8 The Scarlet Mist EX part 1? (1/2)

Editor: Acerman

-Morning, Hieda Mansion-​

In Gensokyo, humans usually never went near the river for fear of Kappa, so they build a well in their village. Big families usually have their own well to use, but for normal folk, they could only use the public well, and in Hieda Mansion well, there's a black hair teenager, top less with towel cover up his waist, and bucket of water in his arm. He splashed his whole body with it.

”COLD!”

'Dammit, cold things will always cold whenever how many time you repeated it.'

Right now, I was 'bathing' using the well, water in the well was always cold because it was from underground, away from any heat source, and the best thing about this is that it's fast. 4 splashes and I was done. I don't know about those people that take 100 hours just to take a shower, it's just a waste of water at that point. There's also an ofuro in the mansion, but let's be real, who wants to take a hot bath in the middle of summer?

”Let's eat breakfast, pack some lunch and go to Remilia's mansion after that.”

Yes, Remilia's mansion. 3 days have passed since Remilia invited me to her mansion, and of course I prepared a ton of things for this day.

First, I had bought a few new abilities and done an experiment with all of them in those 3 days.

[Parallel Thinking]

[Lets the User better Multi-Think]

It had a price of 10.000 AP, and it's worth every point I spent. Counter Armor, Quadra Wings and shooting Wind Bullets, all of them at the same time is easy, GG EZ LIVE.

[Swordsmanship Lv.3]

[Lets the User learn swordfighting]

At a total of 7.000 AP, it allowed me do fairly decent sword wielding. ”What sword you ask me?”, well, it's my new Spell Card. Since I got Vector Change to Lv.5, I tried to make all kinds of Spell Cards, and with my new skill, it's all kind of interesting. But of course it's still gonna be a secret until I fight someone…and I just jinxed myself, GOOD JOB ME!

And with all those new skills, my level went up.

[Lv.43 Light Performance, Arah]

And my title changed since I invented all of those new Spell Cards, probably because I used lots of light based attack from it.

Second, I bought a counter-measure for a vampire and a new item.

[Garlic Juice] x 3 ea = 150 IP.

[Infinite Water Kettle] = 5.000 IP.

Well, I don't plan to kill a vampire, so I only need an item they hate. Also, I bought something that I should buy from the beginning.

[Infinite Space Waist Pouch – Add-on: Laundry] = 5.000 IP

[Laundry selected clothing material inside the pouch]

It was only 5.000 IP! I think it should have been worth more than that but I will take it, especially at that price. This is practically godsend for me; no more washing clothes with my hands, no more worried if my clothes are still there when I leave the mansion. This will surely solve my entire fresh clothes problem when I'm living alone in the future.

And the best of the new item is the thing on my neck!

[Perfect Voice Synthesizer] = 10.000 IP

[Let the User change their voice with gathered voice sample]

With Mimicry String, this is a perfect tool for trolling someone when you are fighting them! But of course I need their voice sample first to make the target voice. The tool is in the shape of a choker, with the color of black and thin enough that people will just ignore it as just a black line in a neck. The power of system, anything is possible as long as you paid for it.

And for emergency, I bought 3 pair of the usual pills, the vitality and mentality pills. I should stock up those pills more often from now on.

”Thanks for the food.”

I finished eating my breakfast. I'll pack my lunch and tell Akyuu where I'm going. Hope she won't do it again like last time.

-Akyuu POV-​

”…this should do it.”

I finished writing all of the information about the Scarlet Devil Mansion from the conversation few days ago. It seems like the Vampire has been living in Gensokyo for a long time, with the mansion location and their resident, it's no wonder that they never have been discovered until now.

”…But control over fate huh. Its sound surreal.”

The Vampire was claiming that she can control fate. Her claim is difficult to prove because her ability is technically changing someone's future, but future is something uncertain. If she is changing someone's future then their original future will be changed by her, making the changed future happen in present time and because of that, since nobody knows what their original future is then nobody can claim her ability took effect on the target except the mistress herself.

”It's a bit regrettable that I don't have definite proof of her ability in my record, but beggar can't be chooser; I have to record everything.”

I slouched and put my hand on my chin.

'…I wonder if she can change my fate as well.'

As I keep thinking that though, I heard someone's voice from the corridor.

”Hey, Akyuu-chan.”

It's Arah voice.

”Over here Arah-san,” I called him to the main room.

”Oh, there you are,” he entered.

He approached and sat in front of me.

”I just wanna tell you that I'll head out now”

”The same as usual?” I inquire.

”No, right now I want to go to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.”

”?! Then-”

”Then Akyuu-chan will wait quietly here in the mansion.”

”…”

”Please promise me you'll do that.”

”…Then, Arah-san too. Please promise me you'll come back unhurt.”

”Of course, who do you think I am?”

-Late Morning, Youkai Trail-​

-Me POV-​

”You are just our food, human! Just accept your fate!” yelled the Youkai in front of me.

…I wonder when the Youkai will stop harassing me; this has become my daily occurrence now.

[Lv.27 Were-tiger]

I continued walking normally toward SDM when this thing suddenly jumped in from the side and stopped me.

Its appearance is like what you expected from were-tiger while also wearing a male Yukata.

”Didn't you hear anything from other Youkai about how badly they lose to me?”

”Hump! Those guys are only weakling, I'm different!”

Typical self-centered attitude from Youkai. Think they are stronger than anyone, some of them deserve that attitude, but majority of them are just weaklings.

”Alright then, let's gets this over with.”

I trust my right hand and gather Light Energy in it, and guess what; this is my normal Danmaku bullet! I did it, Mom! Are you proud of me yet?!

”Danmaku?!”

With Parallel Thinking, I kept gathering the energy while shooting them at the same time. I suppose this is the first time I've used it on live combat.

”Even though you can use Danmaku, you will still gonna lose to me, human!”

He starts charging at me and I started shooting at him.

”Your puny Danmaku doesn't even hurt me!”

'He's still charging me even though my Danmaku hitting his body, guess I have to adjust the quantity and the power to be higher than this.'

As he getting close to my position, I stopped shooting and prepared to blast him away.

I do 'Kamekameha pose' and gather Light Energy between my hands.

'Full Power 'Light Blast' Test in live combat'

”Fly!” I trusted forward with both of my hand.

*BOOM*

”GUWAAAAAAAH!” and he's gone.

According to my calculation, based on his flying trajectory, he'll land somewhere near Youkai Mountain, probably the base.

”Hope the Youkai stop harassing me now that they know I can do normal Danmaku,” and with that said, I continued my walk to SDM.

-Afternoon, Scarlet Devil Mansion-

She's obviously sleeping.

Even though she pretends to guard the gate, she's without a doubt, sleeping.

Hong Meiling stood with her arm crossed, eyes closed leaning back against the wall. I usually call that pose ”cool anime guy waiting”.

”Hey! Meiling-san!” I called her.

…She's not moving.

I walked closer to her.

”MEILING-SAN!” I shouted this time.

…She's still not reacting, what happen when someone walks up to the gate?!

I had an idea, a bad one at that, one I need to adjust my Counter Armor first.

'Erase counter, expand armor by 5 cm.'

Done, let's try this now.

I move my hand toward her shoulder and then grab it.

*THUD*

Suddenly I felt like I was flying. All I can see is just blue sky and a cloud that speeding up downward, and I felt something hard crash into my back.

...my brain tells me that I just got send backward by someone, and this someone is so strong that they can send me flying with a single move. My brain tells me that I currently sprawling on the dirt like a fucking idiot.

I push my whole body with my ability from sprawling position and back to standing upright on the ground.

Meiling pose right now is just like before but with her left arm trusting forward to what I guess to be where my head was.

Oh, she's starting to wake up, she's stretching her arms, her eyes slowly opened,…let's just keep quiet about what happen.

”Meling-san!” I called out to her again.

”…Hm? Oh, why it isn't Arah-san I see over there. But, why are you here?” She asked me.

She recognizes me! A beautiful woman recognizes me! I feel so popular right now!

”Yes! I come here to sightseeing the mansion, your mistress invited me personally when I was playing in Reimu's house.” I answered while jogging toward her.

”I see, then there's no problem letting you in.” she then proceed to open the gate. ”Please come in. I hope you enjoy your stay in here.” She smiled at me.

”Of course, thanks Meiling-san.” I smiled back while passing over the opened gate.

”You're welcome, now then, let's start dreaming again…” her word slowly getting quieter.

'I can still hear you, you know.' I smiled disarmingly.

-Scarlet Devil Mansion-​

As I walk on the garden path, I looked at every part of the garden

'All of them are roses, every part of the garden is covered by it. This is the first time I've seen these many roses.'

I marveled at the sight of the garden as I walked towards the mansion door. I kept looking left and right until I reach the door.

'Should I knock? Is Sakuya-san even gonna heard my knock? I heard the inside of the mansion is way bigger than it look outside.'

As I thought about how I approach the door, someone opened it from the inside, revealing Sakuya.

”Good Afternoon.” I saided.

”…Good Afternoon. I see you actually coming to our mansion, and alone at that.” She said coldly.

”Haha, well, I'm really curious about what's inside the mansion, so here I am.” I smiled back.

”Then you must be a fool to only coming here based on your curiosity alone. Do you even know how naïve your thinking is?”

”I just have to take the consequence and solve it on my own then.”

Sakuya must've be slightly irritated with me because she didn't say anything for a while.

”…So, can I come in now?”