The Ultimate Life Form in Project Touhou

[Chapter 3 - Meeting The Puppeteer]

A/N: Here it is... Chapter 3 lmao...

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Location - Forest Of Magic, Gensokyo

"HUH!?/WHAT!?"

Reimu and Marisa's eyes were wide open in shock and bemusement as they also verbally and facially expressed their disbelief.

"Um..."

Hirozashi blinked for a few moments in surprise, but not for the same reasons. "Why'd you two yell out like that for?" He questioned them with a confused look on his face.

The girls glance at one another before looking back at him, getting out of their stupor. "Sorry about that-ze..." The blonde apologized sheepishly, scratching the back of her head.

"But... are ya absolutely sure about ya being 17 and not making it up?" Marisa asked as she walked up to him before stopping and pointing at him with her broom stick's blunt end.

"Eh?" Hirozashi was even more confused now by the question the blonde girl just asked before narrowing his eyes a bit as he gently pushed her broom away. "What? Of course I am! Why would I lie about something like that?" He frustratingly questioned, crossing his arms.

The blonde girl shrinks under his gaze and even blushes a little from the stare of his piercing yet welcoming red eyes. "Ehe... w-well, um uh.."

Reimu then butted in, pushing Marisa aside and pointing a finger up at the boy's face. "Cause most Youkais aren't 17 or even 50, for that matter... I would know since I exterminate them, and their souls every single time I see them vanish into the afterlife. Are those of elders, and most if not all of them are like hundreds bare minimum to thousands of years old, if we're not counting goddesses." She stated in an arrogant manner to him, crossing her arms.

Hirozashi opened his mouth in surprise at the sudden information dump before shaking his head, walking back a bit and waving his arms. "Wait wait wait wait, what!? What do you mean most, Youkais are hundreds or thousands of years old!?" He yelled with a really shocked expression.

With an eyeroll and an irritated sigh, Reimu then responded. "What I mean... is that most, if not every Youkai ever... is old as shit... but... according to you, you aren't... which I'm calling bullshit on because Yukari would've known and would've told me... Also I don't trust Youkais..." She told him before looking down for a moment in thought before looking away.

"Well... except for a select few." 

The Youkai hybrid, getting over his bemusement, just looked over at the girl with a deadpan. "Um, okay, but another question; you "exterminate" Youkais? Why? What's up with that?" He asked with a narrowed gaze.

Reimu huffed with a small smirk, finding his question amusing. "Well, it's my job to exterminate any Youkais or otherworldly beings that cause incidents here in Gensokyo, not to mention they're man eaters, and I have little to almost no respect for most of them... except for once again, a select few." She explained in a sassy pose with her arms crossed under her chest.

"Oh, well, in that case, I guess that's fair... here I thought you just mindlessly killed Youkais." Hirozashi murmured, stroking his chin. 

Reimu shook her head with a sigh. "Ugh, of course I don't mindlessly kill Youkais... if I did, you'd be dead... and I'd be no better than they are, now, wouldn't I? You emo idiot." She sniped.

Hirozashi felt his eye twitch a little at the stupid insult. "Emo Idiot-What?"

"What? Look at you, red and black? I like those colors but seriously. Do you need thaaaat much of it and your hair and that constant scowl, the literal definition of edgelord or emo." She said, with a smirk purposefully trying to piss him off.

"I'm not even mad that she's calling me an emo or an edgelord... I'm just disappointed and annoyed she's confusing the two... I'm edgy not emo... There's a difference" He thought with an irritated scowl.

"And another thing you-" She began before being cut off.

"Alright, can you do me a solid and shut the fuck up already?" He told her in a hoarse tone instantly appearing before her in a blur of black and red.

Marisa who was watching with a scowl at Reimu for pushing her away, couldn't help but once again be surprised by Hirozashi's speed once again. "Damn this guy's fast... makes me wonder who's faster between him and that perv crow..." She thought, stroking her chin.

Reimu who had seen Hirozashi seemingly teleport right before her with his immense speed didn't seem phased in the slightest and even let out a little smirk in amusement at the show. "Hmm... not bad, seems you're just about faster than the average Youkai." She mocked trying to hide he impressed look.

Something the red-eyed Youkai noticed making him chuckle and smirk. "Riiiight, and I guess you're more of the... smartass skimpy outfit wearing and armpit-revealing type of shrine maiden then? Or is that every shrine maiden in this colorful yet bleak place?" He retorted, leaning close to her face. He didn't have to lean far since she was just an inch shorter.