My personal opinion on Gensokyo

Welcome~ Dear and lovely new book friends, I am really happy that you have read until here. Please allow me to make a formal introduction.

This book, Gensokyo's personal opinion, was published on a certain platform five or six years ago. It is a fan fiction of Gensokyo anime that had never been signed before.

Because all kinds of fan fiction were still in their infancy at that time, I was very lucky that my novel had accumulated some popularity at that time, so there were an unusually large number of old book fans of this novel, and they were always posting spoilers in the thread, which affected the reading experience of new book fans. I have also seen new book fans complain about this in the thread more than once, and I would like to sincerely apologize to all the new book fans here.

Please be kind to the old readers who are very excited and happy to see the update of this book~

As mentioned in the book's related works, many of the tropes in this book are indeed a bit outdated, and there are also plot designs that seem unreasonable now and will be criticized by everyone. Although I will try my best to revise these parts, please forgive me. This needs to be based on maintaining the overall structure of the old articles, so at present, some places are indeed difficult to change.

But it should get better later, after all, there won't be any old chapters that need to be revised, and I can let loose. (laughs)

In short, it’s a brand new beginning after the game is put on the shelves, and this time it’s really an “unimagined path”.

Many old readers have told me that they like the "softness" and "warmth" of this novel.

Whether it is the old book friends who have followed me or the new book friends who are still willing to continue reading this novel, I am really grateful to everyone.

May this gentleness warm the hearts of all readers.

If I can bring you a touch of gentle warmth in the cold winter, that would be the best thing that would make me happy and blessed.

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PS3: There will be a surprise tomorrow.

Volume 6: Thoughts Across Time and Space: Chapter 380: Everything Fifty Years Ago

The long thousands of years, the memories belonging to Shang Yang and Platycodon, gradually overlapped in the deep snowy night fifty years ago when the snow was falling like goose feathers.

Whether it was a coincidence or an encounter that had been waited for a thousand years, these no longer seemed to be important. What was important was that fifty years ago during the Warring States Period, in the dead of night with heavy snow falling all over the sky, that kind-hearted witch saved a young man who was slightly different from the Warring States Period that had lasted for a hundred years.

Originally, Kikyo only had memories of Shang Yang from fifty years ago, but now, she has obtained the memories of her in Shang Yang's memories from fifty years ago.

The feelings of the young man with gray hair fifty years ago when he faced her also gradually emerged in Kikyo's heart.

Fifty years ago, on that snowy night, the relief I felt when I saw myself, and the nostalgia that had settled over the long millennia.

However, this emotion turned into a bit of astonishment in the next moment.

In this memory, the witch was also somewhat surprised to see through Shang Yang's eyes that in Shang Yang's eyes, not only her own existence was there, but also that fifty years ago, she herself had no idea that there were extremely complicated threads of cause and effect entangled in her body.

The tiny tips of the threads of cause and effect entangled with her body pierced deeply into her soul.

The shrine maiden Kikyo will die because of the Shikon Jade. This is the fate of the shrine maiden Kikyo, the fate of the shrine maiden who guards the Shikon Jade.

Even if the residual soul and thoughts she left behind after her death could travel through five hundred years and return in a non-human body in the era five hundred years later, the priestess Kikyo would eventually disappear in the Warring States period five hundred years ago along with her remaining thoughts due to the curse of the Four Souls Jade.

If this fate is changed, then, at the moment of fate being changed, it will have completely penetrated into her soul, into the essence of her existence in the world. The cause and effect of fate will erase the essence of her existence, and at that time, her body and her soul will also disappear completely because the essence of her existence has been destroyed, along with all traces of her existence in the world.

If the eleventh month were to go against her destiny of disappearing, the shrine maiden Kikyo would be completely wiped out from the flow of time and would never exist in this world again.

What makes the shrine maiden, who now knows these facts, even more shocked is that if her fate changes and triggers the abnormality called "existential shock" in Shang Yang's memory, then not only her, but also Kaede, who also has a deep karmic connection with the Shikon Jewel, all the villagers of Kaede Village, and Inuyasha who wants to steal the Shikon Jewel, will be wiped out together and will never exist in this world again.

Kikyo had never been born, and Kaede would never have been born from the beginning. There would never have been a village called Maple Village, and even Inu no Taisho, Toga, would no longer have a half-demon son like Inuyasha.

This is the consequence of changing your destiny.

This was also the fact that Shang Yang witnessed fifty years ago.

After seeing the sight in Shang Yang's memory fifty years ago, Kikyo could even feel that Shang Yang wanted to unexpectedly guide his true Yin-Yang power to the incarnation when he came into contact with himself, intending to use the complete Yin-Yang power to destroy the causal line entangled in the depths of his soul. In fact, Shang Yang seemed very sure that he could do this.

However, he only triggered a trace of power from his own body, and fifty years ago, without his master Shan Fu noticing, the causal line entangled in the depths of her own soul became extremely unstable because it sensed Shang Yang's abnormal movement, and it seemed that there was a danger of triggering the "existential shock" mentioned in Shang Yang's memory at any time.

In Shang Yang's memory, it was precisely because of this situation that Shang Yang gave up the idea of ​​resolving the matter directly. And now, having also received Shang Yang's complete memory of fifty years ago, Kikyo could also sense the terrible anger of the gray-haired young man fifty years ago because he clearly had the power to resolve the matter, but was unable to do so.

She sighed softly, still remaining in the scene formed by Shang Yang's complete memory of thousands of years. The witch's heart was completely confused.

Everything that happened fifty years ago, and even the scene related to herself a thousand years ago, in a short period of time, Kikyo saw too much information. These were thousands of years that far exceeded what ordinary people could experience. In Shang Yang's memory, there was knowledge about parallel worlds, destiny, the correction of the human world itself, the essence of existence, etc., which were all information that Kikyo had never been exposed to in her short life fifty years ago.

Although it's not impossible to understand, even for an extremely intelligent witch, it is still very complicated to sort out the logic of these things.

Even fifty years ago, when she volunteered to guard the Four Souls Jade, the witch had already realized something. However, after accepting Shang Yang's full millennium, the witch realized that the depth of her causal entanglement with the Four Souls Jade was far beyond her imagination.

The Four Souls Jade was entrusted to her for protection, an unchangeable fate. She would vanish from the land of this era because of the Four Souls Jade's curse, a fate that also seemed unchangeable...

All this was destined a thousand years ago.

Thousands of years ago, his own destiny, his final outcome, and the destiny of all those who were entangled with the Four Soul Jade, their fate, even thousands of years ago, in the world where Shang Yang lived in the past, was completely interpreted in another way.

The Shikon Jewel, himself who died because of the Shikon Jewel fifty years ago, Kaede who has been protecting the village for fifty years, Kagome Higurashi who came to this Warring States Period from five hundred years later, Inuyasha who wanted to steal the Shikon Jewel and become a real monster, Onigumo who was saved by himself, and Naraku, the evil monster who was born from devouring his evil soul, are all destined to their final fate.

From Shang Yang's memory, Platycodon gradually understood Shang Yang's eternal wish, having lived on this land for a thousand years.

Her wish has spanned thousands of years of vicissitudes.

And, he was determined not to allow this fate, which was destined a thousand years ago, to become a reality again in the Warring States Period a thousand years later.

So, the young man with gray hair put away the terrifying power of an ancient monster, disguised himself as a weak "half-demon", and came before her. With that weak power which was extremely insignificant compared to the real him, he came to help her. During the time fifty years ago, he erased one tiny and trivial line of cause and effect after another, whether it was on Penglai Island fifty years ago or in Kyoto Heian-kyo, in this way, he pried open the cause and effect of fate bit by bit.

This method is effective, but the time left for Shang Yang is too short.

PS1: The chronology is placed on the last unpaid chapter. It seems that it became a paid chapter due to issues such as exceeding the word count.

PS2: I'm really sorry for this error on my first release. (Tears)

PS3: The paid chapter of this chapter has been modified. Please refresh it and I will compensate you later.

Volume 6: Thoughts Across Time and Space: Chapter 381: Shang Yang's Wish

Fifty years ago, the curse that Kikyo originally believed to be from the black witch Tsubaki mutated, causing her spiritual power and body to become weak. Now it seems that it was not the curse of the black witch Tsubaki at all, but a curse from fate.

When this curse caused her to gradually lose her spiritual power and become physically weak, she was shaken by Shang Yang's disturbance and instinctively sensed the crisis. The thread of cause and effect wrapped around her was gradually on the verge of triggering an "existential shock" because of the change in fate, and all those who were entangled with the Four Souls Jade were about to be wiped out from history.

Now, the witch who has accepted Shang Yang's memories from fifty years ago can fully empathize with Shang Yang's extremely complicated psychology when facing this difficult situation.

In the end, Shang Yang made the only correct choice under the circumstances.

Then, it was the scene that Kikyo experienced fifty years ago...

The cold-blooded ancient monster, with his cold irony and "truth", coldly destroyed all her wishes and the responsibilities she had to bear.

In that cold winter fifty years ago, bitterness, sorrow, and despair filled her heart, so much so that she didn't notice that behind the impassive young man with gray hair, his hand, held behind his back, unconsciously pierced his palm with sharp nails in order to maintain an indifferent appearance. Drop after drop of dark red blood splattered onto the snow behind him...

……

The long passage of thousands of years gradually disappeared, and the winter fifty years ago with heavy snow all over the sky also gradually disappeared.

Deep in the forest under the night sky, it is still silent in the deep night.

The only ones here are the young man and the shrine maiden whom they meet again after fifty years.

The cold indifference in those clear eyes slowly disappeared, replaced by extremely complex emotions...

The witch was in a very confused mood at this moment.

She looked at the young man with gray and messy hair who was still standing in front of her, calmly but with a great sense of apology, and looking at her.

Although she has not yet looked for Feng, who had seen the same things back then, to confirm the memories Shang Yang gave her, if she compares them with the doubts she has noticed, everything in Shang Yang's memory can provide a fully and reasonable answer.

Intellectually and even emotionally, the witch had confirmed everything described in Shang Yang's memory.

However, confirmation and acceptance are two different things.

Fifty years ago, all of Kikyo's unreserved trust in Shang Yang turned into deep hatred for Shang Yang during that snowy winter.

Now, this resentment was denied once again, and even though she was calm and perceptive, she was completely disturbed.

"...Can you let me go first?"

The witch, who seemed a little at a loss, turned her gaze away from Shang Yang. Her thoughts were disturbed and she asked softly in a cold tone, but not as cold and indifferent as before.

"...Uh, of course."

Although he appeared calm on the surface, Shang Yang was actually very panicked inside. When he heard the witch's soft question, he was a little stunned, but he reacted quickly and snapped his fingers hastily.

In order to prevent Kikyo from committing any more terrible acts of self-destruction, Shang Yang's yin-yang aura was transformed and wrapped around Kikyo's delicate body, and the cumbersome chains that bound her dissipated.

Watching Shang Yang hastily remove the spell that bound him, Kikyo felt a little unsure of what to say next. However, after a brief silence, the witch asked calmly.

"……Why?"

“…There’s no reason for that, right?”

Hearing the witch's "why" which seemed to come out of nowhere, Shang Yang, who was familiar with her personality, also understood what Kikyo meant, and rubbed his hair as if he didn't know what to say.

"...I just don't want to see you end up like that again, having given everything, only to end up with regrets..."

"...This is my fate. You don't have to be like this..."

Although she said so, at this time, Kikyo was also a little confused.

She had seen from Shang Yang's memory that fifty years ago, after her death, most of the causal threads that entangled her and the Four Souls Jade had been destroyed by Shang Yang.

In other words, her destined fate had actually been changed by Shang Yang.

"it's not true……"

Hearing these cold words which clearly concealed a hint of confusion, Shang Yang felt somewhat relieved and smiled casually.

"...You should have also seen the story of love and me a thousand years ago in my memory."

"Love is the same. Thousands of years ago, I knew it was her fate to be reborn into the human world a thousand years from now, in this Warring States period. She would fall into the depths of hell and be given the name 'Yanma Ai.' For the next five hundred years, she would live as a hated and cursed Hell Girl."

"That was the first time I tried to change her destined tragic fate. You saw the process and the outcome. Because of my mistake, during this process, the fate that should have come a thousand years later gradually came true sooner. One step away from dragging her into the depths of hell a thousand years earlier."

As he narrated this, Shang Yang looked at the troubled witch with a very calm gaze.

"…But, I never considered it a 'mistake'."

"I saw your destined fate thousands of years ago. It brought me great regret back then, so I won't let it become a reality again."

Having said that, Shang Yang slowly turned around, with his back to Platycodon, and looked up at the deep night, at the bright moon hanging quietly in the night sky.

"It's not that I want to save you, or to save you from a tragic fate. Those are arrogant reasons..."

"My wish is just for you to be able to choose the life you want."

"Whether it's continuing to guard the Four Souls Jade, protecting the village plagued by monsters, or even continuing to take revenge on me."

"It's up to you to choose your future."

"I just want to give you the 'right' to choose, that's all."

"Rather than letting you be cursed by fate and not even have the right to choose your own life."

"That's my only wish."

Turning sideways, he faced the troubled witch again, and the young man with gray hair, gentle as jade, with a gentle smile.

"For thousands of years, all I have wanted to do, all I can do for you, is this one thing."

"Although my method wasn't very good, it left you with very painful memories from fifty years ago."

"I'm really sorry."

After quietly listening to Shang Yang's slow narration, the cold-looking witch fell silent again for a moment, and her tone gradually calmed down.

"...I will seriously consider your words."

She did not say that she forgave Shang Yang for what he did fifty years ago. Kikyo still had some concerns and needed some more time to confirm. On the other hand, Kikyo also needed some time to face everything that happened fifty years ago and the young man in front of her now.

After responding like this, Kikyo seemed a little hesitant, but she still mentioned it softly.

"...But, ultimately, the Four Souls Jade is still a hazard..."

...I'm still worried about the Four Souls Jade.

Hearing the concerns mentioned hesitantly by the witch, Shang Yang sighed helplessly in his heart.

Although Kikyo already knew that the Shikon Jewel would eventually be completely destroyed by Kagome Higurashi who came from the era five hundred years later, she still found it difficult to let go if she could not see the Shikon Jewel, the source of all this sorrow, completely disappear.

PS1: 450 first-hour orders, that's too outrageous...

PS2: You guys are really just taking revenge on me for the blunder I made. (Tucao)

PS3: It's probably your resentment that prevents me from getting Kanna in Princess Connect. (Tears)

PS4: Xiaohuannai’s wife, please come out soon…