Gensokyo Chronicles: Regarding the Outside World

Foreword
The outside world.

A place ever so mysterious.

We have been separated from the outside world for so long, living our own lives, never to be connected again.

But, the balance will soon collapse, revealing the ugly face of the outside world.

The sin of the outside world will consume Gensokyo, and the world we know it is in the brinks of destruction.

In this special section, I will talk about the outside world, in general.

Please enjoy your reading.

Hieda no Akyuu, 9th Maiden of Miare.

Why information about outside world is few
The outside world now has changed a lot from the past. Thousand years of isolated life in Gensokyo has lead us to become ignorant of what happening in outside world. The only information we can hope to gather about outside world is the occasional things and humans from the outside world that is spirited away to Gensokyo. All things that are spirited away are things that were forgotten by the outside world, so it is not always the latest news, it could be from tens to hundreds year ago. For humans, they tend to get eaten by Youkai as soon as they stranded here, and the fortunate one is too frightened that some of them lost their memory.

I've gathered informations regarding the outside world, and it is now the time to reveal the truth about them.

Outside World, Nowadays
The outside world now is a place that traditional Youkai can't imagine to live in. It has developed so much that human is now at the top of the food chain. Without any interference of Youkai, they've invented so many new things that almost all things can be bend at their own will. Such invention for example is, "every human now possess a shikigami of their own, that can be ordered to do things like calculation and information gathering", as Rinnosuke of Kourindou stated. They also found some kind of "rocket" that can fly to the moon, and it is rumored to have started the first Lunar Wars.

The most dangerous invention of humans in the outside world is "nuclear weapon", a weapon that is said to possess the same destructive power as the hell raven, Utsuho Reiuji.

The Danger of The Nuclear Weapons, and War
Outside world, because of the newfound pride of humans, they fight for the top place of their own species. Thus start a war.

About 70 years ago, the outside world goes into a world-wide war, that is called in one of the magazine that is stranded in Gensokyo, "The Second World War". This war involve a nuclear weapon being shot into cities of Japan, and wipes the city out of lives in matter of seconds. Such is the power of the nuclear weapon.

After the war breakout, the outside world is at it's dormant state once again, each of their own waiting for a chance to wipe out their enemies and climbs to the top, world domination. With the nuclear weapons in hand, and the fast-advancing technologies, it is only a matters of time before they wipe out the entire earth, once and for all.

This leads to Gensokyo being wiped out, as well.

As strong as the barrier is, Gensokyo can't be preserved without the existence of the outside world. As the outside world is nearing its end, the end of Gensokyo is also inevitable.

The Situation Now
With the danger of the world end, it seems that not all humans in the outside world is power hungry. There are some people now that try to preserve the balance and world peace. They've come back to the nature, and to the old way, persuasing other humans to help preserve and restore the world. And thus, the outside world is likely to be divided between two faction, the preserver of nature, and the one that thrive for world domination.

Again, this information is still unclear, and I may be biased, but, this is a situation we should consider and think through : What if the world really ended as it's now?

So, the worlds may not be wiped out, but, there'll always be danger from the evil intention within humans, we can't be so sure. They are human after all, it is their nature to be indecisive and foolish.