I wasn't planning to kill the hag so quickly.

I was going to kill her anyway, but it was too soon.

People would normally assume that the Sonozaki family operates as a hierarchy, but that's not true.

It's actually more like a system of government. Several ministries stem from the main family, and each forms a hierarchy of its own.

These ministries don't communicate with one another.

The people who belong to a given ministry don't know what other ministries are doing. That way, the Sonozaki family's dealings are kept perfectly secret.

Of course, the most important people in the family govern several ministries.

They know, of course, about their own ministries...

And they know a little bit about the ministries their relatives run.

But none of them know everything.

There are ministries that work in the open,

there are ministries that work unseen,

and there are some smaller ones that Oryou runs herself.

Mion seems to know about most of them, but she doesn't necessarily know them all.

In fact, she didn't know about 'the curse.'

Considering that, the fact that the hag died before I could interrogate her is a huge loss...