["Ah..." You were absorbed in the story in the journal when you suddenly heard a scream.]
[You looked up and saw eleven children covered in blood appear at the doorway. At the other end of the room, trapped inside by them, was the Red-Clothed Woman.]
[The Red-Clothed Woman looked at her children with anguish and guilt, reaching out to touch them.]
["Murderer!" one child suddenly said, making the woman shudder in fright. Her outstretched hand froze in midair.]
["Murderer! Murderer! Murderer..." The eleven children repeated the same word expressionlessly, advancing toward the Red-Clothed Woman step by step.]
[The Red-Clothed Woman shook her head repeatedly, her mouth opening and closing without making a sound. Tears streaming down her face, she could only look at her children's hateful expressions before helplessly turning to flee, passing beside you...]
[The children behind her swarmed forward like Zombies baring their fangs and claws...]
[You stood motionless. Soon, all the figures passed straight through you and vanished.]
[The objects flying around finally stopped as well, and the room fell completely silent...]
Mu You sighed and had his character take out the newspaper from earlier, comparing the dates in the journal with the date in the newspaper.
He soon confirmed that the child murders reported in the newspaper had taken place one month after Monster Baby's death in the journal.
The journal had only one sentence covering that month-"Everything was as usual"-but something must have happened during that time to turn a saintly mother willing to feed her children her own blood into a demon who slaughtered them in a frenzy.
There was one thing, however, that puzzled Mu You considerably.
The people and stories of this manor, and even this world, were supposedly just virtual stories created by the server, not real. Why, then, had that