"I said, what are you doing here with me, you monster?"

The little puppet sitting on the counter held the yogurt bottle in both hands and asked Yakumo Mo, who was standing below.

"Well, I'm just curious, what it would be like for dolls to sell dolls."

Yakumo Mo, who was leaning against the wall, looked around at the doll shop with mercury lamps.

Rose Maiden, this is the name of the doll shop run by Mercury Lamp.

The most conspicuous thing about this shop, located in the Seventh School District, is the row of seven seats and the six dolls on top of it.

The first seat is empty, and from the second seat, there are six very delicate and cute dolls sitting in turn, and the labels below are Canary, Emerald Star Stone, Cangxing Stone, True Red, Chick Berry, and Snow Flower Crystal.

Underneath this row of dolls, there is a line of labels - not for sale.

Although it was very realistic, Yakumo could tell at a glance that it was just an ordinary puppet.

"The first position is reserved for you, right? That's your six sisters? ”

"You monster knows a lot of things."

The mercury lamp turned his head and looked at the row of six small dolls with complicated eyes.

"Well, since this world will have information about Gensokyo, it's not surprising that other worlds have information about your rose dolls, right?"

Yakumo opened the gap and took out a cup of black tea.

"Don't drink black tea in front of me!"

Mercury Lamp frowned and snorted with some dissatisfaction.

"Don't be so excited, I'm not really red." Yakumo shook the porcelain cup in his hand to himself.

"If you don't buy it, please leave."

Hearing Yakumo mention true red, the mercury lamp seemed to start to make a fuss.

"And that's the start of driving away guests?" Yakumo laughed lightly, lowered his head and tasted the black tea, "It's good to be an ordinary guest." Can you satisfy my curiosity? How did you come to live here as a puppet, and wouldn't those ordinary humans be surprised to see you? ”

"Won't you read it yourself?"

The mercury lamp pointed to the cash register next to it.

There was a box on it with a label on the front - "Money is here".

Then, there is a price tag underneath each of the dolls in the entire shop.

"That is, if it were an ordinary human, you would be hiding?"

Yakumo nodded.

"No wonder it's an urban legend."

"It's just the idle gossip of stupid human beings. Youkai of yours will also be interested? ”

"Well, although it's been a monster for a long time, it's been reincarnated from a human after all."

Yakumo looked at the surprised expression on Mercury Lamp's face and laughed as if the plan had succeeded.

"It's rare to see you look like that, are you surprised?"

"You used to be a human!?"

"It's not an unsightly background, don't be so surprised." Yakumo gently blew the tea leaves floating on the surface of the tea, "But now it's a complete youkai." ”

"The world's settings about you don't mention that."

"They didn't know that I actually had a wife and daughter, but not only that, but they dared to add such inexplicable settings to me."

Yakumo Mo's face suddenly became gloomy.

Mercury Lamp laughed sarcastically, "Humans are always so boring. By the way, you didn't come to this world passively, did you? ”

Yakumo suddenly showed an interested look.

"How do you see it? Do you have an instinct as a woman? ”

"Whew!!"

A large black feather engulfed Yakumo's body like a flying knife.

"Tut-tut, it's not good to be too violent."

Yakumo's voice suddenly came from the other side.

The mercury lamp turned his head to see that the monster he hated was sitting leisurely with his legs folded and sipping black tea in the gap.

That gesture reminded her of true red.

"......Shh It's really upset, hey, youkai over there, you have a way to travel through the world, right? ”

"What? Want me to send you back? ”

The mercury lamp was silent.

Get back...... Is it ......

Gotta go back! Something. She had to do it.

"I can naturally traverse the world, but if it's an orienteering crossing. It had to be a world I'd been to. ”

Yakumo shrugged at the mercury lamp, indicating that he couldn't help.

"If I've ever been to your world, then I can naturally be directed to go there again, but unfortunately I haven't."

Seeing that the black tea in the cup bottomed out, Yakumo Mo directly output a trace of demonic power in his palm, and after a faint flash of light, the teacup turned into the most basic particles along with the remaining tea inside. Dissipated between heaven and earth.

"Of course, if one day I accidentally get lucky enough to go to your original world, I naturally don't mind sending you back."

"What did you say?"

The mercury lamp stared at Yakumo intensely.

"In that case, I'll follow you before that."

"Huh?"

Yakumo was stunned.

"It doesn't have to be like this. You can live in peace in this city, and if I am really lucky enough to go to your original world, I will naturally come back to pick you up. ”

"I'm not worried, who knows if you'll break your word?"

"Are you doubting the credibility of youkai?"

Yakumo Mo's brows furrowed slightly.

"No, I'm just suspicious of your discipline, and I should say that I'm strictly skeptical of the discipline of your guys who live in Gensokyo."

The little doll lowered its head and drank the yogurt, ignoring Yakumo Mo.

"You're laughing at it." Ya Yunmo suddenly laughed, "By the way, judging from my sister's character who likes to peep, it's likely that her words have already been known to her." ”

"Peeping into her brother's life, that Yakumo Purple really deserves the various names that those boring humans have put on her."

The little puppet is as mocking as ever.

And then—

A gap suddenly opened on the top of her head, and a plate of fried tofu fell from it and smashed directly on the doll's head.

At the other end of the gap, Yakumo could still faintly hear Lan's wail of "my fried tofu".

"Soul light!!"

The angry little doll looked at the closed gap with an unkind face, and then stared at Yakumo deadly.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Countless black feathers like throwing knives emanate from the wings behind the doll.

Yakumo smiled and disappeared into the gap, and then opened the gap next to the little puppet and poked his head out.

"You, let's go sort it out first."

"Humph!"

The little puppet glanced at Yakumo fiercely, and then fluttered its wings and flew to the inner room of the shop.

When the little puppet was sorted out, Yakumo looked at the moon hanging in the night sky outside and said, "I'll go first." ”

"What's going on?"

The mercury lamp noticed that Yakumo Mo's gaze was a little strange.

"Well, there's a magic fluctuation somewhere."

"Magic Waves!?"

Mercury Lamp frowned.

Having lived here for a short time, the little puppet is well aware of the city's rejection of magic.

Even many ordinary students do not believe in the existence of magic at all.

After all, this is the base of the hostile forces on the magic side, the science side.

"Well, after all, I promised Aresta to help when I was in trouble here, so it's better to go and have a look, and I think it's good to pay the rent."

"I'll go too."

The mercury lamp spoke.

Yakumo looked down at the little puppet standing in front of him amusedly.

"Okay, let's go." (To be continued......)