Feh. We're not in Japan right now, but if we were you wouldn't be wrong. We all went behind a barrier to live apart from them during the Meiji. It'd gotten hazardous for us, and our kind ... weren't reacting well to humans' disbelie.

[In essence it had gotten violent and they were being forgotten en masse as the industrial revolution moved into the modern, anti-spiritual eras. Shinto still ran strong, but had become so much more of a perfunctory societal expectation than honest fear and reverence to the kami and youkai. the world had changed and outgrown them, so they'd made their own world.]

Here, they seem to recognize that I am what I say I am. The only doubter... heh, well. he knows the truth now. [Poor Kaiba'd had a rough day.] There aren't many people here period, but a few come. Tifa suggested I try it.

It's... weird. I'm not a kami. I'm youkai. But I remember people would ask for blessings sometimes, not just cuttings, so why not here?