Real vs Fake

Sasaki Kojiro.

He knew about the Heavenly Tower. He told her that this world was real. He told her that he was aware of his own death—that he had experienced it.

Marta needed a second to breathe and think. A hand to her temple, she started thinking. "Hold on, hold on, so…if we're in Yomi, an afterlife…and you're the real Sasaki Kojiro who knows about the Heavenly Tower when that shouldn't be possible…and…and…Izanami is allowing me, a foreigner, to take from her realm, then…then you were here. You were in Yomi and you were brought…here…?"

Sasaki Kojiro took off his mask. The bird features that had brought them here faded away. The wings, the feathers, everything. He was back to being devilishly pretty. "So it seems."