The gap that opens up is the domain of Enma of Gensokyo, the youkai who controls the world of the dead in Gensokyo.
Yukari Yakumo felt a familiar sensation from the golden light emanating from her body, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. However, she recalled the feeling of this power, having experienced it not only with Remy but also in the hellish world of Gensokyo.
"Oh? A rare guest has arrived."
Shikieiki Yamaxanadu sat calmly on the judgment platform, looking at the gap in the center of the hall, and said with interest.
"Yukari Yakumo, what brings you here today?"
"I need to talk to you."
Without wasting any words, Yukari Yakumo directly displayed the two grains of golden light within her body, saying, "Take a look at what these are."
Shikieiki Yamaxanadu took a closer look and said, "This is a kind of power similar to a law. Hmm... Generally speaking, this kind of thing only appears in good people. Do you understand what I mean by the golden light of faith?"
"The golden light of faith?" Yukari Yakumo frowned.
She had never heard of such a thing, so she didn't recognize it.
"Yes, that's what people call it. When you help others, they feel grateful and believe in you, and that's how you generate this power. Of course, it's very difficult for a yokai to generate this kind of thing. How did you get it?" Shikieiki Yamaxanadu asked curiously.
The monsters in this world love to kill and eat humans. If it weren't for the rules in Gensokyo, the humans in the Human Village would have been wiped out long ago.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult to get humans to have faith in monsters.
"I saved two humans, and then this happened. Then I wanted to kill those two humans. This power gives me a dangerous feeling, and I feel like I've experienced this dangerous feeling before in hell. So I want to know what this power is," Yukari Yakumo said, frowning.
The main reason is that she doesn't seem to be able to fully control this power, which is why she wants to know what it is. After all, this thing was created by the Dragon God, so it would be best if she could find out the truth.
"Yes, this is a kind of karma. They believe in you, but you want to kill them. This is an act of betrayal. Faith in the golden light will naturally be transformed into karma. Hell is never short of karma, and the more karma a demon carries, the higher the chance of suffering in hell after death," Shikieiki Yamaxanadu said eloquently.
Normally, when a youkai in Gensokyo accumulates a lot of karma and is destined for hell after death, she would go up to it to teach and admonish it. This was the first time she had ever seen a youkai interested in karma.
If all demons knew about the cycle of good and evil, and the law of cause and effect, then her hell would be much easier to manage.
Upon hearing this, Yukari Yakumo frowned deeply. This power was actually connected to hell...
To be honest, if we're talking about the most feared person in Gensokyo, Yukari Yakumo thinks Shikieiki Yamaxanadu should be ranked number one. If it weren't for the feeling that this power is related to hell, she wouldn't even want to come.
Fortunately, at least we now have a general understanding of this power.
What she carries is not karma, but the golden light of faith. She shouldn't go to hell, since she received it by helping others.
Then Yukari Yakumo thought of another question and asked, "What would happen if the golden light of faith increased?"
She wanted to save those two humans because she thought the golden light would benefit her, and she could conveniently ask about it.
"To become an immortal or a god, I suppose. But I rarely see other gods in the mortal realm, so I don't know." Shikieiki Yamaxanadu squinted her eyes and said. She herself was actually a god, and a god who reaped and punished the dead.
Of course, besides her, the Dragon God is also a god, Kogasa Tatara is the God of Death, Kishin is the God of the Demon World, and Kamako is also a god, etc. There are actually quite a few gods in Gensokyo.
There's not much to say about that. We live in an era of declining faith, and their function as gods has also diminished considerably. They can only live in a corner of Gensokyo.
More than the gods of Gensokyo, she was curious about how Yukari Yakumo obtained such power.
"You're saying you obtained this golden light simply by saving two humans? Is it that easy?" Shikieiki Yamaxanadu asked curiously.
According to the old rules, believers not only needed to bathe and burn incense, but also to pray sincerely in order to give their gods a bit of golden light of faith. How could Yukari Yakumo receive two golden lights just for saving two humans?
"It's that simple."
Yukari Yakumo.
If she had possessed this power before, she wouldn't have had the chance to access it, but now the Dragon God seems to have altered some of the rules, allowing her to come into contact with it.
Strange, didn't Shikieiki Yamaxanadu sense that the Dragon God had changed the rules?
Or perhaps it was because the House of Gaps was located on the edge of Gensokyo that they sensed the Dragon God had changed the rules.
Where did you save the person? In the Human Village?
"No, the history of the Human Village was swallowed up by Keine Kamishirasawa. She is currently working to restore history and Human Village back to life." Yukari Yakumo shook her head.
"Then they must have been rescued from outside."
Apart from the village of Human Village, the rest of Gensokyo is the territory of youkai.
"Yes, now the humans outside have been infected by a virus and have become something that is neither human nor ghost, which is very chaotic." Yukari Yakumo nodded.
Anyway, if Shikieiki Yamaxanadu wanted to know the truth about this, she could easily find out by doing a little investigation.
In particular, she has mastered the ability to judge right from wrong, so she can't lie at all.
Shikieiki Yamaxanadu nodded. Now that her problem was solved, she planned to continue explaining the concept of karma to Yukari Yakumo, and properly explain the existence of this kind of thing to this youkai sage.
Then go outside and see. Since the decline of faith, it has become more than a hundred times more difficult for these gods to obtain the golden light of faith.
However, Yukari Yakumo waved her hand and left Hell without even saying goodbye.
We arrived at the Hakurei Shrine.
Reimu Hakurei was still sleeping inside. The Eternal Night Incident last night had kept her up until almost 5 a. m., and as an ordinary human witch, she was exhausted.
As a result, her Sweet Dream of enjoying a gourmet feast didn't last long before Yukari Yakumo came to wake her up.
"You'd better give me a reason, or my morning grumpiness is terrifying," Reimu Hakurei, her hair disheveled and her eyes narrowed in displeasure.
"Something terrible has happened," Yukari Yakumo said with a serious expression.
Reimu Hakurei asked with a suspicious look, "What important matter?"
"The Dragon God has altered the rules of the outside world. Now, saving people can grant a power called the Golden Light of Faith, which can make people immortal or god."
"Oh." Reimu Hakurei raised an eyebrow.
Becoming an immortal or a god?
Faith in the golden light?
She didn't understand what it was, but she felt it was something very far removed from her, so she didn't care much.
"What does that have to do with us?"
Gensokyo has been isolated from the outside world for a long time. Instead of worrying about these vague and unreal things, we should be more concerned about what we'll eat later.
Reimu picked her nose and thought to herself.
"Whether it's related or not, I don't know for now, but some strange things have been happening in Gensokyo recently that I can't explain," Yukari Yakumo said, shaking her head.
"What strange thing? Haven't all the incidents been resolved?"
"There are many reasons, one of which is the heavy snow that followed the Spring Snow Incident. Another is the strange spatial fluctuations that always appear in Gensokyo. The third is that some people can enter and leave the Hakurei Great Barrier without our permission."
Upon hearing the first explanation, Reimu didn't react much; perhaps it was just the weather acting up, nothing surprising. The second explanation was a bit puzzling, but she still believed Yukari Yakumo's explanation, since she was a youkai born from a gap and her spatial perception would undoubtedly be much sharper. But the third...
Reimu straightened up instantly.
A virus has appeared in the outside world, causing widespread suffering and a proliferation of youkai in the environment. So when she heard that Gensokyo had left Gensokyo, she couldn't help but worry.
She was afraid that the youkai in Gensokyo would go out and eat people, and then come back and tell the other youkai, causing all the youkai in Gensokyo to be unable to resist going out and eating people.
If Reimu hadn't promised the Dragon God, she wouldn't have believed that these youkai could coexist with humans. The recent Eternal Night Incident was a good example; many youkai lost control because of the moon and wanted to eat people.
There are many reasons why they created this fantasy world, one of which is to restrain youkai. If they were to find out that the external order had collapsed and youkai could eat people at will, this Gensokyo would fall apart in an instant, and all the youkai would be unable to resist running out to eat people.
Hearing that a youkai could disregard their permission and venture into the outside world, Reimu Hakurei broke out in a cold sweat.
Who is it?
"Remilia Scarlet." Yukari Yakumo opened her fan, partially covering her face, and chuckled.
"It's her? How is that possible?!" Reimu Hakurei exclaimed in surprise.
They went to the Lost Forest together last night. Although Remy showed great power while clearing out the endless rabbits in the Lost Forest, it was impossible for her to sneak out of the outside world.
"I don't believe it either, but I rescued two humans from the outside world. Originally, I did this to verify the golden light of faith, but I got unexpected information."
Reimu Hakurei Crimson Devil Mansion shouldn't have such strong abilities.
Although Remy's abilities have reached the level of a great youkai as a youkai, she is still somewhat inferior to people like Yukari Yakumo, Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Yuuka Kazami, and even her younger sister is stronger than her.
How did they do that?
Yukari Yakumo arranged for her to meet the two human girls and learn about the outside world, as well as the girl they had met.
She even showed them a photo to confirm that it was indeed Remy.
"Let's go. Since it's Remy, I definitely have to ask her what she means." Reimu Hakurei's expression was a little cold.
The freedom to come and go from the outside world can be a big deal or a small deal, depending on what Remy wants to do.
Remy looked at the gap with slight surprise, opened the Fate Line to take a look, and thought to herself, "So those two girls were saved by Yukari Yakumo. At the time, I only saw that they had a chance of survival when they went down the mountain, but I didn't expect that it was Yukari Yakumo who saved them."
But this is really too weird.
Yukari Yakumo can freely enter and Gensokyo. If it were to verify the Dragon God's rules, she could save anyone she wanted, but she just happened to save the person she had let go.
Is this some kind of cruel joke on me?
She was just thinking about not letting Yukari Yakumo notice anything unusual, but after a while, she directly sent the unusual message back to her and then noticed her abnormality.
Sure enough, fate, that little bitch, is very vengeful.
Back when she was in Flower Full Star, she was often punished by fate.
Because she often argues with people online and doesn't know any hacking techniques, she often uses fate to find out the other person's information and then goes to their door to teach them a lesson.
She uses fate to see other people's information, and fate makes others have the urge to draw erotic pictures of her.
Among her many incarnations, she has the most erotic pictures and doujinshi, and they are all R18g.
It's all the work of that little bitch, fate.
However, fate has shown that Yukari Yakumo had doubts last night when she regained her memories, so no matter what, Yukari Yakumo will come to her sooner or later.
Remy leaned back in her chair, holding a bright red wine glass in her hand. Her ruby-like vertical pupils stared at the person preparing to emerge from the gap, trying her best to project an image of authority.
Fulan, who was engrossed in her food, asked in confusion, "What are you pretending for?"
Yukari Yakumo and Reimu Hakurei, who emerged from the gap, were dumbfounded. This was the first time they had ever seen Fulan speak like that. And wasn't Fulan always locked underground? Why was she up here eating? Weren't they afraid she would go berserk again?
Remy rolled her eyes and said, "Silly little sister."
Fulan: "?"
Following Remy's gaze, she noticed two guests behind her and exclaimed, "No wonder, we have guests."
"Sakuya, prepare two breakfasts for them," Remy said.
"Yes, Miss."
Sakuya bowed slightly, then instantly activated Time Stop, prepared two breakfasts and placed them in front of Yukari Yakumo and Reimu Hakurei, and also brought them two chairs before canceling Time Stop.
Neither of them refused, and a delicious breakfast appeared.
Yukari Yakumo ignored her and stared intently at Remy, while Reimu Hakurei was also looking at Remy, but her eyes were constantly glancing at the breakfast out of the corner of her eye.
In Gensokyo, the Crimson Devil Mansion is recognized as the richest, so the breakfasts are very elaborate. Reimu Hakurei eats nothing but ochazuke (rice with tea) and hasn't had such a refined breakfast in a long time.
So I couldn't help but take a few more glances, and then swallowed hard.
"Eat if you want, we can talk about it after we finish eating," Remy said generously, noticing Reimu's desire.
"Haha, then I won't be polite."
Last night I dealt with that Eternal Night Incident. It took me all night, and after I finished, I went back to the shrine and went to sleep. I haven't eaten a single grain of rice since then; I'm really hungry.
Reimu chuckled and sat down to happily eat her breakfast.
Yukari Yakumo was slightly speechless.
However, she had gotten used to Reimu's unreliability.
She had no appetite and sat down next to Reimu, asking, "Today I went out and rescued two girls, and from those girls I learned that you had gone out into the outside world without our knowledge."