With the Beyonder's shout of "Battle Start!", everyone entered their second battle since arriving here, and naturally, their opponent was the strangely behaving Madeline.
But an odd situation had arisen. Madeline did not want to fight them; she only wanted the handgun. This confirmed that the monster called the Wanderer did indeed follow certain behavioral patterns. Though they did not know whether it was trying to complete the final action of the person it possessed before death, it was certainly related to that. Otherwise, she would not have been so fixated on that revolver.
But Greed was faster than she was. The moment he rushed downstairs, he picked up the revolver she had thrown down from the second floor and firmly refused to give the gun to the monster.
Had it been anything else, the others might have tried to persuade him. But guns were genuinely dangerous. They might not work against monsters, but they would definitely kill people one shot at a time. Handing one over to a monster did not seem like a good idea.
Greed refused to give it up, while Madeline insisted on getting it. She chased, he fled, and the others could only watch helplessly as they ran circles through the snow.
Taking this opportunity, Schiller observed Madeline. He found that the monster was not actually very fast, only about as fast as an adult jogging at a moderate pace.
If she had been chasing anyone else in the group, she might actually have caught them. But Greed had clearly invested heavily in agility. After chasing him for so long, the monster had left only a huge trail of footprints on the ground without even touching the hem of his clothes.
After running past Schiller again, Greed stopped to catch his breath and waved the