33 Full Scarlet House (2/2)
I pat her too.
I watched these two girls close their eyes, their faces telling me that they were in comfortable bliss.
'They look so peaceful.'
I looked at Koishi.
'Her face looks nothing like a girl with a broken mind; she looks genuinely happy right now.'
I pat her head more gently.
'…Should I try fixing her?'
*ding*
[Quest Alert]
[8* Mending Her Cracked Mind]
[Stabilize Komeji Koishi's Existence]
'…Wut? 8 Star Difficulty? …Wha, wuh, wtf…'
”…Arahnii-san?”
I looked at the girls.
Apparently I stopped moving my hands when I got that alert, so now they were wondering if there was something with me.
”It's nothing; I was just remembering some stuff.”
I continued patting their heads.
'8 stars? Stabilize her existence? Existence? That's… a really big word. No wonder it has that many stars. I don't know if I could do it.'
”…??”
I stopped moving my hands because I sensed someone touching them.
It was the girls.
I looked at them.
And they looked back at me.
”Please don't be sad.”
”I don't know what Arahnii-san is thinking right now, but thinking about sad things is bad.”
”It will make everyone sad.”
”That's why we must always be happy.”
”To make everyone feel happy too.”
Both of them were smiling when they said all of that.
'… I hate myself for creating all these feels. One of the things that I don't like in life is sadness.'
I wanted to take my hands away and offer to play the piano for them, but it seemed Koishi had other plans for me.
”I have an idea; this will definitely make Pervert-san happier!”
I wanted to ask her what it was, but I was too slow.
She got closer to me and then she did it.
She kissed my cheek.
My brain stopped working to process what just happened.
”That's not fair! I want to do it too.”
Flandre also kissed my cheek.
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”I think we broke him.”
”What do we do now?”
”Young Mistress, please let me handle this… thing.”
”Sakuya!”
”At your service.”
”Are you sure you can help him?”
”I am sure I can take care of it.”
”…If you say so. Come on Koishi-chan, let's play in the Library.”
”Play!”
*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*
”… It is lucky for you that if you disappeared, Young Mistress would be sad.”
*thump*
”Hm? Oh, Arah-san, what are you doing here?”
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”Do you want to do the spar right now?”
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”… Hello? Is anybody there?”
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”… Uhhhhh, suit yourself then. I'm just gonna stand here like always.”
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-Underworld, Former Capital-
-3rd person POV-
The Underground or the Underworld is a world beneath the surface of Gensokyo, and it consists of many regions, one of them being the Former Capital.
The Former Capital is a large village in Former Hell, deep within the Underworld. It is situated between the Deep Road to Hell and the Palace of the Earth Spirits
The buildings are modeled after traditional Japanese houses, and the streets are lit by fiery hanging lanterns.
The capital is populated primarily by Oni, who moved underground long ago as part of a deal with the Yamas. After promising to keep a lid on the vengeful spirits that remained there after the Yama relocated Hell, the Oni were given permission to stay there.
And now because the place is occupied by the Oni, the capital knows no rest.
*gulp* *gulp* *gulp* *gulp*
”””””HUAAAH!!”””””
”Sake really is the best! It always tastes good whenever you drink the stuff!”
”Yeah, but I have noticed that the Sake tastes really good lately, did the brewer do anything new with it?”
”It's the winter, you idiot! It tastes good because of the winter!”
”Who are you calling idiot, you idiot!”
”I am the one that called you an idiot! Do you have a problem with that, idiot?!”
”You wanna go at it you idiot?!”
”Bring it on!”
And then two of the Oni started to fight, while the others watched and cheered at them.
But the Oni that don't drink and fight, drink and talk. They talk about what's going on recently within their community, including what happened with one Oni in particular.
”Did you hear what happened with that guy?”
”Hm? Which guy?”
”That guy, that Dorokin fellow.”
”Oh, him? Yeah, he said he was defeated by a Young Oni-Slayer and now he rarely sips Sake and keeps fighting everyone to get stronger. He even had the balls to challenge Aneki.”
”Hehe, funny guy. So, what do you think about it? Do you want to fight that Young One too?”
”As much as I want to, it's winter right now. It's the season when Sake tastes the best. That Young One can wait.”
”Hmm, you're right, drink first, that Young One can wait. We can also do flower viewing after winter's over, next season is gonna be a blast!”
”You said it! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!”
”DRINK! HAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Author note:
Heyo, Author here, lately the chapter have less than 3k word (more than 3k word is the standard of my entire chapters), it was all because my imagination engine work like shit lately, I'm mad that I can't deliver more like usual, meh.
You guys probably know from the note above that I have a new editor by the name of Crembo. I am very grateful of him that he volunteer himself to do it, and you guys should feel it too because as long as he is around, you people not gonna have to read my awful English sentence structure anymore (I still think English language have a shitty strange word(verb) rule btw).
@Acerman, on my part, I see no problem that Arah becoming OP too quickly, I said that because my story focus more on the interaction between the Touhou Character and Arah himself, so Arah OPness is just a tool to create a topic to talk about in the story, if that's making any sense to you.
I will not gonna make a story about Arah throwing his power randomly and then make a kingdom out of nowhere and then make all the character fall in love with him without any reason at all. (Please ignore Sunny and Alice, I promise I will give them their own chapter later on.)
I just want him to interact with all the characters.
I want him to meet with all the character, talk to them, mess with them or troll them, and greet each other as if they are neighbor.
…I don't know if this answered your worries or I just misunderstood the question and then I gave you different answer with what you are expecting. I no good with English dude.
Now that Arah level is in upper level, I plan to slow down the level increase every time he get a new skill, it's to show how stupidly dangerous the abilities of all [Lv.???] character.
Just few days ago, I have an interesting idea for when Arah reach his half a year milestone from the system, the thing happen in February so I'm gonna speeding up the story speed.
Because the month of the 2nd chapter after this chapter release is January, a new month, I'm gonna make Arah take a new challenge quest, but here's the thing, you guys can vote what challenge he will have, but there'll be only 3 challenge to choose from, I don't want to ruin the surprise of the future challenge. Voting happened in SB forum, so get to it.