"Lord Lann's Guardian Spirit..." Takeda Hanbei rarely, or rather never, saw his teacher so surprised, so he found it incredible. "Have you never seen Him possess a person either?"
"Well, perhaps it has happened on the Western continent?" The scholarly old goat, stroking his beard, said uncertainly. "But in Japan, it has never happened."
The first half of the sentence was speculative, the second half was affirmative.
Habu calmly nodded.
He understood his teacher's reasoning.
Because his teacher, after all, also brought legends of the prolific and knowledgeable mythical beasts from the Western continent to the Japanese Archipelago.
The source of the legend is Ming Country on the Western continent, but the appearances of these legends have long been localized.
The set of large-sleeved kimono his teacher is wearing now is the most direct embodiment of the transformed images of the legend.
