"It wasn't just Bubble and me. Everyone else in the castle was the same. As long as they could keep playing their roles and fit their character settings, corresponding offerings would be born."
"Among the offerings I've seen were the maid's apple, the manservant's letter, the chef's peas... and so on."
Edward had seen all these offerings with his own eyes. In places beyond his sight, there were surely even more offerings.
"Moreover, as long as these offerings appear in our hands, ownership belongs to us."
Edward had deliberately mentioned "ownership" because once an offering belonged to them, they possessed absolute control over it. If an outsider used an offering, it meant using something that already had an owner, and they would have to pay a certain price.
The preferred price here was soul coins.
But outsiders generally did not have soul coins. Those existed only in the Instrument World.
So outsiders could only pay the secondary price: their own fleshly bodies.
Why had Xiluda activated the Spirit-Transference Ritual and fallen within the castle? It was because she had used something owned by Edward and could not pay the price, so she had paid with her body instead.
Upon hearing this, everyone sorted out the relationship between offerings and roles.
Role-playing could draw offerings into existence, and once an offering appeared in a role's hands, that role gained the initiative. They could use it to attract or lure outsiders into using it, thereby escaping their predicament.
"So that means every role in Knight Castle has to fit its character setting in order to produce offerings... What peculiar rules." Luigi was the one who spoke. After hearing Edward's account, he could not help but sigh in amazement.
"Rules..." Gleipnir murmured softly. Then, as if something had suddenly occurred to her, she