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.
Chapters 327–352 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 327Caution Rabbits (17): The Black Sheep That Took the Blame

Qi Si rejected the option to leave the Instance and witnessed the past behind Lu Ming and Reiko’s intended sacrifice, while Hope Middle School descended into a grotesque nightmare. He confronted Lu Ming in the mist and demanded to know what he would sacrifice and how he would ask for help.

  • Qi Si confirmed that he would stay in the Instance, restoring the main quest to finding Reiko’s body.
  • Qi Si witnessed the Rabbit God take Lu Ming’s place as the sacrifice, while Reiko later became the offering and the surviving rabbit sought revenge by turning Hope Middle School into a ghost realm.
  • Li Fang warned Qi Si that the people at Hope Middle School would kill Lu Ming, and Qi Si left her office as the school transformed around him.
  • Qi Si used the recording pen to disrupt attacking limbs as he passed through classrooms filled with grotesque visions of the school’s past.
  • Qi Si heard students reveal that they planned to sacrifice Lu Ming or Reiko to the Rabbit God, then spotted the red-clad rabbit outside the window.
  • Qi Si confronted Lu Ming in the mist, mocked his pleas for salvation, and asked what he would offer as a sacrifice.

Ch. 328Caution Rabbits (18): The Evil God's Temptation

Qi Si recalled his cruel middle-school years and his first encounter with the red-clad figure who called himself another Qi Si, then resumed the interrupted Rabbit God Town game with Lu Ming. After Qi Si killed Reiko to prevent her from becoming the Rabbit God's vessel, he offered himself as the replacement sacrifice.

  • As a teenager, Qi Si endured relentless bullying, encountered his red-clad double after being pushed down stairs, and secretly orchestrated a series of deadly incidents at school.
  • Qi Si recognized the red-clad figure as the god who had aided him before, then asked Lu Ming what sacrifice and prayer he intended to offer.
  • Lu Ming said the game was about to resume, and Qi Si agreed to continue the third playthrough of Escape Rabbit God Town.
  • Qi Si found Reiko dead and the game declared him the child most like the Rabbit God, requiring a new sacrifice for the festival.
  • Kurokawa Akira and the head of the Kurokawa Family arrived, and Qi Si revealed that he knew the town's sacrificial secret.
  • Qi Si volunteered to take Reiko's place as the Rabbit God's vessel.

Ch. 329Caution Rabbits (Nineteen): The Shaman's Trap

Qi Si convinced the Kurokawa Family to accept his sacrifice, but Reiko’s death and Kurokawa Akira’s outburst stirred doubts about the Rabbit God Festival. After revealing himself as the shaman who had made the original deal, Qi Si offered the family a new contract to keep the Rabbit God restrained.

  • Qi Si claimed that Reiko’s death had left him as the only suitable sacrifice and agreed to become the next head priest.
  • The procession returned to Escape Rabbit God Town, where Reiko’s mother attacked the group and Kurokawa Akira blurted out that Rabbit God had wanted Reiko dead.
  • The townspeople questioned the Rabbit God Festival, and the head of the Kurokawa Family promised to explain the truth the next day.
  • The head of the Kurokawa Family told Qi Si that the Rabbit God and the town had been bound in a two-hundred-year cycle of deals, sacrifices, and fear.
  • When Qi Si spoke as though he knew the original bargain, the head of the Kurokawa Family realized he was not Kannagi Shichiro.
  • Qi Si revealed himself as the shaman who had arranged the first deal and presented the head of the Kurokawa Family with a new written contract.

Ch. 330Caution Rabbits (20): The Divine Lord Enters the Divine Dwelling

Qi Si entered the Rabbit God Shrine’s Divine Dwelling and uncovered how past Divine Lords had been imprisoned and forced to prepare for the Rabbit God Festival. He found a supernatural carving knife that could turn living beings into gods, leaving him concerned that it could be taken out of the Instance.

  • Qi Si followed the attendant to the Divine Dwelling and learned that the Rabbit God had been imprisoned by divine power, possibly through contract’s involvement.
  • Qi Si watched an illusory Rabbit God procession and overheard that repeated failures in the drawing of lots had disrupted the selection of a sacrificial body.
  • Qi Si followed the procession into the shrine and entered the Divine Dwelling, where he found rules confining its priest and requiring him to carve Rabbit God statues and prayer plaques.
  • Qi Si saw the imprisoned children’s desperate messages and an apparition of a child forced to carve until starvation and abuse left him trapped between life and death.
  • Qi Si identified the bloodstained carving knife as the Divine Chisel, an item that could carve any living being into a god, and realized it might be removable from the Instance.

Ch. 331Caution Rabbits (13): Fated Destiny

Qi Si uncovered how the Rabbit God’s lost power and the school’s altered memories fit into the Instance, then started a third playthrough of Escape Rabbit God Town. He loaded Reiko’s save and changed the route, leaving the story poised to test a different path through the past.

  • Qi Si found a prayer ribbon in the submerged shrine bearing his own handwriting and deduced that he had taken the Rabbit God’s divine power in another timeline, while Reiko’s death remained part of the predetermined ending.
  • Qi Si learned that the Instance altered the students’ memories to explain their classmates’ disappearances and Lu Ming’s death, and he concluded that the diary footage showed Lu Ming himself.
  • Reiko told Qi Si that the dean and Li Fang had argued, and praised Li Fang for defending the students against the school’s changing policies.
  • At five, Lu Ming began another round of Escape Rabbit God Town, and Qi Si loaded Save Two, Reiko’s Rabbit God Mask.
  • As the game replayed Reiko and Little Seven’s conversation at the mask stall, Qi Si regained control and chose to lead Reiko southeast, opposite the route he had taken before.

Ch. 332Caution Rabbits (14): Transaction and Price

Qi Si learned from the Kannagi family head that the Rabbit God had been imprisoned through a two-hundred-year-old deal, and that its coming descent could choose and kill a child from the three families. After writing “Eerie Game, The Rules, transaction” on a wish ribbon, Qi Si discovered Reiko wished to be with Little Seven, leaving him to consider escaping Rabbit God Town.

  • Reiko agreed to accompany Qi Si toward the town’s wishing tree, but Kannagi Rokuro found them and took Qi Si to see their father.
  • Kannagi Rokuro warned Qi Si to stay away from Reiko because their families would separate after the Rabbit God Festival.
  • The Kannagi family head told Qi Si that the three families had imprisoned the Rabbit God two hundred years earlier and forced it into a deal requiring a child to be chosen every eighteen years.
  • The family head explained that rabbit blood had once hidden his family from the Rabbit God, but rabbits had stopped bleeding and the god had begun taking revenge.
  • Qi Si wrote “Eerie Game, The Rules, transaction” on a wish ribbon, then found Reiko’s wish to be with Little Seven and realized she and Shichiro might both die unless they escaped Rabbit God Town.

Ch. 333Caution Rabbits (15): Faith and Death

Qi Si secretly replaced Reiko’s blessing ribbon, then convinced Reiko and Kurokawa Akira to flee Rabbit God Town before the festival. In the forest, he used Reiko’s wish to draw her into a Soul Contract and killed her, advancing his main quest to collecting her corpse.

  • Qi Si hid Reiko’s blessing ribbon and triggered a mission to prevent her from being chosen by the Rabbit God.
  • Kurokawa Akira told Qi Si and Reiko that the festival sacrificed a child to imprison the Rabbit God, and Qi Si persuaded them to escape town.
  • Qi Si led Reiko and Kurokawa Akira into the forest, where fog filled with the ghosts of past sacrifices appeared and Reiko transformed into a ghost.
  • Qi Si showed Reiko her blessing ribbon and used his recording pen to evade her notice before attempting to cut her throat, but the blade failed to wound her.
  • Qi Si invoked Reiko’s wish to be with him, formed a Soul Contract, and crushed the scarlet leaf that appeared, causing Reiko to fall and updating his corpse-collection quest to 6/7.

Ch. 334Caution Rabbits (14): Trade and Price

Qi Si learned from the Kannagi family head that the three founding families had imprisoned the Rabbit God in exchange for its protection and recurring sacrifices, and that the god would descend again during this year’s festival. After writing “Eerie Game, The Rules, deal” on a wish ribbon, Qi Si found Reiko’s wish to be with Little Seven and realized the Rabbit God’s selection might doom them both unless they escaped Rabbit God Town.

  • Qi Si accompanied Reiko toward the wishing tree, but Kannagi Rokuro arrived and took him to meet their sick father.
  • Kannagi Rokuro warned Qi Si to stay away from Reiko because they would be separated after the Rabbit God Festival.
  • The Kannagi family head told Qi Si how the Kannagi, Edo, and Kurokawa families had trapped the Rabbit God and forced it into a deal involving a child’s possession every eighteen years.
  • The Kannagi family head revealed that rabbit blood had once concealed his family from the Rabbit God, but rabbits had stopped bleeding and the god had discovered their scheme.
  • Qi Si wrote “Eerie Game, The Rules, deal” on a wish ribbon and found Reiko’s wish to be with Little Seven.
  • Qi Si concluded that Reiko’s likely selection meant Kannagi Shichiro might die with her unless they escaped Rabbit God Town.

Ch. 335Caution Rabbits (15): Faith and Death

Qi Si manipulated Reiko and Kurokawa Akira into fleeing Rabbit God Town, then lured Reiko into the forest and killed her after she became a vengeful ghost. Her corpse advanced his main quest, while the mission to prevent her selection remained at the center of his plan.

  • Qi Si replaced Reiko's prayer ribbon with his own and saved a new checkpoint after the mission to prevent her from being chosen appeared.
  • Kurokawa Akira told Qi Si and Reiko that the Rabbit God Festival sacrificed a child every eighteen years to bind the Rabbit God.
  • Qi Si persuaded Reiko and Kurokawa Akira to escape Rabbit God Town, and the three entered the forest without being stopped.
  • At night, ghostly figures appeared in the forest, Kurokawa Akira vanished, and Reiko became a vengeful ghost.
  • Qi Si showed Reiko her prayer ribbon, tried to kill her with a blade, then used a Soul Contract and crushed its newly formed leaf.
  • Reiko fell to the ground, and Qi Si's main quest progress updated to gathering her corpse, six of seven.

Ch. 336Caution Rabbits (Sixteen): Who Killed the Girl

Qi Si confronted Lu Ming about Reiko’s fate, then uncovered the truth of Reiko’s murder at Hope Middle School. The main quest to find all of Reiko’s remains was completed, and Qi Si was given the choice to leave the instance.

  • Lu Ming accused Qi Si of killing Reiko, then explained that he had repeatedly failed to save her and had relied on The God’s promise that Qi Si could help.
  • Qi Si returned to Hope Middle School, where Reiko said Li Fang could no longer see her and students’ scripted bullying shifted from Reiko to Lu Ming.
  • Qi Si visited Li Fang, who revealed that Reiko had been murdered by students and that the school had covered up her death.
  • The scene shifted to Qi Si being buried as Lu Ming, while Kannagi Shichiro and the rabbit-masked ghost appeared among overlapping fragments of past and present.
  • The system announced that Qi Si had found all of Reiko’s remains and completed the main quest, then asked whether he wanted to leave the instance.

Ch. 337Caution Rabbits (Seventeen): The Black Sheep Who Took the Blame

Qi Si refused to leave the instance and witnessed the past behind Reiko’s sacrifice and Lu Ming’s revenge. As Hope Middle School descended into a nightmare, Qi Si confronted Lu Ming in the mist and asked what he would sacrifice to beg for help.

  • Qi Si chose to continue the instance, and his main quest reset to finding all parts of Reiko’s body.
  • Qi Si witnessed Lu Ming being selected for sacrifice before a red-kimono rabbit took his place in the pit.
  • Qi Si saw how Reiko’s death led Lu Ming to turn Hope Middle School into a ghost realm and trap its students and teachers in a repeating performance.
  • Qi Si crossed the nightmarish school using his voice recorder while the students’ violence and the school’s sacrifice plans unfolded around him.
  • Qi Si encountered the rabbit outside a classroom, then descended through the blood-filled school to confront Lu Ming in the mist.
  • Qi Si mocked Lu Ming’s appeals for salvation and asked what he would offer as a sacrifice for help.

Ch. 338Caution Rabbits (18): The Evil God's Temptation

Qi Si recalled how an evil-god-like version of himself had appeared during his brutal middle-school years, then recognized that being as the god who had helped him before. In Rabbit God Town, Qi Si killed Reiko to keep her from becoming the Rabbit God’s vessel, but the game named him the next likely sacrifice, and he offered to take her place.

  • As a teenager, Qi Si endured cruel bullying and met a red-clothed figure who called itself another him and offered to solve his problems.
  • Qi Si orchestrated several deadly incidents at school, and later realized the figure in red was the god who had rescued and aided him.
  • Lu Ming told Qi Si that the game’s restrictions had ended, and Qi Si agreed to continue the Rabbit God Town game.
  • Qi Si found that Reiko had died after he killed her, and the game made him the new potential vessel while setting the next objective as attending the fireworks festival.
  • Kurokawa Akira and the head of the Kurokawa Family arrived, and Qi Si explained the Rabbit God’s sacrificial tradition.
  • With Reiko dead and the Rabbit God Festival still needing a vessel, Qi Si offered to replace her as the child most like the Rabbit God.

Ch. 339Caution Rabbits (19): The Shaman's Trap

Qi Si returned to Rabbit God Town with Reiko’s body and let Kurokawa Akira’s revelations stir doubts about the Rabbit God Festival. He revealed himself as the shaman behind the town’s ancient bargain and offered the head of the Kurokawa Family a new contract, leaving him facing a choice with no other way forward.

  • Qi Si persuaded the Kurokawa Family’s retainers that he should be sacrificed as Kannagi Shichiro, and they escorted him and Kurokawa Akira back to Rabbit God Town with Reiko’s corpse.
  • Reiko’s mother attacked the procession, died on the head of the Kurokawa Family’s sword, and Kurokawa Akira blurted out that the Rabbit God had targeted Reiko.
  • The residents questioned the Rabbit God Festival after Kurokawa Akira’s claims and recalled that past Divine Masters had disappeared; the head of the Kurokawa Family promised an explanation the next day.
  • The head of the Kurokawa Family explained that the Rabbit God and the town had been trapped in a two-hundred-year cycle of bargains, sacrifices, and mutual fear.
  • Qi Si revealed himself as the shaman who had arranged the original bargain, produced a blood-colored contract, and pressed the head of the Kurokawa Family to make a new pact.

Ch. 340Caution Rabbits (20): The Divine Lord Enters the Divine Dwelling

Qi Si entered the Rabbit God’s Divine Dwelling and uncovered how children chosen as vessels had been imprisoned and forced to carve offerings. He found the Divine Chisel, an item that could turn any living being into a god, and realized it could be taken out of the Instance.

  • Qi Si asked the shrine attendant to let Kurokawa Akira and his brother visit him, then followed a ghostly Rabbit God procession through the shrine.
  • Qi Si disguised himself as a rabbit-masked procession member and overheard that a failed drawing of lots had disrupted the selection of a vessel.
  • Qi Si entered the Divine Dwelling and found rules requiring its chief priest to pray, abstain from food, remain confined, and carve Rabbit God statues and prayer plaques.
  • Qi Si discovered children’s desperate messages carved beneath the bed and witnessed a vision of a child imprisoned, starved, and forced to carve until his body was mutilated.
  • Qi Si identified the bloodstained carving knife as the Divine Chisel, which could carve any living being into a god, and noted that it could leave the Instance.

Ch. 341Caution Rabbits (21): Bamboo Cage Eye Game

Qi Si uncovered the three families’ attempt to create a controllable god and survived a supernatural Bamboo Cage Eyes game by naming Edo Reiko. He discovered that faith and Reiko’s recorded story could restrain the Rabbit God, while a portrait revealed that Pact had imprisoned it; Qi Si remained trapped in the Divine Dwelling and faced death at the August 7 festival.

  • Qi Si watched an illusion of a priest attempting to carve a boy into a new god, then concluded that the three families wanted to replace the Rabbit God with one they could control.
  • A Bamboo Cage Eyes game trapped Qi Si in darkness, and he named Edo Reiko as the person behind him; Reiko’s head appeared before him and then dissolved into blood.
  • The Rabbit God reached toward Qi Si, but he recited the required prayer and played Reiko’s recorded story, forcing the god back into the shrine.
  • Qi Si spotted a fox-masked figure resembling Pact in the shrine’s portrait and realized Pact had imprisoned the Rabbit God there.
  • The game marked a new save point, warning that Qi Si was likely to die at the Rabbit God Festival on August 7 unless he found a way to resist the ritual.

Ch. 342Caution Rabbits (22): False Time and Space

Qi Si returned from Escape Rabbit God Town to Hope Middle School and discovered that the game’s timeline was separate from the school’s real history. He uncovered evidence that Eternal Life Technology had turned Kannagi Shichiro into a murderous Rabbit God to pursue immortality, then Lu Ming revealed that he had trapped the Rabbit God inside his game.

  • Qi Si exited the paused Escape Rabbit God Town playthrough and returned to Lu Ming’s bed in Hope Middle School’s dormitory.
  • Qi Si used the recorded code 429736 to open a locked room in the administrative building and found a roster of Rabbit God divine masters and handwritten research drafts.
  • Qi Si learned that Kannagi Hideya had been chosen as a divine master in Hope Middle School’s history, proving that the game’s Rabbit God Town was not the school’s past.
  • Qi Si discovered that Kannagi Shichiro had become a cruel Rabbit God who killed students through Bamboo Cage Eyes, while Eternal Life Technology sacrificed orphans in pursuit of immortality.
  • Lu Ming appeared behind Qi Si and said that he had locked the Rabbit God inside his game.

Ch. 343Caution Rabbits (14): Transactions and Costs

Qi Si learned from the Kannagi family head that Rabbit God Town’s three families had imprisoned the Rabbit God and bound it to a deal that required it to possess a chosen child every eighteen years. As the festival approached, Qi Si wrote “Eerie Game, The Rules, transaction” on a wish ribbon and discovered that Reiko wished to be with Little Seven, putting them both in danger unless they escaped Rabbit God Town.

  • Kannagi Rokuro pulled Qi Si away from Reiko and warned him that Father forbade him from getting close to her because she would soon be separated from him.
  • Inside the family home, Qi Si found rows of dead rabbits and heard the Kannagi family head explain that being like the Rabbit God could make a child its chosen vessel.
  • The Kannagi family head recounted how the Kannagi, Edo, and Kurokawa families imprisoned the Rabbit God two hundred years earlier and traded for its protection in exchange for a child’s possession every eighteen years.
  • The family head revealed that rabbit blood had once hidden his descendants from the Rabbit God, but rabbits had stopped bleeding, leaving Kannagi Shichiro vulnerable to being chosen.
  • Qi Si accepted a wish ribbon from the Old Woman and wrote “Eerie Game, The Rules, transaction” on it.
  • Qi Si found Reiko’s wish to be with Little Seven and realized that she and Kannagi Shichiro would need to escape Rabbit God Town to avoid being chosen and dying.

Ch. 344Caution Rabbits (15): Faith and Death

Qi Si led Reiko and Kurokawa Akira out of Rabbit God Town, then revealed he had never intended to save Reiko and killed her after she became a ghost. Reiko’s death advanced Qi Si’s main quest, though the Rabbit God Festival and his next move remained unresolved.

  • Qi Si replaced Reiko’s prayer ribbon with his own and triggered the mission to prevent her from being chosen by the Rabbit God.
  • Kurokawa Akira told Qi Si and Reiko that the Rabbit God Festival required sacrificing a child, and Qi Si persuaded them to flee Rabbit God Town.
  • Qi Si led Reiko and Kurokawa Akira into the forest, where night fell and the spirits of past vessels emerged from the fog.
  • Kurokawa Akira disappeared, and Reiko transformed into a ghost before Qi Si used her prayer ribbon to stir her memories.
  • Qi Si tried to kill Reiko with a blade, then used a Soul Contract to bind her before crushing the scarlet leaf that formed in his Mind Palace.
  • Reiko fell dead, and Qi Si’s main quest progress updated to gathering her corpse at 6/7.

Ch. 345Caution Rabbits (Sixteen): Who killed the girl

Qi Si uncovered the truth about Reiko’s death and learned that Lu Ming’s efforts to save her had trapped Hope Middle School in a loop. After completing the quest to find all of Reiko’s body, Qi Si saw a rabbit-masked ghost as memories of his own burial surfaced, and the instance offered him a chance to leave.

  • Lu Ming accused Qi Si of killing Reiko, then explained that he had repeatedly failed to save her and had accepted Li’s promise to let players help.
  • Qi Si returned to the school timeline, where students’ hostility shifted from Reiko to Lu Ming and they planned to sacrifice him to the Rabbit God.
  • Qi Si questioned Li Fang and learned that she could not see Reiko, then persuaded her to reveal that Reiko had been murdered and buried after being abused.
  • Li Fang gave Qi Si Reiko’s death report, and the scene shifted to a memory of children burying Lu Ming while others mourned Kannagi Shichiro.
  • Qi Si spotted a rabbit-masked ghost, and the main quest updated to show that all seven parts of Reiko’s body had been found and the instance could be exited.

Ch. 347Caution Rabbits (17): The Scapegoat Black Sheep

Qi Si rejected the chance to leave the Instance and witnessed the buried history of Lu Ming, Reiko, and the Rabbit God Festival. After crossing a school consumed by horrifying memories, he confronted Lu Ming in the fog and demanded to know what he would sacrifice and how he would ask for help.

  • Qi Si refused to abandon the Instance, restoring the main quest to gathering Reiko's corpse (6/7).
  • Qi Si witnessed the past in which Lu Ming had been chosen as the sacrifice, but Reiko took his place and a red-kimono rabbit offered itself in the pit instead.
  • Li Fang warned Qi Si that the people at Hope Middle School would kill Lu Ming, while the school corridor and classrooms erupted into grotesque scenes of violence.
  • Qi Si used his recorder to confuse the crawling limbs and crossed the blood-filled school as its students reenacted the events that led to Reiko's sacrifice.
  • Qi Si learned that students had planned to sacrifice Lu Ming and Reiko to the Rabbit God, then saw the rabbit in red watching him from a classroom window.
  • Qi Si confronted Lu Ming in the fog, mocked his appeals for sympathy, and asked what he would sacrifice and how he would beg for help.

Ch. 348Caution Rabbits (18): An Evil God's Temptation

Qi Si recalled how he endured persecution at school, met a red-clad version of himself, and orchestrated a series of deadly incidents before resuming the interrupted Rabbit God game with Lu Ming. After killing Reiko to keep her from becoming the Rabbit God’s vessel, Qi Si offered to take her place as the sacrifice.

  • As a fifteen-year-old, Qi Si endured bullying at school and encountered a red-clad figure who called himself another Qi Si and offered help.
  • Qi Si staged several deadly incidents, including a rooftop fall, a river accident, and mass food poisoning.
  • Qi Si remembered that the red-clad figure had appeared in his past dreams and rescues, then agreed to continue the game with Lu Ming.
  • In Rabbit God Town, Qi Si found that Reiko had died and learned the game now required him to attend the fireworks festival seven days later.
  • Kurokawa Akira and the Head of the Kurokawa Family arrived, and Qi Si revealed that the children knew the truth about the Rabbit God and its sacrifices.
  • Qi Si offered to replace Reiko as the Rabbit God’s vessel because he was the child most like the Rabbit God.

Ch. 349Caution Rabbits (19): The Shaman's Trap

Qi Si returned to Rabbit God Town with Kurokawa Akira and Reiko’s corpse, using the crisis to make himself the sole candidate for sacrifice. After the townspeople questioned the Rabbit God Festival and the Kurokawa Family head revealed the town’s history, Qi Si exposed himself as the legendary shaman and offered a new contract.

  • Qi Si persuaded the Kurokawa Family head and retainers that he was willing to sacrifice himself as Kannagi Shichiro, and they escorted him and Kurokawa Akira back to Rabbit God Town.
  • Reiko’s mother attacked the procession, and Kurokawa Akira blurted out that he and Shichiro had taken Reiko away because the Rabbit God would kill her.
  • The townspeople questioned the Rabbit God Festival after Kurokawa Akira’s claims, and the Kurokawa Family head promised an explanation before the crowd dispersed.
  • The Kurokawa Family head told Qi Si that the Rabbit God had trapped the town and that the families had used children as sacrifices to maintain the seal.
  • The Kurokawa Family head recognized that Qi Si was not Kannagi Shichiro, and Qi Si revealed himself as the shaman who had once made a deal with the Rabbit God.
  • Qi Si unfurled a blood-red contract and urged the Kurokawa Family head to make a new deal with him.

Ch. 350Caution Rabbits (20): The Divine Lord Enters the Divine Dwelling

Qi Si entered the Divine Dwelling and discovered that past priests had been imprisoned there, forced to carve Rabbit God statues until they died. He found a Divine Chisel that could turn living beings into gods, leaving him to wonder how an item of its power could be taken out of the Instance.

  • Qi Si followed the attendant to the Divine Dwelling and asked that Kurokawa Akira and his brother be allowed to visit.
  • Qi Si witnessed a ghostly Rabbit God procession, disguised himself as one of its masked participants, and learned that the lot-casting had gone wrong when the expected vessel was not chosen.
  • Qi Si followed the procession to the shrine and entered the Divine Dwelling, where he found rules that confined the priest and required him to carve Rabbit God statues.
  • Qi Si discovered writings and an apparition revealing how children had been locked in the Divine Dwelling, starved, and driven to carve their own bodies.
  • Qi Si identified the carving knife as the Divine Chisel, an item that could carve any living being into a god, and questioned how it could leave the Instance.

Ch. 351Caution Rabbits (21): The Bamboo Cage Eyes Game

Qi Si uncovered the three families’ attempt to create a controllable Rabbit God and survived the shrine’s Bamboo Cage Eyes game by naming Reiko. He discovered that the Rabbit God was imprisoned by a contract and reached a new save point, but he still faced danger at the upcoming festival.

  • Qi Si watched a vision of a priest trying to sculpt a youth into a new Rabbit God, then inferred that the three families wanted a god they could control.
  • Locked inside the shrine, Qi Si agreed to play Bamboo Cage Eyes with the ghostly children and named Edo Reiko as the person behind him.
  • Reiko’s head appeared at Qi Si’s feet, bearing the same features as the head he had seen in Hope Middle School, deepening his suspicions about the connection between the two places.
  • Qi Si recited the Rabbit God prayer and played Reiko’s story on a tape recorder, forcing the Rabbit God back into the shrine.
  • Qi Si found a portrait of Qi beneath the statue and learned that the Rabbit God had been imprisoned in the Divine Dwelling for two hundred years.
  • The game panel granted Qi Si Save Point ⑤ and warned that he was likely to die during the Rabbit God Festival on August 7.

Ch. 352Caution Rabbits (22): False Time and Space

Qi Si left the paused Rabbit God Town game and explored Hope Middle School’s administrative building, where he found evidence that the school’s history and the game’s world were separate timelines. He uncovered Eternal Life Technology Company’s sacrifices and learned that Kannagi Shichiro had become the school’s Rabbit God, then Lu Ming appeared and said he had locked the Rabbit God inside his game.

  • Qi Si paused the Rabbit God Town game and returned to Dorm Room 0415 at Hope Middle School.
  • Qi Si used the recording pen’s password to open a locked room in the administrative building.
  • Qi Si found records showing Kannagi Shichiro became the Rabbit God in Hope Middle School’s history, while the game depicted a separate worldline.
  • Qi Si read documents revealing that Eternal Life Technology Company sacrificed students in Bamboo Cage Eyes to pursue immortality.
  • Qi Si wondered whether the game’s Rabbit God was the original god or Kannagi Shichiro, and Lu Ming said he had locked It inside his game.
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