Volume 1: Fantasy Village Doesn't Need Special Abilities Chapter 4: Patchouli's Suggestion

  In the border area of Misty Lake in Gensokyo, there is a castle that looks extremely magnificent.

  From outside, you can see the deep red windows on the castle, but there are not many windows, because the owner of this period did not like sunlight.

  The roof has a bell tower, but it only rings at night.

  Although the entire castle looks already very grand from the outside, the space inside the castle is much larger than what can be seen from the outside.

  This is the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

  Belonging to Remilia Scarlet.

  Her good friend Patchouli Knowledge resides in the large library within the Scarlet Devil Mansion, while her sister Flandre is not allowed to leave the mansion.

  The Big Sister Remilia recruited many fairies into the Scarlet Devil Mansion as maids, all of whom were managed by Maid Long Meirin Yagokoro.

  The Scarlet Devil Mansion's magical library is the largest in Gensokyo, but it is not open to outsiders. As a result, apart from the black and white mouse youkai Marisa who often sneaks in and Yakumo Yukari who occasionally borrows books over the past few years, no one else knows what kind of books are inside.

  Yayun Mo discovered that after "borrowing" some magic books from here, the so-called magic books are not ordinary books. They contain magic and it's better to say they're a kind of magical tool rather than a book.

  The book doesn't just write the method of using magic, but also the secret key to use magic. Only those with equal or higher intelligence than the writer can see the key.

  The texts used in the magic books include cuneiform script from mythological times, ancient Latin and ancient Huāniǎo Zhuàn, so Yakumo Sumi had a hard time deciphering them at first.

  Among the piles of magical books, many were written by Patchouli herself, as well as some that no one could understand. However, apart from magical books, there were also many other books in the library, ranging from recipes for scrambled eggs with tomatoes to instructions on how to make nuclear weapons.

  At first, Yaiba Sumi was astonished for a long time when he discovered this point.

  Today, Patchouli was in the underground library as usual, sitting at a desk quietly looking at a book that recorded a certain ancient magic circle.

  Suddenly, her eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  Lifting her head, Padukone gazed into the void ahead of her.

  A dark crevice filled with sinister eyes suddenly appeared there.

  Interval

  On the bookshelf closest to the gap, a handwritten book flew up and was sucked into the gap.

  Obviously, it's Yayoi Mokuro again coming to "borrow" books.

  "Master of the Yakumo family, won't you take a seat?"

  Just as the gap was about to disappear, Patchouli suddenly spoke up.

  This was still her first time bumping into Bachiroku Moku borrowing books.

  The gap that was about to disappear paused for a moment and then returned to its original size.

  A boy who looked around sixteen years old, delicate as a doll and beautiful like an elf, jumped out from the gap.

  The boy wore a luxurious black robe with golden edges, and his shiny black hair was tied up in a knot on top of his head, wrapping around his neck like an exquisite black scarf.

  Patchouli is not a creature who has never seen males, whether they be human or youkai.

  But I have never seen a man like the one in front of me who can make people feel heartfelt admiration.

  Baiyun Mo, Patchouli remembered his name vaguely.

  Baiyun's ink-black eyes also sized up the girl in front of her, who looked like a young maiden but was actually over a hundred years old and a witch.

  Patchouli has a head of purple straight hair, with both sides of her bangs and the ends of her purple hair tied up with pretty ribbons. She wears a round hat with lotus leaf edges on her head, with a crescent-shaped decoration on the hat. Her clothes are generally similar to pajamas, with a soft and comfortable inner layer with purple and light purple vertical stripes, and an outer jacket that is a light purple long coat with lotus leaf edges at the hem.

  The girl was extremely beautiful, although slightly inferior to her own sister, but also comparable to Lan.

  However, the girl's face always had a faint hint of fatigue, paired with that sleepwear-style clothing, making people look at the girl for a moment and produce an illusion that even they themselves wanted to fall asleep.

  "Hello, Auntie Mu."

  Baiyun Mo smiled lightly and waved hello.

  Patty was slightly stunned, but she didn't understand why this young master of the Yakumo family knew her "mum" verbal tic.

  "Hasn't it been three years since we last met at the birthday party? Please, have a seat." Patrurin gestured for Yakumo Yukari to sit across from her, and then had a nearby little spirit serve tea. "Why do I get the feeling you seem to know me well?"

  "I always come here to borrow books, so it's better for me to get to know the owner a little more or less, right?"

  Baiyun Mo took over the red tea handed by the little demon and elegantly savored it with his head down.

  His eyebrows furrowed imperceptibly.

  The red tea is not as good as the blue bubble one.

  Patchouli didn't seem to mind Haku's reaction, and instead smiled lightly as she teased: "You call that borrowing? I suppose you'd get along well with Marisa then."

  Marisa Kirisame, a magician from Gensokyo, always sneaking into the library to steal books, a black and white mouse.

  Yakumo Yukari's heart was slightly puzzled, listening to Patchouli's tone, it seemed that she didn't have much good feelings towards Marisa?

  It can be seen from the memories of her past life that in the various settings of Gensokyo, Patchouli should have liked Marisa.

  But in an instant, Yakumo Yukari dispelled the doubts in her mind. Those settings were just ordinary people's wild guesses, after all. Now she was truly living in Gensokyo, a real world, so it wasn't strange that there were discrepancies with the various settings imagined by people from her past life.

  "At least I returned the books I borrowed, didn't I?"

  "Hmm."

  Patty hummed softly. After all, she was a kind person, and Hachirou's demeanor made it difficult for anyone to harbor ill feelings towards him, so the matter was dropped.

  What's more, he is also Zi's beloved little brother.

  That monster sage is not an easy person to provoke.

  "By the way, why did Sister Mu Q call me over?"

  Pachuri scrunched up her cute nose and said discontentedly, "My name is Pachuri, not Mq! You can call me Pacchie too, but don't call me that weird 'Mq sister'!"

  "Patchy" is a term of endearment that only people very close to Patchouli, like Ramia, would use.

  "Ah-la" Hachune Miku was very interested in Patchouli's reaction, "But isn't Mq sister's voice a bit more pleasant?"

  Patrulius looked helpless.

  The girl looked at Yakumo Suke's eyes, which shone with an unusual color, and asked: "You borrowed a book about spiritual power training magic from me last time, didn't you?"

  Baiyun Mo nodded.

  "It seems like you've tried the method above and... ran into trouble?"

  Yakumo's expression turned serious as he looked at Patchouli with a hint of a smile and asked, "What did you see, Mokou?"

  Patty chuckled softly several times.

  "So, don't casually practice the things recorded in magic books, this is also one of the reasons I called you here."

  Patrul raised her hand and a nondescript magic book flew out from a nearby giant bookshelf, slowly falling onto the desk in front of them.

  It was the magic book that Yakumo Suke borrowed and returned earlier.

  "This book was neither written by me nor is it a magical book from outside. Its true origin, even I am unclear about."

  Looking at the magic book written in ancient flower bird seal script in front of her, Patchouli said slowly.

  "This book was brought by Rin, the rabbit from Eterna's mansion, when she escaped from Lunaria to the surface. After I found it, I exchanged some things with her and made it one of the collections in this library."

  This magic book comes from the Moon Capital?

  Shouldn't the moon be a place mainly for technology?

  Looking at the dense and intricate bird-and-flower script on the book, a sudden idea popped into Bā Yún Mò's mind.

  According to the knowledge obtained from Sister, Huāniǎo zhuàn is a divine script used by the immortal gods of ancient China, and in the Moon Capital, there seems to be only one person related to the Chinese immortal gods, Chang'e.

  Could it be that this book was written by Chang'e?

  "So, young master of the Yagumo family, if you want to know something, you can go to the Eternal Pavilion."

  Patty looked at Yakumo Sumeragi with a thoughtful expression, her face carrying a hint of a strange smile.