The half-demon, literal half-demon, before Mizu sounds like Taigen. Only there won't be any tea, he repeated over and over about Heiji Shindo's invitation. It was the a direct meeting with the man hosting her quarry, the first chance she had ever received, and a man like that liked to talk. Mizu refused to tell Taigen her reasoning, both because Heiji Shindo's man was there and because Taigen could not be trusted to keep his mouth quiet. Well, Mizu assumed that much. Given she found him in the dungeon, it turned out he could keep his mouth shut. Fowler hadn't known anything more about her.
Her kind's inherent fragility and weaknesses usually means half-white stock in Japan. From Fowler's own lips, once he realized, it meant woman. Everyone has an opinion on her inherent fragility and weaknesses, whatever those are perceived to be, and the generous estimation this half-demon grants her is no less patronizing or insulting for the way he qualifies the statement. Go on, consider her fragile and weak. She doesn't care. If it comes to combat, Mizu will tear through him for the sole reason he stands between her and her revenge.
"A fox spirit will be a fox spirit," Mizu says, "Neither friend nor foe. It wants to use me in its tricks, and I want to use its knowledge. I already know more than when I arrived. I'm here, so the only way out is forward."
She shrugs. What's the point in ruminating on that choice when it has already been made and the fox spirit hasn't made it part of this exercise? When the thousand claw army came to Madame Kaji's, the only way to achieve her revenge was to defeat them, to kill all of them. It wasn't a question of ease or desire. It was a fact.
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Her kind's inherent fragility and weaknesses usually means half-white stock in Japan. From Fowler's own lips, once he realized, it meant woman. Everyone has an opinion on her inherent fragility and weaknesses, whatever those are perceived to be, and the generous estimation this half-demon grants her is no less patronizing or insulting for the way he qualifies the statement. Go on, consider her fragile and weak. She doesn't care. If it comes to combat, Mizu will tear through him for the sole reason he stands between her and her revenge.
"A fox spirit will be a fox spirit," Mizu says, "Neither friend nor foe. It wants to use me in its tricks, and I want to use its knowledge. I already know more than when I arrived. I'm here, so the only way out is forward."
She shrugs. What's the point in ruminating on that choice when it has already been made and the fox spirit hasn't made it part of this exercise? When the thousand claw army came to Madame Kaji's, the only way to achieve her revenge was to defeat them, to kill all of them. It wasn't a question of ease or desire. It was a fact.