Chapter 72: Greenhouse, Yuuka, and Phone.jpg.
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Kihara didn't reject the food handed to him by Anna Yanami, taking both flower cakes in left and right hands and devouring them whole into his stomach.
Catching the sensation of his lips grazing her fingertips, Anna wished she could instantly find an empty corner to savor the indirect kiss. Even though she knew doing so was completely perverted on top of radiating a heavy aura of a defeated heroine, she simply couldn't suppress the impulse.
The feeling of having something she once lost return to her side made her unwilling to miss a single opportunity to touch him.
"I-I'm going to wash my hands! You guys go ahead and eat!"
Cooking up a random excuse to leave the classroom, Anna transformed into a gust of wind and sprinted into the girls' restroom. Slamming and locking the restroom stall door with force, she plopped onto the toilet seat, wrapping her pink lips around her right index finger to suck on it with utter intoxication.
As if doing this was equivalent to kissing Kihara.
"Blockhead... Blockhead..."
Every muffled, slurred call made her inner desire for Kihara burn with even greater intensity.
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Upon returning to Gensokyo, Yuuka Kazami immediately dragged Nitori Kawashiro over to the Sunflower Field. The faint-hearted Kappa was terrified out of her wits,
assuming she was about to be finely chopped into minced meat and become the latest name on the famous flower field burial list.
"I-I don't have much meat on me! Lady Yuuka, please show mercy and spare my life!!" She clutched the rim of her green sunhat tightly in an attempt to stuff her entire body inside, not daring to cast a single glance upward even while being lifted by her collar.
"What are you jabbering about, little Kappa? Build a greenhouse for me right here."
"Huh?" Nitori cautiously peeked her eyes out from beneath the brim of her hat, glancing at the vacant plot of land before her, and asked tentatively: "Do you really only need a tent built? You're not making me build my own grave?"
A ferocious glint flashed in Yuuka Kazami's crimson eyes: "If you keep chatterboxing, I really will have you build your own grave."
"I-I'm sorry! I'll build the greenhouse for you right away!!"
Although architectural construction wasn't Nitori Kawashiro's primary forte, Kappas inherently possessed nimble hands. Under a life-threatening scenario, she produced more than a dozen greenhouse blueprints for Yuuka Kazami within moments.
"Lady Yuuka, among these design blueprints, which one do you like best?"
"Hmm... Let's go with this one. How long will it take to build?"
"Three..."
"Three weeks?" Yuuka knit her brows in dissatisfaction. Compared to the construction speed of Kappa Heavy Industries she knew of, that timeframe was a bit too long.
"No, no, no! It doesn't take three weeks!"
Nitori was scared out of her mind, her face contorting as she nearly blew out her throat: "I meant... two... one... Done!"
Even from Yuuka Kazami's perspective, Nitori's speed after grabbing her tools was astonishingly fast.
Within two seconds, a modern, fully transparent greenhouse constructed with glass panels, black galvanized square steel tube frames, and expansion screws was built right on the spot.
"So it was three seconds. Don't stutter next time, or it easily causes misunderstandings." Yuuka was extremely satisfied with the greenhouse. Reaching behind her, she pulled out an electric drill and handed it over to Nitori. "This is something I bought from the alternative world. I reckon you'll be quite interested in it."
"An electric drill? This drill bit seems to feature a detachable design... How interesting..."
The moment she received the electric drill, Nitori plunged into her own little world, only snapping back to reality when a cough echoed in her ears. Realizing she was still standing in the periphery of the terrifying Sunflower Field, she shivered involuntarily.
"Thank you for the gift, Lady Yuuka! If there's nothing else... may I take my leave?"
"Mmhmm."
As if receiving a royal pardon, Nitori clutched the electric drill tightly and vanished like a streak of smoke.
Yuuka Kazami waved her hand toward the greenhouse. Countless green vines sprouted from the soil, creeping inside to weave together natural, dirt-filled plant pots.
Pulling out her phone from her pocket, she opened a gardening video she had cached back in the alternative world, planning to use it as a reference for planting alternative-world flowers.
Yet after watching for a short while, her expression turned into: Greenhouse, Yuuka, and Phone.jpg
"What on earth are nutrient soil, liquid fertilizer, and potassium dihydrogen phosphate...? What is all this gibberish?! It has zero reference value!"
Yuuka buried the numerous flower seeds into the soil of the plant pots, then moved two sunflowers from the Sunflower Field to plant on both sides of the greenhouse.
These sunflowers served as her eyes and hands, capable of effectively preventing a certain black-and-white magician with sticky fingers from sneaking over to steal flowers.
"Achoo!!"
A certain black-and-white thief suddenly sneezed up on a roof beam, resulting in her secret snacking on offerings being caught red-handed by Reimu. She was left with no choice but to ride her broom and flee through a rain of spell cards.
"Curse you, Marisa! That was the snack I was saving for dinner!!!!!!"
Setting aside the bustling Hakurei Shrine, once Yuuka Kazami finished settling the greenhouse and seeds, she leaned comfortably back onto a vine lounge chair. Opening her phone, she launched the downloaded light novel [After Transmigrating, My True Feelings Toward My Master Started to Corrupt] and began reading with immense relish.
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At the Youkai Mountain, Ibuki Suika—having returned with galactic fruit wine—immediately sought out her fellow clan member, drinking buddy, and close friend: Yuugi Hoshiguma, one of the Four Devas of the Mountain, a bold, chivalrous yellow-haired big-sister type with a single red horn on her forehead.
She had planned to sample this novel, uniquely flavored fruit wine together with her. Yet the moment Suika set the bottle onto the stone table, a gap opened up out of thin air.
Uninvited, Yukari Yakumo used her folding fan to half-cover her cheeks, asking with a beaming smile: "Drinking without calling me? Could it be that now that you have a little man named Kihara, you've started ganging up with him to deal with me?"
"If you want to leech off our booze, just say so directly. Stop probing with that sarcastic tone." Suika rolled her eyes, whipping out three sake cups to set them down. "So what if I've become his woman?"
"Hey, hey, hey! Suika, you aren't joking, are you?!"
Yuugi Hoshiguma's jaw dropped straight to the floor in sheer astonishment. For Ibuki Suika—one of the Four Devas of the Mountain—to silently become a human's woman without a word, she would never have guessed such a thing could happen even if she were beaten to death.
"Don't misunderstand, I didn't come here to demand an explanation. Rather, seeing you establish such a deep relationship with Kihara is precisely the scenario I wished to see."
The red lips hidden behind Yukari's folding fan curled up high. She had originally assumed Marisa's progress would be faster, yet who knew that the very first person to head over would end up being overtaken by Sanae Kochiya and Ibuki Suika instead?
This made her wonder whether anyone who became close with Reimu was inherently the type who was completely useless and unpromising.
"My, my, why talk about all that? Hurry up and sample the wine Suika brewed! The aroma wafting out alone has already awakened the booze bugs in my stomach!"
Under Yuugi's urging, the three began sampling the galactic fruit wine. Its rich, smooth texture infused with fruity fragrance drew glowing praise from all of them.
Upon learning that the brewing materials belonged to the alternative world, Yuugi Hoshiguma—who was equally fond of drinking and brewing her own liquor—muttered: "I want to go to the alternative world to get such great raw materials to brew liquor for myself too... But I'm not very familiar with Kihara-bro..."
Taking in her reaction, Yukari knew full well in her heart that the butterfly wings formed by Kihara and the alternative world were about to stir up a very special tornado within Gensokyo.
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