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Yet even now—

The monsters the woman had encountered were all walking corpses transformed from the hotel's guests.

There were strangely few monsters wandering outside the hotel, despite the nearby residential district having a huge population.

Lowering her binoculars, Murata Himeko moved to another window to observe the situation outside.

"..."

Switching to a specially made periscope, Murata Himeko carefully held her breath and observed the situation outside.

"Where exactly did they come from?"

A walking corpse wandering the street entered her view.

But that was not the important part.

The important part was that several tiny purple creatures crawled out of holes in the ground.

The walking corpse sensed the presence of life and let out a roar—

"Crack!"

The sound abruptly stopped.

The tiny purple creatures held the severed limbs in their mouths before leaping into nearby holes one after another.

These little creatures were the reason Murata Himeko had remained trapped here until now.

Holes that looked as though they had been dug out were scattered around the hotel.

Whenever those little purple creatures sensed something walking on the ground, they would burrow out, tear it apart, and drag it back underground.

The creatures that emerged were not limited to these cute little winged ones. There were also oversized cockroach-like creatures and long, slender ones.

A Honkai beast had emerged nearby before—

It had probably sensed her life force and chased after her.

But after entering this area, it too had been dragged into an underground burrow.

She had traveled light this time, bringing only a few firearms for self-defense. She had not even brought her usual greatsword.

Faced with cockroaches whose defenses even a Honkai beast could not break through... Murata Himeko knew her limits.

Her guns would probably only tickle them.

And before she equipped