Oh, I'm not very suited to that end of business either, I'm afraid. [Matoba smiles cheerfully, making it painfully clear that whatever he was doing, he made it everyone else's problem.] I can manage money, and all of that. [(Can he...? Look at the food he buys--)] I did a little of that, and a little ...other money management.

[It's probably best not to ask about that. Looking at the youkai working their miserable part-time service jobs, Matoba has no doubt a human like Tama would be bottom of the ladder, made to do all the worst work. Well...... That's how it was, when you started fresh.]

Unfortunately, that's the life, under a clan. [He smiles in what is probably at least an attempt at encouragement.] But remember this when you are being trodden upon: you are one of a whole, and every little finger is as important a limb to the body as the head.