"Tick..."

Beads of blood fell to the ground and rippled.

The scenery around you is constantly being swallowed up, and the wooden staircase handrails no longer appear in front of you.

It's a blood-red space where nothing ever exists.

Empty, so depressed that I can't breathe.

The toes fall to the ground, more like stepping on the surface of the water, and they are rippling layer after layer.

The shadow of his hair drooped down, and he couldn't see the look of the detached man.

One step, one step.

……

……

The man in black twisted the abacus on the counter before he picked up the sleeping woman on the ground, and heard a loud bang at the end of the corridor on the second floor.

It was like knocking on his heart, and his heart tightened.

It's been discovered!

He was amazed at how alert the human child was.

After all, this was what he thought it would be a seamless operation.

Even before he acted, he had already noticed that the child had not drunk the tea he had mixed with medicine.

I even unexpectedly saw that the child was not the blind man he thought, but a child with different eyes from ordinary people, probably because he was afraid that he would scare others, so he closed his eyes and was pulled away by the woman, right?

He was indeed frightened at the first glimpse, lining his almost transparent skin.

It's just like ...... Ghost-like.

It made him shudder.

He was hiding in the guest room of the opposite room, thinking about how to lead the child away from the young woman, when perhaps the gods heard his prayer.

And he saw the child come out of the house by himself.

It was about the time the effects of the medicine began to kick in, and the candles in the room went out.

The child, too, cooperated and climbed out of the window and out of the hallway.

From the beginning, he was very surprised that an ordinary child had such a high level of martial arts, but how could such a God-given opportunity let him waste it on emotion?

He didn't think much about it, he just thought of it as a gifted child.

After all, this kind of thing can be seen often in the rumors of those ghost hunters.

Until the movement on the roof dies down.

He, hands-on.

Sideways out of the room, he pushed open the door to the opposite room with his lightest hands and feet, at least, in the same way he had never been noticed by anyone in the previous attempts.

But now that I think about it, it seems that I was discovered by that kid at that time.

It's not easy.

He even locked the windows of the hallway to be on the safe side, just to keep the kid out of the inn.

I didn't expect it......

But fortunately, now, the stone door had opened behind him, and he couldn't let him marvel any longer, so he dodged into the passage.

The door closed silently again.

No gaps were left.

This is the only place that you can't find if you go through the entire inn.

Even if he's powerful, he's just an ordinary human kid who can't pass through walls.

……

It was so dark in the aisle that you could barely see your fingers when you stretched out your hand, and you couldn't find where you landed when you just stepped on it.

But after all, this place was a place where the man in black had walked countless times, and even if he couldn't see the road, he could clearly distinguish which way to take at which fork in the road with the pressure of the surrounding stone walls.

A point of light lit up in the distance, and he wanted to run towards it.

But before he could see the point of light grow larger, he was stopped by a voice.

"Stop."

"Big ...... My lord. The shopkeeper who was carrying Ritsuko on his back hurriedly knelt down in the dark.

"What do I want?"

"The man has brought it to you." He trembled and placed Ritsuko flat in front of him.

Don't dare to look up.

The voice was not far from his head.

and the blood-red eyes that were shining in the darkness, being stared at, it seemed that the next moment it would be himself who became the prey.

"Well done, step down."

"Yes, sir."

Although the man's voice did not sound displeased, and even in a good mood, he was still afraid that every conversation he had to face would always make him suffer.

He didn't want to stay in this place for long, if he could.

After all, what was standing in front of him was the cloud ghost that the ghost hunters in the entire capital were catching!

Out of instinctive fear of the cloud ghost, he had to start obeying him.

He dragged the woman's footsteps away, and now he should be able to go back to the inn and sleep peacefully.

The kneeling legs finally have some sense.