"It was rather unfortunate..."
Fu Hua had noticed from the start that Yoshika Miyako met the requirements, but unfortunately, she had already become a zombie.
She could not take a zombie as her disciple. However... if Yoshika could regain her sanity, she could try nurturing her.
"Oh, right, blockhead... have you noticed that the divine power of this shrine is slowly draining away? In a few days at most... the shrine probably won't be able to stop the zombies from invading anymore."
Cang Xiaoxuan stood atop the stone table. Though she had been created in Cangxuan's image, the Book of Cangxuan's personality resembled Cangxuan's younger sister, Danzhu, more closely.
"Yes. If I'm not mistaken, someone has set their sights on this secret realm. The zombies are merely a means for them to corrupt it. After all, this secret realm should belong to a deity... or rather, it is the secret realm of this shrine's deity. It's just that something has gone wrong with that deity."
That was also one of the reasons Fu Hua had decided to deal with the zombies tomorrow. The person behind it all was within this secret realm, plotting everything.
"Could that shrine maiden be the deity of this secret realm?" Thinking of the shrine maiden called Paper Butterfly, Cang Xiaoxuan suspected that she might be the shrine's deity. But something must have happened to her, since she currently appeared to be nothing more than an ordinary shrine maiden.
"That is possible. Once we find the mastermind tomorrow, we should know."
After making a round of the shrine, Fu Hua and Cang Xiaoxuan returned to the shrine maiden's bedroom. It was a little embarrassing, really. This was the shrine maiden's room, yet the three of them had occupied it.
Looking at Kaguya, who was still