{"id":4324,"date":"2025-04-17T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/%e3%82%a8%e3%83%94%e3%82%bd%e3%83%bc%e3%83%89%ef%bc%92%ef%bd%9c%e7%b2%be%e9%9c%8a%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e3%81%ae%e5%9b%81%e3%81%8d\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:10:52","slug":"bs-s1-ep2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/en\/bs-s1-ep2\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 2: Whisper of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_715515-3a\"]{margin-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xl, 4rem);margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);font-size:var(--global-kb-font-size-lg, 2rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_715515-3a\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_715515-3a\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_715515-3a\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);font-size:24px;}}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading4324_715515-3a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_715515-3a\">Dialogue with the Spirits of the Skin<br>A Mystical Beauty Saga<\/h1>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_229107-8d\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-size:var(--global-kb-font-size-md, 1.25rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_229107-8d\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_229107-8d\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_229107-8d\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-md, 2rem);}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4324_229107-8d wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_229107-8d\">Season 1 \u2013 When the Moon Descends: The Tale of the Loquat Spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-size:20px;}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4324_2b4698-d2\">Episode 2: Whisper of the Spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 1: The air in the treatment room changes\u2014someone\u2019s presence fills the space.]\" class=\"wp-image-6670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-1-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The loquats in the basket shimmered softly, as if breathing.<br>A faint flicker\u2014barely visible\u2014yet unmistakably, a presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano Kodama stood still, holding his breath.<br>The density of the air had changed.<br>Not fragrance. Not humidity.<br>Something deeper\u2014the very fabric of the space\u2014had begun to stir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fufufu\u2026 <em>At last, we\u2019ve met.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not sound, and yet it was surely a voice.<br>Sweet, timeless, and tender\u2014like a flower opening in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 2: A basket of loquats\u2014rays of light passing through the fruit.]\" class=\"wp-image-6668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You humans speak of \u201crefining\u201d the skin\u2026 But the skin does not yield so easily.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It listens\u2014to the tremor of the heart, to the breath of the air, to the murmur of life itself. It is neither inside nor outside\u2014a single veil, thin and soft, that embraces all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vial of <strong>SHISUI<\/strong> at his chest quivered faintly.<br>The red liquid rippled, its surface tense as if holding its breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 3: A delicate membrane of light\u2014layers of color forming a single veil.]\" class=\"wp-image-6666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-3-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But these days, you push too hard, don\u2019t you? Deeper, deeper\u2014always deeper. You call it penetration, as though it were a virtue. But the skin resists. It reddens, it burns. That is her \u201cNo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano\u2019s chest tightened.<br>He had seen so many skins\u2014touched them, healed them, hurt them.<br>He knew how much \u201ccare\u201d could sometimes wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 4: Microbial spirits\u2014tiny luminous beings exchanging glowing orbs of light.]\" class=\"wp-image-6664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-4-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On the surface of the skin live small lives\u2014 the ones you call microbiota. They are translators.<\/em><br><em>They take what comes from outside and deliver it in a language the skin can understand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the most beautiful words can wound if they do not connect.<br>So it is with the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When those translators vanish\u2026 no matter how fine the substance, it pierces without meaning.<\/em><br><em>The skin grows silent, stripped, unable to speak.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And beneath the skin lies a deeper memory\u2014the <em>hikin<\/em>, the muscle that breathes with every emotion.<br>When it stiffens, blood forgets to flow, cells forget to feed.<br>No matter what you apply, nothing will pass through.<br>The skin is meant to let things through\u2014to listen, to speak back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spirit\u2019s voice drifted nearer, then far again, like a tide of fragrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 5: Takano Kodama, eyes closed, silver hair glowing faintly red\u2014resonating with the spirit.]\" class=\"wp-image-6662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-5.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>True care\u2026 is not about what you give. It is about how deeply you can listen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What is your skin afraid of now? What has it closed? What light is it ready to receive?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The liquid inside <strong>SHISUI<\/strong> pulsed softly, and the air trembled with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fufufu\u2026 I believe you can.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano\u2019s breath deepened.<br>The voice curled around him like warmth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The skins you have seen, the ones you\u2019ve touched\u2014those were important. But there are places beyond the reach of hands. Places you can only feel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That is why\u2026 I called you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The air grew still.<br>Only silence, fragrance, and the faint shimmer of red remained.<br>Yet something had been lit inside his chest\u2014a quiet ember of knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 6: Loquat leaves burning\u2014soft flames transforming into light that rises into the sky.]\" class=\"wp-image-6660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-6-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>True care,<\/em> the voice continued, <em>is not to add, but to resonate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Every touch upon the skin is a conversation. A wind brushing through a forest. Each leaf remembering its own rhythm of breath.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To heal the skin is to restore the way you live\u2014 your breath, your pace, your presence. They are not separate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The lives of the forest and the lives of humans are one. The leaves of the trees, the cells of your body\u2014each breathes by the same design.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the leaves of the loquat are placed upon the fire,<br>the tiny lives within them return to light.<br>It is not destruction, but the fulfillment of a cycle.<br>Their essence becomes fragrance and rises to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Flame does not take\u2014it delivers.<\/em><br><em>It is the passage through which life hands itself to life.<\/em><br><em>Those who dissolve within it are not lost\u2014they are completing a vow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 7: A white rabbit leaps into the fire before a weary traveler.]\" class=\"wp-image-6658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-7-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At that moment, a memory surfaced within Takano.<br>He remembered a story his grandmother once told him, long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was about a white rabbit who leapt into the fire.<br>The rabbit had nothing to offer a starving traveler\u2014<br>no fruit, no grain, no catch from the forest.<br>And so, it said, <em>\u201cThen please\u2026 take me instead.\u201d<\/em><br>It cast itself into the flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That tale had stayed with him all his life.<br>As a child, he had felt only fear.<br>Why would the rabbit do such a thing?<br>No one had blamed it. There had been food enough.<br>It made no sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now, he understood\u2014just a little.<br>It was not death.<br>It was a return to harmony.<br>Life yielding itself to sustain life,<br>breathing within one continuous rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 8: Takano touching the glowing loquat fruit\u2014life\u2019s resonance.]\" class=\"wp-image-6656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-8-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Human, microbe, plant\u2014<br>all are held gently within that same tender cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To touch is to stand in witness to that cycle,<\/em><br><em>to breathe with all that breathes\u2014<\/em><br><em>to join the chorus of unseen lives that keep the world alive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He extended his hand toward the basket.<br>One loquat pulsed faintly, as though listening.<br>Warm.<br>Not heat\u2014life.<br>A chorus of unseen beings singing in unison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The skin you have touched, the lives you have healed\u2014<\/em><br><em>they were precious.<\/em><br><em>But there are places even they cannot reach.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That is why I called you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The voice softened, dissolving into the stillness.<br>Its fragrance deepened\u2014white sandalwood, honey, and memory.<br>Takano could still feel her presence,<br>like light behind his eyelids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He remained silent for a long time.<br>Then, quietly, he thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Loquat\u2026 you are the Buddha\u2019s tree of mercy.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTouch alone may heal,\u201d he murmured.<br>\u201cIt is neither treatment nor miracle\u2014<br>but the resonance of lives, meeting at the threshold of silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"[Illustration 9: A glowing loquat rises into the air as Takano gazes upward.]\" class=\"wp-image-6638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bsn-s1-ep2-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A whisper rose from the basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014This is where it begins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He looked up.<br>One loquat fruit had lifted from the basket, surrounded by pale fire.<br>He smiled, calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn other words,\u201d he said, \u201cif I use your power\u2026<br>I can bridge the gap between humanity and nature. Is that it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fufufu\u2026<\/em><br><em>I could grant you that power,<\/em><br><em>but there is one condition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vial of <strong>SHISUI<\/strong> at his chest gave a faint chime.<br>And with it, the sweet fragrance bloomed once more\u2014<br>lingering, like a vow fulfilled by flame.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns4324_7077c4-a7, .site .entry-content .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns4324_7077c4-a7, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns4324_7077c4-a7, .site .entry-content .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns4324_7077c4-a7{margin-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxl, 5rem);margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xl, 4rem);}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns4324_7077c4-a7{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );justify-content:center;align-items:center;}.kt-btns4324_7077c4-a7 .kt-button{font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}.kt-btns4324_7077c4-a7 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