"Are you having an episode?"
Opera singers seemed to be like this—if you weren't careful, they'd start spouting lines. Skadi smiled for the first time in a while. With only the two of them in rain-soaked Lungmen, why not play along with her?
Rhodes Island had a copy of Moonlit Night Quotations. It could probably go toe-to-toe with Kallen.
"Whew—"
"Are you the phantom who came to pick me up?"
"..."
Kallen was dumbfounded too. She truly hadn't expected Skadi to play along.
She quickly recovered.
"I am not a phantom. I am the mask in the rainy night. What you see is merely one of my many masks. Now, I invite you to attack the mist. Can you see me beneath the mask?"
"Is this an invitation from the Mask of the Rainy Night?"
"I'd love to hear more~"
An opera was playing out over there, while an action adventure unfolded here.
Hoshino unexpectedly felt no sense of dissociation at all. That was all thanks to Fenghuang Down. Its effect on Hoshino, together with Jizo Mitama, was simply in a league of its own.
She arrived before the sewer gate once more.
The boss was inside.
Perhaps because the rain was too heavy, the guards here were all wearing pitch-black raincoats. That was a good thing—their field of vision would be narrowed further, making them easier to knock out.
"Sleep."
The invincible black raincoats suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice beside their ears.
Alarmed, they spun around and caught sight of a flash of flowing gold. A pale chess piece descended, bringing endless darkness.
"An... enemy."
"How could I be an enemy? I'm Lungmen's steadfast ally. I'm here to solve your problems."
Hoshino strode forward, ignoring the unconscious black raincoats. She pressed both hands against the alloy doors, and the