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It is neither attached to the Dark Continent like Dragon Paradise, nor is it like Heaven and Hell, which is adjacent to the Dark Continent, does not exist anywhere in the Three Realms, and is connected to anywhere in the Three Realms. It is independent of the world and yet intersects with the world.

It is a fantasy world that is always in contradiction, being both parallel lines and intersection points.

Gensokyo is as peaceful as ever today.

In the deep mountains in the far east, it starts from an inconspicuous stone step, almost buried by weeds, winding up the top of the mountain. It is not until it is about to reach the top that the stone steps that appear and disappear slowly become wider and slightly more obvious.

So a little style, of course, is just a little bit.

After crossing the widest and most imposing stone steps, you are faced with the vermilion torii gate. The simple shrine inside the torii gate also ushered in its daily life today, burning in the raging fire.

The girl with strange wings and wearing loose pajamas flew over the shrine, made a face towards the shrine wrapped in fire, and patted her immature butt that was not very pert.

"You idiot Reimu, if you have the ability, come to the Scarlet Devil Mansion to play. My sister and I are always waiting for you."

After saying that, he turned into a red light and disappeared into the sky. He was a very naughty child. However, burning the shrine seems to have gone beyond the category of naughty child. Of course, for Gensokyo and the shrine, this is

It's just normal everyday life.

In the raging fire, there is only one place that cannot be reached by the flames, and even the eyes cannot enter it. It seems to be an independent realm within a realm in Gensokyo, isolating everything, whether it is life, non-life, or matter.

, or non-material. For those who are not allowed, this is something that does not exist. Their perception and cognition will never be able to touch this place.

In this independent world, a golden skeleton sits quietly in the center of the space. In the arms of the skeleton, a girl with a bow in a red dress and white sleeves sleeps quietly. It is both warm and full of weirdness that seems to contain endless mystery.

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It seemed that she had been sleeping for a long time, but also seemed to have only blinked for a moment. The girl slowly opened her eyes, revealing Gujing Fubo's eyes. The pupils in her eyes had no emotion, leaving only endless majesty, as if they had experienced a long time.

A god who has been baptized by the years and all emotions have been wiped away.

Blinking his eyes a few more times, he gradually regained some of his energy, dexterity, and popularity. The aura of aloof gods gradually weakened, as if a fairy was banished to the mortal world and turned back into an ordinary girl...well, probably.

"It seems that the time has not yet come." The girl who had just opened her eyes murmured in a low voice as if she was dreaming.

"If this is your will, father, then I will carry it out to the end."

After saying that, he rubbed himself in the skeleton's arms with great attachment, then reluctantly stood up, turned around, said goodbye to the skeleton, and left lightly.

From the gap in the world that no one knows, she returns to her world, Gensokyo.

Then……

He was instantly overwhelmed by the flames and was at a loss.

"Cough cough... cough cough... Which bastard is it... Well, no need to guess, it must be the two troublemakers from the Scarlet Devil Mansion, cough cough... don't let me catch you, otherwise... cough...

…Cough cough cough… otherwise I will strip you two damn vampires naked and hang them upside down on the torii gate to attract guests, cough cough cough…”

It seems that this method is feasible. After all, no matter which world there is, there are luoli controllers. Maybe there are people who come all the way to the shrine just to see those two vampires who want breasts but not breasts and butts and butts, and just throw a few coins into the money box.

Son, with a small amount of money, jingle, jingle, it won't take long to raise the funds to rebuild the shrine.

The more I think about it, the more excited I become, but first, let’s escape from the fire, if you don’t want to live in it forever.

Covering her mouth and nose with her wide white cuffs, the miko rushed out of the fire with a moan, wiped her fair and half-blackened face, and extinguished the sparks on the skirt behind her buttocks.

The Lord of Gensokyo, the shrine's only designated shrine maiden in red and white armpit-baring clothing, looked back at the shrine that had become charred, and decisively gave up treatment.

It's hopeless, let's rebuild.

How to rebuild it? The experienced Red and White Princess immediately thought of two methods.

Either raise funds and ask the carpenters and villagers down the mountain to help build it.

Or... catch free coolies.

Do it yourself? This option does not exist, because the great Gensokyo Miko-sama never does useless work. Anyway, sooner or later after rebuilding, it will be burned by those two bastard vampires.

She found the only money box that survived the flames, opened the secret door at the belly of the box, reached inside and dug out again and again, making a lonely and crisp sound of clanging, clanging, clanging, and finally pulled out a few copper plates.

Not enough.

It's far from enough. Simply put, it doesn't even cost enough for a piece of wood.

I have no choice but to find free labor.

I gave up and sighed softly. At this time, a thin voice came from the horizon, from far to near. When the dream word "Stupid~Dam~Ling~Dream~" was dragged to the end, a human figure appeared.

The red and white princess turned sideways with no expression on her face, and the petite figure with six ice wings floating behind her flew into the air. She failed to land on the way, and she fell to the ground and fell far away from the ground, and then remained motionless.

Shouldn't he be dead?

Just as he was about to flee in fear of crime, the other party suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed towards him again, shouting loudly.

"Cirnuo misses her mother. Take Cirno home quickly. Cirno wants to find her mother!"

"Wait a minute." The red and white princess cleverly rolled her eyes and had a plan in mind.

"You also know that the shrine is the only way to the outside world in Gensokyo."

"Cirno wants a mother!!!"

"But now, the shrine has been burned down by bad guys."

"Cirno wants a mother!!!"

"So, if you want to see Wu's mother, you must rebuild the shrine no matter what."

"Cirno wants a mother!!!"

With a "boom", the ice fairy named Cirno fell down with smoke coming from her forehead.

"Now, can Wu understand what people are saying?" The miko in red and white clothes with exposed armpits asked sternly as she pumped her fist and put on her strongest posture in Gensokyo.

"Anyway... in any case, just repair the shrine, right." Cirno covered her forehead, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes, and succumbed to the minions of the evil forces.

"In short, that's right. As long as the shrine is rebuilt, everything will be fine."

"Idiot Reimu, lazy bastard Reimu, the second most hateful villain in the world, Reimu." Cirno muttered. As for the most hateful guy in the world, of course he was the most lazy and greedy idiot who dared to steal his mother from her.

Ignorant, arrogant and stupid Crystal.

"Okay, smart Sir Cirno will help you rebuild the shrine now. If you lie to Sir Cirno, Sir Cirno will demolish your shrine."

"Easy to say, easy to say." The red and white princess smiled and narrowed her eyes. She sat in front of the torii gate. She didn't know where the hot water came from, a teapot, and a set of teacups. She made a cup of hot tea and leaned against the vermilion pillar.

, took a slow sip, and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle.

Well, the weather is nice today, so it's a good time to go and demolish the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Turning to Cirno from the corner of his eye, he saw her fluttering six ice wings and turning into a blue light and disappearing into the sky. He was a little curious, but after a while, she came back again, and then heard a hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

The real sound of working hard.

Before I finished drinking the pot of hot tea, I heard Cirno's arrogant loud announcement.

"Okay, Cirno-sama has rebuilt the shrine. You idiot Reimu, hurry up and fulfill your promise. Cirno-sama wants to see mom!"

Turning back stiffly and looking at the alternative shrine in front of her, the Red and White Princess rubbed her temples: "Sure enough, I shouldn't have the slightest expectation from a fool like you."

"The guy who calls other people stupid is a fool. Do you have any dissatisfaction with the shrine built by the smart Cirno-sama?" Cirno crossed her arms with an impressive expression on her face.

"First of all." The Red and White Princess put down her teacup and pointed to the shrine made of ice in front of her.

"Wouldn't it be over in this damn place once the weather gets hot?"

"Don't worry, Cirno-sama's special ice cubes will not melt even if they are burned by fire."

"Thank you for caring about this level, but you will catch a cold if you live in it. It's too cold."

"Only fools catch colds."

"No, only fools don't catch colds."

"This is what mom said. Since you don't even believe what mom said, Reimu is really a big fool."

"Okay, let's put this topic aside for now." Giving up the unnecessary argument, the Red and White Princess rubbed her temples hard again, and her eyes fell on the shrine again.

The shrine made of ice cubes is translucent and reflects the colorful colors under the sunlight. It is beautiful. It is true to say that, but because it is translucent, you can see inside the ice cubes, which seem to be inlaid.

There are some weird and incomprehensible things.

"Last question, what is the thing embedded in the ice cube?"

"frog."

"What is that thing embedded in the ice cube?" The red and white princess looked blank, as if she didn't hear the other party's answer, or she had the idea of ​​​​escaping reality, so she asked again mechanically and repeatedly.

"frog."

"Hey!" A flying kick from the underworld smashed the shrine to pieces. Thousands of frogs escaped from the ice, croaking, jumping and scurrying around as if they had awakened from hibernation.

move.

"Ah, the frogs that Cirno finally collected!"

"I need some normal, free labor." Ignoring Cirno, who was kneeling and screaming, the red and white princess who had accomplished something very satisfying clapped her hands and said in deep thought.

"Let's go to the Scarlet Devil Mansion to play."
To be continued...