The assistance provided by the god's task allowed Shade to directly sense the location of the objective amid the chaotic floors. So after stepping onto the floor, he led Miss Novare to the right. After passing a total of eight rooms on both sides, he saw the elevator lobby, and then the door plate for Room 2547.
Further ahead was Room 2548.
The god on the 1st Floor had said last time that damage to the walls between these two rooms had connected them into the same space. What Shade needed to do was rebuild the wall by ordinary means, like a mason, so that the two rooms would once again be separate.
Although the task itself did not involve the entities within the two rooms, Shade felt that he would have no chance to build a wall without first fighting something.
After discussing it with Miss Novare, they chose to enter through Room 2547. The closed door opened with a light push, and nothing inside greeted them.
Perhaps because they were on a higher floor, this room was larger than any room they had seen before, nearly as large as the most luxurious suite aboard the Radiance Messenger. It had a bedroom, washroom, dressing room, storage room, reception room, and smoking room—everything one could need.
The two did not search for supplies, instead inspecting every room. The place seemed quite old, but not a single wall had been damaged.
The glow of kerosene lamps and candles illuminated their faces as Miss Novare offered a guess:
"Perhaps what we are seeing now is what the two rooms look like after being merged. Although this large room is not symmetrical, no one said that Rooms 2547 and 2548 had to have identical layouts.
"The difficulty of this task may be finding