Chapter 9
In the Hakurei shrine, a tiny girl is mending the rundown shrine and making it looks new
Kusa: I can only help with the woodworks but I can't help you with the tiles
Reimu is very happy and hugging Kusa tightly
Kusa: too tight...
Reimu: ah! Sorry I'm just excited to see that the shrine looks new now
Reimu: Now I don't have to worry about the leaks and having the shrine falls if an Earthquake happens
Kusa: glad I could help...
Reimu: what do you want to eat?
Kusa: Hmm? I didn't think you have food here because your shrine has no visitors from what I see
Reimu: sometimes money appears in my shrine surroundings, some are gifted by Marisa and some are from the request that I complete...
Kusa: I see...
Reimu grabs a plate of bread and Kusa slowly eats them
Kusa: bread... the first time I eat human food for a long while
Reimu: How did you manage to fill yourself?
Kusa: mostly fruits and meat, but eating isn't really necessary because I'm a plant spirit
Reimu: I find your species a bit confusing... you aren't a yokai, a ghost, nor a god
Kusa: Hmm... you can treat me like the avatar of the world
Kusa: though mostly I'm incomplete
Reimu: eh? So you mean you aren't in your peak state yet?
Kusa: far from it... honestly I can't imagine myself to be complete
Reimu: Why?
Kusa: I don't know what is the requirements to be complete, so I'm just idling my time to be complete
Reimu: what will happen if you didn't manage to be complete?
Kusa: I'll disappear
Reimu: did Marisa knows about this?
Kusa: She already knows it... she is quite sharp even though if she doesn't look like it
Reimu: is that so...
Kusa sighs and finished the bread
Kusa: Here is my donation
Kusa conjures a very large basket that has tons of different fruits
Reimu: Eh?!
Kusa: just to say thank you for the hospitality
Kusa left the shrine and walked away peacefully
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When she goes to a great distance and she stops
Kusa: so... what is your business with me, Miss Yukari?
A gap appears in front of her
with golden eyes and long blonde hair. She carries a pink lace parasol and a paper fan and rides on a red gap that leads to an unknown destination. She wears a deep purple dress, a pale pink mob cap with a thin red ribbon and smaller ribbons tied liberally on her accessories and the tips of her hair.
Yukari: my... I didn't think you are aware of me
Kusa: the plants told me after all
Yukari: despite being a new one you holds more knowledge than anyone already...
Kusa: knowing something is one thing but knowing how to utilise that knowledge is another thing, isn't that right Yukari Yakumo?
Yukari sighs
Yukari: you probably have the most potential to be the most reliable piece of all time but unfortunately you are too reliable to be used
Kusa: I'll take that as a compliment
Kusa: don't worry I will not ruin your plans after all I just want to feel what it means to be alive...
Yukari: as long you understand... and after all, you aren't going to harm Gensokyo so I will take a blind eye to you
Yukari dissapears and Kusa continues to walk
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Kusa can be seen walking in the grass fields with no decisions in mind when a silhouette from above is covering Kusa
The girl has red eyes and semi-long black hair. She wears a white blouse, a black short skirt, and a tokin. Having black wings on her back
Aya: Kusa! Tell me more what is the interesting thing that happens today
Kusa: being acquainted with you is probably a Curse...
Aya: haiya... don't make me blush, I wish to learn from the 100% accurate source of events from the overseer herself
Kusa: don't call me the Overseer
Aya: technically you are one, especially you probably know already the colour of my underwear
Kusa: I don't know it
A grass tugs Kusa's arm
Kusa: what do you mean by black?
Aya: you are such a perv Kusa~ as a punishment you will tell me things that I want to hear
Kusa stares at the grass intensely but the grass is happy with the reward
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Kusa can be seen in the flower field watching the plants dance in her amusement
A green-haired girl has appeared and she is wearing red plaid pants and a waistcoat of the same colour and pattern over a plain white shirt with a yellow ribbon tied around the collar, in addition to carrying her parasol
Yuuka: Kusa...
Kusa: Yuuka...
Yuuka: instead of walking towards me directly you rather wait for me here?
Kusa: It's very troublesome to walk towards you I like it more if you walk towards me
Yuuka: then let me approach you!
Kusa: instead of shooting bullets you want to fight me using only your hand?
Yuuka: I can't defeat you in a long-range battle so I will use my fist to beat you up!
Kusa: then come!
They both rushed towards each other making the surrounding fields overgrown by flowers and grass
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Kusa can be seen walking in the snowy fields
Kusa is wearing a light blue dress and has a white giant leaf on her hand
Kusa: though I'm not particularly bothered by the cold...
Kusa: I hope Marisa won't get sick...
Ice crystals fly towards Kusa but the roots destroyed it
Kusa: Cirno...
Cirno: Kusa!
Cirno is still wearing the same clothes but her wings Have gone up to six
Cirno: behold my strongest form today I will defeat you!
Cirno emits intense coldness that blizzard starting to form in the proximity
Cirno: today is the day I defeat you!
Kusa: I want to see you try
They clashed intensely the grasses that appear near cirno become frozen and shattered while the bullets cirno shoots are being parried by roots
Then suddenly the sun decided to strike
A beam directly from the sun hits cirno leaving her full of soot and unconscious
¤Seiza uranai 'sōrāsutoraiku'
Horoscope "Solar Strike"
The sun will shoot a beam towards the designated location an impossible feat normally but because of Kusa's connection to the sun, she can command it¤
The sun is just a giant star
Kusa: it seems I won a thousand times
Kusa listen to the plants
Kusa: it seems trouble is near
Kusa is walking towards Marisa's house
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[Yukari Yakumo]
[Aya Shameimaru]
[Yuuka Kazami]