44 The Missing Spring part EX ? (1/2)

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-Morning, Hakurei Shrine-

-My POV-​

Two little girls arrived on the Hakurei Shrine. They arrived by piggy backing the other one.

”We finally arrived! We did it!”

”O-oooo.”

”Where's your energy! Say 'We did it!'!”

”W-we did it.”

”Louder!!”

I pat her head. ”Funya!”

”Just let her go, not everyone have that much energy as yours.” I reprimanded her before I removed my hand from her head.

”Y-yes, sorry, Akyuu-chan too, I'm sorry.” she said her sorry as she lowered Akyuu to stand on her own.

”Don't worry about it, its Bara-chan after all.” Akyuu gave a wry smile to her.

I smile in satisfaction seeing their friendly interaction.

I look around the Shrine ground.

There's Reimu, she's giving us unimpressed look while sweeping the ground.

”Please don't be loud first thing in the morning, and what are you all doing here?” she ordered and asked us at the same time.

I raised my Picnic Basket for her to see. ”Flower viewing and victory celebration.”

”Morning, Reimu-san!” Bara waved.

”Sorry for intruding.” Akyuu bowed.

”Good morning to all of you too, by 'victory celebration', that mean I can join in right?” Reimu eyes turned sharps.

”Of course, I also already prepared some extra for the other two, in case they joining in too.”

”Then I'll finish this quickly, just give me a minute.” and then she start sweeping the ground very quickly.

”Haha, then we will go ahead, come on girls.” we move to the area where there's more tree in the Shrine ground.

We found some good clearance. We settled down on it after that I evened out the ground and place a huge mat on top of it.

'The atmosphere really relaxing, like the saying, you need to enjoy the moment while it still last, after all, there'll be another incident soon in a few weeks, and knowing the System, that mean I have to work for it.'

I sigh.

I noticed something floating beside one of the tree. That something is in a color and shape of a white ball.

It's a Phantom, a ghostly remains from a living being. Usually they are resided in Netherworld, but they are constantly can be seen in Gensokyo now.

'They are everywhere now, I guess you can compare them to flies, rather than giving disease, they gave you a chilly aura instead.'

It has been a few days since the conclusion of the incident, aside from the spring comes back to Gensokyo, the Phantom also comes to this place.

The Human start freaking out because of the sudden appearance of the Phantom, but I'm sure they will get used to it in a few days, that's just how Human are.

I think that's the only thing that difference after the incident, now onto the next stuff.

My Quest Reward.

[Main Story Quest Completed]

[Reward: 40.000 AP & 40.000 IP, 2 Random Skills & 2 Random Items]

The reward really increased just like the System said.

For the new reward, I rolled some really good one and a really random one.

[Object Enchantment]

[User could infuse object with any unique effect as long as User provided use mana as its cost, the duration of the enchantment depend on what kind of material that the object have and how much User pour mana into it.]

[Detecting inferior skill of the same category from User, [Enchantment: Strength, Endurance, Agility] are fused with [Object Enchantment] for performance efficiency.]

[User level increased from Lv.75 to Lv.77]

Finally! After tricking everyone that I could enchant an item, I finally really could perform an enchantment! So with this skill, I enchant the Picnic Basket in my hand with [Spatial Enlargement] and [Weight Reduction], tiresome but very satisfying, now with this I don't need to buy anymore enchantment from the System.

As for the second skill.

[Origami Master]

[Make User the master of folding paper (Origami).]

Really random but I'll take it nonetheless, I'll just use it to have fun in my free time, ….I wonder if I could make a dragon out of folding paper?

Now for the new item, I think I hit another jackpot on one of them.

[Sleepy Medallion]

[Anyone that saw the eye side of the medallion would feel drowsy until they eventually fall asleep.]

[Eternal Illumination Jewel]

[A jewel that producing light until the end of time.]

Praise the Tiny Luck! I don't know if that's really your doing, but praise you! I promise I won't shit talk you ever again!

Now I could freely use my Light Saber technique without any cost, adding the fact that I have Swordsmanship Lv.EX, those thing gonna be deadly! …But now that I think about it, isn't that mean I could pretend to be a Jedi now?! I also have my Telekinesis! Hohohohohohohohoho, I got another idea, give me Electro Master and I could pretend to be Emperor Palpatine!

But I will wait for my free Electro Master, I'm saving up my Ability Point right now, after all, upgrading my skills into Lv.EX is more important than getting new skills.

I guess that's it for anything new, now I only need to relax and wait for the next incident to happen, yup, only need to relax.

”I'm here, give me sake!” Reimu arrived.

”Here,” I gave her a bottle of it and its Sakazuki, a saucer like cup for drinking sake. ”Just so you know, I will keep the stench away from the other.”

”As long as I get to drink the Sake.” she received it happily.

”Here's some snack to go along with it.” I place the food on the mat before I proceeding to get myself a thermos containing my tea, my own sweet vanilla flavored tea.

”…” I noticed Bara staring at Reimu's Sake.

”That thing burned your throat, consume more it will burn your kidney, consume more and you probably regret what you're doing while you're drunk.” I said my impression of Sake to Bara. ”Here's some sweet tea instead.” I gave Bara a cup of tea, she took it.

”Sweet tea?” asked Akyuu.

”Vanilla flavored tea mixed with sugar, you want one?”

”Sure.” Akyuu took a sip. ”Hm, this drink may also be suitable to accompany reading books.” Akyuu gave her impression.

”More!” Bara thrust me her empty cup.

”…I know you almost resistant to the heat but can you slow down your drinking speed?”

”Yes, Bara-chan, you need to drink it slowly to enjoy it fully.” comment Akyuu.

”But the taste is so sweet! I just want more of it you know!” Bara says her reasoning.

”Then eat this cookie instead, too much tea will lead to another kind of emergency.” I gave her a plate of cookie.

”Emergency?” asked Bara with question look but she still take the plate anyway.

”Just eat the cookies, if you want more, just asked me again.”

I caught a glimpse of tinge of red on Akyuu face, as for Reimu, I don't know if it's red because she hear what I said or just already drunk from her Sake.

We continue our friendly conversation while enjoying the atmosphere but not long after that, Marisa joins our little party.

”So is this gonna be a thing-ze? Each time we solved an incident, we will have a victory celebration? I'm down with it-ze!” and she took a gulp of her share of Sake.

”Now that you mentioned it, are you okay doing all of this Arah-san?” worried Akyuu.

”It's okay. You don't need to worry about it.” I answered.

”So he says!” yelled Reimu merrily.

'…She's totally drunk.' I thought. ”Let's talk about something else, I'm actually curious about you girls side of the story from previous incident.”

”Oh, now you're saying it I also curious about yours as well-ze. Hey, Reimu, sober up, I want to hear yours as well-ze.” Marisa tapped Reimu's shoulder.

”Hm? Incident Story? It can't be helped, now listened to the story of this great Reimu-sama solving the incident.”

”What do you mean by Reimu-sama?! All three of us solved the incident-ze!”

”Four, I'm giving you the boost item, remember?”

”In the first place you're siding with the enemy-ze! You don't count!!”

I look to the side, Akyuu is in her listening mode right now, she's concentrating to listening to us, or should I say 'recording' us, while Bara is happily nibbling her cookie.

And so I listened and give away my side of the story; of course I left out the System Quest part.

On Reimu side, after she concluded that the spring won't come back at the start of the second month, she started her duty to save Gensokyo from an incident (…it sounded honorable and such, it also fit her character that she will move if Gensokyo is in danger from an incident, but I have a feeling that she left out something in-between), because the winter is unending, she started beating up all the Being that could control the cold (she fought Letty, the 1st stage boss and Cirno, the 1st stage preboss), until a few days later that she have a feeling that there's something more up in the sky, and thus she found the Barrier between Life and Death, and we know what happen next.

On Marisa side, after she founded mysterious pink petal that fall in front of her house, she concluded that in some part of Gensokyo has spring in it, so she set out , after flying around for days without anymore clue, she come across with Alice (the 3rd stage boss), they banter for a while, then they fought, then Marisa won. After that Alice gave her a hint that the there's something going on up above the sky, but Marisa didn't get it until she heard the loud noise.

Guess that mean Sakuya fought off Chen (the 2nd stage boss) and the Prismriver Sisters (the 4th stage boss).

As for my side, I used my head (this ticked off Marisa and Reimu, their expression is so precious, I just wanna laugh out loud), found the door, I used my head again (this really ticked off Reimu), have a meeting with the one behind the incident, and the other know the rest.

”Reimu, did you asked her what I asked you to do?” I asked Reimu.

”Yes, but she said something about breaking the seal and freeing a soul.”

”Ah, you mean her monologue about reviving a soul before we fought her-ze?”

”Reviving a soul?” asked Akyuu.

Then friendly banter ensued, interestingly, no one berated me for picking the culprit side, which I thankful off, guess they accept the fact that even thought I became enemy at that time, I still , or they just don't want their drink to be gone because I'm feeling butt hurt, which I'm thankful nonetheless.

”Ara, what a lovely feast, did you perhaps has room for one more guest?”

I jumped a little when I heard that voice.

”Oh, it's you.” Reimu turned a little bit sober.

”The culprit-ze.”

I slowly look to the new voice.

It's Yuyuko.

…Relax, just relax, the incident already passed, she has no more reason to attack us, except me, I'm fucked, I'm fucked am I? …Let's just see what happen.

”So can I join, Arah boy?”

”…Please sit whenever you like.”

”Sorry for intruding then.”

…

She sat beside me.

…I want to scream, I wanted to scream so bad right now.