I see. Knowing local folklore seems to give a significant advantage here... [ He's basically starting from 0 himself; his own knowledge is enough to give him a baseline competency, but not a lot more than that. ] Would you be able to recommend any literature in that sense? The only other people I could conceivably ask are... [ He sort of frowns. Matoba, he already understands can only be allowed to know things about him to a limited extent. Natori...he doesn't know him well enough to extend even that much. Tamamori and Minakami are, for better or worse, his best options that he knows of right now. ] ...Well, I would rather not.

[ Squints at him for a moment like he's going to regret asking this question, and then decides it's worth the trouble. ] Also, what is an esper.