How many years is it? Since the curses? Since she leaves Nerima, only to be involved in Mafia, assassination, and protection of V.V.I.P? 15? 20?
The memory feels so long ago... She feels stretched out, like butter that got spread too thin. That feeling was always prevalent especially around this time when she got the curses.
She looked down, towards the red pacifier on her chest. The second curse she picked up, all because she is the best...
Sighing, she quickly fastened her step towards Namimori prefecture, towards the Hibari estate. Her mother's side of the family. As she moved along the fences, she spotted one of her cousins, Ōzora Hibari. Hibari's father is married to one of her mother's many sisters. She doesn't know why Hibari is named with her mother's maiden name. It gets confusing sometimes.
Ōzora Hibari is one of the people she knew who willingly jumped in Jusenkyo spring, the Spring of Drowned Girl, to be precise. Her father, Ōzora Ibara, grounded the neo-girl for a month after that stunt. That is partly her fault though. As she is the one that told Hibari about the Jusenkyo, causing her to seek out the springs herself.
Jumping towards the neo-girl's shoulder, she applauded Hibari in her mind when she doesn't flinch too much when she landed on her shoulder.
"Mind if hitch a ride on your shoulder, cousin?"
"Ah, okay. I'm heading towards the Hibari's estate myself."
"Where's the other?"
"They left first. I got a thing to do, so that's why they left before me."
"Oh."
The conversation ended. They keep going towards the Hibari estate at a comfortable pace and silence.