Nighttime was a taboo, both for the hotel itself and for its employees!
After dark, the employees either went off duty or hid in the staff lounge, refusing to come out easily. Unless a guest called the front desk and made a specific, urgent request, the hotel absolutely would not provide any services.
Yes, any service whatsoever. Even delivering food, clothing, medicine, and the like was out of the question!
Even when faced with an extremely urgent request, the hotel employees would deliberate again and again. Unless they were certain that refusing would endanger their lives, they absolutely would not handle anything that could be put off until dawn.
As for the specific reason, the employees working at the hotel and the guests who had been forced to stay there long-term for various reasons all knew it perfectly well, so there was no need to elaborate.
In short!
At night, everyone in this hotel, whether employee or guest, was best off staying where they were supposed to be and not appearing where they should not. Otherwise, nothing that happened would be unexpected. This was no laughing matter.
However...
Ding-dong--!
Coincidentally, at this very moment, the elevator chimed. Luna, the employee who had already been on indefinite leave for certain reasons, used her employee card to take the VIP elevator to the top floor of the hotel.
"..."
As soon as she stepped out of the elevator, she saw that, just like the other floors, the entire corridor on the top floor—Floor 33—was utterly silent and empty!
Even the service desk was deserted. The two colleagues who should have been stationed there during the day, Lily and Blink, had already gone off duty. Thus, despite being the floor of the most luxurious VIP suites, it was still as cold and deserted