A Close Call with a Very Embarrassing Past

Acid Witch stared intently into the deep pit.

She was certain the clacking sound had come from here.

But the moment she looked, the sound stopped.

Still, as a highly curious witch, she couldn't just ignore something happening right under her nose. She had to get to the bottom of it.

So she abandoned her "work" and, under the curious gazes of the witches nearby, rode her Flying Broom straight down to the bottom of the pit.

"What's going on? Did you find something?"

Since they all had minds of their own, Acid Witch's actions didn't bother the witches who had been "working" alongside her.

Instead, they all leaned over to look down.

They wanted to see what was going on with her.

After all, they saw one another every day—or, if not in person, then in the group chat.

So they knew nobody would do anything reckless in a situation like this.

The pit was about twenty or thirty meters deep.

It wasn't very deep, and the opening was so wide that plenty of light reached the bottom.

"Stay up there! I'll check things out and come back up!"

Acid Witch shouted up at the witches who had called out to her, then reached the bottom of the pit.

Compared to the noisy area above, it was much quieter down here.

She should be able to hear more clearly.

Clack—

Sure enough.

Less than a minute after she came down, Acid Witch heard the sound again.

And this time, because she was closer, she could hear it more clearly.

She wasn't an expert on sounds, but one thing was certain: there was something down here.

Wait...

That Bone Pincer Worm had emerged from the ground.

So its lower half should still be underground.

In other words, they'd spent all