"Hmm."
After hearing Tonraq explain the entire chain of events, Kahn asked him a few questions, then sank into thought.
Apart from preparing to hold the Ice Spirit Festival, the Southern Water Tribe had done nothing particularly unusual lately. At least, judging by what he had learned from his conversation with Tonraq so far, they had indeed done nothing that would anger a deity.
Then again, even though Tonraq was chief of the Southern Water Tribe, that did not mean he knew everything happening in the South Pole region like the back of his hand.
Perhaps everything was normal within the scope of what he knew and controlled, but beyond the reach of his hands and eyes, there might well be an entirely different picture.
"In that case, we'll have to meet that angry deity first."
With insufficient information, any speculation was meaningless. Only by making contact with that angry deity in person could he learn the full story.
"Sorry for the trouble, then."
Donald thanked him.
The deity had appeared in the waters of the South Pole, so Tonraq also arranged an escort ship specifically for the two of them to use.
"Oh, right,"
Kahn suddenly said.
"Chief Tonraq, may I visit the holy land at the center of the South Pole to take a look?"
There was a holy land at the center of each pole: the two passages connecting the Spirit World and the Human World, which the first Avatar had sealed.
Although the two passages stood right next to each other in the Spirit World, in the Human World, they were located at the South and North Poles respectively. Nowadays, however, most people only knew that each pole had a Water Tribe holy land, without knowing its true nature.
In a sense, though, forgetting was the