"Yeah! It's been over fifty years, and Immortal Mountain has hardly changed at all." Kikyo's reminder brought it back to her. But for her, it had not been fifty years—it had been several centuries.
She remembered going with Kikyo to retrieve the Jewel of Four Souls back then.
Several centuries had passed without her even realizing it...
Come to think of it, she seemed to have had a... younger sister once? And what was her own name again? Zhao... Bai... Forget it. She did not want to think about it. None of that mattered.
Shaking her head, Yae Sakura stopped dwelling on those messy thoughts. Compared to these centuries, those ten or twenty years seemed rather insignificant.
She would think about those things once she returned to the world where it had all begun.
"Big Sis, what are you doing?"
Higokumaru had been sleeping soundly atop Yae Sakura's head, but Yae Sakura's shaking nearly sent her tumbling off. Startled, Higokumaru hurriedly grabbed Big Sis's two fluffy ears, barely saving herself from falling.
The instant her ears were grabbed, Yae Sakura's entire body froze.
"Higokumaru!"
Once she recovered, Yae Sakura seized Higokumaru from atop her head with a flushed face and tossed her forward.
"Big Sis, aaah!"
Thrown away by her big sister like a stone, Higokumaru let out a frightened cry.
"Sakura, you..."
Kikyo hesitated as she watched Yae Sakura's actions.
"It's fine, don't mind her! She'll be back in a moment."
"Big Sis, how could you do that?!"
Sure enough, as soon as Yae Sakura finished speaking, Higokumaru, who had been thrown away, flew back.
"See?"
Yae Sakura pointed at Higokumaru as she spoke to Kikyo, ignoring Higokumaru's pitiful expression. As a portable accessory, how could this Big Sis monster be shaken off so easily?
"..."
Kikyo hesitated, opening