After Theresa and Xu Yanwu settled on their plan, although Theresa was still a little frightened by Xu Yanwu's talk of ghosts and evil spirits, she firmly agreed to his plan.
Make contact... with the Sacrifice Maidens' resentment.
To that end, Theresa even...
Did nothing at all.
Like an utterly ordinary little girl, she simply waited in Yae Village to be carried by Yae Shrine to the site of the Sacrifice Ritual.
But if there was anything different... it was that Theresa felt she was somewhat different from the others in Yae Village... When Yae Sakura looked at Theresa, the emotions in her eyes differed from those she showed everyone else in Yae Village.
There was hesitation.
After Theresa told Xu Yanwu about this, he paid attention to Yae Sakura as well, and it was indeed just as Theresa had said.
"Looks like your appearance really did receive special treatment... There hadn't been any reaction before; Little Sakura must have been pretending." Xu Yanwu muttered things Theresa did not quite understand. "That's what I thought. Even if part of her memories had been sealed away, there should still have been fragments left behind. But Little Sakura never had any unusual reaction around you, so I thought she had truly forgotten..."
"Was it because the Yae God Master, transformed from Higu Maru, forced Little Sakura to hide her emotions?"
Hearing what Xu Yanwu said, Theresa was a little confused. "What are you talking about, Xu Yanwu? What special reaction...?"
"Well... let me put it this way."
After thinking for a moment, Xu Yanwu concealed part of the truth as he explained to Theresa, "Theresa, just think of it as your current situation being the same as Rin's back then. Seeing you about to be used as a sacrifice may have reminded