[ There's a troubled frown on his face, at Norimune's assessment. If they are right about sowing discord, then the explosive reaction to the announcement of the truce means they're still playing into Haniyasu's plans. ]
It feels like the damage has been done, then.
...When we banished the being, they said something strange as a parting shot. "They cannot save you." The sublevels team heard it too, even almost 100 floors below us. I've been wondering what it meant ever since. If it was for us, it could be something like, "The clan leaders won't protect you, so don't trust them"...
[ And can they trust them? Minato knows in his heart that yokai play by their own rules, but they also followed those rules, more or less. Unless the whole recruitment and contract system was a complicated lie... But down that road lay paranoid what-if thoughts that he couldn't hold in his head for long. ]
...but maybe it was meant for the Enma. That even though we'd come to rescue him, he hadn't really escaped whatever scheme they had in mind.
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It feels like the damage has been done, then.
...When we banished the being, they said something strange as a parting shot. "They cannot save you." The sublevels team heard it too, even almost 100 floors below us. I've been wondering what it meant ever since. If it was for us, it could be something like, "The clan leaders won't protect you, so don't trust them"...
[ And can they trust them? Minato knows in his heart that yokai play by their own rules, but they also followed those rules, more or less. Unless the whole recruitment and contract system was a complicated lie... But down that road lay paranoid what-if thoughts that he couldn't hold in his head for long. ]
...but maybe it was meant for the Enma. That even though we'd come to rescue him, he hadn't really escaped whatever scheme they had in mind.