Beneath the Sacred Tree, several girls had gathered to drink tea and play the chess set Yae Sakura had brought. The girls here were all quite clever; after hearing the rules once and playing a few rounds, they had more or less mastered it.
It had to be said that resting beneath the Sacred Tree was truly comfortable. Especially in summer, this towering tree that blotted out the sun was simply the perfect place to escape the heat.
"Kagome's hometown is five hundred years in the future?"
Since they were going back to the modern era with Kagome, Yae Sakura felt it was necessary to tell Kikyo and the others. Upon hearing their destination, Kikyo could not help looking at Kagome in surprise.
Kikyo was the reincarnation of her other half, yet it had only been around twenty years since they had separated. How had she ended up five hundred years in the future? More importantly... Kagome could actually return from five hundred years later.
It was not just Kikyo. Kaede and Xia Ji were also curiously looking at Kagome beside them.
Kagome's existence had already been quite extraordinary. None of them had expected her to be someone from the future.
"That's right!"
Yae Sakura nodded.
"Could it be the Bone-Eater's Well?"
Kikyo quickly thought of something. This was the only explanation that made sense. The monster corpses thrown into the Bone-Eater's Well had not been devoured by it, but sent to another time and space.
"It is indeed the Bone-Eater's Well. It is a passage connecting this Warring States era to the modern world of the future. But more precisely... the Bone-Eater's Well is not the true source of that power. The reason it possesses such an ability is probably related to the tree beside us."
The Bone-Eater's Well's