"Mom, look over there... There's a big sister with fluffy long ears!"
"Big Sister Long Ears, can I touch your ears?"
By the roadside, the Valkyrie who had just arrived in this world had yet to recover her senses when a little girl of about five or six ran up to her. Her face full of longing, she stared at the Valkyrie's fluffy long ears.
"Hmm?"
The Valkyrie lowered her head to look at her. She was not angry, merely still a little dazed.
"Xizi, you mustn't be rude!"
The little girl's mother hurried to her side, picked up the girl named "Xizi," and admonished her before looking at the Valkyrie before them, a katana hanging from her waist.
Although the age of samurai in the Far East had long since passed, and samurai had lost their proper status, bushido was still popular. Anyone who could openly carry a real blade either had a sword permit, belonged to a gang, or was insane...
No matter which it was, they were not people ordinary civilians could afford to provoke.
"I'm sorry! Xizi has caused you trouble!"
Holding the little girl, the mature woman bowed to the Valkyrie in apology.
"It's all right!"
The fox-eared Valkyrie shook her head, indicating that it was nothing.
"Excuse us!"
After bowing once more, the woman hurried away with the little girl in her arms.
Watching the woman's retreating figure, the Valkyrie seemed lost in thought. Only after quite some time did she turn to look around at the buildings of this... modern society.
The power lines overhead, the streetlamps lining both sides of the road, and... the vehicles passing by from time to time.
The Valkyrie's face was filled with confusion.
"This is... Inuyasha's world?"
Shouldn't the era of Inuyasha's world be the Warring States