“About Asanuma, what kind of creature is he? And what does that have to do with our family?”

Makoto answered

“Asanuma is a Yokai sealed in the glove puppet”

Ken looked surprised

“I have a hard time understanding grandpa…”

Makoto replied with a nod

"I'll tell you where it came from. It's hard to believe, but what I'm going to tell you is a story passed down for generations of the Takeru family"

Makoto's expression turned serious, he then got up from his seat, and stood facing the window, Ken watched him in surprise. The view in this window leads to the backyard, where Makoto can see the shrine where Asanuma is kept. Makoto starts to talk

 

“Back to the year 4xx AD. This year, Japan is inhabited by Yokais, monsters who have supernatural powers. The humans face their world in fear, coexisting with Yokais. Humans have to hide or live in a fortress, which is protected by magical powers, but unfortunately not all of them, so many of these forts eventually fall. Yokais can talk like humans. Can live without eating and drinking, but his strength will decrease or even disappear and weaken until they eat again.

Yokais normally eat animals, but also do not hesitate to prey on humans, and tend to hunt humans. The war between humans and Yokai is inevitable, humans are on the verge of destruction. Humans try to investigate the weaknesses of Yokais and begin to study them in various aspects such as: How long does it live, their origin, how it was born, and what are its strengths, but only to end up in confusion. These Yokais just appear out of nowhere. Worse still, humans didn't find a way to beat them. No matter how much they could injure the Yokais, the Yokais would heal again and again.

Until finally, a monk discovered a sealing technique, which can suppress the power of the Yokais and enclose it in a medium. He then Sealed Yokai after Yokai inside the medium. Not only that, but the monk also taught this sealing technique to his disciples, so that eventually humanity could fight the Yokais, and peace returned. One of the monk's disciples was the founder of the Takeru family. Asanuma was one of the Yokais sealed by the monk, who then entrusted Asanuma to the founder of the Takeru family"

 

Makoto finished his story, he then turned back to face Ken. Hearing all these stories, Ken still appeared to have a hard time believing it

“Yokai… I didn't think it existed until I saw Asanuma”

Makoto replied

“Yes, and after what happened, you will be able to see him again and again”

Ken's expression turned serious

“Grandpa said if Asanuma was one of the sealed Yokais that the Takeru family had, Is there any other?”

Makoto replied

"It's not known anymore, somehow. Only Asanuma is still known to exist, and has been passed down for generations”

Ken replied with a nod, he now appeared a little confused to believe it. Makoto said

"Tomorrow, let's meet Asanuma again"

Ken looked a little surprised, there was doubt in his expression. But curiosity overcame his doubts, Ken finally decided to agree.

The time is now 7:34 pm. On the other place, Suga was seen sitting in the seat of a black sedan that had just taken him to the Takeru family's main house. Suga appeared to be smiling, with Nellson who was only the size of a normal owl, perched on his lap. Even though Nellson's claws looked very sharp because they were covered in armor skin, Suga didn't appear hurt or even feel hurt at all. Several times Suga played with Nellson, occasionally Suga thrust his finger at Nellson, and Nellson tried to bite Suga's finger, but Suga immediately pulled his hand away again, so Nellson only bit into empty air. Suga then stroked Nellson's head.

Not long after, they arrived at a 4-pole gate with a classic Japanese-style tiled roof as high as 4 meters, in the middle of this gate there was a double-door gate made of wood. On the right and left of this gate, there is a classic Japanese plaster fence, with a tiled roof at the top, and a combination of black stone at the bottom of the fence. This car then drove through the gate. Behind this wall are a fairly large wilderness area with buildings, and a river that divides it. This large area is the headquarters of the Yokai Controller Association.

This area has several large classic Japanese-style buildings. A building resembling a classic 2-story Japanese castle built on elevated grounds on the right front area, and a 6-story Japanese pagoda tower on the left front side of this area. In the middle of this forest area, there is a classic Japanese-style building in the shape of a rectangle that extends to the right and left. with a height of 4 floors, with a tiled roof in the classic Japanese style. In the middle of this building, there is a classic Japanese tiled roof that extends forward as a porch that shaded the road for the car underneath it, also as high as 4 levels of this building, with large pillars supporting it, shading the terrace and the road for cars below it, in front of this section there is a concrete road that extends forward through the forest, with Shinto gates lining on this concrete pedestrian walkway.

This area is also contained classic Japanese buildings with various numbers of floors and smaller sizes such as shrines, warehouses, and others, which are spread in this forest area behind the wall. The three main buildings are connected by asphalt roads, and each building is connected by a concrete pedestrian walkway with Shinto gates lining on it.

Suga's car passed through a two-way asphalt road that divides this forest area, on the right and left of the road there are sidewalks and street lamp poles that line up lighting the road. This road connects the three main buildings. Suga arrived at one of the main buildings located in the center of this forest area, which has a height of 4 floors. The car carrying Suga then stopped under the porch with a classic Japanese tiled roof before, in front of a stage terrace with a short staircase, in front of the entrance of this building. The entrance to this building is 3 tall brown wooden double doors, all of which are open. The driver got out of the car and opened the door for Suga, Suga then got out of the car. Carrying Nellson who was now perched on his left forearm, Suga then walked through the entrance to this building.

The interior of this building is also in classical Japanese style, the first room after the entrance is a large lobby with stairs leading to the 2nd floor at the end, this staircase has a wooden handrail that is painted in glossy brown. This room looks decorated with sturdy wood carving ornaments that are very neat in classic Japanese style. This room looks lit by the classic chandelier above, as well as the wall lamps, but it appears that the situation inside the building is a little dim. Suga then walked up these stairs.

After passing through a hallway, Suga arrived at a large octagonal-shaped hall, similar to a stadium, with a height that combined the three levels of this building. This room has an altar where the throne is located on a higher part around the lower middle part, in the octagonal part in the middle there is a large pillar towering up to the ceiling. There are 8 thrones around this room that appears empty and no one is occupying them. Suga walked to the very center of this room, In front of Suga there was a bird perch, Nellson then perched here.

The hall was in normal dim light until it was suddenly pitch black. Not long after, the lights in this room came back on, and now some people were sitting on the throne around Suga, but only 3 of them, one was in front of Suga, one was to the left of Suga, and one was to the right part behind Suga. It appears that all of their faces can't be seen clearly because this part of the throne is darker than the center of the room where Suga is. They were the leaders of the Yokai Controller Association.