[Having her own contacts and her own, reliable resources is just good sense for a shinki. At least, even if he disappears, she'll have the school and whatever he leaves there to rely on.

And Asshole, he supposes, although Asshole isn't particularly good company. Hakkai's woken up twice to find him standing silently in the bedroom since he'd named the man, and he has to give no-longer-Banri credit: he's gotten strange enough to even spook Hakkai. A little.

He frowns thoughtfully, considering the question.] The first known murders happened just after Tanabata, and have tended to occur in pairs. The first two were laid out in a park on the Far Shore with 'Death to Amaterasu' carved into their backs, the second two were also laid out in a park, and since then a few more have been killed in varying ways.

Amaterasu's shinki have been investigating. I'm afraid I haven't paid close attention to the investigation's progress so far.