Chapter 228. Seven Rooms (10) (2/2)
“It’s been decided”
“Captain!”
“Stop Rules are rules A decision has already been made, so even if you don’t want to, you must follow it If you refuse to do so, I won’t think of you as le didn’t back off
“What aboutthat you will push us to our deaths in the end? Just because of your goals?”
Dalgil halted “…If you are so adaive you one last opportunity,” he said coldly while looking down at Bogle “Throw your staff”
“…”
“If your staff points to the blue door, the voting will be voided, and ill go through the blue door”
Bogle didn’t say anything He si his teeth
“If you refuse to do that, I won’t tolerate any further objections beyond this point”
Dalgil turned like he had nothing left to discuss and stomped toward the white door He was about to open it without hesitation when Bogle suddenly lunged, raising the staff upside down to point its sharp tip at Dalgil in an attereat speed was unthinkable for his usual self, but Bogle failed to do what he intended The il, his staff broke and sle was disarle tried to launch an ambush, the two reacted quicker like they had expected the attack Ru Hiana shouted in surprise, but Chi-Woo appeared calm He had also anticipated the possibility
“I thought the monster could only read short-term memories to impersonate the person, but it seeil said while pressing his feet down on Bogle harder Then he snorted, “It would’ve been better if you had just thrown the staff and said God Miho wasn’t responding Before anyone else, Bogle always said that he would throw his staff whenever a probleuy would refuse to do so this ti”
“…”
“Tell le—no, the ly expressionless face before it smiled so wide that the corners of itsat theil looked around and furrowed his brows Airi, who should’ve been in Ru Hiana’s araze, Ru Hiana’s eyes also turned wide She didn’t realize that Airi had disappeared frole The expedition teas and spotted her in the left corner Airi had already climbed to the top of the stairs and was in front of the red door How did Airito even stand? It was i Airi smirk in front of the red door, everyone cah the red door opened from the outside once the number of knocks reached a hundred, it could be opened froht away
Airi was about to juer suddenly flew across the air and pierced her In pain, Airi tried to pull the dagger out, but she screaer’s hilt, and pushed the blade deeper into Airi’s body She responded so skillfully and swiftly, as if she had prepared for this situation beforehand like Dalgil and Ru Aer out and glanced over her shoulder, Dalgil asked with a confounded expression, “How…did you know?”
“It said five”
Dalgil looked confused
“When we got out of the room, it said there needed to be at least five people for the door to open,” Hawa explained once et it After leaving the room, Hawa alone had looked behind her and saw the words on the outside of the door rather than the inside
“The writing outside said five or six were unstable, while seven was the perfect nus on the inside, didn’t you say you couldn’t read it?” Dalgil asked a bit sharply this ti blankly at her
“I lied,” Hawa said matter-of-factly
“You could read it?”
“I was trained in all sorts of knowledge since I was young, including languages of several species and even ancient languages” Though not to Bogle’s level, Hawa’s knowledge about ancient ti her time in the cave under the Evalaya Volcano
“Then why did you hide this fact?”
“I wanted to test you,” Hawa answered nonchalantly “If you were the iht you would deliberately misinterpret ritten on the door, so I watched you” In other words, Hawa had pretended like she was unable to read the letters and didn’t say anything even when she found writings on the outside of the door She did this not only to test her tea the infor them In short, Hawa had suspected everyone on the tea
Everyone looked stunned by Hawa’s thoroughness
“Then when did you begin to doubt Airi…?” Dalgil asked Chi-Woo was also curious He had suspected Bogle, but hadn’t considered Airi a suspect at all
“When…? Ah” Dalgil realized then
The thought that there could be twotheir companions first came to Hawa’s ht about what theof the number was Was it the number of people in the room? No, that couldn’t be the case since it should be ‘7’ then The suspicions she had deepened when she saw the o on the outside What did it mean by ‘unstable’ with five or six, and ‘perfect’ with seven? While thinking about this, Hawa connected what had happened in the previous rooht, ‘What if the number wasn’t the number of people in the roo monster couldn’t be seen as their coh the door opened when there were at least five people, things would be unstable with the current number of companions they had Only if they had seven co sees on the door hinted that problems would arise in an unstable state” And that hat alle worsened, Dalgil was almost ambushed frole was on the , he had acted too differently froht about who the last monster could be Outside of herself and Chi-Woo, who had brought up exactly what had happened between them when they were at the Evalaya Volcano, she couldn’t be sure who a four could be the last monster
“I suspected one or two of you, but couldn’t figure it out That made me think in the completely opposite direction,” Hawa continued to explain
“How so?”
“I kept my eye on the companion as the least suspicious,” Hawa said “The way the situation was progressing, I thought ould be co backstabbed by the person we least suspected”
It was the truth of life: in the ot betrayed by the person that seemed least likely to do so Thus, Hawa kept her eye on Airi nobody suspected her as she had been with Chi-Woo almost the entire tiht have ht
Baed by this, the ihtieth knock just now,” Hawa said, craning one ear and squinting
“Then…Airi and Bogle…” Dalgil said with a slightly dazed face
Bam!
Hawa frowned and said, “It is time for us to decide”
Bam!
“The door to turn back has disappeared”
Bam!
“We have to decide whether to open the blue door or the white door”
Baing Dalgil to ressively kicked the bottoly loud, and Haas understandably annoyed And after the hard kick, the knocking suddenly stopped to their surprise Yet the next moment—
Ba behind the door was also enraged by Hawa’s behavior, they began to knock on the door faster Hawa responded quickly Her eyes widened for a moment, and then she flen the stairs The knocks reached ninety in an instant and grew frantic
“Quickly!” Hawa yelled urgently Dalgil quickly caer, they headed for the white door he had decided upon fro to the next coil on the lead, everyone hurriedly ran toward the open door Si
“Wait—!” Though it sounded like so them from the second floor, no one looked back Chi-Woo was the last one to get out He turned to close the door behind him Then his face became blank
“?”