A busy Leonard

Late at night, beside a garbage-strewn embankment on the northern bank of the Tussock River flowing through the East Borough.

Wearing a trench coat with its collar turned up, but no red gloves, Leonard Mitchell extended his left hand, pressing his fingertips against the chest of a translucent, human-shaped spirit.

The resentful spirit let out an unwilling howl that carried far on the wind. Leonard frowned, somewhat tempted to use the cool catchphrase he had spent several days deciding on:

"Pacification failed. Prepare for purification!"

...Then he would draw his revolver and cleanly settle every problem with exorcism bullets...

Unfortunately, he could only imagine doing such a thing. Whether for the sake of acting or keeping his operations discreet and preventing ordinary people from noticing the existence of Beyonder powers, "pacification" was the best option.

Fortunately, the resentful spirit before him soon calmed down. The violent, bloodthirsty flames in its eyes faded, and then its figure grew faint and disappeared, restoring peace to the embankment that had been filled with eerie cries and sinister winds.

Tracing a crimson moon before his chest, Leonard turned around expressionlessly and left the haunted spot.

Over the past six months, the East Borough has had more reports of hauntings and supernatural incidents than all the other districts of Backlund combined... Too many people died in that Great Smog, and countless bodies weren't cleared away in time. Usually, most spirits form after wild animals and spiritual creatures die, but now they're actually mostly human. This has never happened since the Graveyard Burial Method was implemented at the beginning of the Fifth Epoch...

Of course, through these incidents involving the pacification and purification of resentful spirits, he had also thoroughly digested his Soul Assurer potion. From time to time, he had a feeling: while the other