Russell entered the second floor first and looked around.
Compared to the crowded shop below, the space upstairs was quite spacious.
There was a master bedroom, a secondary bedroom, and a guest room.
The secondary bedroom carried a faint scent of human blood. As expected, it was likely Rita's usual room.
He tried pressing his hand against it, and it indeed opened immediately.
It was a rather plain room. The largest appliance was a refrigerator, and when he opened it, he found frozen blood and Honkai energy solvent inside.
Russell pondered for a while, then cut off a corner from one of the fruits he had obtained during his trip to the Type-Moon world and squeezed it into juice.
He casually poured it into a cup, then slit his wrist and filled the cup with blood.
After doing all that.
Russell pressed his finger against the master bedroom door. With a ding-dong sound, the door opened.
There were two pairs of indoor slippers inside.
None of them had been used. One pair was for men, and two pairs were for women; the women's slippers had silly goose and white cat patterns on them.
There was no third pair of shoes.
It seemed that the bat did not consider herself the owner of this home, even though Russell could unlock her door with his fingerprint.
That was rather troubling.
Russell changed into the indoor slippers, his face drawn.
"Bad mood, commander?"
"Would you like some candy?"
Bronya set down her luggage, darted over to Russell's side like a small dog, and pulled several candies from her pocket—standard battlefield candy. They looked like treasures she had saved from her days as a child soldier.
"Ah... thanks."
Russell picked one up and put it into his mouth.
The taste was not great, but