Strange Tales of the Mortal World, I'll Take Them All

Chen Jingchuan has failed the spellcasting assessment three years in a row, and his collaborative scores have consistently ranked last. Still, thanks to his skill with magical tools, he takes on all sorts of strange local cases at Fuyou Hall.

A dining table with an extra set of chopsticks, a package addressed to a nonexistent ninth floor, something in an unfinished building that keeps duplicating an entire team...

Every strange occurrence has its own rules. Make one wrong move, and you might never make it out alive.

Using his Listening Ruler to hear patterns, his ability to clearly sever connections, and his knack for cutting down evil with love and hate, Chen Jingchuan repeatedly finds a way through by studying the traces left behind by anomalies. He also discovers that someone is returning, one by one, the things sealed away twenty years ago.

The two Law Blades his father left behind, the past his master refuses to discuss, and seven Boundary Spikes carved with different marks all point to the same title: Night Watcher.

Why does he want to bring these old anomalies back into the world, and why has he set his sights on Chen Jingchuan in particular?