"We could be," Yato shrugged in response. "Most Near Shore folk - humans, the living - don't know anything about the Far Shore, and usually don't see anyone or anything having to do with it. You could be standing right next to a Phantom and you'd never know it." A beat, and then: "You're not, by the way. Just saying."

His mouth pulls down into a brief frown at the wording. "Hey. Yukine's a good kid, don't trash-talk my Regalia like that. And Phantoms are all over the place naturally. A pretty regular part of the work I do is slaying Phantoms. Either because someone's contacted me about something, even if they don't know it's a Phantom causing it, or it's a job that's been passed off by one of the shrines."