Schiller's routine had originally been perfectly normal. It suddenly became abnormal after he finished filming because he had to avoid fans and reporters. Most normal people only came by during the day; hardly anyone would stay here late at night. To avoid them, Schiller could only be active at night, forced into sleeping by day and living by night.
The various abnormal behaviors Schiller later displayed in front of the nurses and orderlies were actually because, by then, Schiller had already become Mephisto.
As always, psychology was the kind of field where studying it did not necessarily mean you would be good at it, but not studying it definitely meant you would not be. Although Mephisto could judge the most basic emotions, he clearly did not understand mental illness. Naturally, he could not handle all manner of psychiatric patients, so it was inevitable that he would not respond quite so smoothly.
Besides, Schiller had lived in the sanatorium all along. He did not maintain his disguise every second of every day, and occasionally revealed his true nature. Just like Pride and his students, anyone who was afraid or could not stand it had long since run away. Those who remained were more or less no longer ordinary people.
They accepted Schiller's occasional abnormalities quite well and even felt that those were what was normal. So the Schiller Mephisto had been playing was too normal, which instead made them feel something was wrong.
Eddie pulled out a clip from another folder and said, "I watched all the short videos you sent me. I think this one is pretty good; it really has that eerie, terrifying atmosphere. But you need to make sure you got her consent, or she might sue you after the movie comes out."
"Don't worry." Schiller nodded and