"Guuji!"
"Good afternoon, Guuji!"
After entering the Grand Narukami Shrine, Yae Sakura felt as though she had returned home. The beautiful shrine maidens treated her with the utmost respect and courtesy whenever they saw her.
It was hard not to feel as if this wasn't a shrine dedicated to Narukami, but her own Crystal Palace!
Still, she understood that it was all an illusion. These adorable shrine maidens simply mistook her for that Yae Miko.
The shrine maiden standing beside Yae Sakura also found the situation rather surreal. If Yae Sakura were Yae Miko, there wouldn't be much of a problem.
But she wasn't. Was it really all right for her to openly impersonate Yae Miko and come to the Grand Narukami Shrine? Especially when the Guuji herself might be inside right now.
What would happen if the two of them ran into each other?
But when the shrine maiden glanced at Yae Sakura, she saw that she seemed perfectly at ease, showing no fear or desire to hide. Even when her fellow shrine maidens greeted her, she simply ignored them.
She neither acknowledged them nor responded.
"Big Sis, this shrine is huge! And there are so many shrine maidens!"
Following Yae Sakura, Higokumaru couldn't help marveling at the Grand Narukami Shrine before her. It was enormous... practically a whole complex of buildings.
The entire mountaintop was covered with buildings belonging to the Grand Narukami Shrine, and a huge Sacred Sakura bloomed there as well.
Seeing such a magnificent shrine, Higokumaru couldn't help thinking of the Yae Shrine in Yae Village back in the day.
The two were worlds apart...
Higokumaru couldn't help feeling a little jealous.
"That's normal. This is the biggest and most prestigious shrine in Inazuma. It has a living god, and it's an institution independent of