A distorted, eerie melody circled through the room, as though winding a spring inside people's hearts. The quiet Dream Hotel finally grew lively, but that liveliness only left people agitated.
"...What's going on?! Why did all the lights come on? That's so scary..." Firefly cautiously observed the changes around her.
As the lights came on, the two girls gradually made out their surroundings. Countless towering doors stood along the circular walls.
After confirming that there was no particular danger nearby, Firefly said:
"There are actually so many doors here... We should be able to leave through one of them, right...?"
Stelle nodded. However, all these doors looked the same, and neither of them could find any clues pointing toward the exit.
In the end, Stelle chose a door by instinct. The two walked through it together, passed through a corridor, and opened another door... only to find an identical room beyond it.
But it was not entirely identical. Some noise mingled with the distorted melody-the televisions around them lit up with static, constantly hissing.
Meanwhile, the door behind them vanished the instant the two entered the room.
The two girls did not linger there. They chose another door and rushed through it, but after passing through another dim corridor, they arrived in yet another identical room.
There were even more televisions showing static here, as though explicitly signaling the existence of some malfunction to the two girls. There was another abnormality, too: the distorted melody seemed to be gradually quickening, as though something invisible were following behind them. As it approached, the eerie music grew increasingly frantic, like a death knell played upon human vocal cords.
Another run.
However, when Stelle and Firefly opened the door and rushed into the corridor, the melody abruptly slowed, then stopped within the next