The two reminisced together about everything that had happened when they first met, then left.
After all, their first meeting was the only scene here worth remembering. Everything before that was a bad memory.
Although the Butterfly Mansion was next in chronological order, they had only left there recently, so they could hardly keep going back.
As they recalled and talked about what had happened after Kanao arrived at the Butterfly Mansion, they followed Kanzaki Kumo's memories, retracing the paths he had taken afterward.
Sometimes he had been slaying demons, sometimes looking for unlucky souls to test medicine on. He had also once taken on a mission to replenish the demons on Mount Fujikasane.
There was little worth talking about in any of that. His encounter with Sanemi had been a little more interesting, but even that did not leave much to say, so they simply visited those places amid conversation and laughter.
Eventually, after all their wandering, they arrived in Asakusa, walking along streets where pedestrians still came and went even after nightfall.
Here, Kanzaki Kumo had met Chachamaru, then found Tamayo and Yushiro.
And just as Kanzaki Kumo was describing to Kanao how Yushiro had been both cowardly and brave back then, the man himself caught him.
"Mr. Kanzaki, isn't it rather rude to speak ill of someone behind his back?"
Yushiro had merely been wandering around the place where he had once lived with Tamayo, remembering that gentle yet strong woman, when he spotted Kanzaki Kumo and Kanao quite unexpectedly.
He had little impression of Kanao, since they had barely met, but Kanzaki Kumo had, after all, been a considerable help to him and Tamayo. Now that he had seen him, he ought to go over and say hello.
Yet the moment he approached, he heard Kanzaki