Minato fidgeted with the key in the door , and finally unsealed the old house which his mother had sent him to be the caretaker of . The house had sat empty for two years and was quite derelict, but Minato seldom had a bad attitude about anything . He began cleaning it and unpacking his boxes . He called a local landscaping specialist to help him remove all the weeds and brambles from the overgrown garden space outback of the spacious engawa porch of the traditional home . Still - he wasn’t sure yet about making permanent changes since the grounds didn’t belong to him …. At least not permanently and not yet . Minato had always had a sixth sense , a kind of spirit sight that he could see house spirits or nature spirits , anything kindly . But the negative spirits he could only see a black mist aura , which he only noticed rarely because in his case , such dark auras naturally fled him or were cleansed just by being near him - near his writing that is . Minato had not learned to write with the intention of an onmyoji . He was no trained exorcist . But even just his family name or a simple shopping list was sometjmes enough to change things and then the letters would - just disappear ? Minato was the only person present at the house but he kept finding small gifts - on the engawa . Perceiving that he was being visited by a nature spirit , he decided to leave a hospitable offering in return -