On their journey, Jil and the others pass a signboard indicating a shortcut. But this shortcut turns out to be a series of different traps that hinder their efforts to go forward. While one of the traps causes their gender to switch, the other forces them to wear animal costumes, and some render them into early video game graphics. They subsequently arrive at the final gate, but getting through that exit door turns out to be harder they imagine. Jil, seeing that all his friends fail to impress the gate with parlor tricks, does an amusing dance taught by his father, but not even this would let them pass since it was somehow performed by someone else before him. The group unfortunately must take the long way up the tower.