Shinseki No Ko To - Otomori Dakara Updated

And the shrine stood one more year.

At the summit stood a second shrine—smaller, older, sealed with a rope that had turned to dust. Inside, according to the forbidden scrolls, lay the shintai : the physical object his mother’s spirit had inhabited before the main shrine was built. A mirror. But not any mirror. shinseki no ko to otomori dakara

From the cup, the spring water rose in a single trembling column. It spiraled into the air, grew wider, brighter, and then—shattered into a million droplets, each one a tiny mirror. And the shrine stood one more year