Book Four: Chapter 117

Kisa got out of the fountain and shook herself off before following.

Mike, Death and Yuki now stood by the back gate, the Caretaker holding the padlock in one hand.

“This is it,” he told Yuki, “the gate we need to the Underworld!”

“I’m not so sure,” she told him, eying the gate with suspicion.

Death put a hand on the gate and leaned against it casually. “I am no fabricator of untruths, Lady Yuki. On the other side of this gate lies the spirit realm.”

“So then all we have to do is get this open, right?” Mike shook the padlock, but Kisa was no longer paying attention. Her eyes slid up the length of the gate to the top where there was a small gap between the bars and the archway was. The world went silent, and now she was standing before the gate, Emily at her side.

“Get back in there,” Emily commanded, pointing up at the gap. One of her eyes had gone black, and an eerie mist surrounded her body. The last couple of days had been like this, and the