Kyohei Kannazuki had not expected Lin Guang to say something like that in the end. He asked helplessly, "Did you come back just for this?"
Lin Guang smiled faintly and said, "Tohka wanted some, after all, so I came back to take a look while I was at it. As for anything else, that's none of your business."
"But..."
Kyohei Kannazuki wanted to say more, but Lin Guang cut him off.
"You don't need to say anything else. I'll be back for a month at most, so I won't get involved in anything."
With that, Lin Guang took Tohka Yatogami off the warship Fatebreaker. Following the location provided by the AI Little Ship, he reached the bakery and bought out its entire stock of soybean flour bread for Tohka Yatogami.
As Lin Guang and Tohka Yatogami walked, they arrived at the place where Lin Guang had sealed Tohka Yatogami.
Nothing had changed here, but the city below looked more prosperous from up here than it had before.
Lin Guang leaned against the railing, looking down at Tengu City and thinking about what Kyohei Kannazuki had said.
In the year or two after Lin Guang left this world with Mio Takamiya, Kurumi Tokisaki, and the others, spacequakes had stopped appearing anywhere in the world.
People had also thought that Spirits would no longer appear in the human world.
But the AST troops had not been disbanded, because AST's higher-ups knew that the Spirits from back then had not been eliminated, but had returned to "their own world."
There were also the five Spirits: Kotori Itsuka, Miku Izayoi, Kaguya Yamai, Yuzuru Yamai, and Natsumi Kyouno.
AST had records of all of them on file. Although Kotori Itsuka and the others had fully integrated into the human world, AST personnel would secretly observe