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Especially this Gensokyo... this Gensokyo that had once made Mom sad...

Even if she knew this was merely taking out her anger on it, even if she knew this was just an excuse she had found for herself, even if...

She simply wanted to destroy herself along with Gensokyo!

But now, she seemed to have encountered a troublesome opponent... No, troublesome alone was nowhere near enough to describe him.

"Perhaps being killed by this man would be a pretty good ending too..."

She said it aloud, a trace of relief in her voice.

If possible, as long as she could reach an ending, she did not really care about such things.

The darkness that tore through space once again rushed toward Chu Chen. As though it did not care about its own life, chunks of darkness turned into spears. Even after being petrified, they were pierced through by the dark spears that followed, then continued their attack, completely ignoring the petrification field before them.

"Oh my... Though not as exaggerated as Yukari Yakumo, she is still a standard great youkai. Combined with the darkness the Previous Miko transferred into her body using Fantasy Nature, she undoubtedly possesses destructive power capable of sinking islands and destroying nations at a whim. This kind of power would be enough to topple Gensokyo several times over..."

Feeling the darkness brush across his body, Chu Chen assessed it while analyzing the dark power within her.

That power differed from every power he had encountered before. It was his first time seeing this sort of power of darkness.

What Lumie devoured was the darkness within human hearts, not pure darkness itself.

In other words, Lumie's power could, in a sense, be said to originate from the negative emotions within human hearts.

"And this aura... I see.