'Rose, grab the stub earrings first and then check on Gloria's phone,' Ace instructed Dame Wasp.
Reverting to her original size, Dame Wasp held the stud diamond earrings in one hand and flew to Gloria's phone. Unlocking the phone, she found that it was the Steal Song Society's group chat that had suddenly become active,
[Aztec: @Everyone, It's confirmed the newbie died.]
[Bane1: @Aztec. How did she die?]
[EchoEcho: @Loki, I thought Loki already killed her.]
[Aztec: @Bane1, No idea. All I know is that the newbie's curse signature in the society's records vanished a minute ago.]
[Bane1: @Aztec, Was it a Curseling or a Curse master?]
[Aztec: @Bane1, What did I just say? I have no idea.]
[RadRider: @Loki, Someone contact Loki. She should know. They were close.]
[Loki: @RadRider, How am I supposed to know what happened to her? I'm not her babysitter. But if I had to guess, considering her cautious nature, she would never fight a Curseling unless it's a tier below her. So it must be a Curse Master. A powerful one at that because she could not even send a distress signal.]
[Aztec: @Loki, You are the newbie's mentor. You are responsible for her.]
[Azel: @Aztec, Are you gonna investigate her death? How many merit points do I snag if I sign up for the investigation team?]
[Bane1: @Azel, That's cold, bruh. It's only been a few minutes since she bit it. I bet her corpse ain't even cold yet.]
[Mindbug: @Bane1, I doubt that. Her innate cursed tool should've chomped her corpse up by now. Whoever offed her must be grinning like crazy. If I'd known, I'd have done the job myself.]
[Bot1: @Mindbug, You have been muted for the next 24 hours by @Aztec.]
[Azel: @Bane1, I'm too broke to give a damn about some dead newbie. If you're feeling all sympathetic, why don't you loan me a few merits?]
[Aztec: @Azel, Investigation of a society member's death falls under mandatory duty. You will not get any merits for that.]
[Azel: @Aztec, Then forget I ever offered.]
[Loki: @Aztec, No need to form an investigation team. As her mentor, I will handle it.]
[Aztec: @Loki, What about your current mission?]
[Bane1: @Loki, Way to stepup, Bruh. Love you.]
[EchoEcho: @Loki, Did you kill the newbie?]
[Loki: @Aztec, I'll wrap up my mission in a day, then head over to where the newbie bit the dust.]
[Loki: @EchoEcho, Bitch, shut the fuck up.]
[Aztec: @Loki, Do you need any help? I can assign someone.]
[EchoEcho: @Loki, Share the location. I will join you.]
[Loki: @Aztec, No need to waste society's resources on this. I will handle it alone.]
[Loki: @EchoEcho, if I share the location, do you dare to come?]
[EchoEcho: @Loki, Humph, you meanie.]
[MadamThree: @Everyone, The newbie is online. Isn't she dead? Do you think her killer is lurking in our chat?]
[Bane1: @Ria, You dare to kill one of us. We will hunt you down till the ends of the earth. I am right, Loki?]
[Azel: @Ria, Mr.Lurker, If you are willing to pay good money, I don't mind betraying these people.]
[Bot1: @Azel, You have been muted for the next 48 hours by @Aztec.]
'Rose, quick. Destroy all the data in Gloria's cloud and device storage. Then burn the laptop and phone to ashes with your laser,' Ace ordered Dame Wasp immediately after the society members caught him lurking in their group chat.
'Master, if we go offline now, won't they know you were lurking?' Dame Wasp pointed out.
'So what? I'm worried that one of them might have some strange curse ability to spy on us or curse us or travel through the phones or something,' Ace remarked.
'Oh, I didn't think of that. I'll destroy everything right away,' Dame Wasp declared, swiftly wiping Gloria's cloud and local storage clean before reducing the phone and laptop to ashes with her laser.
'Good, now use your sensors to scan the rooms. See if Gloria had something stashed in here,' Ace instructed Dame Wasp, hoping to find some curse cores or pills that Gloria had kept for her use.
'Sorry, master. I could not find anything,' Dame Wasp went around every room, scanning them, but found nothing.
'Not your fault, Rose. Animals only hunt when hungry. I was her meal ticket, but unfortunately, I became her ticket to the afterlife,' Ace lamented. Then he asked Dame Wasp, 'Rose, if I use the 'recall' skill on you, will the earrings be teleported with you, or will they be left behind.'
'I don't know, Master. We can only try it first. If the earrings don't come with me, I can come back to fetch them,' Dame Wasp and Ace had never used the 'recall' skill, so they had little idea about its working.
'Okay, see you in a bit.' Ace then deactivated the 'sense share' skill and soon found himself back inside his room. He moved his hands to feel his body and then used the 'recall' skill on Dame Wasp.
*Poof!* Dame Wasp manifested right next to him out of thin air while holding the stud diamond earrings in her hand.
"It worked," both Toymancer and Toy summons cheered simultaneously.
Taking the 'charm earrings' from Dame Wasp, Ace stored them in the only empty toy space in the cursed toybox. Soon, the cursed toybox used the Ace's status screen innate curse art to convey the Charm Earring's abilities to him.
[ — Status screen —
Skill Name: Charm Earrings
Skill Type: Innate Curse Tool
Skill Effect: The user can change their physical appearance to all walks of life, from young to old, on their whim.
Additional Effect:
i) Flawless skin: The wearer gains flawless skin regardless of age and ailments.
ii) Charm Blind: Everyone will easily trust the wearer's words.
iii) Fat Ratio: The wearer's extra body fat will be converted and stored as curse energy, maintaining an optimal body composition.
iv) Symmetrical body alignment: The wearer gains a balanced and proportional arrangement of body parts in terms of size, shape, and position.
Note: The user cannot change their appearance to look like others as they can only change their age.]
[Curse Tool: Charm Earrings
Toy Summons: Dame Wasp
Compatibility: 39%
Recommendation: the success rate of using the curse tool 'Charm Earrings' to enchant Toy Summons 'Dame Wasp' is very low.
Note: A higher success rate requires a minimum compatibility of eighty percent.]
'This Charm earring's abilities are every girl's dream ability,' Ace remarked, reading the charm earring's abilities and wasn't surprised by the low compatibility rate between Dame Wasp and the charm earrings. After all, they had different skill sets and had nothing in common.