Without a price to pay for the Sin Object, the shopkeeper had a brief chance to contend with the ghost, though it was barely enough to make a difference.
Fortunately, he still had the crucial email about the Heterochromatic Eyes.
But the Human Sculptures were far too cunning. They had merged into White Wolf's shadow and refused to reveal their true forms.
The shopkeepers' intelligence had been leaked far too thoroughly. This ghost clearly did not belong to Heavenly Sea—it was an outside ghost—yet it knew the shopkeepers' greatest trump card.
How many secrets were hidden within all this no longer mattered to White Wolf here and now.
Blasting three Human Sculptures with one shot had done little more than whet his appetite. Five more Human Sculptures had already broken free of the mouthwash's restraints.
But at a time like this, he had no chance to force more mouthwash down them.
The flashlight had been knocked to the floor by the gunshot. Its Light Source flickered on and off. Along with the dim glow of the emergency lights in the Control Room, it let him glimpse the five black shadows forming a complete encirclement.
The Human Sculptures were no longer limiting themselves to attacking. They intended to use their numerical advantage to surround him and kill him.
Once they truly blocked every path, White Wolf would be a trapped beast fighting for its life.
He caught the move keenly, so he used one of his precious three bullets to break through the encirclement.
Shotgun pellets spread outward. At close range, the recoil was extremely powerful, and the release of Supernatural Power was even more violent.
The second shot fired. Flames erupted, joling White Wolf's obese body back three or four steps.
After two consecutive shots, the air was thick with