"You actually stepped forward to speak for that foreign merchant. I'm starting to... see you in a new light."
After Kujou Sara casually settled the matter between the Kanjou Commission and the foreign merchant, Raiden Mei walked over, looking at the cold beauty before her with mild surprise.
Even in Raiden Mei's eyes, this Karasu Tengu girl was the sort of decisive, unsmiling soldier who regarded obeying orders as her sacred duty and paid no attention to anything else.
Ordinarily, she should not have concerned herself with something like this...
Yet this general, who bore the responsibilities of a retainer and took loyalty and righteousness as her duty, was not as cold as she appeared. She had simply resolved to let her own likes, dislikes, joys, and sorrows yield before the greater good, choosing with her own hands to cut away part of her heart.
Beneath that stern exterior lay a heart as blazing as hidden fire, as lively as ghostly thunder.
"It's you!"
At the sight of Raiden Mei appearing so suddenly, Kujou Sara was startled. Mei had appeared too abruptly; despite being a tengu, Sara had not noticed her in the slightest.
Once she saw Raiden Mei's face, the valiant girl became even more tense. This was the god who had fought the Shogun herself.
Why was she here?
"Why are you here?" Faced with her, Kujou Sara instinctively reached for her weapon, but after considering the gap between them, she lowered her hand again.
"Why can't I be here? To be precise... I'm currently an honored guest of the Inazuma Shogunate."
"An honored guest. I see!"
Kujou Sara understood at once. So the honored guest the Shogun had mentioned yesterday was this person! In that case, she was probably not an enemy for now.
That eased her