This was a closed-location Dungeon. The Castle's master had set the rules, so the details that mattered were the unusual ones. The servants weren't real people; they were the dollmaker's hands, feet, lips, and tongue. If "breaking the rules" and "punishment" both required someone to "see" it, then being "seen" by a servant was the same as being "seen" by the dollmaker.
It was unclear whether the three middle-aged Players had secretly done anything the other Players hadn't the previous night. But that still wasn't conclusive evidence, since making only three dolls a day didn't mean that only three people could be selected on the first day. Some might have been slated for the second day.
No. 25 hadn't sat in the chair the servant had prepared. That might have been the main reason he'd become the first doll. Of course, he'd also been the first to die, though not at the dollmaker's hands.
Although the painted woman had left after finishing her work and even destroyed the black cat painting, she wasn't a Ticket Player. To the Ticket Players currently in the Dungeon, it didn't matter whether the extra person was there to complete the Dungeon or had been drawn in by accident. Her greatest contribution had been testing whether going out at night and even damaging a painting might count as breaking the Dungeon's rules.
However, none of the painted woman's actions were especially useful as a reference for Xu Huo. The Castle's master must have known there was an extra person in the Dungeon, but it was uncertain whether he could tell that she was an item. It was even possible that the Dungeon's rules prevented him from making a doll of her.
It was unclear whether the three Players who'd died the previous night had done