Point of Return

"Run to that old hag's house right now! The answer is there! The tree you must serve, the benefactor… Huh? Wait a minute… Now that I see it, there's a bad relationship there too?" After encountering beings that shouldn't be seen several times, those were the words I heard after visiting a famous shaman. "Excuse me?" But what I encountered there was a handsome man who looked like he had just stepped out of a magazine. "Who are you? How are you here?" "Whatever I am, I'm better than a petty thief who breaks into other people's houses." "A… thief? Look here, mister. I'm not a petty thief." "Or what, an aspirant?" Even a brief conversation with him wasn't normal; he was clearly a social ...