"So much has happened over the years..."
"I left, and Makoto left too. You must have been so sad..."
Kitsune Saiguu looked at Ei.
"Don't treat me like a child!" Ei said helplessly.
"But you are a child!"
Kitsune Saiguu smiled. "Back then, you never had to worry about anything. You devoted yourself to honing your martial skills and lived a happy life."
"You had never managed anything or faced anyone's schemes, yet you shouldered this enormous burden in the midst of overwhelming grief."
Kitsune Saiguu gazed tenderly at Ei. "These past years... they must have been so hard on you, haven't they?"
Suddenly, Kitsune Saiguu seemed to remember something.
She asked, "By the way, how did you know to look for me there? And now that I'm nothing more than a body of filth, with its presence all over me, you couldn't possibly have recognized me by my aura."
At those words, Ei's and Yae Miko's expressions shifted slightly.
"Well..."
"We came prepared."
Yae Miko tossed chapters one through five of The Domineering Electro Archon Falls for Me to Kitsune Saiguu.
Kitsune Saiguu skimmed through them and couldn't help frowning.
"I didn't write this novel," Kitsune Saiguu said, shaking her head.
"If you didn't write it, then that's strange!"
"We originally thought you wrote this book to lead us here."
"But now that we know it wasn't you, whoever wrote it is even more mysterious!"
Kitsune Saiguu nodded as well. "Yes, but it's all right. Every line of this novel is filled with the author's care and concern for you."
"The author must be someone who understands you very well, cares about you, and wants to help you."
"Knowing you have someone so capable helping you puts my mind much more at ease..."
As she spoke, Kitsune Saiguu's figure