Of course Yuina was still hungry. Well, at least someone had indulged her without anyone having to get too distracted about that. Or by those wiggling hips. Yuina wiggled them an awful lot, really... Quickly looking away, Makiko waved her hand towards the tengu who was rapidly apologizing.
"You didn't interrupt anything. I'd just have preferred if you got here earlier," she said, simply. Today, it wasn't just a simple meeting they were holding, after all. The ankou, for all his excuses, was at least apologetic and quick to focus on the matters at hand. Though... someone had died? That was unfortunate to hear... Makiko sighed.
Before she could move on, however, the oni, Shina, had proceeded inside. She was late too. But she'd brought someone along with her? And then he explained himself as a boy from the outside world.
Someone from beyond the barrier. Someone who'd come through accidentally. Wasn't... was't that impossible? Of course, Makiko knew that most youkai could come and go, and humans with supernatural abilities could enter and exit the barrier, but to accidentally pass through it... That was impossible. It was something you did intentionally. It had to be something you did intentionally. You couldn't just walk through it.
"You... say it was an accident?" Makiko asked, taken aback at the news. "I've... I've never seen someone accidentally come from beyond the barrier before. At least, not a human."
After all, youkai could come and go as they please.
Makiko wasn't sure how to handle this. But they were the Miura Youth Organization. They were supposed to handle these sorts of things. It was exactly what she'd formed them to do! But she'd never seen a human just pass through the barrier by total accident before.
"... We'll talk in a moment," she said, finally, addressing both the boy and Shina. She still had to introduce what they'd be doing. Makiko turned to address the Youth Organization as a whole.
"Normally I'd give us some time to talk, but since everyone was late, we'll be jumping right to business," she continued. "Firstly, there's a haunting in the Amakura Apartment building. The police aren't involved yet, but as always it's alright for us to see if we can do something about it. Residents have said they've seen something watching them as they've used the elevator, and one woman reported the sheets in her bed forming a human shape. She refused to get in it afterwards."
Makiko stretched.
"The one consistent thing everyone mentions is that whatever it is has long, black hair. So I'm guessing it's an onryo," she stated, plainly. Onryo were vengeful female ghosts, and nearly always highly dangerous. The only exceptions to this were the few cases where onryo totally forgot why they had a grudge in the first place. But that rarely ever happened. "If it is, we'll have to be careful, but something like that is always less dangerous towards anyone who's prepared for it."
Next, Makiko picked up a sheet of paper and displayed it to the others. On it, there was a black cat with white-tipped ears, with a phone number and name beneath it.
"Hasegawa Mii, a ten-year-old girl at this address, has lost her cat, Himiko. She says she thinks someone might have stolen her," Makiko explained. "We're going to split up and deal with each of these problems."
Once things had gotten organized, Makiko was going to deal with the sudden appearance of an outsider.
