I think that they are showing their lack of backbone rather remarkably to the other clans.

[Matoba's eye falls half-lidded in distaste. A weak house like this would be swallowed up by the Matoba in an instant, he thinks humorlessly. Were the Tengu bosses really this lost without the Daitengu?] I had expected orders to come down within the hour of the Daitengu's death. One might hope that they would have done all they could to at least put on airs of competence in order to avoid damaging public image, but instead we bottom-rung underlings are here taking matters into our own hands for lack of direction, and the Kappa clan has scattered in terror.

It's pitiful.