Chapter 2: The Fortune Teller Among Men
Wu also disappeared without warning.
Marisa's silly sweetness convinces Reimu that the other party won't play such a joke on her, and she does notice something strange around her.
Something was changing imperceptibly, but no one noticed it, and even she seemed to be able to feel it a little bit by her unconvincing intuition.
Reimu never showed her weak side because she didn't feel like she deserved it in her life.
She won't make a lot of noise and cry Rika to take Yuman Gensokyo to sway her tears, but the mutation can't be solved, and Wu Ye undoubtedly exists, she remembers it clearly, and there will definitely be no mistake.
So, this must be an anomaly!
"Poof......
After squirting out the tea in his mouth, after listening to Lan's report, Zi blurted out a sentence: "Reimu will take the initiative to solve the mutation?" This is the real anomaly, right? β
"Uh......" The corners of Lan 's mouth twitched slightly, and he didn't answer, although this is a well-known fact, but Lord Zi, it's too much for you to say it like this.
"Blue ...... You think it's not a spiritual dream to pick a child, right? Xiao Jing seems to have done this at the beginning! made some kind of deviant as a shield, but he slipped away quietly. Speaking of the escape of the previous generation of witches, Zi was still unwilling to grit her teeth.
After all, this is one of the few black histories she has, and it is still the kind that can be checked in the near future, but in this way, it seems that she would rather believe that Reimu is going to run away than believe that Reimu will do her job......
Then again, whether Reimu really wants to run away or miraculously discovers his conscience, it is impossible for Yakumo Murasaki to let it go, although Gensokyo has been peaceful for a long time, and the role of the witch is not as great as imagined, but after all, it is the guardian of order.
You can be idle, but you can't do without.
"Blue, for the time being, let's observe what Reimu plans to do." Purple quickly made a decision.
"Yes, Lady Purple." It's rare to have a serious job that makes Lan feel a little energetic, otherwise she will almost forget what she was called out to do when she was called out to do laundry at home every day.
Through the convenience of the gap, Lan quickly found the trace of the shrine maiden.
In the midst of people, the barnyard field house.
"History? Gensokyo? β
Faced with the sudden visit of the witch, Barnyard Aqiu was very surprised, after all, judging from past experience, this is a character who does not see rabbits and eagles, and the purpose of the other party's visit is also very strange.
"If you're interested in Gensokyo's history, wouldn't it be faster for you to go to Huiyin-sensei?" Ah Qiu didn't mean to drive people away, but as a half-beast of history, she was indeed more experienced in this area than her.
"It's not that, what I want to see is a record, not history." Reimu struggles to explain that, from a historical point of view, Huiyin does know more than Aqiu, but what she wants is a more "trivial" routine.
At this point, Ah Qiu, who likes to record everything in every detail, is naturally the first choice.
"Well, I don't mind, if you want to see it......"
At Reimu's request, Ah Qiu took out all the Gensokyo records of the past ten years and handed them to the other party, looking at the shrine maiden's serious expression, she couldn't help but panic.
That lazy Reimu is so serious, could it be that something big is going to happen to Gensukyo?
It's a pity that she couldn't guess Reimu's true thoughts, and after a morning of worry, Ah Qiu finally sent away the gloomy miko maiden.
Reimu was in a bad mood when she left the barnyard house, because in Aqiu's records, everything in the past had become different from what she knew.
Now not only the residents of Gensokyo, but even the history in black and white has a record that is completely contrary to their memory.
From the beginning of the red mist anomaly to the recent lunar riots, the figure that always ran in it disappeared from everyone's memory as if it had been deliberately buried by history.
"Tsk!"
Reimu, who was in an unhappy mood, kicked away the stones underground, and was about to find a place where no one had a good seizure, when she suddenly noticed a very uncomfortable gaze.
Intuitively, it was a dark place at the corner of the street, and in an extremely unobtrusive place was a small boxy table, behind which stood a man wrapped in a dark robe with a gloomy temperament.
The table is simply set up for fortune-telling, and it looks like a stall for divination.
Frowning, Reimu ignored him and walked straight in front of him, only to hear the voice as deep as the cloudy sky.
"You seem to be troubled?" The man wears small round glasses, his head is lowered, and the bridge of his nose, which is longer than usual, looks very yin.
This is a guy who definitely doesn't make people feel good at first glance, and it's even easy to suspect that the other party is not a good person.
He took the initiative to talk to Reimu, and it was reasonable that Reimu should at least respond a little, even if it was a sentence of "less nosy", but unfortunately the Witch of Hakurei never cared about other people's opinions.
So she ignored the strange man and continued to walk.
But the man didn't give up, he spoke again, this time in a louder voice, as if he wanted to stop the shrine maiden's footsteps: "Are you looking for something?" What is it...... Or, who is it? β
β......β
Reimu's footsteps stopped, and she turned around and warned the man in a very unfriendly tone, "It has nothing to do with you. β
"Please don't get me wrong," the man said, raising his hand, trying to make a friendly expression, and said sincerely, "As you can see, I'm just an ordinary human being, and I'm misunderstood just because I look a little vicious, but rest assured, I have no ill intentions. β
Reimu looked at the other party with a scrutinizing gaze, but did not speak.
"Who are you looking for?" The man seems to be very good at discerning people's hearts, and he sees the cause of Reimu's anxiety and offers a solution: "I'm very good at divination, do you need my help?" β
The man couldn't believe itβReimu's instincts told her.
After a brief hesitation, Reimu decisively rejected the man's kindness: "...... You don't have to worry about it. β
The man didn't say anything about Reimu's cold response, but still kept a smile and said patiently, "That's right, but if you need my help, please feel free to come to me." β
Reimu snorted and strode out of the human realm, she always felt that the annoying gaze had been falling on her back, and the reflective round lenses had brought a bit of gloomy mystery to the man.
After returning to the shrine, it was another sleepless night.
Reimu couldn't fall asleep all day, and all day she got disappointing answers, no one remembered Takeya Takasaka, neither his former friend nor his enemy.
From Hakurei Shrine to Minnosato, from Yokai Mountain to Lake of Mist, all traces of his existence have been erased.
Reimu smothered herself under the covers, and in the darkness she seemed to be able to feel something else in her mind teasing her.
She turned over and lifted the futon, left the shrine with a calm face, suppressed her inner struggle and followed the road to the human world, and the streets were quiet at night, and there was no one.
She followed the route she remembered and walked to the corner, where in the moonlight, the man seemed to have been waiting, reflecting his own shadow in the small round glasses.
"Good evening, Miss Hirori Shrine Maiden, is there anything I need help with?" The man's smile has not changed, it is still so full of evil, and the way of greeting is the same as in the daytime.
Reimu didn't care why he didn't close the stall at night, and came up to the point: "You said you're good at divination, right?" β
"That's right, the art of divination is my means of making a living, and I guess I won't let you down." The man humbly responded.
"Okay, I want you to help me find someone." Since they were all here, Reimu naturally wouldn't be twisting, and she directly and unceremoniously said her intentions.
"I see, dare to ask, which one is it?"
Reimu narrowed her eyes and stared at the man for a long time before she spoke, "It's a human, and its name is ...... Takeya Takasaka. β