Surely not, but you must admit that there are certain common factors amongst the clans? The Tamamo and Shuten are ....obvious enough, [The corner of his mouth twitches] And I find that most Department officers I've met seem to suit the Enma's function quite well. [That is to say; as the judge, jury and executioner.]

You don't think that we all have something in common, too?

[Matoba remembers what the Daitengu had said in some of the comments, in their fateful first and only post. If information was the uniting power, then it meant they were all the sort who kept things close to the chest; Matoba did not consider himself a cynic, but he did think that it applied to many he had met in the clan. Others might call him that, too; properly, he was simply a pragmatist.]

But what I mean by that is: We may all be driven by the desires outlined in our contracts, but some of us may believe in those contracts more than others. And that may dictate the lengths to which we are willing to go to fulfill them.

[May.] I think, in the end, we are in agreement.