"Well, there you go, then," Koumyou smiles his usual squinty smile, and relaxes a little more back against the edge of the pool behind him. "I would say something like 'I don't know why someone thought Sanzo robes should be white, when we're tasked with protecting such dangerous artifacts from every greedy idiot on the planet', but I know why."

This is absolutely not a mystery to the youngest Sanzo of his era, or to the first and only Sanzo to protect two sutras... and to do so for longer than many lasted protecting one.

The singularly most hunted man on the planet for most of his life.

"...It's because everyone who hasn't had to do it themselves, assumes we Sanzos, who are so very holy, why... we must defend our sutra with stern words. And maybe by shaking a finger here and there," Koumyou illustrates by shaking one bony finger at Otoha, "It's like one big, shitty joke."

It's a violent world, and violence requires violence in turn.