However, these Little Fairies were deeply loved by the master of the Sun Garden, Kazami Yuuka.
Anyone who dared to touch a Little Fairy was disrespecting her, and Kazami Yuuka would personally come to your door to beat you half-dead and plant you in the ground as flower fertilizer.
“Yo, Yakumo Ran, are you here to buy potions?” Wearing a large witch hat and brewing potions outside her house, Marisa greeted Yakumo Ran.
She looked to be in great spirits; the Forest of Magic provided plenty of food and drink, and since settling there, Marisa’s weight had been steadily and consistently increasing.
“I have some business.
You know about Stardew Valley, right?” Yakumo Ran shook her head; she wouldn’t buy potions from Marisa even if her life depended on it.
She had personally witnessed the horrific sight of a youkai who drank one of Marisa’s potions and lost every single hair on their body—including their hair, eyebrows, and tail.
For a member of a Tailed Race, such a potion was nothing short of torture, a slow death by a thousand cuts!
Most importantly, when that youkai bought it, Marisa had claimed it was a hair-softening potion!
“I know it!
It’s that godforsaken place that produces windbreak grass!” At the mention of Stardew Valley, Marisa’s face twisted.
Even as a ruthless person who dared to drink her own concoctions, she was unwilling to ever drink that windbreak grass soup again.
The impression was too deep—unforgettably, painfully deep!
“That was an accident.
That lord is actually a very good person.
I’ve come this time to ask for your help.” Hearing Marisa’s words, Yakumo Ran fell silent for a moment.
If she hadn’t tasted Shiki’s fish soup before, she would have joined Marisa in cursing him.
“Help?!” “Sure, I’d like to see what he wants.
But let’s get this straight: I’m not helping for free this time.
This is punishment for making me drink that stuff!” Marisa rolled up her sleeves, abandoned her pot of potions, and grabbed the broom from the side, ready to set off with Yakumo Ran.
She really wanted to see what this person was thinking, to be able to grow something so inedible.
Through a Gap provided by Yukari, Marisa appeared before Shiki.
Seeing the rather handsome Shiki, Marisa’s anger softened slightly.
Someone who looked this good must have had a hardship to grow such things, right?
If anyone was to blame, it was that trickster Yukari.
If you get shot by a gun, do you go seeking revenge against the gunsmith?
Marisa was a very moral person.
“Hello, I heard you needed my help?” Marisa Race: Human, Magician Ability: Ability to use magic Residence: Forest of Magic Occupation: Magician, Apothecary Unlock Condition: A sumptuous Mushroom Feast “Yes, hello.
My name is Shiki.
I heard you’ve done a lot of research on mushrooms.” When Shiki introduced himself, he pointedly emphasized the pronunciation of the ‘Mo’ character.
His name was too similar to ‘mushroom’, making it easy for people to get confused and for typos to occur when typing, which was very troublesome.
“Heh, you’ve found the right person, kid.
When it comes to understanding mushrooms, no one in all of Gensokyo can compare to me.
What’s up?
Do you have a mushroom for me to identify?
Let me tell you, no matter what kind of mushroom it is, one bite and I’ll know if it’s poisonous and how it tastes.” Hearing her area of expertise mentioned, Marisa immediately patted her chest proudly to show off her professionalism.
These were mushrooms from another world; regardless of whether they were poisonous, she had to give them a taste.
“Not yet.
I invited you here because I want you to see if this place is suitable for cultivating mushrooms.
I’m planning to build a Mushroom Cave here to produce mushrooms unique to my world.
If it works out, I’ll treat you to a Mushroom Feast.” Shiki explained.
He had discovered that some things didn’t strictly need to follow the game’s settings.
For example, cooking: his current farmhouse normally wouldn’t have a place to cook, but the large pot Yakumo Ran brought allowed him to eat hot meals.
Fishing was the same; he had used stamina to fish yesterday, using Scallop innards as bait, and the fish bit very quickly.
So, if Marisa could solve the Mushroom Cave problem, he wouldn’t need to save up 25,000 to use it.
“A Mushroom Feast?
You really know me, kid.
Wait here, let the expert go in and take a look.” At the mention of mushrooms unique to this world, Marisa’s eyes lit up, completely forgetting her earlier talk in Gensokyo about paid assistance.
She pulled the eight trigrams furnace from her apron and lit it as a light source before diving into the cave.
“Marisa said she wanted paid help when she came.
That batch of windbreak grass certainly made everyone in Gensokyo remember you.” While Marisa was assessing the environment in the cave, Yakumo Ran spoke somewhat resentfully.
She and Chen had also drunk that soup; she was relatively fine, but the cat had been so bitter and listless that it took her a whole day to recover.
“Uh…
I couldn’t help it.
I only had those seeds at the start; the rest will take some time to mature.
By the way, do you have any vinegar?
I want to buy some vinegar and some large sealable bottles.” Shiki shrugged helplessly, then suddenly remembered something and asked about the vinegar.
“Vinegar?
Yes, and I have the bottles you mentioned too.
If you need them, you can place an order on the phone or just tell me directly.” Yakumo Ran had completely figured out the phone’s functions.
Shiki could not only sell things on the phone but also post requests to buy items.
However, since there was only one phone currently, only her household could see the purchasing information.
“I see.
Then I’ll place an order once we’re done here.
I’ll pay what’s owed; I can’t keep having you guys just give me things.” Shiki nodded.
The garlic would be ripe tomorrow, and he planned to pickle all of it into sweetened garlic.
Back home, his family used to buy a glass vat specifically for winemaking to pickle sweetened garlic.
Having a few cloves with noodles was a perfect match.
After a while, Marisa emerged from the cave with an excited look on her face and gave Shiki a thumbs-up.
“Incredible!
This place is perfectly suited for mushroom growth, both in terms of temperature and humidity.
Wait for me to go back and bring you a few mushroom cultivation boxes.
When they grow, you must let me taste the mushrooms here.” “Then I’ll trouble you.
When the mushrooms grow, I’ll definitely invite you first.” Then Shiki witnessed an absurd scene.
Marisa emerged from a Gap carrying a cultivation box about a meter wide and long, and one and a half meters high.
She carried it as easily as if it were an empty cardboard box, but it was filled with damp soil—it must have weighed at least a ton.
Yet she carried it back and forth with ease.
While Marisa went back to get more, Shiki walked up to a cultivation box and tried to move it.
Well, it didn’t budge an inch.
Returning to his spot, he watched expressionlessly as Marisa, Yakumo Ran, and even Chen, who was helping, strolled around easily carrying the cultivation boxes.
Only then did Shiki gain some understanding of the physical power of youkai.