[Urban Imagination + Eerie Containment + System + Acting to Fool the Eerie + Satisfying Face-Slapping + Blind-Box Ability Draws + Sharp-Tongued, Ruthless Protagonist]
Others contain the Eerie with supernatural powers, magical artifacts, or sheer desperation.
Su Chi contains the Eerie by acting.
The Shadow Crawler huddles in a corner, forgotten by everyone? He takes the stage and performs its loneliness, becoming more shadowlike than a shadow. The Shadow Crawler crawls into the containment cabinet all by itself.
The Elevator Game preys on passengers who break the rules? He plays the person who never reaches their floor, turning the rules into his own script. The elevator doors obediently open.
A drowned mother wants to drag the whole city down with her? He plays her dead child. The mother releases him through her tears and walks back into the sealed-off zone alone.
After each performance, he gets to open a blind box, drawing the Eerie’s core abilities and turning around to face-slap the colleagues who took him for a good-for-nothing.
The entire Containment Bureau is stunned.
How did that intern who’s always on night duty and can’t even keep an eye on an F-rank bring back a B-rank?
Su Chi twists his mouth into a grin. “Got lucky.”
No one knows there’s an abandoned theater in his mind.
When the lights come on, he has to take the stage.
He becomes whatever he performs, and even monsters believe him.
But the brighter the lights get, the more afraid he becomes.
Because before him, everyone who sat in those empty seats never came back down.
