The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Hey, we met again so soon, Takeya, are you a little fatter?"

"Don't you have anything else to say! That's wrong! Why is there only one sister! Where's Zi?"

Not only were the doubts not resolved, but they actually increased a lot. Looking at the desolate scenery around him, a strange feeling of déjà vu began to spread in Takeya's heart.

The white jade bricks under his feet had a lifeless grayness, and under the scattered light in front of him, the ruined walls seemed to be somewhat familiar.

I--

"'Have I been here before'-Takeya, you think so, right?"

"Tsk" regained his senses in dissatisfaction, Wu Ye pulled his face and said: "Why does my lord sister know what I'm thinking?"

"This level is very simple, it's written on your face," Jing sat on one knee on the broken jade steps, with a pleasant laziness in her smile: "Wu Ye, look at you, There must be a bunch of questions you want to ask me, right?"

"Of course," put away his playful expression, Takeru said solemnly: "Although I only heard the insignificant half from Zi, but if I guessed correctly, sister, you are the culprit of this mutation, no. Wrong."

"yes."

Not even a word of excuse, Jing seemed to hear someone asking her what is for dinner today, and she answered without any unnaturalness.

"I am the 'prisoner'," Jing added as if she was worried that Wu Ye might have any unnecessary misunderstandings: "Everything that happened today, you can blame it on me."

"Yeah."

After a little surprise, Wu Ye couldn't help clenching his fists, and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"For the future of the world—"

It was undoubtedly surprising to hear such a serious answer from Jing's mouth, even Jing herself was the same. After a pause, she laughed out loud first: "Of course, this is impossible."

"." Wu Ye, who was choked, twitched the corner of his mouth and did not speak.

He chuckled and said calmly: "The purpose is actually not a big deal. Just like what I have always taught you, we are not born to be heroes."

"Indeed, I have never seen a hero that would cause a change."

"That's not what I meant, Takeya. I have brought you and Reimu with me since childhood. Even if it is unintentional, the influence over such a long time is enough to make your characters grow into what I expect."

"Well, I think so too, that's why Reimu became that hopeless money fan."

"Hehe, this probably has nothing to do with my teachings, okay," Jing rarely blushed and said slightly awkwardly, "This probably has a little to do with me, but forget it, that's not what I want to say."

Jing pondered slightly, she skillfully took out a cigarette from her pocket and put it in her mouth, but this time she did not use a lighter, but lit it directly with aura.

He puffed out a puff of smoke leisurely, stared at Wu Ye quietly and said: "We are not born to be heroes - this has nothing to do with the abilities we possess and the strength of our strength, because this has never been a conclusion. , but the premise of everything.”

"Whether it's Takeya or Reimu, it's the same. The reason is very simple. It's purely because what I taught you at the beginning was not how to become stronger, let alone responsibility, but how to become a selfish person. Guy."

"Reimu's neglect of the miko's work is not due to laziness, and your avoidance of everything is not due to cowardice. From the beginning, your goal was not to become a hero, but to protect the small piece of land that belongs to you. world."

"The mutations are not important at all, Wu Ye, I can tell you that even if Zi didn't intervene today, and we didn't help you secretly, you would have appeared here, in front of me."

"...Ah, it looks like it was exposed?"

Rao Yiwu Ye's heart can't resist Jing's frank confession, but he is not embarrassed at all, on the contrary, he is relieved.

Different from the seriousness he deliberately showed before, Takeya's face has returned to the smile of the past. This is something that only Shizuo and Reimu can see. It is a smile that is infinitely close to the true portrayal of the heart after taking off the heavy mask.

Now that Jingdao had revealed his intention, Nawu stopped hiding it: "Lingmeng said he felt your breath before, so I guessed that the change was probably related to you."

"Hey, brat." Jing had such an expression.

"You are right. Although the mutation is also interesting to me, compared to Reimu and Sakuya, it is really not worth mentioning." Takeya shrugged and said bluntly: "I have already learned the truth about Hakurei Miko." I’ve confirmed it with Zi Zi.”

Jing said unsurprisingly: "So that's the case, so you came here this time in the name of solving the mutation, is it because of Lingmeng?"

"It's not just Reimu's matter, but also Miss Sakuya's anomaly." Speaking of this, Takeya said with a hint of helplessness: "But it seems that you, one sister, are more skilled, and you have figured out how to do it."

"Hey, quick response."

"I'm the only one here to explain the problem, right? By the way, is this the moon?" Looking around, you can see that this place is very different from the moon capital in Takeya's impression.

"It's not unreasonable to say that this is the moon's surface. After all, this is the place where everything started. Even if the mysterious and powerful moon capital exists only for it, take it." Jing said, turning her backhand from the jade steps behind her. He picked something up, frowned slightly, and threw it to Wu Ye with some difficulty.

Wu Ye took it carefully, only to realize that the object in his hand was not as heavy as he imagined: "This is?"

Looking at the thing that Jing threw over, it was a small hammer that seemed to be familiar to him. After taking a closer look, Wu Ye was stunned, and said with some uncertainty: ". Wanbao mallet?"

"This thing doesn't have a specific name, you can call it whatever you want, what I want to tell you is that this is the key," Jing said, suppressing her sudden shortness of breath, "this is what can activate the instrument of the moon, the most important key."

"But it's not." Wu Ye hesitated to speak, he had never heard of any key or moon instrument, even though he had touched the magic mallet twice, there was absolutely no basis for such a weird thing.

"Compared to listening to what I said, it might be easier to understand what you saw with your own eyes." Jing leaned back, her eyes drifted to the boundless starry sky, and said lightly: "Don't you want to help Reimu and Sakuya? I have given you the method."

"Is it all right to use this?" Wu Ye clenched the magic mallet in his hand, with a serious expression on his face: "I've wasted too much time in vain, this time it should be real, right?"

"If you want to save Reimu, Sakuya, and everyone else, you have to do this."

It seemed that he had heard similar words somewhere, and Wu didn't have time to think about it. He saw Jing's mouth curled up in a sly arc: "The right to choose is yours, but I have already prepared the options for you."

"...It really is like this." Seeing the magic mallet in his hand suddenly glowing, Wu Ye showed such an expression.

The previous miko was a arrogant person, so she usually wouldn't talk nonsense. Since she had wasted so much time with herself, no matter what her choice was, the outcome had already been decided.

It's just that the difference from before is that even if Jing didn't do anything extra this time, Wu Ye wouldn't hesitate to do anything else.

"You have deceived Reimu for ten years, and you have deceived me for more than ten years. This time, even if I beg you," Wu Ye smiled bitterly, his expression gradually became serious, half praying and half warning: "Ten million Don’t play tricks on me.”

"Well, I don't have much credibility anymore, but you can rest assured this time," Jing took a deep breath and said slowly: "Trust me."

"I know that you will not become a hero, but it is precisely because of this that I will entrust this matter to you."

"Let's say it first, once it starts, you will definitely have the worst ending."

"Whether miracles exist or not, I don't know at all, and no one knows such a thing."

"There is only one thing you guessed wrong about what you said just now. Only this time, I can give you the option to escape."

"Unlike before, it will take some time for the complete Moon Ceremony to be activated. You still have the final time to think about it. Make your choice, Takeya. If you want to escape, the only time is now."

Seeing Miko Jing, who was chattering like an old mother in memory, Wu Ye was stunned, and felt that she had become alive like this.

He couldn't understand nine out of ten of Jing's words, but that didn't stop him from sensing the extreme danger. Normally, he would have made an excuse to run away, or else he would have just pretended to be dead, but this time -

I don't know if it's for the momentary gain, or because the mask that has been completely uncovered in my heart is causing trouble, Wu also stood still.

"Hey, who wants to run away?" Takeru raised his eyebrows and laughed: "This is a rare opportunity to show off. After all these troubles are dealt with, I must show off to Reimu. !”

Even Wu himself didn't know how much of his speech was showing off, and how much of it was giving him false confidence, but this time he no longer had any excuses to make.

It was indeed he who made the choice.

"It seems that you have made a decision, then go."

Jing didn't make any comment on Takeya's decision, she just explained it lightly, but the unbuttoned brows made her previously tense expression much more relaxed.

"Remember it, Wu Ye, this time it's not the goddess's prank asking you to witness who's grudges with whom, nor is it the memory of the few words left in the key that is causing trouble, but you really want to use the power of the Moon Ritual to return the favor. To the place where it all started."

"No one can help you from now on, because it is not someone else's memory, but a story written by yourself. There is only one way to save everyone, and that is to restore the trajectory of the world to what it should have been. , Only you, Takeya, can do this.”

"Okay, go, she has been waiting for you for a long time."

As soon as the words fell, the light of the magic mallet was already blinding people's eyes. At that moment, the entire moon surface burst into a strange brilliance, which was more dazzling than the sun.

Whether it is a monster or a god, at this moment, everyone is amazed by the light curtain that covers the sky under the moon.

At this moment, a familiar feeling swept through Takeya's body, like the last torrent that broke down the dam. For a while, all the questions seemed to have answers.

From night to day, the abundant spiritual power in the air and the smell of blood that shouldn't have appeared made him almost stunned on the spot. If he hadn't been familiar with the tricky and weird swordsmanship to his bones, he would have died at this moment. .

At the same time, a feeling of sadness suddenly arose in Reimu's heart under the moonlit night. After Marisa's shocked reminder, Reimu realized that there were actually two lines of tears hanging on his face.

She didn't know why she cried suddenly, or why she suddenly felt so sad. She only knew that she was no longer worthy of the Moon Princess in front of her.

Although there is no basis or reason, Reimu firmly believes that in Gensokyo, at this moment, he is invincible.

However, whether it was Takeya in the daytime or Reimu in the moonlit night, what they didn’t know was——

On the moon, in the capital of the moon, there is no one in Guanghan Palace. There is only a golden key, lying quietly on the remains of the jade steps. The half-cut cigarette that fell to the ground slowly burned to the end and scattered. Exhausted the last wisp of smoke.

It was like a dream, or a little fairy tale.

What no one knew was that after Jing closed her eyes, the dark tentacles were like a whirlpool, swallowing up her fragmented body in an instant. It was as if she was in an endless fog, her eyes were covered, and when a light appeared behind her, She turned around and seemed to be back in front of the familiar shrine.

Standing quietly on the stone steps of the Hakurei Shrine, a naughty child ran past her, followed by a woman in a red and white witch costume.

Jing slowly stretched out her hand, but the other party turned into a puff of smoke the moment she touched it. In a daze, the scene in front of her eyes became the back mountain of the shrine again. The naughty child in front of the tombstone seemed to grow up. It's a little bigger, and the tight face is unlikable.

Time moved forward step by step, the girl became a new witch, and soon, another little girl appeared beside her, a child who was born to make people want to get close.

Not long after, a little boy appeared beside her. That child seemed to be very similar to her, and at first glance it was indeed not very pleasing.

The cold shrine suddenly became lively. The grown-up witch gave the little girl her own name, but gave her own badness to the little boy.

When the two of them grew up, the witch let the little girl take over her job, but she quietly chose to leave without saying anything to the little boy.

Leaving the ancient shrine and coming to the modern city full of high-rise buildings, the witch stayed there for an unknown number of years. When she saw the little boy again, he had already become a teenager. It seemed a little unreliable, but he had grown up after all.

I don't remember how many times the witch met the boy, but at the end, they were on the ruins of the moon palace, and the witch irresponsibly handed over everything to the boy.

All of this can be seen quietly, the past scenes are like replaying movie videos, repeated in front of her, seeming to emphasize something, seeming to be mocking something.

She couldn't remember how many times she watched it, it seemed that she was always doing such meaningless actions here.

Her surroundings didn't know when it became dark, and she realized that she was in a theater when she regained her senses. The big screen in front of her was showing the memories she had seen countless times, and in the empty theater, Just the two of them.

Jing changed into a traditional red and white shrine maiden costume, but stubbornly kept the white overcoat outside. Sitting next to her was another Hakurei shrine maiden who had appeared countless times in her memory.

She didn't know what to call him, neither Reimu nor Reimu seemed inappropriate.

The other party's face was filled with a satisfied smile, whether it was the unscrupulous Reimu in his memory who was making trouble every day, or the nightmare Reimu like a tarsus maggot, it was different.

That smile is mature yet steady, just right but contagious.

Obviously it should be like a spring breeze, but Jing felt uncomfortable with the maiden's smile from the bottom of her heart. She should have closed her eyes and rested in peace, but she still couldn't help sending her a supercilious look:

"Laugh at your sister!"