19 Children of Light

-Afternoon, Hakurei's Shrine-

-Me POV-​

Autumn is season of fallen leaf. Leaves turning color and then fall into the ground, creating wide blanket of leaves of it they aren't sweep regularly. That's why me and these two people sweep the shrine…nah, what am I saying, I'm the only one sweeping all the leaves in the shrine while the other two people are just sitting on the side.

"You sure you don't want to become a Shinto believer?" offered a girl in front of me.

"Thank you for the offer but no, I refuse." I refuse.

"You sure? You always donate to our shrine, helping me sweep all the fallen leaf near the shrine, not that I'm complaining about it, but isn't that the sign that you want to join our religion?" she ask.

"Nah, I'm good. I already tried a religion in the past, it's just too troublesome so I quit from it." I reply, 'Did I just said 'I tried'? I'm sorry, more like my parent just push it into me, in the past I only doing it just because I don't want to be in their shit list but now that I'm here, I can kiss good bye to that life.' I think recalling my past.

I sense the other girl beside the first girl nodded "I understand with what you said-ze, religion is just way too troublesome to do and take away your precious time with any experiment-ze." she explain.

The first girl looks between me and the second girl. "…You people…"

'She sound annoyed but fuck that noise, I'm not gonna go into any religion ever again.' I think and keep it to my heart.

"So, if that's not the reason, then what's the real reason-ze? Is it Reimu? It's gotta be Reimu right-ze? You feel in love with Reimu, that's why you visit her Shrine almost every day-ze." said the second girl with amused and joking tone.

Now, I sense both of them looking my way. 'Oh boy, she's playing with fire; hope my answer is good enough.' I said internally.

I raised a finger to them. "Firstly, I just prayed so that me and everyone I care about is in healthy condition," I raised another finger. "And secondly, this shrine way more interesting than the village, because, you know, it occasionally visited by the Youkai, even though you did nothing, they just came on their own and these make it interesting spot, even though you just sit around all day." I explain.

The first girls make grunting noise from my explanation, while the other just chuckle.

I raised the third and final finger. "And finally, every girl that visited and inhere are all cute, so I think it's normal for young healthy boy like me to come here every now and then." I said truthfully with a smile.

And the silent reign in the surrounding.

'Cue in grasshopper sound effect, wait, that's the cue if someone said a joke and it's failed, change it into something else please, I bet they're getting flustered since I sound sincere enough about it, I think.' I think while still smiling.

"…L-Look Reimu, I-I think the sweet potato is getting ready-ze." hurriedly said the second girl.

"Y-Yeah, I think it's already long enough in the fire, let's pick it up." the first girl do the same.

'I know I'm repeating myself here, but Damn, I wish I can see their expression right now. Based from what I remembered, these two were blushing furiously from only seeing two lovers holding hand in Forbidden Scrollery. So with that evidence, fuck you all fandom that make all Touhou character to become Crazy Horny Lesbian, they all normal girls who like man.'

"Hot-hot-hot." I heard the second girl voice.

"I told you to use the newspaper to hold them, why won't you listen." said the first girl tiredly.

In case you still don't know, these two girls are Reimu and Marisa. After we(me, alone) sweep all the fallen leaves, we use those leaves to become fuel to burn the sweet potatoes, you might be asking "Where did they get the sweet potatoes?", well, it's because I gave it to them, I feel like eating sweet potatoes today and I already fill my gathering quota much earlier right now, so I bought them from the market and planning to eat them with Reimu, as for Marisa, she was already in here when I came, so since I bought some extra that I plan to eat later on, I can give her some of it.

They immediately said let's eat it after I offer it to them, resulting the three of us standing in front of big pile of leaves that I sweep to burn all of our sweet potatoes.

"After you grab yours come to the house porch okay?" said Reimu.

I haven't get the chance to respond and I already sense the two of them already moving away to her house direction.

I look at Reimu direction and then I turn toward my share of the sweet potato.

'I better get moving.' I touch my sweet potato with end point of the cane; I make it stick to the cane and pull it toward me.

I can feel the heat radiated from the thing, so I encase my hand with my ability, making it immune to the heat when I grab it.

*screeeeeek*

The sweet potato made a plastic sound when I grab it, you may guess it's a plastic when you heard it, even I guess it's a plastic too the first time I heard it, but I was wrong, it's actually Aluminum Foil. I'm surprised too when Reimu said the name, she said Yukari gave it to her in the past, Yukari explained how to use it to her and she still keep it until now. Reimu never ask why Yukari gave it to her, Yukari probably bored and want to see Reimu reaction with the Aluminum Foil.

I start walking to Reimu house.

'Reimu said go to her porch right?' I sense the house structure. There's the entrance door, I didn't go inside but go around to the right side. Her porch is on the right side of the house, facing all of the Gensokyo.

I sense Marisa ahead of me, while Reimu is further back on the house.

"There you are-ze, Reimu preparing the tea for-Woah! Isn't that hot-ze?! Is your hand okay-ze?!" surprised Marisa.

"Ah, you mean the sweet potato?" I said as I keep walking toward the empty spot of the porch. "I use my ability to keep my hand away from getting burned, so you don't need to worry about it." I said as I sit down.

"Heeeh, that's really convenient-ze." she sound amazed by it. "Creating Light Saber, making it into armor, controlling the wind to sweep the leaves and fly, compensating for your vision and now keeping your hand from burned." she suddenly start listing of what I can do.

'…I think I know where this is going.' I think.

"Tell me how to get your ability-ze!" she said excitedly to me.

I'm dumbfounded with what she said. 'First off, her attitude, second off, her question is way worse than what I expected.'

"…No, sorry, I can't tell you about how I got it or teach you to get it." I straightly refuse her.

"Dammit, and I was so close too-daze!" frustrated Marisa.

'…My dear Marisa, please tell me how is THAT supposed to be close.' I think tiredly.

Reimu arrive with the tea after our talk, and like always, it's a green tea.

'Oh well, at least it's better than normal water.' I place back my tea after drinking it and start eating my sweet potato.

Speaking of sweet potato, they are unexpectedly bigger than the one I know in the past, almost double the size of my hand, is it because of the Harvest Goddess? Or is it because I'm still 15 and I perceive it as bigger than before?

I shrug my shoulder. 'No use thinking useless think, let's just eat the potato.' and with that in mind, all of us eat our share.

As I'm eating, I start thinking what we were talking about in a few minutes ago.

'Marisa said 'Religion is just too troublesome' huh? From what I read, magician in Touhou is like the scientist of supernatural world, so they are Apathies in nature, that mean they hold little interest for any religion matter, so I'm thinking if I should just claim myself as a magician, after all few peoples already known about my 'failing of enchanting my eyes' from a few days ago, so why not just roll with it? Even Kasen claim to be a hermit could fool everyone that haven't known her originally, why can't just I do it too? Also fun fact, Sakuya is an Atheist, its make sense since she's into 'I only believe and thrust in Remilia-sama' and there's a line in the series that she claim to be one after all. 'I think deeply.

While I'm still thinking thing, I sense 3 unknown magical signatures in front of Reimu's entrance door.

I turn my head toward it.

I sense the entrance slide door slowly opened without a sound.

Those 3 signatures coming into the house.

'No sound of opening door?'

Those 3 signatures move together to the guest room.

Once they arrive into the room, they stopped.

I sense my pulse to check who it is.

It reflected back and my senses start making shape out of it.

'A big wide cylinder? What?' I'm confused with what I sense.

"What are you doing-ze?" ask Marisa.

I sense Reimu also looking my way, seems like they're curious as to why I send my pulse and I look back to the room.

"…Um, how do I say this…" I said as I still confused with what to descript what I sense.

"...What are you looking at-ze? There's nothing there-ze." said Marisa.

'She didn't see that? But the magical signature is there, invisible Youkai? If so then,' I open my eyes.

Actually, I forgot to mention important thing in this blindness state, I noticed that I can still see something when I opened my eyes, and that's the status above someone head.

I read the status above those 3 unknown magical signature.

[Lv.15 Child of the Sun Light, Sunny Milk]

[Lv.13 Child of the Moon Light, Luna Child]

[Lv.12 Child of the Star Light, Star Sapphire]

"Ah, I see." I said understandingly. 'It's those prankster fairies.' I concluded. "Hey, you guys already founded out, just come out peacefully." I warn them.

I sense the 3 fairies getting restless but they still haven't dropped their invisibilities.

"You don't want to? Sorry, but I insist." I hold my right hand to their direction. 'If I'm not wrong, one of them can bend the light to make them invisible, then it's gonna be easy for me to break it.' I think.

I change the direction of all of light in the room go to my right hand, creating a ball of light energy in it.

I send my pulse and finally I can properly sense their shape with it. Just remember, play the fool.

"Fairies?" I ask with surprised tone in it.

"Oh wow, they just suddenly appear, are you sure you're blind-ze? How did you know they are fairy-ze?" Marisa said with disbelieve voice toward me.

I look at Marisa.

[Lv.40 Ordinary Magician, Kirisame Marisa]

'She leveled up again; I guess that's good, right?' I think.

I close my eyes. "I'm indeed blinded right now, but I can use other mean of sense to see, for example, magic echolocation. But let's get back to the topic please." I steer back the conversation to our little pranksters.

"They are just fairy; they probably want to prank us when we didn't notice. I don't know how they get in but it'll be good if they are running away after getting founded out." explained Reimu with irritated voices.

"I see, then are these fairy mute? They haven't said anything since we found them." I said joke about them.

"We are not mute, you baldy! It's just that Luna late with releasing our sound back!" shout angrily one of the fairies.

"Sunny, I don't provoking someone that easily cancels your invisibility is a good idea." reasoned one of them with worried voice.

"More like, why the two of you aren't preparing to run away yet even though we already founded out, you guys baffle me." said one of them a little farther this time.

'If I guess based on their personality and line, then from the first one is Energetic Sunny, Logical Luna and opportunities Star. Oh god, if I get money every time I said "I wish I can see right now" I might as well be rich already, fucking hell.' I think.

"Of course, since we already founded out, we duke it out to get their yummy roasted sweet potatoes!" said Sunny.

'Oh yeah, I think I've read that Sunny is a gourmet.' I comment.

"Duke it out, heeeh?" amuse Reimu as she got up.

"Don't leave me out Reimu, I can't deny good target practice-ze." said Marisa as she got up too.

"S-Sunny…" said Luna with worried voice.

"O-On second thought, I didn't want the food now." said Sunny with a hint of fear in her voice

*ksssssssh* I heard the entrance slide door slowly opened again, that's probably Star.

'Oh boy, do I need to save them? I don't really like "seeing" a kid getting bullied, even though they really one at fault, but I still didn't like it.' I think.

-Sunny POV-​

'Oh no, it's because I run my own mouth that we've got in to this dangerous situation. We haven't even done the prank yet and it's all because of that human male.' I start despairing as the danger closing in to us.

"If you want a sweet potato I can share it with you fairies." said someone.

Everyone looking at the source of that voice, it's the human male.

"Are you sure-ze? Even though you gave it to them, they might prank you back in the future-ze." ask Marisa.

"Let's just say I have soft spot for children." he said as the light ball in his hand disappeared.

"W-Who's a children?! We are fairies; we are immortal, we are much older than you human!" I protest.

"Then isn't that good? That mean I can care for you until the day I die." he said with a smile.

And then there's silence in the room, seems like everyone tried to comprehend what he said.

'…H-How come he can say such embarrassing line.' I think as my face getting hot.

I look at everyone faces.

Reimu and Marisa are looking sideway while putting one of their back hands on their mouth.

Luna look dumbfound while her whole faces is going red, while Star cover her faces with her hands.

"A-are you stupid?! W-Who would want a c-care from a human?!" I yell out of embarrassment at him.

"Then do you guys still want my offer?" he asked with curious expression.

'N-No, let's forget what he just said, just focus on the food.' I think, "Y-Yes, we still want it!" I stutter.

He smiled "I see, then please wait for a moment while I'm preparing to roast It." he said.

Someone tap my shoulder, I turn to look at it, its Luna.

"Are you sure about this, Sunny?" she whispered.

"Yeah, he said it himself doesn't he, and we also get free food from it." I whispered back.

"If it's a free food, then I'm down with it." Star suddenly joined in.

"Star…I knew you already preparing to run away without us back then.""Yeah." me and Luna annoyed with Star.

"Like I said, I don't know why you guys don't start run away after he broke your invisibility." Star said tiredly.

"No, the problem is you will not gonna get punished along with us back then, we are a team, if one suffer we must suffer together." I said.

"Now that I think it over, why didn't you run away Sunny?" ask Luna.

"That time I tried to make us invisible again, but no matter how many times I tried I can't do it, that's why I'm just hoping my power work before we are to be attacked." I explained.

"Hoping, eh?" snark Star.

"S-Shut up, more importantly we're gonna get free roasted sweet potato from the human male." I hurriedly said.

"So now you changed the subject after getting pressured." snark Star.

"I-I said shut up!" I said.

"Say, where will you roast them, Arah-ze?" comes Marisa voices behind us.

I turn away from our group discussion to the humans.

Reimu and Marisa comes back to sit back to their original position, the human male that the other call as 'Arah' still sitting but he's trying to encasing a big sweet potato with some kind of silvery paper.

"We already use all of the fallen leaves to roast our, so how will you do it now-ze?" ask Marisa.

"It's simple, I'm gonna use my ability to gather all of the surrounding heat to roast it. And because of that," Arah starts looking at us. "I think you guys should get closer to these guys." he uses his chin to point toward Marisa and Reimu. "I don't want all of you to feel cold because I will exclude the heat at your spot, and this will make the roasting process faster." he explained.

"Y-Yes." I nod.

The three of us start moving closer to the human girl pair, albeit we're still scared with Reimu.

"Don't worry, if you don't start anything first then I'm not gonna anything to you fairies." said Reimu.

"Aha-ahahaha, y-yeah, who would want to start anything to the miko." I awkwardly laugh.

"Are you sure about that-ze? Few minutes ago, you word hinting about you want to do something to us-ze." Marisa said with a cocky smile.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about." I denied it.

*fwooooosh* a sound of a fire that starting to grow bigger suddenly can be heard beside us.

I turn to look at the source of the sound.

It's coming from the human male, Arah, the now encased sweet potato surrounded with orange hue while floating between his hands, his left hand in the lower part and his right hand in the upper part, his fingers spreading as if he's trying to contain the sweet potatoes inside all of those orange colors.

And he's doing all of that while closing his eyes, is he concentrating? Now that I think about, isn't Marisa said something about he's being blind?

"Marisa-san, did you said something about him being blinded?" I ask Marisa.

"Oh you guys know my name-ze? I didn't know I'm that popular-ze." Marisa smiled smugly. "Yeah, he indeed blinded right now." she answered.

"'Right now'?" Luna asked.

Marisa nod "He originally not blind, but he's now temporarily because he failed at enchanting his eyes-ze." she said.

"Enchanting his eyes?" parroted me.

"Seeing through enchantment, I conclude that he failed at that enchantment, that's why he's blind right now-ze." she said.

"Please notice that she said "conclude" in that sentence, because she just guessed at my enchantment." comes Arah voice from the side.

I look back at him, he still in doing what he's doing.

"Then spill it-ze! Tell us what did you tried to enchant into your eyes-ze!?" inquire Marisa.

"Like I said, it's a secret; I can't just tell you everything about my things, Marisa." said Arah.

Seems like this Arah guy is on friendly term with these Human girls that he can argue back at them.

"Ah, I just noticed why his Yukata is familiar ever since I saw him." said Luna.

"Hm? What are you talking about Luna?" I ask.

"It's him isn't it? The human that chasing after the Misfortune Goddess in the newspaper some times ago." Luna explained.

"Eh?! It's him?!" I'm surprised.

"You mean the idiot human that stupid enough to chase after that Misfortune Goddess?!" Star also surprised.

"Yeah." Luna nodded. "The human Yukata in the newspaper have black in color and with even more black cloud as a motif in it, almost every human in the village usually wears dull color for their Yukata right? Except some of the female human of course, they wear some colorful one but they never pick black for their color, but him," Luna pointed toward Arah.

We inspect what he wears, and yup, it's a match with what the stupid human wear in Luna description.

"Wait, what-ze?! Reimu, is what these fairy said is true-ze?!" surprised Marisa.

"Yeah, he said it himself that he's the human in the newspaper." confirm Reimu.

"But why did he chase after the Misfortune Goddess?" I ask Reimu.

"He said that he want to clear up his misunderstanding toward that Goddess." reply Reimu.

"What misunderstanding-ze?" ask Marisa.

"It was because of the lyric of the song he sings back then that cause it." explain Reimu.

"What lyric?" I ask.

"W-Well, i-it was…" Reimu faces turned red. "You can just go ask him about it!" Reimu yell at us while averting her eyes.

All of us turn toward Arah, except Reimu.

He looks troubled by it but he start inhaling the air.

"Who do you like? So you may give me a kiss, as you know~ I love i~it."

"Just stay away and accept my~love." he's singing.

"…See? It's easy to be misunderstood if the opposite party didn't know beforehand that it's actually a song." he said tiredly.

Unexpectedly, he starts singing, his voice is really good but the problem is…

Everyone once again having red on their faces.

"Shameless!"

"Pervert!"

"Philanderer-ze!"

"Go die!"

"That last one, that's too far and who said that last one?!" He yelled at us.

After all of us calm down, Arah finished roasting our sweet potato, it's a shame that he split it into three and not give us three sweet potatoes, but because the sheer bigness and deliciousness of the sweet potatoes blown away any of my dissatisfaction about it.

As I'm eating, I'm starting to realize I finally can use my power again, so I discuss with my group that after we eat our fill, we will just gonna go out silently.

After a few bite, we're starting our getaway plan.

Luna muted our sound, I put us into invisible state, and we start walking back toward the entrance door.

But just as we reach the entrance door, we hear someone calling toward us.

"Comeback again when I recover from my blindness okay? I want to see you guys faces and maybetreat you guys with something else!"

It's Arah, we forgot that he can still sense us.

"W-Who would want to see you again, idiot! Go die!" I yell at him.

I know that my voice not gonna reach him but I feel that I can't be satisfied if I don't reply him right at that moment.

-Evening, Forest of Magic, the Three Fairies of Light Tree House-​

The three of us plop down into our dining table.

"Ugh, I feel tired." I said.

"And we also failed to prank that Miko." said Luna.

"But we did have free roasted sweet potatoes instead." said Star.

Me and Luna look at her.

"But we also meet that stupid, shameless, pervert human you know!" I argue with her, Luna also nod at my word.

"But he also prevented Reimu and Marisa to beat you up too, right?" Star asked us.

"Ugh, well, true, but he's shameless," I said.

"Then isn't that good? That mean I can care for you until the day I die." he said with a smile. I recall his word.

", p-pervert," my face started to burn.

"Who do you like? So you may give me a kiss, as you know~ I love i~it."

"Just stay away and accept my~love." he's singing. I recall his song.

"a-and g-good for n-nothing!" my chest skip a beat.

"Comeback again when I recover from blindness okay? I want to see you guys faces and maybe treat you guys with something else!" I recall his invitation.

'Why?! Why his word always stuck inside my head?! Why my chest keep beating when I recalled his word?!' I start agonizing over that entire question in my mind. "UGAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I screamed.

"Sunny?!""Sunny, what's wrong?!" ask Luna and Star worriedly.

"I will prank him! I swore to the light of the sun that I will always prank him even if that's the last thing I do for eternity!" I make an oath over the many question that appear inside my head.

-Evening, Akyuu's Mansion, Arah's Room-

-Me POV-​

I laid down in my futon, already preparing to sleep, but suddenly…

*ding*

[Achievement Alert]

[Impress the Child of Sun Light]

[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]

[Impress the Child of Moon Light]

[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]

[Impress the Child of Star Light]

[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]

"…The fuck?" I confused.

Author note:

Heyo, Author here. Soon I'm gonna do my final project so I maybe gonna do hiatus status or something, I don't know, I blame my slow release to the use of English language in this world, why these world have so many language? Why can't it just have one language instead?

I imagine Marisa and Reimu looks like in their 15 but their height is shorter than me, but I honestly don't know, their age and height keep changing in every series, so I can only guess their age and height to the latest series I know, the Forbidden Scrollery and Urban Legend in Limbo.

As for the fairies of lights power, Reimu and Marisa don't know about their power yet. So in this chapter, I tried to make both of them know the fairies have some kind of power but they doesn't give a shit about them because, well, they are just fairies. And the fairies know about their name because they are famous but the opposite side didn't know about them.

Also all the fairies are in the size of elementary schooler, for reference you peoples can read Strange and Bright Nature Deity.

Also, as I keep reading the Touhou manga series, there's really little information about the human village, now I gotta like note down every little detail in the manga series, FUCK YOU ZUN!

I'm sorry if peoples get irritated with a switch between the use English honorific and Japanese honorific. I can't decide which one I use because each one of honorific can be fit perfectly with the context of certain chapter.