Meanwhile, at the Night Doctors' outpost outside Curse City.
As more and more Night Doctors gathered there, the outpost had rapidly expanded in a short time.
At that moment, in the corridor of a hastily erected building, every passing Night Doctor stopped, files in hand, and stared blankly at Lynn as he wriggled toward them down the hall.
Naturally, they recognized the boy at once. He was the young man who had made such a splash in Curse City not long ago.
But right then...
Lynn looked like a caterpillar, his chest and chin rubbing against the floor as his knees bent and straightened with practiced ease, inching him down the corridor.
"Hello, sir! Long time no see~"
"Uh, hello... Do you need help? Aren't you worried you'll crash into something, wriggling around like that?"
"No need. I have brakes."
"..."
"Hello, miss! I'm the cool young guy who led you all out of the encirclement. Remember me?"
"Uh... yes. Hello, Mr. Lynn. Crawling like that... doesn't it dig into you?"
"Nope. I don't have boobs."
"..."
Lynn wriggled along with a smile, cheerfully greeting each passing Night Doctor.
He paid absolutely no mind to his bizarre means of locomotion.
Zuo Zuo, meanwhile, was so embarrassed she nearly scratched a three-bedroom apartment into the floor with her fingers. All she could do was press her palm against the ground and pretend to be a perfectly ordinary left hand, trying her best not to attract attention.
Finally, once Lynn had finished making the rounds of greetings, Zuo Zuo abruptly raised her trembling hand and stammered:
"Head, how can you make small talk with people so normally?! Don't you feel embarrassed at all?! You're going to get so many weird looks like this!"
Lynn nudged himself forward with his chin, adjusted his