Higu Maru laughed. "Ha... if it weren't for you, Kallen."
"How could Yae Sakura have possibly gone through something like this?"
"The prison that held me back then was brought into Yae Village by you..."
Higu Maru leaped onto the back of the enormous fox and looked down at Kallen from above.
"And the one who personally pushed Yae Sakura into the abyss was you, Kallen."
"Back then, she lost her little sister and remained alone in Yae Village, becoming the Miko her sister had wanted her to be. Four years of loneliness, four years of suffering..."
Higu Maru pointed at Kallen below. "Then she finally met you, an outsider with nothing to do with this village."
"You, who had nothing to do with this village, allowed Kallen, who had sealed away her emotions as a Miko, to feel warmth again."
"Yae Sakura thought she had found a light that belonged to her alone, but that light chose to protect others... to illuminate other people... to illuminate the people she had hated through countless days and nights!"
Higu Maru clutched her stomach and laughed, pointing at the enormous fox she was riding. "This fox was also a god worshipped by the people of Yae Village. But what those foolish villagers never realized was that the other god they worshipped was actually the same kind of creature as the monsters they feared every day."
"Those fools offered who knew how many of their own kind as sacrifices to their god. They made Yae Sakura's little sister into a sacrifice and forced Yae Sakura to kill her with her own hands."
"Yet you... at that time, chose to protect those villagers and stop the Sacrifice Ritual."
"You were the last straw that broke Yae Sakura!"
Higu Maru loudly mocked Kallen.
"But..."
Higu