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東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Chapter 02 Cover
Publisher

Febri /
Ichijinsha

Released

July 2010 - ongoing

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Chapters

36


Touhou Ibarakasen (Rose Poem Hermit)~ Wild and Horned Hermit (東方茨歌仙 ~ Wild and Horned Hermit) is a Touhou comic published by Ichijinsha in Febri, formerly Chara☆Mel Febri beginning on July 24, 2010. The story is written by ZUN, with illustration by Aya Azuma. It introduces Kasen Ibaraki, aka Kasen Ibara, a girl of unknown nature and ability who seems to have some sort of connection to the existing cast.

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Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 1

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.1
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.1
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

June 27, 2011

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

146

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.2

ISBN

9784758012225

Chapter One: The One-Armed Horned Hermit (July 24, 2010)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Rukaroa

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Summary: Someone leaves a "kappa's arm" at the Hakurei Shrine. Reimu decides to turn it into a goshintai and send Marisa to the human village for supplies. At the entrance to the human village, Marisa bumps into a girl, who claims she was remembering everything since her birth as a means to extend her lifespan. Marisa then returns to the shrine, and Reimu sets up the goshintai. Almost immediately, the strange girl Marisa met turns up at the shrine to see the kappa's arm, even though Reimu had not yet advertised the kappa's arm. The girl introduces herself as Kasen Ibaraki, a hermit who apparently visited the shrine before and already knows Reimu, and she claims she heard about the kappa's arm from some birds. She gets Reimu to show her the kappa's arm, but is disappointed when she sees that the "kappa's arm" is a mechanical extending arm. Afterwards, Marisa invites Kasen to visit the shrine more often.

Chapter Two: The Intentionally Abandoned Technology and Hell (September 25, 2010)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Mae, Rukaroa and Foxtrot

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Summary: Above the Underground Geyser Center, Kasen, concerned that evil spirits are appearing above ground, puts up a sign declaring "only people who want to die should come near" (due to the presence of poisonous gases and evil spirits). At the Hakurei Shrine, Sanae tries to explain to Reimu and Marisa that nuclear reactor in Former Hell is inefficient. Kasen drops by to listen in, and Sanae reveals that Kasen also lives on Youkai Mountain. Sanae then gives them an explanation of cold fusion and asks Reimu to call upon the god of metals to provide some palladium alloy for an experiment. A few days later, Sanae and Kanako perform the experiment successfully.

Chapter Three: The Criminal's Gold Mine (November 25, 2010)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Mae

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Summary: Kasen goes to the Hakurei Shrine and finds some vengeful spirits gathering around a small pile of gold. Kasen orders Reimu to tell her where she got the gold, and Reimu leads her to the hot springs near the underground geyser center, where Marisa and the kappa are digging for gold. Kasen then orders Reimu to put back the gold since the gold was formed from humans' desires and infused with the essence of vengeful spirits. Kasen also explains that metals such as mercury and arsenic are similarly formed, and Marisa notes that they are often used in magicians' experiments. Komachi appears at Kasen's dojo to remind her that the shinigami are monitoring her.

Chapter Four: An Artificial Lake of Faith[1] (January 25, 2011)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Mae

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Summary: A landslide occurred near the kappa's hideout, and Reimu, Marisa, and Kasen go investigate. The landslide had blocked the river, creating a natural dam and a lake near the base of the mountain. The three meet Kanako at the lake, where they discuss the advantages of dams. Kanako ends up removing the dam and the silt, and proceeds to direct a kappa to build another dam. Sanae mentions that the dam was planned long before the landslide. Suspicious, Kasen confronts Suwako about the real purpose of the dam: to create a lake as a "base" that's more convenient for worshipers. Suwako remarks that the landslide was the result of the kappas' attempt to build the dam in one night and that construction of the current dam is will be canceled since the kappa work poorly in groups.

Chapter Five: The Hermit's Duty (March 28, 2011)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Mae

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Summary: Frustrated that her shrine isn't attracting visitors, Reimu decides to ask Kasen to teach her a few techniques that can help her attract worshipers. Put off by her ambitious attitude, Kasen summons a dragon to take Reimu to her dojo for training for a few days. After the training is completed, Komachi visits Kasen and tells her that she is impressed with Kasen for performing her hermit duties. However, Komachi also explains that Reimu is too simple-minded to have any ill intent, and that she'll return to normal very shortly.

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 2

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.2
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.2
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

March 27, 2012

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

147

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.3

ISBN

9784758012621

Chapter Six: The Invisible Poison the Thunder Holds (May 25, 2011)

Translated by glasnost, edited by Mae

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Summary: Kasen and Sanae visit the Hakurei Shrine to find a very lethargic Reimu and Marisa. They tell Kasen and Sanae about a strange creature they had found after the thunderstorm on the night before, hoping that the creature would help solve Gensokyo's energy crisis. After poking through the shrine, Kasen finds the creature, a raijuu she was taking care of. She realizes the raijuu was responsible for the thunderstorm. She also notes that the raijuu is poisonous; the poison, found in the lightning it creates, causes people who see its lightning to become exhausted and lose their ability to think. Kasen has Sanae prepare some corn, which counteracts the raijuu's poison, for Reimu and Marisa.

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Chapter Seven: The Real God of Fortune (July 25, 2011)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: Marisa hears that a god of fortune has visited a soba shop in the Human Village. When she tells Reimu about the rumor, Reimu decides to have the god visit her shrine. The next day, Reimu leaves a broom on the ground, hoping the god of fortune will appear and start sweeping. After Reimu's scheme fails, Marisa then tells her that the god is a shy human who is always smiling and resembles a fukusuke doll. The god wanders the village, appearing to enter shops at random, though every shop he has visited has prospered. Sanae recognizes the god as Shirou Sendai. Kasen then reveals why the places he visited prosper: because those shops are already committed to prospering.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH07.zip
Raw: http://www.mediafire.com/?ii9tt2t3jrnjycb

Chapter Eight: The Fox's Trick (September 24, 2011)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: After last night's party at the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu wakes up and discovers a youkai fox, who tries to disguise herself as Marisa but is quickly outed. Reimu was about to exterminate her when the fox tells Reimu where to find some spare change and cleans up last night's party. When Reimu tries asking for more money, the fox tells her how she can get that. Over the next several days, the shrine is teeming with visitors. Kasen discovers a tube fox attached to one of the visitors and confiscates it. She tells Reimu and Marisa that though the tube fox can gather wealth and fortune it will also completely drain the vitality of the spellcaster. Reimu confesses about the youkai fox to Marisa and Kasen, and swears to exterminate all youkai on the spot.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH08.zip
Raw: http://www.mediafire.com/?jxtfdj8pmemtk46

Chapter Nine: New and Old Youkai (November 25, 2011)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste and Hylarn, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: Reimu has found the youkai fox who swindled her in the previous chapter and plans to exterminate her. Kasen wonders if Reimu is being too harsh, pointing out that not all youkai have bad intentions. Reimu then proceeds to lecture Kasen on the nature of youkai. At that point, Mamizou appears at the shrine because she believes Reimu is behind the attacks of several residents of the Myouren Temple. However, since the attacker managed to remain unseen at each attack, they conclude that the culprit is a youkai. A few days later, Kasen was asking Reimu to not be so harsh on some youkai when a mysterious mist appears striking down Marisa and Reimu. The mist collects to reveal Suika, who "attacked" the residents of the temple as part of a greeting. Kasen disappears before Suika can see her, having recognised the mist on touch and not wanting to be "revealed"...

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH09.zip
Raw: http://www.mediafire.com/?o34imu0v3pcqeh2

Chapter Ten: The Otherworld of Hahakigi (January 25, 2012)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: With her errand-eagle Kume growing old and forgetful, Kasen decides to start training his replacement Kanda. As finding the way back to a hermit's home is a skill that takes a long time to learn, Kasen decorates a tree with orbs of light to act as a landmark. However, on learning from Marisa that people are seeking out this tree in the belief it grows jewels, she quickly replaces the lights with a less-conspicuous Brocken Spectre. Marisa is still curious about the tree's odd shadow and sets off to investigate; spotting Kanda with supplies, she manages to follow him back to Kasen's dojo. Another few days later, Marisa brags to Reimu about her plans to visit Kasen again and "borrow" some valuables.

Gaku-Touhou Version (+ Extra): http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH10.zip

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 3

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.3
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.3
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

July 27, 2013

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

144

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.4

ISBN

9784758013178

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.3 Limited Edition
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.3 Limited Edition
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

July 26, 2013

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

145(?)

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.4

ISBN

-

Chapter Eleven: Unshou the Fisherman (March 24, 2012)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste and Hylarn, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: Reimu is pushing Kasen to host the annual flower-viewing party when an injured Marisa arrives; she was trying to find Kasen's house again to steal her valuables but was warded off and attack by her pet tiger due to Marisa's intention of taking it's rare pelt. Marisa leaves, but returns soon afterwards with her cut completely gone - apparently a fisherman in the Human Village named Unshou has been healing people with a mysterious ointment. Marisa suggests that Kasen seek him out to have her "injured" arm healed (Kasen hiding that her arm is fake). Kasen first searches Unshou's house, then approaches him in person, asking where he found Kappa's Nostrum and where he's keeping "the arm". Unshou claims he received the medicine from a kappa in exchange for a pair of "kappa's arms" he found in the river, one in a box (apparently the arm from chapter 1) and the other a still-living humanoid arm which was carrying it. Kasen ends up hiring Unshou to provide fish for the party.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH11.zip

Chapter Twelve: Hell's Welcoming (May 25, 2012)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: Komachi arrives at Kasen's dojo, who notes that she's altered the route since Marisa found it. When Kasen refers to ferryman shinigami as lower-ranking than those who collect mortals at their time of death, Komachi reveals that the second type are actually an elaborate hoax - only those who would illegally extend their life need "collecting", and Hell sends "something much scarier than a shinigami" to do it. At the shrine Reimu and Marisa witness a sudden downpour, followed by a giant geyser erupting from Genbu Ravine. They arrive to find that the water is so pressurized that anything touching it will be disintegrated, and that the kappa have been rendered homeless. The water was actually gathered by the kishin chief Suiki to trap and kill Seiga Kaku, because she has lived too long. The trap's structure makes Seiga's ability useless on it, but she escapes by tunneling through the ground. On meeting Seiga, Kasen wonders if what she's done is really so wicked, and, if simply living too long is a wicked act, what that means for the youkai. It's at least a few days before Suiki realises Seiga is gone.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH12.zip

Chapter Thirteen: Kappa Forsaking the River (July 25, 2012)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: In the forest, Kasen sees animals fleeing from what appears to be the sound of a gunshot. At the shrine, she blames it on some of the displaced kappa from the last chapter, who have become yamawaro and take part in wargames. However, she learns from her eagle that not only are the yamawaro not using guns, the animals are even joining in the fun. Claiming that a human villager was shot, Reimu heads for the mountains to exterminate the yamawaro, but is rudely turned away. Soon afterwards, reports come in that one of the yamawaro has been shot. Investigating, Kasen discovers that the villager's wound is actually a bite, deciding that he must have mistaken the attack for a gunshot from its sound and because he couldn't see its source. Kasen tracks the culprit to a group of mami (a tanuki-like animal) that have started to transform into noteppou in response to the wargames. She instructs them to bring apology gifts to those they attacked, and tells them a way to reverse their youkai transformation. Reimu is annoyed by the yamawaro's apparent stroke of generosity, and heads back up to give them a piece of her mind.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH13.zip

Chapter Fourteen: Youkai Preferred by Humans (December 10, 2012)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: In the Human Village, Kasen sees the residents of a house begging a young girl in a kimono not to leave, who then vanishes into thin air. Reimu explains that the girl was a zashiki-warashi, a benevolent household spirit, and that they have been leaving in great numbers lately. According to Yukari there has been demand for them in the Outside World as part of a small-town revitalisation project. Yukari arrives with a hobgoblin, saying that they're the zashiki-warashi's Western equivalents and she's invited them to Gensokyo to fill in for them. The hobgoblins, however, prove unpopular with the villagers due to their ugly appearance. When Kasen asks Yukari why she would go so far to replace the zashiki-warashi, Yukari explains that the other youkai rely on them to spy on the village and report on any subversive elements; a request from the outside world, though, was too big of an opportunity to go to waste. Kasen starts to realise their true goal, but Yukari cuts her off, saying the youkai in Gensokyo have to get their food from somewhere. Kasen is confused about why Yukari would tell her all this, to which she responds "Oh? Aren't you on our side?". Kasen and Reimu exterminate the hobgoblins under the excuse that they're youkai spies. The zashiki-warashi return, having misunderstood the demand, while the hobgoblins find jobs at the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH14.zip

Chapter Fifteen: Visible Goshintai[2] (February 16, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: Winter has come, and Marisa comes to visit Reimu at the Hakurei Shrine, which isn't looking good from the outside. Reimu explains that she doesn't work during the early part of the year and that she never gets visitors anyway, but it's clear that she's just been slacking off for a long time, and Marisa is unable to shake her out of her lethargy. Meanwhile, the Myouren Temple is getting plenty of visitors. Later on, Kasen goes to the Hakurei Shrine as well; apparently there was a big exhibition at the temple. She says that the relics they were showing off were nothing special, but Marisa says it certainly brings in the worshipers. Marisa reminds Reimu of the Goshintai she tried to set up in Chapter 1, and Reimu gets the idea to use the Goshintai to put on a big show. A few days later, Kasen returns to find the shrine crystal-clean, but the donation box has a sign on it directing people away to see the Goshintai. Kasen wanders in that direction and finds Reimu with a big plum tree. Using questionable logic, she deduces that since plum trees make people think of Lord Tenjin, then that must obviously be the god that's enshrined here. However, as Tenjin is a spirit of academic success, and it isn't really needed in the Human Village, faith in him is small. Reimu's idea is to have the plum tree there to draw in visitors, and thus collect faith at the same time. Later in the year, the plan actually bears fruit, and even Yukari Yakumo comes to visit. She points out that the tree is known for growing branches that grow into the ground to become roots, and then explains that in the real world, the Goshintai tree was chopped down and became a youkai tree that casted a curse as strong as the amount of faith it had gathered. A while afterwards, Kasen visits Reimu to find her removing the decorative ropes(shimenawa) from the plum tree to put them on a cherry blossom. Kasen points out that it's a bad idea becuase of the plum tree's curse, and Reimu hastily replaces it, deciding to get some new shimenawa instead. Unfortunately the tree eventually grew too large for the shimenawa, and the divine spirits started leaking out of it, causing visitors to stop coming.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH15.zip

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 4

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.4
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.4
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

May 27, 2014

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

143

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.5

ISBN

9784758013741

Chapter Sixteen: The Oni's Drinking Vessel (April 10, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, Nietz (Gaku-Touhou), edited by Clarste, Mae (Gaku-Touhou)

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Summary: As the day of the annual flower viewing approaches, Reimu brings Marisa and Kasen to the shrine to persuade them to help her out, since putting parties together is a lot of work. She asks Kasen to bring food and sake again, since they were a big hit. She offers to bring the sake if Marisa gets the food. The next day, as various youkai are gathered for the flower viewing, some people are wary of the sake Kasen will be bringing. When she arrives, she shows everyone the sake worm in the vase of sake she brought, which turns water into sake overnight. It's a huge hit. She later explains to Marisa that she used a trick - she use a sake dish owned by a certain acquaintance that raises the quality of sake poured into it. In addition, she has a "drinking box" that will grant sake poured into it the effect of curing illnesses and injuries. If the drinker is already healthy, it grants them strength, but at a cost... Everyone gets wind of that and tries to drink from it. The next day, Sanae Kochiya comes to visit. She finds an extremely grumpy Reimu and a Marisa who is punching everyone in the face. She leaves and finds Kasen who warns her to stay away from them for now. Kasen explains that the personalities of those who drink it turn into that of onis. She also finally mentions that if it actually ends up healing your body, your actual body would become an oni. Sanae points out Kasen's bandage-covered arm, but she explains that she needs to drink from that box or else the arm would completely rot away - it will never heal. Just then, Suika Ibuki appears above them after having gotten a tip from Yuugi. She says to herself that Kasen didn't have to keep hiding, and that she hasn't seen her in a long time, but leaves, not wanting to blow her cover.
Note: This chapter takes place concurrently with Forbidden Scrollery chapter 6.

Gaku-Touhou Version: http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/Aya_Azuma_and_ZUN_-_Wild_and_Horned_Hermit_CH15.zip

Chapter Seventeen: The Rainy Season's Rare Stone (June 14, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, edited by Clarste

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Summary: In the middle of a rainstorm, Marisa frets over leaks. At the Hakurei Shrine, Kasen drops in on Reimu, who has decided to make some plum wine using plums from her cursed goshintai tree (WaHH Chapter 15). While Reimu looks for a heavy stone to place atop the fermentation jar, Marisa comes by with a stone from her house, originally stolen from the Shrine, that she wants Reimu to investigate since it keeps dripping water. Kasen calls it a Weather Stone, a rare object that appears when seasons change, and that the moisture is the breath from a creature inside the stone. Specifically, a dragon resides inside, with the stone growing to accommodate its size. Reimu builds a shrine for it and attempts to attract visitors, but the stone doesn't grow at all. Kasen explains that it might be a Fish Stone, instead, and that might be a good thing it's not a Dragon Stone, since its birth could be accompanied by a devastating thunderstorm. By chipping away at the Stone to reveal the fish inside, it's also said by Kasen to be quite beautiful. Reimu and Marisa try to do so, only to break it, so they place the two goldfish inside into a fishbowl. Deducing that Kasen must have a Fish Stone and Dragon Stone, Marisa asks to see it. After revealing an unpolished Fish Stone, Reimu guesses that Kasen was testing the to see that it could be done. She also reveals that her Dragon Stone had already hatched, becoming her pet dragon.

Chapter Eighteen: The Hermit as a Religious Figure (August 10, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, edited by Clarste

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Summary: During a boom in religion, Reimu's Shrine experiences a surge in popularity. Marisa notes to Kasen that her religious rivals, the Buddhist Myouren Temple and Taoist Toyosatomimi no Miko and her followers are, too. Ordinary methods for gaining followers won't work, so duels for popularity have become the norm. After remarking that Kasen is a Taoist, as she's a Hermit, she talks with Reimu. She says that an epidemic of pessimism is to blame and that it's the job of a preacher to capitalize and bring salvation in times like these. Reimu also declares her a rival. Becoming concerned with her proper role as a hermit, Komachi suggest she talks to her colleagues, the Taoists. She visits the Divine Spirit Mausoleum in Senkai and meets with Miko. Miko says she became a Hermit to overcome her humanity and that as Kasen notes, is taking followers for the same reason as Reimu. As she leaves, she tells Miko that she became a hermit to become closer to people. Next, as Reimu and Byakuren fight, Kasen places a best on Byakuren while encouraging Reimu, confident she would lose because she got too cocky, as per usual. Seeing the true nature of the duels, Kasen decides she has no need to try and act as a religious authority.
Note: This chapter takes place concurrently with Hopeless Masquerade.

Chapter Nineteen: A Sake with History (October 10, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, N-Forza, edited by Clarste

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Summary: Sanae Kochiya and Reimu discuss the incident in Double Dealing Character. As Reimu's purification rod hops around as if it were alive, Sanae is disappointed she didn't get to participate and wonders why her own wasn't affected. Marisa says it's because she hasn't used it often enough. Though Reimu laments that she didn't notice the incident sooner, Sanae remarks she was just lazy. After, Reimu tries forcing her to drink, but Sanae says that doing such a thing is rude and old fashioned in the Outside World. The two argue and using an old poem by Ootomo no Tabito, Reimu says Sanae is simply too uncultured to understand drinking. Reimu says the next day she is frustrated that her efforts during Double Dealing Character went unrecognized. As Sanae complains to Kanako about the previous night and her inactivity during Hopeless Masquerade and Double Dealing Character, Kanako says it wouldn't have gotten any more worshipers. Instead, she says that the cableway to Moriya Shrine was nearly complete. Using a method for revenge suggested by Suwako, Sanae presents Reimu with modern sake, and a long, but bogus story of its history, rife with names of those who've made a fool of themselves while drunk. Kasen says to herself that Sanae might just be frustrated not being able to participate lately.
Note: This chapter takes place just after Double Dealing Character.

Chapter Twenty: The Unfortunate Tori-no-Ichi (December 10, 2013)

Translated by Clarste, N-Forza, edited by Clarste

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Summary: Reimu prepares for a multi-day festival to celebrate Tori no Ichi (酉の市), an event in November where people pray for business success by buying "kumade", or Japanese rakes, and other good omens, though Kasen notes the bogus kumade also sold at the festival. Kasen runs into Marisa, who's selling various items she found during the Hopeless Masquerade and Double Dealing Character incidents. While walking around the festival, Kasen accidentally walks into a stall run by Suika. Suika says she knows what Kasen is planning, thinking she wants to break through the Great Hakurei Barrier in an attempt to look for her arm, using Tori no Ichi to do it. After deducing the true nature of Tori no Ichi as a custom to prevent winter fires, with the kumade used to protect oneself from fires, Kasen warns Reimu, who refuses to shut down the event. After the bad kumade catch on fire, it spreads throughout the festival, like Kasen thought. She calls on her dragon and starts a thunderstorm, saving the Hakurei Shrine which, according to Reimu, if it had caught on fire and been destroyed, would have weakened the barrier.

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 5

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.5
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.5
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

December 27, 2014

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

140

Chapters

5

Followed by

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.6

ISBN

9784758014199

Chapter Twenty One: Onis Out, Stomachs In (February 10, 2014)

Translated by Clarste, N-Forza, edited by Clarste

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Summary: Following Tori no Ichi, Kasen rushes toward the Hakurei Shrine after seeing smoke, thinking another fire has begun. Instead, she find Reimu cooking soybeans in preparation for Setsubun. After shrieking when Reimu pretends to throw the beans at her, and feeling nervous about Reimu's proposal to celebrate the holiday together by throwing the beans off a platform together at the Shrine, she talks with Komachi. After having a laugh at her possible participation, Komachi directs her to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, which is in preparations to celebrate a bean-less Setsubun event. As Remilia also hates soybeans, Sakuya says they plan on the custom of eating futomaki while facing the northeast. After saying it would be wasteful to throw the soybeans around, as well as explaining the dubious origin of the holiday, Kasen convinces Reimu to hold an eating event instead. On Setsubun, Marisa visits the festival, filled with stands serving bean dishes, and drops by one hosted by Remilia and Sakuya. Expecting futomaki, she finds it's just a regular sushi roll served with coffee, thinking it strange. Elsewhere, Suika is playing the customary oni to be driven away by soybeans. Suika starts crying after Reimu informs her the bean throwing has been cancelled, so Kasen convinces the surrounding crowd to drive out the oni with snowballs, instead.

Chapter Twenty Two: The Fishy Manzairaku (April 10, 2014)

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Summary: On her way home from a party at the beginning of spring, a drunken Marisa stumbles across a group of kappa who are looking for a monster fish at the Genbu Ravine. She recalls seeing it that night and describes it as the fur covered body of a fish and the head of an otter, but that the kappa couldn't contain it. Reimu thinks it's a drunken fantasy. Kasen explains that she might have seen a manzairaku, a rare fish of good fortune. Kasen, Reimu and Marisa go to see the mainzairaku, and find it's actually a seal. Visitors crowd the ravine to see it, so the kappa set up an attraction where they have it perform. However, the seal is moody. Kasen reads it and says it needs saltwater. After visiting Reimu, she tells her about the movement to make the seal an honorary member of the Human Village, and recounts the story the seal told her. It visited a town in the Outside World and after being named an honorary citizen, it swam away. It returned sometime, but found the humans had forgotten it. Lonely, the seal found itself in Gensokyo because it had been abandoned by the humans, leaving Kasen to wonder if the same thing might happen again.

Chapter Twenty Three: The Misguided Shrine Maiden (June 20, 2014)

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Summary: During a rainy day, Reimu hears someone talking about deciding the fortune of a child that will be born in the evening. Thinking the person is talking to her, she tries to answer, but then hears the voice of a couple of dousojin, a type of god that protects travelers, refusing instead. Later, talking about the event with Kasen and Marisa, it's explained that dousojin are also gods of childbirth, thus they influence the fortune of newborns. Since she can hear and talk to gods, Reimu gets the idea of making a businness out of it, then goes to the village and tells the villager the fortune decided by the dousojin for the child, adding a raccomandation to pay visit to the shrine once a week. Many more people start visiting the shrine, wanting Reimu to tell them what the gods say, mistaking it as fortune-telling. Excited by the great numbers of visitors, the shrine maiden starts an actual divination businness, confident the the villagers will believe whatever she says (and purposedly doing vague reading). Despite the businness going very well, Kasen notices that the shrine is being neglected, and takes Reimu's place "for the good of the youkai". Very soon, lots of youkai start coming to the shrine as they please, making it a place in which humans feel no longer safe. As humans stop visiting Reimu, they also stop trusting her and believing her fortune-telling, forcing the shrine maiden to abandon the businness. After seeing the shrine full of youkai, Reimu remembers that her true job is youkai extermination, and makes a show of chasing away all the youkai so that humans will trust her again. At the end, she starts doing fortune-telling at the shrine, very accurate and also popular among youkai.

Chapter Twenty Four: Scaled Thunder (August 9, 2014)

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Summary: After the end of the rainy season, a heat wave descends on Gensokyo and continuous storms follow each others every day. One day, a house gets burned to ashes leaving everything around it untouched. During a stormy night, Reimu sees what appears to be a ball lighting, a naturally occurring magical phenomenon that is said to be able to burn down building in an instant, and also to be the cause of spontaneous human combustion. While Reimu and Marisa correctly deduce that the house was destroyed by that ball lightning, they don't know that it's true identity was a lizard that Kasen was training so that it could become a true storm-calling dragon, and that Kasen killed after it proved to have nothing more than power, lacking the wisdom to actually become one. It is then explained that while western and eastern dragons are usually thought to be completely different creatures, eastern dragons are born from lizards, so they may actually have something more in common than expected. Kasen hides the true nature of the ball lightning, simply saying to Reimu and Marisa that she destroyed it, and that she feigned ignorance on the whole matter just to avoid them getting in danger.

Chapter Twenty Five: The Spherical Cage (October 17, 2014)

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Summary: While walking at night, Reimu spots a meteor fly past Youkai Mountain. The next day she discusses it with Marisa and Kasen and agrees that it must have landed in the Outside World. This leads Kasen to ask about the nature of the Great Hakurei Barrier. Marisa says she once tried to fly past the Hakurei Shrine, but felt like she was travelling in circles, and ended up back at the shrine when she turned around. Reimu relates that, according to Yukari, it's a barrier of common sense - one that only blocks living creatures and their tools. Kasen responds that she had always thought of the barrier as a dome, and that if it broke "the sky would shatter and the outside world would appear around [them]". On learning that the shrine is built on the barrier and that it tends to be weaker there, Kasen remarks that this is "very interesting".
In response to the meteor, Sanae preaches at the village that it was a miracle, Reimu tries to make money selling air tubes (due to an urban legend that passing comets suck air away from Earth), and the kappa begin to set up a planetarium show. At the event they show off the youkai constellations, which culminates in the Heavenly Dragon coming to life, devouring the North Star and causing the sky to shatter. Afterwards, Kasen says she wishes that day would come.

Wild and Horned Hermit Vol. 6

東方茨歌仙
Wild and Horned Hermit
Vol.6
Wild and Horned Hermit Vol.6
Publisher

Ichijinsha

Released

January 27, 2016

Genre

Comic

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Aya Azuma

Pages

143

Chapters

5

Followed by

TBA

ISBN

9784758014847

Chapter Twenty Six: The Sullen Oddity (December 25, 2014)

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Summary: Stories spread of a strange dog youkai that lurks outside the human village at night, rooting through trash heaps while mumbling pathetically to be left alone. This confuses Mamizou, who says that it's the job of all youkai to prey on humans, and that such a pitiful creature shouldn't exist. Later, Marisa encounters an old woman by the village gate offering human legs for sale, but she disappears. As she tells her story to Reimu, Mamizou arrives and confirms that the "human leg saleswoman" is an urban legend from the outside world, who will graft an extra leg onto your body if you accept her offer or rip one of your legs off if you refuse. Kasen then appears with the other strange youkai in tow, revealed to be the urban legend of the "man-faced dog". Kasen feels that its "reason for being" is different from normal youkai, to which Mamizou responds that it barely exists in the first place and is easy to deal with. As they talk, the dog disappears. Reimu and Marisa manage to neutralize the leg saleswoman by spreading a modified version of her story where she will leave if you respond "No, but the shrine wants one", which will cause her to be forgotten in time. Marisa credits a book on urban legends she borrowed from Suzunaan for helping her figure out how to deal with them, and mentions that the urban legends about schools seem interesting. Afterwards, creatures born from urban legends would continue to emerge in Gensokyo (including reappearances of the dog and the saleswoman), but few were dangerous. The chapter ends with a warning that their appearance would be the first sign of a major incident that would engulf all of Gensokyo.

Chapter Twenty Seven: The Youkai-Piercing Needles (February 10, 2015)

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Summary: At the shrine, Reimu fights off a horde of weak youkai, wondering why they've all decided to attack today. Kogasa Tatara then appears, claiming she has come to seize an opportunity that comes only once per year - an unlucky day when the power of the gods wanes, and the only time she can show her worth. When Kogasa deflects her amulets, Reimu instead defeats her with throwing needles, and Kogasa chastises her for invoking divine retribution by using needles today. After the fight, Reimu discovers that her needles have bent and realises today is Kotoyoka, the end of the transition period between one year and the next. Kasen notes that this day is particularly associated with one-eyed youkai, and is also meant to be a day of rest for pins and needles. Concerned that Reimu's needles are getting worn out, and not wanting to deal with needle tsukumogami, the group considers disposing of them. After Reimu fights off another attack by random youkai (and Kogasa), they ponder where they would even find replacements. A battered Kogasa then shows up for a third time, explaining that she actually came to the shrine to sell her services as a blacksmith, but Reimu kept attacking her before she could finish. Reimu accepts her offer, and Kogasa spends the next few days working on the needles until they're good as new. Reimu compliments Kogasa on her surprisingly fine work, and then decides to test them out... on Kogasa.

Chapter Twenty Eight: Under the Cherry Blossoms, Even Corpses Cannot Rest (June 17, 2015)

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Chapter Twenty Nine: A Dream of the Deep Secret World (August 10, 2015)

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Chapter Thirty: Power Permitted Only to the Gods (October 10, 2015)

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Vol. 6 Bonus Material

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Volume TBA

Chapter Thirty One: Who Spared the Rabbits? (December 10, 2015)

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Chapter Thirty Two: The Secret Pompoko Battle for the King of the Hill (February 17, 2016)

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Chapter Thirty Three: Western Devils Running Rampant Underfoot (April 09, 2016)

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Chapter Thirty Four: The Unidentified Haze That Afflics the Brain (June 17, 2016)

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Chapter Thirty Five (August 10, 2016)

Chapter Thirty Six (October 17, 2016)

Notes

  1. ZUN announced on twitter that ": Part One" was put on the title and it was a misprint. <link>
  2. The title was "Shrine Few Humans Approaches" when it was published in the magazine.

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