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Chapter 14

Time slowly marches foward, moving its mighty power onto the universe it controls inside its hands. With the hands measuring such time, the one trapped inside an eternal agony was forced to watch a small pocket watch laying on a desk, not much to do except wait for the library to warn him of future guests.

...Everything was more than quiet, it was close to a morgue, where nothing is allowed to move anymore. Sitting inside this horrible place, the man was doing calculations to keep himself busy. He did say that his goal was approaching but waiting for people to carelessly enter this place was a long process.

Y/N's mind: Maybe they started to realize that nobody emerged out of here, that would explain.

People would be afraid to try to break inside if they knew that nobody ever came out of it alive to tell the tale. This place was gaining infamy and fear from the residents of Gensokyo, just when he needed them the most. With this twist, they could wait for weeks for only a single person to come, weeks that he didn't have. His enervation growing stronger made him hard to stay focused outside of battles and he would sometimes lose attention when nothing was happening.

Koishi: Are we really going to wait here?

Y/N: Not much of a choice, we'll get stopped immediately if we go on a killing spree outside of this place.

Nobody in their right mind would let someone freely kill people and that was probably the reason why Koishi was allowing him to do so, she was not someone with a right mind. He could justify most of the deaths he caused as self-defense but he was now actively searching for people to fight just to collect their souls.

Y/N: Say, do you know someone named Reimu Hakurei?

Koishi: Hm, why the sudden question?

He might as well cut straight to the point, to know how deep he was. Without directly telling her that he ended her life, he could get some information out of it. Plus, it helps that she can't read his mind unlike her sister, lying would be much more easier.

Koishi: Well, she did beat me up once or twice but I don't know much about her.

Y/N: Know anyone that hangs around with her?

Koishi: That witch and I think I've seen her with a woman carrying an umbrella, she's very scary.

Y/N: ...That's all?

Koishi: Why do you want to know?

Y/N: At the shrine near the top of the mountain, I've heard of them talking about her and I was curious, that's all.

That was a lie of course, he simply asked them for a blessing then went back outside but he couldn't tell her what really happened, she could tell her sister and he would be in an even bigger mess.

Koishi: I don't remember anything else...

Y/N: It's fine, I was just curious.

Averting his attention away, he held his mouth closed and clenched his teeth, knowing that they won't take kindly his action. If he had to take a guess, that woman along with the witch would be the future guests and they won't go easy on him for a moment.

'I guess that's what I get for existing.'

...

'Was your life worth more than someone with real people caring for them?'

Y/N: I'm sure that person had their own reason to beat you, just like me.

Koishi: Well, she was mean about it, brutal!