[ Good time for a breather, then... Yato crouches behind the tree, alert. He assumes he won't be getting any warnings before that big sword starts swinging again. He's so focused on dodging whatever might come that he needs time to absorb the entirety of what Ryoji says. Ten years ago? Sealed away? ]

You're saying the you right now was sealed into... your human form? That's one hell of a laboratory.

[ Sounds more like black magic than science. ]

When you say shadow, you mean more than your typical daytime shadow, don't you?