"This is the Seiten sutra," Koumyou touched the edge of the paper over his shoulders meaningfully. His 'thing from home', indeed, sitting on him as it usually did, looking very much like regular paper covered in inscrutable writing. "I used to protect the Maten, too, but it has a new Sanzo now."

None of this was any kind of a secret; he'd been pretty open with anyone that it had come up with. If any of the other passengers ever decided to try to take the sutra from him, they'd learn a lot more than they'd bargained for.