The Day of Thunder

[Jiyo Sora]

I've been busy kil.... saving... the mad. Saving them. From the madness.

...

You're all right kid.

[Yuzuru Hoto-Hori]

Could we not simply allow nature to exist... somewhere else?

Haven't been to the Ayakashi la- er, the Imperial Court, have you?

Don't forget every kami has an adorable fox cub gifted by the Imperial Consort. Wait! . . . it's been 7 years . . . that might be a family of foxes at every Kami home by now.

[Togashi Satsuki]

Could we not simply allow nature to exist... somewhere else?

Haven't been to the Ayakashi la- er, the Imperial Court, have you?

Don't forget every kami has an adorable fox cub gifted by the Imperial Consort. Wait! . . . it's been 7 years . . . that might be a family of foxes at every Kami home by now.

Our fox is lazy. All she does is nap in the temples and eat the food offerings.

[Otomo Akutou]

Work smarter, not harder.

[Jiyo Sora]

Our fox is lazy. All she does is nap in the temples and eat the food offerings.

And watch.

For returning characters, do they get any update to their stipends?

Wait, you guys get paid?

[Shiba Kumori]

Just kon-serving energy until it’s needed.

[Togashi Satsuki]

Wait, you guys get paid?

Are you saying you don't?

[Otomo Akutou]

Some might say that service is its own reward.

[Jiyo Sora]

Wait, you guys get paid?

Are you saying you don't?

Money: Pretty sure this doesn't exist yet (? Do we have koku now?), but as a Forest Killer, he'd refill to a 2 Koku equivalent, making him a very poor specimen of Imperial. I think he likes it that way.

[Otomo Akutou]

Not everybody needs money.

Fortunately, I can help relieve them of the temptation it represents.

[Togashi Satsuki]

Wait, you guys get paid?

Are you saying you don't?

Money: Pretty sure this doesn't exist yet (? Do we have koku now?), but as a Forest Killer, he'd refill to a 2 Koku equivalent, making him a very poor specimen of Imperial. I think he likes it that way.

To be fair, you can also just ask uncle Shiba for whatever you need.

[Jiyo Sora]

To be fair, you can also just ask uncle Shiba for whatever you need.

Most of the time I don't even ask, stuff just shows up.

[Shiba Kumori]

Ahhh… that’s why the old man is fat and slow.

Taking what isn’t earned.

Tsk tsk tsk

[Jiyo Sora]

Ahhh… that’s why the old man is fat and slow.

And yet somehow you young'ns can't keep pace. Now why might that be?

[Togashi Satsuki]

To be fair, you can also just ask uncle Shiba for whatever you need.

Most of the time I don't even ask, stuff just shows up.

I guess both my dear uncles know that if they didn't give it to you, you'd revert back to your old days and start hunting or scavenging?

[Otomo Akutou]

And yet somehow you young'ns can't keep pace. Now why might that be?

Because you got a head start.

[Shiba Kumori]

Them’s racin’ words old man.

Time and place!


And I’ll give you the proportional head start you got in life.

[Ryoshun Nao]

You're being so racy!

[Jiyo Sora]

And I’ll give you the proportional head start you got in life.

Since I started my life on the side of a mountain in the Spine of the World with people convinced I was bad luck...

I guess both my dear uncles know that if they didn't give it to you, you'd revert back to your old days and start hunting or scavenging?

Whaddya mean "I would," kiddo?

[Shiba Kumori]

Yeah… like a bajillion years ago.