The two headed toward the Back Mountain, taking so many twists and turns along the way that they seemed to be burrowing into the mountain's belly. It looked nothing like a mausoleum built on a mountain.
Chu Tiange inwardly counted himself lucky. If he had searched alone, he could have wandered around here for ten years without finding it. He wondered whether meeting Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva had been arranged by the Heavenly Dao or triggered purely by his own actions.
Then Kṣitigarbha transmitted a thought. "You came disguised as Kama, so thoroughly prepared. What outcome do you intend to achieve?"
Chu Tiange: "?"
What exactly have I prepared... wait, no...
Chu Tiange's thoughts raced, and realization dawned.
No wonder the Heavenly Dao had arranged for him to assume Kama's identity. It had been an absolutely precise choice.
Chu Tiange had only a patchy understanding of the Mortal World. Knowing about Kṣitigarbha did not mean he knew about Kama. But he had been sent on a mission into the Buddha Kingdom, an extraordinarily dangerous place, so the Heavenly Court had at least piled information about it in front of him and made him read through it in detail. What he could piece together from that depended on his own thinking.
Kama, the god of desire and love, was Indian Mythology's version of Cupid. FGO had turned him into a cute girl, and he was reasonably well known. In theory, he was not an evil god either. Chu Tiange had been misled by the Bliss Sutra left behind, constantly thinking about the matter in sexual terms. That had sent him off track, making him think it was Father God's twisted sense of humor, or that Father God wanted him to learn a Dual Cultivation method.
Only now, prompted by Kṣitigarbha, did he suddenly