...Human faith in the Outside World has decayed beyond anything you might have seen in the "Youkai Age".

Even the power of the gods can't always help.

Indeed... Somewhere in the back of my head...

Even I myself thought it was more a symbolic gesture.

...But, I definitely don't think it was meaningless.

After all, that talisman of a forgotten god—

brought him all the way here to Gensokyo.