"Oh a shinki is a person like me. So someone who died and then went to the heavens and forgot all their life and got a special name from a god." He held out his hand to show the red kanji (小僧) marked there.

"When our gods say our names we turn into a special weapon so they can fight bad monsters. But we've not seen any of those since we came to the train. "But mostly we help our gods if they are answering prayers or helping people!"