Soon, based on what they had seen during the previous rewind, the two arrived at the underground ritual site beneath Himuro Mansion.
"This is the door."
Looking at the towering Stone Gate before her, Mayu Hinase was both nervous and excited. Of course, she still remembered clearly seeing Munakata Ryozo seemingly discover Himuro Mansion's secret during the rewind and come here. The instant he opened the Stone Gate, countless white hands reached out from within, seized him, and dragged him inside.
Which meant...
"Miss Shizuku, that female ghost is in there too, right?!"
Seeing Mayu Hinase clutching her camera and glaring viciously at the Stone Gate, anyone who did not know they were exorcising ghosts might have thought she was a wife bringing people to catch her husband cheating with his mistress.
Though, from Shizuku's perspective, it was more or less the same.
"I'm not sure. I can't sense any Spiritual Power... Let's go in and take a look first."
"But how are we supposed to open this door?"
Facing the massive Stone Gate, Mayu Hinase could not help feeling at a loss. The gate was about five meters tall and entirely made of stone, incomparably heavy. She had tried pushing it, but it would not budge at all.
"There seems to be some kind of mechanism beside it. Do we need to find something and place it there to open the Stone Gate?"
"There's no need for that."
Hearing Mayu Hinase's words, Shizuku shook her head. Then she gripped Frostmourne and looked toward the Stone Gate.
Then, a flash of sword light cut through the air.
"Boom!!!"
The next moment, accompanied by a flickering blade of light, the solid, heavy Stone Gate scattered across the ground like tofu sliced apart. Shizuku sheathed her greatsword and let out a long