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An order from the Master...
"Fine." Jeanne Alter reluctantly put away the flag.
Taking the broken doll from Mokou's hand, Byakuya straightened his clothes and walked to the mansion, knocking on the door.
"Hello, is anyone home?"
Inside the room, a blonde girl placed her cup of red tea on the table with a disgruntled expression. With a slight movement of her fingertips, a maid-dressed doll flew over and opened the door.
Seeing the doll in front of him, which, despite its different attire, was clearly made using the same craftsmanship as the one damaged by Jeanne Alter, Bai Ye nodded almost imperceptibly.
As a Heroic Spirit, Jeanne Alter's perception of magical power remains stable.
Following the little doll into the living room, the first thing you see is a blonde girl sitting in the main seat, elegantly sipping black tea.
"Outsiders rarely enter the Magic Forest. May I ask what brings you three here?"
Noticing the damaged doll in Bai Ye's hand, the blonde girl's brow twitched, and her tone changed slightly.
"Hmm..." The quick-witted Bai Ye took half a second to come up with the perfect excuse: "We were just curious passersby. We found this damaged doll not far from here. We thought that such an exquisite thing must have been very important to its owner, so we looked around for it."
Black Jeanne silently lowered her head, examining the black knee-high boots that Byakuya had made her change into before leaving the house; the gilded patterns on them looked quite nice.
Mokou, who was walking at the back, almost twisted her ankle.
Similarly, obvious anger appeared on the blonde girl's face...
It's a doll! A doll!! A doll!!
Dolls are very delicate things. They're not like the shikigami created by some idle onmyoji who don't need their masters to control them. Before that white-haired woman with her head down pierced the doll's heart with a flagpole, she controlled the doll's every move with magic threads the whole time!
Even the common saying "lying through one's teeth" is probably not this exaggerated, right?
"Then I really thank you!"
Perhaps unaware of Alter Jeanne's true strength, or perhaps due to her own personality, the blonde girl did not expose Byakuya's clumsy lie. Instead, she manipulated a power-type doll to take the damaged doll from Byakuya's hands, and then controlled a maid doll to serve tea to the three of them.
The girl's performance was almost flawless, so Bai Ye and the other two were really fooled.
After tasting the rather delicious black tea, Bai Ye, when asked about his purpose by the blonde girl, also revealed his objective.
"You said... you're going to the sunflower field on the other side of the magic forest to find the Flower Tyrant who lives there?"
"Yes, for some reasons, there are still some deals between her and me that haven't been completed, and I need to go over to handle some follow-up matters." Bai Ye nodded.
"I see..." The girl lowered her head and thought for a moment, "Then I won't keep you any longer. Her mood will be a little better before the sun sets."
After saying that, he got up to see the guest out.
After Bai Ye and the others left through the front door, the blonde girl locked the door from the inside, then quietly left through the back door, taking to the air and flying towards the sunflower field.
Chapter 017 Arrival at the Sunflower Field
After the unexpected incident involving the doll, although the victim was eventually fooled with a lie (…), Byakuya no longer dared to let Jeanne Alter act freely.
If we break something else, we probably won't make it to the sunflower field today.
From Yuuka Kazami, Byakuya had already witnessed the "potential" of the Gensokyo world. Not to mention that the Dimensional Shop is currently bound to this world, even if it weren't, it would still be a place that Byakuya would not easily give up.
He didn't want to be labeled as "unpunctual" after his first major transaction in Gensokyo.
"Gurgle~" Understanding what Bai Ye meant, Black Jeanne's cheeks puffed up.
……
Passing through a grove of low trees, Byakuya's eyes suddenly lit up, and at the same time, Fujiwara no Mokou exclaimed with a "finally, damn it, it's here!" attitude.
"We're finally here!"
She felt that staying with these two flammable and explosive materials any longer made her more likely to choose death.
"The sunflower field...it truly lives up to its name."
Looking at the endless plain before him, neatly planted with strangely large sunflowers, Byakuya quickly understood why Mokou had previously said that sunflowers weren't a good symbol in Gensokyo—
If the sunflower really is the true form of the green-haired female demon, Yuuka Kazami, as I believe.
The three arrived at the edge of the flower field. The densely packed sunflowers in front of them suddenly parted to the left and right, squeezing out a passage in the middle. Kazami Yuuka, still wearing her red and black checkered vest dress, walked out of the flower field in her little leather shoes.
"Why are you so late?" came the blunt question right off the bat.
"There was a small mishap along the way." Bai Ye raised a hand and gestured with his index finger and thumb: "However, considering that I still need to complete your request, I rushed back as soon as possible."
"Small accident?"
"Hmm, I met a pretty girl in the magic forest, but she might not be very bright."
Thinking of how she had rushed to the sunflower field and cried to herself not long ago, Yuuka Kazami simply said "Oh..."
Oh, so these are the three.
A little further away, a blonde girl hiding among the sunflowers, using their flower heads for cover, heard these words and gritted her teeth in resentment.
These three bastards are really trying to fool themselves!
……
After releasing Byakuya, Jeanne Alter, and Fujiwara no Mokou (whose purpose was unknown) into the sunflower field, Kazami Yuuka led the group to the center of the field and then grabbed Byakuya's arm, lifting him into the air.
"See? All the places where sunflowers are planted belong to me."
This refers to the area that will be redeveloped next.
Strictly speaking, with her current strength, she could evolve even a roadside weed into a man-eating plant if she wanted to, but right now, Yukari Yakumo is probably hiding somewhere watching.
I just promised Yukari Yakumo that I wouldn't plant the sunflowers that Byakuya provided outside the sunflower field, and I even received some tangible benefits in return...
She, Yuuka Kazami, is a good flower spirit who always keeps her promises!
Giving herself a thumbs up, Kazami Yuuka looked at Byakuya, who was frowning in thought.
"According to what you told me last time, it seems that one thousand Origin Coins equal one sunflower, right?"
"Strictly speaking, it's one hundred. You probably haven't forgotten why I raised the price last time..."
Yuuka clicked her tongue in annoyance, but didn't pursue the matter further.
If someone can unleash a magic cannon at another person's face just because they're in a bad mood, then why can't the other person raise the price after they block their magic cannon?
Monsters, after all, are a race that has "survival of the fittest" etched into their very bones.
"How many sunflowers can I plant with the demonic power I left with you this morning?"
"Guest, you have 23,333,333 Origin Coins stored with me. At 100 Origin Coins per sunflower, you will receive 233,000..."
"Let's make it 233,000, and you can keep the change." Kazami Yuuka interrupted Byakuya, "Although I don't think you'll make a profit in the process."
white night:"……"
That's incredibly extravagant!
He transferred 2.33 million Origin Coins from his own account and exchanged them for 23 cards containing 10,000 sunflowers through the store's built-in program. Bai Ye then handed the stack of cards to Kazami Yuuka.
Name: 1 Sunflower Seeds
Type: Farm Products
"Attribute: None"
Quality: Excellent
Note: This is a type of sunflower that can generate its own sunlight, and it will grow in just three seconds after being planted in the soil.
After glancing at the information on the back of the card, Kazami Yuuka tilted her head. The unintentional contrast slightly improved her image in Byakuya's mind.
Just like Jeanne Alter, who constantly talks about revenge and making the world feel pain, is actually a tsundere who craves care.
"Just break them into pieces, but you'd better make sure you have enough space before using them, because these seeds grow very quickly."
Chapter 018 Essence of Life (laughs)
soon?
Upon hearing the adjective used by Byakuya, Kazami Yuuka nodded, not paying much attention.
A seed is just a seed after all. No matter how fast it grows, it can't compare to the speed at which it grows using demonic power, right?
With that thought in mind, she produced a handful of seeds and scattered them into the sunflower field below.
Under her precise control of her power, the seeds landed perfectly and nestled into the gaps between the existing sunflowers, roughly one seed between four sunflowers.
As for Bai Ye, who had been carried into the sky by her, he landed on a soft leaf.
After gently stomping on it to confirm that the thing underneath was much sturdier than it appeared, Bai Ye went to the edge and looked down.
As a plant capable of directly confronting zombies, the sunflower, though only a support plant, is the type that grows as soon as it lands, just like other plants. So before Kazami Yuuka could activate her demonic power to accelerate the ripening of these sunflowers, she discovered that sunflowers had already sprouted from the soil where the seeds had fallen.
This growth rate... is indeed very fast!
Unaware that Byakuya had already quoted a price ten times the factory price, Kazami Yuuka actually thought she had "made a profit."
Several lush green vines sprouted from the flower field. After receiving the seeds from Yuuka Kazami, they carefully buried them one by one in the gaps of the flower field, following Yuuka Kazami's instructions.
As the saying goes, even two fists can't beat four hands, let alone many tentacles...
Even if you plant all the seeds in the way that Yuuka Kazami did, it would still take some time. However, with the help of these vines, by the time Byakuya felt his legs getting sore and took out a small stool to sit down, the flower field was already full of sunflowers that were growing on their own.
After closing her eyes and taking a moment to reflect on her current state, Yuuka Kazami wore a satisfied smile.
"It's a great feeling. The children are happy, and I'm happy too."
"Hmm... It's just a normal transaction where money and goods are exchanged."
"No, for me, being able to exchange a relatively small amount of demonic power for a possibility of the future is a greater gain than anything else. After all, I don't think you can do anything with that demonic power..."
Although she gave it up voluntarily, even unclaimed demonic power still carries some marks that are unique to her.
It's usable, but unless the user is also a demon, and a demon who, like her, is "close to nature," then using it too much will...
BOOM! ! !
"Hmm... Manager Bai, you're of the human race, right?"
"Yes."
"That's good." Kazami Yuuka nodded, holding a green dot of light in her hand, and presented it to Byakuya: "Then consider this a thank you gift for making this special trip for you."
“…A thank you gift?”
"Well, because of my agreement with another guy, those sunflowers won't appear outside the sunflower field, so the two hundred thousand seeds you just gave me are enough."
"That's it."
Bai Ye isn't a pretentious person; otherwise, he wouldn't have bought at a low price/original price and sold at a high price... Isn't the purpose of opening a shop to obtain Origin Coins?
Furthermore, while playing the aloof card and using the "halo" of the Dimensional Shop might work now, the longer one stays in Gensokyo, the more their true personality will eventually be revealed. At that point, even if their persona collapses, their reputation will definitely suffer...
Wait a minute, why am I even concerned about Yuuka Kazami's impression of me?
Bai Ye, who had already received the light, suddenly felt that her thoughts were a bit confused.
Name: Essence of Life
Type: High-purity life crystal
"Attribute: Nature"
"Quality: Epic"
"Note: There are always some beings in the world who are favored by the world. Although the world doesn't directly give them cheat codes like it would to a chosen one, it never hesitates to give them preferential treatment in some unintentional little details... After saying all this, how did you manage to trick her into your hands?"
I swindled them!
Bai Ye noticed that, starting at some point, the descriptions of goods in the Dimensional Shop had gradually become more and more unrestrained.
Under Yuuka Kazami's watchful gaze, Byakuya squeezed the light spot tightly with his two fingers, and the light spot merged into his body.
An overwhelming feeling of comfort welled up in his heart.
Although he didn't say it aloud, Yuuka Kazami could tell from his expression that Byakuya was very satisfied with her gift of gratitude.
Happiness level +1 (≧∪≦*)
"Are you ready?"