Creation Space (41)

The one who opened the gap was Gensokyo's Yama, a youkai who controlled the world of the dead in Gensokyo.

Yukari Yakumo found the golden light on her body strangely familiar, though she could not say why. Aside from sensing it on Remy, she had also felt something similar in Gensokyo's hell.

"Oh? What a rare visitor."

Shikieiki Yamaxanadu sat calmly at the judgment bench, looking with interest at the gap that had opened in the center of the hall.

"Yukari Yakumo, what brings you here today?"

"I need something from you."

Yukari did not waste words. She directly displayed the two grain-sized specks of golden light within her body. "Take a look. What is this?"

Shikieiki stepped closer to inspect it. "It is a kind of power similar to a law. Hmm... ordinarily, this only appears on good people. Do you understand what I mean if I call it golden light of faith?"

"Golden light of faith?" Yukari frowned.

She had never heard of such a thing, so naturally she did not recognize it.

"That is right. It is a term used in the outside world. When you help someone and they feel gratitude toward you and believe in you, this power can arise. Of course, it is difficult for youkai to produce such a thing. How did you obtain it?" Shikieiki asked curiously.

The youkai of this world all liked killing and eating humans. If Gensokyo did not have its rules, the humans in the Human Village would have long since been devoured.

Therefore, making humans develop faith in youkai was an extremely difficult thing.

"I saved two humans, and then this appeared. Then, when I wanted to kill those two humans, this power gave me a sense of danger. I seem to have felt that same danger