[Sharak waits patiently, giving Genjo an approving look when he makes the same association she did.]
I didn't make the connection until I heard all that. Who's ever heard of someone using a person's soul as medium? [Conclusive proof of an actual soul would be weird enough but. Even for bad priests, there has to be some acceptance of that shit.] But it's what the gods here have been doing to make shinki for centuries. Attach a name to a wandering spirit and create a spell to transform them.
[It's not a direct translation for how shikigami work in their own world, but it's close enough in theory. At least for the purposes of understanding.]
Hakkai and I thought it might be... psychosomatic. They're already playing with everyone's memories. Rather than designing everyone's forms individually, it might be easier to let our own minds do that. [Genjo remembers being fucked up, he arrives fucked up. Gojyo doesn't remember having a youkai mark, he doesn't have a youkai mark.] ... That or your popularity is to blame again.
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I didn't make the connection until I heard all that. Who's ever heard of someone using a person's soul as medium? [Conclusive proof of an actual soul would be weird enough but. Even for bad priests, there has to be some acceptance of that shit.] But it's what the gods here have been doing to make shinki for centuries. Attach a name to a wandering spirit and create a spell to transform them.
[It's not a direct translation for how shikigami work in their own world, but it's close enough in theory. At least for the purposes of understanding.]
Hakkai and I thought it might be... psychosomatic. They're already playing with everyone's memories. Rather than designing everyone's forms individually, it might be easier to let our own minds do that. [Genjo remembers being fucked up, he arrives fucked up. Gojyo doesn't remember having a youkai mark, he doesn't have a youkai mark.] ... That or your popularity is to blame again.