14 Mountain Encounters on a Rainy Day (2/2)

”Anata no koto mo watashi no koto mo subete no koto mo mada shiranai no

Omoi mabuta wo aketa no naraba subete kowasu no nara kuro ni nare.”

A woman's figure stepped out of the bushes. I looked at her status.

[Lv.53 Misfortune Goddess, Kagiyama Hina]

She had aquamarine hair and eyes. Her hair was decorated with red bows and white frills. Part of her hair was tied under her chin with a bow as a sort of front ponytail. She wore a red dress which was darker around her middle and lighter on the bottom. The dress also had white frills on the bottom and an enormous white kerchief on top. The bottom of her dress was decorated with an aquamarine swirl resembling the (misfortune) kanji. As footwear she had black knee-length cross-laced boots.

It's the Misfortune Goddess, Kagiyama Hina.

Both of us were staring at each other's eyes ever since she walked out.

'… I guess this is the first time I've met a goddess in person.' I thought while staring at her.

”?!” She was startled while looking at me.

'… That's a really late reaction to being startled. Isn't she supposed to be like accustomed to finding humans in here?'

She looked away from me and started fidgeting.

'… And now she's started fidgeting for no reason, what the fuck's going on.'

”Just stay from me, but I want your ”LOVE”…

Who do you like? So, you may give me a kiss! That's the way, ”LOVE EAST”.”

'… Oh, so that's what's happening, I unconsciously switched from ”Bad Apple” to her fan song theme, the Akatsuki Record one. The song is great… But I better stop now.'

”*cough* I'm sorry, it was just a song, Hina-sama doesn't need to take it seriously.” I said while smiling to fix the situation.

”E-I-I see, it's just a song, yes, of course it's just a song, there's no way a human would say they love me.” She said hurriedly as if she was assuring herself.

”No, no, no, Hina-sama's appearance is beautiful, I'm sure someday a human would say ”I love Hina-sama.”” I replied to her statement.

”T-thank you for your kind words, it's the f-first time someone said that to me.”

”Yes, it's me who said it so it's definitely true.”

”I-I see, aha-hahaha.” She replied awkwardly.

”Y-yes, aha-ahahahaha.” I replied awkwardly too because she started it first.

”…”

”…”

'… Good job, me…' I gave sarcastic mental thumbs up to myself.

”Um-” ”Oh look at the time, I better get going, good bye.” She cut me off and hurriedly started walking away from me.

'… Oh no…'

”Wait!”

”NOOOOOOOO!” she started screaming and flying away.

”Hina-sama please wait!” I chased her using Quadra Wing.

”HELP! I'M BEING CHASED BY A PERVERT!”

”What?! It's a misunderstanding!”

”NOOOO!” she started spinning in mid-air and from that spin, Danmaku started to form.

”Seriously?!” I said, surprised, while planning my evasion route to dodge those Danmaku.

She shot her Danmaku while also retreating from me.

'Why was her reaction so extreme from only that meeting?!'

I set aside that question for now and started dodging all the incoming Danmaku.

Her Danmaku is in a spiral pattern so I can easily dodge it if I follow the pattern in its blind spot.

'Damn, the Danmaku aren't the problem, it's the weather. So windy, and if I keep my armor up while flying at the same time in this weather, my energy is gonna get depleted fast. Gotta use the pills.' I grabbed two Booster Pills from the pouch and ate them.

'Gotta calm her down, if I let her go then there's a possibility that a strange rumor will fly around. No, a strange rumor will definitely be flying around because of that Tengu!'

And with that thought, I started chasing Hina down more desperately.

”Hina-sama! Wait!” I said while dodging.

”Stay away!” she materialized a card.

”Bad Luck Sign ”Biorhythm of the Misfortune God””

”Seriously?! A spell card?!”

Streams of red Danmaku came out of Hina's right hand, and she started turning around to her right, making the Danmaku stream surround her and end up volleying at me.

'Are you kidding me, this is not even Mountain of Faith yet and I'm already fighting Hina.' I complained while dodging the Danmaku.

As I was dodging, another Danmaku stream came out of Hina's left hand, she turned around to her left, the Danmaku stream surrounding her and then started volleying at me too.

Each stream had two groups of Danmaku lines that went in different directions after a certain distance, making me wary of both my front and my sides.

With two streams volleying at me, I had to dodge two Danmaku lines in front of me as well as another line on my right and left respectively each time their stream came.

'This Danmaku density, this is definitely a spell card from the Lunatic difficulty.'

With that thought, I had to concentrate to keep dodging all the Danmaku.

After a while, the Danmaku stream stopped. The misfortune goddess also looked calm but she still had a somewhat uncomfortable look on her face.

'Now's my chance!'

”Hina-sama, please, this is all just misunderstanding, that time really was just a song.” I desperately begged her to believe my words.

”… Then how do you know my name?” She asked warily.

”T-that's, um, Hiedaa, yes, the Hiedaa clan, I have my connection to that clan and they warned me about a misfortune goddess named, um,” I look above her head to see her full name, ”Named Kagiyama Hina, that's it, please believe me.” I gave my reasoning to her.

”… Hiedaa clan? You mean the clan that has the Child of Miaree?” she inquired.

”Yes, the Child of Miaree's name is Hieda no Akyuu right now, you can ask her if you don't believe me.”

”... I see.” She started thinking about it.

'Come on, please believe me so that I can clear my name... Although, that's a pretty good reason even though I just made it up on the spot. Good job, me.' I complimented myself.

”*cough* I concluded that it really is my misunderstanding, so,” She made a light bow to me, ”I'm really sorry.”

”No, no, Hina-sama doesn't need to apologize, if some stranger suddenly said my name, I too would definitely be afraid of them.”

”Yes, when you started singing that song to me I started to feel uncomfortable, furthermore you knew my name but I never met you before, so I started running after that.” She explained with a tired voice.

”…Once again, I'm really sorry for the trouble.” I made a deep bow, 90 degrees, torso straight, head down.

”Don't worry about it. Now that I'm talking to you, you don't seem that bad of a person.” She made a small smile at me. ”Wait, no, this is no time for an idle chat. I'm a misfortune goddess, so I'm carrying misfortune with me, if you come near me then the misfortune will… not... get you?” she tilted her head. ”The misfortune is not sticking to you? What's happening?”

I looked at my body after she said that.

The purple mist, the misfortune that Hina was talking about, was not sticking to me, as if it was avoiding me… Or as if there was a wall keeping it off me.

'The Counter Armor, it's keeping the mist at bay around me. I made the armor go at full force because I already ate the pills during the chase.'

”This… it's my ability. I can make an armor that can repel anything, and it seems like it can also repel this mist…thing.” I tried to explain what was happening to her.

”The mist that you see right now is called misfortune. Because I'm a misfortune goddess, it is my duty to collect it, and it stays with me whenever I go. But it's my first time seeing someone that is technically immune to the misfortune.” She said, amazed, while looking at me.

”… Then, based on your reaction, you were worried that the misfortune will hurt me. But because right now I'm immune to it, can we… you know… continue to talk?” I smiled while hopingly asking her.

”Why yes, of course, I do enjoy talking with other people for a while. Then, let's start with an introduction. Good afternoon, my name is Kagiyama Hina, a misfortune goddess, it's a pleasure to meet you.” She introduced herself.

”The name's Arah, a human that has a special ability. It's also a pleasure to meet a goddess.” I introduced myself back.

With this, the goddess and the human had a pleasant conversation on their walk in the Rainy Youkai Forest.

'Finally. Crisis averted, I am saved.' I internally smiled, happily.

-Evening, Hakurei Shrine-​

”Explain.” Reimu said coldly while pointing at the picture of me chasing Hina in the forest with her Gohei, her rod thingy.

'Son of a bitch, that fucking Tengu, that's why she said ”Thank you for the scoop” a few seconds ago before she disappeared into oblivion.' I was in seiza while internally irritated.

””A human chasing down a misfortune goddess, possibility of sexual harassment.” You are the only human that frequently comes to the Youkai Forest every day, and this picture is also solid proof that it is you, so would you care to explain to me what you are doing in this picture?” she said, while emphasizing some words in her sentence.

”I, uh, I was just singing you see, one thing led to another and things ended up in a misunderstanding and a chase.” I explained it in panic.

”… What things?” she was still questioning with no emotion whatsoever.

'Should I lie? No, I have a bad feeling about lying right now. Things will become worse if I lie right now. Yes, let's just say the truth.'

”Um, I was singing about ”give me your love and kiss”.” I tried to smile while giving the explanation but ended up with awkward smile.

”… This pervert…” her grip on her Gohei started to strengthen.

”…R-Reimu, are you okay?” I tried to be helpful, note the 'tried' part.

”I WILL PURIFY YOUR DIRTY MIND!” she manifested her spell card.

”Spirit Sign ”Fantasy Seal””

A bunch of big rainbow colored balls started appearing around Reimu.

'…This is gonna be painful.'

*KABOOOOOM*

Author note:

Heyo, Author here. I'm really sorry with the unexpected 1 more weeks break in my part, the thing that came up is work, I say that I need a break weeks ago because a work came up, and I need less than a week time to finish it, hence why I said I need a break for a week, less than a week to do my work and a few days to really take a break. But sadly my boss said ”Oh you're done then here's another one for you.”, I got another work after I finish the first one. Hence why there's no chapter for another week. Once again, I'm really sorry.

Yes, I do want to make up for a week where there's no chapter for a week so I will make 2 extra chapter that I will ”eventually” post for you guys, noted that I quote the eventually part because I don't know how I will do that, my work also a bit random to appear so expect fucked up post schedule from time to time.

guest, I know, I also doing my best to finish my work as fast as I can too, so wait quietly like the other, I'm a reader too so I know how you feel dude, but please keep your manner in check.

And apparently my editor gone missing on me, he was using his time to edit my chapter in the past so I'm thankful enough that he helped me enough in the past, I don't know if you read this but thank you Acerman for helping me.