Toggle Background Color
Hold on, I'm having trouble keeping up here.
I'm sorry, I'll have to explain it first. There's a sealed youkai cherry tree in the Netherworld. It's called the Saigyo Ayakashi.
All I know is the legend, but it's supposed to be a really dangerous youkai.
I've read about sealed cherry trees in books, but it's also a dangerous youkai?
It's not just any sealed cherry tree. The Saigyo Ayakashi possesses a terrible power. It charms those who see it and lures them to their deaths. It's despicable!
Whaaat?! People who see it die?
If it's that dangerous, then maybe we shouldn't go to the Netherworld!
As we said, it's been sealed. As long as that's intact, it shouldn't be a problem. But it's said that if it ever enters full bloom, the seal will break, and its power of death will be freed.
Oh, so then when Youmu was talking about making a cherry tree bloom-
She was really talking about reviving the Saigyo Ayakashi. And now she's gathering spring just for that purpose.
How horrible! I thought the current state of Gensokyo was bad enough, but if the cherry tree of death gets revived, on top of everything else, there would be no going back!
I can't believe Gensokyo's spring is being used for this!
I don't mean to interrupt, but shouldn't we be heading for the Netherworld now? If every minute counts, then we can't waste time standing around here.
Yes, you're right. The entrance is right before us!
Keine flies off.
Wow, Keine got fired up quick.
You seem pretty calm though.
I was going to end this incident anyway, so it's all the same to me. Who cares what their plan was if I stop it first?
That's our Reimu~.
This is where the real fight begins, though. Youmu will definitely try to stop us.
If she pops up, we gotta ask her why she's been trying to wake up a youkai tree.
Back in summer, she said was was under orders from her master, so I imagine that's what's going on.
Her master, hmm...
The nine-tailed fox was like that too: master this, master that. Is it really that great to get so worked up over someone else?
I sensed an incredible amount of conviction and trust in those two. Having someone else to walk with on the path of life is truly a joyous thing...
Hm, what are you talking about?
Oh, nothing! I'll be going on ahead.
And now Shou flies off.
Master...
She gets kinda weird sometimes, doesn't she?
Does she have worries of her own?
I don't know if "worries" is the right way to put it, but we, or I guess mostly my master, lost the person she was supposed to walk with.
Did they die...?
Well, technically I guess she got sealed, so she should still be alive. But my master's still beaten up over the whole thing.
How sad...
But what's come over you all of a sudden? You never tell us anything about yourselves.
Whoops, sorry about that. Seeing my master like that just made me... Why am I wasting your time with this? This has nothing to do with you or the incident. Just forget about it and let's go.