The hemp rope stretched mottled blood on the young girl's delicate skin, the wounds on her hands and feet were oozing blood, and there was a large amount of crimson blood on the cherry-colored clothes that couldn't be wiped away.
The little girl didn't cry, she was as well-behaved and sensible as before, and raised her neck towards her sister who was standing in front of her.
The people with grim expressions showed no sympathy for the misery of the young girl, but the father of the two sisters wore the mask of the fox god Inari on his face and gave orders in an indifferent voice.
The father wants to let the elder sister kill the younger sister.
This is a sacrifice.
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and saw the familiar ceiling.
It was just a dream about the past. She sat up and found Otto sitting on the stone bed looking at her.
Otto was sitting on the moonlight that slipped in from the window, and his naked body actually had a holy feeling under the moonlight.
"Are you awake?" Otto said, looking at the Miko who was wearing only a thin bathrobe.
It was late at night, but the two woke up at the same time.
Sakura stretched, and the thin yukata couldn't hide her graceful body.
"I'm going to fetch some water." Yae Sakura said, she stood up, and the moonlight showed through the yukata on her body, showing the outline of her body.
She left the room, while Otto sat on the stone bed and watched her leave.
"14 times," Otto said a number, this is the number of times Yae Sakura wiped his body yesterday, twenty-four hours a day, at least every three or four hours.
And the reason why he and Yae Sakura woke up in the middle of the night was very simple, Otto was about to bleed.
Before each time he bleed, Sakura would fill up water in advance, ready to help Otto wipe his body.
It has now been two days since Otto regained consciousness. During these two days, he stayed on the stone bed, and his body was at the mercy of Sakura.
But for Yae Sakura, this was just part of her daily life.
However, Otto slowly stood up from the bed, stepped on the ground with his bare feet, reached out to the shrine maiden costume hanging by the window, and then Sakura's shrine maiden costume actually floated directly in the air.
Otto snapped his fingers, and all the objects in the room, including the heavy stone bed, were suspended.
The power of the Herrscher of The Stars.
The concentration of Honkai energy in this era is far less than that in the future. He is not as good as he was in Nagazora and he may not even be able to beat himself who holds Judah.
But it's enough.
Otto walked out of Yae Sakura's room with bare feet.
He was about to end this child's play with Yae Sakura, and its time for the adults to play
In the two days of contact. Otto got to know Yae Sakura almost inside and out. After all, Yae Sakura is not a woman with a deep personality, and it's very easy to understand her.
Otto knew that Sakura had a repressive personality, and no matter what she suffered, she would suppress it in her heart.
She has a shackle called responsibility around her neck. She hates the people in the village, but the responsibility of a Miko makes her have to serve others.
This situation continued until the arrival of Kallen because Sakura's contact with Higokumaru ignited the suppression in her heart, so Sakura directly slaughtered the village.
Otto's plan was to replace the shackle called "responsibility" on Sakura's neck with a shackle called "Otto",
But Otto doesn't value Yae Sakura, and her strength is only at a Pseudo Herrscher at best.
The archer shoots the horse first, and what he wants is to master the Higokumaru through Sakura.
The Corruption Herrscher of the last era, the Divine Key Jizo Mitama, no matter what name it has, it's worth getting.
The prerequisite for controlling Higokumaru is to turn Sakura into a donkey belonging to Otto.
First, build a close relationship with Sakura before Kallen arrives.
Second, let Sakura come into contact with Higokumaru.
Third, imprint his own traces on Sakura's soul, so that she will not forget him even in the seal.
Fourth, seal Sakura and Higokumaru according to the original history.
In the end, I returned to the original timeline and go directly to recover Sakura and Higokumaru.
But in Otto's plan, there is a single variable, and that is the Saintess of Schicksal-Kallen Kaslana.
"It's really a headache." Otto couldn't help but press his forehead. Kallen really didn't help him at all. He looked at his current 33% historical influence.
If I kill Kallen now, the impact would be 100% explosive. After all, it messes up the future too much.
When Otto was thinking, he found that he had come to the well of the shrine.
Yae Sakura was dipping the well water, Otto was barefoot and made no sound. When he came five steps behind Yae Sakura, she turned her head sharply.
When she saw Otto standing behind her, Sakura's vigilance disappeared.
Although the two of them aren't true friends, but when Otto lay on the bed for more than a year, the distance between Sakura and him became very close, at least the latter didn't have any vigilance or suspicion of Otto.
The most difficult first step in human interaction has already been taken.
Yae Sakura looked at Otto suspiciously, Otto was no longer weak.
Otto stood very stably, unlike the previous two days when he was almost lying on the stone bed, and he needed Yae Sakura's support to walk, even though he pretended to be.
"Are you healthy?" Vae Sakura's tone was a little surprised, and then there was a sense of loneliness and struggle in it.
Otto slowly approached Yae Sakura and took the latter's left hand with his right hand.
The two clasped their fingers together, Otto increased his strength a little bit, and Yae Sakura felt Otto's strength was different from before.
"Thanks to you, Sakura," Otto said with a smile, then stroked Yae Sakura's hair with his free left hand, dipping his fingers into her long pink hair.
"Then what are you going to do next?" Yae Sakura asked what, she never thought was gonna happen.
Even after Otto woke up, she never asked the questions she should have asked.
For example, where did Otto come from, and where did he plan to go next?
She didn't ask any of those questions that should have been asked.
However, after seeing that Otto could walk freely, Sakura's voice was full of loneliness. She has lived alone since her father's death.
She hates the villagers who killed her sister. In her daily life, except for the unavoidable things, she will not contact those villagers who she has always hated. She has always been alone in the shrine.
Day after day, year after year, she will be able to escape from the shackles called "responsibility" after giving birth to a shrine maiden in the future.
But more than a year ago, a comatose man broke into her daily life. The man had golden hair as dazzling as the sun.
More importantly, he came from outside the village.
At first, Sakura just regarded this as a small resistance to her fate, because a Miko can't take in outsiders, so Yae Sakura hid the man in her room and began to take care of him.
But gradually, Yae Sakura took taking care of that man as a part of her life. Even if the other party was in a coma, it didn't matter that he wouldn't respond to her at all.
She confided her thoughts to the comatose man like a tree hole, and she calmed down when she wiped his body.
But the man woke up a few days ago, and then Yae Sakura learned that the man's name was Otto,
She never asked Otto where he was going when he woke up, and she still took care of him as usual.
This was Sakura's daily life, and she hopes it will become Otto's daily life as well.
She didn't give Otto clothes, she just hoped that he would not leave, but it didn't seem to matter for Otto not to wear clothes, which made Yae Sakura wonder if the people outside the village didn't wear clothes.
When she saw that he couldn't stand still, she actually had a happy mood in her heart.
But now, when Yae Sakura saw that Otto's body was recovering well, her younger sister's former appearance appeared in her mind.
Cut off his tendons and hamstrings so he can stay forever.
And with Otto here, she doesn't need to choose among the villagers she hates in the future, so the birth of the next Miko was also guaranteed.
But that thought vanished in an instant, and if she did, it would be no different from those she hated.
She chose to respect Otto's decision, she was not his, and his life was not determined by her.
"What am I going to do next."
"You don't mind cooking an extra meal do you." Otto pretended to struggle, and then he looked into the dazzling eyes of Sakura, he said with a smile.
He wants to stay!?
Yae Sakura hadn't thought about it yet, Otto's body trembled a little, his wounds opened all over his body, and Yae Sakura was shot almost in the face with red makeup.
Both of them forgot their reason for getting up in the middle of the night.