"You're free for now. Once we're done with the important business, I'll come back and eat you!"
The fish entered the river and regained its freedom. Completely ignoring Hiyamaru, it began diving downward.
After crossing the small bridge over the river, they found another dirt road less than three meters wide ahead, surrounded by trees...
Once they passed through the dirt road, the four of them arrived at the foot of the mountain... at the entrance to the shrine steps.
Chapter 96: The Invisible Ninja
Looking up from the foot of the mountain, they saw an extremely old flight of steps. There was a torii gate almost every few dozen meters, and the path stretched far upward... passing through more than a dozen torii gates.
They could not tell how high it was for the moment, but this was what a shrine was supposed to look like.
It was far more impressive than the Yae Shrine in Himeko's memories. At the very least, the Yae Shrine she remembered had nowhere near this many steps and torii gates.
Though it could not compare to the grand shrine with tens of thousands of torii gates, it was still much better than those little shrines with only one.
The steps were made of stone. Though they were old as well, they probably were not five hundred years old; someone had likely renovated them later. According to online descriptions, before the appearance of Honkai energy-infected people, this had been one of Yae Town's only two tourist attractions.
The other was the Tenshu-kaku near Yae Town itself.
These two places were the main features that drew outsiders to Yae Town.
"Come on, let's go up and take a look!"
After looking around, they found none of the open-world Honkai Beasts from the game, nor