Or they're just taking advantage of them. A guileless ayakashi that happens to single out potential victims to the unscrupulous by simple virtue of its presence.

[On their own, Emet-Selch didn't mind the arukibake. Just because something looked harmless didn't mean that it was, yet... apart from being around, they hadn't done anything wrong. Though it might be a stretch to say that the Ascian liked them, still--]

I'll take the ghosts over the locals any day. Their company makes no demands, includes no expectations. They simply are, and if they want to follow me around... well, I've had worse entourages.