The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Chapter Fifteen: Our Faith is Number One Under Heaven

"Ahem... So I've already said that this kind of thing can't be entirely blamed on me... Who knew that the Prison of Sinners would be so flimsy..."

Under the silent gaze of Yagokoro Eirin, Shi Bai coughed a few times and turned his head away somewhat guiltily.

"...Now I'm seen by Tsukiyomi and the others as the biggest schemer in the Moon Capital."

Still showing no sign of looking away, Yagokoro Eirin spoke calmly.

"Uh...personal image isn't really important, anyway, Eirin, you don't seem to care too much about that kind of thing..."

Someone's gaze wandered.

"Besides, didn't you plan to leave the Moon Capital? So whatever the Moon Capital's opinion of you is... these are all irrelevant now, aren't they?"

"I could have left, but because of what you did, teacher, I have to stay in the Lunar Capital for at least another ten years."

Eirin Yagokoro had a completely expressionless face.

"...Should I go and beat up Tsukiyo and the others right now?"

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai put forward a very insightful and feasible suggestion.

"Anyway, beating up one person is the same as beating up two people... beating up a few more people won't make a difference."

"...Teacher, you didn't seem like this before."

After a moment of silence, Yagokoro Eirin turned her head away without a word.

"A scholar should be looked at with new eyes after three days' absence. Look how many three days have passed? Don't you think Yonglin has become much more humane now?"

With his arms crossed, Shi Bai nodded very seriously.

"To tell you the truth, Yonglin, I have now regained the youth I once lost."

"........."

"Uh... Eirin?"

"........."

"Okay, okay, it was my fault. I shouldn't have torn that place down. Here's what we'll do: Yonglin, if you need any help, just say so. Whatever it is, as your teacher, I'll naturally do my best to help."

Shi Bai decisively raised his hands to surrender.

"...Teacher, you know that the princess is going to be exiled to the surface and live with the people there, right?"

"Hmm...I know, so what?"

"Originally, I wanted to protect her secretly, but now I can't get away. So could I ask you, teacher, to take care of the princess for the next ten years or so?"

“Protecting her is fine, anyway… wait, take care of her? You don’t mean…”

"That's right, it's exactly what you mean, teacher. I'm not comfortable letting those people on the ground take care of the princess."

"........."

One day later, Shi Bai's trip to the Moon Capital finally came to a quiet end.

Even though there may be many unknown secrets hidden in the Moon Capital, these have nothing to do with him. After a brief greeting to Yagokoro Eirin, just as quietly as he had arrived, Shibai embarked on his journey home.

Watching her teacher's figure disappear into the barrier, after a brief silence, Yagokoro Eirin turned her head to look outside the door.

"He's already left, you can come in now."

As her voice faded, the Detective Heijin quietly pushed open the door and walked in. After staring blankly at the empty center of the barrier for a while, the Detective Heijin looked up at Eirin Yagokoro in front of her.

"Although I don't know why you are so resistant to meeting my teacher, I'll say some things here first."

Turning around and walking towards the door, Eirin Yagokoro spoke calmly.

"That incident wasn't entirely your fault. You don't need to keep dwelling on it. There's no right or wrong on the battlefield."

"No."

Suddenly, the female detective spoke up.

Meeting Eirin Yagokoro's slightly surprised gaze, the detective pointed earnestly to her heart, and a beautiful voice rang out from her lips.

"It's chaotic here."

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After returning to Earth, Shi Bai first spent the entire night lying on the summit of Monster Mountain.

He originally thought that the shackles on his soul would stop causing him to be dizzy from teleportation after they were removed, but in the end, he found that without those shackles, his dizziness from teleportation lasted longer and was more severe...

"So what exactly is this called...?"

With his eyes half-closed, Shi Bai got up from the ground and pressed his forehead hard with his hand.

He had set off from here to the City of the Moon on a full moon night, and he returned on the same full moon night. However, because he was dizzy from teleportation and lay in bed all night, when he got up again, he saw the sunrise on the horizon.

To be honest, the scenery at the top of Yokai Mountain is actually quite nice. The saying "When you reach the top, you can see all the mountains below" probably describes this feeling perfectly.

After enjoying the sunrise for a while, the first thing Shi Bai did was to find a secluded spot on the top of Monster Mountain and bury the figurines he had previously prepared at the now-hidden Prison of Sinners.

If he plants a few figurines today, hundreds of years later he will be able to reap a huge harvest of lolis calling him master, plus a king with a cowlick. No matter how you look at it, this is a sure-fire way to make money.

He had originally planned to find a spot on the summit of Monster Mountain to see if he could place a Gundam mecha there, and maybe even create a Transformer someday. However, after some searching, he reluctantly gave up on the idea.

After all, mechs aren't like figurines that you can just bury somewhere and no one can find them. If such a big thing gets discovered and dismantled...

However, as the saying goes, ideas come from people's imaginations. After the idea of ​​the figurine spirit was extended to the concept of the mecha spirit, he couldn't help but have some new ideas.

If Gundam mechs are allowed, there's no reason why battleships can't be!

Then all sorts of ship girl tsukumogami will be born... Enterprises will be number one in the world!!!

Shi Bai found this idea very valuable, so he decided to try it out in the future, maybe even a Sakura Empire kindergarten... hiss hiss...

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Perhaps by sheer coincidence, as he descended from the summit of the Youkai Mountain, he encountered Inubashi Kaba, dressed in patrol uniform and on his way to conduct his daily sentry patrol. He greeted him warmly... and Kaba, in a state of extreme fright, nearly fell into the mountains.

Shi Bai: "..."

"It feels like so many years have passed, yet you seem to have made no progress at all?"

Looking at the white-haired, beast-eared girl sitting obediently on a blue stone in front of him, Shi Bai couldn't help but feel quite conflicted.

"As a patrolman of the Monster Mountain, how did you manage to almost fall off the mountain just from being called by someone's name?"

"It's all because of you..."

With its head down, the white wolf-tengu muttered something under its breath.

"what?"

Slightly confused, Bai moved his ear a little closer to the other person's ear, not quite understanding what they were saying.

"No, it's nothing."

Like a startled rabbit, Inuzoki Kaba, who unconsciously shrank back, quickly waved his hand.

"Oh, right, are you coming to my place for lunch? Xiaohua seems troubled by something. It seems Wenwen and the others encountered a lot of problems when they tried to implement the suggestion you made last time, but you were away for two months..."

"Sure, thank you for your help."

After briefly calculating his upcoming schedule in his mind, Shi Bai smiled and nodded at the other person.

"Oh, right, I brought some small gifts for you all. I'll give you the one I brought for you now. It's a specialty of Yue..."

"Wait, let's talk about it at noon. I, I, I'll go on patrol first!!"

As if suddenly remembering something, the white wolf-tengu hurriedly picked up the long sword beside it and fled as if escaping, almost crashing into a tree on its way out.

Shi Bai: "..."

...Am I really that scary?

It was still that same little courtyard. When Bai Qing arrived here, she walked in and immediately saw three little girls sitting by the pond under the maple tree, arguing loudly.

Shameimaru Aya, Himekaidou Hatake, Inubashiri Momiji.

Over the years, the three little girls have grown closer and closer, perhaps like... the friendship between two crow tengu and one white wolf tengu?

Upon seeing him enter the courtyard, Aya Shameimaru, who was sitting in the main seat with her head propped up by her hands and suffering from a headache, immediately brightened up. She jumped off the chair, ran to his side, grabbed his hand, and led him towards the table, talking as she went.

"You're back just in time. We have a lot of questions about that plan you proposed earlier..."

Shi Bai suddenly understood his cellmate, Master Ba Yi's, feelings... Lolis are the best!!!

The issue that caused the conflict between these three little girls was actually quite simple, and strictly speaking, he was one of the instigators.

Because he missed the newspapers published in Hell and the Underworld, as well as his own unfinished novel, "Shakugan no Xiahou Dun" Volume 15, "The Black Whirlwind Butler," some thoughts began to form in Shi Bai's mind.

How can the tengu of Yokai Mountain not publish a newspaper? Journalists are the soul of the tengu!

—Then he told Aya Shameimaru and Kaidou Himeko about his idea, who had come to visit Momiji Inubashiri.

However, although his proposal successfully piqued the interest of the three little girls, as the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. The honest and upright journalist Aya Shameimaru in the future was still just a child, so he naturally encountered many difficulties in the early stages of his business.

Shortly after that, he received a letter from Eirin Yagokoro, so the series of problems that had emerged were put on hold.

Shi Bai initially thought they were looking for him because of those questions, but when he sat down at the table and the three little girls started asking him questions, he realized that things weren't at all what he had imagined...

"The name 'Wenwen News' definitely sounds better!!"

"No, I think the name 'Flower Fruit Newspaper' sounds much better!!"

"I think you're both right..."

Shi Bai: "..."

Oh... so they were arguing about the newspaper's name...

Aya Shameimaru firmly believed that "Aya. News" was the most suitable and best-sounding name, while Hadekichi Himekaido insisted on her own idea, "Hanako no Nihongo" (Flower Fruit Newspaper). As for Momiji Inuzoki, who wasn't particularly interested in the name, she obediently agreed that both of her friends were right and made sense…

In other words, the so-called arguments mostly happened between Aya Shameimaru and Hatake Himekaido, while Momiji Inuzoki mostly sat obediently to the side and chimed in with a few words.

It must be said that children are far more persistent than adults when it comes to such matters.

Before he returned, Aya Shameimaru and Hatake Himekaido had been arguing about this issue for at least half a month. Neither of them was willing to admit defeat, and they both wanted to convince the other, but neither of them could convince the other.

After another round of fruitless arguing, the two... or rather the three little girls all turned their gazes to him, clearly wanting him to make a final judgment on the argument.

Stared at by several little girls with unusually expectant eyes, Shi Bai felt inexplicably under immense pressure.

"Ahem... Since neither of you can convince the other, why don't you each start your own? Wenwen, you can publish your 'Wenwen News,' and Yuli, you can publish your 'Flower and Fruit Newspaper'... Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

Shi Bai coughed a few times, making a fist and placing it near his mouth, and then offered a suggestion.

"This one……"

Shameimaru Aya blinked, looking slightly hesitant.

"That's not important right now. Anyway, it's still a long way from publishing newspapers and such. Come and see the gifts I brought for you first, and see if you like them or not."

He decisively changed the subject and took out the gifts he had prepared in the Moon Capital from his storage ring.

Since he had already come all this way, he should bring something back from the Moon Capital. These gifts he had carefully prepared were specialties from the Moon Capital...

Sure enough, as soon as they heard that there were gifts for them, Aya Shameimaru and the others immediately turned their attention to the gifts, cheered in unison, and then all crowded forward.

—When the Heavenly Demon Lord, who had just learned that someone had finally returned, walked into the courtyard in high spirits, he happened to see this scene.

P.S.: Good morning! ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

The highest good is like water, and water is good for all things without fighting.

He dwells in places that others despise, thus he is close to the Way.

Dwell in a good place, keep your heart deep and still, be kind to others, speak with integrity, govern justly, act skillfully, and move at the right time. Only by not contending can one avoid blame.

PPS: PS doesn't count towards the main text length →＿→

Chapter Sixteen: The Real Gensokyo

Mountain of Monsters.

"Wait, you mean that Yukari Yakumo came looking for us a month ago?"