Afterlife Blows Up Gensokyo

"...let's start from scratch."

After a brief silence, the visitor let out a slight sigh.

"It was a hot summer day when cicadas chirped restlessly in a tree..."

The beginning of a story is often uneventful.

The history that the girl wants to record today is a story about a "devil with a human face".

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Perhaps death came too suddenly. After the funeral, Sheng Bailian stood silently in front of Shengminglian's grave for a long time.

Until the sky darkened and day turned into night, her figure remained motionless.

"Aren't you ready to leave yet?"

A voice rang out.

"leave?"

Xunsheng turned his head and looked at the black figure that appeared behind a big tree not far away. Sheng Bailian's words were slightly confused.

"Where?"

"go home."

the voice replied.

"Go back to your usual home."

"The home is gone, it's just the house."

Perhaps a little tired from standing, Sheng Bailian sat down in front of the grave.

"Are you a monster?"

"...Yes, are you going to kill me?"

The voice hesitated for a moment.

"I believe in Buddhism. Buddhism does not advocate killing, but only pays attention to saving."

Sheng Bailian raised her head and looked towards the sky.

"Come on, let me be alone for a while."

"I have nowhere to go. The place where I live was ransacked by a few robbers who broke in. All the other monsters ran away in a swarm. It seems that the original owner doesn't want me anymore."

That voice seemed relieved a lot.

"In the past few months, I have been waiting for the master's call, so I have been staying here and dare not leave. I am very weak, without the protection of the master, any monster can kill me."

"Is there killing and death among monsters?"

Sheng Bailian turned her head to look at the other party.

"Minglian has been protecting me all the time. Although I have all his mana now, I don't know much about monsters at all."

"The world of monsters... the weak will eat the strong, and the fittest will survive. The weak and weak may die at any time. You humans are much happier than us."

There seemed to be a hint of envy in that voice.

"When you die, there are relatives who can mourn for you. You still live in the hearts of your relatives, but if we die, we are really dead. No one will remember us little monsters, as if we have never been in this world It's the same as coming up."

"Happiness... Do you think it is happiness to have such a fragile life?"

Sheng Bailian looked at the stone tomb in front of her.

"According to several other masters, Minglian passed away peacefully without any injuries or pain. Minglian was still teaching me to practice spells the day before, and he was already lying in a cold stone tomb the day after... This fragile death is also happiness?"

"Probably, at least in my opinion, it is happiness."

The voice seemed to sigh.

"Although the lifespan of our monsters is longer than that of your humans, most of them live a precarious life. Unless they can get the protection of a powerful master like I did before, they will end badly. I thought I was very powerful. But then I realized that that strength was not my own at all, and I was nothing after losing that strength. Do you know how many times I have suffered life-and-death crises in the past few months? Waking up every morning is in In order not to be starved to death today, not to be killed, to work hard, to live desperately is just to survive... Do you think I will be happy?"

"What is the world of monsters... like?"

Sheng Bailian couldn't help asking.

"War, blood, killing... Do you know why so many monsters choose to run into the human world? The human world is very dangerous for little monsters like us, because we are likely to be killed by those powerful monsters." The probability of human beings being killed is quite high, but why do we still have to go to the human world?"

"why?"

"Because in the world of humans, if we try our best to hide, we may still survive and not die inexplicably. But in the world of monsters, you are likely to be swat flies by those powerful monsters one day The ones were shot to death."

"...That's why you stayed here all this time?"

"I'm waiting for my master's call. My abilities are very useful. My master won't give up on me. Few people come to the cemetery, so it's the safest place."

"I thought monsters were cruel and wanted to harm people."

"There are good people and bad people among human beings. Can't there be good and bad monsters among monsters? I have never done anything harmful to nature, and I even helped many people secretly, but even so, I still I can only live underground. Although the master said that he took me in, I was forbidden to mention his name... But it is very lucky that a small and weak monster like me can be protected. To expect too much. To be honest, I envy you humans."

"Youkai who envy humans..."

——This was probably the first formal conversation I had with her.

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"... Minglian Temple?"

See you in a month. Seeing her who seems to have changed slightly compared to before, I can't help but feel a little stunned.

"That's right, this is the temple I built specifically to commemorate Minglian. If you really have no other place to go in the future, welcome to my place."

She still had that gentle smile on her face.

"But I'm a monster, and you are a highly respected monk, so I can't come here."

"Buddhism pays attention to saving all living beings, and monsters are also in the category of living beings. Why can't you come?"

"Because I'm a demon, even the gods dare not admit this kind of thing publicly, why do you need to admit it as a human being?"

"He is him, I am me, what is my business?"

"........."

"Mingren Temple treats all living beings equally. If you have some kind-hearted monster friends who have nowhere to go, welcome to Mingren Temple."

——In fact, she is always like this, as long as it is something that has been decided in her heart, no one can make her change it.

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Soon, the existence of Minglian Temple quickly spread in the circle of monsters.

During the day it belongs to humans, and at night it belongs to monsters.

The world of monsters is far less complicated than the world of humans, but the more she understands the world of monsters, the more silent she becomes. I don’t know what she is thinking about, but her fame is accompanied by Time goes by and gets bigger and bigger.

"Want to build a place where humans and monsters live in harmony? How is it possible, such a place doesn't exist at all."

I shook my head vigorously.

"Why is it impossible?"

Looking up at the night sky, she suddenly laughed.

"It's always possible. If you don't want to, you really have nothing."

On summer nights, fireflies dance colorfully among the grass, lotus flowers bloom, and dewdrops hover and dance on the lotus leaves.

"Other things may be possible, but this kind of thing is really impossible... Forget it, I'm going to sleep."

I stretched out my hand to pick a green lotus pod, and my angry body lay back in the boat, peeling the lotus seeds and stuffing them into my mouth while looking up at the stars all over the sky.And she was sitting on the bow, dressed in white without any dust.

Those star seeds were crumbling, as if they were floating in the water with her, and the lotus seeds had bursts of astringent and sweet taste on the tip of the tongue.Between half-dream and half-awake, I seemed to hear a faint sound of a flute. I don't know who's boy was singing clearly in the night, and I fell asleep in a trance.

The next day, an unexpected visitor came to Minglian Temple.

I recognize him because he was the one who put a scary mace in front of me.

I was so scared that I hid in the tree and didn't dare to show up. I could only watch the chatting conversation between them from a distance, but I didn't know what they were talking about.

A few days after this, she suddenly announced that she was going on a long trip, and after giving me the key of Minglian Temple for safekeeping, she set off with that person and went to nowhere.

When I came back, it was already a few months later.

At the same time, she also brought back a very rare shipwreck ghost during this trip, named Murasa Mizumi, who was a ghost but did not go to the underworld to die—she became a member of Mingren Temple.

I don't know what happened to her in the past few months, but she has obviously changed from a short-lived human to a long-lived existence. She told me that her current race is a magician ...Although I don't know what a magician is.

But I still feel very happy, because she has already had a long life.

But at that time, I didn't think that this was the source of a series of subsequent disasters.

People always prefer to believe what they see and think what they think. Most people believe that seeing is believing, but sometimes, seeing is not believing.

——The secret of Mingren Temple was exposed.

In fact, no matter what, this kind of thing will be exposed one day, not to mention that she has a long and immortal life now, but I never thought that this day would come so soon.

I don't know whether it was a monster or a human who did this kind of thing, but in just a few days, she received the most serious abuse and slander.

But she didn't make any excuses at all, just kept silent.

Those humans who were deliberately incited blocked the front of Minglian Temple with all kinds of weapons, clamoring for her to hand over the monsters she took in, completely forgetting how she helped them gently in the past. Instead, he said the most vicious curse in his mouth.

We monsters know very well what will happen to us when we are handed over.

In the end, she decided to take us away and go to other places. Although Minglian Temple said that it could not be taken away, she could build another Minglian Temple in other places.

But at this time... some monsters rebelled.

When she was about to take us away, those betrayed monsters rushed directly into the crowd in front of Minglian Temple and started killing them. It happened so suddenly that she had no time to stop it.

——That was the first time she broke the killing ring.

The number of human deaths is 53, and the number of monsters killed by her is 23.

After collecting the bones of the 53 dead humans and burying them with her own hands, she sat in front of the grave and remained silent for a long time, then turned around and spoke to us monsters who still chose to stay with her .

...she told us to leave.

We said it wasn't her fault, she didn't need to take responsibility for it, and there was no need to blame herself, eager to persuade her to leave with us...but it didn't work.

No one can change the choice she made in her heart.