"If anything, it might be better this way," Koumyou said after a moment of thought. "Our duty is to keep them safe, and try to keep them at least somewhat spread apart. I can't see it getting much more apart from the other four pieces, here!"

Unless a whole bunch of other Sanzos showed up. Wouldn't that be awkward? Although Koumyou knew -- from the experience of personally guarding two sutras -- that they were only really dangerous together if fired off simultaneously.

Two going off at once, and reality got... wobbly. More than that, and things could easily start coming undone. All five, and you had on your hands a hard reset of all existence and nonexistence, void and light, life and death.