The flower house that was full of delicate roses not long ago was now only filled with green vines.
This green is not a vibrant green either.
But a bleak, silent green.
Lifeless and cold.
The prince surrounded by roses seemed to be an illusion seen by the few of them.
When the hallucination fades, everything disappears.
"Open the curtain and let the sun shine in..." Kudo Shinichi murmured softly as he looked at the vines filling the room.
"Let the moon fall and turn into pieces on the ground..." His eyes fell on the location of the pool covered by vines.
Down there, a prince is sleeping.
"If he is a clue NPC, then it would be too real." Hattori Heiji said in a complicated tone.
It's so real that people can't think of it as a game.
"Those hundreds of players were killed by roses." Hattori Heiji said while looking at the motionless vines.
The prince is not a good person.
Because he said in an understatement that he had killed too many people in the original room, so much blood that it was uninhabitable, his posture was nonchalant.
Because he looked at them tied by vines and apologized lightly, saying that Rose was too willful.
The tone was not accusatory, but condoning.
Including what the other party said later, maybe when the remaining people were killed by the rose, there was no reaction.
Does the other party know that Rose killed hundreds of players?
I'm afraid I know that too.
Why do roses keep killing people?
Think of the pool that was originally full of blood and the vines that sucked up the blood. When the prince revived, he turned red and returned to the prince's body.
It's like...
Those vines are like the blood vessels flowing in the prince's body.
Rose keeps killing people to keep the prince alive.
Even though the prince had committed suicide, when the rose saved his life, the prince still chose to indulge.
This time the other party once again chose to commit suicide, taking the rose with him.
Thinking of the docile and obedient appearance of those cruel and murderous blood-sucking vines when the other party smiled and cut off the blooming flowers, Hattori Heiji felt a little complicated in his heart.
The rose knew that the prince wanted to kill it, but she did not resist.
As for why the prince, who is not a good person, told them so much news...
Maybe as the other person said, it's because I haven't chatted with anyone for a long time.
Or maybe...
It's because of the scissors and daggers carried by Mr. Amuro and Mr. Midorikawa.
Maybe that's what the prince must use if he wants to die.
"Is there a possibility that the sky we have seen since entering the game is all fake?" Kudo Shinichi suddenly made a guess.
"The moon has never changed...isn't the night also a kind of curtain?" The more Kudo Shinichi said it, the more likely it seemed that it was possible, and his eyes lit up.
The bloody twin moons in the sky have been hanging there since they entered the game and have never changed their positions.
There is never daylight in the game.
Before, they thought it was because of the game settings, but now that they think about it, it must be abnormal.
"That makes sense, but how should we make the moon fall?" Hattori Heiji nodded and raised a question.
The moon hung in the sky at such a height that unless they could fly, they would not be able to touch it.
Kudo Shinichi fell into silence.
"He said that the top floor of the building was where the people behind the scenes used to live. Let's go to the top floor first and take a look." Kudo Shinichi said, changing the topic.
He currently has no good way to go up to the sky to pick up the moon.
Even if the moon might be fake.
He couldn't pick it either.
"Rose... is asleep. We can just take the stairs. There is no need to climb the ventilation duct. It is faster to go from the stairs to the top than to climb the ventilation duct." Hattori Heiji thought, between sleeping and dying
She chose to use the word "sleep" to describe the current state of the rose.
"It's just that we may not be able to enter the room on the top floor..." Hattori Heiji said to himself.
"Maybe we can go in." Midorikawa Mu said.
"Amuro and I found some things. In addition to scissors and daggers, there is also this. This is probably an access card." He took out a gray-white magnetic card.
Printed on it is a rose, a crown, and a series of numbers a0009.
[System prompt: Congratulations to the player for obtaining the building pass, a reliable pass to any room in the building.]
"Access card? Pass?" Kudo Shinichi was a little confused.
This pattern…
Is it a prince's pass?
Can I use this pass to go to any room?
"What does this number a0009 mean?" Hattori Heiji frowned.
"Maybe it's the experimental subject number, the prince, or the rose is number a0009." The white horse detective said his guess calmly.
"But why can the experimental subject gain access to all rooms in the building?" Hattori Heiji was a little confused.
"Speaking of which, he said that we are the new brave men. Is it possible that...he used to be the character representing the brave men in the past?" Hattori Heiji guessed.
Just follow the warning or reminder from the other party... don't become the new Demon King after killing the Demon King.
In other words, the prince may have once represented a hero. After killing the devil, he may have chosen to become the devil and then committed suicide.
It is precisely because he became the Demon King that he has such authority.
From the moment the prince directly told them that the top floor was where the people behind the scenes once lived, they should have understood why the other party knew it so well? Because he had been there.
It's even possible...
Killed those behind the scenes.
"There is also a fog that makes people lose themselves... It's like... he has experienced it before, and that's why he has such a reminder." Hattori Heiji continued.
"It's a pity that he can no longer answer our questions." Hattori Heiji still had a pity expression on his face.
After all, the other party is the first character they have met since entering the game who seems to be very important in the game and knows a lot of information.
"He is very dangerous," said the white horse detective.
Although the other party's attitude when chatting with them was quite friendly, he was actually a dangerous person.
Chatting with them seems to be just a whim out of boredom.
When this interest dissipates, they may become one of the countless people who die under the roses.
"Danger also represents opportunity, but where did you get the scissors, daggers, and this pass?" Hattori Heiji looked at Toru Amuro and Mu Midorikawa curiously.
Toru Amuro and Mu Midorikawa looked at each other.
"Actually, they were found from several corpses. It seems that the cause of their death was fighting over these things." Midorikawa explained gently without a smile.
Toru Amuro remained silent and allowed the other party to speak on behalf of the two of them.
"It was found from the corpse, so that's it..." Hattori Heiji nodded to express his understanding.
Touching corpses is quite normal for detectives.
The first reaction when seeing the corpse was to go up and observe it, looking for anything suspicious.
Toru Amuro and Mu Midorikawa are not only Tsushima Shuji's bodyguards, but also assistants. It is normal to have this habit.