Chapter Forty-Eight: The Story That Was Hidden

"Your Royal Highness, what are you looking at?"

Returning to the quiet night, in the eternal pavilion closest to the full moon, the princess of the moon in gorgeous costumes, Penglai Mountain Kaguya, was slightly fascinated by the silver plate in the night sky.

Hearing the call from behind her, Kaguya gradually withdrew her distant gaze, and Yayi Yonglin had already moved lightly to her side.

"Now, Yonglin."

Looking at Yonglin, Kaguya said lightly:

"It's been a long time since the concubine has enjoyed a full moon like this, and if you think about it, it's been almost a thousand years, right?"

"That's true."

"Then why is this moon unchanged from the one from a thousand years ago?"

"Her Royal Highness the Princess......"

Yonglin, who understood that Kabaya had already pointed something, raised his head and looked at the eternal full moon, and sighed for a long time:

"It's always been that way, isn't it?"

"Hehe, Yonglin will say something like this."

Curled the corners of his delicate mouth, as if he felt that the evening breeze was slightly cold, Hui Ye gently stepped back half a step back and stood side by side with Yonglin, and his aimless eyes fell on the moonlight in the courtyard.

"It's really hard today, and accidents happen one after another."

"As you say."

"Gensokyo, paradise?"

The outstretched hand wanted to take the full moon into his arms, and Kaguya, who closed his eyes, opened his arms and quietly enjoyed the moonlight bath at this moment.

"Yonglin."

After a moment, she opened her eyes:

"Answer the concubine, do you really know anything about today's 'accident'?"

“......”

Hearing this, Yonglin fell silent unnaturally.

The air gradually froze, Kaguya stopped asking, time passed minute by minute, I don't know how long it took, moment or moment, Yonglin finally opened her mouth.

"Worthy of Her Royal Highness the Princess."

When she said this, she smiled, and Kaguya laughed too.

She naturally knew that for Kaguya, whether it was Gensokyo, the sudden appearance of the witch, or the entanglement between her and the monster sage, there was no value for Her Royal Highness the princess to care about.

What can be seen with the eyes is not mysterious, what can be heard with the ears is not abrupt, and what can be read with the mind is not an accident.

Everything Kaguya could understand wouldn't surprise her, let alone make her ask in such a formal form.

Therefore, the word "accident" she was talking about at this moment only referred to the last attacks from the outside of the world that they encountered in the previous mutations.

In Kaguya's waiting gaze, Yonglin said slowly:

"Comet...... In the fragments of Comet Tiamat, I felt the remnants of the technique. ”

“...... Are you sure? ”

Kaguya's eyes widened slightly, if it were someone else, she would never believe it, but it was her most trusted servant and master who said this.

"I'm afraid Yakumo Zi also noticed the same thing, that's why she left so nervously."

Yonglin narrowed his eyes, and his raised gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the night sky and see the two layers of enchantment outside, no, it should be three layers now.

"This is a deliberate attack on Gensokyo."

As he spoke, Yonglin's face sank like water, although there may not be many people who are aware of it now, but if he lets it go, one day the entire Gensokyo will know, right?

That's the fact that she and Yakumo Purple were aware of just now-

Gensokyo's path to the outside world is sealed.

In other words, the entire Gensokyo was forced to be completely isolated from the outside world, and unlike the two layers of enchantment set up by Yakumo and Zi, this seal truly locked Gensokyo in a world where it was completely impossible to communicate with the outside world.

The fragment that fell from Comet Tiamat went straight through the concepts of common sense and non-knowledge, and directly hit Gensokyo itself, and it also carried a special seal on it, which even she and Yakumo Murasaki could not break.

No, let alone cracked, they don't even have a basic understanding, and so far they only know the fact that Gensokyo is cut off from the outside world.

"Gensokyo's path to the outside world is sealed, will it be bad?"

“...... Not really, but if you say something like this, Gensokyo will be safer. ”

At Kaguya's question, Yonglin shook his head again.

"The consequence of this is purely to conceptually prevent Gensokyo from influencing the outside world, and even Yakumo Murasaki, a realm monster who can cross the barrier at will, can no longer interfere with the outside world."

But because of this, she and Yakumo Zi couldn't understand why if it was a guy who had the ability to take action against the existence of the entire Gensokyo, why did he put such a meaningless seal?

There is no practical point in separating the two worlds, because Gensokyo no longer intersects with the outside world in the first place, and-

"There's one more thing."

Yonglin casually flipped over and presented the remaining half of the arrow from the previous attack in the palm of his palm.

"I can't say I can explain all this, but I do..... I had something I didn't tell Yakumo. ”

"What is it?"

"This arrow is indeed mine."

Even though there was unimaginable certainty in the words, Yonglin's face couldn't help but show a look of confusion.

"Whether it's from the material or the workmanship, or even the traces of the technique left on it, this is indeed my arrow, and there may be a good chance that this is what I shot myself, but-"

Looking at the arrow in his hand, Yonglin frowned deeply:

"There is no memory...... I don't have any memory of this arrow. ”

"Did you forget it for a while?"

Kaguya guessed.

"No, it can't ......"

Yonglin shook her head gently in the negative.

She can be sure that this passage has not been forgotten by her, but that it has never existed, and although she may be old enough to make others feel terrible, her mind is so good that even she feels terrible, and she can't forget the things in the past.

But even so, she still had no impression of the arrow.

Coupled with the strange familiarity she had felt in Takeya before, they had definitely seen it somewhere, but her memory didn't have any impression of it.

Even if the matter about the arrow is an accident within an accident, how can her familiarity with Takeya be explained? Even she didn't know why she shouted something as meaningless as "why is it you again" at the first moment of meeting.

The instinctive reaction of the body doomed that it could not be a passing shoulder between them, and there must be some indelible past between him and her, but she couldn't remember it at all.

There can only be one explanation for such an unreasonable anomaly, and that is that someone has manipulated her memory!

However, the existence of the existence that can interfere with her memories as a primordial god is probably only ...... in this world I see, is that you?

Inadvertently, Yonglin's gaze became deep and distant, and through the physical limitations, she seemed to be able to see the world hidden behind the full moon.

"Yonglin? What's wrong with you? ”

"No, nothing, Your Highness the Princess......"