The Mountain Encounter, the Sequel

-Early Afternoon, the Great Youkai Forest-

-Me POV-​

"It's a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and in a day like this…"

I kneel.

"Magical ingredients are easier to find." I said smiling while picking up some ingredient.

Sup, bitch! Bet 'cu didn't see that coming! Hah!

All right, serious time, heyo, Arah here, it has been a few days since my declaration to become a Magician and there's actually a few problem that comes with it.

The first problem.

At first, I told my wish to become a Magician to Akyuu, she just gave a nod of understanding to what I said, although she was a little mad at me because I didn't consulted to her first about it but she also understood that it was the right thing to asked the expert of the subject.

After her little pouting, I think she was pouting, wish I can saw her face, back to the main topic dammit, she told me about the problem, it's the Human Village.

Just like its name, a Human Village, a village for the Human and any Youkai that successfully hiding their identity as one. I'm looking at you, Sekibanki. Since I declare as a Magician, sooner or later Akyuu expected that I will halt my age, which mean I'm not gonna be a Human anymore, Akyuu is okay about me becoming one but the rest of the village says otherwise.

Even though I can stay in the village, pretending to be a Human but Akyuu also worried that one of my future Magician experiment gave it away, assuming I still live in Akyuu's Mansion at that time.

"…I see." said Akyuu.

I heard Akyuu replying with what I said in neutral tone, and my sixth sense telling me that she's feeling sad right now, which mean I obligated to do what I'm gonna do next.

"C'mere you wannabe-adult girl." I hug her.

"FUEEEEEEE!" she screamed.

She struggle to get out of my hug but I keep her in place.

"Don't worry, I'll visit you occasionally, and I'm still blinded right now, so I'll not gonna go anywhere soon." I start patting her head.

"…" she stopped struggling.

We don't say anything and I just keep patting her head until she started talking.

"Where will you live after that was over?" she asked.

"In the Forest of Magic, beside the rest of Magicians in Gensokyo, and before you ask, yes, I already prepare a house to live in there." I said.

"Prepare a house? How?" she inquired.

"Magic." I smiled. "I will create my new house with the assistant of magic, but that's a problem for the future, and now, I'll take my time with you." I said while hugging Akyuu tighter.

"FUEEEEEEE!" Akyuu screamed once again.

With that scream, there's much hugging and patting afterward.

'*Sigh~* Good memories, and that's one problem solved.'

The next and last problem, it's surprisingly fast to be resolved.

In the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu's house, Marisa and me tell Reimu about the news. Truthfully I kinda nervous about this, but my worry proved to be useless from her response.

"I see." Reimu said with her laidback tone.

"...Is that it? You don't have anything to say about it?" I ask worriedly.

"Of course not, it's your own choice, I don't have the right to change what you've decided what to do, moreover, technically you are an outsider, so what you're doing is none of my concern, except when you bring trouble to me, I'll make sure you regret doing that" she explained.

So I start thinking about her response, is it because I'm an outsider that the rule about 'any Human Villager that turned into Youkai must be exterminated' not applied to me? It's very confusing because ZUN doesn't really gave any information about it and just gave us that one piece of information in a series that only updated once every certain time of certain month, for fuck sake.

Whatever, and the point is Reimu is not gonna giving me trouble with my decision.

With all the issues out of the way, I can report the other piece of news.

I bought more abilities.

[Lighting Reflexes] = 5.000 AP

[Make User reflexes become fast like lighting]

I hear a rustling of many trees, the cause of it probably from the wind.

I sense my pulse and I sense many leaves coming down from above.

I whipped out my hands to catch all the leaves that I can reach.

"…7 leaves missed 2 of them. Need more practices." I said while releasing all the leaves that I catches.

[Telekinesis Lv 1 - Lv 5/Max] = 4.000 + 8.000 + 16.000 + 32.000 + 64.000 = 124.000 AP.

[Let User use Esper: Telekinesis power]

Sound good right? Sounds really good right? Well, it sounds good after you actually install the power, it's like adding more water inside the water container that's already full, the thing that called overflow happen, and its sucks.

"Ku-! Guag! Gggiigg! Kffggtt!" I clutch my head.

All I see is red, bloods coming out from my nose, eyes, and ears.

I keep trying to keep my voice down so that everyone inside the Akyuu's Mansion is not alarmed with what happen inside my room.

Thankfully this is not like the first time it happened.

[Detecting Anomaly in User]

[Selecting Counter-Measure]

[Greater Mental Capability] = 20.000 AP

[Make User Mental Power Usage to be more Efficient and Mental Capacity to be Bigger]

After the system gave me that notification, the pain finally gone, and I left alone with so much blood on my head and bloody futon.

I wipe the blood on my face with my Yukata.

"…Next time, let's research thing more often before doing something." I said while putting the futon and my Yukata in to my pouch to be laundry on.

My level also increased.

[Lv.61 Magician-Wannabe Esper, Arah]

'…That's more than ten levels of increased, guess the pain was worth it.' I think tiredly.

I sense a boulder that's almost twice my height lying on the ground to my right.

I concentrated to that boulder and tried to lift it.

I sense it's floating in the air while encased in my energy.

I dropped it down gently.

"…I need a bigger rock to lift." I said.

Now the usage of any of my abilities to be less burdening now, but if I simplify what happened by using an example, I can send 10 pulses per second and the regeneration can still catching up with that much usage.

That's it for the new stuff, no more new magical item until I upgraded my Gaia Tattoo, I still going for it just so you guys know.

Now let's talk more about why I bought Telekinesis.

I want more subdued flying method and something that I can use in everyday life.

Why subdued flying method you ask? Well, you understand that I fly using 4 wings that made of tornadoes right? Then there you go, that's the problem.

Can I fly using it? Yes.

Is it fast? Yes.

Is it environmental friendly? No.

Is it quiet? No.

It's a tornado, I pull the wind to make 4 tornadoes wing that wreck everything that's not nail downed and any fragile items in the area. Sooner or later Yuuka would hunt my ass down if I keep that up, I know I'm pessimistic but I'm not suicidal.

The next part, ability test.

I tried flying using the telekinesis, it work, as for the speed, I don't know, I still blinded so I can't really decided which one is faster, but I'm very confident that it's quieter and calmer than Quadra-Wings.

I suddenly sense a magical signature coming my way in the middle of recalling the new information about the new ability.

I smile.

I just stood there, not doing anything, and direct my body to the new magic signature direction.

After a few more second, that magic signature coming out from what I guess as a bush.

"Hey, who's th-!" a hoarse voice suddenly can be heard and stop speaking mid-sentence.

It toke a full second before it wordlessly dash back through where it come from, double the speed too.

I still smiling, more amused with what just happen.

To tell you guys what's going on, ever since I going blinded I always use Doppelganger belt whenever I go collect the ingredients, which mean I turn into someone else right now.

Now, guess who I'm turning into? Someone who can make anyone run away from just looking at them. Someone who doesn't mind me turning into them, I believe she doesn't mind about it, I hope she doesn't mind…will she?

…Imma gonna ask her when we eventually crossed path. All right, I think I already gave plenty of clues already.

It's a she.

Everyone avoid her regardless of species.

I already met her.

Someone I believed enough that she'll forgive me.

The answer is Kagiyama Hina, the Goddess of Misfortune. A person that avoided by anyone like a plague…Oh wow, even though it's true, it sound so rude.

Congratulation to anyone that answers right, give yourself an applauses, call yourself a perfect person, praise yourself more you narcissist fuck.

Let's get back to topic shall we?

Using the ability.

Telekinesis is an ability that let you brute force thing. I can encase an item using my own energy and then forcefully move them around to wherever I please. I can create a bubble shield that protect me from outside harm, at least that's what I think it do, haven't tried it yet, if it does, then I create a small shield around my hand, I could punch stuff with my mini-shield, just like Starfire from Teen Titan.

I can use both abilities to the fullest one at a time but as for using both abilities at the same time, it feels clunky; both of them pulling each other apart when I use both at the same time, but that just mean more training to control them then, eventually I'll get it.

I haven't tried showing it to anyone yet, including Akyuu. I still need to think a proper explanation about the abilities, I'm pretty sure I don't want to fuck that one up again.

I think that's it for anything new.

Back to gathering then.

I keep searching for more magical ingredient.

I already conclude that this guise not gonna last too long, I said that because there's a paparazzi keep searching around for any kind of news from the sky, sooner or later she will notice that there are two Kagiyama Hina walking around the mountain, ever since I start gathering ingredient, I never sense anything up in the sky, that mean she's outside the range of my magical sense in the sky.

Once the Tengu realized there's two of her, walking around their mountain, they probably come to investigated us, checking if there's actually two of the same goddess, in both look and power, and once they figured out I'm not a Goddess of Misfortune, they probably start hunting me, marking me as a creep in the newspaper, everyone gonna scowl when they see me, everything gonna be gloom and dark, my life gonna be full of shaming and mocking, it's gonna be great, I can't wait for it to happen, hello pessimism, I love and hate you at the same time.

I sense another magical signature coming my way.

'Let's get this over with and fill up my quota for today, the less time I spend gathering in the mountain, the more time the Tengu realized what happen.' I think.

I start smiling, grab my hand with my other hand, and direct my body to the incoming thing.

The thing falling down from above, landing a few meter away from me, from the way the thing arrived, it probably jump down from the tree or something.

"Hina-sama, past this area is one of the territory of us, the Tengu, I beg of you, please turns back now." beg someone with a girly voice.

I sense someone in front of me to be kneeling with one knee.

…I opened my eyes.

[Lv.32 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

'…Fuck, I jinxed it, seem like I went deeper to the mountain than the usual, I gotta get away now, fast.' I hurriedly think.

"I see, have a nice day then." I bowed lightly and casually turn away from her direction.

The voice sample of Hina is still very few, so need to carefully choose my word and only use small and generic word to communicate.

As I take my 7th step, the Tengu behind me calls out to me again.

"Hina-sama, I don't mean to be rude but where's the Misfortune aura that usually surround you?" ask the Tengu.

I stopped in my track and slowly looking back at the Tengu.

I sense she's looking at me while still on her one knee pose.

'Now I have a choice, I can just leave without saying a word but the Tengu are gonna start suspecting something going on and maybe giving Hina bad rep for suddenly bailing out on someone question or I answer her and risking out to be founded out sooner…now that I think it over, the answer is obvious.' I quickly think up the plan.

"…I'm finding it." I said.

"Finding it? Don't tell me Hina-sama actually loses your misfortune?!" she asked surprised.

I nod at her question.

"T-That's bad! If some Youkai use them to impure motive, it will cause trouble to everyone!" the Tengu sounded worried. "But don't worry, Hina-sama, we, the White-Wolf Tengu excel in tracking our target, we will help searching those misfortunes for you, and so, please excuse me to report to my team about the matter." said the Tengu confidently.

I nod. "Take care." I calmly said.

"Yes!" said the Tengu before she jump upward, probably to the tree. I sense she move away from this position.

After I can't sense her anymore, I close my eyes and start thinking again.

'Well, I need to get away from her now, if they actually searching for the misfortune then that mean they will meet the real Hina, so now I just need to get away from here.' I think.

I reach in to my waist pouch.

'Cane of Guidance.' I think the item name as I reach inside.

I feel some item thrust into me from the pouch, I grip it and pull it out.

I feel the item that I pull out.

It's the cane.

'Guide me toward the Human Village.' I said inwardly.

The cane tugged my hand toward a direction.

I believe where the cane take me so I obediently follow it.

Since I need to get away from here fast, I start using Telekinesis.

I encase my whole body and start hovering from the ground.

'Fly low and caution with the trees, don't fly too high or all of the Tengu that observing from the mountain start noticing me…who am I kidding, they probably already know about it, that Tengu title from before have a scout in it, just like its name, she's scouting me if I'm hostile or not. Seems like it's about time to drop the guise from today onward, but I need to get away from here first.' I deduct.

I start flying past the trees, toward the direction the cane pull me.

'But there's also a possibility that I was wrong and she probably genuinely worried about the 'missing' misfortune, after all, Hina actually giving them to other God to empower themselves by it, I don't know if she process the misfortune first before she gave it away to other god or not, there's no info since ZUN doesn't gave more information about it, fuck you ZUN, either way, the Tengu right about the misfortune being a bad news even if it's still raw or already processed.' I deduct further.

After I fly for a few minute, passing many random Youkai that hurriedly scatter after they saw me, I sense a big one ahead.

I opened my eyes.

'…Fuck my life.' I curse inwardly.

[Lv.53 Misfortune Goddess, Kagiyama Hina]

'It's the real one.' I slowly landed on the ground as I think that.

I half-raised my hand, "Good Afternoon." I greet her with a small smile.

"…Good Afternoon, to you too." she greet back. "…If I may ask, who are you? And why do you look like me?" she ask with suspicion in her tone.

I drop my Telekinesis and start using Vector Change to redirect the misfortune that creeping toward me.

I sense a bunch of magical signature appearing surrounding us a meter at higher height from my location.

I move my neck slowly to look at all of them.

[Lv.35 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.30 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.32 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.36 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.32 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.38 White Wolf Tengu Captain]

[Lv.31 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.31 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.40 White Wolf Tengu Captain]

[Lv.32 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.35 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.41 White Wolf Tengu Captain]

[Lv.36 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

[Lv.37 White Wolf Tengu Scout]

'…Look at all those doggies.' I think.

I sense Hina also looking around, probably trying to locate what I'm looking at.

Based on her power that started growing, she probably noticed that there's something going on.

"…Are they here for you?" she asked.

"…Yes." I reply.

"…Your voice also similar to me, for what reason they are after you?" she asked once again while her power keep growing.

I slowly moved toward my neck.

I can sense the tense atmosphere as I finally touch my choker.

'Voice Function, off.' I order inwardly.

[Voice: Kagiyama Hina, off]

I make a barrier that doesn't let both of our voice get out from reaching all the Tengu.

"Let me say it properly this time, Good Afternoon, Hina-san." I greet her again using my own voice. 'Before anyone ask, yes, Hina did ask me to call her with -san instead of –sama, In our previous encounter.' I think.

"…Wait, Arah-san? Is that you?" Hina asked.

"Yes, it's me, Hina-san." I reply.

As I answer her, I sense her power dying down.

I sense she look up and down, evaluating my guise that looks like her.

"Your appearance, how?" she asked.

"It's only an Image, you can try to grab one of my ribbons, and your hand will only go through them instead." I explained.

"…Really?" she said with disbelieved tone.

"Yeah, come closer, you don't need to worry about the misfortune, it still can't touch me." I said.

"…So it really is you." she said with a relief.

I sense she walked toward me.

I sense she moved her hand near my side.

"My hand passes through the ribbon, so how did you change into me?" she asked.

"I have a magic item that can change my voice and image into someone else." I said. 'I sense some of the Tengu suddenly fall to the ground, what's going on over there?' I think.

"And you because of that item, you feel that you can just turn into me?" she sound offended.

"Not in normal circumstance, I have my reason why I do it." I said.

"Enlighten me then." she said with daring tone.

"You probably can't see it right now because of the Tengus are all watching, but I'm currently blinded for one month from my failed experiment, and because I still need to collect magical ingredient, I think about a way for me to gather them safely in the mountain." I explained.

"And that's where you choose to have my appearance?" she ask.

"Yes, I'm very sorry." I bowed apologetically. "My plan is to randomly encountering you while I walk randomly to gather the ingredient, but unexpectedly I haven't encountered you until right now." I further explained.

"…" she stayed silent.

Since she doesn't say anything, I decided to just stay silence too.

'…I sense almost all the Tengu dropping to ground, are they preparing to ambush me or something?' I think.

"…I allowed it." she suddenly said.

"What?" I ask.

"I said, I will allow you turned into me for one condition." she said.

"You actually believed with what I said?" I surprised.

"Yes, I already talk to you before, you actually not that bad of a kid, I believed you wouldn't do something bad for no reason." she explained.

"…Thank you for believing in me, Hina-san." I smiled.

"You're welcome, but like I said, you can turn into me until your blind is cured only with one condition." she said.

"All right, tell me about it." I said confidently.

"It's simple, just give me your misfortune." she said.

"Easy, simple, I don't mind to do it….how do I do that, exactly?" I ask.

"*giggle* Just give me your hand." she ordered.

I comply.

She grabbed it with both of her hand.

"Just so you know, I only doing this because this is a punishment for using my image for personal gain and because this is the simplest and quickest method according to the situation." she explained.

"Whuh? What are-?!" I suddenly felt something from my arm.

'She's draining! She's definitely draining something out from me!' I said internally.

After a few more second, she let go of my hand.

"Fufufufu, how is your feeling?" she asked cheerily.

"…I feel drained…no pun intended." I said tiredly.

"I directly suck out your misfortune away and not using the proper ritual to do it, of course your spiritual health gonna feel tired from It." she explained.

"…I…see…" I reply.

*Kreak-krk-krk-krk-BAM* I hear something breaking from a tree and fall loudly to the ground.

I sense me and Hina turned toward that sound.

"Ops, I forgot there's still Tengu near us, I need to go for everybody health, good bye now, Arah-san." she said her good bye.

"…Good bye too…" I replied to her good bye, albeit tiredly.

She floated away from my location.

Now that she's gone, I also planned to come back to the village too.

I activated my Telekinesis now that Hina gone.

I float toward Human Village direction, but before I left the area, I overheard what the Tengus doing.

"Ow, my back."

"…I think I sprained my ankle."

'I already said to Captain that following after TWO Misfortune Goddess is a bad idea, but now look what states we're in."

"Shut up, I also think it's a bad idea, but this is an order from the Tenma itself, I can't back away from it."

That were the final sentence that I hear before I leave the area.

'…So tired.' I think while floating lazily.

-The Next Day-

-Hakurei Shrine-​

"APPEREANCE OF ANOTHER MISFORTUNE GODDESS IN THE GREAT YOUKAI MOUNTAIN"

"Is Gensokyo really that unlucky of a place that these places need more than one Misfortune Goddess to take away all the misfortune away?"

Reimu read loudly what her newspaper said.

"Is this what the Misfortune Goddess looks like in the picture? Why the two of them looks so identical?" ask Reimu to nobody.

'Knew it, Aya sees me and Hina from the sky, and I never sense anyone above me all day yesterday.' I think.

"This…This is the opportunity to promote the shrine. Arah! It's time to pay all of the tea you drank! Help me make many lucky charms!" ordered Reimu.

"…Reimu, you do realize that you ordered a blind man to craft something, right?" I ask.

"I don't care, come help me!" she replied.

"*sigh* Yes, boss." I sigh in defeat.

Author note:

Heyo, author here. I've got some bad and good news to all of you guys. The bad news is I'm gonna be busy for the next 2-3 weeks, so there will be no more update since then, unless there's unexpectedly free time that I can use to write, finger crossed. As for the good news, my editor is back, he will continue to edit my previous chapter to look more...'palatable' to read…

As for Human Village rule, ZUN ambiguity strikes again in Forbidden Scrollery, nothing left to be said.

About the skill price, if the skills following physical law then the price is not that high but when it's not, I'm gonna try to ramp it based on their effect.