"All right, Ei, it's okay now. It's okay. Your sister understands. This can't all be blamed on you."
Makoto looked heartbroken at the disheveled state of her beloved little sister.
Ever since her sister had begun to change, her consciousness had started awakening according to the program.
Therefore, she knew just how much pain her sister had been suffering during this time.
Having nearly lost everything, her little sister had almost fallen beyond redemption.
"All right. Your sister is only a fragment of consciousness right now. I need to take her back and nurse her through a series of treatments before she can recover. You can't make contact with her yet."
Hermes raised a hand to stop Raiden Ei from getting any closer, explaining gently.
As Yae Miko looked at Makoto and Raiden Ei before her, her eyes could not help growing moist.
Memories from five hundred years ago resurfaced. Back then, she had still been a naive little fox, carefree all day long.
But on that day five hundred years ago, everything had changed.
A young fox yokai like her had been forced to take up the duties of Guuji, painstakingly leading the mikos throughout Inazuma and placing seals, one location at a time, over every dangerous area...
Raiden Ei had lost everything. Hadn't Yae Miko lost just as much?
"Miko, you've had it hard these past years too."
After comforting her younger sister, Makoto turned around and gently said to the little fox, who had changed so much, "I know you did your best too, Miko. It was only because everything happened so suddenly back then. I left without being able to make proper arrangements, forcing all of you to shoulder those responsibilities."
Hearing Makoto's words, Yae Miko finally could not hold back any longer. Tears began rolling