To be honest, hearing crying in this environment was pretty creepy. The surroundings were filled with pitch-black shopping streets, sickly green moonlight, and upright black coffins faintly visible through the windows—a typical Hollywood horror movie scene.
"No signs of life."
Astarte stared at the store before answering.
"Then where's the crying coming from?"
"..."
Faced with Yutou's question, Astarte shook her head, while Shion gently tugged at Yutou's clothes.
"Let's go find Sister Airi first. We can tell her what happened when we get there and let her handle it. Since Miss Astarte says there are no life signs inside, then..."
"Ugh... fine."
Hearing Shion's reminder, Yutou hesitated for a moment before finally nodding. Although she had gradually become proficient with the Nightmare's powers under Airi's guidance, precisely because of that, Yutou clearly understood the limits of her abilities. The Nightmare specialized entirely in mental control and manipulation. Her power was formidable in that regard—even ancient god-created biological weapons like Leviathan could be controlled by her.
But beyond that... there was nothing.
That was right. If she had a stat sheet, Yutou would be the legendary compass warrior: maxed-out mental stats, with everything else at rock bottom.
So after thinking it over, she decisively chickened out.
After all, nobody knew what was going on with that store. But Yutou remembered Airi telling her about a monster called "WITCH" in a zombie game. Normally, it would crouch in the middle of the road, sobbing away. If you ignored it, nothing happened—but if you got bored and shot it, you would immediately enrage it, and it would turn around and claw your face bloody.
Yutou wasn't stupid. She had only enjoyed a few good days so far. She had no desire to run into something that could claw her face bloody.
"Let's