Lost Narrative Poetry

"Eh? Is this appropriate for me to go at this time?"

Xia Ran was stunned for a moment and looked out the window, even though the depths of the Lost Bamboo Forest seemed to always be like this, shrouded in mist and visibility was extremely poor, and it was hard to tell whether it was day or night.

But he will not be affected. Naturally, he knows that it is already the early hours of the night, Gensokyo is completely silent, and only a few people will still be active at this time...

For example, there are monsters and sages who live in the day and night, for example, the night bird monsters that set up stalls in the beast path every night, for example, the vampires in the Scarlet Devil Mansion... Well, if you calculate it like this, there seem to be quite a few. Nocturnal creatures.

But at least it is indeed late at night in Gensokyo now. Isn't it inappropriate for him to go to see the princess at such a time... After all, regardless of whether the other party has rested or not, the feeling of visiting her late at night is... I always feel a little strange.

"Is there anything inappropriate? After all, if you come back during the day, the princess may go to bed instead. If you are lucky, you may be able to catch her going out in the first half of the year..."

Bayi Yonglin put down the test tube casually, picked up another strange thermos-like object, and said casually while observing the contents inside.

"And aren't you already bothering me here?"

"Hmm... It seems that what you said makes sense, but if you don't go out for half a year, isn't this a bit too homely?" Xia Ran held her chin and thought seriously, and felt that this was indeed the case, but this Did the sage say something extraordinary in an understatement?

——If you are lucky, it will take half a year to be able to meet the princess during the day and go out?

——So is this Kaguya or NEET?

"After all, Her Royal Highness the Princess usually has nothing else to do. If the phoenix in the human world comes over sometimes, she will be interested in going out for a walk..."

Bayi Yonglin disagreed and still said without looking back.

"It's just that they don't go out of the bamboo forest at the farthest point, and the two of them will fight all over the ground every time. It's really troublesome for Lingxian to collect the corpses, and it always delays the medicine test task I gave her, so I don't really hope that the princess will pass. This way to go out and do some activities..."

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Xia Ran pretended not to hear, and nodded seriously: "That's right. This kind of trend cannot be encouraged, and it also delays Lingxian's task of testing the medicine. It is indeed not appropriate..."

"Well, you think so too? Well, Lingxian is here now, you can just go with her now."

Bayi Yonglin frowned, as if she was not happy to talk to him in a distracted manner. She waved her hand and said so. She seemed to be looking at the various test tubes and flasks in front of her, carefully thinking about some experimental issues. of.

At the same time, the girl with rabbit ears walked in from the door.

"Lord Xia Ran, please come with me..." After taking deep breaths several times, the rabbit-eared girl seemed to have restrained her emotions, but she still couldn't help but stare at him with a resentful look and spoke.

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Xia Ran looked at Ba Yi Yong Lin with some suspicion, not sure whether the other party did it on purpose, but it didn't look like it at all. It seemed that Ba Yi Yong Lin was really just immersed in her own research and didn't bother with these minutiae at all. things.

But he also knew that if he wanted to live well in Gensokyo, the most important thing was to first abandon things like integrity, so he continued to pretend not to see Suzusen's expression, as if the person who just said those words was not he.

"What a huge change..."

After the footsteps of the two people gradually faded away in the corridor, Bayi Yonglin shook his head and said this to himself.

She was keenly aware of the difference in this person, and it felt like he was a completely different person than he had been in the past few days. Of course, this does not mean that it is just a change in appearance. If these were these factors, the Moon Sage would not be so fussy.

To be precise, it should be the strength, breath, energy intensity...etc., etc., which are all different.

As for the situation where magic power turns into spiritual power, it is not a problem worth worrying about. After all, these things are actually similar, and their properties are small sources transformed from the big source of heaven and earth.

Spiritual power, magic power, demonic power... In the final analysis, the so-called differences are just differences in nature and attribute tendencies, but there is not much of a gap, just like Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame.

The former has mastered spiritual power as a miko, and the latter has mastered magic power naturally by practicing magic. Obviously they are both human beings, which is enough to explain the problem.

What Bayi Yonglin noticed was of course a more fundamental problem than Xia Ran's pure spiritual power. If the other party relied on his powerful magical attainments to enter the ranks of Gensokyo, and could be called the most powerful magician...

Well now, it seems that there is more than just magic.

Although strictly speaking, how much water a wooden barrel can hold does not depend on the longest board, but on the shortest board. Xia Ran is not making rapid progress in his own height, but just completing the other tasks. There are many deficiencies in aspects.

But because of this, Bayi Yonglin was surprised. If this person once again reached the pinnacle in what he was best at in a short period of time and made further progress, she might not be so surprised.

It was the current situation that made her curious.

And it's only been a few days, and the speed is really scary. Could it be that the other party is really like the settings in those boring games played by princesses, and can be directly upgraded to add points and strengthen skills?

"Forget it, Yakumo Zi isn't worried anyway, why should I worry too much..."

Shaking her head, the Moon Sage did not dwell too much on this aspect. After all, she had lived too long and had naturally seen all kinds of weird things. Although this situation made her quite curious, it didn't matter. I would say it is difficult to accept.

Besides, that realm monster is more interested in Gensokyo than anyone else, so there is no need to worry about any problems with this recently appeared magician...

Well, having said that, can the current opponent still be considered a magician? It seems to be exactly like those Taoist monks!

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Eternity-tei is a large house. The structure of the house is the style of ancient Japanese houses, but for some reason, it doesn't look old. However, this is not because it was well maintained, but because it was trapped in eternity.

Just like the meaning in the name, this ancient building called Eternal Pavilion has been passed down from ancient times to the present and will never change.

Just as there are noisy places everywhere in Gensokyo, this peaceful place guarded by the bamboo forest is unique. No matter what changes occur, it will not change——

To say why, it's because this place was shrouded in the eternal power of Princess Kaguya from the beginning.

It is not a complete time-stop field that completely solidifies time and space, but is more similar to the principle of water surface. No matter how many times it is broken and how many ripples are caused, it will eventually return to calmness.

To put it more intuitively, the conventional time-stopping ability is to freeze an apple in the process of falling, so that it cannot continue to fall and cannot fall to the ground...

Princess Kaguya's eternal power can stretch the falling process infinitely, so that although it is always falling, it will never fall to the ground...

Although the final result is the same, the implementation form is different. Although the two have similarities, they are essentially different.

Xia Ran followed Lingxian as she walked inside the Eternal Pavilion. An endless corridor appeared in front of her. This corridor extended straight forward, without end and boundless, with doors, windows and screens on both sides.

Some of the screens are light-transmissive, and the pictures of bamboos can be faintly seen on them. Through the screens, you can see the vast universe outside, as well as the blue earth and the hypocritical moon, which is quite pleasing to the eye.

Xia Ran withdrew her gaze and glanced at the rabbit-eared girl in front. She felt that this corridor was probably the product of the combined abilities of the other party and the princess. Maybe it was a means of defense?

For example, let the enemy fall into an eternal illusion at the same time, unable to touch the reality and difficult to escape?

However, compared to Gensokyo, which has always been peaceful, group fights exceeding double digits are extremely rare disasters, so this defense mechanism is really not necessary, and perhaps it is more practical.

At least it opens up the interior space of Eternity Pavilion, and the interior decoration style does not appear monotonous.

"Lord Xia Ran, this is Her Royal Highness the Princess's room. Please wait a moment. I will go in and announce..."

At this time, Lingxian stopped in front, turned around and said to him rationally. Listening to her tone and looking at her expression, it turned out that she had completely returned to normal. She seemed to be depressed and entangled before. And all disappeared.

Not to mention anything else, this ability to calm down and control emotions is absolutely top-notch... Or are you used to being bullied? After all, it seems that her nickname is Shoutu.

Xia Ran nodded thoughtfully.

"Princess……"

The rabbit-eared girl stood in front of the door and called softly.

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After not answering for a while, Xia Ran blinked and asked, "Could it be that he died suddenly?" This was not good. Being involved in such a crime scene as soon as he arrived felt bad for his reputation in Gensokyo.

Should we leave this murder scene first?

"...No way." The rabbit-eared girl's expression was a little subtle, but she still explained, "It's just that she was too focused, so Her Royal Highness didn't hear it, or she didn't have time to pay attention to me at this time..."

She seemed to be used to this phenomenon, and just sighed: "I can just go in, please wait a moment..."

As she said this, she opened the door, revealing a corner of the room. There was no light inside, only pure darkness.

"Eh? Where is Your Highness the Princess?" The rabbit-eared girl was stunned for a moment.

At this moment——

Boom!

A deafening loud noise came from far away in the bamboo forest, and a violent fire shot into the sky, illuminating the dark night sky!