Three years was neither long nor short.
Over those three years, the changes in Kyoto City seemed silent, yet they were everywhere.
Arguments on the streets grew visibly more frequent. Conflicts between Psychic Energy users escalated from words to blows, then from blows to bloodshed.
Ever since Kyoto had publicly announced its policy of equal treatment, encouraging a hundred schools of thought to flourish and welcoming every faction, even the once universally reviled Doomsday Church was occasionally spotted in the city.
This city accommodated everything, but it also harbored a powder keg.
The already fierce factional struggles now had such a convenient place to unfold, and naturally, none of the factions held back.
Powerful Elders from the various factions kept moving in. The factional forces of nearly half of Sakura State unleashed their fiercest ideas and sparks of conflict here.
Friction between the Star Gate Faction and the Academia Faction was the most frequent. Occasionally, news even came of entire streets being sealed off, supposedly due to "gas explosions," though many people knew the real reason.
The most radical faction, the Celestial God Faction, maintained neutrality in public. After all, its master had said nothing.
In the shadows, however, its influence kept expanding, like water steadily seeping into cracks.
Of course, there were also times when the Star Gate Faction and the Academia Faction pressured the Celestial God Faction together, intending to squeeze it out first.
As for Lu You, he secretly observed what was happening outside while remaining comfortably above the fray.
His teaching load was not particularly heavy. He only had classes three days a week, and the rest of his time was his own. He spent it wandering through Kyoto's secondhand markets.
He needed Star Husband Coins!
Although he had obtained a red item from Amaterasu Kong