Darkness clung to her like a shadow.
The hallway lights flickered on and off, off and on. After several cycles, Shi Xin, who had been waiting at the stairwell entrance, still had not seen Suit Man return.
"He still hasn't come back..."
After hesitating for a moment, Shi Xin glanced at her feet, cut by shards of glass, then put on her high heels and headed straight downstairs.
The truth was, even now, she was still completely lost.
She had been like this when those monsters dragged her back into the room, when Suit Man suddenly came looking for her, and when she went to help rescue him from the room...
...She simply couldn't make sense of any of it.
It was like dozing off for a few minutes during a math class, then lifting your head again only to realize you no longer understood a single thing being taught.
At least for now, even after Shi Xin racked her clever little brain, she still couldn't reach any worthwhile conclusion.
"He even took my clue item..."
Just as Shi Xin complained inwardly, she saw a figure sitting in the stairwell ahead. From behind, it was Shang Jiuyue, the Suit Man.
"So he was waiting here..."
Letting out a slight sigh of relief, Shi Xin hurried downstairs and walked over to him.
"When did you come down here? Tell me, what exactly were you just...!?"
Before she could finish, at the touch of her finger, the Suit Man's head rolled off his neck. After knocking against several steps, it rolled all the way to the stairwell entrance, its face turned directly toward her.
Shi Xin: "!!!"
At that moment, slow, unhurried footsteps sounded from the stairwell one floor above. Accompanying those footsteps was the crisp scrape of a sharp blade being