Hearing Abner's question, Mrs. Julia looked visibly dazed and murmured as though in a dream:
"I've lost part of my memory...
"My impression of the 'medium' is very vague... It seemed... it seemed to be five things...
"Different internal organs, I think?
"But I remember I didn't fully open that 'door.' Perhaps those organs weren't suitable enough as a 'medium'... That's why I ended up like this.
"Also, I probably didn't die on the spot because I knew the name 'Liu Bo'..."
Five different internal organs? Abner frowned at once, recalling the sixteen-year-old Bloody Butcher case in Tingen that Miss Justice had asked about above the Gray Fog.
In that case, the murderer had killed five young women and taken a different internal organ from each.
Although the truth Miss Justice eventually deduced matched what the Nighthawks had uncovered, the Dream Labyrinth Tower had told her that she had failed the task. The real culprit was someone else...
But what did those organs have to do with a Sefirah?
Hmm... Five... Five? Five girls also survived the experiment eleven years ago. Could there really be a connection?
That would also explain why this Hidden Space, and the "tunnel" leading into it, were so heavily contaminated by a Sefirah.
Heh, this must involve powers at a terrifying level. Even with all these clues, I still can't use Insight to uncover the truth.
As he pondered, Abner felt the room shake more and more violently. He knew the Triumphal Arch was about to collapse. This room directly beneath it—and the "door" inside—would likely be destroyed as well.
Mrs. Julia was clearly nothing more than a peculiar sort of "dead person," bound to that "door."
Once the "door" ceased to exist, so would she.
Abner thought for a moment, then looked at Mrs.