"To grant all wishes would, I think, be worse than granting no wishes. Let us imagine two warriors on opposite sides. Each wishes for the strength or the skill to defeat the other. What happens? If there are more fighting in the name of an evil cause, do their greater number of wishes mean that overall, evil wins the day?" He shakes his head mournfully, tucking his hands into his sleeves. "It is a troubling prospect."

Kazuma has also said some things about the nature of divinity in his world that need processing. "She would cease to be? That, too, is troubling. If even the gods are so ephemeral..."