Stupid. Incompetent. They might be as unprepared for our arrival as we are ourselves, but letting the bonds between a god and shinki form naturally would at least put more people at ease than forcing them.

[It's pretty clear from his tone that he's thought about this sort of thing a lot, and he's certainly had the time to with how long he's been here. While he knows the higher-ups have had other things to deal with, they've also had months to do something about how arrivals are handled.]

They're overrun, more like. They're dealing with this on top of an uprising from another area, and it's clear they don't have experience with this kind of upheaval on all fronts.