Those Making a Move

Bang!

A dull, heavy crash rang out—the sound of a box being forcefully shut.

As the sound echoed, the terrifying Door-Knocking Ghost that had wandered outside for half a year was finally imprisoned. No matter what identity that old man covered in corpse spots had possessed, no matter how terrifying it had been, it had ultimately fallen into the trap.

That withered arm holding up the lid had also been forcibly severed by Yang Jian with the strange firewood axe.

He wondered whether the ghost could still knock on doors after losing that arm.

Perhaps the Door-Knocking Ghost would become a one-armed ghost from now on.

Of course, the axe's dismemberment was only temporary. Perhaps inside that box, the ghost had already retrieved its arm.

"It seems my previous guess was completely right. Direct contact between the firewood axe and a ghost can also dismember it? But if handprints or footprints are used as a medium, it can ignore distance and harm ghosts, while I have to bear the enormous curse of the axe."

"In the past, I needed to use up one slot for suppressing a ghost to offset that curse. I swung it twice—once at the bloody handprint in that mysterious room at the Caesar Hotel, and once at Fang Shiming."

"But this strike was different. I didn't use a medium. I made the axe come into direct contact with the ghost, and the effect was still obvious. But what will the cost be?"

Yang Jian stared thoughtfully at the rusty firewood axe in his hand.

Nagazawa, standing nearby, had also noticed the strange object in Yang Jian's hand. Shock filled his eyes, because he had seen the ghost's arm being chopped off.

The scene had somewhat overturned everything he imagined.

In supernatural incidents, merely surviving a ghost's