49 Arrival of the Mis (1/2)

-Morning, My House-

-My POV-

Emptiness.

A hollow feeling that appeared when you saw or feels that there's something missing from certain place or object, which led you wanting to fill that emptiness with something. Generally, this kind of feeling appeared when you saw an empty shelf or empty room; the feeling appeared and bothered you until you filled that shelf or room with something.

There's also another example of how the feeling generally appeared in someone heart, it appeared when you finished watching or reading or maybe playing certain series. I remember the first time I feel the emptiness. It was when I finished watching an anime, it was called ”Baka to test to Shoukanjuu”. It's a great and hilarious anime, and when it finished airing, I remembered how desperate I'm to fill my emptiness by watching something similar like that anime.

It was a sad day back then, but then Season 2 unexpectedly happened, but like always, after some time Season 2 also finished its airing, and then the emptiness comes back. I search for any of the clue about the series continuation. I finally found its translated LN, but it still haven't keep up with the anime, and then despair comes again.

I sigh. ”…It's a vicious cycle.”

”Vicious cycle?” asked a little girl beside me.

”Hm? No, I'm just thinking loudly.”

”…I don't think 'Vicious cycle' has anything to do with the topic at hand. Please pay more attention, Master!”

Ah yeah, I kinda forgot that I'm in the middle of thought about what kind of plant we want to put in our garden.

”Sorry. How about you? Did you have something in mind?” I asked back.

”Since we only have one month left for the spring, how about planting the summer flower? Is Sunflower good?” Bara gave her suggestion.

”Sunflower, is it? …It reminded me of certain someone that really dangerous, anyway, did you read about it in Akyuu's place?”

”Yup! Since there are many book in her place, I read some of them to passes the time, included the book about flower.” she said while looking proud.

”Oh, impressive, then do you know how to take care of them?”

”Hm? No? I skimmed everything except the picture of the flower and the meaning of it.”

”…Then why are you looking proud just a second ago?”

”Because I read a lot of books!” she said proudly.

”...Are you implying that I read fewer books than you?”

”But isn't that the truth, Master?”

”…And where did you get that idea from?”

”Because there's no book in our house?” she said innocently enough.

”…True, it's true, but still.”

I grab her and ruffle her hair.

”YOU DON'T DISRESPECT PEOPLE BY SAYING THAT KIND OF WORD!”

”I'm sorryyyy!”

”YOU'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE AREN'T YOU?! YOU'RE INTENTIANLLY TAUNTING ME AREN'T YOU?!”

”No, I don't! I swear! I swear I didn't do it on purpose!”

”LIAR!”

I start patting her head.

”Funyaaaaa!”

After intense patting later.

Bara's body is lying limply on the floor.

”As I was saying, I want at least filled our garden with something, I don't have confident or interest enough with taking care of flower or fruit, …hmm.” Much thinking and consideration occurred, and I reach a conclusion. ”…There's no helping it, guess back to the bushes it is.” But then a brilliant idea came up inside my head. ”Let's aim for a bush maze, it will be fun when it finished.”

And then, I go to the garden to plant more bushes.

It has been a few weeks since spring arrived in Gensokyo, and with the additional notification that I finished my monthly quest, that mean we're officially in our last month of spring.

...And I'm keeping an eye out for any mysterious very thin mist that may or may not appeared soon.

…

…Hm? You people want me to elaborate further because you didn't know Touhou? All right then.

Those mysterious mist is a tell tale sign of the next incident after Perfect Cherry Blossom, which is Immaterial and Missing Power, and the one behind the incident is Ibuki Suika, an Oni, the one which I said to be could smash the moon, …or maybe not?

Truthfully, I kinda assumed that she did it because I once saw an illustration of her smashing the moon to pieces, but when I properly thinking about it, ”Then why the moon still exist in the next main game?”, now I'm really curious as to what really happened at that illustration. I blame her 2nd theme for making me assumed things, like seriously, the theme name is ”Broken Moon”, so it can't be helped right?

By the way Suika's 2nd theme is my second favorite after ZUN's theme. It built an image in my mind as to what I imagined Gensokyo feels like.

”Weeeeee~”

”Wait up!”

I hear sounds of happiness in the distance, I search for the source, and I found it immediately. It's the fairies. They're having fun while chasing each other between the trees by flying.

In these few days, the fairies were constantly sighted near my house. I know they are, like, everywhere in Gensokyo, but they usually stay away from any human settlement, including mine. So why that they're showing up near me now?

…

I pinch the green streak part of my hair.

'The fairies are indeed part of nature, but there's no way they gathered just because of this right? …Whatever, they haven't done anything bad to me, I guess it's okay to just leave them alone.'

Now, recapping what you guys know so far, Immaterial and Missing Power, a new incident that will arrive to Gensokyo, the culprit is Ibuki Suika.

What did she do? She made everyone having a feast in every 4 days.

Her reason for starting it? She just wants everyone to have a feast because she feels that they don't have enough in the original timeline, spring only happened in 1 month time in there. But considering that she's an Oni, she probably keeps doing it forever, I'm glad that she was stopped or watched by Yukari so that she's not overdoing it.

How did she do it? Just like Perfect Cherry Blossom, it can't be explained scientifically. In Perfect Cherry Blossom, with Yuyuko's Death Manipulation, she caused spring to ”died”, making the gathering of spring essence to be much easier, and now in Immaterial and Missing Power, with Suika's Density and Sparseness Manipulation, she gathered people's ”soul” to make them wanting to have a feast.

So when I said that I'm keeping a look out for any mysterious mist, it meant that I'm keeping out for Suika because with her ability, she could changed her body density to be turned into a mist and affect everyone ”soul” like I said.