In what way do you intend to address the menace of a creature that blights gods and shinki by touch? Which corrupts mortals, plagues them, and feeds off their misery? Which brings harm by its mere existence?

[The Valkyrie, in turn, is more than a little put-off by what she perceives as a god seeking to shirk his duties, and she has no diplomacy or tact to blunt her anger.]