"Ugh, please," said Heiji, playing along. "No splashing me with holy water or rattling a bunch of beads in my face. That gets so annoying." The truth was that he actually had been mistaken for a ghost or something similar in the past. And the process was always kind of a pain in the butt.

"Hmm... so are you allowed to wish for anything?" He had a feeling the lottery was going to be mentioned once or twice during this ceremony.