"Painting...?"
Glancing at the window above, Bai Zhi shifted his gaze to the stair railing. Here, the sunlight streaming in through the window shone brightly upon it.
Not only that, when he stretched his hand over it, his skin could even faintly feel the scorching heat of the sunlight.
"It wasn't the window that was painted. Everything here is turning into a painting... or rather, we're inside a painting?"
Countless thoughts flashed through Bai Zhi's mind in an instant. He turned to Temperance Gentleheart and spoke.
"You can get down from the chair now..."
Before he could finish, Bai Zhi fell silent at the sight before him.
The black-haired young girl standing on the chair with her back to him had one hand resting against the window, seemingly gazing outside. The chair beneath her supported both her weight and height.
—That was what he saw from the front.
But if he moved to look from the side, he could clearly see that the original three-dimensional objects had become a two-dimensional flat surface. The girl and the stool beneath her had, at some unknown point, turned into a three-dimensional drawing painted across the wall and floor.
"I only turned away for a few seconds at most. If all of this really uses paintings as its medium, then touching the frame with one's hand would be the most direct trigger..."
Letting out a breath, Bai Zhi quickly backed up to the top of the stairs. However, he did not continue upward, instead keeping the bizarre painting on the wall within his line of sight.
"Ah... like I said, a high-level Player didn't necessarily mean they were strong. Levels gained by farming Wild Monsters were completely useless. This girl was always such an unlucky fool."
Looking at Temperance Gentleheart, who had become a