He tried merging the storage property with Armament Haki and Observation Haki. No luck.
He tried merging it with ki. No luck.
He tried merging it with Nen. No... hmm, that actually worked. The storage space property had evolved from Nen too, so merging them was easy.
The problem was that after Odin merged the storage property into his Nen, the results were poor. It did not give him the same ability to perform at one hundred percent in every category that mimicking other energies did.
Still, after experimenting, he managed to expand the space inside a cloth bag by ten percent.
"Fuck," he muttered.
Ponzu looked up at him. "Failed again?"
"Yeah," Odin said. "This thing is more trouble than I expected."
He returned to his chair, sat down, and stared at Ding-Dang.
Ding-Dang lay there motionless, looking as though it had lost all will to live.
Things kept going in and out of the pouch on its belly, and a strange sensation kept feeling around inside its stomach. It had resisted, but that had done no good.
"Forget it." Odin shook his head and stopped dwelling on the storage ability. "I'll try the other one first."
He took the Wandering Soul Pillow card out of the Spell Book.
"GAIN."
The card turned into a pillow and landed in his hands.
The pillow was soft and gray, no different from an ordinary pillow.
He lifted it and sniffed it. It had a faint herbal scent.
He placed the pillow on the bed, lay down, and rested his head on it.
The pillow was comfortable, more comfortable than the inn's pillows.
Before long, drowsiness crept over him.
He closed his eyes.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt his body grow light.
He opened his eyes and found