I was watching TV with Satoko and Hanyuu after eating dinner.

It was a variety show, and the performers were making the audience laugh.

We were laughing too.

"Ho ho ho ho! Look at you now!!"

"Au au au... but it looks so painful..."

"...Meep. Nipah~☆"

While the three of us were enjoying ourselves, in reality there was only Satoko and me in the room.

I'm the only one who can see Hanyuu.

Satoko can't see her at all.

Hanyuu responds every time Satoko says anything.

Satoko can't hear her, but Hanyuu still responds to her when she's in a good mood.

It's like she's answering a question asked on TV.

...You could even compare it to playing house.

She started playing this game with other people, because she can't communicate with anyone else but me.

Hanyuu always attends our club meetings and has a good time there too.

...If she could communicate with my other friends, she would've been a good match for us.

...But I don't want to hurt her feelings by thinking about that.

If the story of the miracle written in the old scriptures is true, if it's really Hanyuu who performed it,

she's someone who had tremendous power long ago.

But now she doesn't have any spiritual power, and I'm the only one who can even see her.

Hanyuu has never told me how she lost her power.

I just have to assume that her spiritual power diminished over time...

There's a legend in the Furude family that says that Oyashiro-sama will be reborn if a girl is born to the family seven generations in a row.

With my birth, Hanyuu was finally able to communicate with a human for the first time in centuries.

Does that mean that Oyashiro-sama has returned...?

The villagers' image of Oyashiro-sama doesn't quite match up with that of Hanyuu.

Especially when I see her lying on her belly and watching TV with Satoko.