In the latter half of the night, Qi Si was led by an attendant of the Rabbit God Shrine toward the wooden house deep within the shrine where generations of Divine Lords had lived.
Along the way, the white-haired attendant said wistfully, "I have served every Divine Lord at the Rabbit God Shrine since I was fifteen. They were all about your age when they entered the Divine Dwelling, but one by one, they all left..."
Qi Si looked at him with a smile, neither confirming nor denying it.
Seeing that Qi Si did not reply, the attendant said no more and merely let out a faint sigh.
New text appeared on the game interface:
[Your identity: Evil God posing as a shaman] [Note: How could a human shaman know the ritual for imprisoning a god? Only another god can cripple a god.]
This undoubtedly provided Qi Si with new information beyond the worldview known to the heads of the Kannagi Family and Kurokawa Family.
The Rabbit God had been imprisoned in Rabbit God Town, and the construction of The Rules involved the authority of transactions and contracts. Contract must have had a hand in it.
Qi Si suspected that contract's shadow lay behind this Instance. He had traded with Li and thus arrived here; he did not know whether that, too, had been part of contract's scheme.
Later, contract's divine body had been trapped in the Carnivore Instance and left at the mercy of the villagers of Su Village. It did carry a hint of karmic retribution.
Of course, considering his relationship with contract... Qi Si did not find it amusing in the slightest. If anything, he was a little annoyed.
Posing as a shaman had been a spur-of-the-moment decision, but signing a contract with the head