Stardew Valley of Gensokyo

They didn't seem like first-timers in the village; rather, they were like regular customers patronizing the stall owners' businesses, looking left and right before trying the food, appearing quite familiar with the place.

There were many people here, and Qianhu felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to hide in a corner of the street.

"Xiaoqian, come here quickly! These dumplings are so delicious!"

Yuri, who was not far away, waved to Chihiro, wanting her to come over.

"Let's go over there too."

Akina Ze also said the same thing and walked ahead.

Chito hesitated for a moment, glanced at the receding figure, and then, without further hesitation, jogged to catch up with Akina Zeya.

......

"Wow!"

When Chiho finally arrived at the stall, she exclaimed in amazement at the colorful dumplings displayed before her.

In the world before the thousand households, even when my grandfather lived with us, the people in the settlement couldn't even get enough to eat, let alone have any extra food to make snacks.

Akina Ze looked at the dazzling array of dumplings, then glanced at Chito, who was still in a state of shock, and quietly said, "Shopkeeper, give me three skewers of each kind of dumpling."

"Oh? Please wait a moment, sir, it will be ready soon!" The shopkeeper was an honest and simple man. Despite having so many customers at once, he was not flustered at all and prepared everything in an orderly manner.

Which type of dumpling do you think tastes the best?

The shop owner needed some time to pack the dumplings, so Akina Ze pointed to the colorful dumplings and asked the two of them.

"This is the best!"

Yuri pointed without hesitation to a string of dumplings with three colors.

"So you like tricolor dumplings."

But Yuri shook her head and pointed to another type of dumpling covered with red bean paste.

"and this"

Then it pointed to another type of dumpling.

"and this"

It seemed that Yuri was going to call on each student one by one, so Akina Ze decisively stepped in and interrupted her repetition.

"Yuri, 'favorite' means you can only choose one."

"Huh? But I like them all! They all taste delicious, no matter what kind they are. Can't I just choose them all?"

Yuri said, holding up a string of dumplings in one hand.

"No, you can only choose one."

Akina Sawa, who had no intention of making an exception, shook his head and firmly refused.

"Mr. Akina, I'd like to ask if there's such a thing as a snow dumpling?"

Qianhu, standing to the side, timidly raised his hand to speak.

"No, Snowball is an evil path," Akina Ze replied without any hesitation.

The snow was cold, but the freshly baked dumplings were hot.

When the two are combined, snow will no longer be snow, but will turn into ordinary water.

This combination makes no sense.

......

After some time, the stall owner finally finished packing the dumplings. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, smiled, and handed the bag to Akina Zeya.

He has already met his sales target ahead of schedule, so he can go home now.

"What a lucky day!" the stall owner hummed as he packed up his baskets.

The stall owner thought to himself, "My daughter must be so happy that her dad came home so early today." He smiled too.

......

"Hey, Mr. Akina, let me take this bag."

After leaving the stall owner, Yuri kept trying to take the bag from Akina Sawaya.

"No," Akina Ze also rejected Yuri's seemingly good suggestion.

It wasn't that Akina Sawa didn't want to agree, but rather that Yuri was just too easy to understand.

Whatever you're thinking is clearly written on your face.

This made Akina Sawa really hesitant to let Yuri hold the bag containing the dumplings.

Otherwise, Yuri might have eaten all the dumplings before we even got home.

"Mr. Akina, I really won't steal food!"

But Yuri didn't give up and clung to Akina Zeya's clothes, refusing to let go.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a loud "bang" came from in front of him.

Upon closer inspection, one could see a beggar dressed in tattered, patched clothes lying on the ground.

Speaking of which, this beggar and Akina Ze had several encounters, and he had even given her money before.

Yuri quickly stood in front of Akina Sawaya and Chito, her eyes warily fixed on the uninvited guests, her hands instinctively reaching behind her as if to grab something.

But I didn't touch anything.

"Don't be nervous, Yuri, I know this person," Akina Ze also shook his head slightly.

Yuri turned around and glanced at Akina Zeya, then looked at her empty hands, and decisively stood back with Chito.

"Um? I have some food here, would you like some?"

Akina Ze, carrying a bag, walked up to the beggar lying on the ground, squatted down, and took out a string of dumplings from the bag.

Chapter 71 The Fiercest and Most Wicked Sisters

"What's wrong with that guy? He keeps ruining my plans, damn it!"

At the corner of the wall, a young woman dressed in a very luxurious manner was gritting her teeth and staring at the two people interacting in the distance.

A tiny top hat adorned her small head, and her orange hair was styled in a drill-like spiral with two pink ribbons.

The sunglasses, oversized and obviously useless, rested on her forehead, and the gemstone jewelry worn around her fair neck to accentuate her girlish cuteness, along with the gold bracelet on her wrist.

This undoubtedly reveals that she is a wealthy young woman who is just wandering around aimlessly out of boredom.

Although her leather boots, the fluffy fan she was carrying, and the leather bag seemed a bit out of place, if you thought of her as a young woman in her late teens imitating her elders, she did have a touch of girlish innocence and naivety.

Eat slowly, don't rush.

Akina Sawa also handed over a string of dumplings, but they were quickly eaten by the girl in tattered clothes in just a few seconds.

Although the girl ate very quickly, she didn't swallow the food whole like a ferocious glutton. Instead, she ate in small bites, like a little hamster.

Hehe, quite cute!

Akina Sawa watched the girl in front of him eating the dumpling by spinning it around and chuckled inexplicably.

And he felt a little tempted to touch the small head with dark blue hair in front of him.

It must feel very comfortable to touch, right?

For some reason, Akina Sawaya always feels the urge to pat the head of a cute girl whenever he sees her.

However, he didn't want to correct this thought, because the little head felt really nice to touch.

Of course, Akina Ze only kept this thought in his mind.

Although the little head of this beggar girl in front of me must feel very comfortable to touch, we are still not familiar with each other.

Akina Sawa would not overstep his bounds even with people he was not familiar with.

He also discovered a problem.

Why is this girl, who fainted from hunger on the roadside, eating like this?

When a person who has been hungry for a long time encounters food, they usually swallow it in large gulps, right?

Normally, this kind of slow and deliberate eating, with its unique character, shouldn't be seen on a beggar.

This is not discrimination, but simply an objective analysis.

This surprised Akina Sawa, who frowned in surprise.

I withdrew the hand that I had just reached out without being able to resist.

He looked at the girl in front of him, but his thoughts were elsewhere.

Has some horrific tragedy occurred in the village of human beings?

How could someone with such a temperament become like this? Something must have happened.

"...Sigh~"

As he pondered this, Akina Sawa suddenly sighed.

He remembered his missing Nikua.

The sensation of touching Nikua's soft hair still lingered on my hands.

Hey ~

There are too many tragic things in the world. I am just a lone boat adrift on the water. Right now, carrying Chito and Yuri is already my limit. What strength do I have left to help others?

Shaking his head, Akina Ze also took a handful of copper coins from his pocket and put them into her tattered bowl.

I'm sorry, Miss Beggar, this is all I can do. I hope it helps.

After putting them down, Akina Sawa also left the place with Chito and Yuri.

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"Sister, give me this money. You'll lose it anyway, won't you?"

The wealthy young woman, dressed in luxurious clothes, who had been watching them intently, suddenly stood in front of the beggar girl and addressed her as "sister."

"Nüwan, didn't you say that getting close to me would bring bad luck?"

Carefully tucking the copper coin from the broken bowl into her bosom, Yi Shen Zi Wan raised her head and calmly looked directly at her elegantly dressed younger sister, Yi Shen Nu Wan.

It may seem unbelievable, but it's true.

The seemingly worlds apart beggar girl and rich girl are actually sisters.

Akina Zeya's guess was wrong. No horrific tragedy had occurred in the Human Village, and Yoshimi Shiwan was not some down-on-her-luck young lady.

This has been her daily routine since the distant past when she became conscious.

Ragged clothes, broken bowl.

The goddess Aster is a god of poverty who brings misfortune upon everything, including herself.

This ability is not entirely controllable.

This is why the simple, honest people of the village avoid aster.

Only Akina Sawaya, a greenhorn who had only recently arrived in Gensokyo, would approach her.

After all, ignorance is bliss.

The residents are very wary of and dislike the Goddess of Poverty, and they don't easily discuss her, which is one of the reasons why Akina Sawa still doesn't know about her.

Although Akina Sawa was also a little puzzled as to why there would be beggars in the Human Village, he would never have imagined it to be this level.

After all, someone who knows nothing would not easily connect the loss of their wallet with a beggar they had met.

"Give it to me quickly, I need to buy a new bag!"

"Standing some distance away from Ziwan, the goddess Wan urged her on."

Although she was also a goddess, she dared not get too close to her sister.

Because she will also be implicated and become poor.

Indeed, as the younger sister of Yi Shen Zi Wan, Yi Shen Nu Wan is also a goddess.