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》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

So uh, there is this blue transparent screen thingy airborne right in front of my eyes. Currently the lesson is math right now. It seems like everyone in this class doesn't bat an eye on it. And it's written in English, not Vietnamese. Weird.

Oh well, let's see what is written on it.

[Congratulations!]

[You have been luckily chosen for system that we, the "Creators" have established for you called "The Player"]

[You will be transferred into another universe of your choosing while we process data about your interaction with the "locals".]

I blinked.

Hmm... Interesting. Wait, why is this message so awfully familiar?

[If you are talking about Arah, one of the first testers of our system. You would be correct.]

Oh neat, it responds to what I'm thinking in my mind. Wait, hold on a second-

Arah? The fucking pessimistic "accelerator" self-insert character. EXIST???

[Yes. He would be in the other Universe where he exists.]

I thought he was just a self-insert fanfiction character guy? Wait I realize, what the living hell you mean other Universe?

[Player, do you know the multi-universe theory? Theoretically, it exists.]

...you're gonna be shitting me. I'm gonna be sent there?

[No, the system will send the player a copy of that original Universe. And yes, you can choose whatever Universe you could think of.]

So, let me guess this right. If I said I want to get sent to Gensokyo. I got transported into the original copy of it where Arah didn't exist?

[Correct. And your destination is Gensokyo?]

Well I mean yeah, but I'm still in this damn class. Oh right, since the screen doesn't mention testers when it pops up for the first time. That's mean the system has completed?

[Yes, the system has been fully finished. Do you want to see the changes?]

Uh yeah, I don't mind at all. I'm all eyes.

After that, the screen shows a list of changes.

[The changes are:
-Renamed Ability Points into System Points
-Added Special System Points/Items .
-Added achievements. Guaranteed to give the Player items, points or sometimes a perk. Obtained based on your action and how serious it is.
-The System now has given a bit of personality based on the Player for entertainment.
-Player can't not suggested their main ability if they're under 18 years old. However, the Player could still get skills. And by reaching level 80, The Player will be guaranteed to get an ability based on system data about your actions, choices, achievements, and performance in that Universe.
- To help Young Players, we exclusively let the player choose the weapon and give the weapon by the system. Also give the player 1 skill or perk to support them. Along with a gear.
-Added Inventory.]

That's... one hell of an interesting changelog. But still, I cannot go into Gensokyo without everything prepare-

*Ring*

Or never mind, the class ended at the right time. Alright, time to get my school stuff shoveled into my backpack. And waiting for my father to get me back home.

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

While he was waiting...

"Địt mẹ anh ba!"

"Câm mồm!"

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

{>Home<}

After I finish a plate of cơm tấm(which is very delicious by the way), I'm gonna take a nice shower, and do some housework.

Some time later...

Currently it is 7:01 PM right now, what I am doing right now is looking at my home laptop searching for basic information about Gensokyo. Especially about the people in the 1st Window Generation.

System , how much time do I have left?

[You have 20:55:22 left.]

Yup, I accepted the offer. With a golden coin on my hand that said "Ready Player One". I placed down the coin at the left side of my laptop and started looking at the mirror.

Vietnamese Male, 16 year old, introvert, normal dark double bang hair, pair of glasses, with a small mustache, and the height that makes almost anyone think that I'm a young adult. I'm just like 5 '9 goddamn it. But hey, at least the new generation came in handy. I guess? Oh yeah, one more thing. System?

[Yes?]

When I transported into Gensokyo, made me 2 inches taller and made me wear my school uniform. With a completely healthy body, along with normal fit body type.

[Player Request pending...]

[Player Requests have been accepted!]

"Hm, đúng là nhanh thật." I was commenting on how fast the system is in my mother tongue; meh, they probably didn't care anyway, as long as they get interaction data from me in Gensokyo.

About the school uniform and 2 inches taller. First thing of all, school uniform. Why? Well, I have 2 reasons. Firstly, my house has no other outfits deemed to be fit for typical-outsider-get-lost-into-gensokyo. Because most of the outsiders are Westerners or Japanese I guess? Second reason, just to fool people, is that I'm a student who accidentally got lost into Fantasy land. The 2 inches taller part is uh... I felt like it, okay?

Now, the explanation is done. Now, let's get into my weapon of choice and gear for it.

[Please select your weapon of choice.]

I take a deep breath for a moment. Then exhale. Gonna speak in a small voice just for safety.

"British FN FAL, L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle. With a chest rig for it too."

[Weapon, gear accepted. Please distance away a bit and get your both hands out. Remember to use inventory.]

Well alright then, I'm back up a little bit and my hands are out. I look it up and- Holy shit, the system is materializing my request stuff. Oo- It almost done I'm gonna catch it- *thump* Uhm. This rifle is kind of heavy, like holy shit. Oh wait, don't forget about the vest.

Man, the system did even give me the sling for the rifle already attached to it, even though I did not ask for it. But thanks I guess? Okay time to store them in my inventory, don't wanna get caught with these. Inventory.

*Ding* Woah, a blue screen popped up. Uh, 6 straight line squares and 3 of them each down the line, in total inventory have 18 slots, which is not bad after all. Okay, I'm gonna stop admiring the screen before someone sees me holding these real things. So I'm just gonna shove these into the screen- *vrrt* A- okay, the screen just sucked both of them inside for me, so that's nice?

[Do you want to go now?]

Nah, not yet. I ain't done my business. Gonna search for more information about the land for the sake of myself. By that I mean that there is less chance of dying. But still, I'm gonna keep an eye everywhere for safety. Inventory.

The inventory screen shows up, 2 slots are now occupied. The rifle and the chest rig. Wait, I wonder what happened if I touch the occupied slot- *Beep* Ah, of course, an information board about the item I stored shows up. Well, I'm just gonna close the inventory screen, and look back at my laptop searching for more information. This is gonna be somewhat of a long night.

5 hours later...

[You have 15:55:17 left.]

I love staying up late at night to search more about Gensokyo. At least the system is gonna delete every single thing about my existence, once I insert the coin. Alright, now I have a grasp of the events of the Touhou Universe between 6-12... Right, I forgot about the Maribel and Renko saga. Back to reading then!

1 Hour later...

Man, I surely love reading the Maribel and Renko saga at 1:02 A.M, by using this damn phone to look at the story. I think I should take care of my health. Yeah I should do it when I get transported into Gensokyo.

Alright. Time to get off this bed, and do some fun! In-vento-ry!

Threw my phone into the screen and close it off! Grab the golden coin at the table and System!

[Yes?]

"I'm ready to go." Hell yeah!

[Current Universe you selected: Gensokyo]

Yep, fly-out-reality shrine maiden, human magician with a 'borrowing habit'. Lastly, but not the least, eternally young Gap sage. With a bunch of other people too! Gonna watch Gap sage tho.

[Please insert the coin into the screen.]

A smile on my face, knowing that I'm going to the land I haven't stepped foot in but familiar with. Then I stop smiling because I realize Gensokyo is cute and grim at the same time. Fuck. Oh well, lesson learned then.

Tight my shoes, and hold up my right hand holding the golden coin, then insert it into the box!

[Dematerializing the player, transporting into the chosen Universe.]

"Uh, What the hell do you mean by dematerializing-" Ugh, why I'm I feeling so tired. This is what I get for staying too late. "Fuck..." I'm going to land into... my bed... *thump*

[Erasing player existence in this Universe... 10%.. 25%.. 40%.. 60%.. 80%.. 100%. Completed.]

[Transporting the Player into Gensokyo. Completed.]

[Codename for this Universe requesting...   Accepted!]

[Codename: Forbidden Lead. ]

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

In the land named Gensokyo, there is this woods called Muenzuka, covered with red spider lilies and cherry blossoms. There is a peculiar cherry blossom, the special characteristic of the tree is that it's big in size with purple colored flowers.

Once a year, the purple flower will bloom, the tree will purify its land and sever all hesitation from all phantoms and ghosts to go to the Road of Liminality and be judged by the Yama at the end.

However, there's one teenager peacefully sleeping near one tree and is going to wake up soon. Will he shape the future of Gensokyo?

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

Ugh... how much time had passed? How long did I sleep for? And did the system transport me there yet? Oh, hold on, there's something on my nose. Aw crap I'm about to fucking sneeze-

"A-CHOOOO-!" God, and it was loud too! Enough to wake me up from my half-slumber ass state. Arugh... Fine then! Gonna rub both of these eyes before opening it. Alright, now open. First thing I see is a red flower field covering- Oh. Huh?

Well, would you look at that. Never ending view of red spider lilies and behind me is this giant cherry blossom, and it has purple flowers too! I'm in Muenzuka then. Standing up, gonna crack some bones, just like that- *Cracks* phew, man I felt much more alive now. Looking down, I saw I'm in my white shirt with a red-ish black collar with my school badge on my left, down more is my dark blue pants, lastly my damn black white shoes. Wait hold on.

Why haven't I died from poison yet? Wait I'm stupid, of course there are no flowers on the ground near this tree I'm standing, I'm I stupid? GAH! Whatever, let's just move on.

*ding*

[Scanning Player... Completed!]

[Please equip your weapons and gear. So we can move on the naming process.]

Right, inventory. The screen shows up, and uh. You know what, I'm just gonna shove my whole left arm inside to get the stuff I need. Where is it? Wait, I felt something in my hand, grabbed and pulled it out! Oh, it's just my chest rig. Eh, I'm not gonna complain, I strapped it on my chest, and oh boy. I can feel the weight of this rig, I open one of the pouches on, see that it has a loaded magazine for my good ol' L1A1. All hail 7.62x51mm. Now strapped done. Let's get my rifle.

I did exactly the same as my chest rig, and walla. Here it is, on full view, appealing glory. Carry handle? Checked. Bayonet lug under flash hider? Checked. Sling? Checked. Safe and Semi-Auto only? Checked. Gas adjustment system? Checked. Last, the mag under it, just gonna press level behind the mag and it is out. I see, full of 7.62 NATO. Loaded it back on the rifle. Look on the left side near the trigger, safety on. Pull back the folding cocking handle and let that slide back a bit, no round chambered yet. Pull the slide back fully and let that go, *clinck* live round on. Also, why do I feel like I got used to the weight? Maybe because I got a perk?

[Yes, you do have one. Now let's get your player name.]

Why do I feel like the system wants to scream at my face so badly? Ah whatever, let's name myself. New life, new name.

[Please choose your name.]

"Does surname allowed?" Just a question.

[Yes.]

"Oh nice, well my new name is... Victor Charlie." Yeah, I'm not the best when it comes to names.

[Username confirmed.]

[Displaying Player status.]

[Lv. 1 New Grunt, Victor Charlie]

[Ability: The Player has not reached the requirement yet.]

[Special System Points: 0
Special Item Points: 0
System Points: 0
Item Points: 0]

[PERKS:
>Specialist:
-You're trained, hardened, and most importantly at all, you have the knowledge how to use a variety of different weapons. Slightly better hearing, reflex, reaction and smell. Could automatically shoot up to 130 yards or 118 meters.]

[SKILLS:
>None.]

Nice, no wonder why I got a bit more muscle and used to the feeling of the weight. 

... Wait, I felt like someone is targeting me- *WOOSH* OH MOTHERFUCKER COVER! *THUMP!* HOLY HELL THAT ALMOST GOT ME! Oh hell, calm down, calm down. Laying on the ground, I saw the source of the sounds. An arrow stuck on the tree, north-east. I looked at the direction of the arrow being fired, I saw it. Green, short, bald, big nose, long ears, holding a short bow, wearing ragged clothes, with a bone necklace. 80 yards far away.

A goblin. A motherfucking goblin tried to sneak attack me. Too bad it ain’t reach 100. And on that fucker head.

[Lv. 9 Lesser Youkai]

From what I saw, it looked irritated. Well, duh. 'It' fresh fucking meal duck on the ground!

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained - Ain't hitting this time!]

[Successfully dodge a sneak attack.
>Rewards: 2500 System Points and Item Points.]

*ding*

[1 Star, Firing Test - Show who's the boss!]

[One of the locals have anticipated your arrival, have contact with them and survive 1/2]

"Keggrrrrahhh", looks like someone who is not happy. Oh because it fucking meal dodge. Oh shit, it's going to fire another one.

I stand up and raise my rifle, safety off, left arm hold at handguard but don't get the thumb on top, right arm hold at the grip. Tight. I started aiming at the goblin, front sight clear, ready to shoot. Head on. Wait. Calm and FIRE! *BANG* *WOOSH* *KEEKAUUGGHHH-* *THUMP* HOLY SHIT THAT ARROW BARELY HIT MY BRAINS!

...Holy hell. That's was. A close call.

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained - First Blood.]

[Kill the first living being you just saw. In self-defense of course.]
[>Rewards: 1500 System Points and Item Points.]

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained x2 - One Hell of a Lucky Guy!]

[Successfully dodge a projectile without even trying.]
[>Rewards: Tiny Luck perk, 1 Special System Points and 1 Special Item Points.]

[One of the locals have anticipated your arrival, have contact with them and survive 1/2]

[2/2]

The rewards are cool and all but like, I have to deal with other goblins. Oh. 3 of them started walking out of the tree. 

They looked shocked. Well, I mean I shot possibly their leader, dead on the spot. On their head is.

[Lv. 3 Lesser Youkai]

[Lv. 5 Lesser Youkai]

[Lv. 7 Lesser Youkai]

Alright, so let me analyze. The Lv. 3 is brown-skinned with a club wearing ragged clothes, Lv. 5 is normal green-skinned with the same exact clothes, holding a makeshift bone knife. Lastly, Lv. 7 is wearing a loincloth, a bone necklace, and a rusty ass knife that probably came from the outside world. 57 yards far away.

I lowered my rifle into hip-firing position- Oh shit, the Lv. 5 and 7 one is charge at me unexpected *KEEEEEAAAA-*. However, *BANG* *KEEEK-* one down, straight into the skull. *BANG* *Keke-ke* Still moving huh? HOW ABOUT THIS! *BANG* BANG* BANG*. Holy shit, I shred that goblin into pieces. Now, the last one.

Blood pond forming from 2 of the goblins. Body full of adrenaline. I started to smile, walking towards it. The last goblin is shaking in fear, slowly walking back. However, *BANG* *KEEEAAAAAAA-*. That's right, your right kneecap is gone now, son. The brown skin holds the open wound by using the hands to slow the bleeding. I started getting close to it, right arm holding on carry handle, scared huh? HOW ABOUT THIS! *BASH*.

I started smashing it face by using the buttstock of the rifle, two arms holding the handguard. *BASH* Blood starts coming out of its nose. *BASH-CRACK* Bones breaking. *BASH*. Blood spilling on my face, glasses. The bottom stock is full of blood, the shirt has some blood stuck on to it, same goes with the rig too.

A harmony in violence, bashings, and a manic laughter.

“Ha-ha-HAHAHAAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ”. Repeat, repeat, and repeat. Until the goblin face turns into, well let’s just say mash potato but red and smell like iron.

[1 Star, Firing Test - Completed.]

[>Rewards: 12500 SP and IP, 1 SSP and 1 STP, 1 random skill]

[Achievement Obtained - Bloody Hell!]

[Made a gory mess in the starting point.]
[>Reward: Bloody Mess perk added, one arm melee added into inventory.]

I stand there, confused, brain blasted? Flabbergasted? Doesn’t matter anymore. What matters the most to me is what the hell did I just do? Oh right, my fucking subconsciousness.

God. Like why, why is my subconsciousness made me doing messed up shits without even notice, like I know for the fact that they’re lesser Youkai but goblins, because my subconsciousness knew that I’m in Gensokyo so it let itself running free in my mind? Possibly.

But the scariest shit for me is. I don’t feel bad about it. Don’t get me wrong I know clearly it is in the name of self-defense but still, there is something wrong about me and I couldn’t explain…

Well, let’s just forget about it a bit and check my status. Status.

[Lv. 11 Questionable Actions, Victor Charlie]

[Special System Points: 2
Special Item Points: 2
System Points: 16500
Item Points: 16500]

[PERKS:
>Specialist:
-You're trained, hardened, and most importantly at all, you have the knowledge how to use a variety of different weapons. Slightly better hearing, reflex, reaction and smell. Could automatically shoot up to 130 yards or 118 meters.
>Tiny Luck:
-Tiny or not, but you're gonna admit. You may need it along your journey in the land of fantasy.
>Bloody Mess:
-No matter whether it is a blade, firearms, or fists, this perk just straight up works! 1.5x more damage with downside of enemy body parts blowing up randomly. Makes you think this shouldn’t be a problem for you. But, if you think about it, it gets quite annoying. Yes, you can disable or enable it.]

[>SKILLS:
-Multipurpose Aura Lv.1:
>Handy as hell, ever stuck in a poison field? No problem, aura can fix that by just saying “Purify” and an invisible aura will cover your whole body. The limitation and other uses have to be found on your own.]

Hm, very interesting. Oh right, I’m still wonder what the hell is special-

* ding*

[3 Stars, Emergency Test - In progress.]

[Survive the encounter with the Youkai of Boundaries .]

Oh-

*clap* You *clap* gonna be *clap* fucking kidding me. *clap*. It sounds soft but I could clearly hear it.

I slowly turned back with my right hand holding on the carry handle, buttstock full of blood, my face had a little bit of blood on it, same goes with the shirt and rig. I started breathing heavily.

Slowly, but surely. And I finally saw her.

A gap in mid air, many eyes inside the gap looking at me, they were observing me. Inside the gap, there was a smiling woman, sitting  on top of the gap, purple eyed, long blonde hair, pale pink mob hat with red ribbon in it, wearing a purple dress and a paper fan in her hand. Nice chest size tho.

Yukari Yakumo. The Gatekeeper of Gensokyo.

She unfolds her paper fan and now covers her mouth, her purple eyes now looking at me, I’m… don’t know how to feel, eventually her eyes pass though me and now looking at the corpses, especially the last one. Yeah ma’am, I crush that goblin face until you can’t recognize it anymore. Now, she folds her fan, pointing at me, raising it up and down slowly. Seems like she’s making me understand Japanese with that gesture. I look on top of her head.

[Lv. ? Youkai of Boundaries, Yukari Yakumo]

“So dear,” holy shit, she started speaking to me “mind telling me what did you do with ‘that’ Youkai?” Oh, erm I uh. Okay, HALF-BULLSHITTING TIME!

“Miss, I do not know who you are, and why you are here. But I can definitely tell you that, my mind goes on the loose and does that.” Also, why do I ain’t scared of her? Because of my mentality of treating Touhou characters like normal humans? Probably. Also my breathing is normal now, which is nice I guess?

“Your mind goes on the loose and does that? Could you please elaborate more about it?” She asked with a tone of questioning. Welp, I knew this was gonna happen. So I’m just gonna say the half truth.

“Alright, miss… uh”

“Yukari, Yukari Yakumo. Dear.” Well I guess that she’s fallen into my half-bullshitting.

“So, miss Yukari. I woke up in this unfamiliar land, while on my way home to school.” I started raising my SLR and pointing at my chest rig ready to bullshit- Wait, there’s no blood anymore and on my rifle, shirt, rig too! The goblins are gone too! I immediately look at her. “Miss Yukari, you’re not human aren’t you?” Yeah, your gap shenanigans won’t pass though my eyes!

She unfolds her fan and starts waving it at herself. Smiling.

“My, my what a smart boy. Indeed, I’m not a human.” I started raising up my carry handle and ready to hold the handguard. “Fufufu, calm down boy, I’m not those bloodthirsty Youkais you just met.”

“Youkai?” I questioned. Well, still bullshitting of course.

“To be simple dear, you know those tales of mythical beings, urban legends exist in a form of folklore or rumors exist in the west and east. Technically, they exist. In this land that is named, Gensokyo. Where west and east coexist. Now, I’m done about explaining this land. You can go back explaining yourself now.” Oh, thanks Yukari.

“So, where do I stop… ? Oh right, when I was about to explain the rifle and chest rig. Well, miss Yukari, if you ask me how I got these things, then I don’t know either.” Hey don’t look at me like that! “By the time I wake up, these things are already on me.” She gave me a small nod. “Well, about my mind running loose, is just that already a thing when I was born. Don’t get me wrong, I control it well. Except now.” She looked at me understandably.

“Pardon me dear, can I ask your name?” Oh she’s asking for my name. Alright then.

“Well miss, my name is… Victor. Victor Charlie, miss Yukari.”

“Very well then, Victor boy. I will point you to the way out of this forest.” She starts pointing the way behind me, south huh? “If you go that direction, you should see a dirt road once you get here.” I started looking the way she pointed . “I’m sure that you know what those flowers are. And those little tricks of yours.” Wait why does her sounds more closer-

“Wha-? WAH!” JESUS CHRIST! SHE JUST APPEARED BEHIND ME!

“My, my, seems like our little Charlie boy being easily scared.” Very funny, Yukari. Very funny. Ah and, she’s like 4 inches taller than me, like 6’3.

“It seems like my time is over, I hope you have a good journey in Gensokyo. Victor Charlie.” After she said that, she opened her gap and walked through it. “Farewell. We will meet somewhere again.” The gap disappeared.

…

* ding*

[3 Stars, Emergency Test - Completed.]
[Rewards: 20000 SP and IP, 1 SSP and SIP.]

* ding*

[Achievement Obtained - Close encounter with the Phantasm.]

[Meet the notable Sage of Gensokyo.]
[Rewards: 20000 SP and IP.]

I immediately lay near the tree and fell into my butt. “That was… Interesting.” Sweat coming down my forehead. I swipe it off my head and look at my hands. Clean, fresh just as new.

…

* woosh* The sound of the wind passing through my ears. I look at the red lilies, waving, petals falling. The sight looked beautiful yet sad at the same time. “No time to waste.” I started getting up, slung the rifle into the back of mine. Ready to go.

“ System, Aura mode: Purify.”

[Purify mode activated.]

Huh, I start to feel something covering me, that means this is a good sign to go.

I started going near the red lilies, looking at them. “Gonna expect the future to throw some shit at me.”

Then that’s when I walk into the poisonous red lilies field. Feeling fine- Oh god, that’s a human skeleton. Jesus Christ.

Author Notes :

Heya, I’m ProbablyAverageJoe or AverageJoe to be simple. 

So, this is my first time making a Touhou self-insert fic, with even the gamer trope too(even though this gamer system is not mine, but hey. At least it’s making more sense now). Now, I know what you readers are thinking right now: “Do you gonna end up making yourself a Gary Stu?” Well, maybe to some extent but not too much. And yes I’m 16.

The reason why I made this fanfic, is because Touhou fanfiction of self-insert and gamer type is kind of dying(at least for me). Plus I wanna hop in to try it out. Other Touhou fanfiction inspired me to do this, and will I make some reference about them in this fic? Maybe.

Shoutout to Ligoya and his self-insert Touhou fanfic, Accelerator Junior Getting Thrown Around in Gensokyo . I ‘borrow’ his gamer system and improve it by myself, and some moments of the chapters. No, there will be no large time skips until I make me spend 1 whole week in this fic. (Ligoya if you see this, please message me so I can get your permission.)

Then again, send me feedback and criticism(nicely), and I hope y’all readers have a good time!

Player System sheet:

Lv. 15 Questionable Actions, Victor Charlie

[Special System Points: 3
Special Item Points: 3
System Points: 56500
Item Points: 56500]

Equipments :

L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle : A British made FN FAL, with the difference being that it used imperial units, Semi-Auto only, and a folding cock. Powerful, kicks like a mule, accurate, well-placed shots over hall of devastation rounds? Call me. Currently have 14 rounds loaded.

Chest rig (Blue) : A rig that has 6 magazine pouches, means it can hold 140 rounds of 7.62 NATO.

Perks :

- Specialist
- Tiny Luck
- Bloody Mess

Skills :

- Multipurpose Aura Lv.1 : Current Mode: Purify

Inventory :

- Samsung phone : Apparently Mark just knows that having an android phone is bad. But not for me. And I have an idea for it.
- Bolo knife : A multipurpose tool, not complaining, is better than nothing.

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》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

Just moving on, just moving on. Totally didn’t almost piss myself because seeing a real human skeleton for the first time… I’m just gonna forget about it.

Anyway, I’m just walking on the red spider lilies. Feels kinda bad for trampling on them, but then again, I have no other way to travel. You probably ask me ‘couldn’t you just fly by using the System?’ Well…

[Insufficient points to purchase ‘flight’ for Multipurpose Aura. 500000 SP need to be required.]

Yeah, pricey as shit. Like what the fuck, I know is for balancing, but like isn’t this too much?

[Is optional, and we do not want to repeat ‘that’ kind of stuff anymore. Also fair warning, the more powerful skills you bought, the less potential your future ability.]

Wow, next time warn me earlier, System .

[I will.]

Ah right, I almost forgot about it, what’s with the ‘Special System/Item Points?’ Like what they’re about?

[Special System/Item Points is about upgrading your perks, skills and your items. The higher your perks, skills, the more costly it is to upgrade them. About Special Item Points not so much.
-Perk exclusive only, when you level up your perks it uses a roman numeral system. Example: I - II.

Note: Some perks, skills cannot be upgraded. Some can change names when upgrading.]

Understandable. So, what’s the exchange rate System/Item Points to Special one?

[40000 to 1.]

… okay, this is bullshit. GRAH! Whatever, it is what it is, living hell. Inventory .

* ding* the screen pops up, my phone and a weapon. Bolo knife, a multipurpose tool, you could use it as a wheat cutter, removing grass, kitchen knife, but most importantly slice and kill . Wha- why do I think the last part is important, oh right, my subconsciousness . Fucking hell. Welp, I better hope that my subconsciousness doesn’t go nuts in the future.

Grabbed the knife out, 14 inches long, the blade inside the leather holster and the curve handle. I strapped the holster to my left wrist, and finished! Oh right, also.

I felt like walking in this place was too boring. Don’t get me wrong, this place has a truly majestic view of it, but once you walk here for a bit, it gets boring. Like, it’s literally just purple cherry blossoms, red spider lilies, sometimes human skeletons or giant boulders for some reason. And I’m still alive because of this Aura skill. 

Speaking of human skeletons, I found something interesting about them, some of them wear early 2000’s clothes and old times outfits like from the second industrial revolution, and I realize. I could find some skeleton wearing old or somewhat new soldier uniforms, that’s when I could find a somewhat usable weapon or barely usable at all. It means FIREARMS! Wahaha! I’m so smart! Problem tho, I didn’t come across one while I was walking. Sure, I saw a few of them but they are in such bad condition that I doubt the System can fix it up. My [Tiny Luck] perk does what it says. Tiny.

Anyway, I got this idea hanging around my mind while I was walking. And I’m gonna do it right now. System ?

[Yes?]

“Use my phone inside of my inventory and make it into a part of your System program.” Yeah, I said out loud, problem?

[This will cost 1 Special Item Point, would you like to proceed?]

Yeah, yeah whatever, just do it.

[Incorporating Player phone into part of the system…… Completed! Please think or say ‘Mobile’ to access it.]

Okay? Mobile .

*ding* Your average blue screen shows up, let’s see how this works.

So it uses the browser tab system, there are 2 of them called ‘Status’ and ‘Mobile’. I'm in mobile mode right now, it still has your average mobile phone screen but wide, full wifi, full signal, apps, and most importantly at all. No ads in the music apps, I’m so free now. Also, there is a timer at the right top corner of the screen. 8:07 A.M.

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained - Well spent.]

[Use a Special System/Item Point for the first time.]

[Rewards: 9000 SP and IP.]

Ignoring the achievement, I started looking for music to hear and to make it less boring while walking in Muenzuka. Alright, what song should I choose? Aha! Found one that’s fit for this!

Judas Priest - Hell Patrol

Oh yeah, that intro kicks! Time to walk and make that song go in repeat! I turned off the screen and started walking while joyfully listening to one of my favorite bands.

Hakurei Shrine, before Victor moved

Hakurei Shrine, this place frequently visited by Youkais who got defeated by the Shrine Maiden of Paradise (sometimes her magician friend is involved too), because of this, barely (normal) humans visit the shrine, even more (if any at all) leave donations. Inside of the small, and totally not a dilapidated shrine, there was this shrine maiden, she's dressed in a traditional-looking garb with a red and white motif bearing detached sleeves. 

That, my friend, is the Caretaker of Paradise, Reimu Hakurei . Well, what is she doing now? She’s currently sitting with her leg inside of the kotatsu, with her blanket covering her back. After all, this early morning is rather cold, for her at least.

“This morning is still the same as always.” She said while taking a sip of her green tea. Looking to her left, a view of Gensokyo itself, a view that was so majestic, beautiful, unpolluted, that can make anyone call this a paradise. But to her and Gensokyo residents, this is just their normal everyday view. “I wonder if Marisa is gonna visit me, or that Oni first.” She said calmly.

One month has passed, after the events of ‘Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days.’

“Reimu!” A certain female voice could be heard outside the shrine, the figure came closer and closer. Until, a step down near the door can be heard. “Wassup, ze? What ‘cha doing? Still covering yourself with that?” She said while pointing out the kotatsu and the blanket covering her.

The person in question was wearing her custom witch outfit, hat along with her broom at her right hand, is Marisa Kirisame, Ordinary Human Magician .

The shrine maiden did see this question irritating at first, but forgets it. Overall, her and Marisa have been long buddies since they were kids. Even before the spell card rules were established.

“Hah, what do you want Marisa?” She questioned along with a sigh.

"Nothing ze~ just checking ya doing.” She replied. “So ze, early bird huh?” She comments. 

“Mhm, I woke up soon, because my body felt like it.” She replied along with a neutral tone. She takes another sip of her tea. “So, what are you gonna do next?”

“Probably visiting the village first to see how is doin’, and the mansion later to borrow some books for my magic research.” She responds. “I could probably visit Kourin’ if I still have the time, ze.”

“Good to hear that you never abandon your ‘borrowing’ habit, Marisa.”

“Thanks, ze! I worked very hard on the stuff I borrowed.” She replied with left hand across her chest, a show of pride.

The Shrine Maiden gives the magician a quick glare, before back into her usual stoic face. “You gonna go now?” she asked.

“Yep, done checking you up. And, flying off now!” After she said that, she got on her broom and flew off to her destination. The Shrine Maiden starts getting up off the blanket, ready to clean up the shrine and sweeping the leaves outside the shrine. Suddenly…

“Why did I feel something in my mind telling me this is gonna be a long day?”

Muenzuka

Lalalala~ man, I should probably switch songs, don’t get me wrong it still kicks tho, but like. New song, new mood. Man.

Alright, let’s see my playlist, hm. Painkiller? No, too intense for walking. Master of Puppets? Nah, that one save for Alice or not. Don’t Tread on Me? No, currently nothing's gonna step on me while walking, I think. C’mon, c’mon at least something good in this damned playlist is fit for this, aha! Found one!

Johnny Horton - North to, Alaska

Straight up to the song, great singer, and most importantly at all, it fit this current situation I'm in right now. Walking in this damn field named ‘Muenzuka’. Still alive because of the Multipurpose Aura skill. Speaking of skill, I realize that my Multipurpose Aura skill is somewhat similar to Reimu Aura Manipulate ability, specifically ‘the natural spirits of living things’. Yeah, I’m not so sure about that part, since Zun hasn’t talked or shown the ability yet. Maybe he forgets it or saves it for a special occasion? Maybe. But hey, I am not sure how Zun mind works, other than beer.

So, after checking how my only skill works, I found out that I can use other modes with no limit at once, for example: I’m currently on Putify mode right? Then, clean mode. It removes powders and dirt sticks into my SLR, how does it work? Well, I already did it while walking, just shake the rifle down, all the dirty stuff falls out of it, done. Convenient I must say. 

Oh right, the main problem is that the skill starts out weak, which I can deal with, and can only do basic stuff. What do I mean by ‘basic stuff’? Well, remember what I said about ‘other modes with no limit at once?’ Yeah that doesn't apply to what type of aura it is. By that I mean that I don’t allowed to use high end aura. Sure, I can purchase them and it will incorporated it into my aura skill early, but 3 things: First, is too fucking expensive (and reasonable). Second, even if I have the points I won’t buy them because I don’t feel like it. Lastly, my potential ability in the future, I don’t mind at first, but then I realize almost everyone in Gensokyo is overpowerful. God, I’m so forgetful.

Well, I asked the System how high or low my potential is, and it said ‘Go ask the locals’. I was pissed at this response at first, but slowly realized that the System wants me to go Adventuring(at least what it is trying to tell me), and I can't blame it honestly. I wonder how strong my future ability is? No, just focus on upgrading my Aura first, ability later.

Only the future will tell I guess- Hm? A dirt road- “WOAH-WA-” *Thud!* Goddamnit, what did my left foot just walk into? Oh shit, I’m gonna seeze- “AH-CHOOOOO!” GODDAMNIT THESE FUCKING FLOWERS! No, Victor, calm your horses down, calm my FUCKING ass down. God. Man what the hell did I step over? I look at the ‘thing’ that just stops me. HUH? IS THAT A M60!? Holy shit give me, I stand up immediately, take a look at it. And it's pretty worn out. Darn.

Well, I guess better than nothing, then. I don’t find any skeletons near this gun, so, I say finders keepers. Aight, now just gonna grab the carry handle at my right hand, heavy… and put it in inventory so I can fix it later and use it in-

[Specialist activated, fixing and reinforcing M60 GPMG¹.]

(1: Shortened, full name is General Purpose Machine Gun.)

Wh-

[Tiny luck activated, giving this GPMG M60 into a unique type of machine gun.]

Before I was gonna say anything, a bright light suddenly flashed over my MG and into my eyes. "CON ĐỊT MẸ CÁI ÁNH SÁNG CHÓ GÌ ĐÂY??” I swore in my mother tongue, not very happy to get flashbang by the system itself, oh well, it is what it is.

After that flash died down (fuck that shit), I look at the M60 still at my both hands, it looks… more freshly new, like straight out of a factory along with a sling. And it’s somewhat less heavier now, what the fuck? System, what the hell did you just do with this M60?

[Simple, we just replaced the old materials of this M60 with new ones in the future, fixing it at the same time. However, due to the Player perk {Tiny Luck} in effect, there’s gonna be some things gonna make this special.]

Special? Like what?

[Currently there’s 3 things that make this M60 special: First, Auto-Maintenance, you will not have to do the painful maintenance task of this MG, because it will repair, clean itself. Well, it depends how many times you use this MG in one singlar day, the max is 7 hours long. Second, the barrel took longer to be heated, 700 rounds passed through it, still halfway to be smoked, also it is more accurate now. Lastly, it has a name.]

Soooo, what name is it? And what’s the current weight of it?

[Paranoid. The weight you asked for is 9.5 kg/19,8lbs. Also, you should look at the handle.]

Wow what a name, guess I’m Animal Mother² then, I guess? I take a look at the handle. Holy crap, there’s white rough writing modern Japanese scripts on the right, on the left it is the same thing but English, Paranoid/偏執的な, amazing I must say. Whoop, gonna stop the music. Mobile . And done.

(2: Character from the movie “Full Metal Jacket”. Great film, deep meanings.)

Well then, time to put this Pig into the inventory, so inventory . Hold on, why are there 1000 7.62 NATO disintegrating belt tracer rounds in my first slot of my inventory? Tracer is understandable, but why? Don’t tell me.

“I kid you not.” I shoved my right left into the inventory panel while the right holding the handle of the Pig, pulled the belt out, red tip. “No shit, the System can do this.” I crouched down, the panel did the same, opened the top cover up, pulled back the changing handle to get the bolt back, done and forward charging handle. I started putting the belt on the feed tray, fitted, and closed the cover. I stand up, the panel does the same. “No way, the inventory can be the belt holder, instead of my left arm.” I was amazed by this. Can I adjust the screen? Hold on, holy crap I can. Well erm, let’s just make it near the gun.

Wait, how the hell do I count how much rounds left in my MG- *ding* huh? Oh, just the system gives me the GUI near the sight of the gun, to give me an idea how many rounds are left. Like one of those FPS games. 

*Whoosh* Ah right, I’m still in Muenzuka. Which gun do I use before going to the Road of Reconsideration now? Hmmm, let’s use the Pig, because it reminds me of something while walking in the Forest of Magic, if I walk into it.

* ding *

[Achievement Obtained - Find one of the secrets of the System.]

[System gives one of the advantages for your own cause.]
[Rewards: 10000 System/Item Points]

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained - Perk secrets.]

[Found out one of the perks secrets uses.]

[Rewards: 5000 System/Item Points]
Ignorance is bliss, I started putting my SLR and unstrap the chest rig into the inventory, goddamn get in there. Done. Grabbed the sling on the M60, made it into my left shoulder, gun at the right hip. Adjust the screen very near the feed tray, so dust won’t get into it. Let my right hand grab into the handle, so I can somewhat make my shoulder not sore, a bit. I take a look at the dirt path, then look behind at the last time. “Gonna miss this place later.” Finally, now I’m out of that damned field. I started walking into the path.

Why, I’m I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, hell is here

I WAS BORN FOR DYING!

Road of Reconsideration

10 minutes have passed… while walking along this path. Now I’m being comforted, not Akyuu, by a werewolf that is over 6ft tall. How amazing. “Outsiders, supposed to die in there.” Wha- Oh it watches me the whole time, without me even noticing. On its head.

[Lv. 32 Werewolf]

“Doesn’t matter you made it out alive, outsider. NOW DIE!” Oh. DUCK! EEK! Okay thank god that I dodge that thing lunge. “What is the point of dodging away now outsider? NOW STAND THERE AND BE MY FOOD!”
NO SHIT! RUN! I started getting my ass run fast as possible, yes, while carrying this Pig too. “Stop trying to get away and be my FOOD!” AHHHH! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO? “DIE!” WA! SHARPS CLAWS! LEFT! STILL RUNNING! 

AHA! I GOT AN IDEA! SYSTEM ACTIVATE BLOODY MESS!

[Bloody Mess perk activated.]

I saw a forest! Now but first. I stopped. “HEY HAIRY ASS!” YEAH YOU!

“What did you call me?” Not happy huh? Then I.

“Hairy ass” Yeah, I’m asking for a death wish here.

“You, you, YOU FUCKING OUTSIDER!” OH SHIT HE LEAP AT ME WITH THOSE CLAWS! RIGHT SIDE! SHIT TOO LATE! “NOW DIE!”

“NO!” BUTTSTOCK RISE AND SMACK INTO THIS WEREWOLF FACE! *SMACKED* O-oh I think I smacked a bit too hard. I stepped back a bit, is the safety on? Oh course it is. Turn it off. Raise my M60 into my underarms. 50 yards.

“WHY YOU!” IT'S RUNNING TOWARDS ME! Actually. “YOUR LITTLE TOY WON’T HELP YOU-” *BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG* “WHAAAAAAA!” Done. Huh, it does blow to chunks, at the left arm only. Well, I mean left a 5 round burst at its chest, exploding like Fallout style. I started going towards it, shit man, those wounds are some serious stuff. Yeah, I know that 7.62 NATO is powerful. But like, not powerful enough to make a wound bigger than the bullet itself (even though it was slightly). I dropped back my MG to its original position, now near the werewolf, now breathing heavily while holding its wounds, while the now gone left arm is bleeding. “So,” I said. “Last words before I kill you?” I draw out my bolo knife. 

“You, outsider. My kin will find you. Hunt you. AND THEY WILL BE YOUR END-” * SLASH* I cutted it head into half, before it could say anything more. The blade reached down to the neck of it, some blood stuck into my face. Perhaps I did it too hard? Yeah.

*ding*

[Achievement Obtained - Born to kill.]

[Kill any being that is higher level than the Player itself. For the first time.]

[Rewards: A ‘special’ helmet, 1 Special System/Item Points.]

Ignoring. I pulled the knife out of its neck without taking a sweat. I saw that the werewolf had its head chopped into half by myself. I looked at the blade, blood slowly dipping down, and the blade shining at the same time due to my cleaning mode of my aura skill still on. I put the knife back into the holster. “I’m not gonna let that dead body rot on this path.” I start pulling the werewolf out of this road effortlessly, kinda heavy, but still effortless. Once that’s done, now I think about my previous actions.

No, no, no. That's for later, I’m going to check what type of helmet the System gave me. But first. Status .

[Lv. 23 Breed to Kill, Victor Charlie]

[Ability: The Player has not reached the requirement yet.]

[Special System Points: 4]

[Special Item Points: 3]

[System Points: 80500]

[Item Points: 80500]

[PERKS:

>Specialist

>Tiny Luck

>Bloody Mess]

[SKILLS:

>Multipurpose Aura Lv. 1: Current mode: Purify, Clean]

That title is questionable at least. Well then, time to check the inventory to see what type of helmet the system gave me. Inventory . Let’s see.

…

You can’t be kidding me… THIS IS A VIETNAM WAR US M1 HELMET! And it’s not even customized yet! It came along with a box of spades, black oil pen, and a piece of paper that said “Do whatever you want with it.” Hah-ha-ha. Christ.

So, what should I write? I was originally going to write ‘Born to Kill’ but it is not Gensokyo friendly. Then I just write ‘Born to Fight’ on top, ‘Forced to Glory’ on the bottom. Right at the left. Then I put the box of spades on the front of the headband, I take the 5 spent cartridges laying on the ground that came from my MG, put it on the right side of the front onto the headband.

I wear it, kinda spacey. I may look badass or silly while wearing this M1 helmet. “Guess I’m done here, time to go into the forest. Hoping that I won’t get out of it late, or worse case, ambush by a bunch of Youkais.” I grabbed the handle of the M60, took a deep breath, then let it out. “This is gonna be a tiresome walk.” I started going to the Forest of Magic. 

Forest of Magic

Powoo! Man, this forest looks more beautiful than I expected. Anyway, I'm still walking randomly because it doesn't have a thing called ‘roads’. Can’t blame honestly, because it is kinda dense, wide and probably most of the spots are not discovered yet. Yes, I’m aware that I'm literally being G.I³ in ‘Nam ‘65. Except that I’m Vietnamese, which is ironic. But hey, I only liked the aesthetic of it alright? No hard feelings.

(3: Stands for “Government Issued”. Used only in WWII but still applied here.)

Birds chippings, breeze flows over, trees covering the sunlights, some are covering, some are not. Bushes all around, tree stumps, butterflies, fairies, which are generally not clever, so that’s a plus. Dangerous Youkais may ambush me somewhere, And lost outsiders. Moving, moving and moving on.

3 Hours later…

Didn’t get ambushed. Guess I’m lucky then.

Alright, my left shoulder starting to feel sore because of this Machine Gun, gonna, fucking find the village quick, ASAP. 

Huh? I saw something shining outside of the trees, Misty Lake I believe? I walk towards the source of the light, out of the trees. Yep, I was right, kinda misty too. The place where our 2 beloved fairies lived here, Cirno and Daiyousei. Right, I forgot that the mermaid, Wakasagihime, lived inside the lake. Well, she's not important right now, not to be disrespectful by the way. Next to it is the tall Youkai Mountain, dangerous, but rich fortunes can be found, a certain giant red mansion, and Cirno house. And there’s a broken PBR⁴ which almost hidden inside of the trees how amazing-

(4: Stands for “River Boat, Patrol”, an armed boat which was extensively used in the Mekong Delta region in the Vietnam War.)

Wait. Run that back. I ran towards it, and holy shit. Is a real motherfucking one, but the forward of it got heavily blown up, probably came from a RPG warhead or got motar’ed, so I’m not sure is a Mark I or II, at least the back is fine. It has vines everywhere, kinda rusty, dumped down. I hopped onto it back, good ol’ 50. Cal HMG⁵ here with a shield, MK18 Hand cranking belt fed grenade launcher at the left of the two sided legs covers. There are some dried blood spots, but no skeleton here. Probably the Youkai’s dragged out the bodies on this boat and ate it outside of it when the boat got spirited away on land. Well, let’s check if there are any more weapons still on it. I placed down my M60 because I don’t wanna get my left shoulder sore anymore.

(5: Stands for Heavy Machine Gun.)

Alright so, the weapons I found are 2 M16A1s already loaded with 20 rounds mag(don’t worry they’re empty) including 6 extra 20 round mag for it, I guess 3 mag for one of each M16A1 then. Next it’s M1911A1 inside of a holster belt with 2 spare clips, a 12 gauge Stevens Model 77E shotgun with the recoil pad at the back of the stock, and the last is the M79 Grenade Launcher aka The ‘Thumper’, break-action deadly, 40mm Explosive. All of them are fixed up by the Specialist perk, no ammunition to be found, yikes. Well, there is bright light but the System takes notes from me, and reduces the intensity of the light, so I’m happy with that. 

Right, I have to maintain all the weapons by hand. Well that sucks. Aughhhhhhh,  inventory. I started putting my weapons into the inventory. Oh right, don’t forget this binocular I just found out randomly. Going to slung over my neck, so I can use it to watch stuff far away.

I’m wondering, does the inventory have stacking? I’m pretty sure I haven’t asked that. And I’m sure that it only had one page.

[Yes it does, it can stack up to 50.]

Isn't that, like a lot? Anyway, while I was searching I saw an open road. I guess the village was that way then. Alright, done shoved all of the weapons into my inventory, took up like 8 of my slots inside of it. I hop out of it, and look at the boat. Saying goodbye to this patrol boat. Gonna revisit it later.

…I wonder if I can make this PBR into a Spell Card when I have the chance. God, that would be funny as hell.

*ding*

[2 Stars, Quest Inprogress - Another man’s fantasy is another man’s dream.]

[Find a way to fix the PBR, and make it into a spell card. Location marked.]

Real funny system, real funny. Welp, no time to waste, time to test these binoculars. God, these glasses make it harder to use it, zoom it in, let’s see… aha! The red mansion gate. Eh, the only interesting thing is a certain redhead chinese gate guard is sleeping, napping? Meh, I don’t really know. I stopped watching, picked up the M60, rotated the MG, fedtray facing up the sky, flipped out the right bipod. And put it on my SHOULDER! God, I could feel the fucking weight on this thing, Jesus Christ. Even if it was reduced to like 1 kg/2.2 pounds, it is still a pain to carry. No wonder why it is called the ‘Pig’. Grabbed the folded one, adjusting my graffitied M1 helmet. Still in my white shirt with the red black-ish collar, school badge at the left, down more is just my dark blue pants, holster at the left of the hip to hold the knife. Now, let’s move to the village. I go on the path that I saw.

Near the Village Gate

So uh, I’m at the Human Village, almost at the gate to be correct. Yes, it was a joyful walk. But erm uh. There’s 2 soldiers, foot soldiers to be correct. I look at their head, far away.

[Lv. 15 Village Guard]

[Lv. 9 Village Guard]

Yeah, I’m gonna get comforted again . Well, at least 2 are real human beings, and the sun is setting down. Sigh , no other choice. I walked to the gate.

“Halt! State your business!” The Lv. 9 speaks up, raises the spear at me, he looks fairly young, I guess he’s 17 years old. Crap, what should I say now?

“Hitotsu, let the person though, and go report to Keine-sensei, that we have another outsider coming though.” Oh thanks, the guard looks like he’s in his 30’s. The other guard, Hitotsu, looks flustered, but then again. “Yes! Seimei-sama!” And there he goes. 

“So,” eep! “You're a youngster but tall, with a grown face like that? Ha! Outside world is truly strange.” Uh alright? “Not a sociable one? It’s fine, back in my times I met a few of them.” Oh? “So you, youngster. What is your name?”

“Victor. Victor Charlie, Mr. Seimei.” He’s gonna call my name strange along with the honorific, isn’t it?

“Ha! Outside world with their strange names, and honorifics.” Knew it. “Also, you know kid, there’s something about the ‘helmet’ you're wearing right now, along with the strange long, large metal stick on your right shoulder. That you’re carrying right now.” My M1 helmet and the M60? Should I tell him about it? No. I should keep it a secret.

“Well, Mister Seimei.” I took a deep breath. “I can’t talk about the stuff that I’m using right now.” Exhale.

“Secret, eh? I can’t blame ya kid. Every man has their own mystery. Anyway, your old man's full name is Seimei Nagai. Victor kid.” I don’t really know what to say. “Before you get into the village, if you meet some lady with long silver hair with blue highlights, dark blue dress with a red ribbon, with a strange hat on top of her head, that is Keine-sensei. The village guardian.” Noted. “Extra note, she’s kinda an overprotective type, especially outsiders like you.” Ah, I understand. “Now, you can go into the village now.” I bowed down, and he did the same too. I started going into the village gate. “Wish for the best of yours, kiddo!” Wish for the best of yours too, Seimei-san.

Getting into the village with this M1 helmet, M60 Machine Gun on my right shoulder, and my school unifrom, can grab villagers attention, so I should expect that. Nevermind, it’s even 1 mintue yet, and the villagers already noticed me with my stuff. Great shit.

Author Notes

Wow, it took me 2 weeks huh? World record right here. (It took me 6 weeks to make the first chapter due to lack of motivation.)

Anyways, this chapter focuses on how the update and limitations of the System worked, the unique quirks of the System. Lastly, my view on Gensokyo. Oh yeah, Post-IMaP on 3rd POV of Reimu and Marisa too, because I don’t wanna make this chapter too centric on me. Added the village guards because there’s barely any people mention it in Touhou fanfics, so I did it, but more alive.

Added an armed boat for the plots, and it seems like I kinda getting myself too many weapons. Fear not! Because I have an idea for them, in the future. Now excuse me, I need to find more weapons that fit right in for my fanfic.

By the way, if you readers out there don’t understand how the weapons or things I mentioned look like, or how it worked. Check out Forgotten Weapons , Hickok45 or Johnny Johnson on youtube to give you a general idea on how it worked.

With that being said, keep criticism at the constructive level. If any readers out there suggesting or requesting an idea that came up to your mind, that caught my interest I will add on this or just reference it. Send it on reviews or PM doesn’t matter, aslong it’s caught my eyes attention. With that being said. Godspeed .

Player System sheet: 

Lv. 23 Breed to Kill, Victor Charlie

[[Special System Points: 4]

[Special Item Points: 3]

[System Points: 80500]

[Item Points: 80500]

Equipments:

M60 “Paranoid/偏執的な” : An unique M60 which was fixed and reinforced by the System, which was hard to break it. English written at the left side of the handle, Japanese at the right. This thing eats a lot of rounds, kinda painful to carry(even it was reduced), but can shred down a horde of enemies. Here is the special things that make it unique:
- Auto-Maintenance : If the gun is jammed, broken or got a round stuck inside of it? Fixed automatically. Dirty? Cleaned automatically. The max is 7 hours long if I use it too much.
- Longer Lasting Accurate Barrel : 700 rounds go through it, still not smoking. Also it’s more accurate now. So that’s nice.

Bolo Knife;  Slashed through a werewolf head, still stoic.

Binocular ; Your standard binoculars. I swear there’s nothing special about it.

US M1 Helmet : Graffitied, the right side said ‘Born to Fight’ on top, ‘Forced to Glory’ at the bottom. Along with a box of spades, 5 spent cartridges of 7.62 NATO stick on the front of the helmet.

Perks:

-Specialist : Truly special.
-Tiny Luck
-Bloody Mess

Skills:

- Multipurpose Aura Lv.1 : Current Mode: Purify, Clean

Inventory:
(10 slots left)

-Chest rig(blue)
-SLR L1A1
-995 round 7.62 NATO disintegrating belt tracers(currently screen shared and used)
-2x M16A1
-6x 20 5.56 NATO round mags
-M1911A1 inside of a holster
-Steven Model 77E 12 gauge shotgun
-M79 Grenade Lanucher

Chapter Text

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

I’m walking straight on the main path of the village, hearing whispers, and gossipings from the residents of the village. Due to my ‘improved’ senses from the [Specialist] perk, I could hear the villagers talking about me, all of them vary, but most of them almost are the same thing, like.

“Another outsider? Hope he won't be gone soon.” Yeah that’s not gonna happen. Unless I’m asking for a deathwish.

“First time in my life seeing an outsider and he’s also young too, wishing luck for him.” Uh thanks? “But I wonder, do outsiders always have these kinds of weird things on them?” What do you mean- oh, right, my equipment. Forgot about that.

“Outsider again? I bet he will be arrogant anytime soon.” Why so rude, damn. At least I know that the villagers are not always nice people.

Well, that’s a few examples of them, now I just need to find the center of the village. Does this place even have a center in the first place tho? Guess I’ll find out when I get there. 

Gonna, use the sling on the M60 over my left shoulder, the MG at the right hip. Right hand holding the handle. Alright, now let’s go-

“Excuse me, are you perhaps the new outsider?” A soft female voice speaks up behind me. “If so, please turn around so I can confirm it.” I knew exactly who it was. So I turned around.  Keine-sensei. On her head.

[Lv. 40 History-Eating Half Beast, Keine Kamishirasawa]

She's almost the same height as me, but is an inch taller.

“Hello, you’re the new outsider right?” I nodded. “Great! Uhm, so. What is your name?”

"Victor Charlie, Miss Keine.” Let me see her reaction.

“Oh uhm, Victor Charlie isn’t it?” I nod. “You know me from one of the gate guards right?” Oh, she knew it.

“Yeah.” Then she just gave me a warm smile. That’s very nice of her.

“No need for honorifics.” She said warmly, glanced at me for a bit then said.  “Perhaps you’re not a talkative one?” I nodded again. “I see… then follow me, I will show you around the village.”

“Thanks. I appreciate it.” I don’t know which words I should use in this situation. And I’m still dead calm outside, or should I say pretty much emotionless. But not the insides.

Keine’s perspective

In my entire life of being guardian of the Human Village, along with escorting outsiders. This is the strangest one I’ve ever met… not only was he an almost silent type, he looked everywhere in this village, and just… nonchalant everything about it. Not only that, he was holding onto something strange, big, long, dark color, and it looked heavy. With wearing… a ‘helmet’? I think it’s called that by outsiders. With some foreign writings, along with something shining at the right front of it.

His outfit is kind of pretty much an outsider standard. White shirt with a red-black stripe collar, dark-blue pants with holster holding his shortblade, which is strange. With black-white shoes. However, I felt something was not right about them.

Judging by his face, along with the glasses, I can say that he was coming somewhere the same as us. Precisely, somewhere in the Asia continent. But, his height is pretty unusual for someone coming from Asia, I guess the Outside World got a better diet? If so, I would be glad. His name is a bit suspicious though.

…

So, after I showed him. The school, shops, general stores, restaurants, blacksmith workhouses including the one owned by a friendly Youkai, logging camps, glassworks, slaughterhouses, the market, farming fields. And I think that’s all I could think of. I might have missed some of them, but I shouldn’t worry. He should find it all on his own. Overall, he is the curious one. But still.

I can’t stop wondering about myself about him, especially his unusually calm attitude to… all of this currently happening to him right now. Most outsiders will panic, worry, and be horrified when I tell them about Youkais. But, did he meet one of them yet? If not, I would be glad, but…

Victor’s perspective

This village has much more facilities than the canon one for some reason. Not gonna complain about it tho, better than nothing- “Pardon me for this, but. I have a question for you.”

“What is the question you want for me, Keine. Also, I’m 16. Forgot to tell you about that.” Her face now surprised a bit. Then turn into a bit of a curious look.

“I see, you’re still a teenager…” She thinks for a bit then realizes. “Oh right, the question.” I’m wondering what is it? “So, have you seen a youkai yet?” Okay uh.

“Yes, in fact I have. Well, I killed some of them-” Oh crap, I did just-

“YOU DID WHAT!?” Oh Jesus Christ, I didn’t expect her to scream at me like that- WOAH- She dragged me to her face by grabbing my collar! Her face looks pretty tho- Ow, ow, OW! My shoulders are being gripped very tight by her!

“Tell me, did you actually kill one of them ?” Oh shit, her voice is serious now. Should I? Uh… screw it. No balls, I’m going to say the truth. Currently tired, hungry from all of the shits that happened outside the village.

“In fact, it was some of them.” I corrected her calmly.

“But how did you-” Pause.

“Before you say anything, Miss Keine.” I interrupted her. “I suggest that we should maybe talk about that in a private space.” I suggest.

“What do you mean by that-” She stopped her talk, looked around a bit then realized it. The nearby villagers are looking at us, whispering to each other. “O-oh, I-I see what you mean…” She now looks a bit embarrassed by that, obviously. She shakes her head, goes back to her usual calm demeanor. “But please, follow me to my house now. Victor.” Or nevermind, her tone turned into a serious one. But I'm gonna keep my calm demeanor, through the village.

“Got it. So, where is your house at?” Oh c’mon, don’t glare at me like that. She took a glance at my ‘special’ M60. Then look at my face, narrowed her eyes at me. Still gripping tight on my shoulders. Ow.

“You're gonna explain to me what that ‘thing’ is.” She mentioned my machine gun.

“Sure. Only for you. Also, Keine, can you stop gripping tight on my shoulders?”

She realized it, then removed her hands off my shoulders. Ah, much better.

“Follow me to the office.” She said while looking cautiously at me.

“Got it.” She started walking first, then I followed her later.

My god. I can still hear the damn villagers speaking to each other about what just happened… let’s just hope that it's not gonna end up making me a youkai. Because in Gensokyo, belief is power.

20 minutes later…

So, I’m still in a dirt pathway, Through the old style houses. Walking down behind Keine, still cautious of my movements. There’s other people walking besides us looking at me curiously, especially glancing at my Machine Gun. Then, Keine looked behind me for a bit, then said. “Don’t mind the people, we’re almost there.” Uh huh, got it. “Also, Victor.” Huh? “Why are you so awfully silent on the way to my office? Like, don’t you have any questions for me?” She questioned me. Well…

“I don’t feel like it.” She looked at me for a bit after I said that, then spoke up.

“Right.” Wha-? “Life in the outside world is not that simple, correct?” O- damn, she knows.

“You could say it like that.” To be honest, life out there ain’t simple, Gensokyo has its own too, I’m a realistic person overall.

“I see…” She said while rubbing her chin. Then she stopped right at a door. “We're here.” Huh, her house is pretty near to school, and it’s fairly big too. Then she opened the lock, grabbed the knob, and rotated it, opening the door. After that, she went in first. I will go in later.

…

The house itself is… strangely modern, probably from the Kappas. The room itself is not too big, and not too small ethier, I could see the kitchen. A stack of papers lay on top of a desk along with a chair under it, a bookshelf full of various kinds of books, a medium size couch along with a small wooden table in the middle of it. There’s a window in front of the desk that I didn’t notice until now. Seeing the sun setting down, the room is getting darker.

Then I heard a switch turned on, lighting up the house itself. “Ehem.” Huh? Oh yeah, forgot about her. “Would you kindly take a seat on the sofa?” She said nicely. “If you are wondering if the house interior looks strangely ‘modern’ to you, it was by a Kappa, but we’ll discuss it later.” 

“Alright.” I approached the sofa, then sitted on it, and I laid my MG between my thighs. This sofa is quite comfortable…

Then Keine took the chair under the desk, seated in front of me, eyes gazed upon me. “So tell me, how did you kill a youkai? In fact, even managed to kill some of them. And,” She pointed towards my M60. “ What is that thing? ” Oh boy…

 Alright. There goes nothing…

“It's a machine gun.” I answered her.

“A what?” She looks confused at my answer. Keeping my neutral face, I grabbed my machine gun that still had the ammo belt on it, folded up the bipod, and placed it on the wooden table, the barrel facing east. Then she placed her hand on the chin, curiously looking at it.

Then I started explaining to her how machine guns work. This is gonna take a while…

Some moments of explanation later…

Okay so, I finished explaining to Keine the basics of a machine gun. Now she’s recapping my basic explanation of it.

“So you telling me that, this ‘M60’ or ‘medium machine gun’ you called it, capable of firing ‘bullets’ in a fast rate, heavy, can be used on the shoulder, underarms, but laying on the ground using it is the most effective because of the ‘bipod’, is loud when firing, supposed to have a ‘muzzle flash’ you speak of, but the ‘flash hider’ at the end of a barrel did it’s job, so it doesn’t have it anymore, it’s main role is about ‘suppressive firing’. And, it needs ‘ammunition’ to fire. Am I correct?”

“Yes.” I replied back. God, I really needed to eat some food. And maybe a shower too. Wait- no, the aura did its job. Forgot about that.

“I’m still wondering,” She spoke up. “The ‘bullets’ you speak of, are physical right?” Okay, this is gonna be a rough one. Half-stupid time.

“Yes? Why do you ask that? Is there something important about it-”

“OF COURSE IT IS!” O-oh, jeez- “WOAH- WA!” Well shit. She stood up, and grabbed my collar, pulling me up, her brown eyes looking directly at my face. Now I’m afraid.

“Tell me, are you a youkai hidden under human skin?” …well, I can’t blame if she mistakenly thinks that I am a Youkai.

“N-no, I’m not.” Now her eyes narrowed at mine, checking if I am lying or not.

“How can I believe your words then?” Her voice is quite furious now.

“W-well, if I’m one of those ‘Youkai’ you just said. Why am I not hurting or worse, ending the life of a… human?” I responded back.

“I don’t believe it.” She said coldly with a hint of disgust. Well, guess I’m fucked-

“Oh dear, it seems like our special outsider got into trouble on the first day.” Wait, that fucking playful voice. And Keine just realized it too. We both turned our heads to the source of voice. A gap can be seen, full of eyes, scary as usual. Then a womanly figure walks out, and is Yukari. Working dress huh?

“Yukari!” Keine screams, Thud! And released me, landing my ass onto the ground. Ouch. “What are you planning this time!”

“Hmm? What do you mean by that my dear Keine?” Yukari said playfully, while covering her mouth with a fan.

“Him!” Keine angrily pointed at me, while still looking at her. Still sitting on the ground. “It is your doing!” 

Yukari just standing there, humming in thoughts, gazing at her eyes at mine and Keine. Eventually, she speaks. “Well Keine, I did in fact speak to him, but never brought him to this land in the first place. In fact, he just happened to have… something special, to be here, at all.” Then she locked her eyes into mine, goosebumping myself in the process. “Say Victor, did you forget to tell my dear Keine that you did ‘it’ for self-defense?” 

“Y-yeah, I did ‘it’ in the name of self-defense...” I replied back. Should say that sooner.

Yukari nodded her head once, getting her paper fan out of her mouth, folded, revealing a smile onto my face. She turns her head to Keine. “See, he’s not lying.”

Keine's face is now in a state of confusion, with a hint of shock.

“Keine. I know that you’re disbelieving about this, but you ought to believe it, is the truth overall. Plus, he’s still young at age and rather naive.” She said, “I may not be able to read minds like that Satori. But trust me, you know me well, right?”

I take a peek at Keine, she’s rather exhausted from it, rubbing her temples. “Fine, I’ll trust you this time.”

“Good~” Yukari playfully said. “Also, Victor?”

“Uh, what is Miss Yukari?”

She came closer to me, said. “Kindly stand up please?” I standed up, reminding myself that she’s taller than me. “Good! Now, I’ve something to say for you. Can you guess what it is?” She smirked.

I shrugged. “No idea.”

“Aw, that’s bad but I can expect it.” What? “Anyway, what I’m telling you is that, try to not kill youkais next time. Even if it has the intention to kill you. But still, control the damage as minimal as possible.” Ah, understandable. But still.

“How so?” I ask her, acting dumb that I don’t know what the hell is ‘Danmaku’ or ‘Spell Card Rule’ is.

“Simple actually. Tomorrow you’ll meet one of my… Well, let’s just say ‘close friend’ of mine visiting you tomorrow when I told her. She will guide you on how to fight without the bloodshed part.” I had a feeling that the ‘close friend’ part she said is Reimu. “Either way, the time is getting late, Ran is probably waiting for me at home, and probably Chen too. So.” A gap appeared behind her, Yukari slowly walked into it, when she was near it, she stopped and turned around her head, looking at both of us, me and Keine. “I hope both of you have a good night.” Then she was gone.

I immediately sit right on the sofa, fucking tried from all of this. Took off my helmet, placing it on the table. Viewing my M60 still on the table, still looking new and fresh. I see Keine, still looking at me.

“I’m sorry for ruining your day, Kei- Miss Keine.” I spoke up to her.

“It’s… okay. It’s just that… It is my duty to protect the village overall. So, sorry for treating you to… harsh.”

“It’s… alright, Miss Keine. Sometimes people makes mistake- * Stomach growl *” God… damn it. Curse my hungry ass. Now I’m embarrassed of myself.

Keine holds her laugh, tries to not burst out because of it. After it died down, she spoke. “Guess that you haven’t eaten anything yet?” She smiles.

“Yeah.” I looked on the wooden floor, trying to hide my embarrassment.

She chuckled from my actions. “Alright, I’ll make dinner for both of us to eat, since I haven’t eaten yet.” She walks to the kitchen, ready to make dinner. “You should really put your stuff currently on the table somewhere else, or no dinner.” Keine said humorously.

“Got it, miss.” I grabbed the carry of my gun, placed on the ground. “Oh yeah, Miss Keine?”

“Hm?”

“Where am I gonna sleep after this dinner?”

Few hours later, early night

Well, I’ll be damned. Keine told me I had to temporarily sleep on the couch, but hey. At least I’m full. Even though it was just a plain fried egg with fish, along with white rice it was delicious nonetheless. Got this pillow, and a blanket for easier sleeping, without getting cold. Seeing my M60 and the M1 helmet placed on the table makes me pretty happy. Even tho I just fucked up a few hours ago but hey, it was temporary. 

I lay down straight onto the couch, placed the pillow below my head, and unfold the blanket to cover my body. Pretty comfortable. Now, time to sleep.

…

I can’t sleep. Why? Because I’m questioning myself whether the choice of staying at Gensokyo is good, or not?

I mean, I do ask for it, because the System chose me to hold this power, and go to this land by my choice. Like I’m not even the first one.

Silent …

Am I… gonna make it through the upcoming incident, or… I failed it. Or worse, death itself.

Mobile . Let me check what the current date is now.

[September 30th, 2004]

Huh, I can expect the year- hey, wait a second. There is something wrong about this current date. Don’t tell me that…

It happened because I got so excited that I forgot to tell the System to which Gensokyo timeline I wanted to be in. And let it randomly pick. 

Okay, let me sum up the incidents. EosD started on November 12th, 2003, PCB on August 8th, 2004, IMaP happened 3 months after that. So that means… one month has passed since the events of it, and the next incident will happen 27 days later, lasting 1 day long. Now I’m here at this mark, ready to sleep for a new month, December.

…

Well, at least it's not transported me to the PC98 era, if it was. I would probably really fucked up badly.

I sighed . 27 days, 648 hours to prepare for the next incident. Sounds a lot, but knowing myself well that I barely do anything productive. 

…or, using this chance to improve myself. Even if my short attention span will fuck it up a lot. Still, I won’t give up. Just a Vietnamese dude with an adult like looking face, who had an interest in military stuff, but mostly about guns.

I turned my face to the window, first time seeing the beautiful, unpolluted, starry skies. It could be better if it wasn't for the houses blocking the view but still, I don’t mind it.

Well, enough talking. Hoping the new day won’t be shitty. 

Gonna close my eyes, and slowly… but surely fall into a deep slumber…

[Calculating today's action… completed!]

Ding!

[New quests are now available.]

[Prepare for the next incident.

-Time limit: 648 hours left, countdown starting tomorrow.]

[A wish for improvement.

-Find a way to overcome your flaws, and weaknesses.]

Author Note:

Not much to say here, other than MONTHS have been passed since the publication of the second chapter. So yeah, not much else to say.

(oh yeah, if I portray the characters wrong or right, please let me know.)

Chapter Text

》-=[Forbidden Lead]=-《

It's a new day for Gensokyo; the sun is rising, the clouds are starting to be more visible, and the skies are getting less dark. The Hakurei shrine maiden is currently taking sips of her tea while sitting on the mat.

Boring as always… I wonder if Marisa or that Oni I know is gonna visit me now or not.

She thinks to herself, overall bored of everyday things like this. She takes sips between each minute, enjoying the peace. But not for long.

“Oh dear Reimu, do you miss me~” A sudden female voice interrupted her peace, sounding playful.

She frowns, immediately recognizes the voice. “Yukari. What do you want?” She said, slightly annoyed in her tone.

The figure named ‘Yukari’ appeared out of the gap she made, only her upper body showed up, hovering at the same height as Reimu's face. Her left hand reached out, laying rest on her gap, and her right holding a fan, covering her mouth.

Reimu's left eyebrow twitches. She knows that annoying purple hag is gonna be told to do business for her; it could be a quick errand or the most tiresome crap she's gonna deal with. So, like a ‘reasonable’ shrine maiden she is, cutting the unnecessary talks and straight to the point.

“What is your business now? And no, I'm not gonna listen to your unnecessary stuff-”

“Reimu.” Yukari interrupted. Her playful tone suddenly dropped, now sounding serious.

The red-white shrine maiden took this aback a little, surprised that Yukari acted like this.

The Sage continued. Still into her seriousness. “An outsider happened to have ended up in Gensokyo.” Oh, that's not a big deal for her- “But don't let that fool you.” Nevermind. “It's a male, mind you, he's… rather interesting to say the least.” What? Did she hear that wrong?

“How so?” Reimu said back, intrigued.

Yukari closed her eyes, took a deep breath, then opened her eyes and exhaled out all the air she stored. “The small part of the Hakurei Barrier have been forcefully open up-”

“THE HAKUREI BARRIER HAVE BEEN WHAT?!” The red-white immediately stood up, screamed out of her lungs. Interrupting The Sage speech before she could finally end the sentence.

“Yesterday.” Yukari ended her sentence.

Reimu's face is now in a state of shock and awe. Standing there, she thought. How could one outsider open up the barrier forcefully?

The red-white shakes her head, regaining her composure back. She must do what her job told to do. “Where. Is. He. Now.” Reimu's face darkens, with little to know facial expression.

The Sage sighs, knowing this will happen. “Now, now Reimu. Don't get too hasty, I can explain-”

“YUKARI!” Reimu screams out, interrupting her again, dropping the face she made. “This is a serious matter for the entire existence of Gensokyo itself!” She points out.

Yukari closes her eyes, reflecting her own mind. After a few seconds passed, she opened her eyes, looking at Reimu's face. “Forgive me for saying this but… he's not that dangerous.” Yukari admitted.

Reimu immediately eye-widened, shocked to hear that Yukari has the audacity to say those words. Right when she's about to grab her Gohei and smack some sense into Yukari's head. She suddenly realizes that, if she said it, she's the one there first.

“Yukari. Spill out everything about him. Now.”

[Victor]

Good morning to me. New day, new month.

Here I am, sitting on the couch, reading by looking at the system screen at the tasks just given to me. Along with, surprisingly enough, her second house key on the table. The time is early in the morning.

You may ask why I am still inside Keine's house, unable to go out enjoying the fresh air. Simple. It's for safety. And also the villagers are gonna swarm me to ask about my exchange with Keine last night.

I mean, I don't blame her, I understand that for an outsider like me to kill a Youkai is pretty much unheard-of.

Now that I think about it, Reimu's gonna beat me senseless once she meets me for the first time.

I let out a sigh. Is expected to end up like that, do one forbidden thing and she will smack your head into sense, but this time, I killed a youkai. Multiple of them actually. So I'll have to deal with her worse than you think it would be.

But it was self-defense. I could explain to her with that-

*Knock-Knock-Knock!*

Oh. Aggressive knocks at the entrance.

I stand up from the couch, walking towards the main door. I fucking wonder who's outside of the door then?

Now at the door, I use the peephole to see who is the ‘guest(s)’ outside of the door.

Unsurprisingly, the two things I noticed first were a large red bow tie and a black witch hat. Yeah, Reimu and Marisa.

“Open the door! Keine said to me you are in here! And don't think about hiding away!” Reimu yelled out first, obviously angry.

“Damn Reimu, ya need to chill out, what if he runs away because of you right now, ze?” …Marisa, I'm not that dumb to run away from her.

Reimu turns head away from the door, giving Marisa a glare from her.

This obviously makes Marisa taken aback a little. Along with an uneasy smile.

Then, she turns head back to the door. “Open up or I will force my way in!” Oh shit she's threatening me now.

“Alright Alright! I'm opening, just- give me a moment. Alright?” I yelled back, sounding defeated. While one of my eyes is still at the peephole.

“Be quick! ‘Cause Reimu doesn't have enough money to pay for Keine's door if she actually did it!”

“Marisa!”

I immediately ran away from the door, beginning my preparation to leave Keine's house, and having a field day with the duos.

At the couch again, I put on my helmet, grabbed the MG and threw it back into the system's inventory, then pulled out my L1A1 along with the blue rig hastily strapped to my chest. Slung the rifle over the right shoulder.

After that, I took the keys. Ran hurriedly to the door. Once I'm at the door, I insert the key into the knob, rotate it. A click can be heard after it.

Once the door is unlocked, I open it up to face them and… the first thing I noticed is both of them are currently having a “talk”. Judging from my view, Marisa is not taking this seriously, even sometimes making jokes about Reimu's aggressive speech. But all things must come to a stop.

Both of them stopped their talk, turning their heads to my face. Feeling uneasy, anxious, I greeted them by raising my right palm up, waving slightly to them.

Well, that's a start- A-MY COLLAR! Oh hell. Reimu immediately reached out to me, grabbed my collar, dragged my head eye to eye with her, using her inhuman strength.

“Don't act nice, Victor. And don't try to act innocent either, Yukari said it all for me.” Reimu scorn, a hint of hate showing in her face. Knew this is coming… but.

“If- if it's about I killed a small amount of Youkai on- on the first day, Yukari has said to you that- I do it in self-defense right?” I replied back, shuddered in some sentences. I'm using all my courage to reason with a dangerously pissed Red-white Shrine Maiden.

“How so?” She sneered, looking doubtful of my reason.

“W-What did Yukari say about me then? I-I'm sure that there are some lines about it.” Please understand! My fucking heart is beating fast right now! I'm fucking stressed!

She frowned, made a small humming noise, glanced away from me to collect her thoughts for a bit, then turned back to say. “There's the Youkai killing, obviously. There's the possibility that you forcefully opened up the Hakurei Barrier, but that's for later.” I FUCKING WHAT?! PARDON? “And there's- ah, I remembered. Self-defense.” With that, Reimu released my collar, letting me free. She takes a few steps back, her eyes still on me. “Lock the door, and follow me. We're gonna have a long talk on this day.” Reimu said, dropping her anger, replaced with a tired look. “Let's go Marisa.”

Reimu immediately turned away from me, and started walking on her own. Man that was… more intense than I was anticipated for.

I looked at Marisa, and noticed that she glanced at me the whole time, holding her broom. Face of intrigued.

I frowned at Marisa. Midget bastard.

“Hey! Don't look at me like that, I can't help it when she's mad. One angry Reimu is a scary one, ze.” She exclaimed, crossed her arms with a bright smile. Oh you always bright sunshine son of a bitch-

“ARE BOTH OF YOU GONNA FOLLOW ME OR WHAT?!” Reimu suddenly yelled at us, taking us by surprise.

““Coming!”” Marisa and myself quickly replied back at the same time, with Marisa quickly running up to catch up with Reimu. While I shut the door of Keine's house, locking it, then instantly ran off to catch up with her too.

Honestly, accompanied by 2 current strongest humans doesn't sound “that” bad, but hey. With the Battle Rifle slung over my shoulder, and the graffiti helmet I'm wearing, it'll never go wrong, right?

So. Currently on the way out of the village, escorted by them “willingly”, got a few strange looks from the villagers on the way out, but I ignored it. Two of them speak to each other silently, sometimes even muttering. I assume they're talking about me, obviously, but I don't know what they're gonna say more about– other than me.

Keeping distance from them, not too far, but not too close either. Don't wanna make them uncomfortable.

Both of them sometimes look behind their back while walking to take a look at me, presumably to check if I run away from them or not. Reasonable, because you don't want to lose sight of a guy who was granted the ability to kill Youkais with a physical weapon that goes into hiding. I noticed that Marisa fixed her eyes onto me a bit longer than Reimu's.

However, you see, she keeps her eyes staring at my helmet, chest rig, and the Battle Rifle instead– when she's given the chance. Especially the Battle Rifle, she keeps staring at the end of the barrel for a bit then turns her head back. Just like her nature is supposed to be. Oh yeah, I hope later she doesn't “borrow” my rifle without asking first, you know, that would be… “funny”.

…Unrelated, but system, did you really forcefully open the barrier a little bit to let me in?

[Unfortunately, yes, because that's the only way that I can allow you into Gensokyo. It's one of the balances you see.]

I sighed out mentally, and kept on going behind them. Balances you say? Great job system, great job. Now I have to be aware of the future troubles because of it.

[Outside of the Village]

Greeted the guards at the Village Gate a wishful morning, got questioned about my weapon again, told them exactly like yesterday. Although they were quite concerned about me because of why I am getting led by the Incident Resolvers duo, I told the guards to not worry, they just gonna teach me about the ‘Do and not to do in this land’. So yeah, a half-truth again.

So myself, Reimu and Marisa continue on walking, farther and farther from the Village Gate, so far that I cannot see the Village anymore.

Gripped onto the sling of my gun, I take a moment to experience the Gensokyo nature itself. The gentle breeze passed, the sun shines softly, and the field of grass presenting itself, ordinary, yet memorable.

…You know. If I think about my current standing in Gensokyo right now. I felt that I'm not belong here. Don't get me wrong, outsiders are welcome here, as stated by the canon. If one of them managed to escape from the claws of a certain hungry youkai of course.

Still, even with system shit still keeping me alive in the long run, this is still Gensokyo. Gods, spirits, phantoms, ghosts, urban creatures, and Youkais that could vaporize me in the singular motion that they barely put effort into it. Okay maybe that last part I said was a bit exaggerated but it still stands.

All of them walk together inside this land, fighting equally under the bill of “Naming of Duels”, or alternatively calling it “Spell Card rules” for the sake of simplicity. Oh right, correction, mostly equal since draft doesn't include outsiders like me. Yukari pulling a 4D chess ass move under the curtains.

Actually, hold on, I think the reason why Yukari doesn't include outsiders in the draft is because she's one of the people who's actively maintaining the barrier of this land, so that means she could literally put a filter that spirited away unwanted people from the outside world society. But of course, the barrier is far away from perfection since there's cases where innocent outsiders happen to be walking into natural cracks of the barrier itself. And I'm lost in my thoughts.

Shaking my head slightly to snap my mind back to reality, I looked up at the blue sky of this land, appreciating it again. Its vast light blue shines slightly through my glasses, the helmet blocks some of it, but it’s fine.

I'm just really just insignificant like a fly in this land huh?

No, no. Don't think of judging my self-worth, that's bad for my mind. This is only the second day in this fictional world. Good stuff will not always happen the first time.

I stopped looking at the skies, letting my gaze down to meet Reimu and Marisa- Wait. Why do they stop walking and now stand idle…?

I immediately paused from taking another step, my body froze for a moment. This is not looking too great.

Should I run- No, that's stupid why do I think of that?

Perhaps I should speak to them what's wrong-

Before I could think more, Marisa suddenly turned her back on me and interrupted with a loud threatening shout. And aiming her Mini-Hakkero towards me.

“RAISE YA HANDS UP!” HUH?! “I mean it! Raise ya hands up or I'll turn you to ash ze!” O-Okay I'll gladly do it.

With that, I raised my arms wide, signaling my defeat, confused. What the fuck did I do?!

“Hand me the weapon on your back, ze.” Hell no! I can't- O-Oh shit she's pointing her Mini-Hakkero towards my face now.

…I guess I have no other option then. “G-Give me a minute.” I said to her, using the sling to get the Battle Rifle out of my shoulder, ready to give out. Using my left hand to reach under the weapon, I grabbed the- mag shakily, thumb at the mag release and let it out of the gun.

The mag is now in my left hand, gripping it tightly. I extended out the right hand holding the handguard of my soon-to-be-gone(?) weapon to Marisa's view. My heart is thumping quick, sweat is getting out fast.

Marisa carefully takes a few steps with her mountain vaporizer in hand still pointing towards me, her eyes blink a few times but still cautiously looking at me.

Now she's near me, smirking. “Heh, good.” She takes a look at my firearm from every angle that she could right now with a very… intrigued look. “Interesting. I’m sure that I will make good use of your weapon.” You cannot fucking-

She immediately snatched away my weapon, and ran away while I was in my own thoughts. “NO!” I screamed out, eyes widened in fear. “GIVE IT BACK! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE HOLDING RIGHT NOW!” I said in regret.

“Lalala! Sorry, I can't hear you ze!” Marisa said back cunningly with a wide smile. SON OF THE BITCH! “Sorry Charlie! I'm gonna borrow this indefinitely!” Borrow MY FUCKING ASS!

With her “borrowing” complete, the blonde goes to Reimu's back, covering behind her. Oh let's not forget that she closed her eyes and let her tongue out over Reimu's left shoulder directly for me to mock. “Damn this thing is quite heavy.” She commented on my weapon.

This… this fucking blonde midget bastard not only have the shitty audacity to smile and mock my fucking ass after she fucking took my weapon. She said that she'll “borrow” it after threatening me with force.

I- I need to kill her. I need her body ridden with bullet holes, I need to carve into her skull by using my short blade but yet still keep alive so that she feels hopelessly suffering…

I just- I just need to pull this off by dragging out my MG to start- NO! What the FUCK was I thinking about!? Whatever the hell– I thought before I took control back is fucking delusional. Good… Lord.

I'm… under a lot of stress, and my heart is beating fast. Holy shit. Take a deep breath in, then let it all go. Repeating- the process should stabilize my body afterwards.

When did I… did I look at the ground…? I gazed my eyes upward from the ground, saw the familiar red-white dark brown, and light-yellow black but why is my- my vision… is getting distorted. I can still feel the mag holding on my left hand. Oh I'm having a headache now. I'm- gonna fall down anytime– soon.

Reimu's… Reimu is getting closer. She- she definitely planned all of this shit, but- I'm too mentally exhausted to talk back right– now…

“Now. State your actual business here, or I'll teach you a lesson!” …Yeah. I have enough.

With that, I closed my eyes and let myself fall down to the dirt path.

*THUD!*

[Reimu and Marisa]

The Shrine Maiden eyes widened in shock, immediately wastes no time to run up checking his fallen state, kneels down, flipped his body over to face her and placed two of her fingers onto his wrist for checking his pulse.

Oh thank the Hakurei. He's still alive. She relaxed and sighs, relieved that he's only gone down unconscious.

“Reimu!” Her long-time friend called her from behind, voice of concern. “Is he…?” She said, still holding on to his ‘strange’ weapon.

“No. He just– went down unconscious by himself.” Reimu said back casually. Although there's a hint of worry in her voice. She stood up. “We need to get back to the Village-”

“NO!” Marisa interrupts, “We cannot do that! Reimu, If he wakes up and tells the whole thing that happened to Keine, we're both doomed! And not to mention that our reputation will crumble down like your shrine anytime soon!”

“Grh. Guess your right- Hey! What's with using my shrine as an example?!” Reimu yelled back at Marisa, offended by her friend's words. “Plus, I just recently reinforced it! It's not like it's gonna fall ‘anytime soon’ like you said!” She huffed, crossed her arm.

“Reimu, I don't know, but it still looks the same to me.” Marisa nervously replied back.

Reimu irked, rubbing her eyebrows with her fingers and sighing in the end. “You know what. Forget about it. The most important thing right now is him,” She pointed at Victor's unconscious body. “can't leave him alone, especially for someone, somehow who can kill Youkais with ‘that’ thing you are holding right now, Marisa.”

Marisa did not know what to say next, so the best she could do right now is just nod in agreement.

“Now put his ‘thing’ you're holding right now in your hat, including that ‘weird’ metal thing he's holding onto.” Reimu said.

“You got it ze!” Marisa energetically said back. She gets her witch hat off of her head, flipped down, revealing her built-in hammerspace storage bag inside of her hat. She shoved his gun into her own storage, and equipped her broom after that. Then she gets closer to his body, grabbing the mag he's holding.

Marisa closed her eyes, made a quick prayer gesture to him, and smiled uneasily. “Sorry for all of this.” She muttered.

With that said, she crouched down to get the mag, finally dropped his final piece of his into her hat. She wears it again.

“So, any places to go other than the Village itself?” Reimu questioned.

“Kourin's shop. I'm sure he'll hear me out ze. Plus, we're close to it.” Marisa replied back, a smile on her face.

Wait… but who's gonna carry his body… then?

Both of them think the exact same, their eye twitches. A long, long day is coming to both.