But this is outside my remit, isn't it?

Why don't you ask someone like the doctors in the bamboo grove?

Of course I went there before coming here.

However, they have not seen any cases of this illness in the past, so they are not sure how to handle it.

They say it will take some time to produce a medicine for it.

Hmm..

But then it sounds like there is even less that I can do about it?

But actually there is.

What do you mean?

Around the same time that this disease started spreading

a certain youkai started to be seen a lot.