Kyoko gasped but before she could even yell at Toya for his attitude, he took off for the shrine house, disappearing within its walls.
Toya left a stream of mumbled curse words in his wake as he made it back to the shrine. He hated leaving Kyoko with Shinbe, but maybe the guardian did have a point. If it was a spell that made them want to fight each other, then by the time they made it out of the shrine and onto the grass… Toya growled. If he killed Shinbe, he at least wanted to have a good reason. A spell from Hyakuhei was not one of them.
Toya took one last fleeting look over his shoulder before disappearing into the shrine house. With one single leap, he disappeared into the blue light of the heart of time. As it engulfed him, he raised his eyes back the way he had come, wondering why
