After hearing Yomi's account of the rumors about the "Miko of the Land of Demons," Akaseki immediately thought of last night's "fluctuation."
Could it be...
Had Miroku received some information from the future then, causing a surge of power similar to the Ryūmyaku's?
That explanation did make sense.
After all, the Ryūmyaku's power had space-time properties and could even send physical beings through time and space!
Predicting the future could also be considered a form of "traveling through time and space," except what traveled was not a physical being, but a piece of information...
Information alone was nothing to scoff at.
Back in Rōran, Akaseki and the others had been passively constrained by the Ryūmyaku merely for learning information about the future!
Thus, the Miko's ability to "foresee the future" was already remarkable.
Of course, her foresight surely had its drawbacks. Last night's fluctuation had vanished in an instant, for example, and Yomi had said he "didn't know whether it was true"...
Akaseki therefore surmised that the Miko could not see the future clearly. At most, she saw a few images and received fragmented "hints"!
That meant she could not make truly clear, accurate predictions. She could only describe things vaguely, like some fraud spouting mystical nonsense.
From Yomi's description, this foresight even seemed to have an element of randomness, leaving her unable to control what she predicted and often leading her to foresee disasters...
A "Miko" who always foresaw disasters but could neither describe them clearly nor help people avoid them would naturally inspire only fear and awe, not genuine respect!
In that case, had something triggered her prophetic ability last night?
Akaseki had no one else to discuss this with, so he looked at Ranwu...
Aside from Ranwu, only Hikari and Minato would understand, but Ranwu was the