Iver first knocked on the Dancer's door.
Normally, the gender of a promoter and the role they played in the ritual matched, their personalities were similar, and their Paths were as close as possible.
But this was not one hundred percent certain. The roles in the Full Moon Ritual were not assigned randomly. They were manually assigned by the Ritual Host.
The Ritual Host would not deliberately assign a promoter a role they could not play, because that would be unfair—although each host would inevitably have some personal bias due to their own Path, personality, and position. At the very least, however, they had to maintain fairness on the surface and could not deliberately target a particular Path.
After all, the ritual was dedicated to the Nine Pillar Gods simultaneously.
—In other words, the host would assign you a role only when they believed you could play it, or were capable of handling the tasks that role had to complete.
Just like in the ritual where Iver and Isabel had first met—Iver might have been able to play Little Iver's mother, but Isabel definitely could not have played Little Iver's father.
A participant's severe mistake would only turn the ritual into a complete mess, transforming it into a farce and rendering everyone's analysis, reasoning, investigation, and adventure meaningless. That was precisely the situation the host had to do everything possible to avoid.
—If they could not assign him a suitable role, then they would assign him a role that was dangerous enough in the early stages to get him killed as quickly as possible, so he would not affect the others.
From this perspective, bringing Isabel along for the Promotion Ritual did not entirely increase the difficulty.
Precisely because Isabel was simple-minded, lacked life experience, and was somewhat socially anxious,