Enishi's coming to Otsu did not comfort Miryu at all, for a reason that she could never find. That child was just to complex to figure out, and no matter how much she pondered about how he managed to find his sister, Tomoe, the more holes surfaced, and she was very keen on finding out anything than she already had on the mysterious siblings. Tomoe tried to kill her once, in the dead of the night, but she did not hold a grudge against Tomoe for that.
"What's wrong with you, those kids rarely get on your nerves when they ask you to pretend to be your mother", Kenshin asked when they were back at the fields. Miryu looked at him wide-eyed for quite a while before she could figure out what he was talking about, and shook her head. She wanted to tell him what she found out from Tomoe, but her inner conscience silenced her. Still, nothing could quell the uneasiness she felt when she was around his "brother in-law"
"It is not the kids that worry me, it is Enishi", she answered. Was she afraid of him? How could she be afraid of a mere child no older than she was when she has seen so much bloodshed without any discomfort? "I cannot explain why, but did you notice that he has the same anger that Tomoe one-san contained when we first met her?" It was the only approach that she could use to tackle any reservations she had about Enishi, the only way she could ask Kenshin what he thought about Tomoe and Enishi without revealing that he was the one who killed Tomoe's betrothed, and that Tomoe tried to kill her for vengeance.
Kenshin pondered her words for a few moments. Miryu was right to some degree; Enishi did have some effect on the other children as well, they were all quite afraid to approach him. He had noticed a few of them staring at the boy for quite a while before anyone made the notion that Enishi was walking towards them when they were playing. Anyways, how could he have found out that Tomoe was there with them? Yet, he did not want to think that Tomoe was the traitor in the midst of the Choushu faction that was to be blamed for any mishap it suffered. Enishi was the strongest proof of Choushu being betrayed, for only Katsura and Iizuka knew of their current location. "To some extent", he said, answering her question. "But what conclusion can we come to, other than the betrayal of Choushu?"
Miryu only pierced his violet eyes with her sapphire ones. "There is no other. I am not framing Tomoe one-san, Kenshin, nor am I denying this fact. Whether or not you and I hate to admit, we and the whole Choushu faction are in grave danger if this person is not discovered anytime soon" Seriousness was in her words, and Kenshin knew that she was right. She looked away and found one of the boys running towards them, calling them to play with them. "They like you the best, Kenshin, you go ahead" Thus, she rose from her seat upon a large stone in the fields and walked away.
"Where are you going?" Kenshin asked her after consenting to the boy's request.
"A walk, what else?" she asked bluntly. That of course, was not her true intention. Once Kenshin had left to play with the children, she walked back to the house she had shared with Tomoe and Kenshin, and lowered her Ki so that she would not be noticed. She could hear Tomoe asking Enishi about the situation of their family in Edo, which was quite typical to her, until Enishi said,
"I do not know, 'ne-san. I left Edo just a little while after you did"
Not only Miryu received a shock, Tomoe did as well, judging by her voice as she asked, "Who has been taking care of you then? How did you know that I was here?" Those were questions Miryu wanted to ask as well. She and Kenshin were in greater danger than what she had anticipated. Secretly praying that Enishi went from door to door asking for his sister all the way to Kyoto from Edo (Like what she did when she went in search of Kenshin the year before), she hardened her heart as she waited for Enishi's answer.
"I have my connections" he answered, as though he was telling Tomoe that the Sun rises in the east every morning. "In fact, the same as yours"