Kallen: "There are still thirty minutes until the Brigade boss challenge. Is everyone ready?"
Yae Sakura: "Where's Captain sister? Aren't we going in together? @Captain."
Sakura Hime: "@Captain, older sister..."
Kikyo: "I might not be able to make it. I recently encountered a rather unusual Great Yokai..."
A Great Yokai?
As soon as Sirin entered the chat channel, she saw Kikyo's message.
Captain: "Kikyo, which Great Yokai is it? What's her name? Is she dangerous?"
Yae Sakura: "Captain sister has appeared!"
Kikyo: "She can't entirely be called a yokai. She could also be called a deity... She was once Yōki, the Sun Queen... Now, she is known as Takiyasha Hime!"
Chapter 37: Himiko
Sirin sat in a hot spring filled with steam, her beautiful long legs gently swaying in the warm water. Her hands rested on her lower abdomen, and a puzzled look appeared in her eyes.
"Takiyasha Hime... Yōki? The Sun Queen..."
Sirin knew a little about Takiyasha Hime. The name Yōki felt familiar, but she could not recall the details. As for... the Sun Queen?
Wasn't the Sun Queen of the Far Eastern Land... Himiko?
Himiko and Takiyasha Hime did not seem to have any connection, did they?
Himiko was the legendary queen of the Yamatai Kingdom during the Japanese Yayoi period, around the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to records... Wa country had been torn apart by civil war at the time, and the nations of the Far Eastern Land jointly supported Himiko, queen of the Yamatai Kingdom, as their ruler. Wa country was stabilized as a result.
She was an ancient female ruler of the Far Eastern Land shrouded in mystery, as well as the founder of Kidoism, an ancient Japanese religion.
According to Volume Eighty-Five of the Book of the Later Han,