[Or so Sen thinks, anyway, thanks to Kaoru's meddling. But she seems to dismiss it as some strange result of whatever it is the producers have done - she's well aware, now that she is awake, that the contestant she had been so protective of was her bodyguard, though during the game she hadn't been aware of their prior relationship. The producers clearly have some way of altering memories.
Perhaps Chizuru's have been altered, she thinks. Or perhaps there are more of her own memories locked away than she knows.
Kaoru's explanation begets a thoughtful nod from her, though he seems to make up his mind before she is able to weigh in - he tells her to stay behind him, and so she does. Her balance isn't awful at all, so while he progresses up the stairs she turns so that she can walk up them backwards and keep an eye on the path behind them.
So far, so good - nothing is coming...
They only make it about halfway up the staircase before there is an unpleasant, metallic scraping sound that echoes around them.]
—What was that?
[It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it came from; it sounds as though it is coming from both the door ahead of them and the hallway behind them.]
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[Or so Sen thinks, anyway, thanks to Kaoru's meddling. But she seems to dismiss it as some strange result of whatever it is the producers have done - she's well aware, now that she is awake, that the contestant she had been so protective of was her bodyguard, though during the game she hadn't been aware of their prior relationship. The producers clearly have some way of altering memories.
Perhaps Chizuru's have been altered, she thinks. Or perhaps there are more of her own memories locked away than she knows.
Kaoru's explanation begets a thoughtful nod from her, though he seems to make up his mind before she is able to weigh in - he tells her to stay behind him, and so she does. Her balance isn't awful at all, so while he progresses up the stairs she turns so that she can walk up them backwards and keep an eye on the path behind them.
So far, so good - nothing is coming...
They only make it about halfway up the staircase before there is an unpleasant, metallic scraping sound that echoes around them.]
—What was that?
[It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it came from; it sounds as though it is coming from both the door ahead of them and the hallway behind them.]