[ They're shiny and pretty and honestly, it might be a smarter idea to just save the stones for returning home, rather than tossing them out here in the shrine for an absent god, especially when RO brings that possibility up. ]

If this is a shrine for that bastard, it's no wonder the place got trashed and left forgotten. That place is probably his too, if that's really what it is.

[ "That place" being the castle Kido nods her head towards, semi-visible from the higher ground of the shrine. ]

What's up with that? Killing a monster, taking his charm and returning it to his own castle? And somehow that lets us go home?