Chapter 302
First, Yoo Seongwoon was delivered home.
“May I come inside?”
“When you say it like that, you sound like the sort of Mystery that can’t enter without permission.”
“Obtaining permission before entering another person’s home is only proper courtesy.”
“Well, that is true… Come in.”
And then Gio came inside as well.
“Your home remains desolate.”
“Isn’t it a little better now that there’s a painting on the wall?”
“It has grown more desolate.”
“You painted this.”
“That does not make what is wrong any less wrong.”
“Look at that conviction.”
There, Gio asked,
“How does a Gardener visit their Garden?”
“The method differs somewhat between Gardeners. Some visit through dreams, some designate a particular door and use it as a passage, and others beg their Garden to call them… It requires a certain degree of agreement.”
“What about you, Mr. Yoo Seongwoon?”
“Strictly speaking, my Garden is the one that calls me.”
Yoo Seongwoon held up both hands.
“If I clap three times like this, I can enter the Garden. Ah, of course, merely clapping isn’t enough. I have to overlap my hands vertically as I clap, just like this, to satisfy the conditions.”
“Is there a special significance to three claps?”
“Because unless someone does it deliberately, they generally won’t clap three times? People often clap once or twice to attract someone’s attention. By that logic, four or five claps would be…