[He hesitates a bit and then shrugs ambivalently.] I would be nice to know those things, I guess, but it also feels like we're all meant to start over here. So I think I'll just concentrate on figuring out how to be a shinki and what this place is.

It's weird to think I'm dead though? But... [He gestures to the food and the other gods and all the other shinki--really, everything in the room.] This isn't at all bad. If this is what it is to be dead, I rather like it.