For Reimu, today is arguably the worst day of her 10-something years of being alive.


    As the protector of the Hakurei Barrier, she could do as she wanted as long as nothing big happened in Gensokyo.


    Today was supposed to be like that.


    After eating breakfast, Hakurei thought her day would be a simple day of cleaning the shrine, she already grabbed the broom.


    However, 10 minutes into cleaning, something broke her focus.


    Her broom snapped, she thought it was just wear and tear and was ready to repair it with some materials she grabbed from the store.


    Then, the broom snapped a dozen times more until she realized it was a bad omen.


    After all, no broom should break so many times in a day.


    She had some belief as a Miko.She took it as a bad omen.


    Then, she believed it on the 11th snap of the broom.


    As soon as she realized this, the sound of ttering echoed from the shrine.


    Reimu burst out of the shrine to see a scene of absolute carnage.


    Her offerings box was shattered under the feet of an unknown man.


    While unbelievable, the outrageous guy even quipped the unmentionable trauma in her heart.


    Sure, the Shrine has almost no devotees and so the box is almost always empty, but so what? Did she ask for a reminder from the guy?


    No, she didn''t.


    Wu Yan felt intimidated.


    He knows her peak tier 8 strength isn''t to be trifled with, at least not in Gensokyo.


    She is nigh invincible in Gensokyo.


    As the guardian of the Hakurei Barrier, in the domain of Gensokyo which is epassed by this mighty barrier, she is buffed incredibly.


    It is hard for enemies to hit her and her attacks whennded, can do an insane amount of damage.


    Like the vessel of god, she can channel the power of gods to boost herbat abilities.


    Besides her nigh invincibility in Gensokyo, she can also use cards which are like hacks.


    Even Yukari would avoidbat with Miko whenever possible.


    Fighting Miko in Gensokyo is suicide.


    <em>Don''t tell me she is going to blow her tops off?</em>


    Wu Yan sighed.


    "It is my fault anyway, rest assured, I will fix what I''ve broken."


    Reimu''s aura seeped back into her.


    Reimu turned back as she sized up Wu Yan.


    "Really?"


    Wu Yan rolled his eyes.


    "It''s just an offering box, why would I need to lie over such a simple thing?"


    "Did you just call my offerings box simple?!"


    Reimu shrieked.


    "It is an artifact of divine nature in this shrine!"


    <em>Artifact?</em>


    Well, if it could fill itself then maybe. But, this thing was always empty, even a trash can is more useful, no?


    Wu Yan wanted to say that but he decided to keep mum.


    He walked over before kneeling down near the pieces of the destroyed offerings box.


    <em>Vrrmmm</em>


    By using mana, he uttered a simple chant to mend the broken.


    The pieces slowly went back into one piece as if time was rewound.


    "Woah."


    Reimu hugged the fixed box.


    "You actually did it!"


    Wu Yan chuckled.


    Reimu happily chirped.


    "I thought you''re just a lost human. I didn''t know you could do this, you must be a magician."


    Gensokyo isn''t an isted dimension, it is loosely connected to reality and mostly sealed off.


    The only point of contact between the real world and Gensokyo is this shrine.


    Like the mirror image on a water''s surface, the two are the same sides of a coin.


    If someone crossed over into Gensokyo, they would end up at this shrine.


    It isn''t easy to enter. Only special locations and peoplepletely forgotten by the real world ends up transported here.


    Reimu isn''t omniscience but she could faintly tell from the aura whether someone is from the vige or not.


    He doesn''t exude the aura of a Gensokyo resident.


    And, from his magic, it appears the man is a magician.


    There are no ssifications of magic in Gensokyo, anything that uses magic to conjure events is magic, so no magecraft, magetech, everything is just magic.


    "A magician?"


    Wu Yan scratched his cheek.


    "Be that as it may, you''re free to refer to me as such."


    Reimu didn''t want to bother asking so many questions, not like Wu Yan is serious in answering anyway.


    "I don''t care if you''re human or not. If you enter Gensokyo you need to answer my questions properly. I don''t want any problems after I let you through toe bite me in the ass!"


    "Okay."


    Wu Yan bitterlyughed.


    "I will answer those that I can."


    "You sound awfully cocky for an outsider."


    Reimu dusted herself off.


    "Okay, tell me your name."


    "Name?"


    Wu Yan blinked before an idea dawned upon him.


    <em>Cough</em>


    Wu Yan straightened his back before smiling.


    "The name''s Yakumo Shiro the patriarch of the Yakumo n, pleasure to meet you."