"Kaoru, I think I see Uncle and Auntie..."
"Where?"
"Over there..."
Yukina pointed in a direction. Due to the changes in her body, her eyesight was much better than Efnir's. Efnir looked where she pointed, and before long, two familiar figures appeared in her field of vision. They were looking around as they walked this way.
It was Father and Mother.
Their names were Takuma Yanase and Kaoru Yanase.
Although they had not seen each other for several years, neither of them seemed to have changed much. From afar, they still looked just as they did in her memories. Father was as upright and stern as ever, dressed in a crisp indigo suit. He was not particularly burly, but he possessed a restrained sharpness. Mother, meanwhile, held Father's arm, gentle and delicate as a small bird nestled against him. Time seemed not to have left any obvious marks on her face.
They blended into the background among the passing travelers and soldiers, utterly inconspicuous.
A faint light appeared in Efnir's eyes, and she smiled.
"Yukina, let's go around this way. Follow me!" Efnir suddenly turned back, hooked her fingers around Yukina's, and jogged through the crowd, circling toward the other side. "Let's give them a 'surprise' too."
"Hey, wait... Sis..."
Yukina hurried after her, tightly holding Efnir's hand.
Some people around them cast glances their way, their eyes showing a hint of amazement. Others glanced at Efnir, then looked away again.
It seemed that no one would find it strange whether she was called "big sister" or "big brother" in her current outfit. Her style was extremely androgynous now.
"Sis, isn't it a little bad to go over like this...? What if we scare them...?"
Yukina could roughly guess what Efnir intended to do. She would probably circle around behind