But being a shot type for the main character is a good chance to rise in the ranks, y'know?

A shadow youkai solving incident after incident with the Hakurei shrine maiden!

You're gonna go down in history, pal.

Well, there's one thing I'm wondering about, tho'.

This state you're in is a pun on "Kagerou", right?

What the word "kagerou" usually means is "heat haze".

Besides an optical phenomenon caused by heat, it often gets used as a metaphor for "fleeting".

Because of that, "kagerou" also means "mayfly". This little bugger's scientific name is Ephemeroptera...

The word ephemera is from Greek and means "something that only exists for one day".