I looked down at the metal hand touching me, then back at Je Hyuno.
“Are you saying… the butlers lied to me?”
Instead of answering, Je Hyuno climbed inside.
I closed the window behind him.
He leisurely circled the room once, inspecting it.
He moved with the ease of someone on vacation.
It seemed he had no intention whatsoever of answering my question.
While Je Hyuno examined the guest room, I tried to understand what he had said.
But it was not easy.
Until now, whenever I entered a Trial, I had always reminded myself that this was reality and might differ from the games I played.
This time was different.
They were the NPCs from my game.
I had spoken with them over and over while playing Clean3 countless times.
Neither the Cat Butler nor the Rabbit Butler had a personality inclined toward lies.
Nor did they have a reason to lie.
What was I that they would deceive me merely to keep me in the mansion?
The butlers might like me a great deal, but that was a separate matter.
‘They keep personal feelings and work strictly separated.’
I buried the thought inside myself.
Once I spent the…