Sayo's words made Chiba Yo pause.
"You know Mr. Himejima too?" Chiba Yo asked.
Thinking back to her earlier behavior, Chiba Yo guessed that Gyomei might have saved her from a demon.
"Could we... talk somewhere else?" Sayo asked Chiba Yo anxiously.
From what Chiba Yo had just said, she was now almost certain that the Mr. Himejima he mentioned was Gyomei Himejima, who had once taken her in.
Sayo was one of the two children who had survived the incident at the temple. She had hidden beside Gyomei while he protected her all night, but the terror of what she had experienced that night had led her to mistakenly identify him as the killer.
"That person is a monster... that person killed everyone..."
Inside the cramped temple, four-year-old Sayo huddled in a corner, trembling.
With the temple full of blood and corpses, she covered her eyes with both hands and dared not move them away. She had no idea that the vicious demon had already turned to ash in the sunlight.
The monster she referred to was the vicious demon that had killed the children in the temple. But the people who came rushing over mistakenly believed that Gyomei had done it all. After all, he was the only person left in the temple besides her, and his hands were covered in blood.
The people took Gyomei away. After a night of terror, Sayo fell into an exhausted sleep as soon as she had spoken those words.
Although she woke some time later, the fright she had suffered that day left her mentally unsettled for several days.
During that time, a kind elderly couple took her in and brought her away from the area.
Once her mental state improved, she learned that Gyomei had been thrown into prison