not only were they not deterred by the threat of the shrine maiden, but they tightened the encirclement.

Reimu frowned slightly, the smell of these guys made her gag. My head was also dizzy, and my body couldn't even lift my strength. Something wasn't right, and they definitely came prepared.

"If you want to rebel against the Witch of Hakurei in Gensokyo, should you say that you are brave or unplanned?" The young girl slowly stood up, and the invisible aura came out of her body. The unparalleled pressure fell on the group of girls in an instant, and their slightly weaker ones were almost pressed to the ground.

Pity. After all, there are still a lot of strong people in this.

"Hakurei Shrine Maiden?" A powerful demon spread its wings, and the majesty that rose up was not much smaller than Reimu at this time, "You are also worthy of being called a Hakurei shrine maiden?" ”

"Scarlet's chop things." Reimu's face did not change, and she forcibly suppressed the tremor of her body, "Isn't Tira's death a warning to you?" Look at Remilia and Flandrew, that's what the Scarlett family should be. ”

"Don't mention them. You bastard! The bloodline of the Scarlett family roared angrily, and their power was rising, and they even had the strength to catch up with the shrine maiden.

She took a deep breath, a cruel smile on her pale face.

"One day, I will go to Yakumo Purple to settle this account, and the shame of those two Scarlets will not escape the glorious execution. But not now, not now! ”

"You're not going to have that 'someday.'" Reimu waved his hand and released the remaining three Yin-Yang Jades, and easily took off the imperial coin inserted in his waist. Countless yellow runes flew out of the sleeves of their clothes. It was as if there was a photocopier there.

"Really?" The Demon Bat Wings spread out and was the first to pounce. Her actions were like a signal, triggering the offensive of all the remaining maidens.

Reimu thought that he would soon be able to solve the mess in front of him, but he didn't expect that things were far beyond his control. Not only did she fail to wipe out her opponent, but she suffered a lot of injuries.

The already fierce attack slowly weakened, and the hand wielding the imperial coin became more and more sluggish. Each attack was like a heavy slash on her, and killing an enemy was more like pulling something out of her marrow.

She lifted her leg one last time to sweep out of the clearing, and finally fell to the ground no longer able to hold on. Large and small wounds are densely covered all over the body, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy's blood core and its own blood.

"Hah, ha...... What did you guys do? ”

"Ahem, you're pretty good." The vampire wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and the look of praise was fleeting, replaced by a palpitating killing intent, "It's a pity, no matter how powerful it is, it's just an impostor." ”

"You think you're a Hakurei shrine maiden? Ha, you're just a trash can to take on all the negativity of Gensokyo! When I use you, I will keep you alive, and when my life is over, I will easily destroy it! She stomped her right foot, and a mist of blood instantly shook up. The beads of blood condensed into a sword in the air, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at Reimu's head.

"Now, give me death!"

A gap opened in front of the Blood Sword, swallowing the deadly attack in an instant.

Reimu breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down her pounding heart. For some reason, the other party's words made her a little upset, and she couldn't even gather her spirit. It's all crazy talk, why do you still shake your mind? Really, I'm not a qualified shrine maiden.

She complained a little and said, "Purple, why are you only here now, I was almost killed......"

Before she finished speaking, Reimu stayed where she was, staring at the girl in the other party's arms.

Yakumo's face was unprecedentedly serious, but the arm holding the girl was very gentle, as if she was afraid of waking her up. The sleeping girl who was huddled in Yakumo's arms was frowning slightly, as if she was experiencing some unbearable pain.

"She can't die." Yakumo Zi frowned, and said in a deep voice: "If she dies, Hakurei Reimu will die." ”

Hakurei Reimu?

Isn't that me?

Why......

Want to call someone by my first name?

Na, Purple, why don't you answer me!

"Are you sure?" The vampire girl looked at each other suspiciously, and said distrustfully: "Yakumo Purple, don't tell me that you also have feelings for this substitute." She is just an emergency measure that carries our negative energy, and must be destroyed when it is time to destroy. This is what you said at the beginning, do you want to regret it? ”

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and the blood around her body churned again.

"Less kidding with me! See for yourself, she's about to become the embodiment of our 'sins'! At this time, you still have the leisure to protect her? Do you want to be eaten by your own 'sin'! ”

"It's me who miscalculated." Yakumo Zi calmly admitted her mistakes, "I didn't expect that she who was separated from Hakurei Reimu still has a deep hidden connection with the main body, otherwise I wouldn't have made such a suggestion at all." ”

"So what do you say now? If we don't kill her, sooner or later we will be consumed by our own sins! ”

"Perhaps, seal or exile ......"

"So I'm just a replacement?"

Reimu staggered to her feet, her hair turning completely pale in an instant. The formless and colorless aura seemed to drip into a trace of black ink, and it was completely rendered into the same color in the blink of an eye

"Ha, hahaha...... It turns out that I am just a substitute! ”

She held the imperial coin that had been infected with black mist in one hand, and covered her face with one hand. Hoarse laughter leaked out of the corners of his mouth, and every word was like the mournful cry of a bloody cuckoo.

"Home, Friends, Love...... It's all fake! The scarlet eyes reflected everything that had once been familiar, but now they all seemed extremely unfamiliar. She called out the name of each tree around the shrine, she could tell how much rice was left in the rice bowl at the shrine, and she could even tell how many coins were in the money box......

But this is not her home.

From beginning to end-

Neither!

"Kill me? Seal me? Exile me? ”

"Then let me see your possibilities!"

The young girl's voice was choked with a thick sob, but no tears fell after all.

Because......

The demon god has no tears to shed. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

ps: Decidenatively said that it was better to change it~)

In fact, Ben Meow had imagined letting the Evil Spirit Dream hold a banquet, but then I thought that Gensokyo at that time didn't have such conditions at all, so I still gave up. ）