The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Sitting on the sofa with her legs drawn up, Shen Qi looked disgusted.

"Look at this for yourself. She's only been here for half a day, and she's already turned this perfectly good massage parlor into a mess!"

"...I remember you were all fine when I left to go to the Dharma Realm to bail people out, how did you suddenly start fighting?"

Shi Bai stared silently at the ceiling.

"Logically speaking, you two haven't seen each other for so long, shouldn't you have a lot to talk about? Is this just a fake sisterhood?"

"Who knows what suddenly drove her crazy?!"

Shenqi picked up a nearby cushion and put it in her arms, looking indignant.

"I clearly offered to treat her to some special delicacies from the Demon Realm out of kindness!!"

"Food? What did you treat her to?"

"A specially improved and enhanced version of canned herring."

Shen Qi looked completely unfazed.

"...I've decided to sponsor her with 100 tons of TNT another day."

As if Shen Qi's words had triggered some terrifying memory, Shi Bai turned his head away expressionlessly.

"How could she just hit you with a plate? That was really wrong. She should have just blown up the entire Pandemonium with TNT."

"If it really explodes, will you come and fix it?"

Shenqi pouted in dissatisfaction.

"If I hadn't been a superb driver and managed to shake her off, do you know what serious consequences would have occurred? Thanks to the racing competitions I often have with Motoro Okina, which have greatly improved my driving skills, I might have ended up here today."

"Wheelchair racing...?"

Shi Bai's lips twitched slightly.

"She is indeed my sister, but our relationship is not as good as you think. In the past, she always wanted to kill me."

Shen Qi looked shaken.

"In short, you'd better take her away quickly, otherwise if she continues to stay in my demon realm, I will eventually be killed by her."

"Hmm... Do you think there are any obvious changes between her now and before?"

Shi Bai reached out and touched his chin. After thinking for a moment, he asked Shen Qi in front of him a question.

"Change? Of course there is."

After a slight pause, Shen Qi nodded with a serious expression.

“In the past, she would just draw her sword and attack me directly, but now she throws plates instead. Melee attacks have become ranged attacks.”

"...I'm not talking about that kind of change."

"The others? Hmm, let me think..."

After frowning and thinking for a long time, Shen Qi finally asked him cautiously.

"Does her breasts get bigger count as..."

An apple flew in from the doorway and hit Shen Qi squarely on the head, silencing the rest of her sentence.

With a blank expression, Yueye walked in from outside, not even glancing at her older sister lying lifeless on the sofa. She then grabbed Shibai's hand and headed for the door.

"Come here for a moment, I have something to ask you."

"But your sister, she..."

"Anyway, I won't die, so I don't need to worry about it."

"Uh……"

Looking at Shen Qi, who had passed away peacefully with a smile on her face, lying on the sofa with a cushion in her arms, Shi Bai suddenly gained a deeper understanding of the sisterly bond between Shen Qi and Yue Ye Jian.

No one knew what Yueye wanted to see him about, but she just kept holding his hand until they reached the depths of the deserted corridor before letting go. After letting go, she didn't say anything, but just stared straight at him.

"So, what's the matter?"

Looking at Tsukiyo in front of him, Shi Bai was completely bewildered.

What exactly is the relationship between you and my sister?

Seemingly taking a deep breath, Tsukiyo asked him this question solemnly.

"It's just a simple, ordinary friendship. Can't you see how obvious it is?"

Shi Bai was even more puzzled by the question posed by Yue Ye Jian.

"Even at a point like this, are you still going to hide it?"

Yueyejian gritted her teeth inwardly.

"I know everything about what happened between you and my sister, or are you just unwilling to admit it?"

"So what exactly do you know?"

The person looked completely bewildered.

"You were the one who asked me to bring you to the Demon Realm to find your sister. I was just a guide. How did your feud with your sister get dragged into this? Uh..."

As if he had suddenly thought of something, Shi Bai spread out his hands, his face full of sincerity.

"Okay, I admit it. I did initially give the fermented herring cans to your sister, but that was because she wanted to use them to mess with Matara Okina. But who knew your sister would later go so far as to improve and modify the fermented herring cans, making me an innocent victim too? We should be on the same side now!! Don't worry, I have nearly a few million tons of TNT here, enough to blow up the Pandemonium. On matters of upholding justice, I will always support you!!"

At this point, Shi Bai even extended his hand and gave the other person a very enthusiastic thumbs-up.

"Still refusing to admit it? There's really no need to hide this kind of thing, is there?"

With a cold expression, Tsukiyo reached out and grabbed his collar, pulling his face close to hers, and spoke almost word by word.

"I've met both your daughter and my sister's daughter!!!"

Shi Bai: "????????????????"

Soon, with the “friendly” help of Yumeko, the all-powerful maid in the Pandemonium, Shibai met Alice, who was said to be his and Shinki’s daughter, a little girl with long golden hair and wearing a blue dress.

When he saw her, the little girl was sitting quietly at the table looking at a magic book, with a cup of tea and some snacks on the table.

"For so many years, Alice has never seen her irresponsible father, and Lady Shinki has kept her bitterness hidden deep in her heart, forcing a smile every day. I am Lady Shinki's personal maid, but I have no way to relieve her sorrow."

She pulled a handkerchief out of her pocket at some point, and while speaking with tears in her eyes, she used the handkerchief to wipe away her tears.

"Lord Shi Bai, if you have even a shred of conscience left, please spend more time with this poor child, Alice. After all, she is your daughter..."

"Clap."

Before one of the maids could finish her impassioned speech, a half-cut onion fell from her handkerchief and rolled to the ground with a thud.

"That's right. You may not know, Shi Bai, but Alice is your and Lady Shenqi's daughter."

After a slight pause, Yumeko quickly bent down and picked up the onion from the ground. Then, pretending nothing had happened, she stuffed the half-onion and the handkerchief into her pocket, and her tone finally returned to normal.

"For so many years, I have been telling Alice stories about you, so even if you have never met Alice, I think Alice would definitely recognize you as her father."

Shi Bai: "..."

Life is indeed full of surprises. You never know what will hit you in the face with a "smack" in the next second. Looking at the maid in front of him with a perfect smile on her face, who seemed to say, "Lord Shi Bai, you don't need to thank me. This is what I should do," Shi Bai was suddenly moved to tears.

P.S.: Good morning!

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Absolutely Forbidden Domain!!

Shi Bai's feelings were quite complicated, especially when Alice called him "Father".

Looking into the bright eyes of the blonde loli in front of him, Shi Bai couldn't utter a single sentence for a long time.

...So how did I inexplicably become Alice Megatron's father?

As the saying goes, "the one who tied the knot must untie it," under the strange gaze of his sister-in-law seen in the moonlight, and with the gratified look of a certain maid, Yumeko-chan, Shibai, feeling quite a pain in his teeth, grabbed Alice's hand and prepared to go find Shenqi to ask for an explanation.

He's not even married yet, and suddenly he has two daughters out of nowhere. If Kazami Yuuka and the others find out, he'll probably be sleeping on the floor every day from now on...

"Well... I did raise Alice as my daughter."

She glanced at Alice, who was sitting obediently outside reading a magic book, and nodded easily.

"Strictly speaking, the entire Demon Realm is my subject. Don't worry about Alice recognizing you as her father. It's probably just Yumeko acting on her own again."

"There's no way you can just ignore something like this, right?"

Shi Bai pressed his forehead with a headache.

"If this continues, the misunderstanding will only deepen, and in the end, I won't be able to explain myself no matter what. Even if I jump into concentrated sulfuric acid, I still won't be able to clear my name, okay?"

"Hey, it's obvious I'm the one who's at a disadvantage here, okay? Why are you acting like you've suffered a huge loss?"

Shenqi pouted in dissatisfaction.

"Alice isn't stupid. She's my proudest creation. She can naturally distinguish things clearly. It's just that she lacks a little fatherly love. Can't you just play the role of a father for a little while? Once she has all the emotions..."

"Emotions... wait, are you trying to create life?"

As if suddenly realizing something, Shi Bai's expression changed slightly.

"Have you stepped onto a forbidden path for the soul?"

"This isn't that surprising, is it? I thought you should have figured it out by now."

Looking at Alice sitting in the hallway outside the door, Shinki's tone softened.

"You've been in the Demon Realm for quite some time now, so you should know very well what the flaws of the Demon Realm people are. You know I can't tolerate the existence of such obvious flaws."

"So you want to evolve the world on your own and become a true creator god? That's a really crazy idea..."

Shi Bai pressed his forehead hard with his hand.

The Demon Realm, although it can be called a world, is still essentially dependent on the mortal world for its existence. Just like Takamagahara, which was established by Shinki, the heavenly kingdom built by God, Gensokyo, which has not yet been formally established, and even the heavenly realm, the underworld, and hell... they are all the same in essence.

The world is the main entity, and the Dragon God is the spokesperson for the world's will.

Shenqi created the Demon Realm, its order, and its inhabitants. Everything in the Demon Realm was created by her, but there was one thing she could never create.

That is true life.

Life belongs to the world. Only a complete world can give birth to life, while the demon realm is merely an appendage of the world, not a truly independent world.

So it is precisely for this reason that even though Shinki spent so much time, she was never able to create real life. Those strange monsters that roamed all over the Demon World were those failed experiments, while the Demon World people were the closest to success, and the maid Yumeko was the highest achievement among them.

However, the demons are not considered part of life, but rather "objects" created by Shinki... This is a rather cruel fact.

Although those demons possess their own emotions, joys, sorrows, and feelings... they are merely objects, possessing incomplete lives.

All the demons can only move within the demon realm and cannot go outside of it; none of them even possess a true soul of their own.

As long as Shen Qi is there, they are there, and the Demon Realm exists. Without Shen Qi, it will be as if they never existed, and the Demon Realm will once again become empty. Therefore, for this reason, Shen Qi has no way of leaving the Demon Realm.

Creating a new and entirely new life from nothing is a power that belongs exclusively to the world.

But given Shenqi's personality, how could she possibly accept this?

For so many years, she has never given up her research in this area, from those monsters to the demons, from those demons to the maid Yumeko, and then from Yumeko to Alice...

"To be honest, I think you're crazy."

He also turned his head to look at Alice, then shook his head.

"Studying the soul, venturing into forbidden territory—you should know the consequences of doing so, right? You're only still sitting here because you're lucky. If it were anyone else, they'd probably be a madman by now... Do you really want to create a new life?"

"...Because I was unwilling to accept it, that's why I had to do it."

After a moment of silence, Shenqi answered firmly.

“I created the Demon Realm and its inhabitants, but I cannot give them true life. I cannot rightfully claim the title of the Creator God of the Demon Realm. I have given them extremely tragic lives; I am the culprit behind it all. No matter what, I absolutely must find a way to save them.”

"Why bother? Since you gave them life, you naturally have the right to take it back. After all this trouble, you're the one who's exhausted in the end. Is it really necessary to carry so much on your shoulders?"

Shi Bai's face remained noncommittal.

"If you ask me, you might as well just destroy all the demons and create a completely new demon realm. Why not learn from the practices of the Moon Capital or Heaven and recruit new beings from the outside to populate the demon realm? That's the simplest and easiest method. You only need to make a small choice. You've been cooped up in this huge palace for so many years. How about you relax a little and go out for a walk?"

"I can't do it, and it's simply impossible for me to do it."

Shen Qi silently shook her head.