"Listen up, whoever's inside! Your little life is in my hands now. If you don't want to die, open the door and let me in!!" With a clang, Jiu Ming planted the Goddess of Love on the ground and leaned it against the wall, delivering his threat without hesitation. As for whether the people inside could hear him—if they had designed this turtle-shell coffin, how could it possibly lack a way to monitor the outside world?
Jiu Ming was only worried that whoever was inside might not recognize what he had pulled out. After all, it looked like nothing more than a missile, not a nuclear bomb... Some other day, he ought to find a small factory and have them make a nuclear-bomb-shaped shell to wrap it in!
Then the phone Jiu Ming had gotten from Netherworld Soul Chaser rang. Before he even pressed the answer button, a voice of indeterminate gender came through the phone. "There is no door here."
"Oh." Jiu Ming nodded calmly. A powerful feeling had risen in him the instant he heard those words: whoever had said that was definitely an old fox!
He hated dealing with beings like that most. Truly!
"If you intend to keep using such clumsy tricks to make me misunderstand something, then please, continue."
The voice on the phone hung up unilaterally after saying that. Jiu Ming curled his lip and put the phone away. Just the ability to control this phone without a sound meant that guy was absolutely one of the biggest figures in Academy City! Or rather, there was no "one of"—there was only one!
After putting away the dangerous Goddess of Love, Jiu Ming opened a black crack directly in the wall before him. Just as he thought—using a spatial ability made getting inside easy.
But