[h2]Konpaku Youmu[/h2]

With the fight concluded, Youmu began to realize just how cold it was here. It had been quite warm in the Netherworld, and while her body temperature was lower then a pure human's due to her half-phantom nature that didn't mean that she was invulnerable to the cold. Especially given her training had involved repeatedly dumping water on herself and trying to cut the droplets. She wasn't in her driest state, to put it simply, so that amplified the cold. But... Yuyuko-sama was counting on her to quickly find a path home! So Youmu couldn't be defeated by something like being cold... even if the chill immediately got to her arms and legs.

The weather had taken a considerable turn for the worst, for that matter. It really was a blizzard, not simply a snowstorm like it had been before. Was the celestial somehow involved? This manipulation of weather... Could it have been that yuki-onna? Either seem possible, given the strangeness of this event.

More concerning, however, was the lack of any people. There should have been someone around here. Even if Youmu wasn't familiar with the location, this looked like it should have been some kind of reception hall. But there was no staff at all, even indoors.

"... There's no people..." she commented, looking around warily with one hand on Roukanken's hilt. She couldn't help but be concerned about what could have happened to them.

Responding to this concern, her phantom half suddenly returned to her side. Given it was part of her, no words were necessary: It immediately set off deeper into the building to check for any signs of people ahead.

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