[Douman considers for a moment how much he ought to say before he takes a deep breath and moves his mask partially to the side. It still covers his nose and the right side of his face, and his long, shaggy bangs obscure his eye, but it's still a tell-tale sign that he is going to offer a truth rather than obscuring anything.]

Any story about good and bad always has two sides.

Abe no Seimei might have been a hero to humans, but to youkai he was a monstrous being who attacked and killed indiscriminately. And his way of gaining shikigami didn't exactly give the chosen spirit much of a choice of whether they wanted to do his bidding.