The room, relatively speaking, was still dry and tidy. Despite the torrential rain and howling wind in the courtyard outside, the elements were blocked by the power of a few Spirit Talismans, preventing them from entering. Some of the candlesticks around were knocked over; they were picked up and relit, casting a dim light to dispel the darkness.

The few people inside the room sat apart in a silent atmosphere, and someone who had promised to be back soon was still missing. Eventually, Hiri steeled herself to break the ice and cautiously began to speak.

She tried to break the silence, worried that the tension might escalate into some frightening scenario nobody wanted to confront.

"Excuse me, from what you said earlier, are you not from this era?" She tried to sound as calm as possible, making her expression appear curious, maintaining a natural demeanor. The Demon Hunter Girl looked at the two daughters of the Saito Family opposite her.

Hearing Hiri's question, eyes as beautiful and dark as black jade turned, and Miss Saito appraised this girl with an exotic beauty.

As she pondered silently, she couldn't help but make all sorts of guesses.

Just when Hiri felt cold sweat forming on her forehead and her smile becoming strained, the second young lady calmly opened her mouth to respond, "Indeed, that's right, this era is not ours. We also arrived here in a bewildered state tonight..."

She briefly explained about the historical event their recent battle relates to and mentioned that they came from over three hundred and seventy years in the future.

Anyway, the person opposite should be trustworthy, and she wanted to take this opportunity to understand the other side's information, so they might as well be honest with each other.

Kikyo's expression shifted slightly. These two were also... people from the Warring States Era?

And it sounded like they were quite close to her era, although they were clearly from different worlds.

Hiri breathed a sigh of relief, nodded repeatedly, and subconsciously took a deep look at the other black-haired girl. Despite the twins having incredibly similar appearances, physique, and even clothing styles, she remembered this one was the elder sister, emphasized just before in a serious introduction.

However...

She seemed so arrogant...

Faced with her question, there was no indication of an answer at all, it was her younger sister who answered and saved her from embarrassment. Hiri felt a bit helpless inside, wondering if this was disdain or an attempt to give her a hard time, perhaps similar to what a certain Miss Fox Spirit might do...

Did she see her as a potential imaginary enemy?

Her heart suddenly chilled, remembering another troublesome figure. The Demon Hunter Girl's expression subtly changed, she glanced around somewhat guiltily and sighed with relief.

It seemed that since earlier, Miss Tamamo no Mae hadn't shown up. As the others said, it was just a small accident, and they didn't expect such a thing to happen, caught off guard and transported to this world's time segment.

As a result, Miss Tamamo no Mae probably didn't manage to come along, which made the Demon Hunter Girl feel relieved.

It's good not to run into them directly—it's troublesome enough already... even though it's not really her business.

"I'm back..."

At this moment, amidst the rain and wind, footsteps approached, and someone finally returned, looking somewhat burdened.

Hiri let out another sigh of relief and subconsciously glanced over, seeing that Gu Mo looked a bit troubled, causing her to feel a bit of dark satisfaction inside. Finally, this guy knows what trouble is, hopefully can learn a lesson from it.

"Welcome back..."

Blinking her beautiful eyes, Miss Saito responded softly.

If not for the wrong timing, wrong setting, and awkward atmosphere, this scene might have seemed somewhat delicate... but only she responded, everyone else remained silent, and the air was still eerily oppressive.

"What do you plan to do next? Do you have a way to return to the right era?" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Kikyo slightly lifted her gaze to look at Gu Mo, asking softly.

"There is a way, I can just withdraw this clone... but Ah Xiu and the others might have some trouble; we might be able to use our world as a waypoint, but it's uncertain if Hiri can accurately open the channel to the correct time node now."

Gu Mo snapped out of his thoughts and said this after thinking.

"So I think it's better to let nature take its course. Once the time comes, we should be able to return to the correct era. The world's Correction Power will help complete this process."

It's said that the Power of Time that Anma Tengu cast upon them could only last for about three months. Once that time is up, everyone, as summoned anomalies, will disappear, and at that moment, they'll lose their connection with the current time and be sent back to the correct original time.

This matches the intelligence he had, corroborating it, so Gu Mo believed this was better.

"Is there any problem? Your face looks... strange."

The Witch carefully observed his expression, then sighed softly, saying quietly.

This matter probably gave him quite a headache, she rarely saw him showing such an expression, looking quite troubled and conflicted...

"No, it's nothing... it's just that I heard some strange things just now, and now I feel a bit of a headache, like a tangled mess." Gu Mo shook his head, hesitated a bit, and still vaguely explained why his expression seemed odd.

—It wasn't because of the sudden time-travel.

—It was because of what Minamoto no Yoshiie said just now.

As he suspected, the strange claims involving the foundation of human principles naturally arose because of a time war, a confrontation on the timeline. It was like the situation encountered in the previous dungeon world, where some rebels hoped to use time attacks to destroy a portion of history they hated from the beginning.

However, the situation now reversed subtly.

After all, in the last dungeon world, the ones seeking to destroy history had god-like power, easily annihilating human principles, forcing the heroes who save the world to be on the run, struggling...

But now, according to Minamoto no Yoshiie's account, the rebels wanting to destroy history are incredibly weak, akin to cockroaches in the sewers, while his side held god-like power, dealing blows to those reactionary elements in various eras...

Even with an overwhelming advantage and having learned Gai Tia's lesson, they didn't relax their vigilance at all.

Future Gu Mo sent "anomalous individuals" like Servants to protect the key points of history from being altered, and Minamoto no Yoshiie was one of them.