Yato's speed and efficiency were even faster than Gu Mo had expected, which caught him slightly off guard. Still, it did not affect his plans to meet with him.
This had been unavoidable from the start. Unless he abandoned his previous idea and planned to tough it out solo, as long as he still wanted a free ride and intended to make good use of the gods' cheap, high-quality labor by buying some power-leveling services, he could not avoid meeting Yato...
As for the Guardian Spirits, they were indeed somewhat difficult to conceal, but that was not especially important.
This was another unavoidable issue. He could not keep hiding his uniqueness in front of Yato forever, nor did he intend to pretend to be an utterly ordinary person with nothing special about him. That sort of persona could not become an Ally of Justice and team up with the other man to farm monsters and leech experience.
He planned to conceal their existence as much as possible while considering what sort of explanation he should use. As long as Yato did not regard the Guardian Spirits as evil Demons and Monsters, it would probably be fine.
Then again, that situation should not arise—
After all, this world's setting seemed rather compatible with, and similar to, that of the previous Dungeon. Moreover, Guardian Spirits were fundamentally different from pure demons. They possessed an innate dual nature; they could become peerless, world-shaking demons, but they could also possess extremely high divinity.
Most of the time, however, Guardian Spirits were relatively upright and peaceful. It was not as if they could never become extreme, but that usually happened only under the influence of external factors and their hosts, causing them to truly lean toward one side and severely tip the scales.
Thus, having