"Mu Q, it's so noisy......"

Gently closing the book, Pache sat on the balcony with a frown furrowed and looked out at the garden.

"It's so noisy, I can't concentrate on reading."

In the garden, Yui, Fran, Orange Meow, Little North, Misaka Misaka and Shiito are laughing and having a snowball fight.

Obviously, at yesterday's banquet, these little guys were already crazy, why are they still so energetic on the first day of the new year?

"Well, it's New Year, after all, so it doesn't matter if the children are happy, Patchouli-sama."

Sakiya, who was carrying the tray, stepped forward and gently placed the black tea on the tray on the table in front of Patchouli.

"Where's Remi?"

"The eldest lady is sleeping."

Sleep? It's almost noon.

However, Remi is a vampire, so it's normal to sleep during the day.

"Remi is sleeping, so why is that little guy in Fran so energetic? Lately, I've been less and less like a vampire. ”

The noisy laughter of children echoed in her ears, and Patchouli couldn't help but sigh.

"Really, M-Q ......"

"Hehe......"

Sakuya looked at Patchouli, who seemed to be very impatient, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Lady Patchouli, I can't help it."

"Long-winded!"

Glaring at Sakuya, Patchouli lowered her head and tasted the black tea.

"Ah, it's Young Master Yakumo!"

Pache who lowered her head suddenly heard Sakuya say this.

Looking up, Yakumo appeared at some point, sitting leisurely across from him.

"You're as elusive as your sister."

Patchouli rolled her eyes.

"Can you show up in a normal way next time?"

"Huh? This is normal for youkai. ”

Yakumo smiled and took the black tea handed over by Sakiya.

"It tastes good, I collected the fine snow from the branches on the first day of the new year to soak it, right?"

"It's really worthy of Young Master Yakumo."

Sakiya leaned over and laughed.

"This is tea made from the snow from the fruit trees in the yard and the tangtang spoon flowers planted by Master Pachoury."

"Tang spoon flowers? Sister Mu Q, did you experiment with the xenomorph flower some time ago? ”

Yakumo asked with a surprised tone.

Pache had spent almost half of the past year trying to breed a new potion flower, and it seemed to have succeeded.

"Ahh That succeeded, Bayi Yonglin has already asked me for a lot to use to refine medicine. ”

Speaking of the spoon flower, Patchouli smirked.

"You're not here to care about that, are you?"

"Of course not, I'm actually here to ask Yui and them to come home for dinner, and it's a bit unreasonable to say that they ran around on the first day of the new year."

"......Shh

As for Yakumo's reason, Patchouli was noncommittal.

The Yakumo family's doting daughter is already famous in Gensokyo. Now the whole Gensokyo knows that Yui and those children can't be messed with.

Fortunately, the little ones know how to measure themselves, and even pranks are just innocuous jokes.

Even Yuuka was as tolerant as possible of Yui who had trespassed into her field of flowers - just a little lesson and then thrown out.

"Speaking of which, how is your deep-sea habitat?"

"Huh?"

Yakumo looked at Pache suspiciously.

How could she suddenly be interested in that thing?

"Don't get me wrong, I just stumbled upon something interesting."

Pache raised her right hand, and her palm began to condense her magic.

Fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun, and moon, the seven systems of magic began to condense.

"Did you find anything?"

Feeling the magic condensed by Pachouli carefully, Yakumo suddenly let out a "huh".

"How can the magic of fire, water, and earth be so strange?"

Dissipating the seven systems of magic condensed in her palm, Patchouli looked thoughtfully at Dejianmu in the distance.

"I also stumbled upon it when I was cultivating the begonia spoon flower. The magic of the three systems of fire, water, and earth has become more active than the magic of the other systems, and in addition, the extended variant, wind, is also active. ”

"This phenomenon was not obvious at first, but at the end of last night's banquet and the moment of the handover between last year and this year, this phenomenon began to become obvious, and now there should be other people who have discovered it."

Ya Yunmo said in a deep voice: "This year is the year of the moon, winter and water. If it's because of the vintage, then the activity of 'water' is also justified. As for the 'soil'—"

Yakumo also followed Pachouli's gaze and looked at Jianmu.

"—maybe it's because of the timber."

"And what about 'fire'?"

Pache smiled and looked at Yakumo.

"How do you explain this?"

With a wry smile, Ya Yunmo shook his head, "Don't embarrass me, Sister Mu Q, you also know that I'm not good at these, you know?" ”

"Unfortunately, I don't know."

"Hope...... Nothing will happen. ”

Yakumo said leisurely.

Pity. Pache immediately shattered Yakumo's illusions.

"Unfortunately, something has happened."

Stretching out her right hand, Jade Finger gently pointing to a corner of the garden, Patchouli brought the researcher's characteristic expression when he saw something new.

Ya Yunmo looked over and suddenly exclaimed.

A corner of the garden. Space began to distort, and the elements of fire, earth, and water seemed to have a tendency to go berserk.

However, the furious elementals seemed to be bound by some invisible force, and were only surging in a very small area.

"When will ——!?"

"Just now, not long after you came."

Sakiya immediately flashed into the garden and stopped the little ones who were about to come forward out of curiosity.

When Pache and Yakumo also arrived, the furious elements began to combine regularly, and finally formed a magic array.

"I've never seen a magic array before."

Pushing her eyes on the bridge of her nose, Pachou began to try to parse the magic circle in front of her.

"Well, it's a novelty, but it doesn't seem to be very clever in the way it's composed."

Pache was worthy of being the magician of Qiyao, and it didn't take long for her to analyze the magic array in front of her thoroughly.

"There's a lot of waste of elements in a lot of places."

Unlike Pachouli, Yakumo felt an aura that he had never felt before through the magic array in front of him.

That's – another world.

"Sister Mu Q, can you guess the function of this magic array?"

Yakumo Mo, who asked like this, had already begun to distort the surrounding realm to prevent anything strange from drilling into the magic array.

"It seems to be a summoning magic array."

"Summoning? There's no one here who uses summoning. ”

Pachouli shook her head and said, "I didn't say that I was summoning something, this magic array is a reverse summoning." ”

Reverse calling?

"You mean...... Is there someone trying to summon something from us? ”

"Well, that's probably it, judging from the way this magic array is formed, the world on the other side shouldn't pose any threat to us, after all, the flaws of this magic array are too big."

Speaking of this, Patchouli seemed a little dismissive.

"But it's okay to try it out, maybe it's an interesting world."

After finishing speaking, Patchouli stepped into the magic array in Yakumo's surprised eyes.

"Sister Mu Q!"

"Pache Lady!"

The magic circle began to glow brightly, as if to take Pache out of this world.

"Don't worry, I've recorded the spatial coordinates of Gensokyo, and I can come back whenever I want."

Although Pachou said this, Yakumo Mo, who was not at ease, still flashed forward the moment the magic array disappeared.

[Since Sister Mu Q said that she can come back at any time, then I'd better go over and have a look]

Subsequently, Yakumo and Pache disappeared at the same time. (To be continued......)