[...It's difficult to consider his ten years separate from the Yamainu. His ten years have been the Yamainu. But in a way...it's true there have been things he didn't want to talk about.

The way Iwakura has gone downhill. The way the Yamainu became an unwitting tool for a corrupt government. The way that it became so easy to heap abuse on them as a group.

He held his head high nonetheless, because this was his master's creation, but still... He takes a sip of his tea, musing on that.]

Most of it you can imagine, or have already heard. Working with the Yamainu and the government has been all there is of note.

[It's not a lie, it's just...more simply stated.]