Probably. There must be some kind of connection made before we get here. [Somehow. Which is just another question to add to the steadily growing pile of them.

And speaking of that pile of questions, Shun grimaces rather obviously at her question about soulless shinki.]

A lot of people would like to know the answer to that, because a "soulless" shinki shouldn't even really be possible if you think about what shinki are. I only had one for about ten days back when I first arrived, so I only really know what everyone else knows about them.