"Aah!!!!"
Shiranui Asuka let out a piercing scream. Hearing a noise in the courtyard, she had come out for a curious look, only to see Yanyanluo cut off her own head.
"Xiao Xiang!" The Great Tengu and Yukigyo had regained their ability to move as well, and hurried over to hold Asuka back.
"Let go of me! Let go! What happened to Sister Yanyanluo?!" Shiranui Asuka cried at the top of her lungs.
"She... she gave up..." the Great Tengu said, despair written across his face. "Faced with a life of such suffering, she chose to give up and go somewhere better..."
Asuka sobbed so hard she could not speak, throwing her head back and wailing at the sky.
Just then, two slender figures raced toward them through the moonlight.
"We made it!" Hanamitsuki and Tsukimi Sake shouted in unison.
"Who are you?!" Yukigyo had never seen either of them before, and grew wary.
"Don't worry," the Great Tengu said sorrowfully. "The 'heavenly gods' Yanyanluo made her wish to have come."
Hanamitsuki pulled a handful of white powder from inside her clothes and immediately scattered it into the air. Seven "threads" instantly became visible.
The "threads" varied in thickness. Without hesitation, the two women rushed toward the thinner ones.
They managed to cut one or two, but the remaining threads were far beyond their power to budge.
"Reluctance," "Longing," "Change," "Resentment," and "Circumstances" were each as thick as a finger.
"Stop them, quickly!"
Both women shouted. The Great Tengu understood at once and whipped up a gale with his wings.
Although Yukigyo had never witnessed anything like this, Yukigyo followed the Great Tengu's example, beating wings again and again to send wind howling through the air and slow the "threads."
The two women rushed toward "Resentment" and "Circumstances." Only by