Elliot's eyes lit up. This explanation finally resolved the question that had troubled him for so long.
"But the Difference Engine doesn't seem entirely incapable of grabbing the beings inside."
Elliot recalled that when he had used the Stage-Play Difference Engine to explore this place before, he had tried reaching straight inside and pulled a Puppet out of that writhing darkness.
Yes, although he could not tell what was inside, he had taken it straight out.
"There should be someone in there."
Elliot stared fixedly at the Difference Engine, waiting for Holly to act.
At last, Holly's ritual ended. What stood before her was no longer that ordinary empty room, but an entire stone wall, and what she held was the stone door.
She took a deep breath, seemingly preparing herself mentally for something. Finally, she pushed the door open in one motion!
Inside was a mass of slowly writhing darkness, exactly as the Difference Engine had displayed. Even Vanessa's [Spirit Vision] could not penetrate it.
But Holly paid no attention to the darkness and walked straight inside.
Elliot froze. What had she gone in there to do? Vanessa couldn't see her now!
Holly had braved such great danger all the way here to enter this room, so she must have something extremely important to do. Elliot was even hesitating over whether to have Vanessa risk investigating.
But he did not wrestle with it for long. Holly soon emerged from the room again.
Unlike before, however, she was carrying a... person on her back.
Vanessa stared at everything before her, dumbfounded, and rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
She had watched Holly enter the room, only to see her come out carrying someone on her back!
More precisely, they did not look like a living person, but a corpse.
Vanessa had