I'm not that up on the myths and legends of this place, but what I have read is those might have been more exciting times, but it also all ended in tragedy, and none of the oni guys like talking about it...

[ Lio sipped his drink, long, letting that thought settle before... ]

So maybe he's just depressed.

[ Not that... either of them, or really anyone, could form a solution to a problem like that... but it also felt relatable in a way Lio could hardly put to words. ]