The scene returned to Yushiro.
The power of the Infinity Castle had pushed Yushiro to its outermost reaches. Panting heavily, he stopped in a relatively stable room.
He forced himself to calm down. Anger and agitation would solve nothing.
Lady Tamayo's teachings flashed through his mind. He closed his eyes and spread his senses outward again.
He began carefully observing the patterns in the changes around him. He discovered that the Infinity Castle's spatial reconfigurations were not without flaws.
Every time a room moved or gravity reversed, there was an extremely brief pause at the boundaries where they met. Those were the gaps between Nakime's plucks of the strings, the intervals when her Blood Demon Art was inactive.
Yushiro opened his eyes, his gaze utterly resolute.
He locked onto a corridor above him that was rapidly moving left.
Yushiro drove off with both legs, shooting forward like an arrow loosed from a bow. Rather than running across stable ground, he leaped straight into the air.
Just as his body was about to strike the moving wall opposite him, he planted his foot precisely on a protruding wood carving. Using the recoil, he forcibly twisted his body and narrowly slipped through the gap between two closing walls.
Like a master of parkour, he sought the only route to survival through the constantly shifting space.
An enormous shaft appeared ahead, filled with rotating wooden staircases.
Nakime's music rang out again, and the staircases began frantically breaking apart and reassembling.
Yushiro jumped into the shaft without hesitation. Sighting a falling log, he landed firmly on it with both feet. The instant the log dropped, he jumped again, grabbing a rising beam on the other side with both hands.
He kept tumbling and leaping through the air. Through his movements, he reduced gravity's influence