Yae Sakura took Mayoi and Kagome Higurashi out of Musashi Castle behind Okugoro and Seto, only to find that the two were heading straight for the mountains and forests west of the city.
Following behind them, Yae Sakura used her extraordinarily sharp hearing to listen carefully to their conversation and roughly understood why they had left the city.
They were going to gather a medicinal herb from the western mountains, one said to help the child in Seto's belly grow faster. They had not been able to buy it from the apothecary, as that particular herb had long since sold out.
The apothecary's owner had then told them that the herb could be found in the western mountains outside Musashi Castle.
Eager to separate from Seto, Okugoro immediately decided to gather the herb himself. Although Seto was already pregnant, it would take ten months for the child to be born. That was far too slow!
With a way to speed up childbirth, he could not let it pass him by.
Yae Sakura, listening from behind, wore a strange expression. As expected of Goro, who did not like women...
At the same time, she felt a little sorry for Seto. Yae Sakura could tell that she liked Goro, but falling for someone who cared only about the sword was truly pitiful.
No, that was not right...
At this point, even if the two separated in the future... they would still be inseparable. They would become halves of one whole, never parting from each other, right?!
"Are we just going to keep following them?"
Mayoi stayed close behind Yae Sakura. With the spell Yae Sakura had placed on her, she moved very quickly and did not fall behind. She simply did not understand why they had to keep following those two strange