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The puppet’s voice, filled with conviction, resounded loudly in Lea’s ears. Its countless eyes were all fixed on her.
Lea froze. How to defeat the Puppeteer, how to escape, how to survive—what did she have to do? All of those questions swirled in her mind, and she couldn't come up with an answer to any of them, making her stiffen.
What if… I can't get out of here…?
If she couldn’t, then she should just strike now. At that impulsive thought, Lea reached for the hairpin holstered at her thigh. But then, just as her fingers touched it—
Tap, tap.
Se-Hoon's fingers lightly tapped her cheek.
Startled, Lea looked to the side and met Se-Hoon’s calm, steady gaze. He stood there composed like nothing was wrong, so Lea calmed down and turned her gaze back to the puppet in front of her.
Like before, the black puppet’s eyes were all fixed on her in silence. The pressure she felt staring back made her want to drive the hairpin into one of them immediately, but she suppressed the urge.
Like that, the strange standoff continued until the puppet eventually lifted its head.
“…Did I mishear it?”
Still staring in the general direction where Lea was standing, the puppet slowly stood up.
“But I did feel something off…”
Still suspicious, it took another look around the room, scanning the area with its darting eyes. Then, when it saw nothing unusual in the room again, it reached for the air.
Woong!
Responding to his gesture, a celestial body on the ceiling began to move, and soon a massive presence was felt throughout the facility.
Se-Hoon’s eyes narrowed.
Is it… assimilating itself with the entire facility?
It seemed the puppet was going to survey the entire facility by treating it as an extension of its own body for a brief moment. Se-Hoon had never encountered any method like it even before the regression, but he didn't let...
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