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The incredible power reminded them of the legendary wizards and shrine maidens of the Age of Gods, Abe Haruaki of the Heian Period, and Himiko of the Mythological Age, those people who were human beings but were comparable to gods.
"Lord Yakumo, what's the matter with that priestess? Are there still such powerful humans in this era? You are well-informed, have you ever heard of her name?" The monster who asked the question had eight snake heads. It was not surprising that people worshipped him as the Yamata no Orochi, and he was proud of it.
But of course he is not the Yamata no Orochi, and this era does not allow such a powerful monster to exist.
He just happened to have this honor, or perhaps his ancestors had the blood of Yaqi.
The person being questioned, named 'Yakumo', looked more like a human. A blonde girl wearing a purple dress.
Judging from their appearance, everyone would think that the former was a scary demon and the latter was a kidnapped little human girl.
But the opposite is true.
The eight-headed snake is just an ordinary monster, but the girl with human appearance is named Yakumo Yukari, who is called a sage and is now one of the top monsters in the entire Gensokyo.
A monster of this level would be a great monster that could stand on equal footing with the general and Tamamonomae even in the era of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons a thousand years ago.
Yakumo Yukari did not answer, but slapped the other person to the ground. Four of the eight heads exploded at once.
"S-lord!"
The moody Yakumo Yukari is also famous in the monster world, but I don’t think I have offended her.
"what did you just say?"
"I, I say, have you ever heard of that name?"
"The previous sentence!"
"Well—you are well-informed."
"So you're making fun of my age, right?"
Only then did the eight-headed snake realize that he had committed the biggest taboo.
"Ah? Aren't you 17?" He stared at her with innocent eyes, his eyes full of sincerity. "I think you are only 15 at most. You must have lied about your age."
Yakumo Yukari snorted coldly and stared at the snake demon for a long time, until his remaining four heads trembled in fear and almost fainted. Only then did she give up and let him pass.
"And then, that witch, what else do you know?"
The eight-headed snake secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Losing his head was a small matter, but if Lord Yakumo slapped him into the gap, it would be the end.
"I just heard someone say that the girl is called Boli Miko."
"Bo Li? That's the last name of the chief priest of Izumo Taisha Shrine, right?" Yakumo Yukari said to herself, "A few months ago, I heard that a real 'shrine maiden' appeared in Izumo Taisha Shrine. It was a big deal, but I thought it was just a rumor. It turns out to be true."
Such power is indeed enough to be called a shrine maiden. In the mythological era that Yakumo experienced, the agents of the gods that he had seen were no more than this.
Was that terrifying sealing technique just now announcing its existence to Gensokyo?
I have to say, it is really useful. Most of the monsters are stupid, but like animals, they have a deep fear of the powerful. Seeing such a scene, I am sure they will not provoke without thinking. It saves a lot of trouble.
Even Yakumo Yukari herself was not sure that she could be stronger than that priestess.
In a face-to-face duel, the odds of winning or losing are about fifty-fifty. Moreover, the priestess, who is being watched by the true god, has no chance of winning at all, considering the external factors.
Although she believed that the other party could not kill her, it was a rare opportunity to come to such an interesting world. Wouldn't it be a pity to be sealed?
Yakumo Yukari smiled. She was a shrine maiden from the Age of Gods. She was not unhappy at all. She was actually very happy. For how long had she been hiding in the realm to avoid the erosion of the real world? She was always sleeping, but when she woke up, she found that there was no familiar thing in the real world.
All friends and enemies are gone, leaving Ziran alone.
The shrine maiden of the Age of Gods finally gave her a familiar feeling. To her, it didn't matter whether they were friends or enemies. God, demon, monster, ghost, or human were meaningless labels. She just hoped that it was interesting enough to make her 17-year-old heart beat a little.
Having vented her anger, Reimu returned to her bedroom in the shrine.
What would she do if she had super powers? She had never thought about this.
"Dream Seal", "Dream Born", before, she only played games with Sanae in her imagination. Now she can use it, the magic light blooms in her hands, extremely grand, much more powerful than she imagined.
But after the initial excitement, Reimu realized that even if she really had super powers, there would be nothing she could do.
She had the dragon-slaying skills but no place to use them. She couldn't just keep using spell cards on Shan Lin, could she? Shan Lin hadn't offended her.
There are many monsters here, and the entire Gensokyo is a world of monsters, but the Yin-Yang Jade tells her that she doesn't need to exterminate these monsters.
This world was promised by the gods to monsters to live in, just like humans living in the human world, as long as they don't break the law, they have freedom from interference from others, and the same is true for monsters. As long as they don't break the rules, they don't need her, the "supervisor", to care about them.
How should I put it? It's like winning a jackpot of tens of millions in the lottery, only to find out after receiving the prize that Japanese yen is no longer in circulation.
So, even after arriving at the Gensokyo she had always dreamed of, all she could do was stare blankly?
This is not quite the same as the wonderful magical journey to another world that I had imagined.
Reimu looked at her room. The room here was no different from her room in Izumo Taisha Shrine. If you didn't look carefully, you would probably think you were still at home.
Now she had to consider a question: how to get home?
Reimu knocked on the tatami in the room, which smelled of rush. It was a little old, but not dirty, and had a more rustic feel than her own bedroom. This shrine was probably much older than Izumo Taisha. There was no furniture around, and the house was empty, with no exit leading to anywhere else.
It probably won't work to crawl through a tree hole like Alice in Wonderland.
But soon, Reimu realized that she was just fighting with the air, which was meaningless, because the way to go home was very simple.
In fact, as long as she seriously thinks about "going home", she has the authority to enter and leave Gensokyo at will as a supervisor.
So the next moment, she woke up on the tatami in her real bedroom.
This is the human world, this is Izumo Taisha Shrine.
The Yin-Yang Jade is still beside the pillow.
Reimu sat up, feeling a little unreal.
If it weren't for the extra 5,000 yen next to it, she wouldn't be sure if it was just an ordinary dream. The money was real, it wasn't a dream.
Perhaps because she was back in her familiar surroundings, Reimu gradually calmed down. Looking at the 5,000 yuan, she suddenly became happy again.
Yes, the dream of many years has suddenly come true, why should I not be happy? It is said that Ye Gong loves dragons, but if Ye Gong could press the dragon to the ground and rub it when he saw it, he would definitely not be afraid.
When you encounter such a magical thing, what is the first thing you should do?
Need I ask? Of course, I was going to show off to Sanae!
Seeing that the sky outside was already bright, Reimu got up excitedly.
The "mastermind" withdrew his gaze upon seeing this. Fortunately, Reimu was quite happy when she saw what she expected.
It's a belated New Year's gift.
During the Kasuga Festival, Reimu sent her a gift, but Ling hadn't returned the favor yet. She wasn't used to the custom of sending gifts on festivals, as she and Tomoyo didn't have this habit before, and she didn't have any other friends besides them.
So this Yin-Yang Jade can be considered as a return gift.
Making people work for free is the behavior of capitalists.
But what Lingye did was more like an old man giving someone a "golden finger". Since Reimu herself was willing to accept it, then everyone was happy. Can it be considered exploitation if it is something that we both agree on?
What's more, if the Eight-foot Mirror is a divine artifact, then the Yin-Yang Jade is an artifact among divine artifacts.
Because the original body of the Yin-Yang Jade is the last bit of authority left in Takama-ga-hara.
The authority of a deity? Godhead? Whatever you want to call it, it's something like that.
The remaining authority is not high, and it cannot reach the power of the real gods in the past. But it is a rule that allows the person who holds the Yin-Yang Jade to maintain his power at the highest limit as long as he is in Gensokyo.
No matter how strong the strongest monster in Gensokyo is, Reimu will be raised to that level. She will always be the upper limit of Gensokyo. Currently, the strongest monster in Gensokyo should be the gap monster named "Yakumo Yukari", so that is also the current limit of Reimu who holds the Yin-Yang Jade.
Just like some kind of rules, this is the authority, and the gods in the past were born because of these rules.
This is also to allow Reimu to better fulfill her duties as a supervisor.
The Hakurei Shrine is located at the gate of Gensokyo, and is the only way in and out of Gensokyo. If Reimu can't even defeat the monsters, then there's no way she can supervise.
I hope Reimu will always like this gift.
On the other side, Beidou, who was on vacation at a ski resort, had a less than perfect vacation.
At first he did enjoy half a day of skiing, but after noon the next day, the ski resort was shrouded in the shadow of bad news.
A girl lost her father and encountered an avalanche while crossing the snowy peaks.
People at the ski resort helped to search, but the search and rescue work yielded no results after an entire afternoon and the entire day of the next day.
The people who had been searching together gave up one after another by noon of the next day. They left the forest and returned to the warm hotel. Because it was almost useless. After a whole day, even if they found it, it would only be a corpse.
There are only a few people still persisting in the search, Beidou is among them.
This mountain forest is too large, and the weather is not very good. Snow has been falling from the sky since this morning, which is very unfavorable for the search and rescue work.
The most troublesome thing was that the girl couldn't tell where she encountered the avalanche. They just searched aimlessly throughout the mountains, from one hilltop to another.
This cannot be blamed on her, because she was only ten years old. It was already remarkable that she could save herself and walk out of the mountains and forests and think of coming to the ski resort for help.
With his feet in the snow that was almost knee-deep, Beidou felt like his body was freezing.
"Brother, is my father dead?"
When the little girl asked him so bluntly, Beidou didn't know how to answer.
Being missing in such a cold snowy place for a whole day, there was really no hope of survival. Even if he was not buried by the snow on the spot, the low temperature of the ice and snow was enough to kill an adult who had lost the ability to move within a few hours.
"Brother, can you help my father get revenge? It was the Ultra Beast that killed my father."
The girl insisted that she did not despair because of losing her father, because of this hatred.
Beidou didn't want to see such hatred in the eyes of such a young girl, but he also understood that if it weren't for this strong emotion supporting her, she would have collapsed long ago.
But, super beast?
Beidou heard her say this yesterday. He contacted the TAC team. Konno and Yamanaka flew planes to patrol the mountains for several rounds, but they did not see any super beasts, and the radar did not find anything either.
This was just an ordinary disappearance in an avalanche, because even the girl herself couldn't describe what the super beast looked like.
"Beidou, I think you should figure out which one is the real police incident."
Shanzhong, who had worked in vain, complained to Beidou like this.
"But, Yamanaka, I remember that every time Beidou said there was a monster, he was proven right in the end." Konno retorted, and indeed produced sufficient evidence to prove it.
Kappa, Polaris, Noisemon, and several other times.
[Where did the super beast come from in such a nice villa? 】
[How can a ship fly in the sky? ]
[You are so dazzled by the speeding crowd. ]