Ghost Town.While attempting to have Billy to come give them another ride, Ryu and his friends are watched by a couple of small lightball-like spirits. They head to an abandoned town and join several other spirits who restore the city. Later, an elder couple gives them a ride and propose they stay overnight. The couple is revealed to be dolls controlled by the spirits, who spend the night secretly messing with Yoh's group. Meanwhile, Hao contemplates interfering in Yoh's "play", while Mikihisa watches from afar. In the morning after, the couple admits they realized Yoh and the others were shamans and asks them to investigate some "monsters" inhabiting the town's mines who occasionally come down to harm citizens. Joined by the five ladies, the group heads to the mine, where they reveal to the girls that there are no evil monsters and the couple is not real, and that everything is just a made-up story by spirits who are possibly just looking for some fun. The monsters finally show up and engage in a friendly fight. Soon after, Hao materializes and burns some of the spirits, warning Yoh to stop playing and get stronger so he can "end the cycle". Hao then heads to a forest and demands Mikihisa to reveal himself, to no avail. He then asks him to deliver "that" to Yoh as soon as possible, so Yoh can reach the "strength of a thousand years ago". Following another encounter with the much more powerful Hao, Lyserg is frustrated again. In Japan, Anna performs a ritual that recovers a large pearl necklace called 1080 from the bottom of a lake.