Akaseki was startled too when Hikari suddenly appeared.
He had expected "Ame no Sagiri" to have no effect on Hikari. After all, the "Ame no Sagiri" here was only a remnant of power, whereas Hikari had inherited the real "Ame no Sagiri"-both eyes!
What Akaseki had not expected, however, was that Hikari could enter his consciousness space directly.
Usually, Akaseki entered a Jinchuriki's consciousness space like this himself. Only now did he realize how intrusive it was...
"How... did you get inside my heart?" Akaseki asked in surprise.
Hikari: ...
Hikari immediately looked uncomfortable. "Watch how you phrase that."
"Huh? How did your mind get so complicated after just a few months in Rōran?" Akaseki eyed her suspiciously.
Hikari: ...
It was all because of that Queen of Roran. After discovering that Hikari was not quite so difficult to talk to when dealing with other people, she had dragged Hikari along every day to "educate" her!
Of course, it was mainly because of that "Future Akaseki"... His attitude back then had inexplicably annoyed Hikari, as though she had some major connection to him.
And then there was Sasuke. The way she had held back against her back then had made her very uncomfortable too. Thinking about it carefully had even left her somewhat unsettled.
When the Queen of Roran started teaching her little tricks for spotting scumbags every day, Uchiha Hikari had immediately become "hooked."
But she had completely forgotten...
Sara, the Queen of Roran, was not even as old as Hikari had been when she was sealed!
By the standards of the Ninja Village era, she was nowhere near marriageable age!
This was no exchange of experience at all. It was merely two young girls blindly guessing what went on in men's minds...
Meanwhile, that Uchiha ancestor was