The Captain Just Wants to Go Home and Play Games

If not for Kaguya's uniquely perfect, charming face and her aura that was as captivating as moonlight, Mo Yi would never have believed this person was Kaguya.

Her attire was always one of two types: either the "Moon Princess" mode, with its extremely intricate, gorgeous, and ancient twelve-layered robes, or the "shut-in" mode, a plain pink tracksuit.

This sudden change made Mo Yi pause, thinking, What is Lady Kaguya up to now?

"Ehehe—"

Kaguya looked with great satisfaction at Mo Yi's stunned expression and said smugly, "How is it? Aren't you captivated by my peerless elegance again?"

Mo Yi: "..."

Your Highness the Princess, can you just not talk!

Before you spoke, I thought the girl before me was the perfect ideal of my imagination. The moment you opened your mouth, the dream shattered.

Of course, Mo Yi's daze, besides wondering what Kaguya was plotting, was also partly due to being genuinely awestruck by her presence. It was the innate human pursuit of beauty.

"No—"

Mo Yi considered himself someone who had transcended base desires. How could he possibly admit that?

If he really admitted it, he didn't know how much she would tease and mock him. Mo Yi even had a fleeting thought that admitting it would feel like losing to her.

"I was just wondering why you're wearing Pilin's... no, wait, wearing your Reisen's clothes?"

Despite some alterations, Mo Yi recognized it as the usual outfit of Reisen, the moon rabbit serving Kaguya. As for why he was so familiar with it, firstly, after learning of the Princess's identity, he had started recalling content from Touhou Gensokyo. Secondly, in his past life, he felt that purely based on fan art, Reisen was the Touhou character who best fit Mo Yi's aesthetic preferences, hence his memory of her was quite deep.

Houraisan Kaguya: "..."

Suddenly, I feel like hitting someone. What should I do?

You, with your respectable appearance, have indeed been coveting the pet I raise all along!

Every time they video chatted, she would send Reisen to her master's place to test medicine, preventing Mo Yi from seeing Reisen. Yet now, he could instantly tell that the clothes she was wearing were Reisen's usual attire.

These clothes were actually a new outfit Kaguya had made by referencing Reisen's clothes and modifying them to suit herself.

Because of her power of eternity, Kaguya could make her clothes perpetually new, never getting dirty or old, unless they were destroyed in battle by a powerful attack that broke the eternal power attached to them.

Therefore, Kaguya could wear the same set of clothes for ten thousand years.

There were many reasons for her changing her appearance now.

For example, she had learned that the plot of Gensokyo was about to begin, the time when the Hakurei Shrine Maiden of Gensokyo was growing up, just before the Scarlet Mist Incident was about to start.

Originally, she had planned to continue staying in Eientei, regardless of how the outside world changed. She even intended to abandon the previously meaningless Eternal Night Incident. After all, with Gensokyo's great barrier, her two meddlesome, nominal elder sisters shouldn't be able to find her, and she could continue to be a hikikomori in Eientei.

With a new game released every day in other worlds, Kaguya had more than enough to play. Games were so fun, where would she find the time to go out and cause trouble?

However, after getting to know Mo Yi and revealing her identity to him, her thoughts changed. She planned to bring Mo Yi to Gensokyo when the plot began, to team up for a real-life Touhou Project.

Heh heh.

Since she was inviting him to play a real-life Touhou Project, he should at least invite her to his world to team up for Honkai Impact 3rd, right?

This logic was flawless.

Since she was going out to fight monsters and become a new player character (enforcer) in Gensokyo, she naturally needed to be fully prepared. Kaguya's original twelve-layered robes and tracksuit were not suitable for carrying out justice.

The twelve-layered robes were too cumbersome and not suitable for fighting, while the tracksuit lacked gravitas and looked like something a nobody would wear. Thus, Kaguya began looking for specialized attire for going out to fight.

Then, she saw her own rabbit, Reisen, and Kaguya remembered that Reisen would also become one of Gensokyo's enforcers in the future.

Since the master was planning to emerge, the pet naturally wouldn't be left behind. Moreover, she drew inspiration from Reisen. Wasn't Reisen's sailor uniform the most common attire for female characters in various hot-blooded battle anime?

Besides satisfying the aesthetic demands of the audience, the light and convenient construction of the sailor uniform was indeed very suitable for combat. Because it was a short skirt, her legs could perform various difficult maneuvers without worrying about the pants ripping.

As for the hidden danger of accidental exposure, Gensokyo, which was hundreds of years ahead of the industry, had long found a solution: bloomers or safety shorts.

Kaguya, who possessed immense drive when it came to things she was interested in, acted immediately. After creating her exclusive new outfit, she sought out Mo Yi, her future teammate, to show it off.

She never expected that not only would he not praise her beauty and craftsmanship, but he would actually say she was wearing her pet's clothes. She was utterly displeased.

Perhaps because this had happened several times already, Kaguya suppressed the urge to end the video call. Instead, she took out a small notebook with "Future Diary" written on the cover and, right in front of Mo Yi, began writing something. Due to the angle, Mo Yi could only see the date she wrote: "September 2, 2019—" The specific time was unclear. (Hu Xiao Kai is indeed coveting my pet. I've noted this down. When the time comes for reckoning, I shall reward him handsomely.)

This wasn't the first time Mo Yi had seen her write things in that notebook, but every time he saw it, he felt a heavier burden on his shoulders, especially when he heard her emit a pleasant giggle while writing.

"I was wrong, Your Highness the Princess. You look truly beautiful today—"

Mo Yi, who had trembled inexplicably, quickly apologized. After all, admitting fault was free. He said with a sincere tone, "There's no need to write such a trivial matter in your diary. It doesn't suit Your Highness's magnificent demeanor."

"Hmph—"

After finishing her entry in the "Future Diary," Kaguya snorted and said with a smile, "When others do good deeds, they write in their diaries. You just hurt my fragile heart, how can I let it go just like that?!"

"My apologies, being petty, holding grudges, and unreasonable are a girl's privilege."

Mo Yi: "..."

Mo Yi thought to himself: But you're billions of years old, are you still a girl? So you don't have that privilege!

"Hmm?"

Kaguya's gaze turned cold as she stared at Mo Yi, her eyes filled with suspicion.

"What are you complaining about in your mind again?"

If the other party found out about this, it wouldn't just be a matter of them writing it down in a little notebook. He quickly denied it three times: "It's not me, I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"

"Hmph, this princess is magnanimous and won't bother arguing with you over such a small matter—"

Following Mo Yi's gaze, Kaguya saw the notebook on the other person's desk and said, "Still looking at these things that even this princess has to rack her brain to understand?"

For the past two days, Mo Yi had used studying as an excuse to refuse Kaguya's invitations to play games several times. Kaguya was naturally unhappy, so she wanted to see what Mo Yi was studying, and whether he was looking down on her, his old friend, now that he had a Valkyrie.

Then she discovered that he was looking at knowledge that was comparable to, and in many cases far surpassed, lunar technology.

She became interested. As she watched Mo Yi study, she would display her authority as a top student when he encountered something he didn't understand, thinking, You don't even get this simple thing? This princess will reluctantly teach you.

Discovering that Kaguya was actually the strongest top student standing at the apex of billions of underachievers, Mo Yi naturally clung to her leg, asking her whenever he didn't understand something.

Knowledge, in itself, never diminishes just because others learn it. On the contrary, it's possible to gain more through the sparks of colliding ideas.

Seeing Kaguya bring up the topic herself, Mo Yi immediately bowed his head in submission: "Coach Kaguya, there are many things I don't understand!"

Hearing Mo Yi 'begging' her like this, Kaguya's depressed mood immediately improved a little, and she said with a proud smile, "Come, come, let this princess guide you—"