[ spirits still deserve to find peace in the afterlife!! no matter what they've done. even ayakashi are saved by dispersing their emotions.

but that is a super important thing to clear up. while hiyori is aware that this is a place of dreams and emotions, she hasn't considered what that means about life and death. what happens when her cord is severed here? where did those spirits come from if those concepts don't exist? where do they go after? is it the afterlife?

they're from dreams, she says. as much as she wants to ask more about it, she recognizes that she's being reassured, the topic should be dropped (for now), and she feels a small smile tug at her mouth for it. ]

Okay. You're her sister, so you would know best. [ ... ] Um, I got Ishtar-sama's name but... if I remember this right, you wouldn't happen to be... um, is it Ereshkigal-sama? I read about a lot of gods in the library!! But I remember a little about other mythologies besides Japanese... even Bishamon-san went by Vaisravana. Ah, but I'm sorry if I got it wrong. Gods can go by many different names, right? I-I'm Hiyori. Hiyori Iki.