[THAT...is a very complicated question, actually. In his own world? Cao Pi was always known as a skeptic, a man who did not tolerate superstitions and dismissed the mere suggestion that gods and immortals existed. But he's just come from several years of battling actual demons and rubbing shoulders with his own creator gods...

How to explain without spilling his guts? Because he's not about to do that. The conflicted look on his face says as much.]

Ordinarily, I would say no, but...perhaps I should not be so hasty.

That word. It sounds like it comes from the language spoken in Wa...