After finishing all that, she settled down to wait for news from Nai Hyuga, figuring it would not take long for a message to arrive.
Just as she was considering what to do next, she suddenly heard Xiao You cry out beside her.
"Yui, you... look over there..." Xiao You's eyes widened, its little mouth hanging open as it pointed incredulously at something ahead.
Startled by Xiao You's reaction, Yui collected herself before looking in the direction it was pointing.
There... was the mass of dark shadow that formed the spatial passage.
Seeing it point at the spatial passage, Yui asked in confusion, "Xiao You, what's wrong? The spatial passage looks perfectly normal!"
Yui was rather baffled by Xiao You's sudden outburst.
"Yui... didn't you notice?" Seeing her blank expression, Xiao You realized she had not noticed anything unusual.
"Notice what?" Yui frowned slightly and turned to inspect the spatial passage again. There was still nothing unusual about it, and no word had come from Nai Hyuga yet.
Xiao You paused, then prompted her, "Yui, didn't you notice? The spatial passage moved just now. It seemed to get a little bigger!"
It rubbed its eyes and said tentatively, "I... wasn't imagining it, was I?"
"What?" Xiao You's words made Yui freeze for a moment, and she instinctively fixed her gaze on the spatial passage. "Xiao You, you mean... you noticed that mass of dark shadow move and get a little bigger?"
Yui's thoughts abruptly stalled. As she pressed for confirmation, the faint sense that something was off, which she had dismissed not long ago, resurfaced. If she remembered correctly, she herself had felt the same thing just a moment earlier.
She had instinctively noticed the spatial passage grow a little larger, but she had dismissed it as her imagination and