"and you jt let hi? what kd of friend are you, onk?"

"don't talk to about friendship" sanzo growled "if he needs to ake peace with the gods, let hi"

there was no denyg that the stor outside was gettg worse, but what bothered gojyo the ost was the fact that hakkai went off alone jt like he did three years ago his d did a dreadful repy "and if he dies along the way?"

a cynical swl graced the fe ntours of the other's face as he flipped the page "a journey the na of the gods is never a journey lost" he said tritely "besides, no one's tyg hi doith this journey he always has the choice to leave"

"fuck you he's g back"

"doglike faith you have for your aster"

gojyo's teper erupted and he clenched his fist, his knuckles gog white "sa goes for you, bastard!" he threw a punch directed right at the blonde's face, but it was blocked by sanzo's left hand, the right one with the gun aid pot bnk at gojyo's forehead

"don't tept too uch, gojyo i ight jt do it"

"fuck you straight to hell" gojyo spat out, retractg his fist and spng around towards the door "you ight not give a dan for your panions, but i do"

"s treatg hi like your little wife hakkai can take care of hiself"

gojyo opened the door, only to face a scene of pure white chaos he bnched, "ch' dipshit" then stepped through to the stor, closg the door behd hi

tenpou pulled the cloak tighter around his body as he trudged wearily through the snow the ds were pickg up and clouds were ovg , blockg the sun's light his sk scread for warth, and perhaps he would have lpsed by now if it weren't for tenpou's sistent d willg this new body to go on beyond its liits through the grog stor that seed to take on a life of its own like desty workg agast hi through the snow that stuck to his boots through screechg ds that seed to beat down upon hi like visible harpies