Stray Chapter 159: Conversation under the night sky
Xia Ran watched her walk to the edge of the double-storey building, opened the door and walked in.
Only the magician was left at the scene. He withdrew his eyes and chuckled. He looked up at the starry sky that Yukinoshita had previously stared at, and then said to himself: "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight. ..."
"Yeah, it's so beautiful, I haven't seen such a scene in a long time."
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"What's the matter, Xia Ran? Did I say something wrong?" The girl who had just walked out of the path leading to Hakurei Shrine found the magician holding her forehead and looking up at the sky. asked strangely.
Although Xia Ran didn't say anything, Megumi Kato felt as though she heard him let out a speechless sigh.
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask, when did you come here, Kato-san?" Xia Ran put down her palm and asked with no interest.
"I just came here!" Kato Megumi replied slightly confused.
"How much did you listen to our conversation just now?"
"Huh? Us? Xia Ran, who did you just talk to here?" Kato Megumi looked puzzled, she really just came here, how could she hear anything else...
Seems to be true? Xia Ran finally felt relieved. He tapped his forehead and showed a wry smile: "Kato-kun, if your ability is not passive, I think you can also occupy a place in this paradise."
"Well, what?"
"Nothing..." Xia Ran shook her head, "By the way, Kato-san, weren't you still at Hakurei Shrine just now?"
When he came here, he had already used the ability of telepathy to confirm that he paid attention to the location of the elusive Kato-kun, but he still couldn't escape.
——Maybe this girl can always appear in the most delicate place at the most delicate time.
Or is this also a state that can be explained by quantum theory? Because Xia Ran has been paying attention to the movements of this student Kato before, which means that she has been observing, so she will not take any action, and will only stay in the original position quietly, maintaining the original state...
When Xia Ran felt that there should be no problem, she subconsciously calmed down and stopped paying attention, her state immediately became uncertain, and when she was observed next time, she often appeared In unexpected places, the kind that makes people unprepared...
"Xia Ran, are you thinking of something rude?" Kato Megumi looked at the magician in front of her in confusion, feeling an inexplicable chill.
"Kato-san, a person can only have one ability..."
"Huh? What's that saying?"
"Forget it, it's not important... You haven't answered my question just now." Xia Ran felt at ease with her usual reaction, and by the way, she couldn't help but sigh for other reasons.
"I just borrowed the kitchen at the shrine, because I feel like I haven't had a good meal today..." Kato Kei thought for a while, and then answered as a matter of course, "Now the food is ready, ready Come and invite everyone to have dinner together."
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As expected of Kato-san, she is still in the mood to ponder these issues. It seems that even if she is told that she will not be able to return to the outside world in the future, she will live well in Gensokyo.
"Actually, Lan has just started preparing for you... that's all, it's not bad." Xia Ran said after a moment of silence, then shook her head, "But is Reimeng able to talk so well?"
"Ms. Reimu is very talkative. She's not really a stingy person, she's just a little...a little lazy." Speaking of which, Kato Megumi was a little embarrassed, and she felt like she was talking ill of people behind her back.
"It's also..." After thinking about it for a while, the magician agreed. The problem with Reimu really isn't how stingy he is, it's just a little lazy, as long as Kato-san brings her share with him. If you do, then borrowing kitchen ingredients or something is not a problem at all.
"Well, by the way, is Xia Ran coming together?" Kato Megumi nodded, and then naturally invited him.
"I don't need to... But speaking of this, tomorrow is actually a customary, there will be a banquet..."
Xia Ran declined first, and then sent an invitation to Kato-kun in turn. He suddenly felt like this girl had such a peaceful mind, and he might choose to stay and observe, because he was interested in inhuman banquets or something.
"Well, I'd better go back as soon as possible, even if you said there would be no problems, and no one would know that we were missing for so many days, but it's still very nerve-racking to suddenly stay out of the house..."
Kato Megumi still refused, she said with a headache, as if she really felt bad for this matter.
"...Sorry for causing you trouble."
Xia Ran sighed. After all, this girl was still dragged down by herself, and was involved in this whirlpool.
"It's nothing, I really don't blame you at all, Xia Ran-san." Kato Megumi waved his hand quickly and explained very seriously, "And there's nothing wrong with this kind of thing, I always feel that some childish dreams of childhood have been realized, and I have to thank you..."
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Being involved involuntarily, causing the daily collapse, it's amazing to be willing to talk to the initiator.
Now I'm still so happy to say that I've never been angry, but instead thank the initiator... Xia Ran was shocked, he stared at Megumi Kato and didn't know what to say.
I'm worried, I'm really worried... Although I already knew that Kato-san is very good at talking, but she is so good at talking, she will definitely be bullied in the future, right?
Xia Ran, who has been bullying Kato classmates all the time, is not consciously worried about the other party.
"Ah, I almost forgot..." Kato Megumi suddenly remembered what she was going to do at this time, and looked at the magician apologetically. "I'm going to invite them to dinner, does Xia Ran want to come with me?"
"...No need, you go."
Xia Ran raised her eyebrows, and there were a few figures passing by in the sky not far away, probably the girls who were playing hide-and-seek.
It seems that no one intends to stay, Yakumo Zi is right, even a peaceful person like Kato Megumi may not feel that every minute and every second of staying here in Gensokyo is torment, but equally Still more concerned about the situation outside.
Watching Kato Megumi trot away, Xia Ran tilted her head and carefully recalled the entire communication process just now.
With his powerful mental power, he was able to completely extract what had just happened, replay frame by frame, and even carefully study every detail from the perspective of a bystander... and found no problems.
The attitude is calm, the tone is calm, and the mood is always peaceful and without fluctuations, that is the Kato classmate in my impression.
Even she didn't seem to care about the previous incident at all. Xia Ran didn't say it, and she didn't mention it either. It seemed that she really didn't care at all...
Constraining her thoughts, Xia Ran let out a long sigh of relief. Sure enough, she thought too much before, but Kato-san is really an ideal friend, kind, peaceful, not angry, quite easy to bully...cough, Get along well.
Shaking her head, Xia Ran sensed it carefully, wanting to see where Kanako and the two were, and prepared to take this opportunity to explain what happened before.
Then, he frowned——
How come you're in Yokai Mountain? And it seems that the breath of purple is also there?
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At the same time, at the top of Youkai Mountain.
Looking down at this beautiful mountain with waterfalls, rivers, cliffs, forests, and beautiful scenery, Yakumo Zi turned back and smiled and looked at the two gods in front of him——
"How? Regarding the site selection for your two shrines, this should be the most suitable place. The bottom of the mountain is a human village, which is just convenient for you to preach, and the mountain itself is inhabited by a certain powerful God, just right for you to build a sanctuary..."
Kanako and Suwako looked at each other, and then the former nodded lightly: "That's right, this kind of divinity is amazing... But if there are gods living on this mountain, we are not suitable. Have you settled here?"
"It's okay, because that **** is the **** of nature, doesn't need belief, and doesn't have any conflict with you..."
Yakumo Zi smiled slightly, and said in a pointed way——
"Tengu, Kappa, and the former ghosts have all been living in this mountain and developing their own power. She has never paid attention to it. As long as you don't come to destroy this mountain, then she is not. will wake up."
"Can I ask the name of that deity?" Suwako asked suddenly.
"Of course, her name is Shi Changji." The monster sage replied casually.
"Ishi Nagahime... the elder sister of Asama-sama?" Yasaka Kanako was slightly taken aback. Most people may not have heard the name of this deity, but she reacted immediately.
Suwako grasped the point more keenly: "So, this Youkai Mountain is actually the Yatsugatake Mountain that disappeared from the outside world?"
"You can say that, it's just Yatsugatake Mountain after it was destroyed." The monster sage nodded and admitted it generously.
The two outside gods looked at each other again. They had wondered about the size of this monster mountain. The huge waterfalls formed a river and flowed into the Gensokyo plain area. .
And there is a sense of incongruity in this Gensokyo, plus this mountain is full of spirituality, there is no doubt that it is an unimaginable ancient spiritual mountain... But if it is Yatsugatake Mountain, then everything It all makes sense.
Yatsugatake was a legendary spiritual mountain long ago, the same as Mount Fuji, but higher than Mount Fuji.
It's just that the Asama-sama who lives on Mt. Fuji, that is, Sakuya Kihana, slashed Mt. Yatsugatake directly in half with powerful divine power on the grounds that "I cannot be allowed to be taller than the most beautiful me" , so that this spiritual mountain, which is higher than Mount Fuji, has become a short mountain that is shorter than the latter.
This vile behavior is comparable to that of the Venus goddess in Sumerian mythology, although it is not as good as it is.
Ishi Nagahime, who is the older sister of Sakuya Muhana, left Mt. Fuji where she originally lived and moved to Mt. Yatsugatake because she couldn't stand her sister's character and behavior.
And at a later time that no one can tell, the real Yatsugatake also disappeared from the vicinity of Mount Fuji - the outside Yatsugatake is not the spiritual mountain it used to be, this matter is probably only for ordinary people. do not know.
It seems that at that time, this spiritual mountain was moved to the country of the East, and then it was hidden by the established Gensokyo Great Barrier until now.
No wonder this mountain is terrifyingly large, even though there is obviously a lot of space folded and hidden by the enchantment, probably the result of the construction of the monsters living on this mountain, but it is still very terrifyingly large.
Because it itself is an ancient spiritual mountain that is even better than Fuji——
Simply put, Mt. Fuji itself is more than 3,700 meters high, so even if Mt. Yatsugatake, which is even higher than it, was chopped in half by the wave of Lord Asama, the part of the mountain above the mountainside was directly smashed, and the remaining The mountain that came down is still the first among the mountains in Gensokyo.
I will still be Ling Jue Ding, the kind that looks at the small mountains.
"It's really nice here, but as you said, isn't this the territory of Tengu and Kappa?" Kanako didn't take it lightly, but asked this question seriously.
Now that they have confirmed the general situation of Gensokyo, they also know that Yakumo Zi's invitation is not a trap, so they have indeed begun to seriously consider the feasibility of shifting their positions...
However, the yokai sage seems to have his own calculations after all.
"Kappa have no influence, they are just a group of technical nerds, it's not a problem at all... As for how to deal with those tengu, isn't that what you should deal with?" Yakumo Zi narrowed her eyes slightly, "You shouldn't think this Do you want me to handle all kinds of things for you?"
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Sure enough, this person wants to check and balance the tengu and turn Yokaiyama into an important balance point. The two gods confirmed their guesses, and at the same time they were a little helpless, but they didn't feel it was unfair.
Yakumo Zi really has no obligation to help them deal with any trouble, they can just enjoy it.
"Actually, you don't have to worry, don't you have a reliable ally?" The monster sage said suddenly, and kindly made a suggestion, "In the current situation, he has no way to refuse your request, he will definitely help you."
The guy really believed in her, how could she, as a yokai sage, give up her plans so easily?
There is more than one way to get there.