Haha, well you don't have to worry! As long as you're with me, your intestines are probably safe. All the denizens of this world seem well-fed, anyway.
[It's hard to say if Matoba is amused, or just humoring him. Power or no, Matoba feels that he is sufficiently experienced enough to menace most of the weaker ones from bothering them- if they didn't catch the whiff of exorcism from him, the malice connected to his eye would probably make them take pause.]
[It's been working out for him, so far. He leans over to rummage through one of the streamer boxes, taking a look at the available decorations. He's no artist, so he'll leave the decisions here to Kim, who seems to be much better at it if the rest of the decor around them was anything to go by.] Oh, like classic cotton candy colors? How nostalgic. [He plucks a roll of pink crepe-paper streamers up from the box, examining them.] Ahh, this does take me back to stalls on the riverside, during the summer festivals....
[He sets that one aside, and then continues to dig for a proper green, as he considers Kim's question. Certainly, this place held a great variety of them, to the extent that it was almost a blessing that his senses had been dulled a little. He would likely feel nauseous all the time, if he could feel their power at full-blast without the ability to wear some sort of charm to keep their auras out.]
Let's see... I have brushed past a few more powerful ones... lieutenants, I would guess, that would give even me trouble. And under normal circumstances, I'd imagine the heads of the clans would not be ayakashi I would try to involve myself with at all, if it could helped.
...Then again, ones this powerful usually keep to themselves and their own realms, as they do here. It has likely been some centuries since the human world had to worry about such powerful youkai running amok.
[And if they did? The modern world of humans would be ill-equipped to handle them. But as belief waned even in the countryside areas, kami and youkai alike had lost much of the power they had to remain in the human world, nature now hardly thriving enough to sustain them long enough to muster much force. There were some that remained- he had encountered a handful in his time- and for many reasons, the Matoba withdrew when they were an obstacle.]
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[It's hard to say if Matoba is amused, or just humoring him. Power or no, Matoba feels that he is sufficiently experienced enough to menace most of the weaker ones from bothering them- if they didn't catch the whiff of exorcism from him, the malice connected to his eye would probably make them take pause.]
[It's been working out for him, so far. He leans over to rummage through one of the streamer boxes, taking a look at the available decorations. He's no artist, so he'll leave the decisions here to Kim, who seems to be much better at it if the rest of the decor around them was anything to go by.] Oh, like classic cotton candy colors? How nostalgic. [He plucks a roll of pink crepe-paper streamers up from the box, examining them.] Ahh, this does take me back to stalls on the riverside, during the summer festivals....
[He sets that one aside, and then continues to dig for a proper green, as he considers Kim's question. Certainly, this place held a great variety of them, to the extent that it was almost a blessing that his senses had been dulled a little. He would likely feel nauseous all the time, if he could feel their power at full-blast without the ability to wear some sort of charm to keep their auras out.]
Let's see... I have brushed past a few more powerful ones... lieutenants, I would guess, that would give even me trouble. And under normal circumstances, I'd imagine the heads of the clans would not be ayakashi I would try to involve myself with at all, if it could helped.
...Then again, ones this powerful usually keep to themselves and their own realms, as they do here. It has likely been some centuries since the human world had to worry about such powerful youkai running amok.
[And if they did? The modern world of humans would be ill-equipped to handle them. But as belief waned even in the countryside areas, kami and youkai alike had lost much of the power they had to remain in the human world, nature now hardly thriving enough to sustain them long enough to muster much force. There were some that remained- he had encountered a handful in his time- and for many reasons, the Matoba withdrew when they were an obstacle.]