Sweet Grind

Strolling through the hallway calmly, Pro eventually came to a stop in front of apartment 440, which was across from apartment 441. Taking a deep breathe to prepare himself, Pro dived into the room with claws activated.

Surveying his surroundings, Pro noticed that apartment 440 was not like the other apartments as it was much smaller. The living room was a simple cubic area about the size of the bedroom, and there was no kitchen attached. There was a door centered on the wall facing the front door and another door centered on the left wall.

On the right wall, there was a desk with paper messily scattered all over it and an worn, black revolving chair in front of it. Next to that was a long, wooden table that snugly filled in the rest of the gap. A landline phone sat on top of the table along with a couple of dirty lunch boxes and a couple of wooden chairs stood in different angles in front of it.

A rack was on the wall next to the front door, and a couple of black, metal flashlights hung on it along with a set of security guard uniform.

"Hmm? A security room? I never even knew that this building had this, that sketchy contractor didn't tell me anything," Pro complained as he strolled up to the uniform.

After examining it and making sure it did not have any yin qi, Pro then left it alone as it may become his future costume in the future. At least it will make playing police be a bit more believable than when he did earlier tonight.

Pro then walked to the door across from the front door and boldly opened it before swiftly stepping back with his claw at the ready. After all, he already dealt with multiple spirits that originated from the bathroom. Pro silently stood there and examined the bathroom through the open doorway carefully. To his surprise, he noticed nothing abnormal.

Cautiously walking into the bathroom, Pro noticed that it was just a normal small bathroom, but without a bath tub. Glancing at the mirror and sensing no yin qi on it, Pro then turned his gaze to the bedroom.

"Well, there's only so many places you could hide," Pro muttered as he shoved the bedroom door opened.

Inside the small bedroom with no windows, there were four single-size beds with two beds lined up against the left and right walls of the bedroom. Each of these old beds were neat and tidy, but there was actually a security uniform sleeping under the blanket of each one!

Pro grinned hideously as his eyes sparkled as if he saw money, "I found you~"

As if understanding Pro, the blankets on all four beds rolled off swiftly as all four uniforms sat up before hopping off the bed. It seemed like someone invisible was wearing the uniforms, but the uniforms were completely flat throughout! The sets of uniform then swiftly glided towards Pro as the uniforms itself opened up to prepare to Pro inside, intending to suffocate him.

With such clear targets in front of him, Pro had no hesitation. He pounced forward with his claws and shredded all the incoming uniforms into pieces! Black mist defused from each uniform as it was diced into pieces, and a soft ghastly groan came from each uniform as it fell to the ground in oblivion.

The fight didn't last long and Pro didn't even break a sweat. After surveying his surroundings and seeing no more hidden spirits, Pro quickly collected the pieces of shredded uniform before dashing back to his domain.

[Ding! Object with yin qi detected. Absorbing remnant yin qi. Host gains 10 life points.]

[Ding! Object with yin qi detected. Absorbing remnant yin qi. Host gains 5 life points.]

[Ding! ...]

After all the scraps of clothes were absorbed, Pro happily glanced at his points that was bumped up by 90, "They could have been my future security guards, but they are worth less than sh*t for me right now."

After recovering a bit in his domain, Pro set off once again. This time he went to apartment 443 which was between apartment 441 and 445.

Stepping into the apartment room that was oriented in the same way as apartment 446, Pro swept his eyes through the dark living room where the bedroom and bathroom are opposite of the front door. He noticed a normal sofa against the wall in between the two doors in addition to a coffee table in front of the sofa and over a rug, but he also confirmed his target, an old grandfather clock which stood in the center of the wall separating the kitchen from the living room.

Without hesitation, Pro dashed forward and aimed his claws at the grandfather clock. As if sensing Pro's assault, the grandfather clock suddenly chimed.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

As if hearing the signal, both the bedroom and bathroom doors swung open! However, Pro's claws continued to smash onto the clock.

Bam! The old grandfather clock was shattered into pieces as wood chips and clock parts messily scattered into the air. Pro almost thought he succeeded, but the clock's continuous ring told him otherwise.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

As the clock chimed again, the clock parts and wood chips in the air froze in place for a bit before they were slowly sucked back towards the clock. It wasn't long before the clock restored back to its complete state.

Watching this, Pro's lip twitched a bit before he grunted, "I don't believe a trifling lingering spirit can do this infinitely! Let's see how long you last! I chop!"

As Pro smashed down his claws again, strips of toilet paper floated out of the bathroom and wrapped around Pro's hands, as if trying to restrain him; however, Pro didn't even feel much restraint as his hand continued to smash forward and smash the clock to pieces once more.

This time, the sound of clock chimes faded away as black mist defused from the broken clock. Pro grinned as he turned to glanced at the toilet paper, "Oh, free toilet paper! Just what I need."

Pro dashed towards the bathroom, but was interrupted by strands of yarn that shot out from the bedroom and wrapped around his ankles. With a light swipe of his claws, the yarn was cut and Pro continued to dash into the bathroom as more yarn floated out of the bedroom to chase him.

Entering the bathroom, Pro was able to see a humanoid shaped figure composed of layers of toilet paper. It looked a bit like a mummy, but with a slash from Pro's claw, Pro discovered that it was completely empty inside. The toilet paper spirit tried to fight back, but Pro diced it into pieces as he exclaimed in excitement, "Free toilet paper! If you be obedient and wipe my sh*t in the future, I will consider taking you in as a subordinate!"

Pro continued to dice up the toilet paper figure as he occasionally cut the annoying yarn trying to tangle him. Seeing no hope, the toilet paper spirit condensed itself back into a roll of toilet paper that plopped onto the ground. Seeing this, Pro stopped his attacks as he felt this toilet paper spirit is very compatible with him.

Picking up the toilet paper roll, Pro grinned as he dashed towards the now retreating yarn. Seeing the bedroom door closing, Pro sprinted forward and kicked it back open as he cackled, "Sorry, but you can't run. You've already signed a contract with me, and it has strings attached. The condition is your death~"

Pro traced the lines of yarn to a ball of yarn that laid on top of a wooden rocking chair. Without hesitation, he dashed forward as he sliced apart all the yarns trying to impede his progress. Although some yarn managed to get past his claws, they only managed to scratch his skin at most!

With his absolute crushing power, it didn't take long for Pro to reach the ball of yarn. Feeling its doom, the ball of yarn also shrunk back its yarn as if surrendering, but Pro only grinned as he stated, "Sorry, can't really use yarn to wipe a booty after sh*tting now can we?"

Then, with a couple slashes of his claw, the ball of yarn was shredded into pieces. With a smile, Pro gathered the scraps of yarn into his pockets and also went out to collect the chunks of the grandfather clock into his arms. Then, he quickly brought everything back to his domain using a couple of back-and-forth trips.

[Ding! Object with yin qi detected. Absorbing remnant yin qi. Host gains 15 life points.]

[Ding! ...]

[Ding! The invader is determined to be a low-level lingering spirit. The invader's level is an entire rank below the host and can be incorporated into host's domain. Does the host want to consume 25 life points to enslave the mid-level lingering spirit?]

"Yes," Pro confirmed as he happily stared at the toilet paper roll.

[Ding~ Enslavement success. Host gains a subordinate, low-level lingering spirit, Toilet Paper Spirit.]

[Name] Toilet Paper Spirit

[Gender] Male

[Level] Low-level Lingering Spirit

[Description] A lingering spirit formed from a man with a strong attachment with money, but he only wasted his days away while living off the income of his old father and mother instead of going to earn money. Eventually, he was too poor to even afford toilet paper. He then had an obsession with saving toilet paper until he died from urinary tract infections.

The spirit is bound to a toilet paper roll and can recover as long as the toilet paper roll is not destroyed. The toilet paper roll is now bound to the host's domain and host can consume life points to regenerate the toilet paper roll if it is destroyed.

[Abilities]

Toilet Paper Control

[Toilet Paper Control] The spirit has control over its own toilet paper. It can extend, contract, absorb, and generate toilet paper. Due to being bound to host's domain, the spirit can't extend its toilet paper outside of the host's domain.

"Hmm, although a bit limited ... not bad? It's still free toilet paper anyways, even though it's not required because of my ability. I also earned 45 points, which covered the cost and brings my total to 4510 points" Pro murmured as he watched Alice pop her head through the wall with a sad face and teary eyes.

"Eh? Master, got a new spirit ... and Alice thought she was master's only one ... master lied to Alice," Alice sniffed before hiding back in the bedroom.

Tossing the roll of toilet paper onto the couch, Pro went into the bedroom and saw Alice sniffing while burying her face in the pillow on the bed. Pro climbed onto the bed next to her, hugged her, and appeased, "Alice, don't cry. I said that Alice will always be my only one, and I never intended to change that."

"B-but, master got a new spirit! Master won't want Alice anymore," Alice sobbed as she buried her face into Pro's chest.

Pro chuckled as he comforted, "No, Alice has misunderstood as that spirit is different from Alice."

"Different? How?" Alice asked cutely as she sniffed.

"That spirit is only a normal subordinate. There will be many normal subordinates in the future, but Alice is different. Alice is very special to me," Pro continued as he rubbed the cute Alice's head.

"Alice is special to master? How is Alice special?" Alice asked cutely as she glanced up with teary eyes.

"Alice is special because Alice is my most precious treasure! Alice is my first spirit, and Alice is also my only woman!" Pro sincerely exclaimed as he locked eyes with Alice.

"Alice ... is master's most precious treasure?" Alice asked while her face beamed in happiness.

"Mmhmm, Alice is my most precious treasure. No matter how many normal subordinates that I get in the future, they will never be more special than Alice," Pro gently whispered as he kissed Alice on the forehead.

Alice giggled as she wiped her tears away. She then hugged Pro as she whispered, "Alice understands. Alice is always master's most precious. Alice will not care if master takes in more normal subordinates."

Pro nodded happily as he convinced Alice. He then told Alice, "Alice, as you are my most precious, I will also put you in charge of all the normal subordinates in the future alright?"

Alice sat up in excitement as she stared at Pro for a moment before a playful smile appeared on her face, "Really? Master will really let Alice lead the normal subordinates?"

Pro nodded as he got up and led Alice out to the living room where the toilet paper roll was still obediently sitting on the sofa. He then picked up the toilet paper roll and brought it over to apartment 446's bathroom before commanding the toilet paper spirit, "This will be your home in the future. Although it's a bit shabby, the toilet paper roll holder still works so you can stay there."

With that, Pro watched the toilet paper roll jump out of his hands and wrap itself around the toilet paper holder. Seeing this, Pro nodded before he continued to command, "This lady beside me is Alice. She is my wife, and also my most powerful spirit. You will be under her command in the future. Go on, greet your future leader."

The toilet paper spirit responded by waving a strip of toilet paper and lightly tapping Alice on the hand. Alice giggled happily as she shook hands with the toilet paper strip while saying, "Alice looks forward to playing with you in the future~"

Pro smiled as he watched this harmonious scene. He then told Alice, "You can stay here to play with it for a bit. Teach it the rules for my place. I'll continue to sweep the floor."

"Yes, master~" Alice replied in a cheerful voice as she pecked Pro on the cheeks before turning back to play with the toilet paper spirit.

Pro smiled as he headed off to war once more. After all, there is still two more apartment rooms to clear! Apartment 447 and 449, get ready to be eaten just like seven ate nine!