"Let's get this game started sooner."
The woman with the gothic style was the first to push the door open. The pale, withered hand reaching out through it vanished the instant the door opened, leaving only dust blowing out through the cracks of the old, dilapidated door. Even the woman who had pushed it open coughed a few times.
"Are we really going in?" A man who still wore a refined, flashy satin suit in the Nightmare World covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief in disgust, as though the dust drifting out through the door frightened him more than the "Giant Hound" standing beside him, with its dog head, cat head, and human head, and fur so red it was almost black.
"Then just stay outside, gentleman." The woman who had opened the door turned to look him over, then glanced at the dense fog surrounding the hotel.
As time passed, the dense fog around the hotel crept toward them at a visibly rapid pace. If they did not enter soon, it would presumably swallow them again, and there was no telling what would happen then.
The other players had clearly noticed this too. After the woman walked into the hotel without hesitation, accompanied by her "Family Member," they followed her inside.
"Mommy..."
Su Bai had remained on the outskirts of the group, continuing to observe and piece things together even as the others entered the hotel. Only after he saw the figure in the strange black cloak, who gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity, walk inside, followed by the Ghost Creature with spiderlike limbs crawling beside them, did Su Bai finally move.
Then the voice Su Bai had almost forgotten sounded again, reminding him that he still had a troublesome "Family Member" beside him.
"Why won't