After Theresa and Xu Yanwu finalized the plan, although Theresa was still a little frightened by Xu Yanwu's talk of ghosts and evil spirits, she nevertheless firmly agreed to his plan.
To come into contact with... the Sacrifice Maidens' resentment.
For that, Theresa even...
Did nothing at all.
Like a perfectly 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... 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 in them.
After Theresa told Xu Yanwu about this, he paid attention to Yae Sakura as well, and it was indeed as Theresa had said.
"Looks like your appearance really did receive special treatment... Before, there hadn't been any reaction at all. Little Sakura must have been putting on an act." Xu Yanwu muttered things Theresa did not quite understand. "I knew it. Even if part of her memories had been sealed away, some fragments should still remain. But Little Sakura never showed any special reaction around you, so I thought she'd really forgotten..."
"Was it because the Yae God Master, who Higu Maru had become, made Little Sakura hide her emotions?"
After hearing this, 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 circumstances resembling Rin's back then. Seeing you about to be made into a sacrifice may have reminded her of Rin."
Though Xu Yanwu