28 Did Somebody Cook Something? (1/2)

-Morning, My House-

-Me POV-​

I open my eyes.

What I see in my eyes is the brown ceiling that I already become familiar with, the ceiling of my room.

I turn my head to start searching for something in the room, something that tells the time of the world.

I found it.

What I'm searching was called Digital Wall Clock, and it tells me that it's already 09.45 AM.

I start getting out from my futon.

”…Ugh, I hate it when I overslept, but it was worth it, now I know how that room works.”

[Simulation Room (Basic Combat Simulation Function Only)] = 10.000 IP

[A Room that could Simulated Everything in the Universe, but it's only have Basic Combat Simulation Function as per User request.]

Yep, I only bought that function, and guess the original price you have to pay for accessing all the function…it was 4.000.000.000.000 IP.

…That's a lot of zeroes.

I start going down the stair to start making my late breakfast.

As I went down the stairs, I look at the new set of stairs that goes down to another lower floor.

The Simulation Room is in the Underground Floor.

A few days ago, the system gave me an announcement that the Monthly Quest is completed, making me knows that I'm in December, and because I'm in Gensokyo, which is in Japan, winter starts right now.

The reason why I decided to build the room right now was because it will happen soon.

The next incident, I mean.

I go to the kitchen and start preparing the ingredient for me to cook.

PCB (Perfect Cherry Blossom) is coming, 4 more months until it happens, technically it happen 3 more months, after the winter season ”end” but it still going because Yuyuko extended it by stealing the spring, I don't know how she done it, but she did it anyway.

According to the information that I read, the first month of the incident, nobody actually making a move about it, all of them probably thought ”Oh, it's still snowing? The spring probably coming late, and it's all part of nature, it's probably onetime thing.” but then the next month it still snowing, everyone afraid, everyone scared, and Reimu starting to move.

Reimu keep searching until late April because Alice told her the location of the Barrier of Life and Death, the gateway to the Netherworld, a place where Hakugyokurou located, home of Saigyouji Yuyuko and Konpaku Youmu.

After she beat Yuyuko, the winter finally over, after all, the original objective why Yuyuko to force Saigyou Ayakashi, the damn glutton of a Tree, to bloom, the reason why she did it was to know whose body is it that used as a seal for that Youkai Tree, in the end she know it, it's her own body. There's also the fight with Yukari to make her fix the Boundary between Gensokyo and Netherworld.

That's pretty much the summary of what's the story line of PCB.

I bring my breakfast to the living room.

I open the room side door and start sitting facing the forest.

”The view is so dull; I think I should work on a Garden or something to fix this dullness.”

I start eating my food.

Now, I have a choice, to help or not to help.

Based on the game, Reimu is not gonna be the only one whose trying to solve the incident, Sakuya and Marisa will help her or racing against each other to solve the incident, and they did it in the end.

And there's me, a person who knows who did it, why, and where.

I could tell Reimu to solve it faster than the original timeline, just like that time when the Red Mist came, but I decided that I wouldn't do it this time.

Saigyou Ayakashi needs many essence of springtime to bloom, and that mean I need to leave it alone and stay faithful with the canon schedule.

I believe that it need to happen, I know how Yuyuko back story goes, she deserved to know about what happen to her body.

Also after what I read about Yuyuko, I also believed that she's not going to rampage when she sees her own body.

Yuyuko is…frighteningly smart, behind that free care and air head attitude, there lies all seeing eyes that saw through everything.

At SWR (Scarlet Weather Rhapsody), she's the quickest one to indentify Tenshi as the culprit behind the earthquake.

At TD (Ten Desire), she's the one who direct the incident resolver to the location of the incident starter, the Taoist.

She probably can guess in a matter of seconds as to how she died, why her own body was used to seal the tree, and who did it. Spoiler, it's Yukari btw.

In the end, you don't want to be in her bad boy list.

I finish eating and start walking to the kitchen sink.

I start cleaning the plate that I used to eat.

…Now that I think about, isn't that supposed to be one of the reasons as to why I shouldn't ruin Yuyuko plan by telling it to Reimu early?

…Welp, guess I shouldn't move until canon time then, but of course everything might change if the System give me quest anyway…there's no way the System would make me fight Yukari right?

*ding*

[Taking note]

”BITCH!! *CRACK* …ah.” I broke the plate that I currently washed.

….To be fair, I did jinx myself with it, so it's my fault if it's actually happen.

*sigh*

I put the broken plate and its fragment inside the trash bin, and proceed to sit again in the living room.

Now, I have a month of free time until the winter magical ingredient to sprout and a lot of point to get back after I invested lot of them for my house in this couple of days, I still want that upgraded Gaia Tattoo.

'System, give me a Challenge Quest.'

[Need Confirmation from the User to start the Challenge Quest]

[Are you sure?]

'Yes.'

*ding*

[Challenge Quest Accepted]

[Applying assigned Challenge to the User]

I waited for several second before the System gave me another text.

[Surviving Life with Fragrance of Hunger]

[User will emit a Special Fragrance, anyone that smell the Fragrance will gradually deemed User to be eatable resources to them]

[Survive until 1 week passed]

[Warning: Fragrance can't be blocked by anything]

[Warning: Fragrance will become stronger if User staying in one place for too long]

I blinked.

I look at my hand; I start hesitantly sniffing at it, trying to smell anything different about it.

”…I didn't smell anything weird, or is it something like 'you can't smell your own scent because it's yours to begin with', Hmm…”

[BWOOONG! BWOOONG!]

”!!”

When I'm in the middle of thinking, suddenly the intruder alert going off and I sense something from behind me at the same time.

I immediately activated Counter Armor and Thought Acceleration as I turn my body facing that something.

But when I finished turn around, I saw a gap, it closed itself in a slow motion, and then it disappeared.

I furiously look around, double checking if I saw and sense ANY open gap in the vicinity.

After I think everything is okay and safe, probably, I became less wary but still keeping up the armor.

'…That was…Ran's Gap…right? There's no ribbon on it, and I can sense it, so it must be Ran…right? …Shit, I know I also in the list of things to observe, but I don't like how Ran reacted to me just now.'

I turn my head toward the opening from the side slide door, the outside my house, pass the clearing, inside the forest.

'How wide? How powerful? What's the rate when it's going stronger? Is Human affected as well? What condition that 'staying in one place' count as? So many questions, but I'm sure I'll have the answer in a few days.'

I noticed something on the grass below.

I look at it.

It's a grasshopper, it trying to jump into my direction, but then it got deflected mid jump by something.

'…Pest Barrier, it repels any insect and small animal into the House, but it can't stop bigger animal and Human sized thing…Wait, a minute.' I realized something.

It gave me an idea, and I start making plan to beat the Challenge.

-2 House Later-​

I walk up the stair from the underground level to the ground floor.

I start walking to the side slide door, I open it.

”…This is tamer than I thought.”

Bird, Deer, Squirrel, and a lot of insect trying to get inside but failed miserably because something invisible stopping them on their track.

”But I'm glad that the new installed House Barrier works out pretty well.”

[High tier No Entry Magical Barrier] = 20.000 IP

[A High Tier Barrier that used for not allowing anyone passes unless the User permitted it.]

There's more powerful barrier than this one called Ultimate Tier, but I hold myself from buying that one because I think this one is enough to holding off majority of thing inside Gensokyo, unless some of them have the ability to ignore a Barrier, then I'm totally fucked.

Also, the controller for the Barrier is near the Lamp Breaker, I can't really permanently encase my house with the barrier, what if some cute girls decided to visit me? I can't let that happen, but no right now, if they come right now and said that they want a piece of me, then they probably and literally want a piece of me.

I close the slide door and continuing with my plan.

You guys probably still wondering 'what did I do inside the Simulation Room?', well, I'm training of course. The room practically can simulate anything, albeit I can only do Basic Combat Simulation, it's still a combat and a simulation at that, and that also mean I can try to use my abilities to its fullest without any consequences. It was fun but that was the reason why I overslept this morning.

As for what I did in these recent hours, I'm trying the new abilities I just bought.

[Teleportation Lv.1 to Lv.5 (Max)] = 80.000 AP.

[A Movement type Esper ability that let User moves something from one point to another; let it be oneself or an object inside User's vision.]

[Perfect Brain Calculation] = 30.000 AP.

[Boosting User brain capability to calculate into perfection]

[Perfect Mental Capability] because User already have the lesser ranked skill = 50.000 AP (Original Cost 75.000 AP)

[Boosting User mental capability into perfection]

[”Greater Mental Capability” turning into ”Perfect Mental Capability”]

*ding*

[Merging Abilities]

[Perfect Brain Calculation + Perfect Mental Capability + Photographic Memory + Parallel Thinking = Ultimate Brain]

[Level up from 65 to 71]

'Finally! Teleportation!' and 'Oh no! Teleportation!'