"Is this fog machine really that effective?"
Far away on the other side, the Bloodfiend girl who owned the haunted house watched the crowd through binoculars. When she saw people starting to flee, her first reaction was not delight, but bewilderment.
This wasn't how it was supposed to go.
According to her estimates, no one should have started running until at least the third attraction. Those assassins had come in looking fierce and well-trained, making her think they were professionals. Yet this was all they had?
Jiushi rubbed her eyes, making sure she wasn't seeing things.
Though many had fled, the vast majority remained. Lappland silently began taking down names, using her blade to carve tally marks into a stone. She intended to visit them one by one someday and settle the score. Naturally, she did not care about small fry. If she was going to act, she would take down some big targets—preferably find the mastermind and hang them from the city gate tower, letting the sun bake their shriveled corpses.
"Where's the shrine maiden?"
"She went to help you scare people."
Lappland recalled that scene again. The shrine maiden had stood there silently, with a crimson armored shikigami floating behind her. In that setting, it really had been terrifying. Forget those rats—even Lappland herself had felt a chill in her heart and an urge to retreat when she first saw it.
She did not know that Seele had actually done the job.
Jizo Mitama had merely provided support.
"You did very well."
Hoshino praised Seele as she returned to her side. "As an AI, you completed the task quite well. Now hide yourself again."
"?"
Seele tilted her head.
"But... Seele still has one line left to say."
"What line?"
"They all fell down. Did they get tired