Chapter 76: Unforeseen Alliances (3)
"Mmmmm...." The host hummed.
Staring long in uncomfortable silence as if two kids carried guilty expressions.
Slam!
Then slammed the door shut.
"Corrin!" Minho snapped, his sharp voice drowning out any nervousness from earlier. "You're cutting it quite close aren't you? Open the door or I'm going to blow this open!"
"You don't have any explosives..." A voice muffled on the other side.
"I'll find some of yours!"
There was no response at first.
But then came a series of faint clicks from the other side of the door, as though someone were unlocking an absurd number of bolts. It was at that moment that Hope caught a faint glow of a security camera nestled above the frame—its mechanical eye whirring as it zoomed in on each of them in turn.
Crrrrr–
The door creaked open again, enough to reveal a shadowed outline of Corrin. The infamous tech Awakened Hope had stubbornly tried to find all day.