459 Poor And Hapless

Jin Jiuchi had expected to encounter the fairy godmother who would whisk him away from this place and bring him to his beloved jade doll, but this… creature… he was seeing right now certainly couldn't be her. 

He had been through a couple of Cycles and had seen so many kinds of nightmare creatures, but never before had he seen something like this. 

A lone eyeball floated in midair, connected by a fleshy thread to a… hand— that's right, a hand that acted as some kind of mount, currently dangling helplessly from the hatch he had just pulled open.

The eye blinked, and Jin Jiuchi also blinked.

Jin Jiuchi tilted his head, and the eye also mirrored his movement, while the fingers of the hand tapped on the wooden surface restlessly.

Unable to resist, Jin Jiuchi acted on his impulse and poked the eye with his finger.

"...!!"