[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"Your son is greedy for trying to sell a precious item. What does he intend on using that money for? Doesn't he already have enough?" she insinuated that he didn't raise his son well, and was the source of the trouble. She leaned against a door frame and crossed her arms, "Certainly not a suitable behavior for one who is the heir of an elder. You should start teaching him." She made it seem as though he were way too lax, and that Nobuo was just the same as every other normal tengu rather than one raised within nobility.

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"Maybe you're right, what you said back then..I should learn the laws and traditions, and live in the shoes of an elder. Then I would be just like the other nobility, who punish others without a second thought. And then, when I am like that, we can do this properly!" he wouldn't have kindness if he lived like the others, and that was something Fumiko was trying to help get through his head by teaching him the ways of the tribe. As far as he knew, the laws and traditions allowed no kindness, which was one of the few reasons he initially avoided it for, but later on was more like he avoided it just for the sake of trying to get around something that was boring and tedious. All in all, it would have been inevitable for him to be cruel, it was just the timing of the event that would have been different.

He had followed her far enough to make her hear his words, but then went into a different direction to retrieve his own sword. Nobuo went into the direction his room was at, hoping that the blade had been left in a proper place within the quarters. Once he had that, he could show more authority over the matter.