Yae Miko's theory was flawless!
"So, Chen Luo's handling of the matter was acceptable, wasn't it? He had always been like this—meticulous in everything he did and highly considerate of others." Yae Miko smiled smugly.
"And you're still laughing? I haven't settled the score with you for taking his side and attacking me. And who exactly is this Chen Luo? What is your relationship with him?" Raiden Ei walked back toward Tenshukaku. Besides Yae Miko, not a single soldier remained at her side.
"Chen Luo... it's simply the relationship between a savior and the one he saved."
"You're the savior?"
"No, obviously, I'm the one who was saved." Yae Miko shrugged.
"What happened?" Raiden Ei stopped walking.
There was certainly no problem with calling Yae Miko Raiden Ei's only close friend, because all her other close friends were dead.
So Raiden Ei did care quite a bit about Yae Miko.
"You didn't even know that I, the Guuji of Narukami Shrine, had vanished for nearly a month. I'm truly heartbroken. After all, during that month, I was facing a life-or-death crisis..." Yae Miko's tone briefly became deeply sentimental.
"I... didn't know. No one told me." Faced with Yae Miko casually bringing up such a heavy subject, Raiden Ei chose to believe her, her voice carrying a trace of guilt.
Raiden Ei understood Yae Miko. If Yae Miko truly spoke to her in a grave tone to discuss something, it might well have been that troublesome fox's prank. But Raiden Ei could still tell the difference between being relaxed and pretending to be relaxed.
Yae Miko was telling the truth.
"...For the sake of Chen Luo saving your life, I'll forgive him for offending me." Raiden Ei said, her vocabulary somewhat limited.
"That isn't important right now, and he doesn't care