D-does that have anything to do with the barrier?

...No, no, there is no direct connection...

... or so I think.

Those vampires were so intolerably violent...

...Aah! I am sorry to bore you with the Tengu's bad habit.

I was just thinking too much about unrelated things.

...Not at all.

... that they caused the barrier to crack. And then, I heard a rumor that the Honored Sage is on the move to subjugate them.