The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Is he gone?"

"Um."

"Where did you go?"

"I do not know."

"He gave up? No, from the look of you it seems that's the case."

"Sure enough, he is still too naive, Takeya."

In the pale world of shadows, the ancestral miko was leaning on a bench. Takeya and Elio beside her were nowhere to be found, replaced by a young girl with a mature aura like a big sister.

"Innocent, huh? I thought you would praise him. After all, he is still your child."

"Stop coming, it's disgusting."

The ancestor witch sneered and said, "That naivety will make him regret it one day."

"The strong must have compassion."

"What's this?"

"One of the quotes a guy used to make in middle school."

The girl's figure is very thin, and she is only as tall as the previous shrine maiden's shoulders when standing next to her. However, she is holding a long sword that is two-thirds of her body. This sense of incongruity makes her even more incongruous. Added a touch of danger.

"But, speaking of innocence, Jing, you are the same, right?"

Gently calling the name of the ancestor witch, the girl raised the corner of her mouth, and an inexplicable light flashed in her half-lidded eyes: "What should you do if he doesn't choose to agree?"

"No," the ancestor witch shook her head, her eyes filled with indifference that saw everything: "He will definitely agree."

"You're really confident, that's great."

"What else do you want to say now?"

The ancestor witch turned her face sideways, with a pair of stern eyes, a coldness gradually grew: "Prophecies, fate, etc., do you think I will believe such boring things?"

"You are the one, why don't you believe it? There is obviously as much evidence as you need."

"Hmph, Wu is the one I've seen growing up. Even if he is a fool, he is still a fool in my family."

"Oh~ What a very motherly speech, yo, Xiaojing's mother."

boom!

With a muffled sound, the ground beneath the feet of the previous witches cracked, and cracks spread out like threads on a spider web, entwining themselves and surrounding the girl in front of them.

"It's terrible, it's terrible. Are you angry?"

The girl pretended to cover her mouth in surprise, but the gap between her fingertips revealed her playful smile: "Kosaka Takeya, as expected, this name still doesn't suit him. Although he has no signs of awakening until now, but , he is undoubtedly——"

"Shut up."

Interrupting the girl's words coldly, the aura exuded by the ancestors of the witches was like a sharp blade, pressed firmly into the girl's throat: "If you go on."

"Are you about to take action?"

The girl asked with a smile, her sunny smile just now turned sharply, and the cruelty tainted with murderous intent and evil aroused the coldness at the corner of her mouth: "Really, Hakurei Miko is really overbearing, even though she hasn't said anything yet. .”

"Oh? Do you want to have a game?" The ancestor witch looked at the girl with a half-smile and said, "I hope your sword won't get rusty after not being unsheathed for so long."

"How dare you say that, you poor miko."

"Haha, let's do each other, Ms. Killer Ghost."

"It's really too much to call someone a murderer without permission." The girl grinned, and the long sword in her hand had a faint edge.

"Interesting, do you want to put your anger into action now?"

The ancestor witch snorted, with a bit of disdain in her eyes: "Just you?"

"whispering sound."

These words that sounded like arrogance and warning made the girl put away the long sword that had just been unsheathed a little unhappily.

I have to admit that even if the opponent has only half of Hakurei's power, he cannot match it, at least not now.

"Coward." The tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and the ancestor miko taunted with a smile.

".Whatever you say."

The girl glanced at the ancestor witch and hid her anger and murderous intent well under her calm appearance: "Whether you believe it or not, time will prove everything."

"Including the appearance of the evil fairy today?"

"."

The girl was unnaturally silent, but she quickly added: "Her appearance was unexpected. Even 'he' didn't know that besides us, there were others who could enter here without knowing the existence of this world." .”

"Ha," the ancestor miko chuckled with unknown meaning, and said calmly: "Eighteen years ago, it was you who came to Gensokyo and told me the truth about the Hakurei miko."

"And then you believe it."

"Yes, because I have no reason to doubt. I have already made my own guesses about the truths you mentioned. It's just that I'm missing enough evidence."

"Then why are you making the same mistake now?"

The girl expressed her doubts: "Why do you choose to go back to that place when you already know everything? That is not a paradise, at least it is not your paradise."

".I have never hated Zi, even though she kept it secret from me for more than ten years without saying a word, and even planned to keep it secret until the day I die."

The ancient miko lowered her head, and on her face covered with shadows, only her eyes were clear.

"I just didn't have a choice before, so now... I want a chance to decide my fate."

"Then why don't you just go back with that guy? Why do you have to spend so much time going around in a circle? Isn't the boy's purpose just to bring you back to Gensokyo?"

"It's different," the ancestor witch shook her head: "This is different."

"What's the difference? You will die then, and the miko will die now. Nothing will change."

"Then I'll try to change it and show it to you."

The ancestor witch smiled very confidently: "Just like the evil fairy said, let everything come to an end."

"You are too arrogant, miko."

The girl looked contemptuously at the previous priestess, and said, "I don't deny that your choice to tell that boy the truth is a very courageous choice, but it is far from enough."

"oh?"

"The inheritance of the Boli witch has been passed down for thousands of years. Every generation of witches is an extraordinary person. Don't they notice the abnormalities that you can detect? But why has nothing happened for a thousand years?"

The girl said to the ancestor witch with a hint of sarcasm: "What can you do on your own?"

"Yes, I really can't do anything by myself, but isn't there him?"

The ancient witch smiled slightly: "What I believe in is not your Adam, but my Wuye."

"Sophistry, this is obviously the same person"

"I told you, it's different."

The eyes of the previous priestess drifted away, which was the direction of Takeya's departure. At this moment, her eyes seemed to reflect the immature figure that did not exist here, arrogant, gentle, and a little unreliable.

But trustworthy.

It's worth risking everything for her to believe in him.

"Oh, by the way," the former witch suddenly raised her head and asked, "Speaking of which, that guy Huo Qing'e seemed to have said something about the leylines when he left."

"Oh, that, that is."