Seele frowned at Kanou before her. Whatever goodwill she had felt toward her vanished in an instant.
"You don't smell human. Hmm... nor do you smell like a yokai. You do have a faint trace of a divine spirit's scent, but you're definitely not a god. So what are you?"
Kanou stared curiously at Seele, her eyes filled with obvious interest.
"Seele... Seele is human!"
Seele frowned at Kanou. She didn't have a human scent?
It seemed... those yokai also disliked her scent. Was it because of her quantum body?
Because of the experiments, Seele's body had been quantized. Although she later used the massive amount of Honkai energy gathered through nightmares to reconstruct her form and was revived by the power of the Gem of Serenity, she was soon beaten back into a quantum state by Herrscherized Kiana.
Chapter 49: A Mere Zashiki-warashi
"Kanou, what are you talking about? How could Seele not be human?!"
Kujou Oto looked at Kanou inside the barrier, then at Seele, and shouted at Kanou in utter disbelief.
"Hmph!"
Kanou merely gave Kujou Oto a cold glance and ignored her completely.
"Not human? Why can't Kazuko tell? I know, this stinky cat must be lying."
Kazuko walked over to Seele's side and examined her carefully, resting her left hand on her chin. Then she suddenly realized something and pointed at Kanou as she spoke with certainty.
"Uh, so you're just a mere Zashiki-warashi."
Kanou cast Kazuko a contemptuous glance.
"What's wrong with being a Zashiki-warashi?! Did a Zashiki-warashi eat your tofu or something?! Besides, who doesn't like Zashiki-warashi? Unlike a Nekomata like you, who brings misfortune and gets shunned by everyone." Kazuko immediately became unhappy at Kanou's tone.
"Say that again!"
The instant Kanou heard Kazuko's words, her face darkened, as though even the