"The gods don't really seem to put much proper forethought into how trouble could be caused for themselves and the heavens, do they?" Komaeda says mildly. "I imagine if you or I were asked to consider ways in which the cult - or anyone else - might try to upset the course of heavenly events, we'd come up with so many possibilities and precautions to take against them that nothing could even happen in the heavens without months of careful planning and screening for any theoretical interference...but the old gods don't even seem to consider that something could go wrong at an event until, at most, a day or two before it actually happens. I wonder if they're just extremely ineffectual, or someone in the heavenly bureaucracy is actually leaving opportunities for things to go wrong?"