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--- ○東方剛欲異聞 (Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Eastern Tale of Avarice)　～ Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow

Afterword and Characters

Team Shanghai Alice Leader ZUN 2021/10 ---

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Hello, this is ZUN. The setting started off as a side-story of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, but with unexpected characters, it became a story in which you can see the complicated relationship of those unexpected characters.

It's a game with a moderate level of difficulty just like the world of survival of the fittest. The story is only complete after you clear the entire game, so it's a tough road.

Actually, the last character is special, with three different endings. However, while you can choose, the ending of the route where you defeat the most difficult final boss is the most satisfying, so I hope you can make it that far :-b

ZUN (The number of gas stations seems to be visibly decreasing as of late)


 * Careful: Contains post-ending spoilers after this point**

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○Undefeated Matriarch of the Gouyoku Alliance Yuuma Toutetsu

Species: Taotie Ability: Absorbing anything

A divine beast with the form of a lamb. Both greedy and a massive eater, she's able to swallow whole and devour absolutely anything, whether its body is physical, spiritual, organic or inorganic. On top of that, by swallowing something, she's able to comprehend it and turn it into her own power. The things she eats are also said to influence her personality.

She's the chairwoman of the Gouyoku Alliance, an organization in the Animal Realm. Rather than banding together to do anything eye-catching, the Gouyoku Alliance sits back to take a broad view of events, and plots to steal everything without lifting a finger when the time is ripe. Their motto is "when a snipe and clam argue, the fisherman catches both."

The other organizations are exhausted by her, saying that she loves dishonest and cowardly methods, but her underlings adore her as "a way-too-reliable boss with nearly-invincible power." She herself isn't particularly attached to the idea of having underlings, and seems to prefer doing everything on her own. Perhaps inspired by their boss's attitude, many members of the Gouyoku Alliance tend to act separately and of their own accord.

Despite appearances, she's actually clever, calculating, and avoids pointless conflict by nature. Upon determining that an enemy isn't one to bow in the face of threats, the Alliance studies whether they can be recruited. If they determine that recruitment will also go over poorly, they attempt to forge a mutually beneficial relationship, if only in appearances. If even that seems to be difficult, they choose to retreat quickly. From the perspective of the Animal Realm-- a survival-of-the-fittest world where might makes absolute right-- they're a particularly abnormal organization.

For the Gouyoku Alliance, choosing all-out war is truly the absolute last resort.

This time around, she took advantage of the commotion involving the beast spirits to set her sights on the Former Hell of Blood Pools, where she planned to obtain every drop of desire from both the Animal Realm and the surface world. However, her plan was leaked to the humans up above by the hidden god living on the surface, and she was obliterated by an assassin trained in anti-Taotie combat.

After regenerating, she gave up on monopolizing the petroleum deposit, and forged a mutually-beneficial relationship with the hidden god.