Rooftop

Yu Jing braced both hands on the table, somewhat agitated, and continued, "Ever since I first entered the town in the Marei Empire, I've been thinking about this question. What connection does the movie plot that took place in the town of the Marei Empire have with the real Forbidden Zone, and with the plot that ultimately unfolded in Sin Tower?... But now that the plot has reached its end, I still can't see any connection."

"To sum it up, I speculate that you deliberately showed yourself not to lower the difficulty, but to temporarily create a unique movie setting for me to enter, allowing me to avoid Sin Tower's original plot—and avoid an existence similar to me."

"Also, you must have made this decision in a hurry, so the plot never reached its original difficulty... If I'm not mistaken, the killer movie plot should be unfinished, right? To stop me from participating in Sin Tower's main plot, you threw me into an unfinished movie world."

"Clap, clap, clap!"

As Yu Jing presented his deduction, the Masked Man before him applauded continuously.

"What a brilliant deduction. Every point is correct... Indeed, the killer movie is a project I'm currently researching. I haven't yet integrated all the killers' stories into it. It was supposed to be a large-scale RPG (role-playing game) movie plot... But with something more important at hand, I had no choice but to abandon some things."

"What could be so important that you'd choose to give something up?" Yu Jing stared at the Masked Man and asked curiously.

"You are indeed similar to the current master of Sin Tower. I bet Yellow Hastur has already told you, hasn't he?"

Yu Jing nodded. "He's a descendant of the Old Gods."

The Masked Man wagged a finger. "The similarities between