Hope the Shadow Guard Is All Right

Time rewound to one minute earlier.

Ever since seeing that unfamiliar face in the mirror, Ten Pull Guarantee Monster had been on guard against every mirror along the way.

From the very beginning, it had never occurred to him that something was wrong with himself. After all, he felt perfectly fine now. Not only did his wounds no longer hurt, he even felt as if his body had grown much lighter.

And in horror movies, mirrors were usually the places most likely to cause trouble, so the mirrors had to be the problem.

—That was what he thought until he opened the hatch and stepped into the downpour.

If he wanted to leave this ship, an escape boat was essential. If he stayed aboard this Yacht any longer, who knew what else might happen?

But shortly after he entered the storm through the rain, he suddenly felt a great many things sliding down his face. They were not the rain pelting down on him, but something more like tiny furry objects that made his cheeks itch.

"What the hell..."

Somewhat puzzled, Ten Pull Guarantee Monster wiped a hand across his face, only to immediately feel as if he had grabbed something off it.

When he lowered his head and looked at his palm in confusion, the blood in his entire body seemed to freeze solid.

In his open palm, thousands upon thousands of tiny spiders, washed by the rain, rapidly crawled over his entire hand.

And if someone looked directly at his face now, they would see a horrifying sight enough to send their Sanity Value plummeting. That disgusting, terrifying scene could not even be adequately described in words.

And just as Ten Pull Guarantee Monster's increasingly muddled mind had yet to figure out what was happening, his stomach suddenly