Nothing answered.
Kaiden held the reach anyway, standing in the dead shrine street with the onmyoji's spent talismans still cooling in the gutter, his want aimed at the three empty slots of his seven Sin Stances.
In three months he had not once wanted something at this size and been told no, and the silence coming back felt like a room with nobody in it.
Alice arrived on the private channel, giggling.
'It is not.'
He grinned, let the want go, and filed it away for later. The system had said unlocking the final stances was up to him now, but it didn't become an all-you-can-eat buffet.
...
Kaiden and the group walked two districts closer to the river, and Kawanami changed on them.
