是为鬼使神差
“And only a few humans are equipped to be their supernatural agents. - [grunts] - [dramatic music playing]”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可与神魔交换契约
“can only do so by channeling their spirits through humans. And only a few humans are equipped to be their supernatural agents.”
是 为 鬼使神差
“And only a few humans are equipped to be their supernatural agents. - [grunts] - [dramatic music playing]”
而某些神差
“Some of these supernatural agents are endowed”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
While 'guishi shenchai' is usually an idiom meaning an uncanny coincidence, fantasy narratives frequently deconstruct it back to its literal mythological roots.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
this is called / this constitutes
Classical Chinese grammatical pattern commonly used in formal narrative or exposition to state definitions.
envoys of ghosts and gods (or colloquially, uncanny coincidence)
Literally referring to spirit emissaries here, though in everyday modern Chinese it means doing something inexplicably as if guided by spirits.
