You don't have enough ingredients? There should still be some in the underground storehouse...

But of course, that would entail quite a bit of manual labour.

Shall we leave it to Meiling?

What about guarding the gate, then...?

That was just an excuse! I don't want to eat Chinese food every day of my life.

Among the youkai living in Gensoukyou,

the nocturnal vampires are particularly strongly affected by the phases of the moon.

The day of big appetite that comes once a month...

On the full moon, they have boundless, frenetic energy.Some proverbs got mangled here. It seems 「血湧き肉躍る」 was intended but got confused with 「血が沸く」; 「踊る」 vs 「躍る」 is also a common mistake.

On a new moon, they calm down to the point of having no appetite.

On a new moon, they calm down to the point of having no appetite.

When the new moon has passed, come the crescent moon, they return to eating just as before.

From that point on, proportionate with the increase in the influence of the moon, there comes a delayed backlash against the fasting during the new moon.

From that point on, proportionate with the increase in the influence of the moon, there comes a delayed backlash against the fasting during the new moon.

In short, it's a powerful impulse to eat, like rebounding from an unwilling diet.

That's what this day of big appetite that comes once a month is about.

Crescent Moon English rendered phonetically in hiragana