Returning home, Ace was relieved to find that everything was as he left it and everybody was sound asleep. Emi deactivated and removed the talismans she pasted around the house and returned to the toybox with Dame Wasp. As for Ace, he did not go to sleep but chose to practice his curse arts while having Dame Wasp keep him updated about the parasitic maggot curse slave.
By the early morning, Dame Wasp informed Ace that the curse slave had rushed to the nearest 9Ks's hideout and raided it as he had guessed. It appears the curse slave switched his body again, as Mark's brother's smartphone was in the same location for the past hour, and when Dame Wasp tried to eavesdrop on the phone's surroundings through its microphone she heard sounds of dogs tearing and chewing on flesh but there was no sign of a human presence.
