The temperament of Yukari Yakumo, the 25th remnant of the plan (a Touhou LW original). The details of her temperament are shrouded in mystery. -Strong against Sun Essence. Nature's laws are unyielding. -Strong against Moon Essence. Nature is both balanced and ever-changing. -Strong against Star Essence. Nature is unpredictable. -Weak to Fire Phase. Civilization's flames destroy nature. -Weak to Water Phase. Exploitation of renewable resources drains nature dry. -Weak to Metal Phase. Degradation and alteration of materials break nature apart. Gensokyo is a repository of unspoiled landscapes. Lush wilderness, ancient primeval forests, rivers that flow as they are, untamed mountain slopes, and winds that run along them... One day, they will all be lost from the outside world and only exist in Gensokyo. Nature is something that simply is. Something that stands on its own. Once, humans were part of nature, but they separated themselves from it. Nature accepted it, and learned to be without them. But humans cannot survive without nature. Humans took what they wanted, and nature gave what it could. Nature perished. And so did humanity.

The ability of Yukari Yakumo, the 25th remnant of the plan (a Touhou LW original). The details of her ability are unknown. The following is a report written by an ordinary, insignificant fairy. Can fairies speak? Fairies strong enough to be considered greater fairies surely can. Apparently, the moonlight fairy even reads books and newspapers. Maybe ordinary fairies could do something similar if they felt motivated enough. But that's not why I can speak. I can speak because someone taught me how to. "Nature is the foundation of everything. But that's all it is." That's what the strange fairy who taught me how to speak said. She didn't say it like she strongly agreed or disagreed with it. She simply said it, as a matter of fact. I didn't understand what she meant. I think language is something made by humans, but since I can talk, language must also be something natural. There's such a thing as natural expressions, after all. And since humans are part of nature, their strange behavior must have only come about because of compounding coincidences. Eventually, I feel like they will return to their natural place in the world. Forcing things never lasts. All living things return to the homes they miss. It's like recovering from a battle. Everything returns, changes, and repeats. That's the natural order of things, isn't it? The stars move in cycles, and the seasons do too. "Yes. The sixty-year cycle is the same." That fairy responded as if she had understood the words I never spoke aloud. This time, she looked sad. I played with that fairy a great deal. She suddenly appeared one day and said she wanted to be friends with everyone. Well, that is not so unusual in nature. For example, when a volcano erupts spectacularly, the distribution of the fairies living there can change greatly overnight. You could say it is because nature's composition changed, or you could say the fairies changed nature's composition. To be honest, even I, a fairy, do not know which is the cause and which is the effect. "But that alone... won't bring you any closer to humans." Did that fairy want to become human? I had never even considered something like that. Becoming human would only be inconvenient. Fairies are spirits. They're spiritual beings. Youkai are the same, and I think gods are too. Humans seem to think the spirit is a kind of illusion created by the nervous system, but they're completely wrong. Humans only value physical things, and because of that, they've lost sight of what living really means. The spirit is the true body. Why don't humans understand that? No, humans probably do understand how important the spirit is. That is why they work so desperately to create all sorts of things, to learn things, and to set things in motion. But they miss the point so badly that they only ever reach for the physical thing they can see. They cannot find what they really want. I feel sorry for them. "Incidents just aren't happening, are they?" When she said that, I felt like I finally understood what she meant. I remember hearing that incidents were originally something like duels between humans and youkai. Unless there is a suitable human, incidents don't happen. If someone caused an incident that couldn't be resolved, then it probably wouldn't be an incident... "It would surely become an irreversible transformation." I think she's right. If something can't return to how it was... then it isn't natural. But that's strange. There are no humans, but it still isn't natural. What does that mean? I always thought humans were far fewer than fairies, not very impressive, and lately, they haven't had much of a presence at all. But could they still be around? I wanted her to tell me more about that. But she was already gone. Come to think of it, why was I talking so much? There's no point in doing that. I'm not even interested in it. Besides, I'm bored of it now. [The report ends here.] Wordsmith No. 25 She looks like Yukari Yakumo, acts like Yukari Yakumo, and thus, she is Yukari Yakumo. She is both a Wordsmith remnant and the concept of Yukari Yakumo. She was the payload that the stage below had to carry all its life. At the same time, she was the propulsion that spent her entire existence carrying the stage above. All that remains to her now are empty tanks and scorched engines. A Wordsmith abandoned in a local universe is expected to naturally decompose and relinquish its niche.