Chapter 54 - The Face Behind the Mask
At the same time, Jhin 's mind flashed back to the kobolds they had met at Eastport Station.
The ones whose bodies had been stolen by contracts — leaving their souls mortgaged to the kobolds.
There was a question hidden there.
Why did they have to lose their bodies?
Why, of all things, did someone need to steal soulless bodies?
Up until now, they hadn't been able to imagine the answer.
But now, it was all too clear.
«Those bastards created extra lives,» Jhin said quietly.
Suppose — at the very moment of death — their souls were automatically transmitted into the bodies of kidnapped children?
Suppose the contract had built in that kind of contingency?
—It was entirely possible.
'Because the contracts are adjusted by the system.'
Now that reality had become a game world, the "system" was as absolute as divine law.
Nothing in this world could defy it.
Jhin was sure of it now.
The merchants had been exploiting the system itself.
