An inexplicable chill blew through, stirring the branches overhead, causing the leaves to shiver with a rustling sound.
A dark cloud obscured the sun, casting shadows over Kagura Hikaru's head, mirroring his current state of mind.
Mizuno Yuna?
That Shrine Maiden who disappeared thirty years ago?
She looks so young... not at all like a young girl who would have been nineteen thirty years ago, but rather like a nineteen-year-old living right now.
What on earth is going on?
"Hey hey, don't make such a scary face, I'm not a bad person, sister... Uh, how old are you?"
"... Seventeen."
"I knew it, I'm the older sister, no mistake!"
The Shrine Maiden clapped to herself, wearing a triumphant and somewhat foolish grin.
If she was trying to bewitch others with her smile, then clearly Kagura Hikaru was not fooled.
He became even more cautious, and tentatively threw a mind-reading probe her way.
