Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

"Innocent!"

Mu Huai held his fingers together in a palm shape and swung them diagonally, cutting into the water. The lake water was parted by his fingertips, creating an arc-shaped water curtain that blocked all the water splashed by Marisa.

"Water Release: Tatami Reversal!"

"This isn't tatami mats, it's just a lake."

The two playing in the water were completely unaware that Reimu's eyes, which they had forgotten, were gradually becoming deep, especially when she saw Marisa leaning on Muhuai's shoulder to rest after playing for a while.

She had begun to suspect the relationship between the two, but she also felt that given Marisa's carefree personality, it wasn't impossible for her to disregard Mu Huai's gender and make intimate gestures.

"Without conclusive evidence, it's difficult to directly question these two people."

Reimu hadn't forgotten how she and Mu Huai had teamed up to bully Marisa earlier. If she made wild suspicions and gave the other party a handle to use against her, she'd probably be in big trouble.

......

The Earth Spirit Hall, Central Temperature Control Center.

Seeing the temperature display bar on the controller screen rise sharply, Komeiji Ren asked her older sister curiously, "Are you sure we don't need to control the temperature?"

While operating the control panel, Komeiji Satoru replied, "Yes, Sora and Rin aren't bothered by this temperature, and the Human Village is protected by Yakumo Yukari's Boundary Power, so there's no problem."

"Doing this really works..."

"I'm quite confident about it, at least 80% sure!"

"Yay, I can have another big fuss with my sister!"

"This time... let's burn Gensokyo to ashes."

Komeiji Satoru's pink pupils reflected the blue light of the electronic screen as she spoke lines from the main villain, with a book titled "The Self-Cultivation of a Villain" beside her right hand.

.......

After soaking in the icy lake water for two or three hours, Marisa finally remembered the purpose of her visit. She immediately called Mu Huai and Reimu to her side and vividly described the terrible weather outside to them.

"You don't know, my magic broom burned out because of the high temperature on my way to the shrine. The weather outside was so hot that it felt like the sun was going to set the whole Gensokyo on fire."

"Is it really that outrageous that Yue-Yi-Er-Yi ...

Reimu was skeptical, because the temperature inside the shrine was the same every summer, while other places were relatively cooler.

She thought that Marisa might have accidentally set her magic broom on fire while flying in the sky, and then made up an excuse because she felt embarrassed.

Would I lie to you about something I experienced firsthand?

To increase credibility, Marisa left the lake, went to the small pavilion, picked up her phone, opened the recently launched "Kappa Heavy Industries Shopping" app, and showed her shopping records.

“Look, I bought a new magic broom at the foot of the mountain. That should prove that my old broom was burned, right?”

Mu Huai glanced at the purchase time and then asked her, "Was Gensokyo this hot when I came back?"

Marisa shook her head firmly: "No, it was hot back then, but it wasn't as bad as it is now."

He then turned to Reimu and asked, "I've been in Gensokyo for a while now. Do you think this high temperature is a result of the incident?"

"That's unlikely... Ultimately, an incident is just the aftermath of a monster achieving a certain goal. Yuyuko caused the Spring Incident because she wanted to see the tree in the Underworld bloom."

"If we're really talking about unusual phenomena, what kind of monster would like this kind of high temperature? It can't be trying to boil water, right?"

Marisa suddenly agreed: "It's not impossible. Before, in order to cook a big pot of mushroom soup to entertain you, I used the maximum power of the Eight Trigrams Furnace to quickly boil water, but I used magic to blast the pot and soup into dust."

"I think Marisa has a point. This is Gensokyo, a paradise of youkai that can't be judged by common sense. Maybe some youkai wanted to boil water, which caused this incident?"

Even the reliable Mu Huai agreed with Marisa's illogical statement, leaving Reimu speechless, though she couldn't find any reason to refute them.

You can't say she doesn't want to work and just wants to stay home and eat Mu Huai's cooking, can you?

"Well... since you all say so..." Reimu straightened the ribbon at the back of her head, stood up, and shook her damp hair. "Then Marisa, come with me to find the source of the incident."

"Alright! Brother Mu Huai, come along too!"

Reimu raised an eyebrow and said decisively, "No way! Muhuai is staying at the shrine; he's not allowed to go anywhere!"

Seeing how possessive she was of her food, Marisa guiltily touched her golden braids, beginning to worry that if her "affair" with Mu Huai were exposed, she might be torn apart by Mu Huai's fury.

Volume 4, "Anything Can Happen in Gensokyo": Chapter 32 - No sooner had he left than he was raided.

Under the scorching sun, Marisa changed into the T-shirt and skirt provided by Mu Huai and left the Hakurei Shrine with Reimu.

The sun shone down from the sky, its rays stinging the skin, making the two of them want to turn around and dive back into the icy lake.

However, they had just made a solemn vow in front of Mu Huai to resolve the anomaly of San Si Ling Qi Emu Er Si Ba 4. Turning back now would be like slapping themselves in the face. Neither of them wanted to lose face in front of him, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and go down the mountain.

"Reimu, don't you have any talismans that can be used to cool down?"

"Yes, but I don't think you'd likely want to use it."

"Huh? It's so hot, what's there to not want to use? Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"

"Row."

Reimu didn't try to stop her. She slipped two fingers inside her shirt through the side seam, then pulled out a talisman and waved it at Marisa: "Water!"

"Splash—"

A water sphere, roughly half the size of a person, appeared out of nowhere above Marisa's head, then shattered with a crash, soaking her from head to toe.

She raised her hand to wipe the water droplets from her face, lifted the bangs stuck to her forehead, and said helplessly, "I really don't like this kind of way of cooling down."

"That's why I said... let's find the source of the anomaly as soon as possible and go to the Human Village first."

Reimu felt extremely uneasy at the thought of Muhuai being alone and unattended in the shrine.

It felt like some random bitch would snatch him away at any moment. He was a super money tree that could provide her with a lifetime of comfort and wealth, so how could she possibly give him up so easily?

"Well... if I had to say, he does give me the feeling that he could be a good husband."

"Reimu, what are you muttering about standing there? Hurry up and move!"

"I'm coming!"

......

Hakurei Shrine.

Mu Huai casually opened the door to Lingmeng's boudoir and swaggered inside.

He didn't have time to explore her room properly yesterday, but now that Reimu is out, it's the perfect opportunity for him to explore the shameless red and white bedroom.

A unique fragrance of grass and trees filled the air. Mu Huai had smelled the same fragrance in Ling Meng's bed yesterday and thought it was her body scent.

However, when he took her shrine maiden outfit and turned it into a swimsuit today, the scent on the clothes was completely different from this herbal fragrance, and this unexpected discovery aroused his curiosity.

There are only two possibilities for the different scents in the room and on her clothes: either Reimu might have been using perfume, or the scents might have come from her shampoo and shower gel.

Although reason told Mu Huai that the latter was more likely, he still hoped to find the perfume in the room.

That way, we can use perfume to our advantage and make Reimu completely smitten.

However, it cannot be ruled out that the other party might get angry and grab a royal coin to fight him. Regardless of the outcome, Mu Huai can accept it.

He wanted to see more Reimu who was different from his impression of her. Even though he called her shameless Kohaku and stingy shrine maiden, he really liked this flat-chested, armpit-revealing shrine maiden.

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but it seems like she's been using talisman paper to pad her breasts lately..."

"Big brother!"

"Um!?"

Komeiji Ren's lively voice suddenly rang out from behind, startling Mu Huai, who quickly stuffed Reimu's underwear back into the drawer, clapped his hands, and whistled, pretending that he hadn't done anything.

"W-Isn't this Lianlian? What brings you here to find me?"

"My sister asked me to take you away from the territory of that scoundrel Reimu."

"Did Jue send you?" Mu Huai was completely bewildered. "Why?"

"Because my sister said that since you're the son-in-law of the Earth Spirit Palace, how can you live at Lingmeng's house every day? So she wanted to take you to a nice place to stay!" Without waiting for a reply, she walked up and grabbed Mu Huai's sleeve. "That's why I came here!"

"Why do you only talk about your own thoughts? What about yourself?"

"I?"

"Yes, I'm marrying into the Earth Spirit Palace to become your and Jue's husband, so of course I need to hear your thoughts."

Mu Huai crouched down to be at eye level with Komeiji Satoru, and reached out to touch her soft, light green hair: "So, Koishi, do you want to take me with you?"

"Well..."

Komeiji tilted her head, lightly touching her lips with her index finger, revealing a conflicted expression.

Since closing her third eye, which allows her to read minds, she has been wandering aimlessly without thinking, except for Komeiji Satoru's instructions. In this state, even she herself doesn't know what to do next or where she will go.

Like a dandelion dancing in the wind, it stops wherever the wind blows.

If it were a stranger, a yokai or a human, Koishi Komeiji wouldn't hesitate at all. She would immediately activate her ability to control existence and disappear into the other person's subconscious without a trace.

But Mu Huai's identity is not ordinary. He is the husband chosen by his sister, Komeiji Satoru, and also a family member with whom he will live forever.

Komeiji couldn't completely ignore her family's questions, but she had given up thinking for too long and was completely unable to organize her thoughts effectively to seriously consider the questions that Mu Huai had raised.

After pacing around in circles with a worried look on her face, she pleaded, "Big brother, can I answer this question later? Right now, the most important thing is to get you out of here."

"Okay, then I'll leave a note for Reimu, so she won't come back and turn Gensokyo upside down when she finds I'm gone."

"No need, my sister has already prepared it in advance."

Komeiji Ren took a letter out of the pocket of her beige shirt, placed it on the folded bedding Reimu had neatly arranged, and smiled as she turned back to extend her soft, delicate hand, as translucent as lychee flesh, to Mu Huai.

"Big brother, let's go!"

"it is good."

......

"Strange... The Human Village wasn't affected by the high temperature, but Huiyin said she couldn't do such a thing. So who did it?"

"Do I even need to think about it? It's definitely that youkai idler, Yukari Yakumo," Reimu Terabatake muttered with narrowed eyes.

"Oh right!" Marisa exclaimed, tapping her right fist against her left palm. "Only she could do something like this without showing her face. Why don't we just go find her and ask her where the source of the incident is?"

"Then you need to know where Yakumo-no-kyu is, because I've never been to her house."

"Uh...it's in Gensokyo after all."

"Instead of searching for Yakumo Yukari, whose home is unknown, I think it would be more effective to gather information from other youkai. But before that, let's go to the Lake of Mist."

"Huh?" Marisa looked at Reimu, puzzled. "Why?"

She rolled her eyes in annoyance and pointed to the scorching sun overhead: "Do you really think we're made of iron? If we keep being exposed to this sun, we'll definitely turn into dried-up mummies, okay?"

"But what does this have to do with the Lake of Mist?"

Who lives in the Lake of Mist?

"Cirno... Oh~ you want to capture her and use her as a cooling tool!"

"Yes, isn't my idea great?"

Marisa gave a thumbs up without hesitation: "Genius! If I had thought of this when I came, I wouldn't have had to spend money to have a new magic broom made by a kappa."

Volume 4, "Anything Can Happen in Gensokyo": Chapter 33 Marisa is the bait.

"What are you doing! Let go of Lady Cirno!!"

"Oh dear, it's just a small favor I asked you to do, is there any need to get so worked up?"

"You've tied me up, only a fool would believe you! Fool, fool!!"

Marisa gripped the rope with her left hand, turning back to look at Reimu in disbelief, pointing at herself with her right hand: "I actually got called an idiot by Cirno?!"

"Who told you to throw an Extreme Spark at her right from the start? Anyone would be upset in that situation."

"Uh..." She scratched her head awkwardly and explained, "I was just worried that Cirno would run away..."

"How could Lady Cirno possibly run away! I fear no one and am invincible!"

If it weren't for the fact that she had just been rebuilt after being ambushed by Marisa and was in a state where she couldn't use her strength, Cirno would have definitely conjured up sharp ice shards and given her a good whack on the butt.

Reimu stepped forward and casually sealed her power with a talisman, then took the rope handed to her by Marisa and tied it around her waist, wearing it as a waist ornament.

"Hmm, as expected of the Ice Fairy, it really does make you feel much cooler."

"Hmph, that's for sure. In this respect, no youkai in the entire Gensokyo can compare to Lady Cirno!"

Marisa shook her head: "Forgetting what happened before with just a kind word, what an idiot."