"Are you all right, Mikoshi Chiyo?"
Seeing Mikoshi Chiyo in such pain, Raiden Mei approached her and asked with concern. This weapon spirit wasn't... broken, was it? Had something gone wrong during the forging?
Yet the weapon spirit, Mikoshi Chiyo, did not respond to Raiden Mei at all. She merely crouched on the ground.
There was no trace left of the once arrogant and peerlessly imposing oni warrior.
"It's all right. It's over now..."
Yae Sakura came to her side and gently embraced her. Though she was only a weapon spirit, she had a physical body rather than a spirit form because she was bound to the weapon. Otherwise, how could she have bitten through a weapon?
Under Yae Sakura's gentle comfort, Mikoshi Chiyo gradually calmed down. Yae Sakura was quite skilled at taking care of others—far more practiced than Raiden Mei.
Since childhood, Yae Sakura had needed to care for her frail and sickly younger sister. Later, when she found the gravely wounded Kallen, Sakura had cared for her just as devotedly.
Just as she had comforted Rin, Yae Sakura's tenderness restored Mikoshi Chiyo to normal. Looking at the fox shrine maiden before her, she seemed to understand her current situation.
She was already dead. Now... these girls had forged her into a weapon spirit, allowing her to live again in that form.
Though she no longer had freedom, she had been granted a second life... she should be grateful.
But her past experiences made it difficult for her to let go...
She had stained the Oni Clan... stained the Mikoshi Clan with a blackened name. How could someone like her have the face to continue existing in this world?
An hour later.
"So this is... present-day Inazuma? It's so beautiful!"
Mikoshi Chiyo looked upon the Inazuma before