Preparations being

"To being with the preparations for the festival first you need to be purified in the pure stream of the waters that clean all evils" said Yuka.

Sako remembered that river that provided water to the village and was supposed to be able to clean one's spirit.

"what does that mean"? Asked sako.

"It's nothing special, you just need to take a bath in the river" replied Yuka.

It didn't seemed something hard or bad although she didn't quite like the idea of bathing in a river at the open air she really needed at bath at the moment "I'll just get dressed then we can go" said sako and tried to go to her room but she was stopped by kasumi that caught her by the arm

"there's no need to that, why waste time getting dressed if you are going to bathe anyways?" she said with a smile dragging sako.

"Wait, wait, I'm naked, I can't go like this" sako protested as she only had time to slip a pair of tori (wooden sandals) on her feet.

"you'll be fine, a bit of fresh air in your skin is just what you need" said Yuka taking sako by the other arm to help kasuma dragg her.

Sako was helplessly getting dragged by the two old ladies by her arms without any chance of covering anything.

Together Yuka and kasumi dragged sako out of the house and out of the outer gates to the road, while being dragged sako looked over her shoulder at her grandpa asking help with her eyes but he just stood there waving goodbye, he let out a sigh "I don't like to do this but if I don't make her come out of her shell no one is going to, I just hope I'm making the right choice" he said to himself as he closed the door.