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The spring came by, and as an older brother, Ayato knew where Ayaka would be, but it was not his place to give her the word of encouragement if she continued to stuck in the past.
He wanted Ayaka to learn on her own.
Therefore, down the stairs of Chinju forest, there was a girl sitting alone with the tanuki statues bear witness of her tears. Thinking she was alone, but the statue that unmoved yet alive pity the young girl.
Tears connected one after another, the poor child reminded again of her parents that left her too soon. The smiles of them in the dream tore her apart as she was reminded she would never seen them again.
Her small fingers squirmed to not let out too much sound as she was brought up to be elegant and strong. The tears, though, shown otherwise.
Suddenly, she felt something was placed on top of her head gently. It was a kasa hat that covered most of vision from the person in front of her right now.
As she looked up, her eyes met to the soft gaze of yours, though lack of other emotions. You did not smile, but there was caring in your action.
She knew who you were.
You came back.
"Take care."
Those were the words you said before you vanished into thin air. That was no foreign to a member of Shuumatsuban, especially the daughter of the leader.
You were a person of resolute. Your gaze never changed and the more she knew you, the more she noticed how resilient of you with your responsibility.
It was the girl her brother always had his gaze on.
She noticed whenever their parents visited the couple that lead the Shuumatsuban, Ayato always seemed distracted.
After a deeper examining, his eyes were always on the only daughter of the leader. You were always training with your sword, and the stares Ayato gave to you was bizarre. She could not understand at first until Thoma explained it to her.
Her brother was falling in love with you.
You were a quiet girl. While training, your gaze were as if on your goal that you could already seen, that or you were just determined to keep training without caring of anybody.
She could not read you, not even Ayato. You had a strong gaze as if there was something you were hiding, but what was it ?
You had come back to Inazuma. How would Ayato react after finding out about you ?
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There was a stir in Inazuma citizen about a criminal that act viciously. The people did not come out of their house in fear of becoming the next victim. This situation has been notified to the Shogun, yet as a divine being she cannot interfere until it became uncontrollable.
