Facing the Pine God's question, Manager Ying nodded.
"Then, can you tell me why you came to the Star-Moon Continent?"
The Pine God folded his arms and looked calmly at Manager Ying.
"Back when the Star-Moon World faced a world-ending crisis, some life forms were sent to the Blue Planet as seeds of hope."
"But later, the situation reversed. The Blue Planet underwent drastic changes and became unsuitable for supernatural life, while the Star-Moon World survived its crisis and flourished again."
"So I closed this world's gateway to the Blue Planet."
"After all, the life forms of this world would have an overwhelming advantage in power on Blue Star, where supernatural life couldn't survive."
"The fact that you can come here now means supernatural power has revived on the Blue Planet, right?"
"You can think of me as the gatekeeper between the two worlds. I can only let you through if your reason for crossing is legitimate."
"That's all correct!" Manager Ying nodded at the Pine God's words. "But supernatural power only revived over there recently. I teleported here for two reasons."
"One is to find ways to grow stronger."
"The other is that I have a friend who's a Divine Deer Apostle. The avatar the Divine Deer left over there told my friend to come to the Star-Moon World to find it. I just came ahead to scout things out for it."
"Huh?" The Pine God paused. "You're with Elder Sister Divine Deer?"
"You should have said so sooner!"
"We're on the same side, the same side!" Seeing the squirrel address the Divine Deer so affectionately, Manager Ying smiled and immediately chimed in.
"Since Elder Sister Divine Deer sent you here, there's no problem," the Pine God said. "You have my permission! The method for crossing back is the