Drip, drip—
In the alley, rain pattered against the eaves of the tiled houses. Ji Yan, his hair and clothes soaked through, faced off against the [Eerie Umbrella Night Woman] at the end of the alley.
She stood there, her deformed, unnaturally elongated figure appearing slender in the rain, yet carrying an indescribable sense of terror.
"The rain is heavy... the night is cold..."
"Do lost people... need an umbrella?"
A faint, elusive voice passed through the rain and entered Ji Yan's ears.
The voice was crisp and pleasant. As it poured into Ji Yan's ears, it felt as though she were speaking right beside him, asking softly, her tone tender as water.
The female eerie beneath the umbrella was entirely black, save for her blood-red mouth, as though warm blood still stained the corners of her lips after a recent drink.
"She's interacting with me..."
Ji Yan's eyes flickered.
Before his eyes, [Omniscient Understanding] displayed the hidden information on the [Black Umbrella Night Woman] in bloody words—
``` [District 8's strongest "rule-based" eerie in [Nightmare]. In life, she was brutally murdered and violated by the Rainy Night Butcher on a pouring rainy night. Her resentment turned her into an eerie. She was also the biological younger sister of the [Nightmare Lord]. The image of her tragic death was carved into the deepest part of her mind and created by the "Dream Core Order."]
[That night, if I had chosen to go out and brought an umbrella to find my younger sister, would she not have sheltered from the rain beneath the eaves? Would she not have shared the murderer's umbrella? Would none of this have happened?]
[Remember! When the [Black Umbrella Night Woman] asks whether you need an umbrella, a death rule is formed!]
[If you refuse, the [Black