(Heartfelt thanks to Fengdiehua Qiming for the 1,888 reward! And to Pokémon, Second-Dimension Gemini, GS Master, and Misty Rain South of the Yangtze for their rewards!)
In the old bag spread open at the entrance, there were no fewer than thirty gold coins. They seemed to radiate a rich glow, dazzling and brilliant, as though they had lit up the entire shrine. Reimu's eyes were fixed on them and could no longer move away.
If Reimu's eyes turned into two '¥' symbols, this scene would be even more amusing.
"G-gold coins..." Reimu said with some difficulty as she looked at the gold coins laid out in the bag on the table.
"These gold coins should be enough for the shrine to live extravagantly for around half a year, right?..."
"And these gold coins, enough to let the shrine live extravagantly for half a year, can all be yours now with just one word from you..." Like a big bad wolf luring a little white rabbit, Wu Yan gave her a meaningful reminder.
"So? Can you agree to let me live in the shrine?..."
"Mm..." Reimu stared hard at the bag on the table, its gold coins exposed to the air. Her eyes were full of hesitation, clearly struggling to choose between 'gold coins' and 'leisure.'
Though Reimu was greedy for money, she was also an extremely lazy person.
Now that 'money' and 'leisure' had been placed directly before her and she had to choose one, it should have been a very difficult choice, right?...
Of course, throughout all of history, among the shrine maidens of Gensokyo's Hakurei Shrine, Reimu was probably the only one who would find it so difficult to choose between those two.
"B-But..." Unable to make a decision for the moment, Reimu could only say that with