Two Worlds, Starting with Kaguya of Penglai Mountain

Do not……

In reality, it doesn't need to be so complicated. Like-minded people are hard to find, but people with similar ideas can be easily cultivated.

She could use this thing in front of her to guide the minds of monsters, a group that only kills indiscriminately and doesn't listen to anyone.

Make them find it interesting, and then, while they are having fun, instill your own stance and ideas into their minds.

The more Yakumo Yukari thought about it, the more she felt there was a vast potential in it.

"Can I make something similar?"

The rising emotions within her prompted the blonde girl to speak to Kurokawa Kazuya.

He then quickly realized the abruptness of his words.

"Sorry, I was a little excited and misspoke. Please don't mind."

The blonde girl nodded to Kurokawa Kazuya.

Kurokawa Kazuya looked at the other person, who had turned back to focus on the screen, with a somewhat complicated expression.

To be honest, I started thinking about these kinds of questions the first time I played a game, and I even analyzed the game's structure itself, and eventually applied all of this to the areas where I needed it.

If there are naturally successful people in the world, then Kurokawa Kazuya believes that the blonde girl, Merry, in front of him must be one of them.

The true capitalists in modern society are those who take everything into consideration and think about how to make money for themselves.

The strong in this world today are those who take all things into consideration and think about how to become stronger.

This is roughly the mindset of so-called successful people.

In summary, it means making use of all available resources around you.

but……

Kurokawa Kazuya doesn't really like people like that.

It wasn't that he was afraid of these kinds of people, but rather that he felt they were on different paths and couldn't work together.

It's exhausting to be around someone whose mind is always calculating and seeking personal gain.

"So, Kurokawa, you really do prefer someone like me."

A crisp sound rang out from the side.

When Kurokawa Kazuya snapped out of his thoughts, he saw the princess beside him giving him a pleasant smile.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "...!..."

Kazuya Kurokawa: "I don't think I said anything just now."

Kaguya Houraisan: "Oh, your expression is quite obvious. I could tell what you were thinking at a glance. Not only me, but that Merry in front of me probably could too."

She pointed to Yukari Yakumo, who seemed to be playing a game seriously in front of her.

Her Highness is, after all, a being with a lifespan of a thousand years. Although she may not have much experience, she is still quite skilled at reading faces.

Yukari Yakumo: "I don't care. As long as I demonstrate sufficient ability, I think Mr. Kurokawa won't abandon me."

His eyes remained fixed on the screen.

The blonde girl spoke in a slightly indifferent tone.

Upon hearing this, Kaguya Houraisan shrugged at Kazuya Kurokawa with a brotherly air, as if to say, "See?"

Yukari Yakumo: "If we're talking about tampering with the game, Princess, you've done quite a bit too. The provocative nature of this plot is just too strong. For example, after the protagonist clears this stage, there should be a..."

As she spoke, using the controller to operate her character, Yukari Yakumo didn't activate "time slowdown," preparing to take down the enemies in the level at a normal pace, like slicing vegetables. Then...

The character she was controlling was killed by a ninja hiding in a blind spot around the corner.

"Little White~ Little White~ Wake up~ Wake up~"

Accompanied by the princess's call in the game, the dead game character is resurrected.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Pfft~~"

The princess in the moon laughed mercilessly.

Kaguya Houraisan: "You've gone too far."

Her Highness showed absolutely no mercy.

Yukari Yakumo, on the other hand, held the controller with a somewhat dazed expression.

She was clearly unaware that she had made a mistake in this regard, but then he quickly realized what had happened.

She has now transformed into a human.

Because as a demon, she had never studied any human scriptures.

She is still a human who has never cultivated, but has mastered special abilities solely due to her talent, and her physical fitness is at the level of an ordinary human.

Not to mention comparing it to monsters, it can't even compare to Kurokawa Kazumi next to it.

I was fine when I was focused on playing the game, but now that I'm distracted by chatting with Kaguya Houraisan, I can't concentrate at all.

Yukari Yakumo: "It was just a mistake."

After understanding her situation, the blonde girl quickly readjusted her expression.

Yukari Yakumo: "Using mockery to change the subject is actually a rather low level of skill."

She responded to Kaguya Houraisan's mockery with a cold tone.

With her words, the newly resurrected character has already passed the level where he just died.

The character who enters the designated building will trigger a cutscene in the game.

In terms of the main storyline of the game "Tales of Kaguya," there isn't much to say. The samurai goes to the moon, defeats all the enemies, and ultimately saves the princess.

One of the more original stories is that of the real princess and the fake princess.

The full moon in the sky has always been associated with fantasy and illusion.

The deity now representing the moon, Tsukiyomi, is naturally the most skilled in fantasy. She can even directly reverse the categories of reality and illusion within the lunar capital.

Make the Moon Princess, who accompanies the protagonist, a fake.

This makes the protagonist unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

This script perfectly matches the wonderfully fantastical art style that illusionists create today, which exists between reality and illusion, and even gives people a strange and eerie feeling.

In the illusion created by Tsukiyomi for the protagonist, there is no such thing as the Moon Princess; it is all just the protagonist's fantasy after finding a treasure dropped by a certain lunar capital.

The subtext of this part is currently unknown to Yukari Yakumo.

But she could spot the trickery in the game's partner system at a glance...

Simply put, if the protagonist of this story gets a perfect score in certain levels, he will not only receive the level reward, but also gain the favor of a certain character corresponding to that level.

In terms of gameplay, this favorability quest grants characters corresponding secret manuals, allowing them to acquire more skills.

And its role in the game's storyline—

People from the earth passed the trial with perfect scores, impressing the celestial beings with their will and talent.

He, along with the Moon Rabbit, another Moon Princess, and the Moon's Mind, joined forces to launch a final attack on the true ruler of the moon.

Yukari Yakumo wondered if this so-called video game would eventually reach the Lunar Capital.

But she could imagine the expressions on the faces of those beings on the moon when they learned about the game's contents.

To draw an analogy, it would be something like this:

The ministers of the feudal era received a collection of stories.

The story describes a protagonist who leads his group to overthrow the emperor on the dragon throne.

This book is now widely distributed in the neighboring kingdom.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Oh, if that's what you're trying to say, then I've done more than that. If players can get all the levels to max heart, there's an option to replace Tsukiyomi as the Moon King."

The princess in the moon, with a beautiful smile on her face, spoke her thoughts:

"It's a pity that this ending isn't finished yet, otherwise Miss Meryl would definitely be able to experience it."

This was a surprise she had prepared for the other person, so she had to make sure she could appreciate their expression at this moment.

Yakumo Yukari: “…”

She glanced back at Kurokawa Kazuya.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Why are you looking at Kurokawa? This is my opinion. The Lunarians can't stay on Earth for long, so they pose no threat at all. Not to mention, as their leader, we don't even know what their attitude will be towards the sudden influx of faith related to them."

As the princess in the moon spoke, she seemed to have thought of something interesting, and her expression quickened again.

Tsukiyomi needs faith, although she now has very high requirements for the purity of faith and basically does not absorb faith from the earth.

But that depends on the quantity.

Kurokawa and Mina's continuous stream of modern faith, even after filtering, is not unusable.

Although she was playing the villain in the game, Kaguya refused to believe that Tsukiyomi would just stand by and watch all this without having any intention of getting a share of the spoils.

Although the probability is only one in ten thousand, if the other party really wants to absorb these beliefs, they might go into the game and pretend to be a villain, only to be cut down by the characters in the game.

Kaguya felt that she could no longer hide the smile on her face.

Yukari Yakumo: "Your relationship seems to be going well."

She said this to Kurokawa Kazuya.

For Kaguya Houraisan to pull off this kind of plot, the relationship between Kurokawa Kazuya and the other person must be exceptionally good.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "I guess it's alright."

He nodded, responding to Yukari Yakumo's words with little change in expression.

There are other reasons why the current plot has turned out this way, but there's no way I could tell that to Meryl in front of me.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Heh heh, do you know the extent to which someone can hold my hand? You couldn't find a single one in the entire Moon Capital."

The princess on the moon spoke again, diverting the blonde girl's attention.

Yukari Yakumo: "That's really impressive."

The blonde girl turned her head again and looked at Kurokawa Kazuya in surprise.

The bright moon also symbolizes purity, and Kaguya of Mount Hourai, who has survived since the mythological era, is in a sense one of the symbols of the moon.

Purity of body and mind is a characteristic ingrained in their character.

Similar to the virgin goddess in Greek mythology, the very fact that the virgin goddess acknowledges the possibility of a member of the opposite sex holding her hand with romantic feelings is quite remarkable.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Alright, I've finished speaking. Now it's your turn, Meryl. You deliberately tried to sow discord between me and Kurokawa; now you're going to be punished by me~"

The princess on the moon openly expressed her thoughts.

Although she already knew the plot and deliberately concealed it to see a surprise, the fact that Meryl was trying to sow discord between her and Kurokawa Kazuya was undeniable.

Yukari Yakumo: "Me?"

The blonde girl pressed a button on the game controller, then looked back at the screen in front of her.

She wasn't too worried about whether she would be accepted.

Yukari Yakumo: "While playing the game, I discovered that it still has many shortcomings. From my perspective, many of the countless runes in operation are sluggish and redundant. I can help you optimize all of this. In addition, during my recent gameplay, I've also gained some understanding of this type of rune language, so writing entirely new ones shouldn't be a problem."

She waved gently as she spoke.

On the screen in front of me, green symbols began to flash continuously.

The bugs that had been discovered began to be resolved quietly.

As Yukari Yakumo controlled her character to begin her actions, the graphical expansion and contraction bug that she would encounter at specific locations in the game suddenly vanished without a trace.

She waved her hand again, and the green runes flashed once more.

Many of the enemy actions in the game, which lacked a well-designed action tree, began to develop targeted actions based on Yukari Yakumo's ideas.

However, due to program limitations, many actions still cannot be completed.

The blonde girl looked at her own performance and nodded with barely satisfied approval.

For Yukari Yakumo, who can alter the boundaries of things and invert concepts in the real world, the operation in front of her is just a small test, or at least that's what she thinks.

The calm, blonde girl wearing a white beret was about to turn around and ask the two people behind her for their opinions after she had finished doing everything.