"Grounds for elimination" - so they might lose their spot in the competition entirely.

[senri pulls the coat closer again - before he notices his own anxiety, then sighing and forcing himself into relaxing as he shakes his head.]

I asked Beauty what that meant. Will they be okay? Do they go to where Passhi is? Is their elimination the same thing as our elimination - where we have to be killed to not count in the game anymore?

[ . . . senri lets his gaze fall to the table]

Gods have a rule that they can't tell too much all at once - no matter how much they want to tell me. It's happened to me before, where a god that really liked me wanted to tell me something, but it just came out muffled. I couldn't tell if that's what happened to Beauty before he could answer me or... if he just didn't answer because he didn't want to upset me.