Walking through Kyoto and watching the bustling crowds come and go, Yae Sakura found it exceptionally lively. In this age of war, such a sight was indeed rare!
Just then, a candied hawthorn vendor passed by. Higokumaru, who had been stuffed inside Yae Sakura's clothes... poked out her fox head and gazed enviously at the passing candied hawthorns.
"Want one?"
She stroked Higokumaru's fox head. The fluffy feel was so nice!
"Can I, Big Sis?"
Higokumaru looked eagerly at her big sister. She wanted one!
"Sure, but get back inside first."
After stuffing Higokumaru back inside, Yae Sakura walked over to the candied hawthorn vendor. However, she did not buy just one skewer, but four... one for each of them.
Higokumaru happily accepted the candied hawthorn, but Kikyo shook her head and declined.
"I never thought he would be hiding in a place like this."
Eating her candied hawthorn, Yae Sakura looked at the estate ahead. It was hard to imagine that an onmyoji named Kamikawa Takeshi would be here. Wasn't he said to be an onmyoji from Harima Province? By rights, he should have been a commoner onmyoji. How had he become involved with Kyoto's nobility?
This was the central district of Kyoto. Anyone who possessed such a large estate here was clearly no nobody.
"Let's go! We'll head straight in."
She bit off the last candied hawthorn, casually tossed away the bamboo skewer, brushed off some nonexistent dirt, and started toward the estate.
"Are we really just going in like this? Won't we alert him?"
Looking at the guards by the entrance, Kikyo hurriedly grabbed Yae Sakura. They had finally found him, and she did not want to let him escape again.
"Now that we've found him, how could he possibly get away? Don't worry!" If she