While that raises any number of questions, the only one of great relevance is that no matter your resilience, direct contact with an ayakashi is dangerous. It will do you little good to strike one and find yourself blighted, and thus I recommend protection for at least your hands.

Depending on your fighting style, further armor may be beneficial as well. [She can well understand how someone with his reported level of resilience might not need it ordinarily, but that didn't stop blight.]