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"How?" I asked.

"Chen will tell them." He said.

I looked out at the pile of crumpled up paper, then up at the endless book cases, and then took the hand of my dumbass lover and bit it.

"Ow, ow, ow, what the hell was that for!" He yelped.

"You knew she was a plant and leaked all that information to her? How? Why?" I asked, angry.

"You seriously didn't catch on when she talked about 'knitting Reimu a scarf'? Or how close she is with Anon?" Goro asked.

"Oh." I said, a little flabbergasted. "Wait then why hasn't Yukari done something about it? Is she planning on doing something to her?" I ask, just a little worried that the low-ranking Shikigami was about to receive punishment from on high.

"I think, since she's Ran-San's Shikigami, that Yukari believe she's incapable of defiance and doesn't see how the transitive relationship may not be iron-clad. it wouldn't be her first oversight." Goro said, waving a finger around the room and the HSE itself where a literal god child was sleeping under her mother's ever so watchful nose.

"Then does that mean that vixen could also be in league against us? And again, why leak that information if you knew she was playing for the other side?" I asked.

"Ran-San very well could be, she's Yukari's direct Shikigami, so it'd be much harder for her to rebel, but maybe she's found a loophole? Anyway, it plays nicely into the reason I leaked the information anyway: If they know about 'nothing' it may lead them to Sekai and if one of them happens upon Sekai, then-"

"-Then they could also happen upon Oiwa and Tsukuyomi!" I said, before frowning once again. "And WHY do you think they would help us when we work for their arch enemy?"

"Because we'll make a deal in their best interes-" Goro began, shaking his hand in the air before I jabbed the side of my head, and my horn, into his shoulder.

"Ow, okay, too late for gags, I get it." He sighed. "We can't tell them about Sekai and we're bound to defend the HSE. What we can do is single one of them out, someone who can be useful to us in retrieving Oiwa and Tsukuyomi, and promising something like 'we'll help you save Anon'. Two birds one stone."

"I get it, I get it, so you leaked information about 'nowhere' in order to get our enemies to dispatch someone who could potentially deal with weird, conceptual spaces or the like to counter us, all so we can strike a deal with this person, exploiting the fact that we only promised to defend the 'HSE' and not keep Anon inside of it? Fucking should've guessed you'd be a goddamned cheat." I said, playfully elbowing him in the ribs. "Although why wait until the Solstice? We could probably strike a deal beforehand."

"Yukari." Goro stated.

Damnit he was right. We had some leeway with the Gap Hag, but not enough to tell someone 'oh hey, we'll help you free Anon if you promise to owe us a favor' without repercussions.

"Geez, all this complicated shit isn't my style you know? Wish we could just play it by ear like back in the old days." I said, slumping down in his lap.

"Yeah, when all those boiling tensions just got resolved in a big incident, like, look at this." Goro said, offering me a paper he know I wouldn't bother to read. That's a nice outraged face the old guy's wearing in the cover photo though, Tengu reporters have their good points I guess. "Old man Hieda came out and admitted his vendetta against Keine-Sensei was based on a fabrication. This has been going on for weeks." he sighed.

"Ain't that teacher pushing for Youkai integration now that she's got some brats of her own to raise? You sure his little lie wasn't just to snuff out that instead?" I asked.

"Maybe. Sometimes people in high office just have a screw loose." Goro said, quickly folding the paper into a paper fan and miming a similar posture to a certain blonde woman we both worked for.

"Either way, I can't wait to see someone else burnt to cinders for a change." I said, waving off the impression.

"Plenty of those unfortunate accidents probably going to be happening in the coming months. The overlap between Youkai and Humans is about to collapse right under the Hieda family's nose and he's off on some delusional crusade."

"You're one to talk about ignoring things right under your nose." I said, jabbing a nail to his chin.

"What do you mean by that?" Goro asked.

"I mean..." I began, sliding my nail across his chin "...'your woman' has been sitting on your lap in an embarrassing as shit night gown and your ranting about village politics." I said.

I didn't wait for him to respond, it wasn't an invitation to anyway, instead, I pushed him over and spread out his robe, feeling across his bare chest as I did. He tries to mumble something, but I snuff out the attempt by pulling oh his garments to bring his mouth next to mine. For a while I hold him there, our lips locked, conquering him with my tongue, until I finally drop him on the bed, his body bouncing ever so slightly before I dive onto his chest.