Chapter 31

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Kusa can be seen getting grounded by the three girls for being too reckless

While the crow lady is getting grounded by Satori

In the end, Marisa and Reimu gets that Kanako and Suwako is behind the incident so they decided to go towards the Moriya shrine in the mountain top to beat them some senses

Now Kusa is with Mokou in the Bamboo forest to prevent her from being reckless again

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Mokou: this is the second time I see the Bamboo flowers bloom

Kusa: Me too...

Mokou: Do you know how much you made us worry?

Kusa: ...

Kusa: Yes... I'm sorry

Mokou: I'm sorry to do this to you... but promise me to not be reckless ever again

Kusa: I can't promise that... sometimes recklessness can help me

Mokou: you are being stubborn

Kusa: it can't be helped, grasses are stubborn organisms

Kusa: no matter how much you poison, burn, and uproot them They will come back a month or so

Mokou: will you come back if you die?

Kusa just looks away

Mokou: tell me

Kusa: I don't know... I didn't die yet...

Kusa: I want to confirm it, but what if I didn't come back, I will only cause you all some pain...

Mokou: That's why don't be reckless

Kusa: I'll try...

Mokou: That's enough for me

Mokou leans her head into Kusa's shoulder

They both stayed silent and appreciates each other's company

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Mokou didn't think that her life becomes better

After her father's humiliation because of Kaguya, she wants to take revenge on her

Using her rage to make fire she defeats Kaguya but the sick joke is

She drank Kaguya's potion to be immortal and use that strength to defeat her yet she didn't think that Kaguya herself is an immortal too

The two wage battles almost every day until they got sick of it, they despised each other's presence but it made her empty

She helps humans who were lost and continues to whittle away until their life will diminish

No matter how many tries her attempt and even starves herself she can't die

She thought her boring life will continue forever until she felt something in her foot

It's similar to a very little girl that is smaller than a Kappa

She is weirded out and tries to talk to the girl

But the girl didn't say anything so she continues to walk that maybe the tiny girl will grow bored and go home

But she didn't think the girl continues to hug her foot until night comes

No matter how strong she used to pry the girl it didn't budge and feels like she is rooted to her foot

Out of options she gave up and just said her name randomly

But she didn't think that the tiny girl with respond and said her name

Her name is Kusa which made her baffled whether the girl's parents hate the girl or she just choose that name for herself

The little girl isn't a human, nor a yokai, she doesn't have any special abilities except for Manipulating grass and she is a literal grass

Mokou is weirded out on how to interact with this peculiar creature

She started to treat it like a child playing with her and messing with her

Mokou jokingly tell the girl to fight her and the tiny girl agree

Mokou regrets that she is easily being defeated by the girl

It made her dim fire burn more brightly and want to defeat the smug tiny girl

Days have passed and the annoying girl seems to stop coming by and Mokou didn't want to admit but she is already fond of her

When a female human with Green hair come towards her

She wants to ask what is her business but she suddenly attacked her while saying the lines 'this is my revenge for making me a ball' in a familiar tone of speech

The tiny girl become a young lady instantly but because of the girl's enthusiasm she let her guard down and got taken down by the girl

she has been subjected to the girl's smugness that she wants to wipe off on her face

When her friend Keine tells her that she become more cheerful compared in the past and she didn't think she has changed so much

The girls nagging become a habit towards Mokou that she decided to eat and take herself more

The girl renovated her home and she always drops by when the moon isn't present

she likes the girl's presence more and more and didn't think about Kaguya until she hears that the girl Has already someone

She is happy towards their relationship, no... she is supposed to be happy that the girl that always annoys her has already taken because she isn't going to be subjected to her antics

But why does she felt hurt inside... is it because she will be gone and not going to visit her again? Or it's another entire reason

She becomes harsh towards the girl making her stop going towards her but the girl ignores it until she gave up but push the girl whenever she tries to be clingy

Her life continues being amused by the girl's antics and presence but she didn't think the girl Has only limited life She wants to offer her flesh to the girl to extend her lifespan but she remembered the girl doesn't like to eat humans

Until her forgotten hated enemy tried to send someone to kill her, eight people and she tries so hard to beat them but she got defeated and become unconscious

she opens her eyes and saw her gentle go-lucky friend is very furious while protecting her she even decided to fight her group of friends just for her

But She is using her lifespan to fight against three people and she saw her petals fall

Mokou doesn't want her only friend to be gone and she is forced to give her blood using her mouth

When they got connected something has clicked in her mind

She wants to be with her, she wants her to be hers, and she wants to become one with her

So she decided to strike a deal with the girl's lover in her selfishness and the girl's lover frustratingly accepts her

But it doesn't matter because she is now with her forever no matter how long time will pass
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The situation ends with the hotspring being used as a public pool

All of the people that know this incident decided to celebrate with a barbeque party and a feast making the shrine maiden smile wryly because they made the shrine the place of the event

Satori and Koishi is there and they are welcomed with open arms

Mokou, Marisa, and Reimu sees Koishi due to Kusa's ghost-like presence

Only Yama can sense Kusa because she knows Kusa's origin making her immune to Kusa's naturalness

Satori and Koishi is touched by the welcomes so Satori closed her 3rd eye for the first time in public

They decided to finish the night drowning in alcoholic beverages

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