This must be the little girl that old man mentioned...
Watching the two push the offering back and forth, Chiba Yo remembered the little girl the old man had said gave him a sachet.
She really is stubborn...
The little girl argued with the woman for nearly ten minutes. In the end, the woman gave in, accepting the sachet the girl offered and finally stopping her attempts to return the money.
"You're such a stubborn child. All right, I'll take it." The woman sighed helplessly and tucked the sachet into the bag slung over her shoulder.
Once the woman accepted her sachet, the little girl smiled in relief.
"Thank you. I hope you'll always keep this sachet with you, especially at night. It will keep you safe," the little girl reminded her before she left.
"You really are a strange child. I'm the one accepting something from you, yet you're thanking me. All right, I'll keep it with me from now on."
Having witnessed the little girl's stubbornness, the woman reluctantly agreed, then walked away.
Watching the woman leave, the little girl felt a little lighter inside.
This should ease my sins a little...
With that thought, the little girl took more wisteria sachets out of the bag she carried and offered them to other passersby.
"Excuse me, is that little girl always like this?"
Curious about her, Chiba Yo asked a nearby stallholder.
The stallholder had seen this happen so many times that he was long used to it and had not even been watching. When he heard Chiba Yo's question, he immediately knew who he meant.
"You mean Sayo? She's been like this ever since she came back here three years ago. Every day, she makes wisteria sachets to give to passersby. She gave each of us stallholders