Lost Narrative Poetry

"Tsk, Youxiang is really ruthless in her attacks. She doesn't show any kindness at all. No wonder she has no friends at all..."

When the bruised Xia Ran dragged his heavy body tiredly and slowly back to the top of the Monster Mountain, it was already close to eleven o'clock, and not much time was consumed.

Firstly, it is not a real hostile battle after all, and Kazami Yuuka does not intend to force a protracted battle. Secondly, Yakumo Murasaki has changed so much and has so many taunting skills that it is natural for her to move. attention.

When the two started fighting each other, Xia Ran was naturally able to escape and come back first.

He sighed and reached into his sleeves, preparing to take out the shadow branch.

The effect of this thing is simple enough, because there is only one effect, but this single effect is terrifyingly powerful. As long as you hold it and carry it with you, you can treat all barriers as if they were nothing.

This is true even for the Hakurei Great Barrier in Gensokyo. After all, it only has a single effect and is rated as a gold-level prop. Although it is only light gold, it has finally reached the standard line.

No matter where you are in Gensokyo, as long as you use the Shadow Branch, you can directly pass through the great barrier and leave Gensokyo to the outside world... The reason why Xia Ran deliberately returned to the top of the Monster Mountain is It's because by leaving here, you can just return to Moriya Shrine in the outside world.

Because the connection here with the outside world is a point-to-point connection...

There are very few places in Gensokyo about this kind of "point-to-point connection". Currently, there are only two places like this. Apart from Moriya Shrine, only Hakurei Shrine has the same treatment.

Both shrines are located on the edge of the boundary line, so they are one and the same as the shrines outside, so they can correspond exactly.

Apart from that, there is no such guarantee at all in other places in Gensokyo. Just like things in any country, region, or time zone in the outside world, they may flow directly into Gensokyo after being hidden by the gods.

——The reverse is also true.

Only when you are near two shrines can you pass through the barrier and go to the corresponding shrine in the outside world.

If you use the shadow branch in other places, it will be very easy to pass through the barrier, but after leaving Gensokyo, where it appears in the outside world, only the gods can know this.

There is a high probability that it may be anywhere on the earth, and a small probability that it may not be on the earth...

"Classmate Xia Ran, are you back?" At this time, a calm and familiar voice came.

"Huh? Is it Kato-san?" Xia Ran raised her eyebrows and turned to look in the direction of the shrine, "Wait, why are you here?"

"I was a little worried, so I felt like I couldn't go home like this, so Sanae-san asked me to come over here and wait, and I could just talk to her. We were just doing our vacation homework..."

Walking out of the distant building, the black-haired girl seemed to be relieved, and spoke from a distance in a very calm and natural tone.

"Holiday homework...well, I don't even seem to know what holiday homework is."

Xia Ran twitched the corner of her mouth, feeling that she heard a somewhat new word, and then looked up at the cold moonlight in the sky, and asked with some worry -

"But it's so late. Isn't it okay if you don't go back? Won't your family be worried..."

"I just said this, mom didn't say anything."

"...Is your mother too relieved about you, or too careless?" Xia Ran felt something was wrong, "Just say this, you can be considered a girl, your mother is like this Let you stay outside?"

He really had some doubts. Could it be that the effect of Kato Megumi's aura blocking EX was so strong that even his family members subconsciously ignored the existence of such a daughter in the family and didn't even notice that she didn't come back?

Well, if you think about it this way, it is indeed very possible.

"Xia Ran, it's very rude to say this." Kato Megumi's tone became a little troubled, not angry, but it did change subtly.

Huh? What's rude?

Could it be that he unconsciously said what he was thinking, or was this deceptive character of "mind-reading" activated? Xia Ran blinked, but his heart felt peaceful. It was just like that anyway, he was used to it.

"...What does it mean to still be a girl?"

Is this what you were talking about? He was slightly startled at first, but then he found with relief that he had not been read. Sure enough, those were all nonsense, and everything before was definitely a coincidence!

"I told my mother, but because even if I told the truth, my mother would probably not believe it, so I made it up a little bit." The girl walked over and continued, "I said I was in Sanae-san." Place to stay for the night. "

"Um?"

"It's Moriya Shrine. Sanae-san also helped me with a few words... My mother also found information about Moriya Shrine, so she felt relieved."

"Strictly speaking, I didn't lie." Xia Ran understood immediately. Although there was a sense of sophistry, in general, there was no fault. No wonder Kato Megumi's mother was relieved that her daughter was staying out for the night.

"Yes, I wasn't lying in the first place..." As she spoke, the girl had already come closer, and then she saw the blood that almost covered half of his body red, and a hint of worry suddenly flashed in her eyes, "Wait a minute, Classmate Xia Ran, why are you..."

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem. It's just that Youxiang got close to you and got a solid punch in the chest..."

Xia Ran gave a thumbs up and showed a hearty smile.

"This is obviously a big problem..." Looking at him with half of his body stained red, Kato Megumi muttered with a rather strange expression, and based on human common sense with some suspicion: "Could it be that your internal organs are all covered in blood?" Was it shattered?"

"Of course it's gone. I'm not that fragile yet! But if I get another punch, I can't tell..."

Xia Ran replied calmly, although it is not a classic physical training route, nor does he aim at the indestructible Vajra, his physical body cultivated in the four realms is not such that he cannot even withstand a blow from the top demon. .

If he didn't want to cheat and wanted to test his hard power, so he didn't use the defensive performance of the Earth Spirit Pearl, nor did he use its energy-generating properties, Feng Jian Yuxiang's punch actually didn't pose much of a threat.

"Is it really okay?" Kato Megumi walked up and looked at him up and down with some disbelief. She found that although his body was intact and his limbs were sound, he didn't even seem to have any skin injuries.

But he was covered in blood, and he didn't know where it came from, dyeing half of his white clothes red.

Xia Ran felt full of distrust, frowned immediately, and patted his chest hard: "It's really no problem, look, I'm in good health, believe it now... Pfft!" !”

"..."

"..."

In the silence, the girl who had just subconsciously stretched out her hand to stop him looked at the blood on her hand, wiped her face with her other hand, and then looked down at herself.

The entire white dress was dyed a strange bright red, from the tie to the hem of the skirt, everything was smudged by the blood color...

There didn't seem to be any special change in her expression. She seemed to still have her usual ordinary look. She put her hand to her cheek for a few seconds and showed her thinking:

"It's not that I don't believe you, classmate Xia Ran, it's just that I feel that such a bloody performance... is really unconvincing."

"This... I'm sorry, it was purely an accident..."

Xia Ran turned her head away in embarrassment, stretched out her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, and subconsciously wanted to step forward to help him wipe it, but she reacted in time, so she still didn't make such a rude move.

Okay, actually it’s a bit exaggerated.

Even though it was clear that it was not an indestructible physical cultivation route, he still insisted on seeing how immune to fire he was, a piece of real gold. As a result, he was almost beaten to the point of disintegration by a punch from the Tyrant of Flowers.

In fact, such a phenomenon did occur at that time. After all, the characteristic of his physical body is that when gathered, it takes shape, and when dispersed, it becomes Qi, just like the manifestation of heaven and earth's inspiration. Although injuries such as injuries, bleeding, broken limbs, and fractures will also be simulated, if the external force suffered at one time exceeds the upper limit...

An ordinary human body is instantly hammered into pulp and shattered into pieces, but his body will be destroyed by vibrations, which means that the body will collapse again and become microscopic particles of qi...

At that time, Kazami Yuka was curious. After seeing this phenomenon, she had some doubts about whether his ability was similar to Ibuki Suika.

In the words of youkai, it is "the ability to control the degree of density and sparseness", the ability to control the density of things, making the density thinner, and things will turn into mist - she herself often atomizes and turns into microscopic particles everywhere. Run - On the contrary, increasing the density will cause things to generate high temperatures and dissolve.

No matter what it is, you can make them gather or disperse, and you can even bring people and monsters together inexplicably and hold a banquet directly.

After all, population density is also a type of density concept...

"Mr. Xia? What are you..." Another surprised voice sounded, and along with the faint scent of fragrance, Liu Mengli also walked out of the shrine, looking at this man in astonishment and not knowing why he was so embarrassed.

"Miss Liu, you are still here too..."

Xia Ran felt relieved immediately. He didn't know how to relieve the current embarrassment.

"Well, the main reason is that I don't feel at ease, so after talking to Miss Ah Qiu, I thought about it and stayed and waited for a while..." Liu Mengli, who walked over quickly, said softly, and at the same time stretched out her hand to make a hand gesture. , a glowing purple light emerged, and several unique runes were condensed in the void.

The strange fragrance bursts, making people feel relaxed and happy, the purple mist spreads, and even Kato Megumi next to him suddenly felt much more energetic.

"Thank you, it's thoughtful..." Xia Ran blinked, "But I really don't have any problem."

As long as he wants to, every cell can instantly surge out infinite vitality, and no matter how serious the injury is, he can quickly recover in a short time.

The reason why I didn't do this was to divert Yukinoshita-san's attention later...