Seemingly shocked by the fact that the Wall of the Faithless had been forcibly demolished by this group of mysterious ratmen before her eyes, the female Ranger—who had initially been emotional and unsettled—appeared to have suffered a severe mental blow. At the very least, she became much more cooperative with the procedures.
In the end, the Ranger did not obtain a visa to settle temporarily in Barto Hell. Instead, like those divine envoys, she chose to remain for the time being in this "underworld," which seemed to have already been occupied by these ratmen.
However, as a condition of staying, the Ranger would have to work as a visa office clerk for eight hours a day in service of the Fugue Plane.
The reason left Carol and the other souls utterly dumbfounded. The white ratwoman had declared with righteous solemnity that everything came with a corresponding price.
Yet while standing in line, Carol had clearly heard the ratwoman complain that these Cavens Ratmen were still too stupid—there were far too few ratmen who could read, write, and handle the current clerical work.
What Carol did not know was that compared to uneducated "mud-legged peasants" like them, devout clergy like that female Ranger had suffered the far greater shock!
The feeling was probably like that of some Buddhists on Blue Star who firmly believed in reincarnation and devoted themselves to goodness, believing that after death they would enter the underworld, pass through the Six Realms of Reincarnation, and be reborn as human—only to suddenly discover that the world after death had been taken over by a bunch of Disney Mickey Mice whose art style looked like something out of a fairy tale.
Still, for ordinary souls like Carol, who only half understood what was going on, the current situation was already