[ yes it's very easy to see that keiichi's very likely a part of the coven. and hey, Jun can do exposition! ]

Well... first of all, there's the holidays. If you haven't noticed, there's some sort of festival for remembering the dead in the New Year going on right now? So I don't doubt that's a part of it.

As for the tension, you've heard magic is outlawed, right? So it hasn't made us very welcome recently, especially since there was a big explosions with some fireworks recently. It's made people wary.