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How much time had passed? Consciousness began to return.

"Hrrgh…."

Breathing was choked. Whether from the high humidity or because her lungs had given out, she couldn't tell.

Even so, an instinctive relief washed over her.

'—I'm alive.'

Well, alive, but she couldn't tell if she was living or dying.

The lunatic had chased her like a maniac, so she'd run like one. After she'd dragged it out long enough, it slowed down. She'd used the opening to escape the knife-wielding maniac's line of sight.

"…Hk, haahh… hk…."

She fought to muffle her breathing.