The broken old pocket watch struggled to move its hands, forcing the flow of time in the Rose Hotel into a ceaseless cycle. This Sin Object had suffered such severe damage that it had become uncontrollable.
Time sped up and slowed down, shifting unpredictably.
On the disordered timeline, the severed head and the dark silhouette appeared in turn. This time, it was not just the ghost officer squad who saw them. Even Hou Guisheng saw the black robe before him, about to touch the head.
His gaze suddenly sharpened. Even when he had cut off the head, he had wondered whether Ruru's Mother was truly hiding herself. Yet when that suspicion became reality, he still could not help feeling shaken.
He could not even imagine how Ruru, who had been nothing but a victim throughout the previous six manager missions, had managed to match Ruru's Mother—and now steadily overpower her.
She had driven Ruru's Mother, who had long served as the Root Cause Ghost, to such desperation that she needed the employees' help just to dare show herself.
The thick black vapor seemed to add an even more insidious eeriness to the lime rain that was still falling.
The two sides were now clearly opposed. On the side shrouded in black vapor, a horrifying severed head blocked the black robe's path, with Hou, Xue, Fang, and the other employees behind it.
Facing them was the Black Robed Figure flickering in and out of sight amid the lime rain and black vapor: Ruru, the nominal Root Cause Ghost of the final manager mission.
All alone, Xiao Qian Duyue had become an outsider holding a powerful ghost card that had no effect whatsoever. She stood behind Ruru. No one dared rescue her, and she did not dare move.
Meanwhile, Gao Bo, the