Mr. Quill looked careless, but Cail knew that he was already suspected.
"Luckily I said aunt." That was a close call. But fortunately, he does have an ’aunt’ in this city.
It was the first thing that ca into his mind as he tried to scan his mory for anyone he knew who lived in this city.
"That knocked the hunger out of ." Cail thought as he walked towards the food section. "It’s already 3 a.m.—why is that guy still wandering around?" Is it just a coincidence? The walking backwards seed to be targeted only at Zishi, surely that wouldn’t warrant an investigation since it seed to be a family problem.
He picked out so chips and a drink. After paying, he headed back to his room as he felt that his desire to explore vanished.
Cail clicked the elevator button, then all of a sudden, the number that was on top glitched; it seed to be stuck at the 13th floor.
"Oh fuck." Cail knew that this was probably done by those guys... But can they not inconvenience soone that isn’t involved with their sche?
He called the hotel staff to check the elevator. After confirming that it was really broken and is stuck at the 13th floor, they profusely apologized and asked Cail to take the stairs as they fix the issue.
"I can’t fly can I?" Cail said to the staff. He was feeling a bit pissed. But he had no other choice. But damn, that was the 15th floor.
Cail asked for directions to the stairs, the staff pointed towards a very remote spot in the hotel. When he arrived at the place the staff pointed to, Cail looked at the dimly lit space and thought that it resembled a monster’s mouth.
"This feels like soone’s childhood trauma."
Now, Cail was walking in a dimly lit staircase. "Why do staircases always look so gloomy and scary as if sothing was about to pop out of nowhere."
It looked very plain and so lights looked like they were already fighting for their lives. So were bright; so looked as if they’d die at any mont. "Did they just forget about this after installing the elevator?" Cail muttered, he could even sll the dust in the air.
"Hey, I’m pretty bored. What do you think is going on with that Zishi guy." Cail spoke to the resident in his bracelet.
"I have no idea and I’m not interested." The bracelet said.
Cail continued climbing. He was just staring straight ahead when he noticed that he seed to have already walked a bit of distance but the stains on the wall looked familiar.
Mind you, he said he was walking, but in actuality, he was more like jogging as he walked up stairs. He looked up and saw a floor sign number. He was already on the 9th floor.
"This better not be what I think it is." Cail said, his voice laced with danger.
He continued walking. This ti, he was already paying attention to the stains on the wall and the number above.
Instead of going up, the numbers were going down. 7-6-5-4-3- then back to 8.
Finally realizing what’s going on, Cail laughed in anger. "Oh. This is really cute. Soone thinks this is funny?" Did they think that this forced cardiovascular exercise funny?
Suddenly, the bracelet in his arms glowed, "Stop what you are thinking." Cail’s thoughts about it were so strong that the bracelet sensed it imdiately.
"Why so stressed? I was just thinking about it. I’M NOT ABOUT TO DO IT." He said, already gritting his teeth.
"Why are you so destructive." The bracelet asked, clearly very exasperated. "Your world is clearly a peaceful one, but all your solutions seed tooutside common sense."
"What’s so destructive about blowing up this staircase?" Cail begged to differ. "That’s a very minimal damage, mind you. You know what I consider real damage?"
The bracelet was speechless, "We’re in the sa boat now. I don’t want to attract the authorities. You know that I’m very weak right now. If that Law maker cos here and deal with us, we’d be dead."
Cail sat down on the stairs and opened a bag of chips. "You’re very cowardly. Sotis I couldn’t help but think that you did sothing shady to be turned into sothing that is neither human nor monster." Heck, there’s no way he would continue walking up these stairs. He would feel like an idiot.
"Why did the topic suddenly turn into my issue?" The bracelet was stunned by the sudden turn of events.
Cail ignored him. He felt pissed whenever soone says ’don’t do this, don’t do that.’ Although he knew by logic that he should not be feeling this way, what’s the use? He already felt annoyed.
He looked up. The ceiling was made of a big mirror. He had no idea who the architect of this building was, but a mirror as a ceiling in a close staircase is not a good idea from Cail’s perspective.
Cail raised his hand. The mirror him did the sa. It wasn’t the cliche mirror scare, but Cail did notice sothing. The mirror... It was supposed to reflect the opposite right? Why did it follow his hand movents the sa as his in reality? He raised his left hand and it did the sa...
"This shit better not pull so absurd horror tactic on ." Instead of being pissed, Cail felt that it was a bit funny. He continued playing with the mirror.
It didn’t seem to do anything aside from not doing what it should do.
Then, just as he thought that was it. Soone sudden ca down running on stairs. It couldn’t be seen in reality, but it was visible in the mirror.
It was a young man with disheveled hair. He was still wearing light blue pajamas from his sleep. His eyes were wide open in panic as he rushed downstairs.
"Zishi... What is he doing here?" Cail looked at him. He was panting and sothing seed to be chasing him... But Zishi did look a bit spooky. He was running downstairs backwards.
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