"..."
As she spoke, as if afraid the woman in purple might not believe her, Daiyu actually drew the black-and-white Impermanence Token from her bosom with her other hand, then considerately showed the woman both sides of it.
Although it was already dusk and the hall had grown dim, the token's smooth material and striking black-and-white colors, along with the archaic characters for "Impermanence" engraved on the front and the small-seal script on the back, remained clearly visible in the fading light.
"What is that...?"
At first, the woman in purple seemed confused. But soon, when her gaze fell on the token—especially when she saw the yin-yang symbol and the two lines of small-seal script on its back—the venom and madness on her face froze, then receded like a tide.
In their place came utter shock and disbelief!
"!!"
"You, you..."
Her pupils suddenly contracted, and her body began trembling violently with some powerful emotion. She seemed to forget the pain of her wounds, at least for the moment.
"That is..."
"Is... is that the Impermanence Token?!"
She looked at it again to make sure. Her voice immediately rose to a shrill pitch, full of disbelief, while her fear and venom seemed to lessen.
"You..."
"You're actually the legendary 'Impermanence Guests'?!"
"H-how is that possible?!"
"That thing..."
"Wasn't it already...?"
She did not finish the sentence, but she believed Daiyu understood what she meant.
"Something like that."
Daiyu nodded. She neither denied nor confirmed it, merely slipping the token back into her bosom.
Truthfully, she did not fully understand what the "Impermanence Guests" meant in the Three Realms. But seeing the woman's reaction, she realized that the token's significance was probably far greater and more extraordinary than her master's casual description or anything they had read in books.
So she