"..."
In the middle of the night, Ruby, MEM, and Kazuka lay on the tatami in the guest room, but none of them could fall asleep.
"...MEM, Kazuka, are you two still awake?"
"Mm..."
"I can't sleep either..."
Hearing Ruby call out, the others answered in low voices as well.
They had been filming all day and should have gone to bed long ago. In fact, they were all quite exhausted, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't fall asleep.
The reason was simple: what had happened earlier was just too strange.
After they arrived at the entrance and encountered the staff, the lights in the inn came back on. The inn staff said the circuit breaker had tripped. After that, the three of them followed the direction indicated by their memories and found the room they had entered during the blackout. To their surprise, the japanese-style room was completely locked. It hadn't been opened at all. Moreover, that guest room was none other than the Chrysanthemum Room, the very one the proprietress had warned them never to approach.
This left them quite frightened and uneasy, so they hurried back to their room to rest.
"Do you think we did something bad...?"
Ruby spoke in a low voice.
"The proprietress told us not to go near it, but all three of us went inside... Nothing's going to happen, right?"
"I-I-I'm sure nothing will happen."
MEM wanted to comfort Ruby, but even her own voice trembled.
"A-a-and Ruby, you saw it too. That room was locked. It wasn't open at all. Even if we'd mistaken it during the blackout, there's no way we could have gone inside. So the room we entered must have been a different one..."
"But there's only one guest room over there..."
"Ugh..."
Hearing Ruby's