When you say that- I saw someone dusting the area behind the gate, but now I can't hear them... [ Might have been a monk- or shrine maiden- doing their job and going somewhere else after it's finished. But it doesn't hurt to check.

Caster walks towards the direction of the normally closed-off portions of the shrine, but he pauses looking at the figure of shrine guardian- comes to think of it, to whom this shrine even belongs. ]

Shinto shrine- we might want to check to whom it belongs later. Always good to know who owes Metis a favor.