Gensokyo's Dimensional Black Shop

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Since the two gods planned to move the entire Moriya Shrine inside the Great Barrier, there wasn't much to organize; it was simply a matter of moving some items that were originally outside the shrine to the inside. However, even so, it took Sanae a whole morning to finish.

If Bai Ye hadn't finally taken it a step further and dragged the two salted fish gods into the fray, they might not have even had a hot lunch.

After lunch, at Sanae's request, Byakuya once again played the role of her distant cousin, accompanying her to school and her workplace to say goodbye to her friends.

"So that's how you and Sanae are. No wonder you know so much about her family." The waiter who was questioned by Bai Ye yesterday looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, I thought you were a bad person yesterday, so I kept my acquaintance with Sanae a secret from you."

"It's nothing, I guess I just asked you the wrong way." Bai Ye smiled indifferently.

"Speaking of which, Sanae, you didn't know you had such a handsome cousin? I've never heard you mention him before." After exchanging polite greetings with Bai Ye, Li Hua pulled Sanae aside and whispered to her in a voice that she thought was very discreet, but which actually escaped Bai Ye's ears completely.

Sanae glanced at Byakuya: "..."

Although he didn't say anything specific, he definitely heard it, right?!

I never knew you were such a gossip, Sister Lihua! This sudden remark caught her completely off guard and she didn't know how to answer!

After saying goodbye to the overly enthusiastic older sister with an awkward yet polite smile, Sanae breathed a long sigh of relief as she walked back to the shrine.

"It's really troublesome for Mr. Baiye. Sister Lihua wasn't like this before."

"It's alright, I've seen people who are even more talkative than her." Bai Ye shook his head, indicating that she didn't need to take it to heart.

Compared to the Enma loli I met at the Hakurei Shrine and that classroom hypnotist at the Terakoya, that human girl from Rihanna was really alright. If it were Mokou bringing a man to Keine and saying he was her cousin, Byakuya would probably have given Keine a headbutt without saying a word, and then dragged her away for three days and three nights of lecturing.

"By the way, speaking of which, Mr. Byakuya is also human, right? I heard from Lady Kanako that the manager of the Great Barrier is a very powerful youkai. Why would they entrust the task of finding us to you?"

"What kind of request is this? That old woman has been giving me the cold shoulder lately for some reason, and she happens to have a weakness in my body, so I had no choice but to come out and find you guys." Bai Ye shook his head, making no attempt to hide his malice towards Yakumo Yukari.

"Haha~" Sanae chuckled: "So it seems Mr. Byakuya is doing quite well in Gensokyo?"

"Gensokyo is, after all, a paradise for abnormal beings. As long as you have big enough fists, you can gain the recognition of at least 80% of the beings. The remaining 20% ​​won't do anything until they can't beat you. Judging from the situation these past few days, if anyone is confident of beating me, that guy will definitely be the first... or at least the second to attack me."

"That's it..."

Looking at Bai Ye's gentle and weak appearance, Sanae nodded and narrowed her eyes slightly.

The fist of the Great Barrier Manager, the Youkai Sage, is greater than that of most of the otherworldly beings in Gensokyo.

The fist of the White Night ≈ The fist of the Great Barrier Manager, the Sage of the Demon Realm

She herself is like Bai Ye, who looks gentle, weak, and easy to bully.

Soon, an equation took shape in her mind: herself ≈ the manager of the Great Barrier > most of the people inside Gensokyo are outcasts!

After all, Lady Kanako and Lady Suwako have said more than once that with the arrival of the Dharma-ending Age, the strength of both monsters and gods is weakening, while I have made considerable progress based on Lady Kanako's training. So although this conclusion feels a bit off, I can barely accept it.

"Sanae, what are you thinking about?" Byakuya's voice snapped her out of her reverie. After the shrine maiden came to her senses, Byakuya pointed to the Moriya Shrine ahead: "If you keep walking, you'll run into the door."

"Oh? Oh, sorry, I was daydreaming."

"You should apologize to your own body." Shaking his head, Bai Ye pushed open the door and went inside.

Chapter 168 Yukari Yakumo: "I'll sell myself!"

After dealing with external matters, the next step is to contact Yakumo Yukari.

He retrieved a wisp of demonic energy—a unique power belonging to a Boundary Demon—that Yakumo Yukari had given him a few days prior from the sealed card, and then released his control over it. Shortly after the purple demonic energy dissipated, a crack with mischievous bows at both ends opened before Byakuya.

"So fast?" Yakumo Yukari's first words left Byakuya somewhat puzzled.

"Just here to deliver a message, how long do you think it will take?" Bai Ye looked at Yakumo Yukari with ill intent: "Or is there some story I don't know about... are you plotting against me?"

"no!"

"Ha ha……"

The fact that you answered so decisively actually tells me there's something wrong here!

Considering that the entire Moriya Shrine family was also watching, Byakuya didn't delve into the matter, but simply made a mental note about Yakumo Yukari.

On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, Yakumo Yukari somehow tricked me. Afterwards, I discovered some clues, but she still denied it to the death. I'll remember this grudge and definitely take revenge in the future.

Yukari Yakumo, who had been given another scolding, didn't notice Byakuya's malice. Ever since she had learned from this experience a few times, Byakuya had managed to make the person he was cursing inwardly think that he was a truly rare and good friend. Her gaze passed over Byakuya and lingered for a moment on Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya before Yukari Yakumo suddenly chuckled softly.

"I didn't expect things to be even worse for you two than I imagined~"

"..." x2

As expected, this is the real Yakumo Yukari. The nostalgic and understanding Yakumo Saint Mother they've been imagining these past few days should just be put to rest!

“Since you’ve already decided, let’s choose a location first. This is a general overview of Gensokyo and the distribution of power…” As she said this, Yakumo Yukari’s gaze lingered on Kanako and Suwako for a moment: “Perhaps you can find one or two old friends there.”

As she spoke, she waved her fan, and a three-dimensional map of Gensokyo appeared in front of them.

Looking at the adorable little Byakuya caught between Kazami Yuuka and Kamishirasawa Keine in the Human Village, Byakuya himself frowned... Holy crap!

As Yakumo Yukari said, among the major powers in Gensokyo, Yasaka Kanako and Suwako Moriya know quite a few, or they are notorious figures like Sunflower Field from a thousand years ago. After looking at the map and thinking for a while, Yasaka Kanako pointed her finger at the location of Youkai Mountain.

"Mount Youkai?" Yukari Yakumo nodded. "It is indeed a suitable place to settle down. There are a few gods there anyway, so you can exchange ideas with each other."

Are there still gods there?

Kanako Yasaka turned to look at Suwako, then looked seriously at Yukari Yakumo: "Youkai Sage, you should know why we're entering the Great Barrier. How much freedom will you give us then?"

"As for spreading faith, as long as you can do it yourselves, I'm fine with it." At this moment, Yukari Yakumo smiled like a fox: "Anyway, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden doesn't make a living off faith. Manager Shiro, don't you think so?"

"How should I know?" Bai Ye rolled her eyes.

"Anyway... that's pretty much it." Yukari Yakumo clapped her hands, signaling Byakuya and the others to step back. She first moved the Moriya Shrine into the Great Barrier.

A gap, much wider than usual, opened beneath the shrine, easily swallowing the entire structure. Perhaps because this process required passing through a large barrier, Yukari Yakumo moved with unusual caution this time.

Suddenly, Bai Ye looked up at the sky.

"Yukari Yakumo, do you have any enemies outside?"

"Enemies? Anyone who doesn't have at least a hundred or two hundred of those dares to call themselves a great demon?" Yakumo Yukari glanced at Byakuya. "Why are you suddenly asking this?"

“If you haven’t used any 'clairvoyance' or similar alt accounts, then my eyesight should be better than yours. And just now I noticed that it seems like some guy has locked onto you from a great distance, probably from the direction of the moon…” Bai Ye paused, then continued, “Here it comes.”

Two figures appeared in front of them almost in the blink of an eye.

Almost the instant they appeared, Yakumo Yukari, who had just realized what Bai Ye meant by the moon, immediately raised her hand, opened a gap, and swallowed the two (remnants) gods of the Moriya Shrine and the novice shrine maiden. Then she quickly closed the gap that had been used to teleport the three of them and the Moriya Shrine itself, and only then did she breathe a slight sigh of relief.

"I never expected that you people, who have always regarded the ground as a filthy place, would actually come down here?"

"Tsk!" Sensing the disappearance of the aura from the place they had been searching for for hundreds of years within the gap, one of the two women who suddenly appeared clicked her tongue as she held a sheathed katana that Bai Ye seemed to have seen somewhere before. "I didn't expect we still couldn't make it. I told you, sister, you're too slow!"

"Oh dear~ How can you say that?" Another girl, holding a fan just like Yukari Yakumo, stomped her foot in dissatisfaction. "I thought I could find my master this time, so I spent some time dressing up." As she spoke, she looked at Yukari Yakumo and Byakuya, who were still standing there. "Besides, there are still two of them left behind, including that Boundary Youkai who came to cause trouble in the Lunar Capital a thousand years ago. So... could you please lead us to find our master?"

Yakumo Yukari: “…”

Asking questions knowingly!

But recently, she had a conversation with Eirin Yagokoro and learned about the abilities of her two disciples: an older sister who can travel between the Earth and the Moon instantly and has exceptional intelligence, and a younger sister who can quickly have gods possess her and borrow their power... So why didn't you just have Kaguya? Why did you have to create these two equally troublesome disciples?

Look at the kind of apprentices you've taken in...

time!

space!

Divine possession!

Her intuition told her that if she used the gap to leave now, there was a high chance that the older of the two sisters would find her in Gensokyo. Even if she could capture them, the Great Barrier would probably suffer considerable damage... The most crucial point was that the Lunar Capital's formidable fighting force was not limited to just these two sisters!

trouble!

Thinking this, Yukari Yakumo's gaze naturally fell on Byakuya, who was still standing in the same spot.

"Manager Bai, we've got yet another customer. Would you like to consider it?"

"Just how many Origin Coins did you swindle from Kazami Yuuka?" Upon hearing Yakumo Yukari's words, Byakuya's lips twitched, as he knew the source of this guy's Origin Coins.

"That's all." Symbolic New Earth patted herself down, Yakumo Yukari shrugged, then winked at Byakuya: "But even though we're out of Origin Coins, we're not without other things, like... what do you think of us, Shopkeeper?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Yukari Yakumo's heart skipped a beat... In just a few words, a contract that she seemed powerless to resist had already been drafted between her and Byakuya, just waiting for Byakuya's confirmation?!

Holy crap, isn't this a recipe for disaster?

Chapter 169 After all, I, Bai Ye, am not some kind of devil.

Yukari Yakumo never thought that Byakuya was a person of high moral character. After all, during her several instances of stealing from the Dimensional Shop and secretly observing it, she often saw items with very low buyback prices being resold for tens or even hundreds of times the profit. Therefore, hoping that Byakuya would give up on his own initiative was basically wishful thinking.

But who doesn't have a dream?

Under Yukari Yakumo's extremely complicated gaze, Byakuya's face revealed the most wicked smile she had ever seen in her memory, and she gave her a thumbs up: "I'll take this job, don't worry."

"..." But right now I hope you can forget about this. You're just two greenhorn girls, and I want to fight you to the death with you!

According to Yukari Yakumo's own recollection afterward, the number of alpacas that surged through her mind that day was approximately 1,433,223... although in the end, it wasn't actually that bad.

After scrutinizing Byakuya with a gaze that could practically tear him apart a hundred or eighty times, Yukari Yakumo opened a gap and returned to Gensokyo, wanting to find out if there was any possibility of breaking this obviously abnormal contract. Otherwise, even just imagining the possible scenarios that might occur in the future made Yukari Yakumo feel a chill.

Sensing the atmosphere of that place again, the woman with the fan was about to give chase when she suddenly found her wrist being grabbed by a hand that appeared out of nowhere.

In that brief moment of distraction, Yakumo Yukari disappeared from her senses again.

"I'm sorry, although it seems like this will make you two very angry, I have already accepted the commission, and I still have to get things done for her. So could you please wait here for a moment?" Bai Ye's face wore a smile that was ostensibly an apology, but was actually full of provocation.

"People of the earth, do you know what you have done?" After searching for her teacher for thousands of years, and seeing that her most likely success had been ruined by Bai Ye's interference, the girl who had just been smiling and holding a fan turned pale.

If we miss this opportunity, who knows if we'll have to wait another thousand years?

"What I did was probably just let go of a pitiful woman who, once captured by you, would have been subjected to all sorts of beeping and slapping... in turn, right?" Bai Ye extended a hand to the girl with the fan: "My name is Bai Ye. May I have the honor of knowing your names?"

"My name is Watatsuki Toyohime~" Although she was furious, given the convenience of Yakumo Yukari's gap, she was probably already somewhere far away. So Watatsuki Toyohime could only hope to gain something from this "discarded pawn" left behind by Yakumo Yukari to cover their retreat. After a moment's thought, she reached out and shook hands with Byakuya. "Is this how people on Earth greet each other?"

"Greeting someone... that's one way."

"Watatsuki Yorihime." Then came the valiant young girl wielding a katana. After coldly uttering her name, she used the scabbard to pry open the clasped hands of Byakuya and Watatsuki Toyohime.

"Toyohime Watatsuki... Yorihime Watatsuki... the two sisters." Muttering to himself, Bai Ye curiously observed the two sisters before him. It wasn't that he'd never seen twin sisters before, but rather that their names were exactly the same as those of the two disciples Yagokoro Eirin had mentioned to him—the two disciples she had mentored before Kaguya…

To be precise, these are actually Eirin Yagokoro's two female disciples, right?

"So, you guys came all the way down from the moon to intercept Yakumo Yukari, is there something very important that you need to do?"

"This is not something you should be concerned about." Hearing Bai Ye ask this, the two sisters simultaneously showed annoyed expressions. Then, Watatsuki Yorihime suddenly raised her hand, drew her sword, and pointed it at Bai Ye: "Judging from your conversation with that guy just now, and the fact that she entrusted the situation here to you so confidently, I suppose if we can capture you here, that Boundary Demon will definitely come out to save you, right?"

"I'm more inclined to think she might be stirring things up from the sidelines, and I hope the two of you can hurry up and kill me." Bai Ye said what Yakumo Yukari, who had already returned to the House of the Lost, was really thinking about.

In some ways, they could be considered to be on the same page (laughs).

Of course, only Byakuya and Yukari Yakumo, who knew that Yukari Yakumo had gotten herself into trouble because of her habitual loose tongue, would believe this. Even the big fox thought that Lady Yukari was thinking about how to rescue Byakuya from the two fierce women who came down from the moon, let alone Watatsuki Yorihime.

Combined with the fact that Byakuya had interrupted Watatsuki Toyohime's pursuit of Yakumo Yukari earlier, Byakuya's words, which pointed directly to the truth, made Watatsuki Yorihime feel frustrated that she was being fooled...

"As expected of a filthy earthling. Since you remain so stubborn, I'll deal with you as an enemy for now!"

As she spoke, she slashed at Bai Ye with the sharp katana in her hand.

"when!"

After the crisp sound of metal clashing, Watatsuki Yorihime's expression suddenly turned very ugly.

"Hey, you man on the ground, where did you get that sword?!"

"You mean the Kusanagi Sword?" Bai Ye twirled his sword. "A friend of mine gave it to me a while ago. It was one of the spoils of war he won in a battle. It seems you're quite interested in it?"

"..."

How could that be? Although the appearance is different, the katana-shaped weapon in Byakuya's hand is definitely the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi. Watatsuki Yorihime is willing to guarantee it with her swordsman's integrity!

Then the problem is coming.

If the sword in Bai Ye's hand is the Kusanagi Sword, then what is this companion in her hand that has been with her for an extremely long time?

"Judging from your appearance... you must be a swordsman, right?"

Watatsuki Yorihime nodded, her gaze still fixed on the Ama-no-Murakumo sword in Byakuya's hand.

"A swordsman..." Under Watatsuki Yorihime's incredulous gaze, Byakuya's previously empty left hand trembled, and another Ame no Kusanagi sword appeared in his grasp. Now, holding an Ame no Kusanagi sword in each hand, Byakuya grinned like a devil: "Hey, swordsman over there, want to buy some weapons? I've heard that the Three-Sword Style swordsmen have recently begun their comeback, and our shop is having a grand opening sale. If you buy a large quantity, I can give you a discount, you know?"

"..."

The sacred weapon of my nominal uncle, Susanoo, the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi... wholesale and retail?

"You filthy being from the earth, pay the price for your arrogant behavior!" With a loud shout, Watatsuki Yorihime slammed her katana into the ground. Countless blades then burst forth from the earth from all directions, confining Byakuya's movements to a tiny space.

"Is she possessed by a deity?" Seeing the sudden change in Watatsuki Yorihime's aura, Byakuya instantly understood her current state.