Not only that.
Yotsuya Miko was the wish-maker, and she received the protection, but the sacrifice chosen by the deity, in the original drama, was Yurikawa Hana, who had come with her.
This was because Yurikawa Hana had abundant life energy within her.
To maintain its power, the deity needed to regularly replenish itself with offerings.
However, with Rosen's intervention, Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana no longer needed to go to any shrine to pray.
If they needed anything, they could just pray directly to Rosen.
Yet, even if they didn't go, the shrine still stood there.
Zhoufang Youxi became the "wish-maker," and the one to bear the cost was…
Rosen couldn't help but look at the gray-haired girl, Jun Dao Ling Nai.
Zhoufang Youxi's childhood playmate, and also a servant of the Suo Fang family for generations.
She was to be the sacrifice for that deity.
"Ayano, I'm sorry, I just… zoned out."
Zhoufang Youxi covered her throbbing head, unsure whether to explain what she had just seen.
But before the girl could react, Zhoufang Youxi noticed the figure behind her.
"Huh? It's that reclusive big shot! Are you interested in haunted houses too, big shot?"
Zhoufang Youxi seemed to forget her pain and fear from earlier, speaking with some excitement.
However, Rosen did not respond directly.
And at this moment, Zhoufang Youxi also noticed two beautiful girls she didn't recognize accompanying Rosen.
And they were all looking at her with a very strange gaze.
"Do I have something on my face?"
The girl couldn't help but touch her cheek, then looked at Jun Dao Ling Nai.
The latter nodded slightly in affirmation: "Young Lady Youxi, I have already told this Lord everything that just happened to you."
As soon as this was mentioned, Zhoufang Youxi couldn't help but get a little excited.
"Big shot, you seem to be my lucky star! Ever since I met you that day, I seem to have awakened supernatural abilities. Now I seem to be able to see those spirits more clearly, and when I encounter danger, I can even summon little Fox Spirits to help!"
"Just now, a spirit tried to attack me, but it was chased away by my two little foxes!"
"Big shot, don't tell me the little foxes were summoned by you to help me…"
After rambling on for a long time, the girl, sensing that the atmosphere was a bit off, lowered her head and said.
After all, she had received an invitation from this Lord before.
As long as she could accept the consequence of not being able to disobey Rosen's command, she would be able to transform from an ordinary person into a transcendent.
Could it be… that this Lord was secretly protecting her?
Hehe!
Sure enough, she still had extraordinary characteristics!
Otherwise, how could she enjoy such a privilege?
Thinking about it carefully, she was even a little happy.
However, Rosen's next words quickly poured a bucket of cold water on the young girl.
"The foxes are not my dependents, and I'll make a long story short; those foxes protecting you are not auspicious, but rather an ill omen. Only by making a wish to the gods at a shrine can you receive the protection of those foxes, but you only have three chances."
"Huh? But I haven't been to any shrines recently?"
Zhoufang Youxi was quite puzzled.
"And why only three times? What happens after the three times are used up? Do they just disappear?"
"The result is simple. Usually, after making a wish to a god, once the wish comes true, there is a step of fulfilling the wish. Once the three chances are used up, the foxes that originally protected you will come to collect what was agreed upon back then."
Speaking of this, Rosen couldn't help but look at the taciturn Jun Dao Ling Nai.
"The god who is willing to offer you protection seems to have taken a liking to your servant. When it's time to fulfill the wish, the foxes will reappear and take her away."
He recalled the setting of the original work.
It seemed that those beings offered as sacrifices to the gods would, after death, become the gods' servants.
The two masked fox women who helped repel the Undead in the original drama were the souls of sacrifices once offered to the gods.
After the god enslaved them, they became like that.
And after listening.
Zhoufang Youxi was stunned for a long time.
Yurikawa Hana, behind Rosen, couldn't help but ask, "Then, please tell me, how many times have those little foxes appeared?"
Upon hearing this, the young girl's forehead beaded with sweat: "It… it seems like it's already been three times."
Zhoufang Youxi realized the seriousness of the problem.
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"But I haven't been to any shrine? Let alone worshipped any gods!"
The young girl originally thought that either Rosen saw her extraordinary bones and secretly dispatched bodyguards, or she, like the protagonist in a manga, awakened a golden finger.
But she didn't expect the truth to be so… stark!
"Then recall it, after all, the person who would pray to the gods for you shouldn't be an outsider."
Rosen said.
"That's right, if they really wanted to harm you, they wouldn't pray for you, after all, the little foxes protected you three times."
Yotsuya Miko added.
"So, is it possible that it was done by someone familiar?"
Zhoufang Youxi reflexively looked at Jun Dao Ling Nai.
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From top to bottom in the Suo Fang family, no one understood or cared for her more than she did.
But Jun Dao Ling Nai shook her head: "I don't know about such a thing."
"Alright, sure enough, it wasn't you."
Zhoufang Youxi sighed, but she racked her brain and couldn't think of anyone else.
Wanting to protect her was one thing.
But to use such an abstract method!
Dying once the three chances are used up.
Isn't that as terrifying as being attacked by a wandering spirit!
And now that her chances were used up, it meant that she and Jun Dao Ling Nai could be claimed by the foxes at any time.
If she had done this, she would have accepted it.
But she had to pay such a price without even seeing the face of a god, no one could accept that.
So Zhoufang Youxi grasped her last straw of hope.
"Lord Rosen, about becoming your dependent, do your words still count?"
The young girl slightly raised her head and asked.
"Still counts, but have you thought it through clearly? After all, once the contract is completed, there is no room for repentance."
Speaking of this, Rosen revealed a playful smile.
"Speaking of which, becoming my dependent is similar in nature to becoming that god's servant. Even if I wanted to do something to you, you wouldn't be able to resist, so do you still want to continue?"
Anyone with eyes could see that Zhoufang Youxi was now a "drowning person" in urgent need of rescue.
And in this situation, usually most people would agree to anything to solve the immediate problem.