Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

Marisa (the freeloader): "Do you even remember who Mu Huai is to you? Look at his back in this original artwork."

Reimu: "My fiancé... Wait! How dare they!!"

Marisa (the freeloader): "You didn't go to the Scarlet Devil Mansion and have sex with Remilia, did you?"

Marisa (the one who eats nothing): "Hey, hey?"

Marisa (the freeloader): "Are you there?"

In the small hut piled with mushrooms and a huge alchemy cauldron, Marisa awkwardly touched her golden braids: "I think I've caused Brother Mu Huai a little bit of trouble. Should I tell him?"

The thought of admitting her mistake was tantamount to putting her head right in front of a gun, so she immediately abandoned the idea of ​​walking into a trap, switched her phone to airplane mode, and focused on her magical research.

"As long as I don't say anything, Brother Mu Huai will never know that I'm the one who caused him trouble."

....Moon Ripples*IIIIV Lingqi Ershi: Ba 4..

Mu Huai was eating hotpot at home and humming a song when he was suddenly robbed by the red and white city management officers. The strong airflow made it hard for him to open his eyes, and he only opened his eyes to look around when he felt a solid touch under his feet.

"Reimu, why did you bring me to the Hakurei Shrine?"

"Of course, it's to monitor... cough cough, to protect you."

"Ok?"

He was somewhat puzzled, but upon closer inspection, he noticed that Reimu was panting heavily as if she had just been in a fight. The hem of her revealing shrine maiden outfit was slightly charred and torn, and there was still some black dust on her fair and delicate face.

After wiping the dust off for her, Mu Huai asked, puzzled, "Why are you protecting me for no reason? Are there some monsters in Gensokyo planning to attack me?"

"Of course there is!"

"Who?"

"Those guys from the Scarlet Devil Mansion team actually secretly declared war on me using their championship skins. Luckily, I'm incredibly smart and caught you at the shrine first, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable!"

Lingmeng couldn't imagine the miserable life she would lead back to poverty after losing Mu Huai, her cash cow.

Before, the rice jar was covered in cobwebs, and even mice would sneak in a couple of steamed buns from outside. Now, although we don't eat meat and fish every day, at least we don't have to worry about going hungry and can sleep with a bulging money box.

"If I had never seen the light, I would not fear the darkness!"

While reciting philosophical sentences she'd picked up from some book, Reimu took out talismans from her pocket and stuck them on Mu Huai's body.

"This is a warning symbol, this is a launch symbol, this is..."

"Hey, hey, hey, do you want to turn me into a paper doll?" He grabbed her wrist, both amused and exasperated, and then tore off all the talismans.

"Ah!! I finally managed to stick the talisman on!" Reimu wailed, looking up and glaring, her dark pupils radiating anger.

If Mu Huai weren't her important cash cow, any other monster would have already taken a hit from the Dream Seal.

"Making these talismans takes a lot of effort, and buying them costs money. You didn't know any better and tore them up. You'll have to pay for it!"

To avoid being turned into a paper doll, Mu Huai reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash: "Okay, okay, here's 100,000 yen, that should be enough to compensate, right?"

"Of course it's enough, cough cough... I mean it's just enough."

Lingmeng knew that making money required a slow and steady approach, and that she couldn't just ask for a huge sum for a small profit. After quickly putting the money into her pocket, she took Mu Huai's hand and walked towards the central courtyard.

"Since you don't want to put the talisman on, then stay here for a while. At least with me here, those nobodies won't dare to come and snatch you away."

"Do you mean you want to live with me for a while?"

Upon hearing this, Lingmeng's fair ears instantly turned pink, and she almost flung Mu Huai's hand away. After several seconds, she replied calmly, "Otherwise, with our relationship, there's nothing to worry about, right?"

"Okay, I'll talk to Rikka and the others."

"Hmph~ You really do value your little girlfriends."

After sending the message, Mu Huai put away his phone and jokingly said with a smile, "Why do I smell a hint of sourness in your words?"

"You misheard me!" Reimu raised her voice to emphasize, then quickened her pace to lead him to the room that had previously been used for team training. "You can stay here for now. I'll bring the bedding over later."

"Wait a minute, I don't think this is appropriate."

"What's inappropriate about it?"

Mu Huai pointed at her and then at himself: "Shouldn't engaged couples sleep in the same room?"

"You bastard..." Reimu covered her chest with her hands, her face dark, and took two steps back. "As expected of the Gensokyo stud, you've only just arrived at your fiancée's house and you're already eyeing my room?"

"It's more accurate to say that our relationship has progressed so slowly that some monsters can't stand it anymore. I don't want to wake up one day to find not a sweet and soft girlfriend behind me, but a strange gap."

"Tsk, old woman Zi..."

Smacking her lips in annoyance, Reimu finally realized that Mu Huai, this cash cow, wasn't given to her for nothing by Yakumo Yukari; she had to give something in return for what she got.

She understood this principle.

Reimu didn't dislike her fiancé, Mu Huai, with whom she rarely saw each other, but she also couldn't say she liked him much.

"In any case, let's spend some time together before talking about other things."

"No problem, what would you like to eat for lunch?"

As Reimu watched Mu Huai casually pull out the Pelican Town specialty vegetables that money couldn't buy in Gensokyo, she suddenly felt her coin box get a little wet.

"I want to eat a Manchu Han Imperial Feast!"

Volume 4, "Anything Can Happen in Gensokyo": Chapter 26 - Marisa's bite force is no less than that of an adult hyena.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion resounded from the depths of the magic forest, startling a large flock of birds into flight.

"Oh dear... I never expected that getting the powder ratio wrong would cause such a huge explosion. Luckily, I reacted in time."

Marisa, covered in dust, crawled out from under the mountain of books. She dusted off her shoulders. The room looked like it had been ravaged by a mushroom tornado, with even the cracks in the windows filled with mushrooms.

"I didn't expect the mushroom growth potion to be so difficult to obtain. The mushrooms I planned to have for dinner have been contaminated by the powder... What am I going to do for dinner now?"

She walked to the window and looked at the sky. Based on the position of the sun, she estimated that it was about three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Wait a minute, I already have a mobile phone, so why would I need to look at the sun to tell the time?"

Realizing this, Marisa lay down on the floor, which was scattered with various books, mushrooms, and bottles and jars, and started looking for her phone.

The good news was that she found her phone in no time; the bad news was that a bright red mushroom sprouted from the crack in the phone screen.

Without thinking much at first, she casually picked off a mushroom that was a bit difficult to pull off, and then watched helplessly as the mycelium at the base of the mushroom stuck to the screen and tore the glass screen off.

"What...what do I do?! The phone that Brother Mu Huai gave me is broken!!"

Marisa panicked for a moment, then forced herself to calm down, repeatedly saying "It's okay" as she tried to put the glass screen covered with mycelium back in place.

During this process, she accidentally used too much force, and the glass screen instantly made a crisp cracking sound, with the cracks spreading out from the center of her thumb.

"Maru La!!"

Even Marisa, who knows nothing about machines, knows that it's impossible to fix a screen that's broken like this. If it were an ordinary magical item, it would just break and that would be fine.

She might feel sorry for him for a few minutes at most, but she wouldn't think about it anymore. However, this phone was the reward she earned by sneaking up on Mu Huai at night with her hard work and words.

The two are not on the same level at all.

The experiment failed, her phone was accidentally broken, and she hadn't even had dinner yet, her stomach growling with hunger. Marisa rubbed her face in frustration.

"What bad luck... I guess I'll have to go to Reimu's place for dinner."

She had originally planned to clean the room before leaving, but after roughly estimating that it would take several hours to restore it to its original state, she decisively gave up the idea.

"After dinner, let's research a magical tool to quickly clear out mushrooms."

......

"So... that's why you came here to freeload a meal?"

"Yes...that's right, but why is Brother Mu Huai at your house?"

Marisa would never have imagined that Mu Huai, whom she thought was being hunted down by Reimu, would actually appear at the Hakurei Shrine unharmed, and even be wearing an apron and cooking in the kitchen.

This made her extremely uneasy. If running away now wouldn't arouse suspicion from Mu Huai, who seemed to know nothing, she could have broken out of the shrine with a starting speed surpassing even Usain Bolt's.

"What a surprise! I didn't expect Marisa to come and freeload. Shouldn't it be Reimu who's starving and comes to help her out?"

Hearing this, Reimu, who was lying on the tatami like an old man, sat up unhappily, grabbed a crumpled piece of paper she had used to wipe her hands, and threw it behind Mu Huai: "The poor me of the past is dead! Now Marisa is the one who needs help!"

"That's what you say, but your income is probably just the amount I give you, right?"

"Ha! You're taking it too easy. With my reputation, Reimu has quite a few humans and youkai who come to worship me."

Lingmeng appeared confident, but Mu Huai only needed to glance back to see her two slender legs trembling uncontrollably beneath her skirt.

Because all the money she had saved was earned by selling "opportunities to bully Mu Huai," the consequences would be unimaginable if he discovered her way of making money.

So Reimu had no choice but to look at Marisa, giving her a frantic look that signaled her to quickly find a way to change the subject.

Why should I clean up your mess?!

"If you don't help, I'll immediately report what you did today to Mu Huai!"

"No, no, no, I'll help you."

Forced into being in the same boat as Reimu, Marisa quickly racked her brains and soon came up with a very good topic.

"Brother Mu Huai, it's rare for me to come over for a meal. What dishes are you planning to cook today?"

"If you don't come, then it will probably be braised pork, pork slices and loofah soup... and steamed egg custard."

"Oh!? So there are other dishes too?" Marisa immediately perked up. She ran to Mu Huai's side and craned her neck to see the ingredients he was preparing. "Let me see what delicious food you're making!"

"Hey, can't you let me keep some mystery? Don't be silly, it's dangerous!"

Mu Huai tried to raise his hand to block his view, but Marisa anticipated his move, crouching down and squeezing her head under his armpit, muttering, "Mystery doesn't put food on the table!"

However, what awaited her was a cold kitchen knife right next to her. If it had extended even one centimeter further, her upturned nose would have been neatly sliced ​​off by the sharp blade.

"Alas!!!"

Marisa was so frightened that her muscles tensed up and her thighs clenched tightly together. Even so, she still felt that she had leaked a few drops of urine. Still shaken, she was both ashamed and angry. Without thinking, she opened her mouth and revealed her neat, white teeth.

"I'll bite!"

"Hiss—Let go!!"

"I do not!"

"Then don't blame me for being rude!"

Mu Huai ran his left index finger across the blade of the knife that had just been used to cut chili peppers and garlic, then rubbed it across Marisa's eye bags, nose, and the area between her upper lip.

At first, she was a little confused about what this incomprehensible action was doing, until the burning sensation, accompanied by a blinding heat wave, began to attack her eyes and nasal cavity, and she put on a mask of pain and voluntarily let go of her mouth.

Then, while wailing, he brought his face close to the water tank and kept scooping water to wash his face, trying to wash away the source of the stinging pain.

"You little brat, you think you can mess with me?"

After easily defeating Marisa, Mu Huai finally succeeded. Liu Yiqi (8) Si Si checked the place where she was bitten. She was shocked when she looked.

Marisa had bitten clean holes in his clothes around his waist, and deep teeth marks could be seen through the holes. He couldn't help but click his tongue and say, "That bite force is no different from that of an adult hyena, is it?"

"Hey! You two, stop fooling around in the kitchen! If you delay dinner and the noble shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine goes hungry, then you'll all have to offer me 100,000 yen!"

Reimu didn't care about the interaction between the two at all, or rather, she simply didn't believe that Marisa could seduce Mu Huai. After giving a word of advice, she lay down on her side and prepared to sleep until it was time to eat.

Volume 4, "Anything Can Happen in Gensokyo": Chapter 27 Oh my god, even Reimu has her serious moments!

After being taught a lesson by Mu Huai with chili peppers and garlic, Marisa calmed down and stopped bothering him. Instead, she ran to Reimu's side and gently scratched the tip of her nose with some foxtail grass she had somehow gotten her hands on.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle~~"

Reimu was almost asleep when the tickling sensation on the tip of her nose instantly dispelled her drowsiness. She opened her dark eyes expressionlessly and coldly said, "If you disturb my sleep again, I'll post your embarrassing history on the Gensokyo forum."

"No, no... I'll leave now, you can go to sleep." Marisa chuckled and put away the foxtail grass, then sat cross-legged against the wall, listlessly chewing on a blade of grass and staring blankly at the ceiling.

.......

In addition to the three dishes that I told Marisa before, Mu Huai also needs to make boiled fish fillets, tomato beef brisket, and fried pork cutlets.

The fish used is naturally Iridium Starfish from Pelican Town, with tender and fragrant flesh, and only a row of large bones along the spine, making it easy and quick to prepare.

The large bones and fish meat that have been removed can be coated with a batter, cut into pieces, and made into golden fish fillet tempura. The hard fish bones can be easily chewed after frying, so there's no need to worry about them getting stuck in your throat.

This fish fillet tempura is also one of Hestia's favorite snacks.

Slice the fish into thin slices and marinate with seasonings. Place washed bean sprouts and cucumber strips at the bottom of the large bowl to be filled with the boiled fish slices. Once the red oil in the pot releases the aroma of chili and fermented bean paste, add the fish head, fish bones, and hot water.

Once the soup base is ready, Mu Huai picks up the marinated fish slices one by one and blanchs them in the soup until they are just cooked through. Then, he puts them all into a large bowl and tops them with a layer of dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns.