The room behind the metal door at the end of the passage lined with bat-man statues suddenly lit up with an eerie, dark green glow.
Within the light, Miss Gong Linna's coachman, Zamas, was walking toward something step by step... He seemed to have lost all reason.
"Idiot! Snap out of it—!"
Just then, a stabbing pain suddenly appeared on Zamas's cheek, making him shudder. He woke with a start.
"What is this—?!"
In his shock, Zamas instinctively stumbled back several steps before examining the scene ahead through his cold sweat... the thing that had drawn all his attention.
At the same time, he discovered what had caused the wound on his cheek. A cleaver was standing upright on the floor, with even a small smear of blood still on its blade.
That cleaver had attacked him and brought him back to his senses... In an instant, Zamas figured out what had happened and faced an unbelievable truth.
The cleaver he had picked up from the floor earlier was alive—good heavens, he had even seen an eye growing on its blade. It was a creature shaped like a cleaver.
Zamas even thought it had to be an illusion... just like the thing in this secret room that had captured all his attention from the very beginning.
A plant... a plant with half a human body!
It had been planted in a huge container, its roots buried in deep-red soil... Above the waist, it was unmistakably shaped like an incomparably beautiful woman.
Even...
"Why does it look so much like Young Lady Gong Linna...?" Zamas muttered. He did not even dare look into the eyes of the half-human, half-plant creature.
Its eyes were open, yet unfocused... They looked hollow, but possessed a strange magic that made people lose themselves within them.