"Any non-taboo Onmyōjutsu or breathing technique manuals can be browsed freely... The historical archives should be included too, right?"
Uesugi Tetsu asked the Onmyoji Nakajima, whose attitude had completely changed.
Nakajima nodded, then said hesitantly, "In theory."
The reason he said "in theory" was because Nanjō Emi existed in Arakawa Ward. In any other administrative district, those three words could be removed entirely.
Ever since the Five Person Council had designated Arakawa Ward as a pilot area and granted Nanjō Emi unprecedented authority, she could practically be called the absolute authority there.
That was precisely why Arakawa Ward had restored order throughout the district with astonishing efficiency in just one short week.
It could even be said that the post-disaster reconstruction had been almost completed by the third day. The remaining days had merely been spent tying up loose ends.
Exorcising demons, calming the people, conducting comprehensive searches and rescues, rebuilding the ruins, settling the dead...
None of these tasks was simple. Each required vast amounts of manpower and resources.
If this had happened before the Tide, the Arakawa Ward government would still have been arguing over the matter for who knew how long before issuing a decision, and even then, who knew how long it would have taken for the decision to reach the grassroots.
Forget one week—even with help from the other wards, Arakawa Ward might not have restored order within a month.
Yet Nanjō Emi had completed everything swiftly within a week, officially bringing Arakawa Ward back onto a normal track on the seventh day and submitting an almost perfect answer sheet of efficiency to the Five Person Council.
Thus, the former Grand Official of Onmyō, Kondō Yūya, had been transferred to an even more forward position by the Five Person Council with complete peace of mind—at