I see. [He's personally bewildered at his own placement, but the sheer idea of asking the demon yakuza for a transfer is... not something he's brazen enough to entertain.]

[He tilts his head at Tamamori's apparent change of heart over "Kawako".]

Is the Department really destroying them? That seems-- [Extreme?] --like an uphill battle. The most I've been able to ascertain is facts we already knew from home: They're funerary objects, meant to be in a tomb, not... in a downtown residence. [Or a bus stop, or lined up at the laundromat like they're in a queue, or (one that made him stare when he'd seen it) shoved inside a vending machine coil instead of a soda can, waiting to drop. That one was a mess waiting to happen, even if Minakami wasn't aware how dire.]