"You're here."
The figure standing with her back to Minako spoke, clearly having sensed her approach, then turned around. With the sea beyond the cliff behind her, the bright moonlight shone down, illuminating her face.
It was Tomeko.
Looking at Minako before her, Tomeko added, "My little sister."
Minako did not answer right away. She merely looked at Tomeko with a complicated expression and said, "Sister, how much of your human nature do you still have left?"
"Some remains for now, but there's no telling about the future." Tomeko fell silent for a moment, then shook her head.
Indeed, Tomeko's soul was no longer simply a human soul. Her current soul was a fusion of a human soul and the Mantis Weird's soul.
Most importantly, Tomeko was now a Weird.
She had also told Luo Fan that, as a Weird, her identification with her human identity was growing weaker and weaker.
That had not been a lie!
Thus, even when facing Minako, who had been her younger sister when she was human, the deep sisterly affection she once felt had faded considerably.
Moreover, even Tomeko herself did not know how long that affection could last.
Sigh...
Although she had long known the answer in her heart, hearing Tomeko's reply herself still filled Minako with bitter sorrow, and she sighed.
It felt as though she knew her younger sister was about to go far away and would never return.
Yet there was nothing she could do but watch.
"All right, tell me. You didn't ask me to come here just to discuss these questions with me, did you?"
After chatting as sisters for a while, Tomeko asked Minako this.
At her words, Minako's expression sharpened, and she nodded. "Yes. I contacted you this time for the future of our survivors of