Only a handful of people stood on the smoke-shrouded platform.
An old man accompanied by a little girl, a scholarly man wearing glasses, a tall Black man, and a sexy woman with long, wavy hair.
Notably, the old man was an onmyoji, dressed in white priestly robes.
The little girl beside him seemed to have been born with an eye condition. One eye was normal, but the other had no pupil, appearing entirely white.
There was little to discern about the scholarly man. He simply stood alone, quietly reading a book.
As for the tall Black man and the blonde with wavy hair, they seemed to be together and looked like magic users.
Everyone stood apart, maintaining a safe distance from one another.
Once aboard the Mystic Eyes Train, they would be under its protection, but before boarding, they were still free to attack each other.
The arrival of Yuan Shikai and Yustica did not attract much attention.
At most, the others gave them a brief glance before returning to whatever they had been doing.
Only the little girl kept staring in Yuan Shikai's direction.
Most people would have assumed she was looking at Yustica. After all, she was a beautiful older woman.
But Yuan Shikai knew that while the girl's normal eye was looking at Yustica, her abnormal eye seemed to be fixed on him.
After a long while, the girl whispered something into the old man's ear, and he walked over to Yuan Shikai.
"I am Anpei Shi, the eighty-first-generation successor of Abe no Seimei. I've brought my granddaughter here to broaden her horizons."
"As you can see, my granddaughter was born with an eye condition. We also hoped to find a suitable pair of mystic eyes while we're here."
The old man struck up a conversation as