Holding the ice blade Ice Epiphyllum in her hand, Yae Sakura took out several gold coins, casually kneaded them into a lump of gold, and headed toward the shopping district.
She still had yen on her, but... this place looked like the Far East in the 1990s. Banknotes from the twenty-first century probably wouldn't be of much use here.
As for electronic payments or card swipes, those were even less realistic, so she needed to exchange some local cash!
Along the way, Yae Sakura searched for a gold shop. Although quite a few people around her were curious about her attire, no one mistook her for a monster. They did not even think the fox ears on her head were real.
In this country, generally speaking... they would not interfere with other people's hobbies, so long as they did not affect anyone else.
Before long, Yae Sakura found a gold shop. The Far East had only recently recovered from its economic bubble, and the yen was still quite valuable...
After exchanging the gold for several hundred thousand yen, Yae Sakura put away the cash and asked the owner about the place. Then she learned that... she was currently in Tokyo!
And then... Yae Sakura learned that Tokyo was Musashi Province during the Warring States period five hundred years ago, while Kaede Village, where Kikyo and the others were, had belonged to Musashi Province.
So she had appeared very close to Kikyo and the others; she had not been sent off course! But where in present-day Tokyo had Kaede Village been back then?
No one knew that. Who the hell knew where some small village from several centuries ago had been located?
But it was fine. It was somewhere in Tokyo, after all! She could search for it slowly. She could