This is a segment that does not fit into the tempo of the main story, thus is not strictly part of it. Still, I don't want to let it go, so I'm adding it as a separate chapter as a short epilogue.
'I tried to break the seal on the Saigyou Ayakashi.' Yuyuko was whimsical, but even Yukari had not expected her to derail a conversation about dango with such a serious topic.
'Why would you try to do something like that?' Yukari hid her face behind her folding fan. Over the thousand years they had known each other, Yuyuko had learnt to read her face dangerously well.
'Well, in the libraries of Hakugyokurou, I found a strange record...'
The girl who bears witness to death, at the time of the Saigyou Ayakashi's full bloom, shall be bound by mortality. So that her soul may rest in peace within the Hakugyokurou, I will seal the cherry blossoms, and make it the barrier. My wish... is that she will never again reincarnate, and never again suffer pain...
'That Hakurei girl was a real nuisance. But it was a futile venture anyway.'
'After all, revival is not your forte,' replied Yukari.
'I'm thinking that may have been a good thing.'
'Why is that?'
'Since that incident, I've started to think that perhaps the body beneath the Saigyou Ayakashi may be my own.'
Yuyuko glanced a look at her lifelong friend.
'What do you think, Yukari?'