How Could This Not Be Called Pure Love?

To obtain any kind of power, one had to pay a price.

Contract Anomalists signed contracts with Weirds.

The price was being constantly affected by the Weirds, leaving their minds prone to losing control.

Anomaly Tamers suppressed Weirds and used their abilities.

What they gained came with the risk of always having a Weird watching from inside their body. The moment an Anomaly Tamer revealed an opening, the Weird would immediately backlash against them, seize their body, and revive within it.

And to become a follower of those unknown gods...

One had to be prepared, because gods would not care about your miserable life.

In Their eyes, followers were consumables, sacrifices, nourishment—and, when necessary, vessels They could descend into directly.

Even if a single descent meant ruining one follower.

For the sake of Their own interests, no god would be moved by that.

The other followers would instead consider it an honor: to offer their body to the god they believed in and let Them descend into it.

To be chosen by a god.

What else could that be but an honor?

After becoming a follower of Song Tide, Jin Junxi should have known that day would come sooner or later.

Yuki was also a follower of Song Tide. She had also received Song Tide's power, yet in the end, hadn't she been assimilated and affected by Song Tide's power, becoming the priestess she was now?

What made Jin Junxi any nobler or more special than Yuki?

Just because he had believed in Song Tide earlier, and because Yuki had been the priestess candidate he personally selected.

Did he think he could escape unscathed?

Only now did Jin Junxi realize how terribly wrong he had been.

He struggled painfully within the tide.

Although the token spared him from the tide's