Chapter 21: True Meaning
"Is he gone?"
"Hmm."
"Where?"
"I don't know."
"He gave up? No, that's what you look like. β
"Sure enough, it's still too naΓ―ve, Wu is also him."
In the pale world of shadows, the former shrine maiden leaned back on the bench, and Takeya and Aryo on her side were gone, replaced by a girl with a mature aura like a big sister.
"Naive, huh? I thought you'd compliment him, after all, that's your child. β
"It's less coming, it's disgusting."
The ancestor witch sneered and said, "That innocence will make him regret it one day." β
"Let the strong have mercy."
"What is this?"
"One of the second quotes that a certain guy used to have."
The girl's figure was very thin, and she was only shoulder-high when she stood with the shrine maidens of the previous generation, but she carried a long sword that was two-thirds of her body, and this sense of disobedience added a bit of danger to her.
"But, when it comes to naivety, Jing, you're the same."
Softly calling the name of the ancestor witch, the girl raised the corners of her mouth, and an inexplicable light flashed in her half-drooping eyes: "If he doesn't choose to agree, what should you do?" β
"No," the shrine maiden shook her head, her eyes full of indifference, "He will definitely agree." β
"It's so confident, it's good."
"What else do you want to say now?"
The ancestor witch turned her face sideways, and in a pair of awe-inspiring eyes, a coldness gradually rose: "Prophecy or something, fate or something, do you think such a boring thing, will I believe it?" β
"You are, why don't you believe it? If you have any evidence, you need to know how much you want. β
"Hmph, Wu is also something I've seen since I was a child, even if it's a stupid person, it's still a stupid person in my family."
"Oh~ It's really a mother's speech, yo, Xiaojing's mother."
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the ground under the feet of the ancestor shrine maiden was cracked, and cracks spread out like silk threads in a spider's web, wrapping around the girl in front of her.
"It's scary, it's scary, are you angry?"
The girl pretended to cover her mouth in surprise, but the gap between her fingertips exposed the playful smile: "Takasaka Takeya, sure enough, this name is still not suitable for him, although there is no sign of awakening until now, but, there is no doubt that he is-"
"Shut up."
Interrupting the girl's words coldly, the momentum emitted by the ancestor witch was like a sharp blade, and it was pressed against the girl's throat: "If you continue to say it......"
"Are you going to do it?"
The girl asked with a grin, and her sunny smile turned sharply, and the cruelty contaminated with murderous intent and evil spirit aroused the coldness of the corners of her mouth: "Really, the Hirori witch is really domineering, obviously people haven't said anything." β
"Oh? Want to have one? The ancestor looked at the girl with a smile and said, "I hope your sword has not been unsheathed for so long and will not rust." β
"How dare you say it, you down-and-out witch."
"Hehe, each other, Miss Murderer."
"It's too much to call people murderers or something." The girl grinned, and the long sword in her hand was faintly revealed.
"Interesting, do you want to put your anger into action now?"
The ancestor witch snorted, with a little disdain in her eyes: "Just you?" β
"Hush."
This seemingly arrogant and warning word made the girl a little unhappy to put away the long sword that had just been unsheathed again.
I have to admit that even if the other party only has half of the power of Boli, it is not something that he can match, at least not now.
"Coward." The tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and the ancestor witch laughed and mocked.
β....... Say whatever you want. β
The girl glanced at the ancestral witch, and hid her anger and murderous intent well under a calm appearance: "Whether you believe it or not, time will tell." β
"Including the appearance of that evil fairy today?"
β......β
The girl was a little unnaturally silent, but she quickly added: "Her appearance was unexpected, even 'he' didn't know that there were other people besides us who could enter here without knowing the existence of this world." β
"Heh," the ancestor witch let out a chuckle of unknown meaning, and said lightly, "Eighteen years ago, it was you who came to Gensokyo and told me the truth about the Hakurei shrine maiden. β
"And then you believe it."
"Yes, because I have no reason to doubt it, and I already have my own guesses about the truths you are talking about, but they are just a piece of evidence that carries enough weight."
"So why are you repeating the same mistakes now?"
The girl expressed her doubts: "Why did you choose to go back to that place when you already knew everything?" It's not a paradise, at least not a paradise for you. β
β...... I have never hated Zi, even if she has been hiding from me for more than ten years, and even intends to hide it until the day I die. β
The shrine maiden lowered her head, and on her shadowy face, only those eyes were clear.
"I just didn't have a choice before, so now I ...... I wanted a chance to decide my fate. β
"Then why don't you just go back with that guy? Why bother going through so much effort to go around in circles, isn't that boy's purpose to bring you back to Gensokyo? β
"It's different," the shrine maiden shook her head, "it's different. β
"What's the difference, when the time comes, you will die, and now that witch will also die, nothing will change."
"Then I'll try to change it for you."
The ancestor of the witch smiled, and smiled very confidently: "Just like the evil fairy said, let everything come to an end." β
"You're too arrogant, shrine maiden."
The girl looked at the shrine maiden with contempt and said, "I don't deny that your choice to tell the truth to that young man was a very bold choice, but it was far from enough. β
"Oh?"
"The Hakurei shrine maidens have a thousand-year-old tradition, and each generation of shrine maidens is an extraordinary person, so if you can detect any abnormalities, won't they notice them? But why hasn't anything happened for a thousand years? β
The girl said to the ancestral shrine maiden with a slight mockery, "What can you do alone?" β
"Yes, I can't do anything on my own, but isn't there still him?"
The ancestor witch smiled slightly: "I don't believe in any of your Adams, but my Wuya. β
"Sophistry, this is obviously the same person......"
"I said it, it's different."
The gaze of the ancestor witch drifted away, it was the direction of Takeya's departure, and at this moment her eyes seemed to reflect the immature figure that did not exist here, arrogant, gentle, and a little unreliable.
But it's trustworthy.
It's worth her to gamble everything to believe in the other party.
"Oh yes," the ancestor witch suddenly raised her head and asked, "Speaking of which, Huo Qing'e, that guy seems to have said something about the leylines when he left." β
"Oh, that's it, that's ......"