"So that was it," Bingge said. "That makes sense."
Agent had thought he meant what had happened between Bohr and Aunt Kane back then. But soon, he heard Bingge say, "Your brother—the one who first came looking for me—proposed a way to trap the evil spirit inside a physical body in reality. Fight fire with fire."
Agent turned to look at him. Bingge continued, "He had a very special weapon. It looked like a spike, but it was actually an awl. This might have been the tool Old Bohr used to sew the dolls."
"Wait," Agent said. "An awl?"
He remembered that when they had faced Kate earlier, the Kate possessed by Pursuer had taken out a spike and stabbed it into the chest of his own body, which had been possessed by the evil spirit. That thing had seemed familiar. Agent thought carefully, then remembered—wasn't that the weapon that had wounded Pursuer inside the Scare Box?
After obtaining that safe, they had actually taken certain protective measures. Neither of them had stood in front of it; they had both kept far away. Yet the instant it opened, they were still attacked. Thinking about it carefully, that really did not make much sense.
"That's right," Bingge said. "Like this doll, it can travel between reality and the spiritual world, exist in both worlds at once, and harm people in both worlds. Your brother believed this might be one of the signs of an evil spirit, so he wanted to use it to trap the evil spirit in the real world."
"I see," Agent said. "Looks like this was Old Bohr's work too. He really outsmarted himself."
"I have an idea," Bruce said. "Old Bohr could return to the real world through special means and possess other people. Couldn't we do