Chapter 33: Tengu and Dividends
"I'm here, Reimu...... Ahh ”
Hakurei Shrine, which no one cares about, seems to be missing even the shrine maidens who are cleaning at the door today, and the already sad scene now adds a bit of desolation.
Walking to the room to change clothes, Takeya began to look around for the trace of the Hakurei witch.
"It's not seen in the morning, is that guy so hardworking......"
"Of course not."
"Uh-oh-oh——!"
The sudden unfamiliar voice beside him made Wu Ye subconsciously let out a strange scream of shame, and turned around, only to see a girl with short black hair floating in the air with a curious face, and wings behind her.
Monsters?
"Uh-oh, oh?"
Repeating Takeya's shameful scream, the unknown youkai tilted his head and showed an extremely cute expression.
"What is this, the way the outside world greets?"
"Ahaha, sort of...... Who are you? ”
Although the shrine maidens of Hakurei Shrine have never targeted youkai, in a sense, as beings who stand in the middle of the boundary between humans and non-humans, they are even more popular among youkai.
But by calculation, not many youkai will be willing to come to the shrine.
Except, of course, banquets.
Although the youkai in front of her has the appearance of a girl, because most of the youkai in Gensokyo remain young, Takeshi has no way to determine her true age.
The monster "girl" has strange short black hair, wears a red hexagonal hat, a maple leaf-shaped fan, a white shirt, a short black skirt, and tall clogs...... Camera?
Well, it's not surprising that Gensokyo often has something from the outside world.
Maybe Wu didn't notice that it was a very rude behavior for him to look at others casually and without scruples, but the other party didn't seem to care.
The crow-like wings behind him slowly retracted, and the unknown youkai landed on the ground.
"Yo, I'm a reporter for Bunbun News, Shotimaru Wen, speaking of which, this is the first time we've met, the mysterious boy of Hakurei Shrine, Takeya Takasaka."
"Ah, hello ......"
It's really a spiritual youkai.
Shooting Pill Bun? Takeya always felt that he had heard this name somewhere, and it was not until the other party handed over a newspaper as a business card that Takeya finally remembered where he had seen this name.
Reporter of Wenwen News...... That is, the bastard who spread the scandal between him and Remilia!
"Uh, what's wrong with you? The face is a little bad. ”
The young man who was still calm just now suddenly changed into a look of deep hatred and resentment, which made Shotimaru Wen very puzzled.
"Is there something wrong with my newspaper?"
“...... No, nothing. ”
Although I can't wait to scold the other party now, and teach a lesson by the way, but after all, the matter has passed, and in terms of the result, the damage caused to myself is not too great, and the most important thing is ......
The other party's strength is too buggy, even if he wants to teach a lesson, it seems that he doesn't have that strength.
Wu Ye has never seen the monster in front of him, this is indeed a fact, but he knows the existence of the other party, once because Reimu complained that what was written on the Wenwen news was nonsense without nutrition, he once investigated this reporter who published the article.
Shotimaru Wen, the race is a tengu, living in the mountain of youkai, belonging to the group of youkai that have existed since the establishment of Gensokyo, and the ability that can be "seen" in Takeya's eyes is the ability to manipulate the degree of wind.
To borrow Reimu's words, the Tengu youkai in front of her has the fastest speed in Gensokyo, and Reimu, who wanted to trouble her several times, had to give up because she couldn't catch up.
Although she looks harmless to humans and animals, it is unknown what kind of strength she has.
Anyway, it's definitely not weak.
Tengu are the most well-known of the Japanese yokai species, and their traditional image is to have a big red face, a high nose, a gibbon-like appearance, and a fan in their hands, and they are very tall.
Some say they live deep in the mountains and have divine powers and superpowers, some say that they have a pair of wings behind their backs and can fly freely in the sky, and some say that they are so powerful that they can easily tear humans apart.
There are many types of tengu in the Tengu society, such as the head of the management position, the white wolf tengu, the extremely fast reconnaissance troop Raven tengu, and the rest of the nasal tengu, yamabushi tengu, and so on.
Shotimaru is supposed to belong to the Raven Tengu among the tengu.
In other words, it was a powerful existence that Takeya couldn't deal with alone.
"Shotimaru, miss? Is there anything wrong with coming to the shrine? ”
After the initial surprise, Wu Ye quickly regained his composure, anyway, he couldn't fight, but in a sense, the other party couldn't beat him, and he didn't bother anymore when he figured this out.
"If she's here to find Reimu, she looks like she's out of the house."
"No, no, I'm not here for Miss Shrine Maiden, I'm here to find you, Takeya-kun."
"Looking for me?"
Wu Ye was stunned, he really couldn't think that the other party would have anything to find him.
"It seems that Wu Yejun still doesn't know, where did Reimu go."
"Uh, where did she go?"
"I met her in the midst of men before."
said an answer that made Wu not too surprised, but the next words were-
"I saw her come out of Suzuna-an with a package in her hand."
"Package?"
Takeya asked curiously.
"It's really strange, did Reimu go to Suzuna-an and bring back a souvenir?"
"No, it's not a specialty."
Shotimaru shook his head and said an answer that left Takeya speechless.
"It's money."
“......”
"I asked carefully, and there were about ten times."
"Ten times?!"
This time, Takeya was really shocked, to the point that there were almost no pilgrims at the shrine where he knew that usually Reimu, and it is said that there was a time when he didn't know who threw 100 bun into the money box, and he remembered that Reimu seemed to be happy for several days.
Now that he had suddenly started to do so, he couldn't imagine what Reimu was like now.
"I take the liberty of asking, what about after that?"
"Huh? After what? ”
"That is, what about Reimu after she took the money? Didn't go straight back to the shrine? ”
"Oh, no."
Shooting Pill said as if recalling:
"I think Miss Reimu said she was going to buy all kinds of tea, snacks or something, and now she should be shopping."
"Shopping ......"
Even such a distant word is associated with Miss Reimu, a witch who is known for her poverty, and this world is crazy.
But why did Reimu suddenly get so much money?
With doubts in his heart, Takeya spoke to Shotimaru Wen, who probably knew the truth.
"That, Miss Shotimaru."
"Don't be so polite, just call me Wenwen."
"Uh, okay then, Miss Wenwen?"
"Hmm."
And the monster didn't have so many worries, and Wu Ye simply adapted to it and continued:
"Ahem, does Miss Bunbun know why Reimu got so much money from Suzuna-an?"
After a moment's hesitation, he added in a whisper:
"It can't be a poor crazy steal, right?"
"Haha, no."
Wenwen looked at him amusefully and said:
"It's a dividend, a dividend."
"What? Dividends? ”
"yes, don't you know? "Persona of the Witch of Hakurei", which was written by Miss Reimu as inspiration. ”
“......”
Rub it, isn't it?,This kind of ghost thing is really a big seller.,The IQ of Gensokyo monsters was all defeated by that middle two disease!