Story Reader / Festival Event Story / Fist of the Taoist / Story

All of the stories in Punishing: Gray Raven, for your reading pleasure. Will contain all the stories that can be found in the archive in-game, together with all affection stories.
<

Entropy Counting

>

That's one trial passed... but now we've got more questions.

That's right. I thought it would just be a normal key, but I wasn't expecting a portrait on it.

Do you think it means anything?

We should first figure out why these mechanoids would make a stamp like this...

It's probably the most sensible deduction, assuming they found out about us after going through the supply crates.

Not very possible.

But stamping the portrait on them has to be a message.

I'm guessing it has something to do with the ghost-hunting part of the event. Maybe the person on the key would come to our assistance or something.

Or the person is the target of the hunt...

Either way, having this key means we can access the ghost-hunting venue, albeit only one of the areas. I think Commandant should give it a go.

Was that why you were gone just now...?

Understood. We'll leave that decision to you, Commandant.

The second trial is up ahead. I wonder what it is...

???

I hear somebody calling for the South General!

Eh?!

Watch out, Commandant! Something's falling from the sky!

You dodge just in time thanks to Lucia's warning, but you still cannot escape the impact from whatever is hitting the ground.

Ho ho ho! South General, at your service! Aspirants of wisdom, were you the ones who call for me?

It was you indeed! Ho ho ho!

...This guy's just making a speech.

I'm sure that you would know it requires more than simply perception to expose a ghost! It also takes the wisdom of improvising according to your circumstances!

So the second trial is a trial of wisdom?

The wisdom to "improvise," that is.

You're really emphasizing that word, aren't you? How about let me tackle this one, Commandant?

Ho ho ho, a challenger approaches!

Let the trial begin! Scene change!