>>5476871Don't know about that. Al's got too much baggage associated with taking him out by this point that it should deter youkai or wicked hermit from doing so.
Plus, Al has to get some good poetry skills to attract her. The jiangshi was based on a poet and scholar of some renown named Miyako no Yoshika. Interestingly enough, Kasen's inspiration, Ibaraki-dōji, also loves poetry, so Al might get some poems under his belt.
However, there is a bit of a hiccup in that Ibaraki-dōji particularly liked Miyako no Yoshika's works. According to legend, the poet was improvising the first half of a poem while passing through the Rashomon gate in Kyoto, and a nearby oni, supposedly Ibaraki-douji, answered with the second half. And now the poet is a mindless jiangshi under Seiga. So make of that what you will.
