"Then call her Sister Xia Ji! Lord Mei, what does Sister Xia Ji have to do with me?" Yōki looked at Mei in confusion.
"Well... you can think of Xia Ji as your past life. The two of you are actually the same person."
Mei felt that the theory of parallel worlds would be impossible to explain clearly to them, while reincarnation should be much easier for them to understand.
Even though it was not actually reincarnation.
"What? A past life?"
"My reincarnation?"
Yōki and Taniwara Natsu both stared at each other in shock.
She had actually met and gotten to know her own past life—her reincarnation. It was incredible!
If that was the case, then she also more or less understood why she had inherited the other's memories.
Yōki recalled Xia Ji's memories and the experiences Xia Ji had shared with Yae Sakura. Though they were both girls... Xia Ji liked Yae Sakura, but she had never dared to say it.
To Yōki, a girl liking another girl felt utterly crazy. It was something the world would not accept, something that defied morality.
Yōki did not know whether it was the same elsewhere, but Japan was like that now.
However... Yōki's feelings for Yae Sakura seemed to have opened the door to a whole new world for her. Questions she had never considered before surfaced in her heart.
If Mei had been a boy, then the things she had said to her and the way she had led her out of her father's birdcage... all of that would have been enough to make Yōki fall for her.
Because Mei was a girl, she had never considered such things.
But now, Xia Ji's memories... had made Yōki consider a possibility she had never imagined before.
And... Mei was the Yae