The Omniscient Carbuncle resumed his previous posture.
"Your answer is right, but my answer is right too!"
"So I won't punish you this time."
Charles hadn't even had a chance to feel relieved before the Omniscient Carbuncle added, "Instead, I'll punish your companion... and show you how I put an elephant in a box in one step."
"Smack!"
The next moment, a wooden box abruptly appeared beside them and landed on the ground.
Jody, who had been standing there in a daze, disappeared the very next second.
Charles fixed his gaze on the battered box. Jody had gone inside—it had swallowed her up.
It really had only taken one step.
Damn it!
The Omniscient Carbuncle looked at Charles again. "Come on, come on! Give me more questions I haven't heard before!"
"If your question can amuse me, I'll give you anything!"
"Come on, come on!!!"
There was no turning back for Charles now. His previous question had been part of a series. The Omniscient Carbuncle might have found a loophole in the first one, but Charles refused to believe he could do the same with the rest.
So Charles asked, "A lion held a gathering and invited all the animals to attend. Which one didn't come?"
"What lion?"
"The Grudge Spirit Demon Lion? The Wasteland Lion King? The Griffin Lion God?" the Omniscient Carbuncle asked again.
This time, Charles had learned from his previous mistake. "The most powerful lion—the most powerful one in all the worlds!"
He should have thought of that sooner. This was a supernatural world. In the previous round, he should have said the most powerful elephant.
As soon as he heard the question, the Omniscient Carbuncle fell silent and racked his brains.
That wasn't all. One Spine Chain after another rose into the air, lifting the