>"Wait wait wait wait. Three or four months ago? What the crap were we doing sitting around here, then? ...And if it's that recent, how come nobody's every talked about it before today? And why wasn't it all over the papers? I mean, I've been getting those things religiously. What's going on here?"
<""Wait wait wait wait. Three or four
months ago?!"
>Kanjou nods.
<"What the hell were we doing sitting around here, then?!"
>"We weren't."
<"But if it was THAT recent, how come no one is talking about?"
>"Some people don't like thinking about things they didn't see." Akyuu replies calmly. "Most villagers have seen enough incidents here to pass it off as another..."
<"But the papers! I mean, why isn't it all over the papers? I've been getting these religiously since I've been here!"
>Kanjou rises from his position and walks over to you, before placing a hand on your shoulder.
<"Just... what is going on?"
>"First of all, calm down."
>Akyuu is quite surprised at how you've reacted; but Kanjou simply frowns.
>"The papers were indeed full of reports about the war; but they died down a couple of weeks later. It's why you don't see many people talking about it, since one of the few people that are really continuing on about it is Aya."
>"I made a decision to not get you involved in it, so I agreed with Yukari to send you back to the outside world until it had died down. You came back two months ago when the shrine appeared; by which point, most things had died down."
>Kanjou looks at Akyuu.
>"People did initially talk about it, and there was a great deal of panic from the village, but by the time you came back, everyone had settled down again."
>"I thought... we weren't..."
>"Sorry... I'm not going to lie to Shino; never mind a shrine maiden."
>...
