Lost Narrative Poetry

The room is Japanese style, with mats on the floor, and the space is surrounded by sliding windows and partitions.

It was originally a beautiful and elegant theme, but at this moment, it was ruined by the messy comic books, game consoles, light novel readers, figures, posters, etc., which were too homely. All the classical beauty.

Coupled with the expensive-looking desktop computer and the sci-fi water-cooled chassis, it is like an unreasonable sledgehammer, making people think about how wonderful it is before stepping into this room. How depressing it was after the room.

"Your Highness, Yakumo Murasaki is gone?"

Opening the door directly, Bayi Yonglin saw the beautiful girl in the room sitting at the computer desk, playing games as always. Her expression looked gentle and calm, and her mood seemed not to be affected much. Looks——

It is still elegant, gorgeous and priceless. One person has brought back the bad temperament of the messy otaku room.

"Oh, Yakumo Murasaki just left." Horaishan Kaguya replied casually.

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Yashi Eirin pondered for a moment, but in the end she did not go around in circles and simply said directly: "Your Highness, Princess, do you agree to what Yakumo Purple said?"

"What? Does Yonglin want to stop me?" Horaishan Kaguya turned her head with interest and asked with a chuckle. Her expression seemed natural, and her crooked eyes were full of expectation and hope. Smile, nothing to hide it.

Elegant, unhurried, natural, elegant and graceful.

"No, Princess, if you want to do it, just do it." Bayi Yonglin shook his head and said calmly, "I just want to tell you that it's best not to go with the idea of ​​joining in the fun."

"If you don't want to join in the fun, what are you doing here?" Kaguya Horaishan played with a strand of her hair and said calmly, "Yong Lin, do you still want me to be serious?"

She did agree to Yakumo Murasaki, and she didn't think much about it, but she mainly held on to her previous dissatisfaction and fun ideas, and was just preparing to give the guy a last hit, so as not to find that the damage she dealt was not enough when the team started.

It was just for fun, not because he had any real thoughts. At most, he was angry with that guy before and now he wanted to take revenge.

That's what Her Royal Highness the Princess thinks, that's all.

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There was a palpable silence.

Bayi Yonglin looked at her princess and said nothing.

"Eh? No, Yonglin, what do you think? Do you really want me to be serious?"

Horaishan Kaguya was surprised now. She stared at Yashi Eirin with some suspicion, looking up and down carefully. She was somewhat suspicious of whether Yakumo Murasaki, that bad woman, turned around and turned into Erin immediately after leaving. Lin looked like she was using her lack of defense to trick herself.

But that doesn't seem to be the case, it is indeed Yong Lin himself.

"I don't want you to be serious, Princess, but I hope you won't get involved in this kind of thing just because you are not serious..." The Sage of the Moon stared at Horaishan Kaguya, "This is different after all. of……"

"What? It turns out that you are going around in circles and trying different methods to warn me."

The princess seemed to be relieved and nodded in agreement. It turned out that Yonglin was saying something sarcastic, so she could understand it.

The Moon Sage sighed lightly, but said nothing more.

That's it, for eternal residents, boredom is the most terrifying thing. People in Penglai can't die even if they want to. If there are no accidents, in the future with no end in sight, when humans are extinct, all monsters are dead, and even the earth and the moon are destroyed——

Maybe it's really just a few of them who want to spend endless hours day and night in the cold and dark universe, taking care of each other to survive.

This is not bad now. At least according to Yashi Eirin's expectations, it is definitely much better than Horaishan Kaguya going to Fujiwara Meihong to make offal soup every now and then. The boring daily life is indeed very scary. Yes, but that interest is still...

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"Teacher Hiratsuka...well, I feel like he is an elder. I won't invite you today. I'll invite you with your parents later."

Staying in the living room and biting the pen holder, Xia Ran checked the list one by one, and finally confirmed that it was correct. He stretched, then picked up the list and handed it to the side.

The puppet maid who didn't know when she appeared next to her reached out and took the list. She lowered her head and checked it quickly. She fluttered her long eyelashes a few times and asked in a calm tone: "Master, just Is that so?"

"that is it."

The magician nodded. He originally wanted to invite all his parents, but after thinking about it, he thought it would be better to invite others at another time. Otherwise, the atmosphere of the banquet would probably become very formal, as if there were The atmosphere at the elders' wine table is a bit subtle.

"Well, I will follow up..."

Charlotte said calmly.

"Then it's up to you..."

Xia Ran was very relieved about the head maid. He looked at the exquisite doll girl and pondered for a moment: "By the way, Charlotte, are you ready to upgrade to version 2.0?"

"Master, I want to remind you that I have already reached version 5.0." Charlotte didn't even move her eyelashes and just replied seriously. She was not created when she was first created, but now. It looks like this.

Originally, Xia Ran made adjustments and optimizations over and over again, adding up various major and minor upgrades, and finally got the current head maid.

"Ahem, don't worry about the details. Anyway, I will give you another good upgrade tonight." Xia Ran coughed slightly. His vision was completely different now, so when he looked at Charlotte, he suddenly felt that his only skill was to wait for him. There is still room for improvement.

Well, since it is an alchemy humanoid, it can actually be classified as a robot in a broad sense, so do you want to upgrade it to the level of the Geta Emperor?

But wouldn't this be too petty and petty? Xia Ran thought so, her thoughts were spinning rapidly in her mind, and in an instant, she had listed countless upgrade plans specially tailored for the head maid.

"Okay, Master..." Charlotte nodded without any special expression, as if she didn't feel much about this matter and was just following her master's ideas.

"Don't be so sullen, can you at least act happy?"

The magician said. He blinked and suddenly felt enlightened: "Or do you not want to live as an alchemy humanoid anymore? This is also okay. I will give you the blessing from the true God, and you will have a true soul..."

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"That's not it. I have no problem with this, Master." Charlotte glanced at her master and couldn't help but sigh.

She wouldn't think that she was just a doll because of her background, and that she had any obsessions or anything like that. There was nothing like that at all.

"Then why are you so sullen? Do you have any objections to me?" the magician said dissatisfied.

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"Master, I think..." Charlotte raised her eyebrows. She thought for a moment and was not going to beat around the bush anymore. She simply said directly, "I think you are pretending to be stupid."

"What are you pretending to be stupid?" Xia Ran asked pretending to be stupid.

Charlotte didn't want to talk to him anymore, but out of her duties as a maid, she still thought about it and said, "Master, if you want to draw a clear line with other girls, I'm afraid it won't be that easy. You better be mentally prepared.”

"What do you mean by drawing a clear line? Am I that kind of person?" The magician sighed, "That's not the case at all, okay? They think too much, but they don't listen to my explanation. I'll talk to them tomorrow. Just say it."

He still has an optimistic attitude and feels that this misunderstanding can be solved.

"In their view, it is a signal to draw a clear line. You should not worry about the scarcity but the inequality. Master, you should know very well that if only Miss Yukinoshita has something, it is tantamount to telling them that they will not have it. "The head maid said seriously.

"...Well, I know I don't worry about scarcity but inequality, but this is a marriage contract, so it can't be shared by everyone."

The magician twitched his lips.

"About this, Master, can I ask, why do you suddenly think of getting engaged?" Charlotte asked seriously, "According to your character, you shouldn't think that "marriage is the tomb of love" or "if you get married, Will he be bound by the law?” "

"Everyone is destined to die. The grave itself is not the point. The point is who he is buried with..."

Xia Ran thought for a moment and nodded firmly.

As he spoke, he chuckled, probably remembering the situation at that time, that extremely cute yet extremely troublesome person, both too fragile and frighteningly strong, an upright yet cunning, annoying part of himself. I also like them all.

He had the confidence to continue like that, and he felt comfortable continuing to maintain the appropriate distance, but on that day, he still made a promise to exchange lives with each other.

"Then have you ever considered the thoughts of those who died without a burial place?" The head maid's cold voice sounded, pulling Xia Ran back from her thoughts and memories to the disturbing reality.

"What about death without a burial place...don't make it so scary."

The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and Xia Ran turned his head to look outside the living room. The midsummer sunshine shone fiercely from the entrance and the windows, and the bursts of cicadas made people upset. At this moment, his heart was also irritable. There was an impulse.

——That being said, I’m actually a little uneasy.

——Maybe...it would be better to reverse the timeline?

Silently looking at the slightly irritable boy, Charlotte pursed her lips and suddenly couldn't bear it anymore. Maybe the Master had been mentally prepared, but now she made her upset again, but she just Just want to remind you.

After a moment of silence, the head maid said softly: "Master, are you ready to face the Last Supper?"

"……Ready."

The magician took a deep breath and nodded heavily, but his eyes were a little wandering.

"I will explain it to them carefully."

"Do you think they can listen to the explanation? Are you sure it's not adding fuel to the fire?"

"If it doesn't work, let them vent it out..." Xia Ran's expression was a little weird, and he laughed bitterly, "Isn't Zi going around shaking people? If it doesn't work, let them vent it out." The resentment is gone."

Charlotte nodded silently, so it really wasn't that she didn't know, but was she just pretending to be stupid?

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Time flies by.

Today's Gensokyo has been shrouded in a subtle atmosphere since early in the morning. Although a banquet was once again organized on the large open space of Lake Fujin in front of Moriya Shrine on the top of Yokai Mountain, but But there was no joyful atmosphere.

There was only dull and strange air. Its source was not unique, but the intertwined and spreading low pressure enveloped the entire place.

The entire monster mountain was silent, and even the human world far away under the villa was affected. I don’t know how many people felt depressed for no reason. Although they didn’t know what happened, they were too cautious to dare. Making too much noise.

The whole village fell silent. People tried to keep their voices as low as possible when talking or doing anything, as if breathing louder would lead to disaster.

As for the banquet scene, even a group of little guys, including Cirno, did not dare to make a fuss.

The three Sao Ling sisters who were invited were trembling, and the smiles forced on their faces were uglier than crying. The music they played did not feel cheerful at all, but was completely out of tune, ghostly, harsh and harsh. It's unpleasant to listen to, just like sadness and joy.

If they had known that this banquet would be so dangerous, they would never have come.

"Please come with me here..." Charlotte was not affected at all. Perhaps she is the calmest one, so she can still do her job well now, such as picking up people who are late. There are also several people like An Yilun.

It can't be said that they arrived late. In fact, they were very considerate. Whether it was for the sake of classmates and friends, or for the sake of authority in the circle, they had already rushed here early in the morning.

However, today's banquet is different from the past. Whether they were prepared in the first place, or they sensed the rumor and came to laugh at the first time, that is, just to watch the excitement, they all came early to occupy their seats. In addition, Bo Li Lingmeng’s eating activists——

Therefore, the venue was already full early in the morning.

"Am I dreaming?"

An Yilun also rubbed his eyes and looked at the surrounding environment, green mountains and green waters, birds singing and fragrance of flowers, and then looked back doubtfully, feeling as if he was dreaming in a wonderland.

The moment they walked into the shrine, they actually walked out of the shrine again. They arrived at a paradise-like world as if they had passed through a mirror. A huge lake appeared in front of them, and there were majestic waterfalls flying on the peaks in the distance. The flow went down.

There was an open-air banquet on the open ground, just like cherry blossom viewing. Many people sat silently in their seats.

At this moment, An Yilun's mind went blank. He subconsciously looked back and found that his senior sister and childhood sweetheart also had blank faces, as if they were sleepwalkers. Only then did he confirm that he was not hallucinating.

But, but...

Why is this happening? Who is classmate Xia Ran? And this banquet... Is this the truth of the world?

At this moment, an emoticon appeared in his mind for no apparent reason - I don't pretend anymore, I show my cards.jpg

Because of Charlotte's careful care, none of them were affected by those terrifying auras that seemed to be real. They just followed the head maid to a seat somewhere, and were arranged to sit down, and then He fell into a deeper state of sluggishness because he noticed the wings, horns and other features of some of the girls around him.

"Everyone is here, Master."

Charlotte compared the list and confirmed that there were no omissions. Even the most insignificant Kato-san had already arrived at the scene, so she decisively informed the owner.

"This, this is it..."

Xia Ran, who stayed in the kitchen without going out, twitched the corner of his mouth, hesitated, and said nothing.

"Are you going out now?" Charlotte asked inconsiderately. She felt that this kind of thing cannot be delayed, and it would be better to face it as soon as possible.

"I expected this scene, but I didn't expect it to be so bad... The atmosphere is not right." The magician whispered, stealing a glance outside the kitchen. The dull and weird air made him feel bad.

He didn't read the future. First of all, he probably already knew what Zi and the others were going to do.

Secondly, it was because he felt that the scene might be too tragic and he really didn't dare to look at it... How many equal parts of the future is this?

"That, Reimu..."

After thinking about it, he turned to look at the red and white miko who was walking around in the kitchen. She couldn't help Yakumo Lan and Izayoi Sakuya at all, and was already eating to her heart's content, with sincere and sincere eyes. And asked sincerely——

"As a Hakurei miko, you have the obligation to prevent monsters from attacking humans, right?"

"You're not human." The red and white miko bit off a steaming meatball, narrowed her eyes with a happy expression, and gave a casual rejection answer.