In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

"But she only gives me 3,000 yen a month in pocket money, saying, 'What's a girl going to do with that?' I need to develop the habit of thriftiness from a young age, so that when I take over the shrine in the future, I won't squander it all."

Angry, Reimu bit down hard, breaking the stick in her mouth. "I don't have any money to spend now. When I take over the shrine, I won't know how to manage the money. Then the shrine might belong to the mainlanders. Damn it."

"That senior must have worked really hard."

Kumiko mercilessly ate octopus balls with an octopus head on her head. I thought it was a scene of a vicious stepmother abusing her adopted daughter, but it turned out to be a training for a rich second-generation kid to make a living with little money.

"But I won't eat your octopus balls for nothing."

Although Reimu seemed careless and lacked brains, she was still a considerate person. "Come, tell second-year Hakurei Reimu-senpai what happened. Why did she cry so much late at night that she came here to buy a midnight snack? Did they have a fight with Tsukamoto?"

"Why am I crying? It's because I had a fight with Shuichi."

Kumiko fiercely picked up an octopus ball and put it into her mouth. At first, she chewed it vigorously, but later she became less energetic. When she finished eating the octopus ball, she had become dejected again.

"Why did you choose to join the wind band?"

"Of course it's because the wind band is so bad."

Facing Kumiko's surprised and bewildered expression, Reimu continued, "Our school has this stupid rule about having to join a club. You can join and then quit, but you have to join once. I didn't want to waste too much time on club activities, so I chose the worst and most idle club. Although everyone in my class was quite motivated, the seniors were just as unreliable as the others."

"Eh?"

Kumiko thought of something: there were very few second-year students in the wind band.

"Huh? You don't know?"

Reimu noticed that Kumiko didn't seem to know these things. "Since you don't know, I won't say much. The current captain is the Sou Xiang group, and she's still your voice captain. If you have any questions, just go find her."

"Can I ask Hakurei-senpai another question?"

"Of course, but-"

Reimu used a skewer that was only two-thirds full to pick up an octopus dumpling from Kumiko's hand and said, "You have to pay extra. Oh no, you have to pay extra for the octopus dumpling."

"Hakurei-senpai, you're a member of the Ghost Club, but you're such a great euphonium player. Have you been practicing secretly? Can you tell me how to practice?"

Kumiko looked at Reimu nervously. During the afternoon bass training, Reimu came to the club room rarely and was the only one who could keep up with Asuka. The song called "To Alice" was not particularly difficult, but as soon as she listened to it, she could hear the gap between Reimu and Kumiko.

Not long ago, Kumiko finally broke the ice with her junior high school classmate Reina Kosaka, and they agreed at the fireworks display that both of them would participate in the Kyoto-Tokyo Wind Band Exchange Competition. The classmates and teachers of the wind band all attached great importance to this first competition, and the contestants were also carefully selected. However, there were only three positions left for the euphonium, and including Reimu, there were already more than three euphonium players in the bass section.

After seeing Reimu’s performance in the afternoon, Kumiko had to strive for the final third position if she wanted to compete with Reina.

"Practice? Oh, that was when I first joined the club in my freshman year of high school. I played it for a few days. This afternoon was my second time playing the euphonium."

Reimu said casually, oblivious to the damage she was causing to Kumiko.

Is he an absolute genius? That level of playing skill, and this is only his second time playing the euphonium?

When you climb with all your might, but see a genius flying in the sky at the top of the mountain, it is extremely painful and desperate. All the efforts you have made since elementary school become so vulnerable in the face of absolute talent.

Is Reimu a genius? Definitely. At the age of ten, she had already been designated the sole successor to the Hakurei Shrine. Whether it was magic, Shinto, Buddhism, talismans, flying, or playing bullet-hell games, Reimu was unparalleled in these areas. She could truly be called an exceptionally gifted being.

But Reimu's talent in music is just average. In the afternoon, Reimu did not play the song perfectly, but used a little magic to synchronize her body perfectly with Asuka's. As long as they do the same thing and maintain the same breathing, then in theory the sound produced will be the same.

Not realizing how much psychological trauma her impulsive pretentious behavior in the afternoon had caused to her lovely junior, Reimu opened her mouth wide, ready to put the octopus balls she had just taken from Kumiko into her mouth, when she heard a loud noise next to her ears.

Then there was a flash of lightning that lit up half the sky, followed by the sound of a heavy object hitting the water. The noise was so loud that it seemed as if the object had hit the bottom of the river directly, because many things flew up with the river water, and they all flew very far. A piece of kelp as long as an arm was flying in the air and hit Reimu accurately, knocking the octopus balls on the skewer away, and the kelp was also stuck to Reimu's face, and the kelp extended all the way from the top of the head to the chest.

68

Chapter 68 Is this the senior’s magical girl!?

"Hey, hey, what happened? Did someone commit suicide by jumping into the river?"

Kumiko jumped out of her chair at the noise.

"To make such a big noise, the thing that jumped into the river must be Dalong or Zoyabruchi."

With a gloomy face, Reimu took the kelp off her face. The river water and sticky kelp mucus made Reimu feel uncomfortable on her face.

Damn youkai! That was the last octopus dumpling! And who was so blind as to fight in such a crowded place, using such a loud spell? Did they know that it would be difficult to clear the memories of passersby later?

"Hakurei-senpai, are you okay? Your face is all wet."

Kumiko took out a handkerchief from her bag and wanted to wipe the water off Reimu's face. Her long black hair was also wet, and the red bow tied behind her head drooped down because of the water. When wiping the water off Reimu, Kumiko felt scared. How could this senior who looked like a slacker become so scary?

The carefree look of slacking off had disappeared from Reimu's eyes, replaced by a serious and solemn look.

"How dare you come to me? There's no road to heaven, but you won't go. There's no door to hell, but you won't come. I'm going to shatter your soul and leave you in the world."

Reimu took the handkerchief from Kumiko's hand and pulled Kumiko behind her. In Kumiko's surprised and helpless eyes, Reimu flipped her palm and a piece of white talisman paper appeared there.

"Huang Qian, don't shout or scream when you see anything. It will only cause more trouble if you attract more people."

Reimu continued, "I don't get overtime pay for working overtime. No, I don't even get paid for my work, and yet I have to work overtime for free to deal with this thing. Can't these evil spirits and bad monsters just get out of Kyoto?"

"Hakurei-senpai, what are you talking about?"

Kumiko looked at Reimu in surprise. "Could it be that Hakurei-senpai's chuunibyou (second year of high school) was delayed? If it hasn't been cured until her second year of high school, then will Hakurei-senpai never be able to get rid of chuunibyou?"

"Hey, I heard everything."

"what."

Realizing that she had unconsciously spoken her heart out, Kumiko quickly covered her mouth, "Yes, I'm sorry, Hakurei-senpai, I didn't mean it."

Plop! By the quiet, dark river, the sound of paddling water and something crawling onto the shore was very distinct. Kumiko's hairs stood on end, and all the ghost stories she had read before came to mind again. Water ghost!? Kappa!?

"Hakurei-senpai, it seems, it seems like something is crawling up!"

"Oh, it's just a fish that crawled up."

"Isn't this even stranger? A fish actually crawled onto the shore. Let's go, Hakurei-senpai. I don't want to see us on the news tomorrow."

Kumiko pulled Reimu's arm hard, but Reimu just stood there, not moving at all.

"Ha, ha, you didn't expect that, human, I also have a magic weapon. My life-defining fish scales can save me once when I receive a fatal injury or a fatal injury. Those things laughed at my uselessness. Now you have all become human's meal, and only I survived, hahaha."

At this time, there was almost no red or white left on its body, and it had turned black. The koi fish monster, who was still emitting the aroma of roasted meat, crawled on all fours, shouting loudly to announce that he had escaped. After being attacked desperately by his own people, but being killed one by one by humans and becoming food on the table, he, who was frantically saving his life, was now taken out of Ouyang Xuan's hands safely.

Having one more life can really save your life at a critical moment.

"Oh, then can your natal fish scales protect you from the second fatal attack?"

With a dark face, Reimu stood in front of the koi fish demon with her head slightly tilted back. The talisman in her hand flew up from Reimu's hand and hovered in front of Reimu. Kumiko, who was standing by, saw this scene that seemed like magic and was so surprised that she forgot to pull Reimu hard.

Is Hakurei-senpai also a magician?

"A huge red bow on the back of your head?"

The Koi Fish Demon was a youkai born and raised in Kyoto, so she naturally knew everything about the inner world of Kyoto. "The Red Demon Killer!? A demon that absolutely no youkai can escape from her hands!?"

There is a legend circulating in the inner world of Kyoto. When you do evil, a red-bodied creature will inexplicably appear on the top of a mountain. After she chops down a tree with a dagger, she will stab you to death with a jack spear, then lift you up high and throw you off a cliff. Wherever she passes, all evil monsters will be silenced. Any monster that looks at her for three seconds will be killed.

"Repent for trampling on the lives of your own kind, evil demon!"

Reimu tapped her finger on the talisman paper floating in front of her. It suddenly caught fire and burned to ashes in less than half a second. "I can smell the murderous stench on you even from my upwind position."

Like Ouyang Falcon, Reimu can also identify whether a monster has eaten or killed people by the so-called stench in its spiritual power. If the monster does not have that stench, Reimu will not care even if it licks a little girl's feet in the street. But if there is even a hint of stench, he will know why Reimu is called the red killer monster by the koi fish monster.

"When have I ever killed my own kind? Don't slander me!"

The koi fish demon wanted to appeal and wanted to know what Reimu meant by trampling on the lives of his own kind, but he no longer had time to find out. The huge fish head was severed from the gills, and it was a perfect cross-section. Even with a magnifying glass, no roughness could be seen. This was the result of Reimu's beheading using a cutting spell. The King of Gaul saw it and said that Reimu's technique was excellent.

The two-meter-long body fell to the ground with a loud bang. After death, the body's magic power supply naturally disappeared. The limbs and hands and feet created by the koi fish monster using magic power quickly disappeared into the air, just like the mermaid princess who turned into foam and disappeared. However, after the limbs and hands disappeared, the koi fish monster became more in line with the fish in the general public's cognition.

As for the random explanation Reimu found, it was actually that the koi fish demon fell into the river, and the flying kelp knocked her octopus balls away. Although one is an octopus and the other is a koi fish, they are similar, both are aquatic creatures, so there is nothing wrong with the koi fish demon trampling on the octopus balls made by its own people with their own lives.

Anyway, it's just a reason. As long as Reimu is willing, even an odd number of drops of water dripping from your body when you get ashore can be a reason for your death.

"No, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Who on earth is this bastard? Doesn't he know that you're not allowed to use powerful spells in the city? Even when I was so angry, I could only use the cutting spell to move people. That bastard actually set off thunder in the city. No, I have to teach him a lesson on behalf of the Hakurei Shrine."

"Hakurei-senpai..."

"Oh, I forgot you were here, Huang Qian."

When her arm was pulled, Reimu remembered that there was someone beside her.

"Just now, what happened just now, a monster? A demon? A servant? Could it be——"

Kumiko's face was half shocked and half excited. "——Hakurei-senpai, you are a magical girl! Your Q, oh no, where is your partner? Is it a cat?"

"There he is."

Reimu pointed in the direction behind Kumiko, and Kumiko turned her head immediately, but could only see a large area of pitch black.

"I didn't see it, Hakurei-senpai. Could it be that your partner has become invisible? Or do you need to be a fellow magical girl to see it?"

Kumiko turned her head back and just met Reimu's fingers. With her index and middle fingers together, Reimu stuck a piece of talisman paper on Kumiko's forehead. Kumiko immediately held it back like a zombie, still maintaining an expression on her face that looked like she wanted to ask Reimu something.

"I didn't expect something like this to happen when I went out this time, so I prepared five memory-erasing talismans. I'll go check on the bridge later. If there are more than four people, I'll have to use physical methods to erase their memories, even though it's a little painful."

"You will regain consciousness soon. You will not remember seeing the monster, and the rest of the things will be automatically filled in by your brain. It won't have any major impact on your brain and body. See you tomorrow, Huang Qian."

Reimu is a person who relies on evidence. In order to shut up the guy who made a big noise in the urban area of Kyoto, Reimu also took the evidence, the half-cooked body of the koi fish monster. The head was discarded and turned into ashes, but the two-meter-long body with delicious meat was left behind.

About a minute after Reimu left, Kumiko woke up as if from a dream. The talisman paper stuck on Kumiko's forehead had disappeared before she woke up. Just as Reimu said before she left, Kumiko had no idea that a part of her memory was missing, and she had already imagined that she and Reimu had eaten octopus balls and then went back to their separate homes.

"Even though I didn't gain anything from chatting with Hakurei-senpai, at least I felt happy. After we go back, I'll listen to the song 'Für Elise' more often so that I can compete with Reina."

"Kumiko, come on!"

"Has the monster been killed? Lord Yang...Ou."

In Ouyang Falcon's arms, Kaguya covered her face tightly with her hands. At this time, Kaguya didn't dare to take her hands away, because just from the temperature, Kaguya felt that her face was ripe.

"It's okay now."

Ouyang Jun released his arms around Kaguya, but Kaguya, who was covering her face, moved closer to him instead.

"It was really dangerous just now. The fork was only a little bit away from me."

Kaguya lowered her hands that were covering her face a little, revealing a pair of bright red eyes.

"There will be no danger."

Ouyang Falcon shook his head gently, "As long as I'm here, you won't be in danger."

"what!"

Kaguya buried her face in her hands again.

Ahhh! What's this? A straight shot! The seemingly cold Yang Falcon said something so blunt about protecting me. This is too destructive! My heart, my heart is beating so hard, the power reactor is about to explode.

"foul……"

Kaguya's voice was whispering softly, filled with shyness and tenderness. "Lord Ou, it's really unfair for you to speak like this. I can't help but fall in love with you. When a girl is in danger, saying such sweet words of love will make people mistake it for the suspension bridge effect."

"Then like it. Besides, I don't think it's a drawbridge effect because I feel that way."

Ouyang Xuan said lightly.

This simple sentence was like a bolt from the blue. Kaguya's pupils suddenly dilated, and her red eyes trembled wildly in her eye sockets, with an expression that showed that she couldn't believe what she heard.

Confession!? This must be a confession! This is Yang Xuanjun's active confession! I, what should I do? Respond! Yes, I have to respond to Yang Xuanjun!

"Yes, to interpret the excitement brought about by Lord Ou's heroic deeds as the so-called suspension bridge effect is really trampling on Lord Ou's deeds. After being rescued by Lord Ou a few times, even the most emotionless girl in the world will definitely fall in love with Lord Ou. Even I feel a little moved by him."

Kill yourself, Kaguya Shinomiya, what am I even talking about? Respond! Respond to Yang Falcon's confession, move your mouth! Why don't you move your mouth!

On the surface, Kaguya maintained a gentle voice like that of a Yamato Nadeshiko, but in her heart she was already pressing her own little self against a wooden stake and hammering nails at it.

If I confessed my feelings and was rejected by Yang Xuanjun, would I never be able to see Yang Xuanjun again? Would I no longer be qualified to appear in front of Yang Xuanjun? I don't want that. I absolutely don't want that.

Compared to the 99% success rate, the 1% possibility of failure and falling into the abyss made Kaguya feel even more frightened. Although it was only an insignificant possibility, as soon as she thought of that possibility, all the words Kaguya wanted to express her love and affection were stuck in her throat. The so-called imperial studies that she had learned since childhood made Kaguya extremely afraid of failure.

So Kaguya prayed, praying that Ouyang Falcon could discover the pure love in her heart. As long as Ouyang Falcon confessed to her, she would agree 100%, and there would be absolutely no possibility of failure.

Kaguya came out of Ouyang Falcon's arms. Before she could take a few steps and could still feel Ouyang Falcon's body temperature, something fell from the sky and landed beside the two of them. Then a blue, white and red figure with the same colors as Gundam landed. It was Reimu who had said goodbye to Kumiko and flew over to the bridge.

"You know, you're not allowed to use loud spells in Kyoto. Violators will be fined 100,000 yen. This is common knowledge that even the little brats in the island world know. Are you from a foreign country?"

69

Chapter 69: Foreigners.

The grilled koi fish that was only about half done was thrown aside. Reimu dropped from the sky and pointed at Ouyang Xuan and was about to scold him. Just before the words came out of her mouth if he didn't approve it, Reimu saw Ouyang Xuan's face clearly, and his expression quickly changed from anger to disgust and helplessness.

"I was wondering which foreigner came to our Kyoto to cause trouble, and it turns out it's you."

Reimu crossed her arms across her chest, and the large bow hanging down trembled.

"Hakurei, why are you here?"