It occurs to Shiki that she 's never actually been on a mission with Ken-jichan before.

Satoru-niichan has supervised a few of her missions in the past, and there had also once been a period of time where Kiyohira-sensei used to oversee all of her missions along with Jihei-san when Shiki had been younger. Somehow, though, she 's never completed an assignment with Ken-jichan next to her before.

' The incident with that land spirit aside, but that had been more of an accidental coincidence more than something intentional.

Technically, tracking down Geto-san by searching out curse users related to him isn 't a

mission.

But it 's the new task that Shiki has set out for herself, and she intends to treat it with the same diligence as she does her usual assignments. Which doesn 't make it

too

different from a mission, in that sense.