"... I have a different job. I'm the city's guardian now. The will of the city herself made me that when I was dying after protecting Reiji. And those people? They're scum. They're endangering the city and its people."

He pauses and shrugs. "I knew that when I was in it, but didn't know any other life or other responsibility. And I have to balance life for the humans and the yokai of Shinjuku. So they've got to go. The rival gangs have to go."