Chapter 105

Creaks echoed in a room illuminated by its white ceiling and walls. Its furniture, as new as it was radiant, was divided into two colors—browns and blacks—that also seemed to emit a certain amount of light, substituting for the brightness of the wall surfaces they covered.

At the center of the room, facing the large bed situated beneath a window adorned with roses and vines, was the source of all the noise: Hilary, who, with a piece of chalk in hand, was drawing on the wall.

"Alright!" she said as she finished her drawing. "What would you do in this situation?"

"...If a stick-figure man were to fall, while the other one just watches...?" asked Hye, straining to understand the drawing before him. Hilary tried to explain, but the image on the wall turned out to be nothing more than a cluster of scribbles drawn closely together.

"Argh...! No! Look—!" The sound of her hand slamming against the wall made the scribbles vanish entirely. "Ah, no! Damn…!"