28 Did Somebody Cook Something?

-Morning, My House-

-Me POV-​

I open my eyes.

What I see in my eyes is the brown ceiling that I already become familiar with, the ceiling of my room.

I turn my head to start searching for something in the room, something that tells the time of the world.

I found it.

What I'm searching was called Digital Wall Clock, and it tells me that it's already 09.45 AM.

I start getting out from my futon.

"…Ugh, I hate it when I overslept, but it was worth it, now I know how that room works."

[Simulation Room (Basic Combat Simulation Function Only)] = 10.000 IP

[A Room that could Simulated Everything in the Universe, but it's only have Basic Combat Simulation Function as per User request.]

Yep, I only bought that function, and guess the original price you have to pay for accessing all the function…it was 4.000.000.000.000 IP.

…That's a lot of zeroes.

I start going down the stair to start making my late breakfast.

As I went down the stairs, I look at the new set of stairs that goes down to another lower floor.

The Simulation Room is in the Underground Floor.

A few days ago, the system gave me an announcement that the Monthly Quest is completed, making me knows that I'm in December, and because I'm in Gensokyo, which is in Japan, winter starts right now.

The reason why I decided to build the room right now was because it will happen soon.

The next incident, I mean.

I go to the kitchen and start preparing the ingredient for me to cook.

PCB (Perfect Cherry Blossom) is coming, 4 more months until it happens, technically it happen 3 more months, after the winter season "end" but it still going because Yuyuko extended it by stealing the spring, I don't know how she done it, but she did it anyway.

According to the information that I read, the first month of the incident, nobody actually making a move about it, all of them probably thought "Oh, it's still snowing? The spring probably coming late, and it's all part of nature, it's probably onetime thing." but then the next month it still snowing, everyone afraid, everyone scared, and Reimu starting to move.

Reimu keep searching until late April because Alice told her the location of the Barrier of Life and Death, the gateway to the Netherworld, a place where Hakugyokurou located, home of Saigyouji Yuyuko and Konpaku Youmu.

After she beat Yuyuko, the winter finally over, after all, the original objective why Yuyuko to force Saigyou Ayakashi, the damn glutton of a Tree, to bloom, the reason why she did it was to know whose body is it that used as a seal for that Youkai Tree, in the end she know it, it's her own body. There's also the fight with Yukari to make her fix the Boundary between Gensokyo and Netherworld.

That's pretty much the summary of what's the story line of PCB.

I bring my breakfast to the living room.

I open the room side door and start sitting facing the forest.

"The view is so dull; I think I should work on a Garden or something to fix this dullness."

I start eating my food.

Now, I have a choice, to help or not to help.

Based on the game, Reimu is not gonna be the only one whose trying to solve the incident, Sakuya and Marisa will help her or racing against each other to solve the incident, and they did it in the end.

And there's me, a person who knows who did it, why, and where.

I could tell Reimu to solve it faster than the original timeline, just like that time when the Red Mist came, but I decided that I wouldn't do it this time.

Saigyou Ayakashi needs many essence of springtime to bloom, and that mean I need to leave it alone and stay faithful with the canon schedule.

I believe that it need to happen, I know how Yuyuko back story goes, she deserved to know about what happen to her body.

Also after what I read about Yuyuko, I also believed that she's not going to rampage when she sees her own body.

Yuyuko is…frighteningly smart, behind that free care and air head attitude, there lies all seeing eyes that saw through everything.

At SWR (Scarlet Weather Rhapsody), she's the quickest one to indentify Tenshi as the culprit behind the earthquake.

At TD (Ten Desire), she's the one who direct the incident resolver to the location of the incident starter, the Taoist.

She probably can guess in a matter of seconds as to how she died, why her own body was used to seal the tree, and who did it. Spoiler, it's Yukari btw.

In the end, you don't want to be in her bad boy list.

I finish eating and start walking to the kitchen sink.

I start cleaning the plate that I used to eat.

…Now that I think about, isn't that supposed to be one of the reasons as to why I shouldn't ruin Yuyuko plan by telling it to Reimu early?

…Welp, guess I shouldn't move until canon time then, but of course everything might change if the System give me quest anyway…there's no way the System would make me fight Yukari right?

*ding*

[Taking note]

"BITCH!! *CRACK* …ah." I broke the plate that I currently washed.

….To be fair, I did jinx myself with it, so it's my fault if it's actually happen.

*sigh*

I put the broken plate and its fragment inside the trash bin, and proceed to sit again in the living room.

Now, I have a month of free time until the winter magical ingredient to sprout and a lot of point to get back after I invested lot of them for my house in this couple of days, I still want that upgraded Gaia Tattoo.

'System, give me a Challenge Quest.'

[Need Confirmation from the User to start the Challenge Quest]

[Are you sure?]

'Yes.'

*ding*

[Challenge Quest Accepted]

[Applying assigned Challenge to the User]

I waited for several second before the System gave me another text.

[Surviving Life with Fragrance of Hunger]

[User will emit a Special Fragrance, anyone that smell the Fragrance will gradually deemed User to be eatable resources to them]

[Survive until 1 week passed]

[Warning: Fragrance can't be blocked by anything]

[Warning: Fragrance will become stronger if User staying in one place for too long]

I blinked.

I look at my hand; I start hesitantly sniffing at it, trying to smell anything different about it.

"…I didn't smell anything weird, or is it something like 'you can't smell your own scent because it's yours to begin with', Hmm…"

[BWOOONG! BWOOONG!]

"!!"

When I'm in the middle of thinking, suddenly the intruder alert going off and I sense something from behind me at the same time.

I immediately activated Counter Armor and Thought Acceleration as I turn my body facing that something.

But when I finished turn around, I saw a gap, it closed itself in a slow motion, and then it disappeared.

I furiously look around, double checking if I saw and sense ANY open gap in the vicinity.

After I think everything is okay and safe, probably, I became less wary but still keeping up the armor.

'…That was…Ran's Gap…right? There's no ribbon on it, and I can sense it, so it must be Ran…right? …Shit, I know I also in the list of things to observe, but I don't like how Ran reacted to me just now.'

I turn my head toward the opening from the side slide door, the outside my house, pass the clearing, inside the forest.

'How wide? How powerful? What's the rate when it's going stronger? Is Human affected as well? What condition that 'staying in one place' count as? So many questions, but I'm sure I'll have the answer in a few days.'

I noticed something on the grass below.

I look at it.

It's a grasshopper, it trying to jump into my direction, but then it got deflected mid jump by something.

'…Pest Barrier, it repels any insect and small animal into the House, but it can't stop bigger animal and Human sized thing…Wait, a minute.' I realized something.

It gave me an idea, and I start making plan to beat the Challenge.

-2 House Later-​

I walk up the stair from the underground level to the ground floor.

I start walking to the side slide door, I open it.

"…This is tamer than I thought."

Bird, Deer, Squirrel, and a lot of insect trying to get inside but failed miserably because something invisible stopping them on their track.

"But I'm glad that the new installed House Barrier works out pretty well."

[High tier No Entry Magical Barrier] = 20.000 IP

[A High Tier Barrier that used for not allowing anyone passes unless the User permitted it.]

There's more powerful barrier than this one called Ultimate Tier, but I hold myself from buying that one because I think this one is enough to holding off majority of thing inside Gensokyo, unless some of them have the ability to ignore a Barrier, then I'm totally fucked.

Also, the controller for the Barrier is near the Lamp Breaker, I can't really permanently encase my house with the barrier, what if some cute girls decided to visit me? I can't let that happen, but no right now, if they come right now and said that they want a piece of me, then they probably and literally want a piece of me.

I close the slide door and continuing with my plan.

You guys probably still wondering 'what did I do inside the Simulation Room?', well, I'm training of course. The room practically can simulate anything, albeit I can only do Basic Combat Simulation, it's still a combat and a simulation at that, and that also mean I can try to use my abilities to its fullest without any consequences. It was fun but that was the reason why I overslept this morning.

As for what I did in these recent hours, I'm trying the new abilities I just bought.

[Teleportation Lv.1 to Lv.5 (Max)] = 80.000 AP.

[A Movement type Esper ability that let User moves something from one point to another; let it be oneself or an object inside User's vision.]

[Perfect Brain Calculation] = 30.000 AP.

[Boosting User brain capability to calculate into perfection]

[Perfect Mental Capability] because User already have the lesser ranked skill = 50.000 AP (Original Cost 75.000 AP)

[Boosting User mental capability into perfection]

["Greater Mental Capability" turning into "Perfect Mental Capability"]

*ding*

[Merging Abilities]

[Perfect Brain Calculation + Perfect Mental Capability + Photographic Memory + Parallel Thinking = Ultimate Brain]

[Level up from 65 to 71]

'Finally! Teleportation!' and 'Oh no! Teleportation!'

To tell you guys the truth, I actually very afraid with that ability. Too many questions that left unanswered with the topic of Teleportation, but I have some theory for certain question based on the information inside "To Aru Series".

What happen when a Teleport User moved an [Object 1] to certain spot even though that spot already have [Object 2] in it? The answer is that the [Object 2] will fuse and assimilated with the outer layer of [Object 1].

IF that's the answer of that question, then it makes sense as to why Kuroko needle perfectly planted and didn't draw any blood when she used it against her enemies, it make sense that Awaki's Leg didn't completely fused with the cement and not getting amputated when she miscalculated her Teleport jump.

On one side, it's a weapon that potentially can kill someone instantly, and on the other side, it's a loose rope on your neck that will immediately tighten if it handled poorly.

That is why I didn't pick this ability as my starter ability, but it should be okay now after I picked up my other new ability, Perfect Brain Calculation or Ultimate Brain now after the System merged it with other abilities.

"All right, I think that's all."

I double check everything I have.

Proper and clean clothes; check, although there's small addition with my usual clothes, black undershirt and my new Combat boots, yeah, I know, I'm a fucking idiot for not buying this boots sooner for my gathering work, it was so comfortable when I wear this, but let's move on.

A lot of Cakes, check; I stored all of them inside my pouch, I wonder if people still want to eat me if their stomach is full.

"Now, time to move."

I calm myself and start concentrating.

Remember what Kuroko did, she always appeared at over the height of people head when she jumping a long distance, she did it to avoid appearing in someone body, she knows how dangerous the ability is and that's why she always does that thing.

Remember target location, calculate the distance, calculate the height of arrival, and JUMP!

I jump.

-Afternoon, Hakurei Shrine Bottom Stair-​

I appear above the ground.

I brace myself to land on the ground.

"Woah" I exclaim as I land on the ground.

After I collect myself, I start looking at my surrounding.

"…I don't know if I should feel grateful or pity that Reimu doesn't have many visitor."

With that feeling of pity, I start climbing the stair.

So, here's the plan that I created for this challenge.

Based on the information that the System gave me, I can't stay in one place for too long, well, technically I can, but I can see this thing could become an incident if I carelessly handle the situation, but I digress. And because of that reason, all I need is just moving from one place to another from time to time.

Of course, I need to test the limit of what this Fragrance can do, and that's why I'm here.

"Yo, Reimu, it's been a while."

I wave my hand at the Miko that lazily sweeping the fallen leaves.

She stopped her action and start approaching me with a…smile?

"Yes, it's been a while, welcome back, my dear magician friend."

"…"

I look at her status again; it still says Hakurei Reimu in the name section.

"What can I help you with in this wonderful day, my magician friend?"

"…Reimu, did something happen? You look so…cheery…"

"Of course silly," I shudder, "I worked really hard to keep my shrine always clean, but it was so tiring, I wonder if somebody would offer me some sweet in return of my hard work."

"…Then do you want some cake?" I take out one of my boxed cake and offer it to her.

"Thank you my dear magician friend, I appreciate it."

She grab the box and then start quick walking into her house, leaving me, her broom, and many fallen leaves that still scattered around the shrine yard.

"*sigh*…working hard my ass."

To be honest, I'm a bit of clean freak, and because of that reason, I obligated to finish where she left off.

I start cleaning using my abilities.

-Reimu's House-

"So, what's with the smell?" said Reimu beside me with holding a plate with a slice of cake on it.

"Ah, so you did smell it, then what do you think about it? What did it smell like to you, Reimu?" I said while sipping my green tea.

After I finished cleaning, I went into her House, and then I sat in my usual spot, a spot that gave me the best views to all Gensokyo.

"'What did it smells like' you say? Can't you smell them yourself? The smell is so sweet that I first thought you make so many sweet that the smell cling to you until now, see, even though there's a cake in mu hand, I can still smell you from here."

"I see, a sweet smell is it?"

I…I am lost, sweet smell is normal for any kind of sweet food, but for my body to actually smell like that, I don't have anything more to say other than that I sincerely hope no ants would swarm me in a few more minutes.

"Hey, Arah, helloooo, come back please, you still didn't answer my question." she said while eating her cake.

"Hm? Oh, yeah, sorry, actually," BULLSHIT MODE ON. "It was all started this morning, I reorganizing some of my old stuff, my hand slipped, and here I am. Smelling sweet like I'm bathing with a cake cream."

Reimu give me her skeptical gaze.

"…What kind of explanation is that?"

"A simple one, I don't need more explanation because that's exactly what happened, all that matter is that this smell gonna stick with me for a week."

She drop her skeptical and pick up her questioning eye.

"How did you know the thing will be staying for that long?"

"Because I made it myself, originally it's a prank item, guess karma catching up to me because of what I did using the item." I said with regretting tone.

She starts smiling "Well, if that's the case then serve you right then."

I just nod at her.

'The excuse I come up this time is perfect! There's no way they could see through it!'

But as if there's a flaw in my statement, the universe comes to test it.

"Hey, Reimu! I come to play-ze!"

'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!'

Both of us turn our head to see Marisa coming out from the front door.

"I can even smell something good from outside; can I have some of that Reimu-ze?" Marisa pleads.

"Hmph, as always, suspiciously arriving at the right time, it's in the kitchen, don't take all of them."

"Yay! You are the best Reimu-ze!!"

Marisa start going to the other room of the house before she decided to joins us with a piece of cake in her hand.

She sits beside Reimu, making Reimu sandwiched between me and her.

"So, how you guys going-ze?" she start stuffing her mouth with the cake after she ask.

"Same as always, peaceful day, nothing new" different from Marisa, Reimu eat her cake bit by bit.

"Hmm…Hmm?" Marisa starts looking at me, she point using her chin while her mouth still stuffed with food.

"Someday Marisa, someday I will fix that bad manner of yours, and believe me Marisa, you definitely will be a changed girl after that."

"When that happens, I will give you my full support, Arah." Reimu support me.

Marisa starts swallowing her food.

"What about you, Arah-ze?" Marisa flawlessly ignored my statement and still continuing to ask me.

"…I swear I'll fix you someday, Marisa."

After I solemnly swear to fix her someday, I repeat what I said with Reimu to her.

"What kind of prank-ze?" she asked with a smile.

"Hmm, let me remember." I grab my chin, assuming my thinking pose because I start to think a prank that based on a smell. "There's one time that I gave a super spicy food with a smell of sweet, so when I gave someone that food, they ate it delightfully before it's too late, and they start crying because how spicy the food really is."

"Wow, that's brutal-ze." Marisa said with admiration tone.

"Then I hope you never use that item to me, Arah, because I definitely will find you if it's happening to me." Reimu said with threatening tone.

"Haha, of course I'm not gonna do that again, the last time I did it, I feel really guilty for pranking that person."

"Good then."

After that talk, these two talk about something else while I just stay silent and appreciated the views.

Actually there's still stuff that I haven't told you guys in the past few days.

You guys remember when I start giving cakes to people that I visit in my 'frenzy' day right, I already visit the SDM, but I only step at the gate at that time, it was scary, there's 2 EX boss inside that mansion now, Flandre and Koishi, I can handle Flandre, I can handle Koishi, but I can't handle both of them at the same time. That's why I stop myself at the gate, waiting for Sakuya to come bringing Meiling lunch, but guess what happen when she come, she said some interesting information when I gave the cakes to her at that time.

"Mistress mad that you lied about Young Mistress new playmate, she demands that you entertain her in your next visit after I notified you with this message."

You heard that?

Remilia mad that I lied about Koishi

The only explanation as to why she knows that I lied is that she can "see" Koishi.

'I introduce Koishi to Sakuya, and then she inform Remilia about Koishi, and then Remilia tell Patchouli about it, Patchouli saw Koishi, she noticed the eye and then told Remilia that Koishi actually a Satori, a strange Satori, Remilia probably gonna ask me about Koishi after I visit her again in the future, yeah, 'in the future', after I'm stronger than what I'm right now.'

-3 Hour Later-​

I can sense Reimu and Marisa constantly glancing to my direction.

'3 Hour is the limit is it? Guess I better get out from here before thing become weird.'

"Well, I think it's time for me to go now, see you tomorrow Reimu."

And with that parting word, I teleport myself to my next destination.

-Unknown Time, Mayohiga-

-3rd POV-​

Inside one of many houses in Mayohiga, a Kitsune showing the expression of anger while furiously cuts the meat on the cutting board.

"That damn Human, if it's not because of my order, I would immediately kill him on the spot."

"Is he mocking us Youkai for cannot hurt him until now?! Is he that smug just because he has that Katana?!"

"Let's see if his way of thinking still the same after tomorrow comes."

The Bakeneko still playing outside, so the only resident inside the house is the Kitsune and her master, and because of that reason, the Kitsune freely exhibited such behavior.

Meanwhile the Kitsune cooking in the kitchen, the master of Kitsune sleeping inside her Futon, she aware of her Shikigami behavior, but she deemed that it's not important enough to peak her interest, beside, inside her Futon is warmer than the outside.

Author note:

YOROKOBE SHOUNENS! I have return with weekly update!! I hope….

New Arc is approaching; need to collect more information about it.

Oh my god, a chapter about having new stuff/skill is 10 times harder than writing a chapter that only focused on conversation. You need think of an acceptable logic for that ability/new thing so that the reader can understood what it did.

So, apparently I just know that Lv.5 Teleport can teleport stuff without even touching them, neat.

About my editor, he told me weeks ago that he's backing off from editing my stuff, I obviously thank him for all his effort and you guys better be prepared to read all my shitty English language skill, unless someone volunteered themselves again to edit my earlier chapter and make them easier for everybody eyes.