Book 6: Chapter 53: The Light of the Moon and Stars

Book 6: Chapter 53: The Light of the Moon and Stars

Lily felt a perplexing attraction to that ancient yet ingenious loom.

Pushing open the door, Lily entered the room. This room was filled with old scents and colors and a loom that occupied half the space.

Slowly walking around the loom, she was confused. This was clearly the first time seeing a loom in Heian-kyo, yet why did it feel so familiar?

She stretched out her slender hand and slowly stroked this loom that had been placed here for many long years.

She felt a longing sad feeling through her fingers.

And with a strange fluctuation, the loom disappeared leaving behind an empty room.

“Eh?” Lily looked around in panic, “It disappeared!?”

No, it hadn’t disappeared.

Lily had somehow felt that the loom had been put away by her.

Or to be more precise, it had been put away into her ancient mirror. It had entered her ancient mirror without her conscious direction.

“What, how could this be!?” She might be attracted to this ancient loom, but it was raccoon Mita’s belongings, how could she randomly break someone’s seal and steal their belongings?

No, she must return it.

Though she had felt the mirror store the loom, no matter how she looked, she couldn’t find the loom.

This wasn’t good.

Sitting down, her consciousness entered the mirror space.

The mirror space was silent, Kagura was no longer here, and Yuki-Onna was resting in the shikigami training room.

Looking around, Lily’s eyes fell on the fifth room that had opened when she was climbing the Izumo main peak.

A dazzling gold light shot out of the fifth room and was engraved itself into her violet moon...

Going over, she looked into the door and saw a vast sea of stars.

“The starry skies!?”

How could the starry skies appear within the fifth door of her mirror space?

“The loom!”

Lily discovered that the loom was floating in the starry skies.

“No, I must quickly return it.” Lily settled herself and attempted to move the loom out of the mirror space, but discovered that she couldn’t!

Just as she couldn’t move the mirror space’s stone lamps, inscriptions, and furniture, this loom was floating in the vast starry skies of the fifth room, it was one with the mirror space and couldn’t be moved.

“How could this be? How am I supposed to explain this to grandpa Mita?”

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Lily looked at the floating loom in desperation before an idea came to her.

Her consciousness moved into the starry skies within the room...

In here, her spirit body could float like a celestial maiden, but the starry skies looked endless. Lily was wary of getting lost so she didn’t dare go too far as she floated up beside the loom.

Taking a closer look at the loom, she sat down on the wooden stool in front and started fiddling with it.

This feeling of sitting down where the starry skies surrounded her in all six directions was really amazing.

But suddenly an overwhelming force crashed into Lily and flung her out the room.

“Ehh!?” Lily skidded onto the stone floor outside aggrieved and confused.

Her hands gracefully moved and were slowly placed on the loom...

“Ah......” An eminently ancient feeling was transmitted.

“This......this......” Lily looked at the loom in surprise. She knew this loom, she had seen it before...and she knew how to use it.

But there were no memories of this loom in her mind, there were no memories of using this loom, but her body moved by itself.

Her body instinctively knew how to use the loom, as if the methods were embedded deep within her.

There was no silk thread, but for some reason she stood up and backed a step away. She then started dancing within the skies, and her hand lowered to her own sash.

Flap—! Her obi was undone.

Her long sleeved kimono turned into countless crimson petals floating and swirling in the starry skies.

Usually Lily wore nothing beneath her kimono, but this time her delicate form was wrapped in a tight white gauze.

As she danced, her slender fingers swiped across the white gauze and hooked it as she danced and swirled in the starry skies. The white gauze spread out from her body in a rotating motion, weaving and flying in the starry sky.

The white gauze smelling of her fragrance, swirled and danced in the skies, slowly lengthening...

Gradually, the white gauze completely left her body, traversing the skies as a heavenly river.

Lily was now completely bare, but there was not a hint of lewdness, only holiness and loneliness...

Lily’s face was completely crimson, “Sakura...”

Her hands covered her chest, even though there was no one else.

Taking a deep breath, she spread her hands and circled the heavenly river, dancing.

The surrounding stars centered on the loom as Lily’s steps circled the loom in twelve dance poses.

Unbelievably, within the starry skies, twelve phantom images in different poses were left behind.

The twelve figures absorbed the starry light, and emitted delicate hallows, becoming twelve beautiful moons, the twelve phases of the lunar cycle!

Countless crimson petals gathered around her and became crimson ribbons wrapped around her, forming an elegant if exposed crimson dress amongst the floating petals.

She would prefer her dress to be not so revealing, but this wasn’t her choice.

Her body was not listening to her commands, refusing to manipulate the petals in the sky.

Lily was helpless as her body wrapped in crimson ribbons sat down in front of the loom.

Although this dress formed out of crimson ribbons didn’t look suited to a girl weaving in front of a loom, her movements were slow, skilled, and gentle, she radiated the elegance and charm of femininity.

Her slender arms fluttered and pulled on the loom while her long slender legs stepped on the thick wooden petals with bare feet.

The loom started running.

It was clearly an empty loom, yet Lily didn’t care. She grasped the shuttle of the loom and saw the long river of white gauze was made of sparkling silk stained in starlight and bathed in moonlight. Slowly a silk thread of the white gauze flowed and connected to the loom itself, becoming thread for weaving.

Lily’s foot continued to move the petal, and her hands skillfully ran the shuttle over the loom looking like a virtuous young wife.

The white gauze fell to the side of the loom.

“Ah—” Lily’s hands continued to weave, but her shyness of the situation caused a small accident. She pierced her finger and a drop of red landed on the white snowy cloth.

“What, what should I do?”

Before her words were finished, countless petals still floating around in the sky, gathered and fell onto the cloth on the loom, dying it a gorgeous crimson color.

The color of sakura petals3.

Robinxen: So this is how the author will measure her identity?Yuki: Sometimes I wonder if Rinne thought of this guy. A random stranger she had only spoke to a few times.Robinxen: As it should be.