"Sorry. I never expected that the next time we met would be more than fifty years later." Yae Sakura grabbed Kikyo's hand. She still looked exactly as she had the last time Yae Sakura saw her. Other than her aura becoming holier and brighter, her appearance had not changed in the slightest.
From the moment she consumed the Hourai Elixir, her appearance had been fixed. Take Sirin, for example—she had lived for over two hundred years, yet she was still a little girl of thirteen or fourteen.
Simply because she had taken the elixir at that age.
"It's all right. I was prepared for it. It's enough that you came! How long will you be staying this time?" Unlike Kaede and Tanihara Natsu, Kikyo was also quite excited, but she did not show it. She merely kept it in her heart. Kikyo was still very composed.
"Take a guess."
Yae Sakura smiled, her beautiful eyes curving like crescents.
"One month?"
Looking at the adorably smiling Yae Sakura before her, Kikyo thought for a moment before answering.
"Nope. Guess again."
Yae Sakura shook her head, and the long ears atop her head swayed along with it, making Kikyo want to grab them.
"Could it be a year?"
Little Yae was smiling so happily that the time should not be short. Kikyo's eyes lit up, and she became a little happier as well. A year was quite a long time too.
"Not that either. It's one hundred years!"
"W-what? One hundred years?!"
Even the usually composed Kikyo lost her bearing upon hearing that length of time. It was so long—an utterly unimaginable span of time.
"That's right. Are you happy?"
Yae Sakura was very satisfied with Kikyo's reaction.
"...That's wonderful."
Though she was shocked by how long it would be, Kikyo was