Chapter 201: The Five Orange Pips (7)
“… Haa.” Having left Charlotte’s side, I returned to the back alley hideout and sat quietly in an empty chair before letting out a deep sigh.
“This is utter madness…”
My head was throbbing with pain. What had I just witnessed? What exactly was lurking behind Charlotte Holmes?
… I almost lost another person dear to me.
To be honest, I had a trauma about losing people around me— quite a severe one at that.
Even if I came off as too sensitive, I couldn’t just help it.
Not everyone experiences their closest friends, all the way back from high school, abruptly disappearing one by one overnight now, after all.
The only one that remained had an accident while working with me at my previous job.
Because of that, I immediately quit my previous job or more like fled from that place. From that moment on, I lived like a recluse for a while, until financial difficulties led me to take a job as a programmer at a game development company.