In the latter half of the night, Qi Si was led by an attendant from 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 later, one after another, they all left..."
Qi Si looked at him with a smile but neither confirmed nor denied it.
Seeing that he did not reply, the attendant said no more and merely let out a faint sigh.
New text appeared on the game interface:
[Your identity: An Evil God posing as a shaman] [Note: How could a human shaman know the ritual for imprisoning a god? Only one god can maim another.]
This undoubtedly provided Qi Si with new information beyond the worldview known to the heads of the Kannagi Family and the Kurokawa Family.
The Rabbit God had been imprisoned in Rabbit God Town, and the construction of The Rules involved the authorities of trade and contracts. The contract must have had a hand in it.
Qi Si suspected that the contract's shadow lay behind this Instance. He had made a trade with Li and thus arrived here; he did not know whether that, too, had been part of the contract's scheme.
Later, the contract's divine body had been trapped in the Carnivore Instance and left to the mercy of the villagers of Su Village. It carried something of the flavor of karmic retribution.
Of course, considering his relationship with the contract... Qi Si did not find it amusing in the slightest. If anything, he was rather displeased.
Assuming the identity of a shaman had