"The Inn protected us."
"No matter what happened inside the Inn, it always took our side."
"Once we leave the Inn, we no longer know how to adapt to the outside world."
"The Inn promised us that as long as we stayed here, we would be able to find our family."
The ghostly shadows on the walls spoke over one another. As they went on, they began bitterly denouncing the Inn's deception, just as the female ghost had earlier.
"The Inn said it would let us find our family, but it lied to us. We can't find any family who truly loves us."
"Those people fear us and even hate us. Apart from their flesh and blood, they mean nothing to us!"
"The Inn deceived us!"
"The Inn just wanted to keep us here with that lie. It gave us a false dream, but all we can see is a hopeless future."
"Could it be..." Su Bai interrupted the Strange Creatures' endless tirade. "That when the Inn invited you to stay, and you began treating it as your 'home,' you had already become one another's family? In that case, the Inn wasn't actually deceiving you, was it?"
"..."
The ghostly shadows on the walls fell silent for a moment.
In fact, when he first entered the hidden area, Su Bai had overheard the female ghost talking to the other Strange Creatures. He knew that not all of them saw the Happy Hotel as a "liar." Some Strange Creatures still believed that those living in the Happy Hotel were one another's family.
"Impossible!"
The ghostly shadows on the walls reacted fiercely.
"If the Inn didn't want us to find family ourselves, why did it approve of what we were doing? Why did it put pictures of us with our 'family' on