Alloy Master, why are you trying to steal my gold?!

Could you possibly have repaired the Buddha statue?

Even if you had repaired it—no, that was impossible. The Buddha statue was in my Studio. With the lot of you, there was no way you had the skills to steal it out and repair it!

Full of suspicion, Shen Le followed his junior brothers and sisters inside. They turned one corner, then another, passed through two doors, and found two junior brothers standing to either side of a floor-length curtain. Seeing him approach, they shouted in unison:

"Dangdangdangdang—"

One extended his left hand and the other his right, each grabbing one side of the curtain before flying backward. The curtain was pulled open, revealing a Buddha statue in all its glory—then another, and another, and another. Five identical Buddha statues stood neatly lined up before him!

Shen Le: "..."

Why didn't you just get a hook each and pull the curtain apart from both sides?

Why not get a long pole each and draw the curtain aside like a theater curtain? Or better yet, make it look like that scene in Havoc in Heaven where the little monkeys pushed open the Water Curtain Cave's waterfall curtain?

Why not even add the theme music from Little Sword Society?

At a glance, the five Buddha statues looked identical. On closer inspection, however, there were considerable differences.

The one in the middle had the highest degree of restoration. It could be said to have been molded entirely from the original, except that the mottled patches were not covered in Gold Foil, but reproduced in similar colors instead.

The one on the left was gleaming gold all over. At first glance, it seemed completely covered in Gold Foil, but a closer look revealed that its entire surface had simply been rendered in the color of