Chapter 73: Yuria’s Shopping Brings Tears of Joy (5)
This wasn’t a serious episode like Blood Night or the Nemesis Incident, where we fought against powerful enemies. Instead, it was more of a slice-of-life story—a sort of summer ghost story special.
The plot wasn’t particularly complex.
One day, a client, terrified and desperate, came to the office for help. They had been receiving threatening messages with ominous curses, sent by an unknown source. Shortly after receiving the messages, the curses began to manifest in reality.
In this mysterious situation—where no one knew who was sending the messages, how they were being sent, or why—Raven accepted the request and used David’s abilities to trace the sender.
To everyone’s surprise, the sender turned out to be someone who didn’t even exist in reality. Eventually, Raven discovered that the communicator itself was the culprit threatening the client.
However, the communicator wasn’t easy to deal with. Even after removing its recognition chip, turning it off, or physically breaking it in half, it would somehow repair itself and resume sending cursed messages with relentless persistence.
The situation escalated as the communicator trapped the client and the Troubleshooter team inside the office, gradually shrinking the space and threatening their lives.
In the end, Raven cleverly managed to drop the communicator into a gap between disappearing stairs. The communicator, caught between worlds, would fall endlessly into the void, bringing the haunted communicator episode to a close.
“It felt like one of those standalone horror episodes you’d find in an old, long-running shonen manga. Less focused on logic and more on just being entertaining.”
Sure, it was just a passing, typical episode with no lasting significance, but some readers seemed to sense a strange discomfort about it.
Their argument was that, even as a ghost story special, the actions attributed to a mere communicator were far too extreme.
Trapping the team in an infinitely looping office?