Lost Narrative Poetry

The afterglow of the setting sun shone so obliquely, dragging the shadows of pedestrians on the street long.

Yuigahama Yui said that she was going to find Hikigaya Hachiman, but she never came back. She was probably held back by the latter who knew how to assess the situation and watch the mood, so she didn't stupidly run back by herself.

After all, all fools should know that the two top castes in the service department are about to fall in love and kill each other again. How unthinkable do they have to be to take the initiative to choose to run into each other at such a time?

The rational choice is of course to avoid it if possible. Hikigaya Hachiman knows very well who he should hug for warmth, so he will naturally persuade Yuigahama Yui.

As the time for club activities passed, it was finally time for school to end, and the students packed up their things and walked out of the school one after another. After all, it is neither a dormitory nor evening self-study, and the school will not allow students to stay alone on campus at night.

After all, no matter which school it is, no one would want to see this kind of thing. Once something happens, whose responsibility is it? Most schools try their best to shirk even their normal responsibilities, let alone unforeseen disasters like this.

Special Building, east side of the fourth floor.

The door to the activity room had just been closed, and there was a dull friction sound in the door frame.

Yukinoshita Yukino turned around in the corridor, looked at Xia Ran who was standing next to her, and said coldly: "See you tomorrow, Xia Ran."

On the floor of the corridor, the afterglow shines in from the window. The long hair, as black and smooth as black silk, hangs down behind the girl. Under the setting sun, it is shining with red light as if it is burning.

"Well, see you tomorrow."

Xia Ran nodded gently, said calmly, and waved to her enthusiastically to say goodbye.

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But what he received was a cold gaze, a gaze that was cold and obviously displeased, almost like giving someone frostbite.

It was obvious that he had said goodbye, but Yukinoshita did not move. He just stood silently and stared at Xia Ran without saying anything.

It's just that the low air pressure overflowing around her body is so real that it makes people wonder if she can release black magic at any time... Although she actually doesn't have even a single magic circuit, nor does she really have "magic power" yet. ".

However, it has nothing to do with qualifications. The main reason is that the time is too short, and the mystery of this world has generally faded and become declining. As in the so-called Dharma Ending Age, practice always becomes more difficult.

Just like that, the two of them stared at each other. Xia Ran still maintained a gentle and polite smile, as if she was waiting for Yukinoshita to turn around and leave first, and wanted to watch the girl leave.

However, the girl obviously didn't think so. She didn't say anything, nor did she take a step. She didn't leave along the center of the corridor with an upright posture as usual, but just stared at him with an unhappy look on her face. .

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"Okay, do you want to come with me to Moriya Shrine to have a look?" After a while, Xia Ran could only shake his head helplessly, sighed and said, and extended the invitation with a slight sense of humor.

It's not that he doesn't know what the girl is competing with, but he just thinks it's fun to tease her like this.

"Hmph, you lead the way."

Yukinoshita Yukino seemed to have been waiting for him to say this. She even lost her patience to hide it. She snorted without any politeness and agreed directly.

"Actually, there is no need to lead the way. There is no change at the address we visited last time. At least the Moriya Shrine in the outside world is still at its original location. If I hadn't taken over, it would probably have to be completely moved into Gensokyo. Already..."

Xia Ran chuckled lightly, disapproving of the girl's arrogance, knowing that the other party was unhappy. He took the lead and walked in front of the corridor, then waved to Yukinoshita behind him to follow quickly.

"At that time, Chiba City will probably have an area cut off inexplicably, including the shrine, the surrounding land, and the Lake of the Wind God. These lands will be packed up and moved directly to Gensokyo."

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"Wouldn't it be easy to detect such a huge change? After all, in such a city, such a large piece of land disappeared so suddenly. This void is very obvious, right?"

Although she followed him unhappily, after hearing this statement, Yukinoshita could not help but wonder.

"This is not the case, because it is not the kind of directly poaching an area in the physical sense without technical content... Well, how should I put it? Because the great barrier of Gensokyo is a boundary line, which is responsible for filtering common sense. vs. common sense.”

Xia Ran thought about it and changed it to a statement that should be easier to understand.

"You can think of it as, this world is actually like a lake, it is always flowing and changing. It is not a solid piece of land. If a large piece of water is dug out, an obvious gap will appear. Instead, it will immediately appear. It will be backfilled by the surrounding water bodies. On the surface, no difference can be found..."

"What is the principle of this?" Yukinoshita frowned slightly. She had a headache. This was a completely different system. Many things were not unreasonable, but had their own internal logic, so they often seemed Abnormal.

"This is a bit complicated to say. The outside world is our world, the world of common sense, and everything that is not common sense will flow into Gensokyo. Just like the literal meaning says, non-common sense is the same as common sense. The concept of opposites is not the common daily consensus on the same thing in today's society..."

Xia Ran thought for a moment and then explained carefully.

"This means that not only mysterious and unscientific things belong to the realm of non-common knowledge. Even things that were common in the past, if they are no longer known now, naturally no longer belong to the common sense now. , to put it simply, things that have been forgotten are also very common sense..."

"Yukishita-san, you have been to Moriya Shrine before. You should know that it is not popular at all, and no one comes to worship. It has long been forgotten. Even if it is completely hidden, it will not attract too much attention. The Great Barrier is precisely based on this basis to divide the boundary line..."

Things forgotten by history will appear in Gensokyo, and the Great Barrier has always played such a filtering and absorbing role.

Therefore, things that disappear from the outside world will flow into Gensokyo, such as items that are outdated in the outside world, or even extinct animals. These things can be found again in Gensokyo...

Even the gods and their beliefs are the same. When people advocate science and intelligence more, they naturally lose their faith and are forgotten. Although they often have the ability to choose whether to actively enter Gensokyo or not, the result will not be any different——

As long as you completely enter the Great Barrier, you will be forgotten by the outside world. The power of the Great Barrier will also correct a small number of local events.

And this kind of disappearance does not happen suddenly. It does not mean that something just disappears in front of everyone. It is more like the process of something being forgotten and lost——

If you can always pay attention and remember where you put things, nothing will be lost.

It is precisely because it has been forgotten, ignored, or not paid attention to for a long time... During this process, that thing will be lost unknowingly and can never be found again. This is a natural process.

In the same way, the relocation of Moriya Shrine should have been like this, as if it had been forgotten and disappeared without anyone noticing.

Perhaps many years later, someone from that era would suddenly remember that they had seen such a quiet shrine in Chiba City, but when they looked for it again, they could no longer find any trace. , as if it had never existed.

There is no such land...

There is no such shrine...

There is no such lake...

It is as if everything is just their illusion, or just a illusory dream that only belongs to the past.

——That's all.

In the end, even they themselves were not sure whether their impression was correct, so they naturally gave up. And when all these people pass away, everything will be buried and covered by the dust and smoke of history.

Yukinoshita nodded in understanding, but did not relax her brows. She still didn't quite understand the mechanism of "divine hiding". She just knew that Moriya Shrine had been forgotten and then disappeared. The tampering of events on a certain scale seems to be based on this foundation.

In general, the girl really hated this feeling, because it made her feel more and more out of tune with that world, and the sense of urgency in her heart became more and more serious.

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The tram started running.

The scenery outside the window quickly receded and then disappeared from sight.

Because Xia Ran chose to go back to the shrine in the normal way, he needed to take the tram. This had little to do with the high consumption or rule restrictions in the real world. It was mainly because he liked this feeling.

Daily life should be as usual. This slow and leisurely lifestyle makes him feel very comfortable. He has no intention of using magic and pursues quick results in everything.

Perhaps because of the overtime culture, most workers couldn't get off work at this time, so the carriage was quite empty. There were only two of them in the entire row of seats on one side, and Yukinoshita was sitting next to him.

The two of them spent this time without talking much, just like passengers sitting next to each other on the tram. It's just that everyone who sees the two people probably won't think that they are really strangers.

The school uniforms of the same style are like couple's outfits, and they look very good when they sit side by side. Even if they don't talk or communicate along the way, it doesn't make people feel stiff and unfamiliar. Instead, they are inexplicably harmonious, and they seem to have a tacit understanding.

——This is a very strange feeling. I can’t explain it specifically, but it just makes people feel like this subconsciously.

The setting sun sank into the horizon, leaving only the last ray of red hanging on the horizon.