And at how, even so, that girl continues to love humans.

<big>"I just couldn't trust something made by a youkai," he said.</big>

...humans do not love kappa.

He had decided on his response from the beginning.

At how, even given how the kappa love humans...

So he told me the reason. Hey, Hina. Do you know what it was?

But sometimes, I feel sad.

...this could have ended with that many koi still alive.

If he had used my device a year ago...

I asked the master for a reason. Why was my machine no good? All that I asked in compensation was the cost of the materials, so I didn't think I would lose to another engineer.

Today, now that a year has passed, a human engineer came and proposed a device that was virtually the same as mine. He sold the master on it, and they began to use it immediately.

In the meantime, the koi continued to die, and the master bought new ones to replace them and released them in the lake. And so the cycle repeated...

I think I know even more about fish than I do humans, so I was confident that I could solve this problem. But no matter how many times I spoke to the master, he refused to give me consent.

...The koi that were being kept in the pod kept getting sick. When I heard about it, I proposed a device to the master of the mansion that would control the water quality.

Because I spread misfortune, I stay on the mountain, and she tells me stories about the village. I really enjoy hearing her stories.

There was this pond in the garden of a big mansion...

Yeah... the first time was about a year ago.

She loves humans, and she occasionally sneaks out to the human village.

Nitori Kawashiro is my friend, so I may be biased, but I believe she is an outstanding engineer.