Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, they saw an extremely old flight of stone steps. A torii gate stood almost every few dozen meters, and the path stretching upward... was still very long, passing through more than a dozen torii gates.
They could not tell exactly how high it was for now, but this was what a shrine was supposed to look like.
It was far grander than the Yae Shrine in Himeko's memories. At the very least, the Yae Shrine she remembered had nowhere near this many steps or torii gates.
Though it could not compare to a grand shrine with tens of thousands of torii gates, it was still much better than those tiny shrines with only a single gate.
The steps were made of stone. Though they were old, they probably were not five hundred years old; someone had likely renovated them later. According to descriptions online, before Honkai energy-corrupted people appeared, this place had been one of Yae Town's only two tourist attractions.
The other was the Tenshukaku near Yae Town itself.
These two places were the main attractions drawing outsiders to Yae Town.
"Let's go up and take a look!"
After looking around, they found neither the open-world Honkai beasts from the game nor anything like Tengu Fire. There was only the faintly cool spring breeze.
They headed up the stairs toward the shrine. After climbing roughly a hundred steps, they could barely make out the largest torii gate at the shrine entrance.
The four of them quickened their pace again and soon arrived at the shrine's torii gate. A massive cherry tree immediately came into view.
It was larger than every cherry tree Himeko had ever seen. Even three or four people together would have struggled to wrap their arms