"Looking for you?" Yakumo Yukari asked Jiu Ming with a smile.
"No, no, no! She's definitely looking for you!" Jiu Ming shook his head hard at her words. What kind of joke was that? Looking for him? Just thinking about it made it impossible... probably?
No matter what, Jiu Ming saw a distinctly "disgusted" look in her eyes... as though she really did not want to see the other party.
"Yakumo Yukari, what are you trying to pull this time? You actually separated this place from the outside world?" The moment Shiki Eiki saw Jiu Ming, she drew a deep breath. She had been about to flare up, but then remembered why she had come and forcibly restrained the impulse. Jiu Ming's matter could wait until later!
What Yakumo Yukari had done was far more important.
"My, it's nothing. I simply wanted to provide the yokai with a place to make their stand in life. Is that not allowed?" Yakumo Yukari waved the Folding Fan in her hand. "Isn't this a good thing for you as well? With all the yokai coming here, the threat to humans is reduced. Wouldn't that make your work easier too?"
"You are disrupting the balance... Though I do not know what you said to the Dragon God to make her acknowledge this place, but..."
"Heh, are you here to demand an explanation?" Yakumo Yukari smiled softly, cutting Shiki Eiki off as she looked around. "Now then, what does this place of mine amount to? Compared to Shinki's, mine is perfectly normal, isn't it?"
"..." Shiki Eiki was immediately rendered speechless. Yakumo Yukari setting up a barrier and carving out a region of the outside world as an independent place counted as a "violation," but... she knew about Shinki as well. That one had gone