The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

Speaking of which, Reimu was actually not very confident about her blind cat-killing approach, but she had no choice but to choose such a barely feasible path.

The man who calls himself a fortune teller is called Yi Zhe, and he is actually a decent resident of the People's Village. However, as he said, because of his "evil" appearance, he is not well received by the people here.

The result of divination is obviously a failure, not because the trader's ability is insufficient, but because for a person who does not exist, no matter how divination is, there is no answer.

Reimu was disappointed, but fortunately she didn't have high hopes from the beginning.

However, although Yi Zhe's divination had no results, this move brought many unexpected gains to Lingmeng.

Especially after she told Yi Zhe something about Wu Ye, and the "mutation" that happened now that no one except her could remember Wu Ye's existence.

Yi Zhe did not directly think that Ling Meng had overslept or some other problem like others. He calmly analyzed Ling Meng from a realistic perspective.

"Memory. Although I am still young and not very knowledgeable in front of you monster-sama, I do feel that it is indeed a bit too arbitrary to simply attribute everything to your own 'fantasy', miko-sama."

Listening to Yi Zhe's words, Lingmeng nodded silently. Although this guy didn't look like a person, he could indeed talk.

"Hypothesis, just a hypothesis——"

After comforting Reimu for a while and stating his position, Yi Zhe began to get to the point: "We assume that the character 'Takeya Kosaka' exists, at least it existed, but disappeared from other people's lives for some reason. In memory, this way, the target that needs to be investigated will be clear.”

"What is it?" Lingmeng asked impatiently.

"spirit."

This one-word summary is the answer given by Yi Zhe. Facing the puzzled Reimu, he patiently explained: "We assume that 'Kosaka Takeya' exists, but if his traces have been completely removed from this If he is erased from the world, no one will remember him."

Lingmeng frowned and said dissatisfied: "But I remember it."

"That's right," Yi Zhe nodded to Lingmeng and continued: "Since Miko-sama, you still remember his existence, it means that his traces in this world have not been completely erased, then Since you can remember, naturally others can also remember.”

".Keep talking."

"Miko-sama, you need to know that the so-called memory is actually an extremely ambiguous thing. The forgotten part does not mean that it will disappear directly. It may just be interfered by external forces, causing it to stay in an invisible place. The corners may simply be hidden.”

Looking at Ling Meng who was gradually listening to the story, Yi Zhe's mouth showed an imperceptible curve: "If that person really existed, even if everyone's memory may be manipulated, there must be exceptions, such as You, for example - some individuals who have a vague concept of memory from the beginning."

"You mean, spirit?" Ling Meng's eyes lit up: "Undead?"

"That's right." Yi Zhe nodded in agreement.

Yi Zhe's words inspired Reimu. If Takeru really existed, but everyone's memories were manipulated, then if you want to find the fish that slipped through the net, you must work among groups whose memories are not easily manipulated.

The spirit body is the best choice. Without the shackles of the body, the memory of the spirit will not be restricted by the body, but will become a symbiosis like the spirit. If you want to erase the memory of the spirit body, it is almost the same as destroying them directly. There is no difference.

On the other hand, as long as it is a living soul, the memory it possesses must be closely related to its lifetime, or it cannot be easily erased.

However, there are many spirits in Gensokyo, but when it comes to the one closest to "Takeya Kousaka", there is undoubtedly only one.

"Thank you!" Xie Lingmeng said from the bottom of her heart. She didn't stop for a moment, and flew straight to the end of the sky in the far east, where there was a gate connecting Gensokyo to the underworld—the nether world.

Yi Zhe who stayed in place just watched Reimu go away, until the other party's figure completely disappeared from sight, he slowly took out a pen and paper, and recounted what Reimu inadvertently said just now, about " The existence of Takeya Kosaka" is recorded.

"'Takeya Kosaka', if such a character really exists"

Carefully writing down everything related to that forgotten name, a shadow that has been brewing for a long time is slowly emerging in Yi Zhe's eyes that are blocked by round lenses.

Underworld, White Jade Tower.

As an undead, there is actually no difference between sleeping at night or not. It's just that although Yuyuko has no memory of being a human, she has inherited the habits of being a human.

So you can imagine her annoyance when she was woken up by a commotion while she was struggling with a mountain of delicious food in her dream late at night.

"Reimu?"

At first sight of this guy who came to make trouble, Yuyuko subconsciously wanted to avoid it. She and Hakurei Miko were not strangers, but they were not familiar enough to be called friends.

I remember that the last time I met was this guy who came to hinder me from collecting my "Spring" project. In this way, not only there is no old relationship between the two, but there are new grievances that have not been settled.

"It's great that you're awake."

Lingmeng didn't disturb Qingmeng's self-consciousness at all, and what she said was very hateful, but now she didn't care about these things.

The moment she saw Youyuko, a strange memory that she had never had before suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

In that memory, I came to the underworld not because Takeya and Sakuya asked me to find traces of Murasaki, but to solve some kind of strange "Haruyue Mutation"?

All the details of the memory seemed reasonable, as if he had experienced it personally. There was only one strange thing, and that was that there was no existence of Takeya in this memory.

Two completely different memories about the journey to the underworld were intertwined and twisted in Reimu's mind, making the past she had finally sorted out a mess again. Vaguely, traces of Takeya's existence seemed to be changing in her memory again. A little lighter.

Must hurry up, or it will be too late!

When she realized that her memory was gradually erasing the traces of Takeya, Reimu was unwilling to wait any longer.

"Undead, I have something to ask you." The strong fear that the memory was gradually disappearing made Reimu's mood suddenly become very bad, and even his tone became very irritable at one point.

"Huh?" Yuyuko raised her eyebrows. Although she was one of the good-tempered monsters in Gensokyo, she couldn't be calm after being disturbed by people in her sleep at night and being accused in such an inexplicable way. treated accordingly.

In addition, this time there were no small tricks that Yakumo Purple did secretly. For this uninvited Hakurei miko, she also had the idea of ​​​​teaching him a good lesson at this moment.