The items Angel had brought to Text Manor with the Dream Conch were things he had grabbed at random. He had even prepared for every one of them to fail. To his surprise, one had worked!
Only one of the dozen or so odds and ends had a "spacetime signal source," but that mattered!
It meant the Dream Conch could draw "intense emotions," the special significance attached to an object, into the Dream Crystal Plain as well!
Angel had worried that the Dream Conch could not draw in something as intangible as that. Now it seemed he had underestimated it.
Back in the day, the "Dream Conch of Moonlight Coast" had been called the most worthless mysterious item in the Southern Wizarding World... Yet the more Angel used it, the more extraordinary it seemed.
Even now, he had seen no sign of its limits!
It was a mysterious item, after all.
As Angel marveled at it, he wondered which of the objects on the table was the source of the spacetime signal.
Was it the crystal from the Crystal-Eyed Race, or the bloodstained scissors?
Curious, he clicked to inspect it—
"Wilted pinecone: This item carries intense emotions from its user."
"A pinecone?!"
The answer Angel had considered least was the right one?
How could a pinecone, something that grew in nature, hold such intense emotions?
Curious and puzzled, Angel had Hertz resonate with the pinecone.
A moment later, sounds reached his ears through the signal Hertz emitted. Angel listened, utterly baffled...
"Chirp, chirp—"
"Chirp, chirp!"
"Chirp~ chirp!"
It was all animal chatter, with the occasional swish of a leap, the rustle of leaves underfoot, and the rush of wind.
It sounded as though he were in the heart of nature.
"So the owner of this pinecone was an animal in