Looking at Yōki and Xia Ji, Mei had probably come up with two possibilities.
First... Yōki was Xia Ji's reincarnation. After all, nearly a century had passed since Xia Ji's era.
Second, Yōki and Xia Ji were versions of the same person from parallel worlds. They were the same person, yet not quite, since Inuyasha's world and Nura Rikuo's world were not the same.
But both Nura Rikuo and Inuyasha had collaborated with Onmyoji. In a sense, they were the same world after all... the world of Onmyoji. Coupled with Yingcao's appearance, it felt like there was still a slight possibility.
So neither possibility was unlikely. For the time being, Mei didn't know either.
"Sakura?" Xia Ji stared at Mei in surprise the moment she heard that name.
The two of them clearly weren't the same person, yet it was as though someone in Xia Ji's heart was telling her that the person before her was her own Yae Sakura, only with a different appearance.
"Mm. How have you been lately?"
Mei nodded and walked over to Xia Ji's side.
"How did you become like this?" Xia Ji didn't answer. Instead, she looked at Mei with a hint of concern.
"Well... it's a little troublesome to explain, but you just need to believe me! I'll explain everything to you later."
"Oh..."
Though she was still puzzled, Xia Ji, being such a sensible girl, didn't press the matter further. That was what made her so endearing.
"I've been doing very well with Sister Kikyo taking care of me! It's just that you suddenly disappeared for several days. If Sister Kikyo hadn't later told me that you had gone somewhere very far away... to another world or something, I wouldn't have known...
But Sister Kikyo said that after some time, you