For the five survivors of Takagi Saya's group, everything that had happened felt like a dream.
The five of them stood in an empty square, silent and confused.
"Mom!"
Takagi Saya instantly recognized Yuriko Takagi.
"Saya!"
Yuriko pulled her daughter into a tight embrace, finally allowing her long-suppressed worry to ease.
Marikawa Shizuka blinked in confusion as she stared at the woman before her. "You… you look just like Minami Rika."
Rika gave a bitter smile and pinched her own cheek.
"Idiot, look properly. It's me, Minami Rika."
"Eh? Minami? Why are you here?"
After confirming it really was her, Shizuka's heart jumped in surprise.
"Tch, I don't know either." Rika frowned, recalling what happened.
"A white-haired little girl led thousands of corpses to break through the military base. She said she was looking for me.
"Then a man with golden eyes appeared… he handed me a glowing sphere and told me to touch it. After that, I ended up here."
"The man with golden eyes!"
Saya and Yuriko exchanged a sharp look. Their minds went straight to Yami Tsukishiro.
"Oh?" A voice echoed as if in response. "Judging from your reactions, it seems you already know me?"
Everyone nodded, and after a brief exchange of words, they confirmed it: they had all been brought here by Yami Tsukishiro.
This strange place was known as the Multiverse Dungeon.
Alice tilted her head. "So… where are we supposed to go?"
The others shared her confusion. They had been thrown into this place with only the vaguest set of rules in their minds.
Just then, a group of people entered the square—among them, Kocho Shinobu and her companions, who had recently regrouped.
Jade Chan clutched her chest, still trembling with fear. "That was seriously terrifying… I thought I was done for."
"Thankfully, resurrection really works here," Viper muttered, still shaken.
"But… my Ox talisman is gone."
Jade Chan's shoulders slumped. Ever since she lost her Ox talisman, an uneasiness gnawed at her chest.
"At least we made it out alive," Viper sighed with relief.
"It seems the fifth floor is far too dangerous. That immortal girl, Ella… she's not someone we can handle right now."
Kocho Shinobu's expression darkened. She was still lost in thought, weighing their next move.
Kanroji Mitsuri, on the other hand, didn't care much for strategy. Her gaze wandered curiously until she spotted figures standing in the square.
"Shinobu! There's someone over there!"
"People?"
Everyone turned to look.
Across the square, Saeko Busujima and Rei Miyamoto recognized familiar silhouettes—just as Saya Takagi and the others recognized them in turn.
"Saeko-senpai!"
The moment they saw her, their emotions surged. They rushed forward at once.
"Thank goodness, Saeko—you're really here!"
Marikawa Shizuka couldn't hold back her tears. She threw her arms around Busujima Saeko, clinging tightly as though afraid she might vanish again.
Saeko managed a small smile at the reunion, but her doubts remained.
"Shizuka-sensei… why are you here?"
"Eh? This… that… um…" Shizuka stammered, too overwhelmed to form a proper explanation.
Saya Takagi, already used to the teacher's scatterbrained nature, stepped forward decisively.
"Let me explain."
And so, Saya recounted everything—how they had arrived in this dungeon, and the strange chain of events that led them here.
The groups exchanged introductions, quickly building a preliminary understanding of one another.
When Saeko and Rei listened to the details, they exchanged a heavy glance.
There was no mistaking it. A cold man with eyes filled only with lust and detachment—there could only be one such figure.
It meant that "the master" had entered their world and brought Saya, Yuriko, and the others into this dungeon.
But why? What was his purpose?
Since they were here now, there was no choice but to learn the dungeon's secrets. Rei Miyamoto began sharing what information she had gathered about the place.
Meanwhile, in another part of the Multiverse Dungeon…
Yami Tsukishiro and Ella reappeared.
Seeing that Saya Takagi, Rei Miyamoto, and the others had already reunited, he felt no need to intervene. They would adapt on their own.
Instead, his golden eyes gleamed faintly. Rather than waste time worrying about them, he turned his focus to his own plans.
[Demon Slayer — World Resolution]: 4%
[Highschool of the Dead — World Resolution]: 5%
[Jackie Chan Adventures — World Resolution]: 3%
Those were the three numbers flickering on the system panel.
"Ella, hand me the Ox Talisman."
Ella passed it over. The moment Yami Tsukishiro's fingers touched the talisman, it dissolved into a stream of white light and sank into his body.
[Ding! Obtained A-level meme: "Ox Talisman"!]
"A-level?"
He had expected a meme to emerge from the Ox Talisman, but not one rated this high.
Judging purely by how Jackie Chan Adventures portrays its artifacts, their true ceiling is hard to gauge—the show often wraps absurd power in comedic presentation.
That goes not only for Shendu's Twelve Talismans (the "Holy Lord's" talismans) but also for the other demon sorcerers' magic and the Shadowkhan; the depiction muddies any clean power scale.
There are outliers, though.
The most extreme example is Tso Lan, the Moon Demon master of gravity.
Ancient records describe him as nearly seizing control of the moon's pull, and even suggest his sorcery can bend gravity on a cosmic scale.
A Death-Star–level force of ancient dark magic—yet one of those paradoxes that's described as world-breaking and seldom shown in full.
In the end, he (and the other demon sorcerers) were sealed away by the Eight Immortals.
From Yami Tsukishiro's perspective, that contradiction is exactly why the real power of the Jackie Chan Adventures world remains difficult to evaluate.
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