In response, aside from the little yokai handling the cleaning and carrying the wine and dishes, every yokai raised their cups and drained them in one gulp.
"Ha ha, that hit the spot! This is incredible!"
"Today's Hyakki Yagyō was satisfying enough, wasn't it?"
"Those yokai really took the Nura Clan's words for empty wind. Some of them actually dared to come here and cause trouble. Were they tired of living?"
"Ha ha ha, they thought they could seek refuge with Hagoromo Gitsune, but that old fox didn't pay them any attention at all." As they ate and drank, every yokai was in an excellent mood.
After all, the Nura Clan had wiped out an outside Hyakki organization without suffering a single casualty. That filled them with immense pride in the Nura Clan.
"Still, we can't get too reckless lately. Who knows what that fox might do?"
Holding his sake bowl, Nura Nurarihyon spoke with some uncertainty.
"Didn't they say they wanted to create some new world exclusively for yokai?"
"It won't be that simple. I have a feeling there's some huge conspiracy behind this. Maybe... even that fox is merely a pawn."
Nura Nurarihyon drained his bowl in one gulp, his voice carrying a trace of heaviness.
"Who cares what conspiracy she has? We're just watching the show anyway. What can she possibly do to the Nura Clan? Once the Boss grows for another two or three hundred years, even that fox won't be a match for him."
"Exactly. The Boss is still so young, not even two hundred years old..."
"That's right! Forget her conspiracy. Let's keep drinking. Sooner or later, we'll surpass them."
Looking at the subordinates before him, several among them were even Great Yokai. Great Yokai were few enough to count on one's fingers and