[As You Wish]
Panel-kun remained remarkably calm. Time was what it lacked least. As for the issue of time... Jiu Ming should have been the one more concerned about that. If something went wrong, it could flip the table and start over, but the cards laid out on it clearly could not be preserved.
Jiu Ming understood that perfectly well. No matter what, the main thing was to jump out of this "table" first. As for time? At the moment, he did not seem to be short on it either.
As for how he had discovered this thing, Jiu Ming could only say that he had seen it. Just like how he could see the red thread on the straw doll in Hell Girl's world, when he looked at this grass, he saw the phantom image of a Jeweled Branch of Penglai overlapping it.
"Hey, Panel-kun, did my eyes awaken or something?"
[You are overthinking it. This change of yours merely lets you glimpse the true nature of things a little.]
"Oh." Jiu Ming nodded. There was no need to say it—this change had definitely come from the Mysterious Shop. Hmm, he could still be affected by it even when he was not in the Mysterious Shop. Good. That counted as another step down the road toward becoming a permissions dog.
"Eh!? Ehh!?" Upon returning to her own room, Kaguya rubbed at the corner of her eyes and tilted her head, staring blankly with an utterly adorable expression at the Jeweled Branch of Penglai stuck in the flowerpot. "How could this have been found? I clearly hid it so well! Could Eirin have happened to see it while passing by?"
Even as she gave a reason she did not believe herself, Kaguya reached out and touched the Jeweled Branch of