At noon on Tuesday, in the Reward Room of the Dream Labyrinth Tower.
Klein and Sharron appeared there after clearing the sixth floor. Both looked battered, as though they had survived a major disaster.
They had. A super-hurricane, flooding, and a deep freeze had struck together, plunging the city in the scene into apocalyptic conditions.
If Miss Sharron had still been a Wraith, the extreme weather would hardly have affected her. But on the sixth floor, she could only use the strength of a Werewolf... Fortunately, Werewolves ranked among the stronger Sequence 7s in both survival and direct combat.
Klein could use all his abilities, but a Magician was still lacking in physical strength. The hurricane had nearly swept him away the moment they entered... If Sharron had not saved him, he would have had to recite the Fool's Honorific Name and escape Above the Gray Fog on the spot.
Afterward, Klein recognized the film the scene was based on. He quickly found the "protagonist," completed the task, and made it back.
"That floor was dangerous, but I don't think it was Linster's doing... He's waiting for us on the fifth floor!" Klein said to Miss Sharron after resting for a moment.
Pale-faced, Sharron looked at him and said without a ripple of emotion, "The timing was wrong when we entered the scene. He tampered with it."
Klein frowned. He agreed with her assessment. Unlike in the previous scenes, they had faced the worst danger almost the instant they entered the Labyrinth, with no time to adjust... It might simply have been the sixth floor's increased difficulty, but Klein had also realized that, if he had not known the plot, they might never have had time to complete the task. They could have been trapped in that apocalyptic scene until