Sin Deserved Its Punishment, All Slaughtered! Willpower, Completely Absorbed! Eight-Shaku Bodhisattva's Quality Improved!

Two-Shaku-Sama raised her head weakly and stared at that handsome, tranquil face that somehow seemed familiar.

Will he save me...?

How strange.

She had clearly gone through so many rebirths, yet she had never seen this man before.

Then why did this unfamiliar man feel so kind and familiar to her?

In the silence, Two-Shaku-Sama closed her eyes and greedily savored the warmth coming from his palm. Hoarsely, she said, "You're such a strange person... Even though I don't know you..."

"It doesn't matter that you don't know me." Uesugi Tetsu thought of the little monk with the eerie smile. "It's enough that I know you."

Had Two-Shaku-Sama's memories been sealed within the Ksitigarbha statue by this little monk—or rather, by this incarnation of Willpower, which possessed its own consciousness?

"So it's all right. Don't be afraid."

Uesugi Tetsu placed his other hand on Two-Shaku-Sama's wet, icy head and spoke gently and clearly. "I'll take you home."

Home?

An absurd feeling rose in Two-Shaku-Sama's heart.

When had she ever possessed such an extravagant thing?

She struggled to open her eyes. Through her blurred vision, she confirmed that the man before her did not seem to be lying. Then, from the corner of her eye, she saw the little monk slowly climbing up from the ground.

—That culprit who, after the long suffering of her life ended, appeared before her every time and made her undergo it all over again.

—Countless times. Countless times.

She was so tired.

Two-Shaku-Sama thought wearily.

Home...

Something that existed only in fantasies was better left untouched.

Compared to that, it would be enough if she could sleep forever and never see these sorrowful things again.

"If you came to save me..."

Two-Shaku-Sama coughed several times and slightly raised her filthy, slender neck. "My lord, could