Temple of Wealth

"Father? I think the timing is off," Sangji's older brother, Xidaka White Wolf, said, scratching the back of his head after they left the temple.

"Wasn't she attending Aunt Panita's lecture yesterday afternoon? A Temple Priest inviting quasi-high-level magic beasts to listen to an Ancient God's oracle—that was something that shook all of Tikar.

But at that same time, Abadi had already welcomed the so-called Totapara into the shrine. She couldn't split herself in two and enter two cities at once, could she?"

"Heh, what's so hard to understand about that?" Duoxi White Wolf said quite easily. "The one who arrived in Abadi yesterday afternoon was Sangji. It was just that last night, when we didn't know it, Totapara came over.

Sangji's maid Sekula studied incense and pharmaceuticals. The whole hall was filled with the scent of incense she compounded. You're a Werewolf too—how can you not even smell that?"

Of course Xidaka could smell it. After all, when he was young, he had taken no few beatings from the leopard woman. What shocked him, however, was that his father had actually tacitly accepted Totapara detaining his little sister. "Father? Sangji came to the Hindukush Basin carrying the Royal Court's orders. If she keeps hiding in the Temple of Life, how is she supposed to intermarry with the Scorch Wolf Tribe?"

"You... what am I supposed to say about you?" Duoxi looked utterly disappointed that iron had failed to become steel. "Let me ask you, why does that Totapara look so much like Sangji? You didn't even recognize it?"

"This... don't our family's Beast God's Favored all look like that?" Xidaka replied instinctively, and his old man flicked him right on the forehead.

"Our family has plenty of Favored. Take your grandfather—does he look like that wolf? How can you