[While it's hard to be sure of most things here, Shun has more suspicions than most probably do, and it's kind of gratifying to hear someone pick up the point so quickly. Most people take that as a cue to call him paranoid, which isn't entirely wrong, but still gets old very quickly.

Regardless of how long he's suspected it, though, he still looks somewhat unsettled by the concept. When he knew a shinki before this world, it's even more cause for worry than it would normally be.]

I wouldn't say for sure, but the decent old gods I've met - other than Amaterasu, and that could be something about status - people have always specifically mentioned that they have shinki more like you and the other new ones. It's possible the older gods think it's more efficient to have shinki that don't question.

[He says the word with clear and unmistakeable bitterness and derision.]