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Chapter 1

The humidity of the lonely cave was peacefully stagnating in the air, slowly turning the atmosphere into a guillotine to those breathing it. It was silent and nothing was moving, it was like the very lifeforce of the ground was killed, never to be healed again. However, it was not the case, it could only be the madness of those walls screaming at the ones walking by them, screaming to warn the newcomers.

Speaking of newcomers, another foolish soul stepped into the cursed hallway that was made eons ago. The sound of the footsteps were suppressing the silence, the sound of someone humming as well echoed. The girl that many considered a soulless shell was walking around the underground with her smile that could give the creep to anyone not expecting her.

...They get scared, she leaves and they forget about her, only for the system to begin once more, such is her curse. The curse of forever being someone that people could vaguely remember in the back of their head. Koishi Komeiji, the girl who closed her eyes and at the same time, the little humanity she had as a youkai.

Koishi: *Humming*

There was a certain elegance with her movements, it was like witnessing a puppet finally walking on its own for the first time. Normally, such thing wouldn't be possible but in the land of Gensokyo, the fantasies are more than real.

Many things that were discarded as fairytales were living people inside the boundaries of this secluded world, a world where those beings were the center of attention while the humans were the weaklings. The fear of death was one that none of them could ignore, they lived their life like if the current day was their last.

However, it did not concern the girl with short green hair, her dark hat with a yellow ribbon careful resting on top of her head dancing with her movements. They were quite unnatural, it was like watching someone blindly walking in an unknown place, she was barely reacting to her surroundings.

Koishi: I'll make a wonderful surprise to my sister~

She talked to herself, not minding it for a second. She lost her sense of judgement a long time ago, it was discarded as well due to many mistakes of the past. Those many mistakes became a permanent scar that she hid away for all eternity but this is not a tale about her scars but someone else's.

Koishi: ...?

Her feet scrapped the floor and stopped at her confusion. To her right, a door that many would not have seen in her place due to its color was closed. A door like this should not be here, it was a fact but here it was, defying the law of nature and order. The girl was quite 'confused' by this sight, a remant of her feelings.

That moment of slight shock pushed her to step closer, smiling with anticipation. She glanced around but couldn't find a doorknob, the door wasn't given one. Left stuck at the first step, the youkai looked around herself before placing her right hand on the wooden structure. Feeling the weak warmth of the air pressing against the wood, she began to push, to which it opened without a single hesitation. It was inviting her inside like the previous victims who fell into its trap.

Behind it, all she could see was a barely illuminated room with the ground filled with unknown objects, her eyes unable to see what was hidden in that abnormal darkness. Normally, any sane person would step backward but her sanity was not in the equation, simply following her subconscious and instinct.

With it, the beginning of the reception began, the guest/intruder entering the forsaken room left to rot in its corner of this reality.

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