This episode opens with a supernatural being celebrating that after a thousand years of cultivation it has finally taken human form—only to be stopped by a law: no supernatural beings after the founding of the nation. The scene cuts to two children, Xavier and Jenny, who proudly confess they poisoned their mother and assume she is dead. When the mother's hand twitches, panic erupts and someone shouts, "A ghost! She's a ghost!" The newly human creature finds the children and eyes them as a meal; their fate hangs unresolved as the threat closes in.