Arc 14The Rabbit God’s Bargain
Qi Si revisited Rabbit God Town, uncovered its sacrificial history, and killed Reiko to advance his quest. After refusing to leave the Instance, he explored the shrine and found evidence linking the game to Hope Middle School, where Lu Ming revealed he had locked the Rabbit God inside his game.
- Qi Si refused to leave the Instance and returned to Hope Middle School’s ghostly past, where Lu Ming asked what Qi Si would sacrifice for help.
- Qi Si continued Escape Rabbit God Town, found Reiko dead, and offered to replace her as the Rabbit God’s vessel.
- Qi Si learned that the town’s families had maintained a two-hundred-year bargain by sacrificing a child every eighteen years, then revealed himself as the shaman behind the original deal and offered a new contract.
- Qi Si explored the Divine Dwelling, discovered how children had been confined and forced to carve, and identified their bloodstained knife as the Divine Chisel.
- Qi Si escaped Reiko’s ghost by forming a Soul Contract and crushing its scarlet leaf, completing six of seven parts of her corpse quest.
- Qi Si returned to Hope Middle School and learned from Li Fang that students had murdered Reiko and covered up her death, completing the corpse quest.
- Qi Si continued the Instance, returned to Rabbit God Town, and received a warning that he was likely to die at the festival on August 7.
- Qi Si found records linking Kannagi Shichiro to the Rabbit God and Eternal Life Technology to sacrifices at Hope Middle School, and Lu Ming said he had locked the god inside his game.