"A mischievous god?" Takai Geki tilted his head, a little confused.
[Yes. As for that god's identity, you will learn it in time. We were also transformed by that god from the five stone statues used for the formation into our current forms. The tremor earlier was also because you accidentally broke the balance of this formation, causing the spiritual energy inside to briefly fall into disorder and run wild. Though this formation is now completely ruined...]
As it spoke, the qilin glanced shamefully at the pile of rubble behind it. To think it had been reduced to this by two children—there was no one else like it. It truly damaged the reputation of the genuine Four Spiritual Beasts. A moment of silence—though it was only a pirated qilin itself.
"Uh... haha..." Seeming to understand what the qilin meant, Takai Geki scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
At the same time, the qilin, too embarrassed to keep mourning, turned back to Takai Geki and continued explaining.
[So be it. This was probably one of that person's tests as well. That god once told me that if someone passed the test she set, I was to give him "that"—what you call the god's secret treasure.]
When the qilin finished speaking, it opened its mouth slightly. Immediately after, a stone box as thick as an adult's arm and a scroll made of some unidentifiable material fell from its mouth together and landed on the ground.
"What's this?" Takai Geki picked up the stone box curiously and examined it carefully.
There was nothing special about the stone box. Its shape was neat and square; it was just that the strange patterns and runes on it left him a little baffled.
But for some reason, somewhere in the unseen, he kept feeling as