The sun is about to go to its peak, indicating that it's only a few hours before the blutbadspiel. Meanwhile, Tamiyo takes calm steps, and ascends X-You Mountain: she could have used a Tama to fly, but that would waste her precious Rei.
Keeping her company are the thoughts of the current events.
—I don't know why anyone didn't mention it, but the group attacking us has a clear motive to start the war. Those oldies, still call the events that killed some of our Bushi a natural disaster; but in my eyes that was planned.
The Kushi Village council didn't admit to a group attacking them; since that would cause chaos among the people. They still refused it, even after hearing that the same was happening to Kurenai Village.
Sighing, the middle aged woman drops the issue; that isn't her line of work. Today she has to win the blutbadspiel, and kill Sakura Katsuragi, after all.
