But what about the people who lived in that village and protected it? At first glance, they might appear to fully understand the taboo under their care, acting as guardians of the world.

However, in the end, those who kept careful watch over it since ages long past still had no idea what it really was.

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Most of the villagers didn’t even know what they were doing there, only carrying out the instructions left by their ancestors. They questioned nothing, repeating the same actions over and over. Their ancestors had come from foreign lands and had spent hundreds, thousands of years repeating the same stupid lives.

-Volume 13 pages 215 and 217