Time in a collapsing world

The next day.

Yaeli woke up first, opened his eyes, and looked around. The two sisters were still sleeping, facing him, and they seemed to have not changed their positions throughout the night.

Yaeli stood up quietly without making a sound.

After getting dressed, he walked next to Yae Sakura and gently shook her shoulders covered by the quilt.

"Um……?"

Yae Sakura opened her eyes in a daze and rubbed them, "...brother?"

"Shh..."

Yae Ri pointed at Yae Rin who was still sleeping. Yae Sakura understood and quickly shut her mouth, remembering that she had to get up early today?

Well...it's been a while since I slept with my brother, it was so relaxing.

Otherwise there’s no way she wouldn’t be able to get up at this time!

Yae Sakura quietly got up from the quilt, got dressed, and followed Yae Ri outside the house.

"Do you still want breakfast?"

Yae Sakura asked her brother.

"I don't need it. Just prepare Rin and yourself." Yaeli shook his head.

"Then I won't eat either...I'll prepare Rin's breakfast!"

Yae Sakura and Yae Ri separated, and the latter came to another house.

Here, there are various costumes and utensils that are only used on formal occasions.

Yae Ri took out a loose robe from the cabinet, which was similar to a smaller version of the black robe worn by Lord Yae Ri. Yae Ri put it on and tied her long pink hair into a bunch, exposing more of her delicate face. .

"It's...nine o'clock?"

Yae Ri roughly estimated the time, then left the house and came to the kitchen. He found Yae Sakura still kneading the rice balls, so he walked to her and admired the process of the rice balls gradually forming in her hands.

When Yae Sakura caught a glimpse of the corner of the black robe, she thought it was her father coming over. She was so frightened that she almost threw the unformed rice ball in her hand.

When he later found out it was his brother, he had a cute annoyed expression on his face.

"Brother, don't appear behind my back so quietly in the future. It's very scary!"

If she hadn't kept her hands clean, Yae Sakura would have pinched her brother's face.

"Isn't this just to avoid disturbing you?" Yaeli smiled.

"But this is really scary..."

"Don't worry, father, how can he come over to the kitchen when he has time? At this time... he should be waiting in the side hall early, waiting for guys from other wealthy families in the village to come, right?"

"Well……"

Yae Sakura thought that this was indeed the case, so she stopped talking and focused on making rice balls.

Yae Sakura kept fiddling with her little hands, and soon, a rice ball the size of a human head was formed, attached with a piece of seaweed, and placed on a clean small plate. Then Yae Sakura was responsible for quietly placing the rice ball. By Yae Rin's side.

Yae Sakura also needs to change her clothes. After all, the sacrifice is a big event, and the little miko costume must be changed.

The two separated, Yaeli placed the rice balls, then came to the edge of the shrine, jumped onto the wall, and used the shelter of a nearby building to quietly watch the people coming and going outside.

Many formally dressed people from wealthy families poured in from the gate. Some of them headed towards the side hall, while the rest were waiting in the open space in front of the main hall.

There are also ordinary people coming. This sacrifice is related to their life and death. How could they not care?

However, they were not qualified to go to the side hall, so they could only wait in the open space in front of the main hall.

Yaeli had no interest in these familiar faces at all. The only ones that caught his attention were the middle-aged women he met when he went to buy rice balls, and a young girl with her hands tied and her eyes covered with black cloth. .

The girl was semi-driven into the shrine. At the signal of some big clan members, the others made way for the girl to be sent to the center of the open space in front of the main hall, surrounded by a crowd of people.

"..."

Yae Ri jumped off the wall and didn't look any further. At this moment, Yae Sakura also changed her clothes. The exquisitely designed little miko uniform fit her perfectly.

Realizing that something was wrong with her brother, Yae Sakura asked worriedly, but Yae Ri casually put him off.

The two of them arrived in front of the main hall together, with Yaeli in front and Yaezakura hiding behind him like a little beast afraid of life.

When someone greets them, Yaeli is responsible for responding.

"Master Li, Master Sakura..."

She was still the old woman whom Yaeli secretly called an old woman, showing her yellow teeth.

"Ah."

Yae Li nodded without any desire to talk, especially Yae Sakura behind him.

Seeing this, the old woman did not make things difficult for them. Instead, she asked the descendants of her family who were similar in age to the two of them to come over and communicate with the two future shrine maidens and gods before the sacrifice began.

Yaeli had no choice but to put on a mask called "Smile" and chatted wordlessly with the few kids in front of him who seemed to him to be too childish.

They were all little boys. Although Yaeli didn't hate children, these guys were too stupid, and the way they looked at him didn't look right.

He looks like an adolescent boy who wants to say more, but is stammering because of shyness... What? Does my appearance cause you trouble?

The time of communication passed quickly, but it seemed to Yaeli that it was extremely painful.

At about eleven o'clock, the Eightfold God Lord came out with other elders of the clan who had entered the side hall.

Feeling her father's glance, Yaeli took Yaezakura's little hand and led her to the designated position. In front of her was the girl with her hands tied and her eyes blindfolded.

She was forced to kneel down on the hot stone floor, enduring the pain in her knees. Thick sweat flowed from her forehead, dripped to the ground, and formed a puddle.

"elder brother……"

According to the rules, Yae Sakura could no longer hide behind Yae Ri at this time, but stood side by side with him.

She quietly pulled Yae Li's sleeves, her pupils were trembling slightly, and she already knew the ending that was about to happen to the girl in front of her.

"..."

Yaeli didn't speak, just patted her little hand gently to comfort her.

There was calmness in his eyes. He had seen this scene too many times compared to Yae Sakura.

The girl's mother knelt outside the crowd and kept banging her head on the ground with a look of joy on her face. She was happy that her daughter could go to serve the Fox God.

The rest of the villagers looked impatient. Except for the new generation who had been brought a long experience, the wealthy people remained calm and pious.

The entire village fell into a demonic state, for the sake of the invisible and intangible [Fox God].

I really want to leave...

Yaeli observed all this silently, and inexplicably thought of what the Valkyrie Angeline had said to him.