It does seem to have become popular rather quickly. I wonder if that is because the lead belongs to the beasts? Perhaps that Tenkohime is fanning the flames of popularity for her benefit.

[It's hard to tell if he's being serious or just joking to be mocking about it. He wonders if Hizen had made the same connection that others had, between them.] But if she brought them both here in the first place, I suppose it was all to her benefit, anyway. [Did that mean the Daitengu had done the same to him? Originally he had wondered if their arrivals had been the fault of the clan leaders, or the Enma's shinigami, but....]

...Humans stumbling into the ayakashi realm has always been a problem. Paths that should not appear to normal humans, beckoning them to be devoured by some hungry thing that has managed to find its way. [Matoba glances down a dark alleyway as they pass, as if it exemplified precisely the sort of path he might be talking about.]

Of course, when it comes to us exorcists, they always seem to be quite secretive about their little hiding spots. [Teehee. Wonder why.]