The head of the Kimiyoshi family was the one who called the main house most often after the fifth year's curse.

My father called the second most.

My parents were still high in the hierarchy, but the stir caused by my mother's disownment still hung over us, so we got treated as outcasts.

So the fact that my father received so many calls proved how much the hag valued us despite the distance at which we were kept, demonstrating her own two-faced respect for both sides of the coin.

My father seems to be in charge of the intelligence bureau.

He reported police information, gossip, and rumors going around in the yakuza business to the hag.

He silences, stirs, and distorts that information at her request.

By the way, my servant Kasai is an old friend of my father's.

...That must be why Kasai knows many things.

But I don't know

if my father is involved in the curse's execution.

My assumption is that although he gathered information on the police investigation about the case,

he wasn't involved in the execution itself.

...The fact that my father and the hag have this close connection isn't widely known.

People know that she uses his information network, but they don't look very far beyond that.

In the same way...

It's possible that a 'curse execution team' exists under the hag's direct control. People just aren't aware of it...