Eirin Yagokoro's expression changed slightly.
Among the many great youkai, Yukari Yakumo had a reputation all her own.
This was not merely because she had made friends and enemies everywhere for the sake of establishing Gensokyo, but also because of her troublesome power over boundaries.
To invade the Lunar Capital as a mere youkai, suffer defeat, and still walk away completely unscathed was something unprecedented in history.
Yet Yukari Yakumo had done precisely that.
As the Sage of the Moon, Eirin Yagokoro had lived far longer than Yukari Yakumo, but in terms of accumulated power, the rising newcomer had quickly caught up with her.
She had been irritated by Yukari Yakumo's unfeeling, incomprehensibly peculiar personality, but she had also felt it was a pity.
Yukari Yakumo was now powerful enough to influence the thinking of many factions and powerful individuals, but her growth was nowhere near as rapid as before.
Among youkai, she was already an indisputable great youkai. The road ahead could only be traveled through continued accumulation over endless years.
Her identity as a youkai limited the heights she could reach.
Eirin Yagokoro was certain that if Yukari Yakumo had been born as a higher order of life, the current situation in Gensokyo would have been very different.
This was because, if the so-called powerful were classified in terms of skill and strength...
Yukari Yakumo stood at the pinnacle of skill.
Given sufficient power, her omnipotent control over boundaries left almost nothing beyond her reach.
Thus, when she saw the scene before her, the habitually calm Eirin Yagokoro felt profound shock and incomprehension.
The fact that boundary manipulation had no effect whatsoever on Roland was startling, but with his earlier display of freely entering and leaving gaps as a precedent, it was not beyond her understanding.
But the