Angela blinked. "Si Qi, didn't you say earlier..."
"I was just fooling him," Qi Si said bluntly. "He's not good at Rule Horror dungeons. He'd only drag us down."
So you sent him away just like that, huh?
Angela didn't even know where to begin.
Still, the situation worked out perfectly for her. Two people would be harder to deal with and more likely to cause complications. One was just right.
She smiled. "Then let's get going. As far as I know, the Altar is quite far away."
Qi Si nodded readily. "Sure. You lead the way."
Angela said, "You're a grown man. It's not right to make a girl lead the way, is it? I can follow behind you and give you directions."
Qi Si said, "I'm weak."
Angela: ...6.
The Coconut Grove was lush, but with the Clock Tower and the inn serving as two landmarks along a straight line, it wasn't hard to figure out where the Altar was.
Neither Angela nor Qi Si was willing to turn their back on the other. Before long, they'd silently reached an understanding and started walking side by side.
They went a long way without saying a word. The only sound was the soft crunch of their footsteps on the sand.
Perhaps finding the silence awkward, Angela tried to make conversation. "Si Qi, how did you get into the Eerie Game?"
Qi Si pretended not to understand. "Didn't all of us find an Invitation Card and then somehow end up here?"
"I mean, what wish did you make? The clueless expendables the game drags in to make up the numbers never survive this long." Angela's smile was cruel. "For me, my first wish was that I wanted my whole family dead."
Qi Si wasn't interested in people volunteering their life