"I didn't know if there was a way either. Though that might have been my power to begin with..."
Higanbana spoke.
Now that she was clinging to the Six-Armed Giant, she could clearly feel the tremors running through its body.
She had to fight that monster they were climbing for its power?
Higanbana shuddered, looking a little aggrieved. "I... I'll try."
"Then I'll leave it to you, Higanbana."
Yae Sakura turned her gaze back and continued climbing upward with Kallen.
Yae Sakura stared above at the blade still some distance away from her... Jizo Mitama.
If that blade held Higanbana's power, then after she and Kallen pulled it out, could they reclaim Higanbana's power?
That was what Yae Sakura thought.
Higanbana's power... Yae Sakura had experienced it before, and she had used it.
It was because of Higanbana's power that she had become a Pseudo-Herrscher.
"Higanbana, don't worry. Even if you can't reclaim your power... we'll find a way to pull that blade out," Yae Sakura said to Higanbana.
Back then, Higanbana had possessed her body and helped her achieve her revenge because she had sensed hatred within Yae Sakura's heart that came from the same source as her own.
That also meant Higanbana had suffered pain just like hers, which was why she had become like that back in Yae Village.
"Master..."
Yae Sakura muttered softly to herself, "I misunderstood you back then... but now... Yae Village is already gone."
"Yae Shrine has changed too. More than five hundred years have passed since then."
"It's time to let those things go."
"What are you mumbling about, big sis?" Higanbana asked curiously as she listened to Yae Sakura mutter.
"Nothing."
Yae Sakura looked at Higanbana,
then at Kallen, who was helping her climb.
"Some things must be overcome."
"?" Higanbana