Very good.

[ Once again he sits, just as leisurely as he'd been when Nurarihyon found him, and takes a moment to simply...look at the youkai before him. It's a difficult expression to place, clearly intent on finding something, but what is a complete mystery until he finally decides to speak again. ]

I heard something very interesting the other day. Someone told me my life has been transcribed into children's stories of all things, of a clever and righteous hero loved by all.

[ There's a hint of honest derision in there, as if the idea itself is absurd, and. Well. It is. Even with the amount of people here who've approached him with awe and a hero-worshipping sparkle in their eyes, that history would remember him in such a favorable light...he can't quite imagine it. ]

Stranger still, Douman-dono is the villain in many of these stories. An old fool jealous of my standing, who resorts to lying, cheating, and stealing to come anywhere close to pretending to be my equal. This, this is how they're remembered and seen by the world.

Which makes me wonder why anyone would want to take the name of such a scoundrel. To have nothing to call their own but failure and hatred.