[ With the soup, now Aira is nearing the limit of her consumptive capability. Typically she isn't very polite or thoughtful, but when it comes to accepting food from supportive older ladies, there's an exception to the rule. Back home, Momo's grandma provides them all with many tasty meals, and she's one of the few people to whom Aira is always respectful.

Still, she does take the soup much slower than the fish and noodles. ]

Basically, yeah. They're spirits—usually, like, evil and vengeful in some way because of some horrible thing that happened to them while they were alive. Acrobatic Silky looked and acted creepy, sure, but she was a hard-working mom who was attacked by some horrible debt collectors and had her daughter taken away.

When she attacked me, I ended up kinda... dying? But in the end, she transferred her spiritual energy to me, and I got resurrected. So her power is inside me, which is why I can use it here, too. I'll show you sometime!

[ If she tried to transform now, it totally feels like she'd get stomach cramps. Or throw up, even, which is definitely the last thing she wants. ]

Before that, Takakura fought super hard to protect me, even though I was really mean to him and Momo. Right then was when I started to fall for him, hard.