A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

The elevator continues to ascend after the doors close.

From the 6th floor to the 10th floor, there are only 4 floors. In theory, it should be a little shorter than before, but not by much.

"Tap, tap, tap, tap."

"Ding--"

The elevator doors opened.

It only takes 8 seconds.

From the 6th floor to the 10th floor, a distance of 4 floors, it only took less than a third of the normal time.

It's like you've just taken one step, and the other foot has already crossed half a football field.

The space here has been folded.

Kazama Chiba narrowed her eyes.

The corridor was pitch black; all the motion-activated lights seemed to be broken. Only the warm yellow light emanating from the elevator car behind me was like a lighthouse in the deep sea.

But when the elevator doors behind me closed, the last bit of light was cut off.

Kazama Chiba stood still, his eyes not yet adjusted to the sudden darkness, but he could feel that the air here was stagnant.

There was no wind, no sound, and not even the distinctive fragrance of a high-end apartment.

"Hey."

Kazama Chiba looked down at her collar and said something.

"Xiao Ke, stop pretending to be dead, go check what's going on inside."

Little Ke poked her head out from her collar, trembling, her tiny wings flapping rapidly.

"No...no...it's so dark here...I have claustrophobia..."

"Do you have a cookie phobia? If you don't go, there won't be any snacks left."

Upon hearing that there were no snacks, Xiao Ke complained, but still obediently flew out. Its yellow flecks stood out conspicuously in the darkness, like a large firefly, as it tremblingly flew deeper into the corridor.

Kazama Chiba leaned against the wall, calculating the time.

One minute later.

Xiao Ke flew back, three times faster than when it left, as if its rear end was on fire.

"Nobody's here! Qianyu! The entire floor is deserted!"

It buried its head in Qianyu's arms, its voice urgent.

"I climbed through the window and randomly entered a room. The furniture was still there, but no one was there! And... and the entire floor! There was no sign of any living person!"

"There aren't even cockroaches. Are we encountering a ghost?"

Kazama Chiba frowned.

Nobody here?

Where did Tokachi go?

Although Xiao Ke's words sounded very eerie, Kazama Chiba wasn't that timid. He casually walked to a door and stuck the "Wind" plaque on the lock.

"Open it."

After he finished speaking, a breeze entered the lock cylinder, making a soft clicking sound.

After entering, Qianyu locked the door behind her to prevent any sneak attacks. Only after doing this did she begin to look around the room.

A beige fabric sofa, a marble coffee table, and a cozy landscape painting hanging on the wall.

There was even a half-empty bottle of red wine on the table, with red liquid stains remaining in the two stemmed glasses.

It looked as if the owner had just been having a drink and then suddenly vanished into thin air.

There were no signs of a struggle, no bloodstains, and no sign of the holy healer with the large ladle.

"strangeness……"

Kazama Chiba walked to the dining table and touched the cup on it.

It's cold.

"If it was a physical kidnapping, there should at least be signs of struggle. If it was a home invasion robbery, the place should have been ransacked."

"Xiao Ke, go check on the bedroom."

Kazama Chiba pointed her flashlight at the closed wooden door inside.

Just then, a clear knocking sound rang out.

Right behind him, on the front door he had just locked from the inside, there seemed to be someone standing at the doorway.

Kazama Chiba suddenly turned around, the beam of her flashlight shining directly at the door. The peephole was completely dark; Xiao Ke had clearly said that no one was on this floor.

"Who?"

He asked sternly.

no respond.

Then Kazama Chiba wanted to ask Keroberos to check the cat's eye, since it wouldn't die anyway, but the cowardly lion refused to move no matter what.

Kazama Chiba cursed inwardly, then could only raise the staff in her hand and point it at the door.

However, just as he was about to make his move...

"Boom, boom, boom."

The same knocking sounded on the master bedroom door behind them.

One in front of the other.

Fully synchronized.

In this classic horror movie trope, the protagonist usually peeks through the peephole or nervously asks, "Who is it?"

Then I was scared half to death.

But Kazama Chiba is not the protagonist of a horror movie.

He's here to work in the demolition office.

"Want to play the 'catch a turtle in a jar' game?"

Kazama Chiba sneered, then used the Wind Card without hesitation to rush to both sides.

Two storms rushed in two directions at the same time.

"boom!"

The heavy security door in the entryway was blasted away as if it were made of paper, crashing heavily against the opposite corridor wall with a loud bang.

"Crack!"

The bedroom door shattered into wood chips, which flew everywhere.

Smoke and dust filled the air.

Without pausing, Kazama Chiba, flashlight in hand, rushed towards the entrance.

The corridor was deserted, and the deformed iron door lay forlornly on the ground. There was no one there, not even a ghost in sight.

Then he rushed to the bedroom.

Inside was a large bed covered with pink sheets, and the mirror on the dressing table reflected the light from a flashlight, but there was still no one there.

"What...what's going on?"

Xiao Ke peeked out of the pocket and stared at the mess on the ground, completely dumbfounded.

"No physical form? Is that an illusion? Or a spatial fold? But what card can be played so elaborately?"

Kazama Chiba didn't answer. These invisible, intangible enemies were the most disgusting. Since physical attacks were ineffective, staying here would only make them sitting ducks; it was time for a strategic retreat.

"Whatever it is, this is not a safe place to stay; let's leave first."

He made a quick decision and began to back away, leaning against the wall, slowly retreating into the corridor.

Just as he passed the door on the side of the living room that was always tightly closed and looked like a study.

"Squeak-"

The door opened.

There was no warning whatsoever. It was as if an invisible hand had suddenly given them a push.

Immediately afterwards, the bulky, old-fashioned CRT television set, which was originally placed in the study and was a full fifty inches in size, came crashing down on his head like a cannonball, accompanied by a whistling sound!

"!!!"

Chiyu's reaction was incredibly fast.

He almost instinctively swerved to the side, simultaneously pushing Xiao Ke back into his pocket.

"boom!!!"

The television flew past his nose and slammed into the load-bearing wall behind him. The screen shattered, glass shards flew everywhere, and the electronic components inside clattered to the ground.

If it had been even 0.1 seconds slower...

His head has now become that shattered screen.

Kazama Chiba suddenly turned her head and stared intently at the dark doorway of the study.

By the light of a flashlight.

There was only an empty desk inside, the chair was overturned on the floor, and no one was there.

"You like playing these kinds of tricks, don't you?"

Chapter 22 Recapture the Shadow Card

Kazama Chiba stopped bombarding the area.

Since that thing likes to hide in the shadows and launch sneak attacks, let's give it a reason to come out.