Two Worlds, Starting with Kaguya of Penglai Mountain

Kaguya Houraisan: "There's no blood. That maid did it. Tohno Shiki was fooled?"

She turned to look at Kurokawa Kazuya and asked him a question.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "No, it's a setting in the game where vampire blood disappears on its own after a certain period of time. But for the protagonist, Shiki Tono, it doesn't make any difference. When he discovers the truth, he will naturally feel the falseness of his environment once again."

Kaguya Houraisan: "Is that so?"

The words stirred emotions, and the princess in the moon continued to play her game.

The game time has moved to the second day.

The maids at the Tono mansion and the younger sister, who is the head of the household, have their usual morning conversations with the protagonist.

As the younger sister of the head of the family, she strictly regulates Tono Shiki's words and actions.

This exchange is filled with the sister's and maid's concern, but it also contains a subtle admonition and restraint.

A strange sense of empathy welled up in Kaguya Houraisan's heart.

The princess who lived on the moon was bound by similar constraints in the past.

She remembered that so-called visual novels (galgames) had multiple branching options.

The younger sister and maid in front of you are also one of the branching options.

She definitely won't choose either of those two.

Perhaps it was because her inner feelings finally resonated with the characters in the game that Kaguya Houraisan became increasingly engrossed in her play.

She quickly progressed the game to the part where Tono Shiki leaves the mansion and goes back to school.

Tohno Shiki, treating everything as a dream, tried his best to maintain his usual composure and move forward as if nothing had happened, and then—

He then saw a familiar figure.

At this moment, a melodious yet somber background music began to play.

An undeniably pure white figure.

Golden hair as bright as sunlight.

[A figure you could never mistake, even if you only saw it once.]

The true ancestor princess Arcueid, whom she killed last night, sat quietly on the railing in front of the school.

My heart, which had been slowly healing, began to crack again, bit by bit.

The memory of killing the other person resurfaces in the mind once again.

Even through the screen, Kaguya Houraisan smiled beautifully as Arcueid walked towards the protagonist in the game.

She already anticipated what would happen next.

run--

Unable to distinguish between dreams and reality, Tono Shiki had no choice but to run away.

Those were the people he had killed, demanding repayment of a debt from him.

To be honest, at this point, Kaguya Houraisan had already begun to see herself as Arcueid on the other side.

It was revived after being divided.

An existence that cannot die, like an immortal being.

Kaguya Houraisan, as if enjoying her prey, pressed buttons on the screen, reading into Tono Shiki's thoughts.

Ta da da~ da da da da~

The chase sequence in the game ends quickly with Kaguya's click.

Arcueid, with an innocent smile, caught up with Tohno Shiki and stood before him.

"I'm glad you remember me; I'm the woman you killed yesterday."

"You slaughtered me, a complete stranger, the moment we met, and now you're asking me what I want?"

"So, have you ever seriously reflected on killing me?"

"Seriously, they're asking you a serious question. You should at least give a proper answer."

The tone was like a complaint, and the words treated death as a trivial matter.

As the True Ancestor inquired about his thoughts, Tohno Shiki, the protagonist, was presented to Houraisan Kaguya from a first-person perspective.

The boy, no longer controlled by his bloodline instincts, gradually calmed down from his fear.

His initial escape wasn't to avoid death, but simply to escape the fact that he had "killed someone."

But now that things have come to this, the facts are clear, and there is no escaping them.

He confessed with the resolve to die, admitting his regret and his willingness to pay the price for his actions by being killed by the other party.

then……

"Oh, I see. You seem like a good person."

"I've decided to ask you for help; consider it the price for forgiving me."

The vampire on the screen revealed an innocent and frank smile. Upon discovering the frankness of the boy opposite him, he abandoned his intention to kill him.

"Originally, I planned to kill you after resurrecting you. Aside from the humiliation of being killed like this for the first time, just resurrecting my body consumed eighty percent of my power. But compared to all that—"

"It really hurts, you know?"

"I almost passed out because of the pain, but then I woke up again because of the pain. Can you understand how I felt after experiencing that all night?"

"That's the kind of hatred I came to you with. I even abandoned my original goal; all I could think about was finding you."

"Two hours ago, I found out which school you were at based on what you wore yesterday. I was planning to come see you tonight, but I couldn't wait a minute longer, so I waited for you on the way."

On the other side of the screen, Kaguya Houraisan read aloud while glancing meaningfully at Kazuya Kurokawa beside her.

The words, which were clearly meant to accuse someone, carried a twisted sense of confession.

All I can say now is that the people on Earth are truly something else.

The resurrection after death and the pursuit of pain are described so clearly, and now the character she has fully immersed herself in is showing this attitude.

Kurokawa Kazuya, you still say you didn't confess your feelings to me?

Chapter Eleven: Princess Kaguya's Self-Deprecation

Kazuya Kurokawa: "..."

Kazuya Kurokawa: "As I said, the outline of this story comes from someone else, so Ms. Kaguya Houraisan, what you're thinking now is probably a misunderstanding."

Kaguya Houraisan: "I know rationally that this is a misunderstanding, but emotionally I still feel that you are using this to express your love to me in a very heavy-handed way."

A smile played on Kurokawa Kazuya's lips, and his expression amused Houraisan Kaguya.

Kaguya Houraisan, who ingested the elixir of immortality and became a Hourai person, is an existence that will never die.

Whether it's chopped up or turned to ash.

Her body will recover in the next moment.

She became eternal on the time scale.

Even if she wanted to die, she absolutely couldn't.

To be fair, as the Moon Princess, she had witnessed countless declarations of love in the Moon Capital. Although Kurokawa Kazumi's declaration of love was a bit extreme, it was quite interesting to the people of Hourai.

When death no longer brings true slumber, and death itself is treated as a game, it is by no means impossible.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Although you said that this story was written according to someone else's outline, the male protagonist's psychology in this story was written from your own perspective, right?"

The beautiful black-haired girl had an expression on her face that showed she had seen through the truth.

Since Tono Shiki's psychology was written by Kurokawa Kazuya using his own interpretation.

So, Tohno Shiki's feelings for Arcueid are somewhat influenced by Kurokawa Kazuya's own thoughts.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "I think Your Highness, you need to change your excessive self-consciousness."

He looked at Kaguya Houraisan in front of him and started to complain.

Kaguya Houraisan: "I was merely bringing forward what was bound to happen sooner or later."

With her snow-white neck slightly raised, the princess in the moon stated what she believed to be the truth.

She felt that Kurokawa Kazuya, who was with her, would eventually fall in love with her, so her current words were just a preemptive use of her feelings.

At this moment, Kurokawa Kazuya really wanted to criticize the girl opposite him, telling her that excessive narcissism would make her greasy.

But looking at the other person's face, which was so beautiful it could only be described as breathtaking.

He held back what he was about to say.

Kurokawa Kazuya: "Whatever you think, Princess."

He shook his head and decided to stop arguing about it.

Kaguya Houraisan didn't say anything more after seeing this.

From now on, Kaguya Houraisan will basically be incorporating Arcueid, the True Ancestor Princess from the game, into herself, and Shiki Tohno into Kazuya Kurokawa.

Playing it this way gives you the feeling that the person on the other side is constantly describing their own beauty in various events.

The following story, while predictable—the various adventures following the Boy Meets Girl—didn't exceed Kaguya Houraisan's expectations by much.

But she still had a lot of fun.

The eternal princess fell into the dust after her death, and a murderer who longed to break free of his cage pursued her, taking the vampire who was his hunter as his love interest.

The relationship between killer and victim has transformed into love at this moment.

That wonderful emotional shift was truly remarkable.

Time flew by quickly as I played, and it took me about ten hours to push the game to its finale.

When the melodious background music begins, and the true ending of the game is reached, the scene where Arcueid and the protagonist must part ways occurs.

Her Highness smiled again, her face beaming with delight.

The final scene of "Tsukihime," which foreshadows their inevitable farewell, is essentially a metaphor for Kaguya Houraisan's destined return to the moon three years later.

The princess who was forced to leave, and the protagonist who gazes at the eternal full moon in the sky.

As she watched the questions flashing on the screen, reflecting Tohno Shiki's changing feelings for Arcueid, Houraisan Kaguya's mood improved even more.

If those annoying guys in the Lunar Capital were as interesting to her as Kurokawa Kazuya was, she wouldn't feel annoyed and wouldn't do anything outrageous.

Ultimately, the fact that the capital city has remained unchanged for thousands of years is just too boring.

Whether it was the meeting of the Moon Sages or Tsukiyo herself, they all took the purity of their faith very seriously, almost completely suppressing any changes in the Moon People's thoughts, which made them increasingly arrogant.

Kaguya of Houraisan loathed this state and yearned to break it, but if we're talking about breaking it...

A thought popped into her mind, and Houraisan Kaguya suddenly turned to look at Kurokawa Kazuya, a charming smile curving her face.

"Kurokawa Kazuya, are you interested in spreading your game in this world?"

Although Kaguya Houraisan was quite fond of the game "Tsukihime," the fact that Arcueid, the Moon Princess in the game, fell in love with an ordinary person who killed her was something else entirely.

Hehe~ Hehehehehe~

The image of Kaguya Hōrai on Mount Hourai evokes an unparalleled sense of pleasure, imagining the arrogant moon people's faces when they learn all this.

Kaguya would never allow herself to be sacrificed and the Lunarians insulted.

But if it's just a matter of sacrificing reputation to make the Moon People lose face, then Kaguya would be more than willing.

For her, fame in the mortal world was something that didn't really matter.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Have you made your decision? If you're willing, I can provide you with full support. Don't worry, for the next hundred years, people on the moon won't be able to attack people on Earth, so your safety is very guaranteed."

The elegant young woman spoke with such enthusiasm.

As Kurokawa Kazuya listened to the other person's introduction and saw that the other person was about to cause trouble, he gained a deeper understanding of just how willful Princess Houraisan Kaguya really was.

Kurokawa Kazuya: "Now that we've played the game, Princess, shouldn't you give me the better method for ordinary people to cultivate that you mentioned?"

He then chose to change the subject.

Kaguya Houraisan told him yesterday that she would bring him a book on cultivating Yin-Yang techniques.