It was a couple days later that people started to avoid me. I don't know who realized it could have been a nekomata, but it spread and some of you guys don't exactly have a good reputation... even for people who build their careers off of hunting us down.

( the last bit is said all too dryly. but it's... not wrong. the fact that humans get to have a known, respected occupation based on hunting yokai, who live in scrutiny, is kind of... how do you say... fucked? worse that it's justifiable. but she's heard stories of hunters that'd take down the stray yokai and then mark ones they knew for later- like attracts like, after all.

if jinx was guilty, no one wanted to be associated with her. )

Eventually a shopkeeper let me know what was happening. ... I... wound up hiding for a couple days. But that's not going to fix this.