With a steadier schedule, Shichi had returned to his routine of waking up before dawn. Normally, Chiyo remained sleeping well through the morning, but that day he awoke to find her standing by an open window. The sky was still…

The tanuki remained true to her word. Soon after Shichi had treated her son, new patients began to arrive at Urameshiya in search of the tengu physician. He was visited by a variety of yokai, from a kappa with the…