Sages, huh... Ayakashi is the term we use in my business for the inhuman beings which live in the shadows of the world, unseen by most humans in my day and age. Be they gods, or youkai like the ones that inhabit this city, ghosts, or other sorts of spirits.

Wizards, too, would be considered a sort of ayakashi.

[Sages, meanwhile- he thinks he has heard Shylock use that term before, but not with proper context. Without looking across the room at him, he takes in the bartender's attentiveness as Matoba asks,] What function does a "sage" hold? Are they a sort of wizard as well?