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"It's fine if they cause some damage. It's my senkai, after all. I can do with it as I wish." Lady Kasen told us, setting four cups of tea down on the table. "It's not much work to restore it." She looked at me. "You could learn to do the same thing, if you became a hermit." I had thought about it, especially while I was still living at the dojo regularly, but I'd learnt that being a hermit meant fending off assassination attempts from Shinigami, which had sort of soured me on the idea. Yamame sipped her tea, paused for a moment with a strange look on her face, then drank deeper. Reimu and I took far more normal sips. "So, Miss Kurodani. What brings you to see me?" Lady Kasen breathed out heavily as she asked, and I found my eyes narrowing. What was she...? "Did you want to become a hermit? If so, I'm sorry to say that I couldn't take on any more students at this time." Oh, I got it. "But still, you seem to have things worked out just fine." She looked between the two of us sharply. Yeah, she was still holding a slight grudge because Yamame got to me instead of Reimu. Happily, it didn't seem to extend any further than comments like these. I looked at Reimu, and she gave me a look back that screamed resignation.

Instead of letting Kasen try and sneak any more complaints in, I loudly asked her how things had been. "Oh, well..." She eyed Yamame for a split second, and I could immediately feel that she wasn't going to be particularly forthcoming. I couldn't necessarily blame her, I supposed. We had brought Yamame along unannounced and told her more than a little of Lady Kasen's personal business. "Everything is fine. Or rather, better. It was good of you to fetch Yuugi and Suika, you two." She told Yamame and I. I laughed awkwardly and said that it had been Reimu's idea of sorts, since she'd recommended just smacking Lady Kasen and the arm around until they sorted out their differences. "Oh, Reimu, that certainly sounds like you. Really, must you always resort to violence? There are plenty of other methods to resolve issues, and you didn't need to jump to the more painful options first, you know. And also..." She'd clearly missed the time she spent lecturing Reimu to no end, because she was indulging in it fully right now. I glanced over at Yamame, who was looking between Reimu and Lady Kasen with some confusion, so I tapped her leg underneath the table and mouthed that this sort of thing was very common with Lady Kasen. She was always looking for a chance to lecture someone, and I'd been on the receiving end plenty of times too.

Eventually, Reimu got sick of it, though she lasted longer than I'd expected. "Kasen, I'd just walked out of the weirdest meeting with an oni I've had in my entire life, which is saying something, so forgive me if I was feeling a little frustrated!" She crossed her arms and defiantly looked to the side. Lady Kasen clicked her tongue but didn't continue.

"Um, I think your dojo is really nice, Lady Ibaraki." Yamame tentatively said. I thought that she was perhaps still struggling to piece together how to act in this scenario. In fact, thinking about it, Yamame was generally a little awkward in social situations that weren't with myself or her sisters. Even with Reimu, I could tell that she was a little uncomfortable. Hearn, too, but I was willing to forget that one due to the fact that being kidnapped would probably throw anyone's social skills off a little bit. Perhaps I'd have to try and introduce her to some more people. What had Wakasagihime said...? Something about a group for youkai. Weak, docile youkai. Maybe she'd be the one to talk to. I still had a very pretty stone that I needed to return to her, anyway. "And, um, your..." She seemed to be floundering for a word, and while I had half a mind to help her, the other half of my mind was finding the sight extremely endearing. "Space..." She tried, slowly.

"Senkai?" Lady Kasen supplied, a slight tilt to her eyebrow. I wasn't certain, but she seemed to be evaluating Yamame.

"Y-Yes, um, senkai. It's very pretty. I don't get to come to places like this very often." Yamame was doing that fidgeting thing again, her hands wringing each other underneath the table. Perhaps, I thought, she was a little more awkward than I'd thought. "My sisters and I usually work underground or on the surface at night. We don’t usually get to see sights like mountain ranges in the daylight."

"Tell me, Miss Kurodani. What do you and your sisters do?" Lady Kasen asked, her eyes narrowing just slightly. Yamame began awkwardly explaining how the tsuchigumo construction business worked, as well as how the family was currently busy working on the restoration of the Hot Spring Town in the Old City. “Ah, so you’ve got a large family…”

Sage of preachiness and nagging.