It certainly makes getting around obstacles easier. And for allowing for sniping from a whole new range of angles from above if what you're fighting with ranged weaponry. Sometimes with ayakashi, it can get difficult to get an opening to rend the beast, and you need unorthodox tactics.

[Discussing strategy does wonders for nerves. It helps keeps his mind off the fact he's hovering in the air and it's gotten no less high in all the times he's gone out.]