お花を摘みに参ります?
Going to pick some flowers?
Kei: ......Senba...... Udzuki-san?
Senba: And you are of the Hazama------ Hatou Kei-san.
Kei: Come on... please don't scare me like that!
Senba: I apologize for scaring you. I had sensed the presence of an oni------ something inhuman, in this direction.
Kei: Oni......
Sakuya: Oh well, I hate to be the one to say it, but in an emergency, you can at least count on her as a guard dog......
Could it be that Senba-san... is a person who banishes oni with that tachi she's holding?
With three points: her words, what she's holding, and Sakuya-san's witness as a basis; is it still too hasty to come to that conclusion?
Kei: Senba-san, are you a person who banishes oni?
Before I know it, that inference passes my lips unchanged. If the inference itself isn't hasty, then asking it certainly is.
Senba: I am an Onikiri-Yaku of the Onikiribe. Just as you say, slaying oni is what I do for a living, however......
Senba: Have you heard this already from Sakuya-san?
Kei: No, it was just a guess, really.
Senba: Normally, any time I drop the word "oni," people are unlikely to take me seriously, you see.
Kei: Ahaha......
As the person who thought off the bat that she was an oni banisher, I'm not quite sure how to respond to that.
Senba: So then, Hatou-san, exactly what is it that brings you to a place like this, this late at night?
Kei: Ah, I was at the river bank over there, lighting------