Although, today really was...

Full of chance encounters, don't you think?

Humans and youkai standing side by side around the same fire.

Shinto shrine maidens

Buddhists

Taoists

People of different faiths, all together.

To dispatch the New Year gods...

And pray for safety and prosperity.

Through the festival, we can exist together as one community.

Our faiths differ in form, but the true essence of a prayer...

People's hearts may not be that different.

Indeed...

Exactly so...

Hijiri-sama...

Hm?