Ahaha, don't worry. I don't think the Enma would ever bend that far. It'd be unbecoming of the place of the King of the Underworld, don't you think? [Matoba fishes into his box for a new cookie, not watching Soma's face.] A demon god whose function is the orderly churning of souls through death and rebirth... What good would it do to sow such fear and chaos through the masses?
[What indeed. Matoba isn't yet entirely convinced the Enma might not be involved at all, but he certainly doesn't think that they would try something so obvious while the only ones in control of the waterways. The question he still wonders, is what would they get out of all this in the first place- besides a first step in trying to retake control of the city from the clans.]
[No.... Not the Enma. And the brutes were likely too proud for something like that. It's the Tamamo, most of all, that he would worry about trying such a tactic, should they make a bid for control. He didn't put it past that beast not to try such a thing, with her drugs and poisons. And although he had many contacts among that clan, he couldn't say that any of them were in a position to stop such a thing. What a predicament....]
I would hope there would be many within the clans who would rise up against such misdeeds. Control over a piece of land or such, that's just business. But poisoning the well? Everyone has a dog in that race.
--Oh. Here I go again, about dogs and cats.... [He munches into a M&M cookie.] I wonder, about that, you know.... A 'puppet leader', huh...? Do you suppose that was really the Daitengu?
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[What indeed. Matoba isn't yet entirely convinced the Enma might not be involved at all, but he certainly doesn't think that they would try something so obvious while the only ones in control of the waterways. The question he still wonders, is what would they get out of all this in the first place- besides a first step in trying to retake control of the city from the clans.]
[No.... Not the Enma. And the brutes were likely too proud for something like that. It's the Tamamo, most of all, that he would worry about trying such a tactic, should they make a bid for control. He didn't put it past that beast not to try such a thing, with her drugs and poisons. And although he had many contacts among that clan, he couldn't say that any of them were in a position to stop such a thing. What a predicament....]
I would hope there would be many within the clans who would rise up against such misdeeds. Control over a piece of land or such, that's just business. But poisoning the well? Everyone has a dog in that race.
--Oh. Here I go again, about dogs and cats.... [He munches into a M&M cookie.] I wonder, about that, you know.... A 'puppet leader', huh...? Do you suppose that was really the Daitengu?