Following Old Master Higurashi, Yae Sakura arrived at a secret chamber. If the old man had not willingly brought her here, she might never have found this place.
The chamber was lined with shelves and crates, filled with all manner of strange, ancient-looking objects. They could be called antiques, but they did not seem particularly valuable.
In short, everything here was Old Master Higurashi's lifelong collection. Only a portion had been passed down through the shrine; most of it had been gathered by the old man himself.
Once they arrived, it was obvious how much the old man cared for and cherished these things. The fact that he had brought Yae Sakura here meant that he trusted her quite a bit.
Before this, only Kagome and Sota knew about this place.
"These are all ancient items I've collected—antiques, ritual implements, and some rare creature corpses. What do you think? Not bad, right?" Old Master Higurashi pointed at the surrounding objects, then turned confidently to Yae Sakura behind him.
"Do you want me to be honest?"
Blinking, Yae Sakura looked at him with a smiling gaze.
"Hm?"
A bad feeling suddenly arose in the old man's heart. Sure enough...
Yae Sakura waved her right hand, and phantoms of every item in her spatial warehouse appeared before him—a vast treasury...
Countless weapons, pieces of equipment, Stigmata, ritual implements, magical treasures, magic devices, staffs, Imperial Arms, Minister Arms, and materials all radiated golden, purple, blue... even multicolored light. This was Yae Sakura's Gate of Babylon.
"This is what I've collected over the past several hundred years. What do you think? Decent enough, right?"
"..."
Staring fixedly at the immense treasure Yae Sakura had displayed, the old man was too devastated to speak. Compared with Yae Sakura's collection, what was his supposed to be?