"Tagorihime!"
"You've overstepped!"
"This isn't something you can warn him about. The White Snake Sage never instructed me to give him a warning...!"
Tagitsuhime could not contain the fury on her face as she sharply rebuked Tagorihime, who stood outside.
"Then are you going to watch this child die here and become a monster?"
Tagorihime stood straight on the other side of the door.
"Of course I know this wasn't the White Snake Sage's order!"
"But the energy coursing through this child's body carries..."
Tagitsuhime fell silent for a moment at those words, but she had no intention of saying anything more. Instead, she rose and walked straight out.
When she pushed the door open, she found the calm-faced Tagorihime and the smiling Ichikishimahime standing outside.
"Oh, Tagitsuhime, don't be so rigid."
"A tiny little warning won't hurt~"
Ichikishimahime spoke from beside her with a smile:
"The Sage won't mind anyway~ Letting this little fellow pull through wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for us~"
Tagitsuhime ignored Ichikishimahime's words and turned to look sternly at Tagorihime.
"Go see the White Snake Sage yourself, Tagorihime."
"This is no longer something I can decide. All I can say about this child is that the White Snake Sage values him far more than she does most humans."
Tagorihime nodded and headed toward the White Snake Sage's temple without a word.
"Wow... so determined..."
Ichikishimahime made a show of covering her mouth and gestured to Tagitsuhime beside her:
"This is the first time I've seen Tagorihime act like this. Are you sure you aren't going to stop her?"
Tagitsuhime gave Ichikishimahime a sidelong glance, then said:
"You're far too quick to judge the Sage, Ichikishimahime."
With that, Tagitsuhime stood guard outside Hayashi's door.
From the look of her, she could not be bothered to