With a command to retreat, silence enveloped the land.
Outside the town, the rows of ghost soldiers stood eerily in the forest, their faces marked with yellow talismans and surrounded by ghost fires. They began to retreat, just as they had arrived, as if weighed down by an invisible burden. The one who had summoned the ghost soldiers was dead, rendering the Borrowing Soldiers Token meaningless, as there was no longer a way to reclaim the promised price. If they were living people, there might have been many questions to ask and problems to solve, but these ghost soldiers simply began to retreat along the path they had come.
