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They walked slowly and spent a long time passing through the cave before she saw a set of stairs where the top of
the arc-shaped cliff wall met the dirt below their feet.
"You will be called Sanshi!"
The old woman finally spoke.
"San, Shi. From now on, everyone will call you Sanshi."
She silently took steps upward on the stone stairs and listened at the same time to the old woman speak.
"Your surname will be Haku, for this is the rule for all nyokai hatched upon Mt. Hou."
The stone stairs made a big turn, and after she went up the steps a bit, she suddenly saw a ray of light.
"The reason you can have a surname is because you carry on your back a very important mission. You must never
forget this."
She nodded her head. As to what this very important mission was, she didn't need the old woman to tell her, for it
was already very clear to her.
Once again, she firmly engraved into her mind the mission that she was to shoulder as she silently walked up the
stone steps. After ascending a ways, the field of vision in front of her opened up. It turned out that the higher the
stone steps went, the wider they became, and at the end, there was a square cave opening.
She stopped walking.
She lifted her head and looked out of the opening, seeing only the pale blue sky and the trunk and branches of a
dazzlingly big white tree reaching up into the sky.
The tears that were so hard to stop before started flowing again though she tried to stifle them.
The old woman patted her back again.
"All right, you should go."
She took a few strides and then began to run, using the four legs that had just been hatched to run for the first time.
As soon as she leapt from the cave opening, sunlight splashed upon her body and pierced her eyes so that she
began to cry again. She ran straight to a spot under the tree.
Her egg had originally formed among the roots of the tree. Compared to the long and slender roots, the trunk itself
appeared to be short and thick. The long branches reached from the mossy stone steps to the sky, and on one of the
snow-white branches, there grew a golden fruit.
"Taiki!"
She said something for the first time.
The golden fruit had grown in the same corresponding area as her egg. The fruit was still very small, so small that
you could wrap two hands around it. The sunlight shined upon her sensitive skin, which was not completely dry yet.
She used both her hands to surround the fruit and carefully pressed her cheek against it.
She was still crying.
"Taiki..."
This was Sanshi's birth.

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 The Yellow Sea is situated at the center of the world.
Although it's called the Yellow Sea, it isn't made up of water. The only things that flow in the Yellow Sea are time and
the wind. What's left over are boundless deserts and endless forests, as well as large swamps and continuous
mountains.
In the center of the Yellow Sea, there is a particularly high mountain range. This mountain range is called the "Five
Mountains" and consists of five lofty mountains with complex shapes.
The tallest mountain located at the very center is called, "High Su." The mountains connected all around it are
separated into Mt. Hou, Mt. Ka, Mt. Kaku, and Mt. Kou. In ancient times, Mt. Hou was called Mt. Tai, but every time a
disaster occurs, the name is changed. For the last thousand years, it has always been called Mt. Hou.
Legend has it that the Five Mountains belong under the authority of Seioubo, and Mt. Hou belongs to Oufujin.
Regarding the masters of the other four mountains, the rumors have always varied. Regardless of whether these
legends are real or fake, it is known absolutely that the Five Mountains are the lands of goddesses and nyosen.
All of the Five Mountains reach up very high in the sky, but, like the Yellow Sea at their base, they are very