A New Variable (2)

“Huh~”

Shadow was left alone in the room with the unconscious man. She paced toward him and stopped merely a few inches away. She tilted her head.

The sound of his breath, the flow of his chest, the tightness of his shut eyelids, the sound of the wind, the sweat on his forehead. She had calculated everything.

“It’s fun to play pretend, isn’t it?”

The head which hung fell in the air didn’t even rise as if she was only talking to someone invisible.

Shadow fluttered her eyes.

The man in front of him didn’t even stir from his uncomfortable position. His whole body was smeared with various torture colors. His left eye was swollen and patched with a greyish color as large as the knuckle size, his lips cracked and his bone crushed. However, the man was solitary in his position.

Shadow turned on her heels and walked around the man, hands held behind her back, throat humming a creepy song that only appeared in horror games or haunted house games. Or whatever.

“Hey, hey, do you really want t