[It's exactly because she looks so negligible that Douman doesn't trust her appearance one bit. Idiots would dress up to flaunt their power. Skilled fighters and the like have a special air, a way they move, about them. But those who are truly outrageous? They look just like everybody else. That's the nasty part about them.]

The gods aren't weak either.

[And yet Seimei had subdued not one but four of them all in one go. Douman leans back and offers Hakuno a small smile.]

Forming a contract isn't about physical powers. I heard that there isn't really a choice on the supernatural one's end. Once you hear the call, you either answer or fight and get rid of them. I know I'd pick the latter.

[The Abe no Seimei that had been here had tried to put a leash on him. Douman had changed the magic circle so that they had been locked in together and shown the cocksure Onmyoji just how badly he had overestimated himself.]