In the latter half of the night, Qi Si was led by an attendant from 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 began serving successive Divine Lords at Rabbit God Shrine when I was fifteen. They were all about your age when they entered the Divine Dwelling, and later, one after another, they all left..."
Qi Si looked at him with a smile but neither confirmed nor denied it.
Seeing that Qi Si did not respond, the attendant said no more and merely let out a faint sigh.
New text appeared on the game panel:
[Your identity: An Evil God masquerading as a shaman] [Note: How could a human shaman know the ritual for imprisoning a god? Only another god can harm a god.]
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 was 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 traded with Li to come here; he did not know whether that, too, had been part of the contract's scheme.
Later, the contract's divine body was trapped in the Carnivore Instance, left to be butchered by the villagers of Su Village. It did carry 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, it irritated him.
Assuming the identity of a shaman had been an impulsive decision, but signing