"Ahh

Wu Ye suddenly sneezed, he touched his nose, strange, the weather is quite warm today, why do I sneeze? Who's thinking about me?

At this moment, Wu Ye, who was far away in the Red Devil Pavilion, didn't know that he had been targeted by a terrible monster.

Wu didn't take this little coincidence to heart, he sat down in a different position, looked at Sakuya beside him and asked, "By the way, Sakuya, where did we just go?" ”

"I said you, there is a limit to rudeness, right?"

Sakiya glanced at Takeya with disdain, and his already unfriendly tone suddenly became a lot colder.

"I'm not as idle as you, if I hadn't been on guard for those monsters for a while, you thought I would be wasting time here with you?"

"Ahaha, sorry, sorry."

Takeya held his head and smiled apologetically, at this time, it was estimated that Mura Sa's family should have almost returned from Hakurei Shrine in vain, and it was only a matter of time before they found his traces.

From just now, Wu also vaguely felt a mutual attraction in the sky like the positive and negative poles of a magnet, and it was not surprising that it should be the resonance of this magic in his body and the other "fragments" in Murasa's hands.

Thinking about it this way, it shouldn't take them much time to find themselves.

"Speaking of which, Wu Ye, you can finally go to heaven, right?"

"Well, that's true, but can you put it another way?"

"It's still the same," Sakiya's eyes were full of disdain, and he said meaningfully: "The ability of a thief is very enjoyable to use, right?" ”

"Hey! Such a statement is a real faux pas! Wu Ye blushed and said: "This is not my subjective will, what can I do when I react?" ”

"Well, you don't have to, although this ability doesn't sound good, but in practice, it's pretty good, isn't it?"

Sakiya's calm eyes were flooded, and he said with a smile: "It's better to say it's amazing, isn't it?" The first human to possess demonic powers. ”

“...... It feels like your tone is sarcastic about me. ”

"No, no, you're mistaken, I really think you're very powerful, Wu Ya."

Unexpectedly, Sakiya's tone stood up a little funny, but the heaviness in his eyes was quite serious.

"As a human being, you can actually manipulate the power of youkai, and it's not an accident, Takeya, how many kinds of power have you 'snatched' so far?"

“......”

Hearing this, Wu Ye's expression was a little stiff, thieves and bullies, one is stealing and the other is robbing, no one is more noble than the other, but in terms of law, robbers are better than thieves.

But it's also a little more annoying.

"Well, so, you misunderstood, Takeya, I didn't mean that."

Sakuya held her cheeks, and her gaze gradually drifted away: "If you can take the 'power' from the youkai, can you also take away some other 'things'?" ”

"Anything else?"

"Don't you understand?"

Sakuya smiled helplessly, the corners of her mouth faintly provoked a faint bitterness, she turned her head, silver bangs covered her face, hiding in the eyes under the silver thread, a little inexplicable light like looking at the moon under the sea, a looming hazy color.

It was a faint bit of sadness.

"It's longevity."

Sakiya's words are very light and light, and the seemingly tactful taste gives Takeya an indescribable sense as if suffocating.

"Now, you know what? Me, Miss Marisa, Miss Reimu, what's the biggest gap between us and the eldest lady? Strength? Experience? Knowledge? It's not right, it's longevity. ”

Sakiya brushed her long bangs aside and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that in another fifty years, seventy years, at most a hundred years, we will die." ”

“......”

Wu didn't speak either, and this unusually heavy topic made him a little breathless.

"You know what? Takeya, I worked at the Red Devil Pavilion when I was very young," Sakiya suddenly told her story: "At that time, I was not a full-time maid, and even at that time, the Red Devil Pavilion was not in Gensokyo. ”

"That's ...... your family"

"They both work in the Red Devil Pavilion, as maids," Sakiya said with a smile: "My grandmother, and my mother, both used to be the head maid of the Red Devil Pavilion, but they are said to be grandmothers and mothers, but they are not related by blood, just because I was raised by them." ”

"Then they ...... now" Takeya glanced apologetically at Sakiya, who seemed to have asked extra words, but the other party shook his head and said he didn't care.

"When I was a child, my grandmother was the head maid appointed by Miss Remilia, and after that, my grandmother died, and my mother also died, and now it is my turn to be the head maid of the Red Devil Pavilion, and Miss Remilia-sama is still like that, and time seems to have left no trace on her body."

Sakiya's voice was lighter than the wind, but every word was like a hammer hitting Takeya's heart, shaking his heart.

"I'm so grateful to Miss Remilia," Sakuya said in a tone of reverence and even admiration, "As a youkai, Miss is able to give me a sincere affection as a human being, and I thank Miss from the bottom of my heart." ”

"Why ......?"

"For if I die, I will only suffer the pain of the moment of death, but the eldest lady will suffer the pain of separation until the day she dies."

In a deep voice, Sakiya told the truth of the pain: "The emotions given by youkai are far more precious than those of humans, because from the moment they decide to connect with humans, they are destined to suffer the pain of separation. ”

Wu Ye was silent without a word, youkai, these two words used to represent power, fear, and doing whatever he wanted in his impression, but now maybe a little more - pitiful.

"The lifespan of human beings is just a flash in the pan in their eyes, this is the gap, this is the reality."

"So, why?" Takeya took a deep look at Sakuya and asked, "Why didn't you become a youkai?" Please, Remilia, it's easy, right? You can become a vampire with just one bite, right? ”

"Let me ask you the other way around, Takeya."

Sakiya stared at Takeya and said slowly: "You who already have 'demon power' are probably the closest existence to a monster in the human race, so if you want, maybe you can easily become a monster." ”

As he spoke, Sakiya suddenly narrowed his eyes and muttered in a voice that only he could hear, "No, maybe you have begun to drift away from the concept of 'human' now." ”

“......”

Sakiya's words made Takeya slightly stunned, he had never thought about so many things, because he felt that he was still too young, indeed, according to the rules of the outside world, he was not even an adult.

But what about according to the view of the yokai?

Is there a difference between a human being who can live for ten years and a human being who can live for a hundred years?

Necessarily not.

"So, Takeya, if it were you, what would you choose?"

Sakuya discarded all the glamorous rhetoric and questioned Takeya with the most explicit truth: "As a human being, you have exhausted your short life? Or, as a youkai, continue to live? ”

"I ......"