The footsteps heading toward the library room were quick, frequent, and light.
Our group, made up of two Segwang Technical High School uniforms and four from entirely different high schools, moved with bated breath.
With desperate, deeply drawn faces that looked impossible for students.
They moved while avoiding the struggling limbs and breathing sounds of the victims attached to the walls and floors.
Then—
“The floor,”
At Agent Bronze’s words, everyone’s gaze shifted.
“Look at the floor.”
“…!”
The flesh had started writhing again.
Everyone’s steps quickened even further.
If there was one fortunate thing, it was that we didn’t have to go upward.
“Here!”
The far end of the first floor.
I stopped in front of the only wooden sliding door there, and the others followed as we opened it.
The place Lee Gyeol and I had visited while returning to Hanbit Library.
[Library Room]
Slide.
With a short sound, the inside was revealed.
A place similar to Hanbit Library in that its shelves were filled with books, but structurally, unmistakably, it was the realistic library room of a school.
And then—
“This bookshelf.”
I found one shelf immediately.
The single shelf beside the window was the one that, when the hidden book was found, would slide backward and become a passage…