Could demigods not be killed?
Jiang Qiao looked at the battered wooden box placed in the corner.
The wood had already begun to rot, covered in pockmarked dents. Yet a layer of paint had just been applied to it, and it had not even fully dried.
Was this the Mysterious Old Man's contingency against the hotel?
Suddenly.
The lid on top of the box seemed to be pushed from underneath by something, splitting open along a narrow crack.
Then.
A pair of chubby white hands reached out from inside.
"Hm?"
Jiang Qiao was slightly taken aback.
These hands... have no Supernatural Aura at all, and they look like a child's hands.
"These are its hands,"
the old man said.
"This box is special. To a certain extent, it can isolate a demigod's senses."
"I once imagined that an accident might happen one day and that it would gather its body again... For the Alarm Clock to affect the hotel, it must be placed on the Sixth Floor."
"But because it would be so close, it might very well regain control of it."
"Once it regained its ability to rewind time, it would soon fully revive and recover completely."
"To deal with that possibility."
"I put its hands inside the box. When that time came, a Vicious Ghost would carry the box out of the hotel."
"That way, it would temporarily remain incomplete."
"Rebirth would take a great deal of time."
"If it were missing many parts, it would revive without hesitation. But if it were only missing a pair of hands, it would first tend to search for them."
"Only after failing to find them would it choose rebirth."
"In that case."
"We might be able to buy some time and find a way to seal it again."
"Even if