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Rejuvenation.
It was mankind’s dream, but since science had never succeeded at it, no one in reality had ever experienced truly becoming young again.
But in this Ghost Story world, I was experiencing it… that very rejuvenation!
…Even if my height had been cut in half.
“Achoo.”
“Whoa, careful. Kids get cold easily.”
I looked at Agent Choi, who had an excited expression as he draped a blanket over me, and fell silent for a moment.
Because the whole thing was so absurd.
‘It stops feeling real.’
Me, eight years old!
The state I was in—returned to an early elementary school age—felt extremely strange.
All those protagonists in old cartoons who adapted the instant they got turned into children were liars. A child’s senses were many times sharper, and my stamina was bizarrely overflowing.
I’d thought my shorter reach would make me totter around awkwardly, but to my surprise, that wasn’t the case.
“That is because it is a goblin trick.”
Agent Bronze explained it neatly.
Of course, that was only neat by the standards of a Darkness Exploration Record veteran. To a rookie, it wasn’t neat at all.
So I gave the appropriate reaction.
“A g-goblin trick…?”
“You can think of it as a supernatural phenomenon that deceives reality. It is not a disaster, and it cannot be used for evil purposes at all. Because it is a ‘trick.’”
Mm. That was a good explanation.
Glancing at the goblin fire lingering on my arm, I then recalled the explanation from the Darkness Exploration Record that I knew.
Goblin Trick
A mysterious ability used by some agents of the…