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back to us."
Sanshi's round eyes filled with tears, but she didn't cry. She turned and flew out the door.
Gyokuyou squinted to see Sanshi's figure getting farther and farther away. She waited until Sanshi turned onto a
small path and was not visible anymore. She turned to Teiei and laughed cheerfully.
"At last, a season of celebration has come to Mt. Hou!"

Sanshi ran as fast as she could. When she arrived at the nest of her birth--the bottom part of the Shashinboku, she
saw a young woman standing under the trunk of the tree. The woman was pointing down towards her feet where there
was a round hole giving off a white glow.
 Many nyosen had already gathered here, but Sanshi did not have the time to pay them any attention. She ran
straight to that woman.
The Shashinboku was on an enormous rock at the side of a cliff. The woman was standing right next to a root on top
of a rock covered in moss.
Aside the woman's feet was a silver ring. On closer inspection, the ring wasn't a ring at all. It was a snake. This
silvery-white snake had two tails and a curved body. One of its tails was held in its mouth, forming a circle.
This snake gave off a shallow glow, as if rays of light were shining on it from the sky and a glow was coming from
the green moss under it.
Sanshi stopped. The woman smiled beautifully and reached her right hand out towards Sanshi. The other tail of the
snake was wrapped around this hand.
"You must be Sanshi."
Sanshi looked at her and then at the glowing ring of the snake. The ring was about as wide as a circle formed with
one's arms, and inside, pale white shadows formed a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel there was another round hole,
and through that small hole, she could only see a very unusual sort of building, an area that appeared to be a yard, and
a round, golden shadow. However, for Sanshi, this was already enough.
--Taiki!
No matter what, there was no way she wouldn't recognize that golden shadow. It was Taiki!
"You should go in. However, no matter what happens, you must not let go of my hand."
Sanshi didn't recognize this woman, but right now, she didn't care.
Sanshi held onto her hand, and stepped into the glowing ring. She felt cool air coming at her. At the exit of the
tunnel, white snowflakes were fluttering about, like the petals of the spirea.
When she reached the beginning of the tunnel of white light, she suddenly felt her body become more nimble, as she
already didn't know where she was. The woman followed Sanshi tightly from behind.
"Keep walking forward."
Hearing the woman say this, Sanshi strode forward. She walked to the end of the tunnel and reached her hand out.
She could now see the scene more clearly. Cold snowflakes were flying everywhere, and a golden shadow was
floating in the dark air. This was what she saw.
A closer look at the glimmering shadow would reveal that it was actually the silhouette of a small boy. However, in
Sanshi's eyes, it was a fruit, the same one that she should have plucked from the white branch ten years ago. This fruit
had a shiny golden surface and was just big enough that she would be able to wrap her hands around it.
Sanshi did her best to reach out with her fingers, but she just wasn't able to touch that fruit. She tightened her grip
on the woman's hand and, holding the cold air open with her front paws, she reached out even further and beckoned
to the fruit. And then she saw the fruit begin to drift towards her.
This was the moment she had been dreaming of for so long!
Sanshi tightly grasped the fruit that had drifted over to her hand.
She pulled the fruit towards her and it fell into her embrace.

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When he neared to the white hand, it didn't hesitate at all in grabbing hold of his wrist.
Different from his cold skin, that hand made him feel very warm.