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Description
What is a ghost story?
Most people think of a ghost story as fun that stimulates people's imagination by exaggerating what might have happened.
As a result, most of the ghost stories that actually spread in Voldis were collected and their origins can be traced. Most of the ghost stories are plausible stories that did not happen, but some ghost stories are real.
One ghost story whose source has been revealed and then disappeared is the crying picture ghost story on the 57th floor of the Sage's Tower. This story began when there was a fine crack in the back of a painting hanging on the wall in the hallway, and a crying sound was heard in the laboratory.
In response, our sages have created a formula, which is as follows.
The intensity and quantity of the ghost story = importance of the matter X ambiguity of the evidence on the subject

- Excerpt from the report of the Sage's Tower Ghost Story Research Department -

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Story
Ghost Story Mania (Points: 50)
A Story from the Reject Pile
First Ghost Story. One shouldn't pick up cores discarded in the Reject Pile.
- The discarded cores are said to be haunted by the ghost of the Homunculus that used them, and they will move on to the person who picked up the core.
The cores are traded at a high price, so people rarely throw them away, but some unscrupulous Homunculus producers use the discarded cores to make Homunculi. Many times, aspiring sages with little money will pick up cores from the Reject Pile to build a practice Homunculus. It's not surprising that a Homunculus made from a core that's been discarded for so long won't function properly.
It is believed that such instances created the superstition.

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Ghost Story Expert (Points: 80)
Another Story from the Reject Pile
Second ghost story. You must not call out names carelessly from the Reject Pile.
- It is said that the abandoned Homunculi think their creator or somebody else is calling for them, so they take revenge.
This ghost story was created along with the "Don't Give Human Names to Homunculi" story, when people started abandoning normally functioning Homunculi in the Reject Pile.

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Truth of the Ghost Story (Points: 120)
Another Story from the Reject Pile
Third ghost story. In the Reject Pile, there lives a ghost who kidnaps children.
- It is a ghost story in which abandoned Homunculi see children who are their height and consider them new friends and take them somewhere.
Since children often see the Homunculi they grew up with as their favorite dolls, they do not throw away broken Homunculi but instead cherish them. This ghost story was made up by adults for children who see their Homunculi abandoned in the Reject Pile and wish to bring them back home.

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