Becoming an Oni in this land of illusion

Chapter 14

The weather has been increasingly cold lately

Though I don't get bothered by the cold since I use flames wrapping my body like a temperature regulator

Since it consumes little to no mana because I never release it on the outside

I've entered the store only to be met by a whistling noise coming from the heater that Rinnosuke managed to get

Speaking of him he is frowning looking at it with a defeated expression

I mean looking at its unclean appearance it's no wonder that the heater can't get airflow

"Rinnosuke let me clean that appliance"

"why?"

"it's dirty that's why it produces high pitch noise"

"How did you know?"

"If someone is choking you can you still breathe?"

"I understand it now"

He turns off the heater and makes way for me

The heater in question is the modern one that you could see in a mall

But why did it get here? I can't question logic at this point

I lifted the heater on the ground and put it on my workstation on the other side of the room

I simply dust it off with the brush and started to disassemble it

There's no way he got a complete tool set from picking it all up

There's probably a sponsor... A very powerful being that can freely go outside and inside like it's a child's play

"here"

He put a cup of tea on the table and it smells amazing

"speaking of tea... didn't Marisa break your favorite cup set?"

His face suddenly become gloomy after I mentioned it

"yes... I wish she could replace it"

I don't know pottery so I couldn't help you Rinnosuke

"how about buying from the village?"

"no, the cup has sentimental value that's why it's precious"

"I see"

"I'm afraid of the heater starting a fire because it's so loud"

"but speaking of fire there has been an increase of cremations in Gensokyo lately"

It's mainly humans though

"many people are dying because of the cold due to poverty"

I added, that no one leads the humans in Gensokyo from what I have heard

So they are very disarrayed and dying like flies

I don't know if I'm right because I have no idea to be blunt

"The increase of ghosts is probably due to that"

What?! Ghost?!

....

Well there are gods so there's a ghost somewhere

I'm not scared of them... I swear...

*knock* *knock*

"there's finally someone?!"

He seemed excited about getting his first costumer

I'm already finished cleaning up this heater because my hand never stops at what it's doing