{Eight}

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Right now, however, the kappa that she had learnt to know looked more like his terrible lord than his old self did, and the miko couldn't help but ask herself how was that.

She refused to think that the famous saying 'Those who go with the lame learns to limp' could be applied to Jaken, simply because that demon was unable to evolve. And yet there he was, looking straight at her without wavering, with a rigid posture and the same detached air as the daiyoukai.

"Jaken-sama", she began uncertain. "Are you well? You don't quite look like… uhm… yourself."

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(100 words.)