[ Spoke to the Enma...? That's not a privilege granted to just anyone. It gives Cain's presence a weight that his attitude alone would not have been able to. ]

As it turns out, most people are not particularly adept at intuiting when an institution has fallen to corruption. All the Enma would need to do in order to improve image would be to put more effort into lying and concealing. In a perverse way, I am glad he is not invested in doing so.

[ Working here already reminds him enough of the work conditions he's been under at home. Once a Reaper, always a Reaper. That's all he can think when confronted with the shinigami who frequent the building. ]

Keeping that in mind, I will take it one step further. I find myself committed to truth as the highest value even if exposing that truth might lead to the distrust of the public.