As Inazuma's festival drew nearer, Inazuma City became even livelier. There were more merchants—not just local ones from Inazuma City, but quite a few Inazumans from elsewhere as well.
They all wanted to sell a little more and make some money before the festival arrived.
And now that Higokumaru had a modest amount of savings, she naturally would not miss out on such a lively occasion. It meant there would be plenty of interesting, fun, and delicious things to discover.
In Sakura Samsara, according to Yae Sakura's memories, the village would become bustling every few dozen days, with traveling merchants coming in from outside.
That was why lively days would occasionally appear in the world of Sakura Samsara as well. Whenever that happened, Higokumaru would take advantage of Yae Sakura not paying attention and sneak off by herself more than once to browse the stalls for foods she had never tried before.
Looking at the dense crowd around her, Higokumaru found her small size extremely inconvenient. She was constantly getting bumped into.
So Higokumaru found a spot and transformed directly into the form of a normal human girl—the appearance of "Rin" from the Previous Era civilization before the Honkai.
Of course, unlike the real Rin, she now had a pair of fox ears and four fox tails. Compared to Yae Sakura's long fox ears, Higokumaru's ears were more like the size of normal fox ears.
As Higokumaru walked down the street, the Inazumans here did not seem particularly surprised by someone like her with animal ears and a tail, even though such people were rare.
At most, they gave her a few extra glances. Even fox spirits who transformed into humans would not usually reveal their tails, yet Higokumaru had four of them.
Higokumaru shopped very differently from ordinary