Seven-Fold Empty Cicada

At night when summer cicadas were chirping, Ushio sat side by side with his sister Ren, who was a trainee goddess, at the entrance of Minashi Shrine. Barley tea, wind chimes, hydrangeas. Sea mist rolls in from afar, and bellworms begin to sing deep in the grass. Lian said that this year's divine dance is different from previous years. The day after saying these words, my sister disappeared. Not death, not leaving, but being erased from everyone's memory. The empty room was called a "storage room," and the extra bedding went unclaimed. Instead, appearing next to Shio was his childhood sweetheart Mahiru - with a side ponytail, a dark blue hair tie, and eyes that turned into crescents when she smiled.