It's only obvious that we talk when Aya comes to my house.

About photos, newspapers, the latest useless shrine maiden...

This and that, all of it outside the Mountain.

This woman really goes that far to stand out from the other tengu, huh...

Don't you think you should go outside more often?

I do go out.

A reporter has to see things with their own eyes—

I already do.

It appears

that Aya thinks I haven't changed at all in over a hundred years.

In the end, she just wants to go ahead on her own.

This...